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Along with Drake and The Weeknd, J. Cole, NAS, Rick Ross and Stevie Wonder also preformed. The Weeknd opened this show while there was still daylight and also came out later on in the night to preform Trust Issues, a song him and Drake both have versions of.
You can view some photos below and a video of Drake and Abel preforming Trust Issues below.

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WASHINGTON — On this much, both sides agree: John Tanton, the provocative architect of a national movement to reduce immigration, has quietly left the board of the group he started and helped guide for 32 years.
But when did it happen and what does it mean?
Dr. Tanton, a Michigan ophthalmologist, has been a magnet for criticism since the 1980s, for writings that appear to disparage minorities and for accepting money from a foundation that promoted theories of white superiority. Hoping to discredit his broader movement, immigrant groups intensified their attacks in recent years, in what Dr. Tanton's friends call a campaign of vilification.
Yet the Federation of Americans for Immigration Reform, or FAIR, the influential group he started in 1979, kept him on the board of directors. Two years ago, Dan Stein, the group's president, hailed him as a "renaissance man."
On April 17, The New York Times published an article examining Dr. Tanton's racial views. Soon after, his name disappeared from the list of board members on the FAIR Web site.
Critics crowed. "FAIR needed to finally distance itself from someone who had brought such a bad reputation to the organization," said Heidi Beirich of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a long-time nemesis.
But the story may be more subtle — and revealing about immigration politics. Inside the movement, Dr. Tanton has been a giant, helping to start all three major national groups that seek to reduce immigration, legal and illegal. The others are the Center for Immigration Studies and Numbers USA.
An environmentalist and an advocate of population control, Dr. Tanton started with vows to build bridges with the left. But he attracted more support on the populist right, with warnings about the "Latin onslaught" and assertions that American society needs "a European-American majority, and a clear one at that."
Now 77 and with Parkinson's disease, he has been withdrawing from public life.
In a brief telephone interview, Mr. Stein said Dr. Tanton left the board two months before the Times article. He forwarded an e-mail from Feb. 3, in which Dr. Tanton told the board that his term was expiring and he would not seek re-election.
Yet the FAIR Web site continued to list him on the board. In an interview on March 9, Mr. Stein simply described Dr. Tanton as "relatively inactive." After the Times article appeared, FAIR issued a long statement, but did not say Dr. Tanton had severed his ties.
The next day, Julie Kirchner, FAIR's director, canceled a scheduled talk to a class at Princeton, saying she did not want to discuss Dr. Tanton. But she, too, did not say he had left the board, nor did Dr. Tanton himself, in a letter to The Times. Then suddenly he vanished from the roster on the Web.
Why the delicate choreography? One theory is that neither FAIR nor Dr. Tanton wanted to appear that they were reacting to what they regard as unfair attacks by unscrupulous enemies.
"I had heard for months that John was leaving the board," said one friend, speaking on the condition of anonymity to avoid entering the dispute over Dr. Tanton's views. "I really think it's purely his health. He's been such a target forever, it wouldn't be the attacks."
Mr. Stein said he had not called attention to Dr. Tanton's departure because he did not find it newsworthy. "I would certainly object strenuously if you characterized this somehow as a byproduct of external pressures," he said.
Told that Dr. Tanton had resigned in February, Ms. Beirich said she found it "mystifying" that FAIR had not announced it. "Perhaps they didn't want to draw any more attention to him and his views," she said.


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Douglas fir forest conserved by Nature Conservancy of Canada
Oct 03, 2012, 10:30 ET
First projects under TD Forests program
CALGARY, Oct. 3, 2012 /CNW/ - The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) today announced the conservation of 260 acres (106 hectares) of exceptional forest habitat in Alberta's Crowsnest Pass. This project was completed thanks to generous funding from TD Bank Group (TD) through the TD Forests program and the Government of Canada through the Natural Areas Conservation Program.
The Lusicich project has significant habitat value, including Douglas fir forests, montane grassland, north-south and east-west wildlife movement corridors and, consequently, provides critical range connectivity for species including grizzly bear, elk and wolf. More than 70 percent of the property contains Douglas fir, pine and aspen forest.
TD Forests is helping NCC to increase the amount of forest habitat protected and cared for, especially in southern Canada, where forests are most threatened by development. This is where the majority of Canadians live, competing for space with more than 80 percent of our terrestrial and freshwater species at risk.
Through this program, NCC and TD are also engaging Canadians in and connecting them to the mission of conserving our forested areas.
The Natural Areas Conservation Program is a unique public-private partnership. As of June 30, 2012, the Natural Areas Conservation Program had protected 835,637 acres (338,170 hectares) of habitat, which includes habitat for 126 species at risk.
NCC's involvement in the Crowsnest Pass Natural Area is primarily motivated by the goal of maintaining and enhancing wildlife linkage zones and corridors across and along the Crowsnest Pass valley in southwestern Alberta. The variation of climate and the elevation gradient located along this east-west valley creates habitat that supports a high diversity of species.
For more information about forest conservation and other TD Forests projects, please visit: www.natureconservancy.ca/celebrateforests.
"We are thankful for the generous support of our partners in this project who have all made an incredible commitment to conservation," remarked Bob Demulder, Regional Vice President, Alberta for the Nature Conservancy of Canada. "Together, we are ensuring that Canada's incredible forests will be here for our children and grandchildren to cherish in years to come."
"This acquisition marks another achievement under our government's Natural Areas Conservation Program," said the Honourable Ted Menzies, Member of Parliament for MacLeod and Minister of State for Finance. "With this investment, we are taking real action to protect and conserve our country's ecosystems and sensitive species for present and future generations."
"Ninety percent of Canadians have said forests are important to them, and for good reason," says Karen Clarke-Whistler, TD's Chief Environment Officer. "Forests form the backdrop of our lives. They are where we work, live and play. Forests play an essential role in cleaning the air and moderating temperatures, and are home to more than one-third of the plant and animal species in North America. As our world becomes more urbanized it is essential to protect forests and the valuable habitats they represent. That's why we made growing the area of protected forest habitat a key pillar of the TD Forests program."
- At Crowsnest Pass, elevations range from 1,113 metres at the Crowsnest River, to 2,804 metres at the mountain peaks.
- The Crowsnest Pass region is characterized by a rapid ecological transition from prairies to alpine. This compressed environmental gradient, and the influence of the Chinook winds, result in a rich diversity of flora and fauna.
- The vegetation of Crowsnest Pass is a mosaic of grasslands and of deciduous and conifer woodlands; it hosts a wide variety of rare plant species.
- Crowsnest Pass is a critical area for overwintering elk and deer, and provides habitat for important wildlife species such as grizzly bear, gray wolf and cougar.
- Crowsnest Pass is an essential wildlife passage through a chain of north-south mountains and valleys in the Canadian Rockies.
- The Nature Conservancy of Canada works in many forest ecosystems from coast to coast: from the Fog Forest of Newfoundland and Labrador, to the beautiful deciduous forest of the Carolinian Life Zone in southwestern Ontario; from aspen parkland in the prairie provinces, to lush rainforests on the west coast.
- Canada is home to 10 percent of the world's forests, covering one third of our country.
- Forests represent so much more than just trees. Each forest type supports a rich diversity of plant and animal life that relies on a healthy ecosystem to thrive.
- TD is a long-time supporter of NCC, especially through the TD Friends of the Environment Foundation, which has supported many NCC community-based projects across the country.
- TD Bank Group announced The TD Forests Program in 2011. To learn more about this program visit: http://www.td.com/forests.
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The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) is the nation's leading land conservation organization, working to protect our most important natural areas and the species they sustain. Since 1962 NCC and its partners have helped to protect more than 2.6 million acres (more than 1 million hectares), coast to coast. To learn more visit: www.natureconservancy.ca/ab.
The Government of Canada's Natural Areas Conservation Program is a $225 million investment to assist non-profit, non-government organizations to secure ecologically sensitive lands to ensure the conservation of our diverse ecosystems, wildlife, and habitat. The Nature Conservancy of Canada has been entrusted to lead the program and has committed to raising matching funds for each federal dollar received.
Launched in 2012, TD Forests is a major conservation initiative built around two pillars - reduce (paper use) and grow (forested areas). The reduce pillar will focus on providing an increased selection of e-banking options for customers and on reducing paper usage in TD's business operations. The grow component of the initiative brings together TD's environment, community and employee programs related to forests and trees. These include TD Tree Days, TD Green Streets and local community initiatives, along with a major new conservation program conducted through the Nature Conservancy of Canada and The Nature Conservancy in the United States. This program focuses on increasing the area of protected forest habitat in North America. For more information, visit TD Forests.
Video with caption: "Video for Lusicich and Backus Woods addition properties". Video available at: http://stream1.newswire.ca/cgi-bin/playback.cgi?file=20121003_C3561_VIDEO_EN_18772.mp4&posterurl=http://photos.newswire.ca/images/20121003_C3561_PHOTO_EN_18772.jpg&clientName=Nature%20Conservancy%20of%20Canada&caption=Video%20for%20Lusicich%20and%20Backus%20Woods%20addition%20properties&title=NATURE%20CONSERVANCY%20OF%20CANADA%20%2D%20Douglas%20fir%20forest%20conserved%20by%20Nature%20Conservancy%20of%20Canada&headline=Douglas%20fir%20forest%20conserved%20by%20Nature%20Conservancy%20of%20Canada
Image with caption: "The lush forest of the Lusicich property (CNW Group/Nature Conservancy of Canada)". Image available at: http://photos.newswire.ca/images/download/20121003_C3561_PHOTO_EN_18752.jpg
Image with caption: "Looking out over the Lusicich property across the lake (CNW Group/Nature Conservancy of Canada)". Image available at: http://photos.newswire.ca/images/download/20121003_C3561_PHOTO_EN_18749.jpg
Image with caption: "Looking east from the Lusicich property (CNW Group/Nature Conservancy of Canada)". Image available at: http://photos.newswire.ca/images/download/20121003_C3561_PHOTO_EN_18750.jpg
Image with caption: "A quiet lake view on the Lusicich property (CNW Group/Nature Conservancy of Canada)". Image available at: http://photos.newswire.ca/images/download/20121003_C3561_PHOTO_EN_18751.jpg
SOURCE: Nature Conservancy of Canada
For further information:
Jenel Bode
Senior Communications Coordinator, Alberta Region - Nature Conservancy of Canada
Tel: 403-262-1253
[email protected]


