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Sources: No movement in cliff talks
Speaker John Boehner and President Barack Obama met for 50 minutes at the White House Thursday evening, seeking to revive stalled negotiations between Congressional Republicans and the White House over expiring income tax rates and spending cuts.
But sources familiar with the Oval Office meeting said it resulted in no movement. The fundamental disagreement hasn't changed: Boehner is not willing to raise marginal income tax rates on the wealthy, while Obama is insisting that tax rates rise for the wealthy.
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White House aides described the Oval Office meeting as "frank." Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and White House Capitol Hill liaison Rob Nabors were present, as were Boehner's chief of staff, Mike Sommers, and his policy chief Brett Loper.
"As we've said for some time now, the lines of communication remain open," an administration aide said. The speaker's office released an almost identical statement.
( PHOTOS: Fiscal cliff's key players)
Obama asked to meet with Boehner Thursday, as the two leaders try to bridge a wide ideological and policy chasm with little time left before the nation reaches the so-called fiscal cliff.
The Ohio Republican was scheduled to travel to the Buckeye State for the weekend. If he doesn't return to Ohio, that could be a sign that there's progress in the long-stalled negotiations.
( Also on POLITICO: W.H. official: Obama-Boehner meeting 'frank')
Here's where things stand: Boehner has offered $800 billion in revenue to the White House in addition to more than $1 trillion in cuts to entitlements and other spending. He has signaled to Obama he's willing to raise more revenue, if the president would cut deeper than his proposed $600 billion in entitlements. Obama wants $1.4 trillion in new revenue for the federal government, which Boehner says cannot pass either the Senate or the House.
The largest gap remains Boehner's desire to extend current tax rates for all income levels — including the wealthy. Obama would like to see tax rates expire on the top 2 percent.
The White House and Congressional Democrats say Boehner hasn't been specific about what cuts he's seeking, and how he would raise $800 billion in revenue.
There is less than three weeks until the end of the year, when these spending cuts and tax increases take hold, and other key measures — like unemployment benefits — expire.
It would be difficult to get any deal done before the Christmas holiday. The Senate could use up several days to pass a bill, and the House requires that a bill be posted online for 72 hours before floor consideration. There are just over 11 days until Christmas.


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Streamlined Texas Hunter Education Process Approved
AUSTIN – Starting this fall, new hunters who need to complete the state's required hunter education will have expanded options designed to be more convenient, flexible and accessible.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission Thursday approved additional options for hunter education certification, including a streamlined, one-day basic course reducing the mandatory hours of classroom instruction from 10 to a maximum of 6 hours and creating an option for anyone 17 years of age or older to take the hunting safety training completely online. The new options should be available by late September. The combination online home study and 4 to 5 hour skills field day course will still be offered, as well as advanced hunter education available as part of high school and college courses across the state.
Anyone born after Sept. 1, 1971, must successfully complete a hunter education training course or purchase a one-time deferral good for one license year in order to hunt legally in Texas.
Based on 16 pilot classes held earlier this summer to assess new options, the core curriculum of the streamlined course brings an even sharper focus on the key reason behind the training requirement – improved hunter safety. Since mandatory hunter education first started in 1988, the number of hunting accidents and hunting fatalities has steadily declined to less than 3 per 100,000 hunters. Accidents involving those who had completed hunter education training are only in the single digits each year.
The basic course will be streamlined to cover only essential skills of safe, legal and ethical hunting.
To pass the current course options, students must get 70 percent correct if they take the traditional two-day course or 80 percent if they take the course online. Under the new system, the passing grade for all options will be a minimum score of 75 percent.
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TT's totalitarian forum oh god oh man
Holy crap. most users online was 58 on March 29th. wwoww.
When we hit 100 it's time to start outsourcing to Pakistan.
100! That'd be quite the feat.
one day this board will be the 28th largest on the entire internet and people will look back at these early years as THE BEGIN
One day G.O. will be Maximum Leader of the Waffle Galaxy (that's my second awesome suggestion in two days. You guys are really lucky to be witnessing these.)
