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Romania: alleged illegal trafficking of human eggs
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Police questioned 30 people on Tuesday and searched the homes of six employees of a private fertility clinic who are suspected of illegally trafficking human eggs and selling them to Israeli couples with fertility problems.
The sale of human eggs for in vitro fertilization is illegal in Romania.
Police said employees at the clinic in Bucharest harvested the eggs from Romanian women aged 18 to 30, some of whom were students, paying them between euros 600 and 800 ($450 and $600), then sold the eggs for euros 3,000 to 4,000 ($2,255 to $3,005).
Authorities said they would not identify the clinic while their investigation is under way. However, journalists, including an Associated Press photographer, saw hooded police enter the Med New Life clinic in the capital on Tuesday and take an unidentified woman into custody. No one answered the clinic's telephones when the AP called to seek comment.
Police say a criminal network of 11 suspects has been involved in the illegal trafficking of human eggs, including Romanian and Israeli citizens from medical professions such as doctor, nurse and embryologist.
Most of the people who benefited from the service were Israeli women who visited Romania for artificial insemination, and the suspects made "considerable financial gains" through this illegal human egg trafficking, police said in a statement.
In November, a Romanian court sentenced four Israeli doctors in absentia to five years in prison in a separate egg-trafficking case.


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With summer (a.k.a. festival season) now in full swing, dance music is being rung out loud across the globe. Polish DJ-producer, Tom Swoon will be making the summer rounds, and to give us taste of what he'll be playing he sat down with VIBE to hook us up with his top 25 tracks of the summer. From his own remixes and edits to progressive house anthems, Swoon's superior taste will kick start your summer. –>

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MINNEAPOLIS - One day after his airline swallowed Northwest Airlines, Delta executive Ed Bastian was in town with a polar bear tie and a smile in a bid to reassure travelers that little would change.
Hubs? They all stay. Flights? Maybe fewer seats, but no outright cuts. Frequent-flier miles? You'll keep them all.
Still, Bastian and the rest of the executives who will stir the two airlines together have plenty to do.
"It's probably going to take us two years before we can really operate as a single carrier," Bastian, who is Delta Air Lines Inc.'s chief financial officer, said Thursday. Bastian is also now the chief executive of Northwest, which became a subsidiary of Delta when their tie-up closed Wednesday.
Although dozens of teams with members from both companies have been working together for months toward the integration, several items still have not been decided yet, Bastian said from behind a "Delta" podium above a ticketing area dominated by Northwest counters. That includes whether Delta will continue to allow a single checked bag for free (Northwest charges a fee) and which planes will go on which routes.
Bastian did not rule out the possibility that Delta would add a checked-bag fee. In any case, both airlines will have the same fee structure soon, he said. Delta would arrange its fleet and schedule in the spring. Only one airplane, the 757, is common to both carriers.
Airline mergers have a checkered history. AMR Corp.'s American closed on a buyout of TWA months before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks turned the industry upside-down. And US Airways Group Inc. is still struggling with its integration with America West.
"In the past it's been like trying to integrate oil and water," said Mo Garfinkle, who runs airline consulting firm GCW Consulting.
Delta and Northwest will have to integrate different corporate cultures, different software for ticketing and schedules, different fleets, different unions (most of Delta's workers are not unionized) - and it all has to be done without missing a beat in a 24-7 operation that includes hubs from Tokyo to Amsterdam.
Garfinkle says he is optimistic, because of all the work that the two airlines have already done and because they seem willing to take it slow.
"I think this is going to be the poster child for successful airline mergers," he said.
Bastian said regional subsidiary Comair would remain a part of the airline. Comair's future has been uncertain, in part because it flies 50-seat jets that are money-losers when oil prices are high.
"Comair is an important part of the family, just as they've always been," he said.
The airlines have been cutting domestic capacity while in many cases adding international routes. Bastian said that's on hold now because of the economy.
"The growth will be slowed if there's any growth at all on the international seats," he said.
On Wednesday, before the deal closed, Northwest said it had arranged $500 million in loans backed by its remaining unencumbered assets, which had included its old DC-9 planes. Bastian said the borrowing won't change Delta's ability to park or fly the planes as the schedule requires. He said Delta has not settled on a replacement for the DC-9.
Delta is also negotiating with the state of Minnesota over bond debt backed by the state. Northwest signed agreements promising to repay the debt, at a cost of about $230 million, if its headquarters leaves the state. That hasn't happened yet because it's still a Delta subsidiary.
Northwest has its headquarters in Eagan, Minn. The combined carrier will be based in Atlanta.


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Clarkson University May Grad Wins AIAA Abe Zarem Award
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Joshua D. Butler of Watkins Glen, N.Y., who received his master of science degree in mechanical engineering from Clarkson University in May, has been awarded the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Abe M. Zarem Award for Distinguished Achievement, for his paper "A Study of Shear Layer Sub-Structures in Leading Edge Vortices Using Laser Doppler Velocimetry."
As a recipient of this award, he will attend the 26th International Council of Aeronautical Sciences Congress in Anchorage, Alaska in September to present his work. He will also be honored at the annual Aerospace Sciences Meeting (ASM) next January in Orlando, Fla.
Butler's research focused on wind tunnel measurements of the airflow around highly swept triangular or "delta" wings. His study, using a technique called Laser Doppler Velocimetry involving non-intrusive laser beams to measure the speed, determined that the strength of the large rotational vortex structures above the wing increase the axial turbulence intensity and may be the trigger to cause "vortex breakdown," eventually stalling the wing.
The identified master's level winner in each area, one in aeronautics and one in astronautics, each receives a distinctive medal and a certificate as recognition of their technical excellence at the national AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting (ASM). Additionally, the student receives a travel stipend to present his/her work at the established biennial International Conference of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS). Airfare and lodging expenses for the ASM trip and the ICAS/IAC trip are funded through the endowment.
The technical work of the winners will also be submitted for publication in the professional media of aeronautics and astronautics, as well as announced in the media of all other professional societies. In addition to the student's award, Butler's advisor, Associate Professor Kenneth D. Visser, will also be recognized for his role in guiding the student. He will receive lodging and assistance with travel expenses to the conference, where he will be presented a certificate of recognition.
Clarkson University launches leaders into the global economy. One in six alumni already leads as a CEO, VP or equivalent senior executive of a company. Located just outside the Adirondack Park in Potsdam, N.Y., Clarkson is a nationally recognized research university for undergraduates with select graduate programs in signature areas of academic excellence directed toward the world's pressing issues. Through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, sciences and health sciences, the entire learning-living community spans boundaries across disciplines, nations and cultures to build powers of observation, challenge the status quo, and connect discovery and engineering innovation with enterprise.