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Erectile dysfunction (ED) is the inability of a man to achieve or maintain an erection sufficient for his sexual needs or the needs of his partner. Erectile dysfunction is sometimes called as "impotence".
The term "erectile dysfunction" can mean the inability to achieve erection, an inconsistent ability to do so, or the ability to achieve only brief erections.
Men with High Blood Pressure usually face erectile dysfunction. Erection requires a sequence of events. Erectile dysfunction can occur when any of the events is disturbed. Nerve impulses in the brain, spinal column, around the penis and response in muscles, fibrous tissues, veins and arteries in and around the corpora cavernosa constitute this sequence of events. Injury to any of these parts which are part of this sequence (nerves, arteries, smooth muscles, fibrous tissue) can cause Erectile Dysfunction.
Many researchers link Hypertension or High blood pressure with Erectile Dysfunction. Many theories attempt to explain this relationship scientifically. It is a known fact that High blood pressure injures small arterioles.
Researchers argue that this may be happening in penis also. When small blood vessels of penis get damaged, body tries to repair them. In this process the scar tissues may form on blood vessels reducing the elasticity of penile arteries. This hinders blood flow to spongy tissues of penis.
Apart from this High blood pressure affects Hormone balance and nitric acid levels. This may lead to erectile dysfunction. Few claim that erectile dysfunction is caused due to side effects of anti hypertensive medications used by patients.
According to principles of Ayurveda, Hypertension is caused due to imbalance of Vata and pitta. When Vata gets imbalanced it imbalances its 5 subtypes (Vyana, Udana, Samana, Prana, Apaana ). Erection happens when apaanavayu gets stimulated through various factors like sparsha (touch), gandha (pleasant scent), erotic talks etc. It gets associated with tejas (heat of pitta) to cause erection. In Hypertension Erectile dysfunction appears when apanavayu and pitta get vitiated.
Ayurveda Home remedies to Reduce Hypertension
- Reduce stress level. Reserve 1 hour a day exclusively for you to destress.
- Avoid consumption of tobacco, alcohol and other intoxicants. Stop smoking as smoking aggravates Erectile dysfunction
- Pay attention for weight reduction. Adhere to suitable weight loss program. (check for ayurveda weight loss remedies)
- Reduce salt intake.
- Include Garlic, lemon, parsley, honey, onions, amla in your diet.
- Exercise regularly. 45 minutes of brisk walk is very useful.
- Avoid red meat, eggs and cholesterol increasing foods.
- Yoga, Meditation and Pranayama help to control blood pressure and normalize body secretions. These helps to balance the body.
- Avoid Vata vitiating foods which are deep fried, dry , cold and spicy.
- Keep blood pressure under control with medications prescribed by your family physician and consume them regularly.


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Replacing the Transportation Enhancements, Safe Routes to School, and Scenic Byways programs from the prior comprehensive funding bill (SAFETEA-LU), the new Transportation Alternatives (TA) program was one of the most contentious pieces of the MAP-21 negotiations. So where did the final bill land?
Although funding for the program continues to be dedicated (albeit at FY 2009 levels), "The major compromise reached on Transportation Alternatives is to essentially expand both flexibility for states and control for metropolitan regions," writes Jordan. The new program expands the types of projects eligible for funding and gives each state an avenue to "transfer its balance of unobligated funding to other projects."
According to Jordan, "Supporters of TA-eligible projects will have new opportunities to pursue local projects funding through the 50 percent set aside for metro areas. But, these same supporters will have to pressure states to ensure that vital bike, pedestrian, and safety resources are not siphoned off to other projects by state officials."