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Chicago TARDIS 2012 Costume Gallery
Chicago's own Doctor Who Convention named "Chicago TARDIS" took place at the Westin Hotel in Lombard, IL this past weekend. Families from all over the world came to see the "Seventh Doctor" Sylvester McCoy, and his companion "Ace" (Sophie Aldred) along with cast members from the current" Doctor Who" program, "Torchwood" and "The Sarah Jane Adventures". Here is a sampling of the sights, the costumes and fan creations that were on display.
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Ford Expedition Climate Control Problems
chestercounty Posts: 5I got it working. The electronic switch was being difficult. Controls work now.
Thanks for those who replied with some suggestions.
bigcity1 Posts: 1Did you ever get a response from anyone. I have a 2006 Expedition and it just started doing the same thing. I can't turn it down, it just blows on high. Thanks.0
frstand11 Posts: 1I have a 99 expedition with an EATC module. I just had my entire dash removed and the heater core, radiator and thermostat replaced. I also had a couple of o-rings in the a/c coolant system under the hood replaced and the refrigerant recharged to repair a leaky a/c system. When I picked up the vehicle from the garage the climate control system is not working properly. I can get nice hot air or nice cold air if I use the appropriate buttons but my problem stems from the "automatic" setting. In auto mode, it blows hot air the entire time, no matter what I set the temperature to. I suspect the Automatic Temperature Control Sensor Hose & Elbow is bad or was reinstalled incorrectly with the dashboard. Everything else seems to work fine in manual mode, air temperature changes, air flow is directed to different vents properly, and the rear air conrols work properly. I ran the EATC module self test and did not get an DTCs. What do you think?0
andreburgess Posts: 1Hi there!
I Have A 2003 Expedition with 139K Miles.
The A/C Works On "Max" Okay But Not As It Did When New.
The A/C Normal Settings Barely Gets Cold.... Just Luke Warm Air.
The A/C And Heat Doesn't Come Out Of The Back system?
What And Where Should I Start To Look?
Andre :confuse:0
The rear ac seems to work even though do need accuator door.
the front ac only blows hot air and only on highest fan setting.
Apparently we replaced a vacuum hose cause of a check engine light and the ac now blows out the front instead of just the defrost.
but now only hot air comes out. HELP. I live in texas and summer about here.0
rkieckhefer Posts: 1Did you ever get a resolution on this? My 1997 Expedition is doing the same thing1
Ac needed charging, but still blowing out defrost. Will be doing the blend door fix next to see if that corrects the problem and vacuum hose check.0
twints Posts: 2Have '99 Expedition, when heater is turned on there is a real bad antifreeze smell. Does this mean heater core replacement?? Dash is apart to the heater core and there are no visable leaks or residue of one.0
rogmo Posts: 1Greetings,
This is a heater performance problem with a Automatic climate Control LCD panel.
I've read the posts and cannot find anything that seems to fit my problem. First, I have a 99 Explorer Eddie Bower Edition, not many of the Explorers have the Automatic Heater Control Panel with the LCD display, so I have posted to the Expedition forum, as the Expedition has the same automatic control panel.
The symptoms are as follows. The display jumps from 85 to 90 degrees, I'm not sure this is normal, and I never noticed whether this was that way originally because I never had to set the heat setting that high. All of the controls seem to work, air, vent, heat; except for when trying to get heat you will only get it at 84-85, or 90 temp setting. There seems to be a difference in the intensity of the heat at those temp settings, but anything lower is cold air.d. On the 90 degree setting you get cooked. I replaced the Heater Control Valve, because it was easy and relatively inexpensive. When I select different vent options, e.g.: Floor, PNL, Defrost or combinations of, all of those seem to direct the air to the correct vent, but only cool air until you hit the 84-85, 90 temp range. The air conditioning works properly when selected. I've checked the fluid levels and they are correct. My original thought was a leaky vacuum diaphragm in the Heater Control Valve, but as it turns out, the vacuum keeps the valve closed, when the vacuum is released the valve opens, I left the new control valve in. From the forums it doesn't seem like a mixer door problem. My next best guess is the control panel is faulty, or perhaps something has come unhooked. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks, [email protected]0
mos_gurl Posts: 1Okay I have no front heat in my 98 EB edition explorer. So far I have replaced the blend door, heater core, actuator motor, thermostat, control pane and had the system flushedl... STILL NO HEAT! I called the Local Ford dealer to see if they could guide me and the guy told me that I have two blend doors in the front. I have found NO info on a 2nd blend door for the front unit. I know I have one for the rear heat but its evidently working since I have heat back there. Now I am not a complete auto idiot my dad was a mechanic and I grew up in a garage, but we are at a loss for what to do now... Can anyone help me out?0
jadan00 Posts: 1I have a 1998 expedition i have lost heat to my front climate blows out cold air all the time but my rear climate blows out hot air i changed the front climate control switch and no luck on fixing it dont know what to try next any info out their0
You should research the blend door - it is what changes the air temperature and is notorious for breaking. The dealer fix for it is to remove the dash to replace it, there is also a short cut called Heater Treater. Check their web site, it may help with diagnosis also.0
loboy76 Posts: 1will bypassing the front heater core disable the rear0
obxkat Posts: 0
I have a 1998 expedition that will not blow hot air out of heater. Have replaced thermostat and didn't help. Is the cool/hot selector switch bad?0
Probably the blend door behind the dash board, it is what moves when you select hot or cold. Notorious for breaking.0
d1960 Posts: 1Hi, I'm new to the forum and also in dire need of advice. I've seen someone post the same problem as I have but yet to see a definate solution. On my 2003 Eddie Bauer Expedition 5.4L 4wd, the air conditioning blows out the defrost vents and not the a/c dash vents like its suppose to. It gets cool but takes forever. I live in the southern U.S. and have been lucky the high temperature has only reached 91° so far this summer. I know my luck will run out soon so if anyone has the expertice to provide me with the solution I would greatly appreciate it. I also have the annoying clicking from the rear a/c. Great forum.
Thanks again.0
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Hi, I'm new to the forum and also in dire need of advice. I've seen someone post the same problem as I have but yet to see a definate solution. On my 2003 Eddie Bauer Expedition 5.4L 4wd, the air conditioning blows out the defrost vents and not the a/c dash vents like its suppose to. It gets cool but takes forever. I live in the southern U.S. and have been lucky the high temperature has only reached 91° so far this summer. I know my luck will run out soon so if anyone has the expertice to provide me with the solution I would greatly appreciate it. I also have the annoying clicking from the rear a/c. Great forum.
Thanks again.
That is a vacuum leak, the default in that event is the defrost vents. The usual place for the vacuum lines to break down is where they pass under the battery tray. The clicking in the rear is a broken blend door actuator. There are two back there, one for temp control, one for floor to ceiling.1
stevedtat Posts: 1Okay Y'all, I've got a possible solution for you. I've got a 1995 Explorer and I've been running into this problem quite often. so here's a few things to check:
1: there is air in you coolant system. make sure all of your hoses are sealed properly and no leaks. the system needs to pressurize properly to pump through the heater core. you can change your radiator cap and make sure your overflow line isn't clogged.
2: my biggest problem...the climate control A/C control unit in the dash is malfunctioning. I suggest replacing it, it's only about $40 and saves a huge headache.
3: and last, but not final, check your vaccuum lines! it's very possible you have a broken vaccuum line somewhere on the engine. Fords are natorious for the lines drying out and cracking. I've replaced all my lines with metal (alot of work but well worth it).
my problem was the climate control. it was causing the heater to not blow hot because it was stuck mid-way between hot and cold. wiggling it and nursing it along worked for me until I could replace it. now, HOT air!
hope this helps all0


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Enterprises embarking on the business process management journey must ensure that they keep the gains that business processes provide by controlling the cost of their life cycle. Particularly, a process quality approach is essential to enable low-cost changes. This article should interest business architects, and IT managers and architects as it discusses an approach to controlling the development and maintenance efforts for business processes by limiting their complexity.
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Thursday, October 11, 2012
USADA Lays Out Case Against Lance Armstrong
The document released yesterday is just a synopsis of the vast amounts of evidence that the USADA claims to have on Armstrong. It references eye-witness reports, emails, lab tests and financial documents, and includes details a strict doping regimen that included PED's and blood transfusions, and even says that Armstrong's ex-wife Kristen would wrap cortisone pills in foil and hand them out to riders on his team. Travis Tygart, the head of the USADA, called it "the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen."
Perhaps the most damning evidence of all comes from the list of cyclists who have testified against Armstrong, including several riders that were close friends. That list includes George Hincapie, one of the most respected riders in the sport, Levi Leipheimer, Christian Vande Velde, Dave Zabriskie, Tyler Hamilton and others. Each of them admitted to doping and implicated Armstrong in the process.
As if that wasn't enough, the report also claims that retroactive testing of Armstrong's blood samples taken in the 1999 Tour de France test positive for EPO. Not just one sample, but six. For years Armstrong has used the defense that he never tested positive for a banned substance during his career, but what he doesn't really mention is that a test for EPO didn't come along until a few years later. He would also often dismiss those who spoke out about potential doping by discrediting them in the media, often claiming they had some grudge or axe to grind. The list of people on this list will be much harder to dismiss so lightly.
So what happens next? The UCI now has three weeks to review the report and decide how to proceed. It is that body, along with the Tour de France, that can elect to strip Armstrong of his seven titles. Because he chose to not fight these charges, Lance already faces a lifetime ban from competition, it is just a matter of whether or not his wins will continue to be considered official.
For anyone who has followed the sport of cycling or the Lance Armstrong saga, these results probably aren't much of a surprise. Considering the era in which he competed, it seems virtually impossible that he could have won all those races while competing completely clean. It's a shame that Armstrong's reputation now seems destined to go down in flames, as he has done a lot of good things outside of the sport that made him famous. He is also a tremendous athlete whether he was doping or not, but his legacy will be forever tainted by this scandal.
5 comments:
- Sean Lally said...
Here's a question I haven't seen addressed; I wonder if USPS money (i.e. tax money) was used to purchase illegal drugs? Wouldn't have been the first time, just curious.
- Kraig Becker said...
Sean: I've actually read a few stories inquiring about that over the past year or two, but nothing recently. That would certainly send this story in a whole new direction.
There were always critics of the U.S. Postal Service sponsoring the team and if funds were used to purchase PED's, it would add fuel to the fire. Ultimately it would be hard to separate out just exactly where the money went.
- Josh Thigpen said...
I can't seem to find a reference online to the 200 page document, which I believe (based on inability to find it) was only released to UCI.
Unless I'm mistaken there is NO test for EPO (and most other PEDs). They test for substances used as masking agents and/or variations in blood oxygen content (disclaimer: there are many more techincal threads on this subject I am not a scientist).
As a consequence, the text in the summary may or may not be somewhat inaccurate.
What I find truly interesting is that no one is talking about whether LA winning and (potentially) being a user of PEDS means everyone is. If this (everyone cheating) is the case, we have to question the records of Lemond and Indurain as well...the TDF has a history of PEDs from it's inception...logic would seem to imply if we are re-writing history, we need to re-write history.
The accountant in me wonders if this (these investigations to keep sactioning bodies relevant) isn't just a fantastic waste of money...if everyone is cheating (which they must be to finish within seconds/minutes of the cheaters) why we even care...I understand that kids may cheat in the funnel to pro but ultimately we have to trust that parents are looking out for their kids...just my 2 cents....
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Georgia (10-1) reached 10 wins for the eighth time in Mark Richt's dozen seasons as coach. Georgia Southern (8-3) had a shot at the halftime lead, only to get scuttled by a penalty, and Murray took control from there.
He completed a 24-yard touchdown pass to Malcolm Mitchell with just 4 seconds left in the half, sending Georgia to the locker room with a 17-7 lead. In the third quarter, Murray hooked up with Chris Conley on a pair of scoring passes, sandwiched around a 43-yarder to Tavarres King.