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Amazing grace how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me
I once was lost, but now i'm found
was blind, but now I see.
twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
and grace my fears relived, how precious did that grace appear,
the hour I first belived
Through many dangers, toils and snares,
I have already come.
It's grace that brought me safe thus far,
and grace will lead me home.
Amazing grace, oh how sweet the sound
To save a wretch like me,
I once was lost, but now I'm found
I was blind, but now I see.
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Admission of Powerlessness
Sobriety in AA is unconditional. This means that there's never been a reason for drinking, no matter how bad our circumstances may become. As the AA pioneers were fond of saying, "THERE'S NOTHING THAT DRINKING WON'T MAKE WORSE."
How do we know if we've been setting conditions on sobriety? It's revealed to us in our own thinking. If we believe, for example, that a certain setback such as the ending of a relationship is just cause for drinking, we have made our sobriety conditional.
In such cases, what we need to do is clear up our own thinking on the subject. Maybe further inventory is needed, or perhaps we should let ourselves learn from the experience of others. Self-honesty is also important in getting priorities in order.
The decision to choose unconditional sobriety brings additional benefits in helping us to organize our lives. Once we completely understand that sobriety is all-important, it becomes easier to make other decisions that bear on keeping sober. We find ourselves choosing the ideas and activities that enhance sobriety, while rejecting other things that could threaten it.
I'll never waver in a moment from my relief that I must continue to seek sobriety…… unconditionally. There is nothing that could ever justify my taking a drink.
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As a biracial, 2nd generation American growing up in an urban setting, I was raised in a multilingual home and grew comfortable speaking Hungarian with one grandma, Spanish with another, and a mix with my own parents. But outside of the home, I noticed some people weren't as understanding about my lifestyle and upbringing. I noticed people had things to say about immigrants — and not very nice ones. I was told my parents had an accent. Huh? The older I got, the more hateful I understood the rhetoric to be. Racist, xenophobic, jingoistic, ignorant, plain and simple. And it wasn't just people I knew, it was coming from all angles — politicians, journalists, and other powerful, important figures that people listened to. These people had the power to determine policy and impact my life and everyone around me.
Thankfully I had the opportunity to get my BA in hegemony studies. Not really, but that's what it felt like. Actually I studied linguistic anthropology, and there I thrived on any reading materials I could get my hands on to get beyond the everyday ideologies about language, immigrants — and get the "real deal" from people who knew their stuff. My roles models became people like Foucault, Duranti, and my own advisor Dr. Pagliai, who studied racist ideologies from a linguistic anthropological framework — and get this, she got paid to do it!
Here are some of the readings/articles/books that I loved then as much as I do now, my go-to reading list for anyone interested in the prevalent, yet unexamined beliefs about languages, dialects, and their speakers. If you think other people have an accent, but you don't or that you can "tell" someone's race or ethnicity by the sound of their voice, then this is for you.
1) Lippi-Green, Rosina. 1997. English with An Accent: Language, ideology and discrimination in the United States. New York: Routledge.
What I love so much about this book is that it shows that you don't need a PhD to understand linguistic insights. English with an Accent is a highly accessible reader that, for starters, topples down the most common myths about language. What's the difference between a language and a dialect? Is Ebonics bad English? Is there such a thing as bad English? She provides readers with the tools to understand language and variation, and the ability to distinguish between language ideologies (beliefs about language) from data-driven, empirically-proven, insights on language from the people who've been doing this for a living. Through various case studies, she also provides compelling demonstrations of how institutions capitalize on linguistic ideologies (via "language subordination") to create and perpetuate inequalities and prejudice in various social arenas (public schools, children's movies, employment). A must-read for educators, parents, policy makers and the public at large, IMHO.
2) Urciuoli, Bonnie. 1996. Exposing Prejudice: Puerto Rican experiences of language, race, and class. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Despite being an older publication, the insights Urciuoli provides in this book remain relevant today and extremely helpful as a guide in understanding how immigrant communities are racialized/otherized/marked through a complex conflation of language, class, and race. Taking an ethnographic approach, she explains how Nuyoricans are stigmatized seemingly on the basis of their linguistic makeup (unabashed codeswitching, Latino English dialect, etc), but covertly on the basis of cultural constructions of race and class — what Urciuoli calls "race-marking mapped onto language behavior." In this longitudinal study she shows how a stigmatized identity results in a "glass ceiling" of sorts, whereby New York Puerto Ricans are routinely and systematically denied access to positions of power in society. A must-read for Newt Gingriches everywhere.
3) Baugh, John. 2006. Linguistic profiling. Black Linguistics: Language, society and politics in Africa and the Americas, ed. by Sinfree Makoni, 155-168.
Like racial profiling (alive and well in legislation like Arizona's SB1070 despite civil rights laws that clearly denounce the practice), linguistic profiling refers to the practice of judging speakers identity, competence, intellect (and on) based on features of their spoken language. A ubiquitous phenomenon in the life of a public school kid in DC, "you sound White," "stop talking Black" could be heard through the halls and packed a heavy socio-politico-ideological punch with every utterance. John Baugh's study, beyond being an interesting research project on a hot-button issue, has been invaluable in "real-world" applications: namely, fair housing advocacy work that works to eliminate civil rights discrimination and civil rights enforcement and compliance more generally. While admitting (albeit reluctantly) that linguistic profiling might be a natural human inclination based on its prevalence throughout antiquity, he argues that people can and should be more mindful about their own prejudices and stereotypes, and to strive toward higher tolerance of speakers with backgrounds different than their own.


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Sorry to report, no awesome beer adventures this weekend. Instead it was full of packing and cleaning. Here's a little recap of where we are at with our house hunt. We've toured about half a dozen homes with no luck at finding our first home. However, I will say we've learned so much. From seeing what types of projects we're willing to take on to understanding the different types of mortgages and finding out what we're comfortable compromising.Plus we've have enjoyed a moments of "you've got to be kidding me" like the one below.
To keep me off the listing sites, Matt recommended that I start to pack. Back in March my goal was to do one box a week. Well, I hadn't even gotten started until last week. So I did a little catch up and packed all of our fine china and other items from our china cabinets. Thankfully we saved a lot of the wrapping and stuffing we received from all of our wedding gifts. (A special thanks to my mom and dad for letting us borrow their basement to store it!)
Inspired by my packing, I thought I might as well start deep cleaning a few rooms in the house. My rationale was that maybe the cleaning wouldn't be so bad when we do actually move. First on my list was the refrigerator. A little vinegar and some elbow grease, and the old beauty was shiny once again! Next stop was the bathroom. Armed with my trusty vinegar again, as well as some bleach, it was time to kick some grout butt. To help with the teeny-tiny cracks and crevices I used a toothbrush. Best idea ever!
We'll see what I get done this weekend, although I think I'm going to take a break from "major" cleaning efforts and just focus on a few more boxes. And keep your fingers crossed, we have a few more houses to look at next week!


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fastjet to boost capacity on Dar es Salaam-Mbeya flights
fastjet has announced it is increasing capacity on the newly launched Dar es Salaam to Mbeya (Songwe) route in response to very high demand from its customers.
From November 24th a Sunday flight will be added to the existing timetable, and from December 17th fastjet will be operating an additional three flights per week, bringing the total number of flights per week between the two cities to seven.
Tickets for additional flights will go on sale today.
The route, which was launched on the November 1st, has to date achieved an average load factor of 97.5 per cent with a number of flights selling-out completely.
Commenting on the success of the route, fastjet chief commercial officer Richard Bodin said: "We are thrilled with the response to the launch of the Dar es Salaam to Mbeya route. Although we knew demand for the route was likely to be high, initial passenger numbers have certainly exceeded expectations.
"We are delighted to be able to once again meet our customers' needs and add more capacity to this popular route.
"We are seeing solid demand for our recently launched international route from Dar es Salaam to Johannesburg and are currently looking at increasing capacity on this route."


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FARMINGTON - Gov. Ned Lamont said that United Technologies Corp. and its subsidiaries will continue to be a significant piece of Connecticut's fabric after the company announced that it has entered an agreement along with Raytheon Company to join in an all-stock merger of equals.
The announcement, which was released on Sunday, stated that the combined company will be named Raytheon Technologies Corporation.
According to the announcing statement, the agreement does not include Otis and Carrier, which are part of United Technologies but will be separated in 2020.
"It's important to note that nearly all of UTC's 19,000 employees will remain in Connecticut, with roughly 100 moving to the new headquarters," Lamont said in a press release. "I've spoken directly with Greg Hayes and made it clear that Connecticut will always be open should things change, as they often do. This serves as reminder that we live in an increasingly competitive economy, domestically and internationally. As such, it's critical we invest in education, workforce development and our transportation infrastructure to stay competitive."
U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy also released a statement in regards to the merger and said he is concerned about the impact it could have on Connecticut and the country.
"I intend to work closely with state government officials, the Department of Justice and the Department of Defense to ensure this merger does not violate the agreement UTC signed with the state," Murphy said. "I remain increasingly concerned about the rapid consolidating within the defense and aerospace industry and the impact on competition. Our nation depends on a diverse and competitive industrial base and I intend to review this process closely in the months ahead."
The newly combined company, which will be headquartered in Massachusetts, will have around $74 billion in pro-forma 2019 sales. Under the agreement, Raytheon shareowners will receive 2.3348 shares in the combined company for each Raytheon share.
When the merger is completed, United Technologies shareowners will own around 57% and Raytheon shareowners will own around 43% of the combined company, the statement said.
"Today is an exciting and transformational day for our companies, and one that brings with it tremendous opportunity for our future success," Tom Kennedy, Raytheon chairman and CEO said on the press release. "Raytheon Technologies will continue a legacy of innovation with an expanded aerospace and defense portfolio supported by the world's most dedicated workforce. With our enhanced capabilities, we will deliver value to our customers by anticipating and addressing their most complex challenges, while delivering significant value to shareowners."
Kennedy will serve as the combined company's executive chairman. Hayes, United Technology's chairman and CEO, will be the combined company's CEO.
"The combination of United Technologies and Raytheon will define the future of aerospace and defense," Hayes said in the press release. "Our two companies have iconic brands that share a long history of innovation, customer focus and proven execution. By joining forces, we will have unsurpassed technology and expanded R&D capabilities that will allow us to invest through business cycles and address our customers' highest priorities. Merging our portfolios will also deliver cost and revenue synergies that will create long-term value for our customers and shareowners."
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Question about General Questions Hand of Cards and Drawing Cards - What do both players have to take into consideration regarding the hand limit?
It is important for both the active and passive player to observe the hand limit at all times. If the passive player receives cards through events or actions performed by his opponent and thus exceeds his hand limit, he immediately must reduce the number of cards in his hand to the number allowed. Only then can the active player continue with his turn.
Note: This rule is valid for the old Catan Card game. The rule for the Rivals for Catan is different.


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Comedian Cadillac Kimberly went in on Tyra Banks, NeNe Leakes and the other Housewives of Atlanta in a very hilarious video LOL. Peep game… Read the rest of this entry »
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Cadillac Kimberly Goes In on Tyra Banks & NeNe Leakes
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Straight Comedy
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You are guaranteed to erupt in some major laughter at this video. This reporter starts tripping on camera. Just watch it.
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He-Man Parody hilarious
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For all of those who were fortunate enough to watch cartoons back in the 80's this is a He-Man parody. Get your laugh on it's Friday people!
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In response to the US's Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) and the associated international treaty entered into between the Czech Republic and the United States, the Czech FATCA (Act No. 330/2014 Coll., on exchange of information on foreign accounts with the United States of America for tax administration purposes) was published (took effect) on 29 December 2014.
The information exchange includes the collection and relay of information on US tax residents' accounts from Czech tax authorities to US tax and other contact authorities and vice versa, i.e. exchange of information on Czech tax residents' accounts from US tax authorities to Czech authorities. The Czech FATCA imposes duties related to payments to non-participating financial institutions and regulates fines for failures to discharge non-cash duties owed to Czech financial institutions. The Czech FATCA took effect on 13 January 2015.


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Obtaining your Private Pilot Certificate is easier than you may think. First, you must pass a basic physical, show proof of citizenship to your flight instructor and sign up for lessons. If you take one lesson a week, you should obtain your pilot certificate in 6 months. Two lessons a week will cause you to be finished in 3 months. If you are a motivated individual and have a two week vacation, you may sign up for a 2 week accelerated course. Two Weeks?? Yes, that is correct!
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Franz Szony is a fashion, commercial and fine art American photographer who grew up in Nevada. As the son of a casino manager, he watched all the shows that came to town. The show's costumes clearly have affected his work.
He enrolled in art classes at the age of five and the legend was born. Lucky for us at an early age, Franz realized that he was destined to be an artist. He immersed himself in the craft by studying the history of photography and the techniques of other photographers then perfected his own style that would set him apart. Coming into his own over the years has had its ups and downs but he never lost sight of his path. He has no regrets and thinks the word "regret" should be banned.
"As a fashion designer, one quickly realizes the difference between photography and fashion photography. It is your dream to work with a photographer who has the technique and vision to bring your images to life creating scenes you never thought possible. Working with Franz Szony, you will get elegance, style, craziness and a little bit of danger. He takes us on a wild ride with his "artistic eye". We are all lucky to have bought a ticket", says Stacey Blanchet (TPM Senior Editor).
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Sparkling Rosemary Vodka LemonadePosted: August 22, 2012 Filed under: Drinks | Tags: cocktail, rosemary 1 Comment
Rosemary Lemonade Cocktail
This refreshing cocktail is great for a summer day. Who doesn't love lemonade on a warm day?
1 Cup of fresh lemon juice ( about 4 lemons)
1 Cup seltzer water
3 Tablespoons agave syrup
4 Oz. Vodka
4 Rosemary fresh sprigs
For garnish : 8 lemon slices, 2 for each drink and Stevia sugar around rim of each cup
Makes 4 Drinks
Mix lemon juice and agave syrup until syrup is dissolved, add in seltzer water and vodka. Pour into 4 glasses and stir using rosemary sprig to add light flavor. Leave sprig in cup for garnish.


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Why live in Flamstead
Flamstead stands on a ridge above the River Ver. The first documented record of the village was in 1006 and it is also recoded in the Domesday Book. The Church of St Leonard's that is believed to stand on the site of a ninth-century Saxon Chapel dominates the village skyline.
There are many local clubs and events taking place throughout the year in Flamstead, the Scarecrow Festival and Literary Festival to name but a few. For amenities there is a local shop and three pubs within the village as well as the Flamstead Pre-School & Primary.
As a location, Flamstead is very well situated being close to Harpenden, St Albans, and Hemel Hempstead. The village is on the A5, the old Roman Road, north of junction 9 on the M1.
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Flamstead is a picturesque village with a good community spirit and lots of activities for all age groups. The village has a shop, post office and general store selling a range of goods including newspapers, bread and dairy products. Within the village there are 3 public houses, the Rose & Crown, the Three Blackbirds and The Spotted Dog.
Schooling – There is a Village Junior & Infant school, whilst Secondary schooling is generally provided by Roundwood School in Harpenden and Schools in Hemel Hempstead.
Travel connections are excellent with road links via the A5, M1 junction 9 (1 mile) and the M25. The village is linked by bus routes between Luton, Dunstable and Hemel Hempstead, or Dunstable and St. Albans, with additional bus services to Harpenden Schools. There are rail links from either Harpenden via the Thames link Railway to London Kings Cross, or Hemel Hempstead to London Euston. London-Luton International Airport: Domestic/European and International flights (4 Miles).
Flamstead also hosts an extremely popular annual scarecrow festival that attracts over 5,000 visitors to the village each year. Flamstead has its own website run by a local team that details numerous events and activities – click here for details.


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Well it has truly been a great experience in the WDDM course. We wrapped up and presented our final website projects this week. It was gratifying to see the work and effort paid off for all of us, and we each will be leaving with a good start to a portfolio. Some of us have completed websites for our own businesses, and some have built sites for a client's business. Either way, the project work done in this course has practical and immediate applications for each student. This is a great take away, and something that is often overlooked or missing in contemporary Western education.
Today we finished the week with an introduction to Drupal. We were able to do a Drupal installation and get a taste of what building with Drupal is like. Some students may be going on to the Drupal and e-commerce diploma course at Q, so this was a nice segway. It was interesting for everyone to experience the comparison to WordPress.
Sending special thanks to the family at Q College! I really enjoyed my time here, and what was learned was far beyond my expectations. I am grateful for all that you share and do!