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On May 1 Assistant Dean for Student Services Jon Baris was sworn in as president of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis (BAMSL). Founded in 1874, BAMSL is a professional association of more than 5,600 lawyers and judges, with 11 sections and more than 60 committees, a Young Lawyer's Division and, with The St. Louis Bar Foundation, serves the educational, professional and practice needs of the organized bar, providing a broad range of programs and services to benefit the community.
Baris first joined BAMSL when he became licensed to practice law in 1996. "Like most people who get involved in bar associations, somebody I knew asked me," he recalled. At one of the first events he attended someone asked him to volunteer for the Call-A-Lawyer program. Soon thereafter he became the program's chairman. Over the years he has worked his way through various positions with the organization, serving as chair of the Young Lawyers Division, member-at-large of the Board of Governors and then into the rotation that would lead him to president: treasurer, secretary, vice president and president-elect.
So what has kept him so engaged? "It's a great organization that gives a lot to its members and the community, which is something I've always wanted to be involved in," Baris said.
For eight years Baris practiced law, practicing privately before switching gears to work for Legal Services of Eastern Missouri. After a while he decided to make a change and leave active practice when he ran into Mary Pat McInnis, assistant dean of Career Services at SLU LAW, at, fatefully enough, a BAMSL event. "When I left Legal Services, I didn't want to actively practice, but I wanted to stay in the legal profession. The opportunity to work with law students ended up being a perfect fit." That interaction with law students was something he was familiar with and enjoyed, as Baris supervised them as interns at Legal Services. In August 2005 he joined SLU LAW as the Assistant Director of Career Services, moving into his role in Student Services in 2009.
The desire to keep touch with the life of law explains his dedication to BAMSL. "For me personally, especially when I stopped practicing and came into the law school, it was one of my outlets to stay connected to the practicing bar," Baris said. "I also think it really is a duty to lawyers to give back to the profession and the community, and this is one of the ways I've chosen to do so."
Throughout his year-long stint as head of the organization, Baris' plan of attack will not necessarily be littered with the introduction of new programs or initiatives. Rather, he's going to focus on developing and enhancing stronger relationships within the community of the legal profession. His ascension to the top of BAMSL could not have come at a better time for the organization or the School of Law.
"With SLU LAW moving downtown and becoming part of the greater legal community, a community BAMSL has been a part of since the 1800s, the interaction between students and the practicing bar is something I want to continue to build on," he said. "Obviously law students and young lawyers are the future of the profession, and I hope I can bring my perspective of working with law students to the organized bar."
Despite the added work load and heavy time commitment that comes with being the face of the organization, including leading executive committee and board of governors meetings, appointing committee and task force chairs, and attending events at legal and general community events, among a host of other responsibilities, Baris is looking forward to this new role he has spent a long time working towards.
"BAMSL is an organization that provides a lot to its members and a lot the legal community, whether it is advocacy for issues or an opportunity for lawyers to develop professionally and personally," he said. "It provides education to both the legal community and the community at large, and I hope my being president can serve to be a huge benefit for the law school and vice versa."


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William L. Ross has been re-elected the chairman of the Niagara Power Coalition for the ninth consecutive term. Ross will also hold the dual positions of president/CEO of the NPC.
The Niagara Power Coalition was originally established in the late 1990s for the specific purpose of negotiating a mandatory 50-year agreement with the New York Power Authority. The seven members of the Niagara Power Coalition are Niagara County, City of Niagara Falls, towns of Lewiston and Niagara, and the Niagara Falls, Lewiston-Porter and Niagara-Wheatfield school districts. These seven members were physically impacted by the Niagara Power Project of the early 1960s. A host community relicensing settlement agreement was signed by Ross with the New York Power Authority and the members on June 27, 2005, for relicensing purposes.
The 2005 settlement agreement provided an allocation of 25 mega watts of low-cost hydroelectric power to be divided among the host communities, establishment of a host community fund, and a separate host community Greenway fund totaling $3 million annually. These NYPA obligations will continue over a 50-year term of the new license, which was approved in early 2007 and took effect on Sept. 1, 2007.
The Niagara Power Coalition has taken on the duties of a maintenance organization and includes the Host Communities Standing Committee consisting of the seven members of the Niagara Power Coalition and a New York Power Authority representative that utilize the $3 million annual funding for approved community projects by the HCC.
The meetings of the Niagara Power Coalition and the Host Communities Standing Committee are held at the Niagara County Economic Development Center and are open to the public. The NCEDC is located at 6311 Inducon Corporate Drive in Wheatfield.
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Well, the world didn't end.
We figured it wouldn't. Yet that didn't stop residents in the River Region from seizing each day and living life to the fullest this year.
As we look back, we recognize that businesses came, and businesses went - as is always the case. We acknowledge that politics and plans put friends and neighbors at odds, as not everyone saw eye to eye on each issue. But at the end of the day (or year, in this case), we believe 2012 will be fondly remembered, as it was a year of giving, declaration and celebration in the communities of Lewiston, Porter, Youngstown, Ransomville, Sanborn and the north lake country.
Some of our more memorable moments are captured in these images.
2013 promises to be a year of growth and historic significance in this region.
The Sentinel staff wishes our readers a happy, healthy new year.


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YouTube finally rolled out its paid subscription service yesterday, which generated a lot coverage.
But the YouTube folks went out of their way to downplay the launch, describing it is as the first stage of an experiment.
We should take them at their word.
Yes, the notion of the world's biggest video site selling content could be a big deal. One day. But right now there's not much there there.
Take a look at the initial list of channels YouTube rolled out yesterday, which the site says will eventually balloon to 53 offerings from 30 partners. You'll notice a couple of things:
- With the exception of "Sesame Street" (announced but not available yet), National Geographic and the UFC, there aren't any mainstream brands or shows.
- Just as important: With the exception of The Young Turks (also announced but not available), there aren't any YouTube-native stars — people/brands/channels who have built big fan bases on the site, and who could presumably convince some of them to pay for extra access.
It's not surprising to see the Big Media companies steering clear of YouTube. Those guys are wary of Google in general, and when it comes to video, they have a very big, very lucrative business set up already. And their efforts to rent movies on the platform haven't gone anywhere.
YouTube will have to make a compelling case for them to start selling subscriptions, which is sort of the point of the experiment, anyway.
It is eyebrow-raising to see the lack of YouTube talent there. YouTube has been talking up subscriptions to some of them as they complain about disappointing ad sales, and it seems as though at least a few would want to try it out — not to put all of their stuff behind a paywall, but at least to offer some extras to die-hard fans.
I assume some of that will change over time. YouTube is stressing that it expects to see more partners once it sets up a self-service subscription tool in the next few weeks. And at least a few big players, like Machinima, have been talking about subscription plans.
But it's not like subscriptions are a surprise. YouTube has been talking about the concept in broad terms for at least a year, and in earnest since last fall. Anyone who wanted to test the concept has had plenty of time to get ready.
So why aren't they there now?
The optimistic explanation is that they're waiting to see how it works for yesterday's guinea pigs, and if it pans out, they'll show up.
The more cynical version: They've decided that if they are going to sell stuff, they're not going to do it on YouTube — they'll use the site to promote themselves to a billion people a month, but they'll make sure they keep additional revenue streams out of Google's hands.
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A spokesman for former President George H.W. Bush says Bush's recovery from a bronchitis-related cough and subsequent complications is "continuing" and there's still no timetable for his release from a Houston hospital.
The 88-year-old Bush has been in Methodist Hospital in Houston since Nov. 23.
The brief statement released Monday by spokesman Jim McGrath is the first word about the former president's condition since Dec. 30, when a statement was issued saying Bush had been moved out of intensive care.
Monday's statement also says Bush has taken great pride in watching football victories last weekend by Texas A&M in the Cotton Bowl and the Houston Texans in the NFL playoffs.