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Having previously worked in customer-facing industries that required building lasting relationships with clients, Rob is now training to become a Financial Adviser.
Rob enjoys every aspect of meeting people from all walks of life. His goal is always client satisfaction, making a positive impact and giving people the peace of mind that they are on their way to Financial Freedom.
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What Accounts Should I Be Using?
Something which I have seen recently on a few occasions is that customers using the same credentials for ConfigMgr Client Push account and the Network Access Account. Sometimes, for simplicity sake the account is even a member of Domain Admins. It's actually really important that these two needs are not covered by the same user account and even more so that they are not Domain Admins!
The ConfigMgr Client Push Account (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb632779.aspx)
For ConfigMgr client push to work, the ConfigMgr Site Server needs to connect to the ADMIN$ share of the prospective client computer. Once it has done this the ConfigMgr server will then copy down CCMSETUP.EXE and set that to operate as a service. CCMSETUP then starts and manages the rest of the installation. In order to do this the ConfigMgr Client Push Account needs to have local admin permissions on the prospective client computer.
The Network Access Account (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb680398.aspx)
Now that we have the client software installed, the client will download its policy and store it in WMI. Something that is very likely to happen is that we will want to distribute some software to the client computer. When a client is a member of a Microsoft Active Directory Directory Services domain then it will authenticate to a Distribution Point through its computer account and access the content. What happens however if the client is a member of a non-trusted domain, or is a workgroup member, or in a Windows PE build because we are deploying an operating system using System Center Configuration Manager at this time? Well, that's what the Network Access Account is there for. We download those credentials as policy and store them in encrypted format as part of the client's policy.
Really all we need to do is create an account within Active Directory Directory Services and grant no additional access permissions to it. The account should not be able to logon interactively and it should not be able to add computers to the domain. It certainly should be in no other groups than Domain Users.
So, what's the problem?
If someone is able to connect to WMI and read these credentials from WMI then under normal circumstances all they will have learned are the names of an account with mediocre permissions. If you have elevated the Network Access Account then the attacker could use this account to try and access more useful data.
This post was contributed by Jason Wallace, a Premier Field Engineer with Microsoft Premier Field Engineering, UK


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Arctic Academy Programme (ARKTIKO) 2014-2020
The Arctic region is undergoing a major climate, environmental, geopolitical, economic and sociocultural transformation. The Academy of Finland's Arctic Academy Programme (ARKTIKO, 2014–2020) aims to study and understand the change factors affecting the development of the Arctic region, the transformation process, and the dynamics of change. The programme contributes to strengthening the position of Finnish Arctic research at the top of international rankings, and promotes the identification of novel research paths and, consequently, new solutions.
One of the main objectives of the programme is to to disseminate new research knowledge to support decision-makers and stakeholders and for public discussion.
The programme has four themes:
- Good-quality life in the north
- Economic activity and infrastructure in Arctic conditions
- The northern climate and environment
- Cross-border Arctic policy
The programme is aimed at strengthening collaboration between national actors in the field. At the same time, it also offers good opportunities for international research cooperation.
ARKTIKO consists of 20 extensive international research projects and two international joint projects.
Read more about the programme's themes, background and goals.
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I am an artist because I love the art journey. There is a freedom and a joy in the process of creating art that is hard to find elsewhere. It is also a daily exertion of effort and hope.
I was born and raised in the suburbs of New York City where dual interests in art and music began.
Earlier in my art life, I focused mainly on painting representational watercolors. I enjoyed the challenge of creating very detailed images and still do. The more details I painted, the more I felt that I had succeeded in expressing the beauty of the subject.
Then I began to look for a way to let a little fresh air into my studio allowing more of myself to peek through. That's when I started creating mixed media collages.
This has led to several bodies of work using more experimental techniques- multi layered acrylic collages that reveal long-forgotten names or words, weavings and mosaics made from the torn or cut strips of canvas and papers. Details matter in this collage world too, expressing the significance of seemingly useless fragments and scraps. Nothing is wasted!
My hope is that others would respond by coming closer and finding something there that encourages or refreshes.
Most days I am in my home art studio in Colorado, drinking endless cups of tea! Other interests: spending time with my husband Brad, two grown up kids and doggie Moose, connecting with family and friends, watching vintage films with yarn in hand, playing piano or reading.
Along with Brad, we co-founded Heartworks Inc. and Melting Stone Music where we have recorded and produced several original music CD's.
I have released two original piano solo CD's, Water Song & Colors Dance.
B.A. in History and second field in Studio Art at the University at Albany, NY. I also have freelanced in the licensed greeting card world as an artist and designer.
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Western Federation of Watercolor Societies 2012, Artpoints Merchandise Award.
Boulder Arts Association "COLOR-ado" 2011 Juried Exhibit Chautaugua, First Place
Art For the Contemporary Home by Jamin and Ashley Mills, Adams Publishers, Nov. 2013
Flowers in Watercolor, Rockport Publishers, ed. by Betty Lou Schlemm
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Installing Rails on Windows and using Sybase as db for the first time is a pain. So I thought to write a how to:
1) Download latest stable release of Ruby from http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=167 on to your computer.
2) Run the executable and follow the onscreen instructions.
3) Once Ruby is installed successfully then go to command prompt and type
ruby -v then hit enter. If everything was done properly then you will see the version of ruby, something like this
ruby 1.8.6 (date ...) [..]
4) Now you need to download the latest gem from http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126
5) Unzip it and then go to the command prompt again and type
ruby setup.rb.
6) This will install the gem package manager. To be sure if everything went OK type
gem -v on the command prompt to see the version of gem installed on your machine.
7) Now, to install rails run
gem install rails --include-dependencies and wait while it is installed.
8) Once this process is complete then run
rails -v and you should get the rails version as the output.
To communicate your rails app with Sybase you need to follow these steps.
1) Download sybaseanywhere_adapter.zip file (by Michael Scott)
2) Inside you have two ruby files and a read me file:
- Put sybaseanywhere_adapter.rb file under your ruby installation, i.e., ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\activerecord-1.13.2\lib\active_record\connection_adapters
- Put sybaseanywhere.rb file file under your ruby installation, i.e., ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\activerecord-1.13.2\lib\active_record\vendor
- Now add sybaseanywhere in ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\activerecord-1.13.2\lib\active_record.rb file like this
RAILS_CONNECTION_ADAPTERS = %w( mysql postgresql sqlite firebird sqlserver db2 oracle sybase openbase frontbase sybaseanywhere )
3) Now create a directory called ADO, if you don't already have it under your ruby installation directory, for example, ruby\lib\ruby\site_ruby\1.8\DBD
4) Download rub-dbi package from http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-dbi/ unzip it and put the ruby-dbi\lib\dbd\ADO.rb under your newly created directory ruby\lib\ruby\site_ruby\1.8\DBD\ADO
5) Your database.yml will also look a bit different like this
adapter: sybaseanywhere
dsn: dsn_name
mode: DBI:ADO
Obviously, you have to create your dsn name using windows control panel. Now thats something off topic and I imagine you already know how to do this.
On windows you can use Aptana as your IDE (download from here) since it is free and has plugins for rails, svn, etc.