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CONCORD — The state Attorney General's Office and the Public Utilities Commission are warning of a scam in which con artists try to dupe people into believing they are utility companies looking to collect on past due payments.
Callers say a customer has a balance on their utility account and threatens the customer with disconnection unless a payment is made that day, according to a release from the agencies."Typically, the calls are made to small business customers late in the day and the customer is given only a few hours to make the payment," the release said. "These calls are not coming from New Hampshire utility companies. Utility customers who are scheduled for disconnection due to nonpayment receive written notice a minimum of 14 days prior to any proposed disconnection date and the notice includes information about action they can take to maintain service."Customers should not provide any financial information, such as credit card or bank account numbers, and can report the calls to the PUC at (800) 852-3793 or the Attorney General's Office at (888) 468-4454.


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Pope Francis took it easy Tuesday after his long flight to Brazil, attending a private Mass and meeting with church officials.
The World Youth Day festival got underway, with an estimated half million Roman Catholic faithful crowding onto Copacabana beach for a Mass under rainy skies.
Preparations also continued in the town of Aparecida, where the pope will go Wednesday to visit the basilica that holds Brazil's patron saint, the dark-skinned Virgin of Aparecida, and have lunch with bishops and seminarians.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The international rights group Amnesty International has joined activists in the United Arab Emirates urging authorities to investigate allegations of abuse against a group of hunger strikers convicted of anti-state charges.
Activists in the UAE say at least 18 inmates are now part of a hunger strike that began more than a month ago. London-based Amnesty said at least three are in critical condition Wednesday.
The hunger strikers are among 69 suspects convicted in July of links to an Islamist faction that authorities allege seeks to overthrow the UAE's Western-allied ruling system. The prisoners claim that they have faced torture and other abuses since their arrests last year.
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This year in our sixth annual Hot 100 reader poll, over 170,000 votes were cast by our readers for over 1,700 different women. We tallied the votes and ranked the top 100 vote-getters.
What's so interesting every year is how perceived hotness fluctuates. TV actresses always make a strong showing, so much that they even stick around when their show goes off the air. But where The L Word and Skins actresses used to reign, now Glee, Lip Service, Lost Girl and even the women of web series cut in to give them some stiff competition.
The movie star types and out lesbian/bisexual women we love are fairly consistent. It's hard to imagine a year when some of them wouldn't make the list, especially those that have taken the top honor in a previous year. About one quarter of the this year's list are out women and, interestingly, all of the musicians who made the list are part of that stat. Most of the actors, however, have played a lesbian or bisexual role at some point in their career, with a few notable exceptions. (You guys don't discriminate! And there's always hope.)
There's only one athlete that cracked the Hot 100 this year, one political pundit and one former reality TV star. International stars didn't make too poor a showing, either, with a handful of women whose shows are seen on TVs across the ocean — or on YouTube with subtitles.
Overall, the commonality seems to be women with an edge. There are no cookie-cutter types on our list. Sure, some might have girl-next-door looks, but they aren't interested in taking the easy way, whatever their paths might be. Whether it's just living life as an out celebrity or taking roles that challenge the status quo, AfterEllen.com readers celebrate women who are more than just aesthetically pleasing. We hope even if your top pick didn't make it this year, you can at least be proud to be part of something that is more substantive than Maxim's Hot 100, which is why this whole thing began in the first place. We wanted something more; you wanted something more. And here is 2012's Hot 100, according to you.
Will last year's winner Naya Rivera pull off a repeat? What up and coming hot celebrities made the cut for the first time? All will be revealed in the galleries below. Click on the magnifying glass to enter the full-size lightbox to scroll through the results.
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A German historian has found conclusive proof that Nazi Gestapo chief Heinrich Mueller died in the final days of
The research carried out by historian Johannes Tuchel, head of the German Resistance Memorial Center in Berlin, appears to resolve one of the most enduring mysteries of the Nazi era and discredit decades of reported sightings of the secret police chief in Latin America after the war.
As head of Adolf Hitler's notorious Gestapo, Mueller played a key role in orchestrating
Tuchel was researching a wartime massacre reportedly ordered by Mueller when he came across a death certificate that indicated the Nazi general had been buried near the Luftwaffe headquarters in the final, chaotic days ahead of the May 1945 Allied defeat of the
Mueller's remains and those of others disinterred from the Luftwaffe site, in a part of Berlin that fell under Communist East German rule after the war, were later moved to the Jewish cemetery that had been desecrated by the Nazis and used as a mass grave.
Testimony given by the grave digger in 1963 about medals and ribbons on the dead general's uniform provided identifying details that allowed Tuchel to cross-reference the honors with U.S. and German intelligence records, Bild said (paywall link in German).
"Mueller's death was registered by the Mitte registry office, with the place of burial being listed as the Jewish cemetery," Tuchel told Bild. But the papers were lost for years, leaving Mueller's fate uncertain after he was last seen in Hitler's bunker on May 1, 1945, the day after the Nazi leader's suicide.
Mueller was thought by some to have escaped to Latin America along with thousands of other Nazis, including concentration camp doctor Josef Mengele and mobile gas-chamber architect Walther Rauff. Sightings of the "missing" Gestapo chief were reported from Cuba, Argentina and Czechoslovakia. Mueller was also reported in the early 1950s to have gone to work for East Germany's Stasi secret police force.
Tuchel's revelation that Mueller was buried in the Jewish cemetery, which is now a memorial site honoring revered Jewish figures such as philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, was met with revulsion by international Jewish leaders.
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It was a postmortem that sounded like a lot of other postmortems from Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium.
"Our guys battled their tails off," University of Memphis coach Justin Fuente said after his team lost, 34-21, to Cincinnati on Wednesday, Oct. 30. "Again, our margin for error is not very big."
The bottom-line numbers: Memphis is 1-6, 0-4 in the American Athletic Conference. Against Cincinnati, the Tigers lost the turnover contest 2-1 and it was too much. Running back Marqui Warford's second-quarter fumble turned into a 19-yard Cincinnati touchdown on the very next play. Freshman quarterback Paxton Lynch's fourth-quarter interception under pressure gave the Bearcats a short field and also was cashed for seven points.
"It is a tougher conference," said Tigers defensive back Bobby McCain, who had the interception. "We want to win. Regardless if it's the Dallas Cowboys or Christian Brothers High School."
University of Memphis quarterback Paxton Lynch (12) calls a play against Cincinnati Bearcats during the first quarter at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium.
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When Justin Fuente and his wife, Jenny, met at Illinois State, where he was an assistant football coach and she was an assistant volleyball coach, they would trade stories about their teams and players. They also were so busy they hardly saw each other.
"That was our trial," Jenny said of the coaching and family life that was to come. Justin would spend five years at TCU as an assistant and then accept the Memphis job before the 2012 season. On the home front, the Fuentes have three daughters ages 5, 2, and 3 months. At the start of the journey they probably never saw themselves in Memphis, Justin trying to rise up a perpetually down program.
"This is a big mountain that we're climbing," Fuente said. "But in a year and a half we are in every single football game with a chance to win at the end. Now have we gotten over the hump? No … but it's never as good as it seems and it's never as bad as it seems."
Or, when considering all those assistant coaches out there still waiting for a chance, maybe it is actually better than it seems.
"Many people would like to be in our shoes," Jenny said. "We don't take it for granted."
Fuente does not listen to sports talk radio, which is to say his approach is the exact opposite of Tigers basketball coach Josh Pastner.
"There are a lot of people that can do it the other way – and Josh is one – and can separate it and not have it influence their decision-making," Fuente said. "I tell you why I don't, and it's not because I don't like it or have anything against it. I do not want my judgment clouded by opinions that are not fully informed with what's going on. I don't want, on third and six or on fourth and two, to be even in the back of my mind, worried about anything other than what is best for the team. So I just inoculate myself from that."
Count on more talk about the Tigers quarterbacks with some fans and media members renewing their call for Fuente to play senior Jacob Karam in the wake of Lynch's can't-make-that-throw interception midway through the fourth quarter. But know this: the Tigers dropped a lot of catchable balls Wednesday night.
"Paxton, he put the ball on target," said running back Brandon Hayes.
And lest anyone doubt, players believe Fuente is building this thing the right way.
"We respond to his intensity level," said junior linebacker Terry Redden. "I'm bought into what he's got going."
Most nights, the coach sleeps just fine. The last loss, the always-maddening turnovers, and the ever-frustrating penalties do not stalk him.