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In A World Like Ours, by Karl Kadaver is a work in progress on FictionPress.com about a young man named Kenneth Conners, who happens to have super powers that he inherited from his parents. The story follows Kenneth as he tries to balance his "civilian" life with his superheroic one. He is joined by Charles Atlas, the man who gave Kenneth's father his start in superheroics and Sunburst, a young woman who has powers of her own. The story follows a Villain of the Week formula with a romantic subplot between Kenneth and Allison, a girl who recently moved into the city and yet another subplot wherein seeming random people are given doses of a Super Serum for an unknown purpose. Just concluded its sixth "Issue." It's become a victim of the dreaded Schedule Slip, as Karl hasn't updated the story in weeks.
This work contains the following Tropes:
- Accidental Misnaming: Kenneth does not like being called 'Kenny.'
- Action Girl: Sunburst
- Aliens Speaking English: Kenneth's father, Earl. Granted, he's had over 20 years to master the language...
- All Guys Want Cheerleaders: Invoked by Kenneth in an Imagine Spot featuring Allison in a cheerleader's outfit.Imaginary Allison: Gimme an 'S!' *leg kick*
- Alliterative Name: Kenneth Connors
- Ascended Fanboy: Before regularly using his powers, Kenneth was a fan of the Comic Within A Story Captain Magnificent. He still is.
- Also Sunburst. She didn't fight crime in costume until Super Nova showed up.
- Badass Normal: Aside from her "bursting" powers, Sunburst is this.
- When the Powered Armor psychopath thinks that you're more of a match than the person with actual super powers, then it must be true.
- Batman Cold Open:
- Sunburst's introduction.
- Chop Shop's introduction, complete with Call-Back to Sunburst's intro.
- Berserk Button: Don't harm any civilians while Super Nova is around.
- Blessed With Suck: Overlaps with Power Incontinence. Kenneth can't properly regulate his body temperature. He has heat sinks in his costume to mitigate this. He hand waves this by referring to it as the fictional disease, "Hyperthermal Disregulation."
- Brand X: Wally's World Superstore (where Kenneth works), Primary Insurance Company Inc. (where Kenneth's father works)
- Cartwright Curse: Kenneth believes that superheroes have this''Narrator: He liked Allison, but he doubted he could burden her with that kind of information[being a superhero]. After all, in his comic books, any love interest that isnt a superhero themselves end up in a word, dead.''
- City of Adventure: New Sharden
- Day in the Life: How the story begins.
- Every Car Is a Pinto: Averted. So far, two cars have been destroyed, one beyond recognition, and neither have exploded.
- Evil Knockoff: Super Nova's first super-powered foe, "Hellstorm." It doesn't end well for him.
- Expy: The story is chock-full of them: (As far as power sets are concerned)
- Super Nova - Starfire
Sunburst - Silk Spectre or Nightwing
Chop Shop - Iron Man
Miss Amazing/Lady Iron - Ms. Marvel
Plasma Man - Green Lantern
Charles Atlas - Good!Vandal Savage
- Super Nova - Starfire
- Fangirl: Allison is a mild version of one for Super Nova.
Allison:*While glomping Super Nova* "Don't get any ideas. I have a boyfriend."
- Surprisingly, it doesn't seem like a case of Loves My Alter Ego.
- Genre Savvy: Kenneth. He is a comic book fan, after all.Super Nova:(Regarding the appearance of Hellstorm)"This might sound weird, but, do you think someone is out giving people superpowers? Maybe Hellstorm was some kind of test."
Atlas: Youve been reading too many Captain Magnificent comics. Your logic, sound as it may be, is flawed. The last person to give others superpowers was your fathers late arch-nemesis, Doctor Mortus. He died after his Island of Doom exploded.
Super Nova: He disappeared after his Island of Doom exploded. A good villain never stays dead for long. What if he came back and is up to his old tricks?
"Wouldnt that be weird if he saw someone that he knows from his secret identity? (ALL super heroes have secret identities!)"
- Also this post by Allison:
- Girls Love Stuffed Animals: Sunburst with Mr. Flopsy, her stuffed rabbit.
- Hollywood Nerd: Allison is a moderator of a forum dedicated to Super Nova fandom. They call themselves 'Nova-Lites.'
- Kenneth also counts, being that he's a Captain Magnificent fanatic, but he has a physique "more like an All-Star quarteback."
- Immune to Bullets: Super Nova is a slight aversion. He comments to his parents that the bullets merely sting and show them the welts that resulted from an encounter with gun-toting bank robbers.
- The higher the gauge, the more impact they have. A pair of .50 caliber bullets knocked the wind out of him.
- In a World...: "...just like ours, but different..."
- Jumped at the Call:
Narrator: [Explaining Hellstorm's Freudian Excuse] Why not use your name for something more? Why not use all of that recognition and fame and put it towards making a mint. Think of all the commercial deals! He can imagine it now, Super Nova Brand energy bars, Super Nova Brand sneakers, Super Nova Brand condoms, for Gods sake! Theyll make you SUPER where it REALLY counts! And the movies! You could do your own stunts, hell you could have people actually shooting at you, and actually jumping from tall buildings; youd be the biggest action star ever!
- Super Nova and Sunburst.
- "Hellstorm" also Jumped At The Call, but in the opposite direction.
Hellstorm: [Inner Monologue] Hell, Super Nova might even be on board for the whole thing. I might have to cut him in on some of the profits, but whats a couple of bucks here and there? Sixty-Forty split. Nah, more like Ninety-Ten. Yeah, Ill ride the hem of your (metaphorical) cape all the way to the bank, you dumb git.
- Kirk Summation: Super Nova tries one on Hellstorm. As usual, it doesn't work.Super Nova: Shut up and listen, Not-Super Nova! Im saying this for your benefit. First of all, this might embarrass you, but dont let it: My mom hits harder than you. But dont worry about it because she hits harder than me, too. Second, Sunburst isnt my girlfriend. Shes a girl who is my friend. Now that we got that out of the way, I want to drop some Truth on you: Youll never beat me. Ive been training and honing my powers to a fine edge since I was five. You cant even master moving in Three-Dimensional space, which tells me you didnt have your powers very long. Am I right? You know I am. And those hits you landed on me? I was gauging your strength. You know, like any fighter worth his salt would.
- Loners Are Freaks: Nicholas Trent, otherwise known as "The Creeper." No, not that one.
- Leotard of Power: Sunburst. Justified.Sunburst: *rolls her eyes* Duh Ya see, my power only works when I have skin exposed, so I need to make my suit as revealing as possible. *Hops off the table and does a twirl, finishing with her back facing Super Nova* Its actually pretty conservative, if I say so myself.
Super Nova: *Says nothing*
Sunburst: It doesnt hurt that guys cant help but look at me, either. You know pretty much the way you are. *snickers*
- Meaningful Name: The name "Kenneth" means, "Born Of Fire."
- Mega-Corp: The Atlas Research Group ("Creating A Better Tomorrow Today")
- Mission Control: Charles Atlas. The narrative explicitly calls him by this trope.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Dr. Mortus, "Hellstorm", Chop Shop
- Punch-Clock Villain: Lady Iron. Formerly Dr. Mortus' Dragon.Narrator: Having nowhere else to go [after Dr. Mortus' Island of Doom exploded], and not really wanting to be a villain anymore, Lady Iron decided to join Plasma Man and Charles Atlas.
- Retired Badass: Plasma Man and Miss Amazing, Kenneth's parents. In fact, Kenneth's mother is perfectly happy being a homemaker.
- Samus Is a Girl: Chop Shop is a girl.
- Sarcastic Confession: Kenneth gets a nice one on Rob in Issue 4.Rob: Then, what happens not a week after Suburst comes onto the scene: Little, mild-mannered, Allison Kelso shows up to get a job. *Leans in close to Kenneth* Its too perfect. And tell me, Kenny, have you ever seen them in the same place together? You know my logic is sound.
Kenneth: Have you ever seen Super Nova and me in the same place together? For that matter, Ive never seen you and Sunburst in the same place together. How do I know youre not Sunburst just trying to throw me off?
- Shout Out: To DC Comics heroes. The names of the bank robbers (Calvin Elliot, Dwayne Troy, and Wayne Bates) and a guest writer for Captain Magnificent, Jordan Halverson
- Stalker with a Crush: Nicholas Trent again. He even named his spiders after Cassie and Stacy.
- Stock Superhero Day Jobs: Super Nova works as a stock clerk, Sunburst is a college student.
- Southern Belle: Sunburst
- Stealth Pun: Jonathan Black's nickname for Ginger Keim. "Keim" is the German word for "Germ."
- Superpowerful Genetics: How Kenneth got his powers.
- The Cape: Super Nova, or at least he tries to be.
- Uncanny Valley: In the Thoughtspace, Claire's face becomes something like an Expressive Mask.
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Wendell Berry, Paul Krugman, Sister Simone Campbell, Ameena Matthews, and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers will receive the 2013 Four Freedoms Medals in a ceremony at St. James' Episcopal Church in New York City on October 16.
New York, NY (PRWEB) September 04, 2013 – For the first time in decades, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Awards will return to New York City on Wednesday, October 16. The Awards recognize those who exemplify the vision of democracy in President Roosevelt's Four Freedoms Address, including poet, farmer, and conservationist Wendell Berry, who will receive the overall Freedom Medal for his message of personal responsibility to one's community and environment. The free public ceremony will be held at St. James' Episcopal Church at 865 Madison Avenue, to be followed by a private reception at the Asia Society. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., and the ceremony will begin promptly at 6 p.m.
"The Four Freedoms Address succinctly expresses what democracy is all about. My grandparents, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, believed this, worked for it, and lived it. It is, to this day, a rousing call to action and an enduring message of hope for people all over the world," said Anna E. Roosevelt, chair of the Roosevelt Institute's Board of Directors. "I am pleased to see the Awards ceremony in New York City this year and hope even more people can engage with the work of this year's outstanding laureates."
In addition to Berry's Freedom Medal, four laureates will receive medals representing each of the Four Freedoms: Economist and author Paul Krugman will receive the Freedom of Speech and Expression Medal for challenging economic orthodoxy and advancing a more equitable vision of society; Violence Interrupter Ameena Matthews will receive the Freedom from Fear Medal for her work to prevent violence on the streets of Chicago; the Coalition of Immokalee Workers will receive the Freedom from Want Medal for their efforts to improve labor conditions for Florida's agricultural workers; and NETWORK director Sister Simone Campbell will receive the Freedom of Worship Medal for championing social justice in the health care reform debate.
"Until I was notified of this award, I had not expected it," said Berry. "Even less had I imagined that I might be thought worthy of it. And so I am pleased, of course, both personally and for the sake of the causes I have tried to serve. I am especially moved by this award's commemoration of President Franklin Roosevelt, whose help to my region and my people under the New Deal was intelligently given and urgently needed."
"I'm enormously flattered by anything that associates me with FDR and the New Deal," said Krugman. "FDR's Four Freedoms were all about doing whatever we can to produce a better society – not a utopian dream, but a more decent, fairer, freer place where people can lead good lives. And that's the project we're still working on to this day."
Matthews said that her award brought to mind a quote from FDR's cousin, President Theodore Roosevelt, who said, "I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened." Matthews added, "To be recognized by the Roosevelt Institute for my work is not only an honor but a validation."
"When we started organizing 20 years ago in Immokalee, we would gather in a borrowed room at a local church and pass around these blue, pocket-sized copies of the U.N.'s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which of course contains the Four Freedoms in its Preamble and was championed by the First Lady," said Gerardo Reyes of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. "Our work today advancing the human rights of workers in the agricultural industry is deeply rooted in that most inspirational of the Roosevelts' many legacies, which is why there is no recognition that is more appropriate — or could make us more proud — than to receive the Freedom from Want Medal."
Since 1963, the Four Freedoms Awards have been presented in alternating years by the Roosevelt Institute in the U.S. and Roosevelt Stichting in the Netherlands. Past recipients have included Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, Presidents Truman, Carter, and Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Studs Terkel, and Barbara Ehrenreich, among others.
For more information on the Four Freedoms Awards or the 2013 laureates, please contact Tim Price.
About the Roosevelt Institute
The Roosevelt Institute is an ideas and leadership organization founded in the belief that America should offer opportunity to all. To develop a new social contract for the 21st century, we advance the work of progressive economists and social policy thinkers and support an emerging generation of leaders as they design solutions to the nation's most pressing issues.