"When I was a (quarterback) at the University of Oklahoma we were going through some tough times and I could not sleep," Fuente said. "I would get mad and my mind would start to race. I left and went to Murray State, but I still had those same (issues). And a guy gave me a book, 'Don't Sweat the Small Stuff.'"
It was one of those life-changing moments. Although the truth is, as head coach at the U of M, Fuente has to sweat all the stuff. He refuses to accept "stress" as a description for what he sometimes feels, but he cherishes the decompression time he gets each week – whether it's jogging with Adam Lechtenberg, Tiger football's director of player personnel, taking his oldest daughter fishing or getting a few quiet moments at home to catch up on the day's events with Jenny after the girls are asleep.
Perhaps it helps that Jenny, as a former coach, understands better than most that her husband can only have so much control over the numbers that go up on the scoreboard.
"You have 18-to-21-year-olds in charge out there," she said with a laugh. "You have highs with the wins and lows with the losses. But each week is a new week."
A new chance to win and, yes, a new chance to be disappointed.
"I told them today," Fuente said, "I'm never going to coach a game where I dance around the word 'win' during the week because I don't want you to be disappointed if we don't.
"We are not going to coach like that."
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Cruz takes Senate seat
No suspense in red state victory over Democrat Sadler.
AUSTIN — Tea party favorite Ted Cruz promised supporters Tuesday night he will fight for "common-sense conservative principles" as he heads to the U.S. Senate and against the path outlined thus far by President Barack Obama.
Cruz easily beat underfunded Democrat Paul Sadler to become the first Hispanic elected to the U.S. Senate from Texas, the last step in what Cruz called an "incredible, magical journey."
"My pledge to you is to work every single day in the U.S. Senate to champion small businesses and entrepreneurs, and to help them do what they do best, which is create jobs and get America working again," Cruz told a GOP victory party in Houston.
"If President Obama means what he says on the campaign trail, if he is interested in working to bring people together to reduce the deficit and get people working, then I will work with him," Cruz said. "But if he is re-elected and intends to continue down this same path, then I will spend every waking moment working to lead the fight to stop it."
Cruz, 41, drew national attention by beating establishment-backed Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst for the GOP nod for the seat now held by U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. His victory over Sadler, a former state lawmaker, was expected in this red state.
Cruz said in a Monday interview that he had not yet rented a Washington apartment, although his victory means he is due in the nation's capital next week for orientation.
"We have done nothing until the election," Cruz said.
Sadler, who during the campaign characterized Cruz as "the most extreme Senate candidate in Texas history," told Democrats at the Driskill Hotel in Austin that he honored the process and so was "proud to stand in front of you and say that we have a new Senator-elect named Ted Cruz."
He said Democrats helped to create an important debate on issues including immigration and health care.
"But now, our response as Texans, as Americans, we stand up and say to the world, 'This is the vote,'" said Sadler, 57. "We link arms together and go forward as a state, forward as a nation, because that's who we are."
Cruz, who often tells of his father fleeing Cuban oppression and celebrates legal immigration, opposes amnesty for those without legal documents. Asked about the connection between his heritage and his politics, Cruz has said the proper perspective is that he is "a conservative who also happens to be the child of an immigrant who came here penniless, not speaking English."
His priorities are economic: cutting spending and reducing the debt; easing regulations on small businesses; and tax reform. He predicts an "epic battle" as he and other Republicans fight to repeal the federal health care reform law.
As a new senator, how big a role he will play as a practical matter is open to question. Mark Jones, chairman of the political science department at Rice University, predicted Cruz will be "a very visible face of Republicans nationwide, as well as movement conservatives in particular."
"I think we're more likely to see him as a national politician, as someone who is much more active on television and in terms of reaching out to various groups than actually in the corridors of power in the Senate," Jones said.
Cruz said he would work with all sides to achieve his aims. Cruz plans to rent a Washington apartment, but his wife, Heidi, southwest region head in the investment management division of Goldman Sachs & Co., and their two girls, ages 2 and 4, will remain in Houston, he said.
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Rick Ohler, award-winning columnist for The East Aurora Advertiser and author of the local bestseller "Have You Lived Here All Your Life?" . . . Not Yet," will speak at the Roycroft Power House, 31 S. Grove St., East Aurora, on March 9 at 1 p.m. The talk, sponsored by Preservation Buffalo Niagara, is part of its "Buffalo Talks" series.
A $5 donation is suggested for the general public. Admission is free for members of Preservation Buffalo Niagara and the Roycroft Campus Corporation; donations will support both organizations.
Ohler grew up within hailing distance of the Roycroft Campus on Oakwood Avenue. With the exception of a few months in Kenmore as an infant (and a "regrettable two-month experiment in Texas"), he has been a lifelong resident of East Aurora. He lives with his family just outside the village in a century-old home that was once part of the Henry Jewett Farm - site of the world famous One-Mile Covered Racetrack in the early 20th century.
Ohler writes the popular "View From Right Field" column for The East Aurora Advertiser and covers local sports as well. He writes for The Gow School and freelances for Buffalo Spree Magazine. For the past 29 years, he has been offering creative writing and memoir writing classes and hosting travel writing bus trips and weekend workshops. Visit rickohler.com or find him on Facebook for more information.
For the March 9 presentation, Ohler will talk about the notion of hometown, read from his book, and engage the audience in a discussion about the challenges facing small towns everywhere. There will be complimentary reprints of some of his published work available, as well as signed copies of his book and Right Field logo wear for sale.
After the talk, if weather permits, Ohler will take willing participants on an optional walking tour of his childhood neighborhood, ending at his Right Field satellite office - better known as Wallenwein Hotel -where refreshments and further discussion will round out the day.
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Would you like to read the two silliest sentences ever written about Derek Jeter in the mainstream press? Two sentences so silly that if you told me someone had liberated all the drunk tanks within the Beltway and set the good folks loose inside whatever inflatable bouncer passes for the USA Today newsroom, whereupon everyone put together the weekend edition with scissors and glue and glitter and sparkles and fewer crayons and Magic Markers than are normally required for a weekend edition of USA Today, I'd only say, "Aha! So that's why the purple section is readable today!"
Would you like to read those two sentences?
Image is what solidifies Jeter's place among the Yankees greats. He has been single for his whole career.
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Right, I think it's time to admit that I might have a problem. Between December 22 and Boxing Day I racked up about 30 hours of game time in Football Manager 2013, and while that's a lot of time put into one game, I reaped many rewards. Spurs are now one of the biggest teams in Europe, having won the Premier League, the Capital One Cup, and the Champions League in a single season. That included a dramatic second-half comeback in the final against Barcelona.
Football Manager is a drug that I'm finding hard to give up, but I am at least limiting my play time to weekday lunchtimes. For those wondering if any Spurs originals remain in my squad, the only players still wearing a Tottenham shirt are Bale (now 29), Loris (now 31), and Kyle Walker (now 29). The rest of my main squad are all aged below 25. So, if you're reading this Daniel Levy, invest in youngsters and in about six years we'll win everything.
Steve Burns, Reviews and Features Editor - Score! Classic Goals, iOS
It may have been out for a while, but in the absence of any sane pricing for FIFA Football Vita (£44.99 on the PS Store!) this week I've been playing Score! Classic Goals on iOS. Its simple premise - recreate well known goals by 'drawing' them, setting the power and accuracy of predetermined passes/shots - hides the fact that it's as addictive to football fans as food is to Brazilian Ronaldo.
Naturally, it doesn't have the depth of a FIFA or PES, but it's well animated, atmospheric, and 'drawing' that Beckham free kick against Greece is as rewarding as anything found in fully-fledged football titles. Oh, and did I mention it was free after Christmas (and only costs a paltry 69p otherwise?) And not £44.99?
(As an aside, FIFA 13, FIFA Football's successor, is only £39.99 on the PS Store. Of course.)
David Scammell, Deputy News Editor - Civilization V: Gods and Kings, PC
The Christmas break is great for two things: eating more turkey sandwiches than is humanly good for you and clearing out the video game backlog. Every gamer does it, working their way through a handful of games accrued in recent years that remain untouched on their shelf. Boxing day? More like unboxing day.
Anyway, I sat down with a few over the break, sinking time into Activision's not-as-bad-as-you-might-think-but-still-pretty-terrible FPS Battleship and getting most of the way through id shooter RAGE. I also went on a temporary nostalgia splurge with Banjo-Tooie before clearing its creative sequel Nuts and Bolts.
But then I caught the Civ bug, and after spending thousands of virtual hours fashioning an empire, I finally understand the love for it: everybody loves being a dick. Ghandi hates me, largely for upping the price of cotton and spices, and Isabella of Spain is starting to ask questions after I parked a fleet of Destroyers off the coast of Barcelona and set up an air base full of bombers on the corner of Seville. Heaven only knows what she'll make of the camels shifting menacingly toward Madrid.


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Day five: There's a fat lady, and she's warming up...
MS v EC It's nearly over…
The Court of First Instance met this morning to hear final pleadings from both Microsoft and the Competition Commission on whether or not Microsoft would be obliged to license its technology under an open source licence.
First we dealt with congratulating Mr Hellstrom on the birth of his baby daughter.
Next, Mr Forrester outlined Microsoft's objections to the decision. He said the information required to fulfill the commission demands go beyond interoperability and are covered by patent and copyright law. He also said rivals like Sun and Novell are unable to compete within Microsoft's "blue bubble" and would not be able to do so unless Microsoft gives them internal server algorithms so they can create network maps or trees in an identical way as Windows boxes - the so-called cloning.
Further, he said the commission's definition of the market was flawed. Forrester also denied that the cancellation of licensing agreements with AT&T represented an "interruption of supply". He said there was no evidence of leveraging from the desktop market to the server market.
For the commission, Mr Whelan said Microsoft's claim that revealing interoperability information would necessitate revealing internal algorithms had been disputed by the trustee, Neil Barrett, appointed to ensure compliance with the remedy.
He said Microsoft was guilty of leveraging its super dominant position in desktop software into a new market - server operating systems, particularly but not exclusively within workgroup servers.
He described Microsoft's actions as providing a double lock on the PC market because any potential rival in that market would have to forcefully enter not just the desktop, but also the server market. And, this action was taken in a context where the Software Directive aims to encourage interoperability.
Whelan said: "Patents are merely a pretext and the use of copyrights is bordering on the bizarre."
Finally, he addressed whether the commission would require Microsoft to release its technology under an open source license. Whelan said the commission had yet to take a "definitive postion on whether Microsoft's view is non-discriminatory. Doubts have been raised by the commission, but prelim formal steps had not yet been taken".
The court was also told by Microsoft that Samba could solve a specific password problem using Samba Vampire - Tridgell explained Microsoft should not rely on media reports of Samba events and showed slides warning that the software mentioned was pre-alpha…
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When you know how to properly sort out who to choose & approve and properly respond to friend requests on Facebook.
Faye doesn't have any Facebook etiquette. I've hung out with her around the world, all over the US, partied, laughed ate drank, took pictures with and all that other good stuff, but Faye won't approve my Facebook friend request, that's not kosher Facebook etiquette!
by MangledMess July 09, 2009
The definition of what is acceptable protocol when using Facebook, specifically whether or not it is acceptable to ask someone out through this forum or if that would be perceived as stalking and creepy. This relates to someone you have not yet met properly.
Facebook Etiquette: hypothetical situation as follows: guy meets girl but has minimal opportunity to communicate since the meeting point thus far has been in a loud bar, albeit a top, top place! Girl has a particularly gorgeous smile! Guy takes matters into his own hands and plans a surprise delivery of flowers and a package to said bar during a charity event (is this poor timing?) Guy & girl become FB friends. Is it then acceptable protocol to pursue further contact via FB or should they wait until the next chance encounter at the noisy bar?
Consensus is: Nothing ventured, nothing gained, & Life is too short. ***This is contingent upon girl not being easily offended & a tad on the adventurous side.
Consensus is: Nothing ventured, nothing gained, & Life is too short. ***This is contingent upon girl not being easily offended & a tad on the adventurous side.
by Mr. Intrigue December 23, 2010
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text: .Dd March 9, 1998 .Dt AUTOMOUNT 8 .Sh NAME .Nm automount .Nd automatic server mount / unmount daemon .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Op Fl V .Op Fl d .Op Fl D Ar type .Op Fl 1 .Op Fl tm Ar secs .Op Fl tl Ar secs .Op Fl s .Op Fl tcp .Op Fl m Ar directory map Fl mnt Ar directory .Ar ... .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm is a daemon that automatically mounts network filesystems when they are first accessed and later unmounts them when they are idle. .Pp .Nm creates a virtual filesystem mounted at one or more places in the client's file and directory hierarchy. Potential server mount points within this virtual filesystem appear as symbolic links. Reading a symbolic link causes .Nm to mount the associated remote filesystem in a separate hierarchy and to return the path to the real mount point as the target of the symlink. .Pp To make the "trigger" symbolic links used by .Nm distinguishable from normal symbolic links, the sticky bit is set in the mode flags for the link. Programs which would normally traverse symbolic links can test for this bit and avoid triggering the mount. Various parts of the system, including .Xr ls 1 , have been modified in this way. .Pp Each virtual filesystem created by .Nm is governed by a corresponding map. One or more maps and the location in the hierarchy where they are to appear may be specified on the command line with .Fl m and .Fl mnt : .Bd -literal -offset indent .Fl m Ar directory map .Ed .Pp is followed by a specification of the private mount directory where the actual mounts are to be established: .Bd -literal -offset indent .Fl mnt Ar actual_root .Ed .Pp Each .Ar map Ns 's hierarchy is rooted at the .Ar directory specified. .I .Sh FILE MAPS A map may be file or a special map. A file map is a file containing a list of entries of the form: .Pp location mount_options server:path .Pp mount_options must be a comma-separated list of options drawn from the options known to .Xr mount 8 and .Xr mount_nfs 8 . .Nm will automatically make available at the map's mount point the directory specified by server:path (as a symlink). When the symlink is traversed, it will mount the server in the directory specified with .Fl mnt and return the real mount point as the result of the symlink resolution. .Sh SPECIAL MAPS In addition to reading files specifying mount maps, .Nm supports the .Dq -fstab , .Dq -static , and .Dq -nsl maps. The .Dq -fstab and .Dq -static maps are derived from .Xr fstab 5 data (as provided by .Xr getfsent 3 Ns ). .Pp All mounts in .Xr fstab 5 without the .Dq net .\" net is not yet documented in fstab(5) option will be made to appear at the .Xr fstab 5 Ns -specified location in the form of a symlink into the directory where the .Dq -static map is actually mounted (itself a directory of symlinks). For example, the entry: .Pp server:/Network/Applications /Network/Applications nfs nosuid 0 0 .Pp and automount invocation .Pp automount -m /automount/static -static -mnt /private/var/automount .Pp result in a non-trigger symlink /Network/Applications pointing to /automount/static/Network/Applications which, when traversed, causes server:/Network/Applications to be mounted on /private/var/automount/Network/Applications (which would then be returned from reading the link). .Pp All mounts with the .Dq net option will be mounted within the .Dq -fstab map's filesystem using a path of the form: .Pp server/path .Pp For such mounts, the path specified in the .Xr fstab 5 entry will be ignored. For example, if the .Xr fstab 5 database contained an entry for .Pp polaris:/Library/Fonts .Pp and .Nm was started as follows: .Pp automount -m /Useful -fstab -mnt /private/Useful .Pp then a symlink would appear in /Useful, /Useful/polaris/Library/Fonts, and link to /private/Useful/polaris/Library/Fonts where the filesystem is actually mounted when the symlink is traversed. .Pp The .Dq -nsl map generates its filesystem hierarchy from information generated by NSL. NSL "neighborhoods" are presented as directories, populated by server entries. .\" link to NSL documentation? .Pp Accessing servers in the NSL hierarchy may prompt the user for authentication. .I .Sh OPTIONS .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Fl V Print version and host information, then quit .It Fl m Ar directory map Associate the specified .Ar map with the given .Ar directory. The directory will be created if it doesn't exist. .Ar map may be the name of a file, or it may be the name of a special map. See the FILE MAPS and SPECIAL MAPS sections above. .It Fl d Run .Nm in debug mode. The program remains in the foreground and sends debugging information to standard output. .It Fl D Ar type Log debug messages for .Ar type . .Ar type may be "mount", "proc", "mount", "select", "options", "nsl", or "all". Multiple .Fl D options may be specified. .It Fl 1 (The numeric digit .Dq one . ) Modifies the .Dq -fstab and .Dq -static maps to do mounts "one at a time", when an actual mount point is traversed rather than mounting all mounts from a given server when the first of its mounts is referenced and mounted. .It Fl tm Ar secs Set the timeout for NFS mounts to .Ar secs seconds. The default value is 20 seconds. The "mnttimeo=n" mount option overrides this default. .Pp .It Fl tl Ar secs Set the time-to-live for NFS mounts to .Ar secs seconds. The default value is 3600 seconds. The "ttl=n" mount option overrides this default. .Pp .Nm periodically checks all its mounted filesystems. If it finds any filesystems that have been idle for their associated time-to-live value, it will attempt to unmount them. An unmount will only be successful if there are no processes with open files in that filesystem. Unless .Fl 1 is specified, if one or more mounts from a given server are found to be active, any mounts from that server that were successfully unmounted will be immeadiately remounted. .Pp Supplying a ttl value of 0 will disable this behavior and allow servers to remain mounted forever. .It Fl s Force all mounts at startup and never expire any mounts. .It Fl tcp Mount servers using TCP if possible, otherwise using UDP (the default is to try UDP first, then TCP). Per .Xr mount_nfs 8 , "-T", "TCP", or "tcp" mount options have the same effect as specifying .Fl tcp ; "-U", "UDP", or "udp" mount options force the default behavior of trying UDP first even if .Fl tcp is specified. .Pp .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr mount 8 , .Xr mount_nfs 8