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- We use FDO for spatial data access
- We use ACE (Adaptive Communication Environment) for:
- Basic multi-threading primitives like mutexes, threads, etc
- TCP/IP communication between the Web Tier and the Server Tier
- Implementing a custom RPC layer on top of TCP/IP sockets. All of the service layer methods you use in the MapGuide API? They're all basically RPC calls sent over TCP/IP for the MapGuide Server to invoke its server-side eqvivalent. Most of the other classes that you pass into these service methods are essentially messages that are serialized/deserialized through the TCP/IP sockets. When you think about it, the MapGuide Web API is merely an RPC client for the MapGuide Server, which itself is an RPC server that does the actual work
- We use Berkeley DBXML for the storage of all our XML-based resources
- We have an object-oriented subset of these resource types (Feature Sources, Layer Definitions, Map Definitions, Symbol Definitions) in the MdfModel library with XML serialization/parsing code in the MdfParser library
- Our Rendering and Stylization Engine work off of these MdfModel classes to render the maps that you see on your viewer
- We use xerces for XML reading/writing XML in and out of DBXML
- We use a custom modified (and somewhat ancient) version of SWIG to generate wrappers for our RPC client so that you can talk to the MapGuide Server in:
- .net
- Java
I mention this, because I've recently been checking out gRPC, a cross-platform, cross-language RPC framework from Google.
And from what I've seen so far, gRPC could easily replace and simplify most of the technology stack we're currently using for MapGuide:
- ACE? gRPC is the RPC framework! The only reason we'd keep ACE around would be for multi-threading facilities, but the C++ standard library at this point would be adequate enough to replace that as well
- DBXML/MdfModel/xerces? gRPC is driven by Google Protocol Buffers.
- Protobuf messages are strongly typed classes that serialize/deserialize into compact binary streams and is more efficient and faster than slinging around XML. Ever bemoan the fact you have to currently work with XML to manipulate maps/layers/etc? In .net you are reprieved if you use the Maestro API (where we provide strongly-typed classes for all the resource XML types), but for the other languages you have to figure out how to use the XML APIs/services provided by Java/PHP to work with the XML blobs that the MapGuide API gives and expects. With protobuf, you have none of these problems.
- Protobuf messages can evolve in a backward-compatible manner
- Because protobuf messages are already strongly-typed classes, it makes MdfModel/MdfParser redundant if you get the Rendering/Stylization engine to work against protobuf messages for maps/layers/symbols/styles/etc
- If we ever wanted to add support for Mapbox Vector Tiles (which seems to be the de-facto vector tile format), well the spec is protobuf-based so ...
- Protobuf would mean we no longer deal in XML, so we don't need Xerces for reading/writing XML and DBXML as the storage database (and all its cryptic error messages that can bubble up from the Resource Service APIs) can be replaced with something simpler. We may not even need a database at this point. Dumping protobuf messages to a structured file system could probably be a simpler solution
- SWIG? gRPC and protobuf can already generate service stubs and protobuf message classes in the languages we currently target:
- .net
- Java
- And if we wanted, we can also instantly generate a gRPC-based MapGuide API for:
- node.js
- Ruby
- Python
- Android Java
- Objective-C
- Go
- The best thing about this? All of this generated code is portable in their respective platforms and doesn't involve native code interop through "flattened" interfaces of C code wrapping the original C++ code, which is what SWIG ultimately does for any language we want to generate wrapper bindings out of. If it does involve native code interop, it's a concern that is taken care of by the respective gRPC/protobuf implementation for that language.
- Combine a gRPC-based MapGuide Server with grpc-gateway and we'd have an instant REST API to easily build a client-side map viewer out of
- gRPC works at a scale that is way beyond what we can currently achieve with MapGuide currently. After all, this is what Google uses themselves for building their various services
Say we had our Feature Service (which as a user of the MapGuide API, you should be familiar with) as a gRPC service Definition
// Message definitions for the request/response types below are omitted for brevity but basically every request and // response type mentioned below will have eqvivalent protobuf message classes automatically generated along with // the service // Provides an abstraction layer for the storage and retrieval of feature data in a technology-independent way. // The API lets you determine what storage technologies are available and what capabilities they have. Access // to the storage technology is modeled as a connection. For example, you can connect to a file and do simple // insertions or connect to a relational database and do transaction-based operations. service FeatureService { // Creates or updates a feature schema within the specified feature source. // For this method to actually delete any schema elements, the matching elements // in the input schema must be marked for deletion rpc ApplySchema (ApplySchemaRequest) returns (BasicResponse); rpc BeginTransaction (BeginTransactionRequest) returns (BeginTransactionResponse); // Creates a feature source in the repository identified by the specified resource // identifier, using the given feature source parameters. rpc CreateFeatureSource (CreateFeatureSourceRequest) returns (BasicResponse); rpc DeleteFeatures (DeleteFeaturesRequest) returns (DeleteFeaturesResponse); // Gets the definitions of one or more schemas contained in the feature source for particular classes. // If the specified schema name or a class name does not exist, this method will throw an exception. rpc DescribeSchema (DescribeSchemaRequest) returns (DescribeSchemaResponse); // This method enumerates all the providers and if they are FDO enabled for the specified provider and partial connection string. rpc EnumerateDataStores (EnumerateDataStoresRequest) returns (EnumerateDataStoresResponse); // Executes SQL statements NOT including SELECT statements. rpc ExecuteSqlNonQuery (ExecuteSqlNonQueryRequest) returns (ExecuteSqlNonQueryResponse); // Executes the SQL SELECT statement on the specified feature source. rpc ExecuteSqlQuery (ExecuteSqlQueryRequest) returns (stream DataRecord); // Gets the capabilities of an FDO Provider rpc GetCapabilities (GetCapabilitiesRequest) returns (GetCapabilitiesResponse); // Gets the class definition for the specified class rpc GetClassDefinition (GetClassDefinitionRequest) returns (GetClassDefinitionResponse); // Gets a list of the names of all classes available within a specified schema rpc GetClasses (GetClassesRequest) returns (GetClassesResponse); // Gets a set of connection values that are used to make connections to an FDO provider that permits multiple connections. rpc GetConnectionPropertyValues (GetConnectionPropertyValuesRequest) returns (GetConnectionPropertyValuesResponse); // Gets a list of the available FDO providers together with other information such as the names of the connection properties for each provider rpc GetFeatureProviders (GetFeatureProvidersRequest) returns (GetFeatureProvidersResponse); // Gets the locked features. rpc GetLockedFeatures (GetLockedFeaturesRequest) returns (stream FeatureRecord); // Gets all available long transactions for the provider rpc GetLongTransactions (GetLongTransactionsRequest) returns (GetLongTransactionsResponse); // This method returns all of the logical to physical schema mappings for the specified provider and partial connection string rpc GetSchemaMapping (GetSchemaMappingRequest) returns (GetSchemaMappingResponse); // Gets a list of the names of all of the schemas available in the feature source rpc GetSchemas (GetSchemasRequest) returns (GetSchemasResponse); // Gets all of the spatial contexts available in the feature source rpc GetSpatialContexts (GetSpatialContextsRequest) returns (GetSpatialContextsResponse); // Inserts a new feature into the specified feature class of the specified Feature Source rpc InsertFeatures (InsertFeaturesRequest) returns (stream FeatureRecord); // Selects groups of features from a feature source and applies filters to each of the groups according to the criteria set in the aggregate query option supplied rpc SelectAggregate (SelectAggregateRequest) returns (stream DataRecord); // Selects features from a feature source according to the criteria set in the query options provided rpc SelectFeatures (SelectFeaturesRequest) returns (stream FeatureRecord); // Set the active long transaction name for a feature source rpc SetLongTransaction (SetLongTransactionRequest) returns (BasicResponse); // Connects to the Feature Provider specified in the connection string rpc TestConnection (TestConnectionRequest) returns (TestConnectionResponse); // Executes commands contained in the given command set rpc UpdateFeatures (UpdateFeaturesRequest) returns (UpdateFeaturesResponse); // Updates all features that match the given filter with the specified property values rpc UpdateMatchingFeatures (UpdateMatchingFeaturesRequest) returns (UpdateMatchingFeaturesResponse); }
Running this service definition through the protoc compiler with grpc plugin gives us:
- Auto-generated (and strongly-typed) protobuf classes for all the messages. ie: The request and response types for this service
- An auto-generated FeatureService gRPC client ready to use in the language of our choice
- An auto-generated gRPC server stub for FeatureService in the language of our choice ready for us to "fill in the blanks". For practical purposes, we'd generate this part in C++ and fill in the blanks by mapping the various service operations to their respective FDO APIs and its return values to our gRPC responses.
The only real work is the "filling in the blanks" on the server part. Everything else is taken care of for us.
Extrapolate this to the rest of our services (Resource, Rendering, etc) and we basically have a gRPC-based MapGuide Server.
Also filling in the blanks is a conceptually simple exercise as well:
- Feature Service - Pass down the APIs in FDO.
- Rendering Service - Setup up FDO queries based on map/layers visible and pass query results to the Rendering/Stylization engine.
- Resource Service - Read/write protobuf resources to some kind of persistent storage. It doesn't have to be something complex like DBXML, it can be as simple as a file system (that's what mg-desktop does for its resource service implementation btw)
- Tile Service - It's just like the rendering service, but you're asking the Rendering/Stylization engine to render tile-sized content.
- KML Service - Just like rendering service, but you're asking the Rendering/Stylization engine to render KML documents instead of images.
- Drawing Service - Do we still care about DWF support? Well if we have to support this, it's just passing down to the APIs in DWF Toolkit.
- Mapping Service - It's a mish-mash of tapping into the Rendering/Stylization engine and/or the DWF Toolkit.
- Profiling Service - Just tap into whatever tracing/instrumentation APIs provided by gRPC.
Front this with grpc-gateway, and we basically have our RESTful mapagent to build a map viewer against.
There's still a few unknowns:
- How do we model file uploads/downloads?
- Can server-side service implementations call other services?
The thought of a gRPC-based MapGuide Server is very exciting!