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Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth
The David S. and Ruth L. Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth, located in the Rose Center for Earth and Space, displays an outstanding collection of geological specimens from around the world to show how our planet works. The hall is organized around five major questions: How has the Earth evolved? Why are there ocean basins, continents, and mountains? How do we read rocks? What causes climate and climate change? Why is the Earth habitable?
The hall features 168 rock specimens, many of which can be touched, and 11 full-scale models of classic outcrops chosen to illustrate an important aspect of Earth's dynamic story. Interactive exhibits let visitors explore geologic time, peer into the planet's depths, and understand the scientific methods used to study it. The regularly updated Earth Bulletin highlights important topics in Earth science.
Featured specimens come from nearly all corners of the globe and include pure sulfur formed in an Indonesian volcano, a fossil stromatolite from the Sahara Desert in Mauritania, and a rock from New York City's Central Park. The hall's oldest specimen is a zircon crystal from Australia that formed about 4.3 billion years ago, only 200 million years after Earth itself.
The continental crust contains the historical record of our planet. Its most ancient rocks are four billion years old, and the youngest ones are still forming today.
Over millions of years, ocean basins open and close, continents move and change shape, and mountains are pushed up and eroded away.
How has the Earth evolved? Why are there ocean basins, continents, and mountains?
Climate is changing and we are seeing the consequences. The study of ancient climate is key to understanding how the climate system works—and how it might change in the future.
It is the right distance from the Sun, it is protected from harmful solar radiation by its magnetic field, it is kept warm by an insulating atmosphere, and it has the right chemical ingredients for life, including water and carbon.
The half globe above shows a changing image of the Earth as seen from space. As the Earth rotates, clouds are removed to reveal its oceans and continents.


text: Check out the newest addition to Swiss Army's multi-tool line-up, the Victorinox Flash. This pocket-friendly tool is equipped with a removable USB flash drive, a high-output white LED light, a knife blade, a nail file, a screwdriver, scissors, a retractable ball point pen and a key ring attachment. The Victorinox Flash sells for $44.99.


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Hedo Turkoglu hoped to receive good news about his broken left hand when he visited the doctor Wednesday.
Instead, Turkoglu received a cast.
An X-ray revealed that one of the five screws used to repair Turkoglu's fractured fifth metacarpal had come loose, which prompted the doctor to fit the injured small forward with a cast to stabilize the area further.
"That kind of upsets me, because that puts some time setback," Turkoglu said. "That's the thing I really hate about it, because I was really hoping to come back soon and be a part of this team."
Turkoglu sustained the injury Nov. 2, in the Orlando Magic's season-opener against the Denver Nuggets. He underwent surgery the next morning, and team officials said then he would miss at least four weeks.
Now, it seems highly unlikely that he'll be back by the end of this month.
The Magic miss his veteran savvy, his outside shooting and his ball-handling ability, especially at the ends of games.
Turkoglu, who is normally upbeat and cheerful, said he isn't in any physical pain, but he seemed discouraged when he spoke with reporters after his teammates finished practice Wednesday afternoon.
"Week by week we're going to take some X-rays and see how the healing process goes and go from there," he said.
Magic coach Jacque Vaughn is trying to keep Turkoglu upbeat.
"I just try to lift his spirits," Vaughn said. "I ask him if he has any recommendations, what he's seeing out there. So it's a communication to keep him involved."
Josh Robbins covers the Orlando Magic and the NBA for the Orlando Sentinel. You can reach him via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com and connect with him on Facebook at facebook.com/JoshuaBRobbins. Follow him on Twitter at @JoshuaBRobbins.


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An accredited assistant is based in one of the European Parliament''s three places of work (Brussels, Luxembourg or Strasbourg) and has a contract of employment under European law concluded directly with Parliament. A local assistant is based in one of the EU Member States and has a contract of employment or a service provider contract governed by private law that is concluded directly with the Member and is subject to national law. In addition, Members can also welcome trainees in EP premises and in the Member States.
For more information, see section Staffing arrangements.


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Investigators find hole cut in wall at suspicious fire at Kingston plazaBy JASON SCHREIBER
Union Leader Correspondent
January 17. 2018 8:45AM
KINGSTON — The state fire marshal's office is investigating a suspicious fire that broke out at the Carriage Towne Plaza early Wednesday morning and forced several businesses to close, including the Post Office.
The fire was reported about 3:30 a.m. and caused heavy heat and smoke damage inside Carriage Towne Market, Fire Chief Bill Seaman said.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation, but Police Chief Donald Briggs Jr. said it appears someone entered the rear of the building before the fire began.
Seaman said firefighters discovered that someone had cut a hole in the wall leading from Asian Gourmet, which is vacant, to Carriage Towne Market.
Firefighters discovered the fire inside the market and knocked it down quickly, but not before the heat melted light fixtures and plastic.
"The fire did not extend beyond the market, but there is smoke throughout the entire building," Seaman said.
Police and firefighters were alerted to the blaze when the fire alarms went off at the strip mall on Church Street.
Briggs said a police officer found flames coming from Carriage Towne Market.
Officers from Kingston and Brentwood gathered evidence at the scene that police believe will be "critical" to the case, Briggs said.
Briggs said police will assist the fire marshal's office, which will notify federal agencies for possible assistance.
The building houses nine businesses — two of which are vacant — and the Post Office.
Yellow police tape was strung up around the front of the building and all of the businesses remained closed Wednesday morning.
They include medical offices for Core Physicians, which Briggs said planned to remain closed for the day.
"The fire marshal is going through each and every building to see if there's any evidence of a crime or an attempted crime. Once the fire marshal goes through each and every building and makes that determination, at that point the buildings can be turned back over to the person in charge," Briggs said.
Carriage Towne Market owner Devendra Patel arrived to see the damage for himself after he was notified by his alarm company. He's owned the market for 15 years and said it is insured.
He said the market will likely be closed for at least three weeks.


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So, just how bad was the roll-out of the Affordable Care Act portal, HealthCare.gov? It depends.
As a production launch, it was really bad. Failures on the site frustrated users and burned up a lot of goodwill that the administration could ill afford to lose.
Developer documentation shows agile development practices were used in building the site. Here's where that could have hurt. Read more.
Development of large, complex systems requires a method that also allows a progressive discovery of project scope and dependencies, along with identification and mitigation of key risks. Read more.
As a beta test, it still was pretty bad; but that's what beta tests are for. There is no disgrace in finding problems in an application during testing. "This is pretty standard," said David Lindsay, senior security product manager at Coverity, a development testing company. The failure with HealthCare.gov is that the beta test started Oct. 1 rather than two months earlier.
Any large application project requires testing throughout the planning and development phases. This begins with the individual components as they are developed and continues as they are assembled into working parts. "There is still going to be a need for production testing," when the entire application is completed, Lindsay said. "A final pass before things go out the door."
There is a paradox in large project developments, however. The more complex the application, the more testing it needs. But the more complex it is, the later all of the parts come together and the less time there is for final testing. And it is not enough to squirt bits at the software on a laboratory testbed. It should be exposed to real users who can put it through its paces to expose the unintended consequences of development decisions. This is the beta test, the last stop before production release and the last chance to fix problems before you disappoint users and delight antagonists.
HealthCare.gov certainly qualifies as a complex application. It serves as a gateway for 36 state programs and must securely access sensitive information in multiple state and federal databases. The results will determine whether and what kind of health care millions of people have access to, so the stakes are high.
Doing a beta test for a large-scale public Web application is not simple, but it can be quietly and slowly rolled out in a number of locations. Given the current projected fix date of Nov. 30 for the site, this testing phase should have begun no later than Aug. 1 in order to be ready for production by Oct. 1. But the current fix is being done on a crash basis, which is not a good way to develop and fix software. So a July date for beta release would have made better sense.
This would not have been simple to do. All of the states involved and the insurance companies offering coverage would have needed to have their parts ready three months early. That kind of scheduling has to be built into the project from the beginning, not brought up as an afterthought. Synchronizing the release date with the launch date is a recipe for failure, and that is what happened with HealthCare.gov.
There was time to do it right. The Affordable Care Act was passed in early 2010. The task was complicated, however, by opponents of the program who helped to talk many states out of offering their own healthcare exchanges, making the federal portal that much more complex. Those opponents share much of the blame for the botched launch of the site. But that does not excuse those who planned and developed the system from doing it right.
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I was in agreement with this article until I came to the last paragraph: "opponents of the program who helped to talk many states out of offering their own healthcare exchanges, making the federal portal that much more complex. Those opponents share much of the blame for the botched launch of the site." Really? There were 3 options for running exchanges for States to choose from: Total Federal, Federal/State, and Total State. With so many States struggling financially, deciding to let the Fed Government build and pick up the tab was a no-brainer. And since it was an option, the Feds should have prepared for that possibility and that extra "complexity". States are free to make whatever choice best met that State's needs. Sorry, but opponents don't share the blame for this "crash and burn" and it was disingenuous to suggest otherwise.
I wish I could blame "opponents" for crap code whenever I wrote a bug.
Get real! The Government launches web based stuff more times than anyone can imagine just like the healthcare thing.
Is the ACA web site still working off Technical Debt? A Beta Test is an exercise to demonstrate that a system work as intended, not an exercise to detect defects tom pollute Jeffrey Zients's punch list.
The question remains, will the November 30 ACA web site be a system that has completed Beta Test or one that has not yet entered Beta Test?
WIth emerging technologies such Service Virtualization CMS and their supporting contractors could have conducted end to end performance testing MONTHS earlier and been better prepared for a successful launch even with the late requirements that did not emerge until Spring, '13
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Mass. nuclear plant in service after repairs
PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — The Pilgrim nuclear power plant in Plymouth is back online after repairs to the electrical system that runs pumps to supply cooling water to the reactor core.
A spokeswoman for the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station's owners said the plant was reconnected to the regional power grid at 1:47 p.m. Monday. The system had been manually shut down Thursday morning.
The company said plant technicians replaced a breaker and corrected a ground fault on a solenoid associated with the water cooling circuitry. They also performed other maintenance that can't be done when the plant is operating.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and plant operators said last week there was no threat to public safety. Pilgrim owner Entergy said backup pumps automatically activated and plant systems performed as designed.


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The journey of Million Dollar Quartet (MDQ) the musical is just as amazing as the actual event that occurred on Dec. 4, 1956. In 2006 the show opened in Daytona Beach for a five week run before moving to Seattle. In Seattle at The Village Theatre the show played sold out audiences during a 10-week run.
Given the show's success in the market, the producers decided to take the show to Chicago. Opening at the Goodman Theatre on Oct. 5, 2008 the production quickly moved to its current home the Apollo theatre where it continues to thrill audiences nightly. During the Chicago run in 2010, a second company of Million Dollar Quartet opened on Broadway at the Nederlander Theatre. This production played 500 plus performances before moving to its New York location at New World Stages where the final performance was held in June of 2012. During the Broadway run another company was formed and the show became a true international smash- hit with a London run at the Noel Coward Theatre in the West End. Toward the end of the 11 month London engagement, the producers were hard at work developing a national tour.
The fourth company of MDQ launched with a national tour in Cleveland's Playhouse Square before embarking on a 30 plus market route. Lauded by audiences, the tour is currently heading into their second and a third year. Amid the success of the tour, Million Dollar Quartet will also launch another permanent production in Las Vegas at Harrah's Casino and hotel.
Colin Escott the co-author of the musical's book gives a glimpse into the evolution of Million Dollar Quartet. He is one half of the book's author , a task he shared with Floyd Mutrux. Lets listen on what happened in select markets….oh to be a fly on the wall!
Colin Escott
December 4, 2006: Seaside Music Theater, Daytona Beach, Florida. Performance #26 of a 33 show run coincided with the fiftieth anniversary of the original Million Dollar Quartet session. We were in Daytona to figure out if we had something. Standing in line at Will-Call to get my tickets, an elderly gentleman ahead of me gazed around as if he was in the Sistine Chapel. He wanted two tickets for that rock 'n' roll show he'd been told about. We've heard that a lot since then. Creatives, producers, friends and family came in for the fiftieth anniversary. Music director Chuck Mead got up on-stage to rock out with the cast. After the after-party, we figured we had something, but there was a lot of work to do.
October 5, 2008. Opening night at the Goodman Theatre. Looking around, I saw our show pulling together disparate talents from different places: regional theater in the DC suburbs, Chicago, Los Angeles, the Nashville roots music scene, the record business, television, Hollywood … and a Seattle guitar store. As music director Chuck Mead is fond of saying: the discipline of musical theater meets the lack of discipline of rock 'n' roll. Maybe that's part of the reason audiences love us. Reviews were great and we found our crowd. On October 31 we transferred to the Apollo Theater in Lincoln Park. Several members of the original cast are still with us in other productions. Now we're in Year Five in Chicago. Celebs and elected officials have dropped by and some have jammed with the cast.
April 11, 2010. Opening night on Broadway. So how seasoned or jaded do you have to be to shrug off the sight of the illuminated Broadway marquee for your show? This is, after all, the goal of just about everyone who writes for the stage. For our Broadway moment, we dropped in a mega-sized photo of the original quartet. It never fails to get an "Aw!" from the audience. Hell, it got an "Aw!" from me the first time it dropped. Belief suddenly needs to be suspended no more; this really happened. At the after-party, W.S. Holland, who'd been the drummer on the original session, came up to us and said, "Fellas, I got just one problem with your show. We didn't play that good."
September 10, 2010. Jerry Lee Lewis, the sole surviving member of the original Million Dollar Quartet, was scheduled to perform an encore with our cast. Earlier that day, he and the actor who portrayed him, Levi Kreis, talked over their favorite Bible verses. An hour or so before curtain-up, a phalanx of black-suited guys with walkie-talkies swept the theater. When everyone was seated, President Bill Clinton walked in with his newlywed wed daughter Chelsea Clinton and husband Marc Mezinsky. Standing at the back, which I'm always happy to do for a full house, I saw Clinton's bobbing head and I'm pretty sure I saw him singing along. Backstage afterward, he met everyone in the cast and crew, bagging fifty votes if he ever decides to run for anything again. Jerry Lee performed his encore. After the audience left, he walked through the empty theater. Frail perhaps, but indomitable.
February 14-19, 2012. The national tour at the Orpheum Theater, Memphis, one mile from the Sun Studio. "God, it's good to be in Memphis," said our Sam Phillips (Christopher Ryan Grant). And it was. The Orpheum was sold out for eight riotous shows. A little over forty years earlier, I'd got off the Greyhound in Memphis in search of the shaking music. Downtown was still pocked and gutted from the '68 riots. Asking, listening and watching, I tried to fathom how that bitterly polarized society birthed the sound. I truly, madly, deeply loved it all. Sun Studio was boarded up back then; Beale Street was a no-go zone. Elvis still cruised the city at night in his tinted-window Lincoln, in search of who knows what—perhaps the kid who'd run from the projects to the Sun studio the moment he got the call. In 2012, some of our cast headed for Beale Street's reborn clubs, while others joined our Carl Perkins (Lee Ferris) at the reborn Sun Studio, helping him record a songs for an upcoming project.