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A new album of previously uncollected remixes, 2.5 years in the making.
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4. Yoko in Idaho
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Rising political risk in the region after a crackdown in the kingdom has spooked traders
Saudi Arabian retail investors were the biggest sellers of stocks amid rising political risk in the region after a crackdown in the kingdom spooked traders.
They sold a net 2.18 billion riyals ($580 million) worth of shares last week through Thursday, the most since September 2016, according to exchange data compiled by Bloomberg.
Saudi individuals, who include retail and high-net worth investors, were net sellers of 3.5 billion riyals.
Individuals have been net sellers every week since April 2016, in contrast to Saudi institutions, who have been net buyers throughout that period.
They snapped up $1.4 billion last week, with mutual funds accounting for the bulk of the purchases. That helped the Tadawul All Share Index mitigate losses.
"Investors are worried about the uncertainty and the kingdom is trying to restore the confidence by buying the selloff," said Naeem Aslam, chief market analyst at TF Global Markets in London.
"The fact is that you will not be comfortable as an investor given the current climate, the practices which we are experiencing are unheard of. In other words, this is an uncharted territory and retail investors do not want their hard-earned money at risk."
While the kingdom's stock index was little changed last week, a selloff wiped out almost $19 billion from exchanges across the region after Saudi princes and billionaires were arrested as part of a crackdown against corruption and as officials in Tehran and Riyadh traded barbs.
The resignation of Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri from Saudi territory also added to geopolitical tension.
King Salman isn't planning to abdicate in favour of his son, a senior Saudi official said, dismissing mounting speculation that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, 32, will soon ascend to the throne. The prince - named heir to the throne in June - oversees defense, oil and economic policies, takes a particularly hard line toward Iran and pursues an activist foreign policy.
"The Saudi government needs to assure investors that its foreign polices are not going to make the region more unstable," said Aslam. "Under the current climate, we do think that the geopolitical tensions in the region would escalate further."


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Hi my Luvvies!
I'm so sorry I fell off for so long!
As you remember I had a craft show in July. I will still post more in-depth on that later. But shortly after the craft show I experienced only what I can describe as creativity burnout.
I had all but stopped working on all my unfinished projects, I and incredibly behind on custom orders ( very unprofessional 😦 ) and I have simply not wanted to do anything crafty. This is probably the first time that I've felt this way in a long time.
The problem is when you're trying to start a creative business obviously this is a great impairment on your ability to run your business.
At this time I still have a lot of things going on in my life: I left my day job of six years for another more intensive and higher paying position, my daughter started fifth grade and is having a hard time adjusting to the curriculum, I am taking hybrid college classes for the fall semester ( just finishing up my current class this week on IT Systems and will be taking Algebra in two weeks, ugh 😦 ), and the lease is up at the end of the year so we will also be looking for a new home.
Despite it all I've feeling the creativity coming back. I picked up some beads and yarn, and I've been talking with two of my customers in regards to their orders and I have some ideas on some things to make for the holidays.
Just wanted to check in and let you know I'm still around. I'll be checking back in soon with my updates from the craft show and my experience with that.
See Ya!