Dave, how does Bootsy Collins feel about you living inside him? Do you get to wear some of his ultra cool glasses?
Yes, and I get to play his matching bass guitar.
[quote="Dave"]Yes, and I get to play his matching bass guitar.[/quote] !!!
[quote="G.O. [!]"]one day this board will be the 28th largest on the entire internet and people will look back at these early years as THE BEGIN[/quote] i was there
I suggest that we make a subforum for people's music projects. I love talking about bands but find it hard to really want to when our audible section is swamped with other people's music. I don't mean to demean what they make because we certainly have some great musicians here on this forum but I think it'd just make it well organized and make some of us less overwhelmed when we visit the audible forum.
I'll second that, Tigers. At this point Audible has become so inundated by personal (non-professional) music projects that they deserve their own subforum.
I'll third that motion. Oh yes I will! That be a good idea.
If you look at the evidence you will see that on the first page of Audible there are 12 posts about known artists and 5 about as-of-yet unknown artists. That does not an inundation make. I do hear what you are saying and I am sure hateradio will take it under consideration.
that is a very valid point wini. It was kind of an 'on the fly' suggestion and i'd understand both if he did it or if he decided not to do it.
i don't think it needs its own forum [we have enough already!] i still say just one POST YOUR OWN MUSIC thread would fix it all! and if someone makes a new thread the post can just be moved there... if they didn't know how it worked / chose to go against it
It just feels like it's inundated. Maybe it's because there are many threads about currently unknown artists, while this mass of threads serves a surprisingly small group of people. Maybe I'm totally wrong -- I haven't counted. But I'm on the wagon now, and I can't get off.
[quote="hateradio"]If you have a suggestion regarding the forum or site, please feel free to post it here.[/quote]
i think the time of the posts is an hour slow, maybe its just my computer? i do not know
Under board preferences, check your time zone. Also check the appropriate box indicating Daylight Savings Nonsense.
Do we have someone actively moderating this board. Because there's a couple people here that I'm kind of not sure they're real people at all!
[quote="Tabelz"]Do we have someone actively moderating this board. Because there's a couple people here that I'm kind of not sure they're real people at all![/quote] Yes, semi-actively. Mark them. I shall hear the psychic shrieks.
My suggestion: bring back the [youtube][/youtube] embedded video feature, please.
i didn't even know it was gong!
Neither did I, until I tried to post a video and found (to my shock and horror) that the option wasn't there!
I updated the YouTube code. It'll now only work if people use an 11-character YouTube ID, since there are so many different YouTube URLs now. Example:  m --> youtu.be/[color=#FF0000]wyvtYP_ZLC0[/color]?hd=1 or youtube.com/watch?v=[color=#FF0000]wyvtYP_ZLC0[/color]?hd=1 The ID is the 11 characters following the youtu.be/ or watch?v= part. You would write this: [code][youtube]wyvtYP_ZLC0[/youtube][/code] To get this result: [youtube]wyvtYP_ZLC0[/youtube]
Thanks a bunch, Hate!
What I really want to do is incorporate my [url=http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/60843]YouTube Me Again![/url] script on this site, but it doesn't work with IE8 and below. It does work on IE9 but IE9 has a bug with [inlinecode]removeChild()[/inlinecode]. I hate IE.
I use Firefox, Safari, and Chrome, so it'd be fine with me. Maybe a poll should be started in order to determine what browsers people use? I imagine a lot of people avoid using IE. I'll post it in vocal.
Well, I have tools to see which browsers are most used. However, I will have to change the width of the forum, since it's so thin.
Surfin' Safari!
I've started some work on making the forum much wider than it is now. Hopefully people don't get confused when it's up.
Wider is better. Thank you for your unending devotion to making this forum a cool virtual place.
Dave you need an avatar. You're freaking me out.
I need a sad panda avatar. That makes me a saaaaaaad panda. But there have been stretches during which I have no avatar. Havatar! This seems to be one of those. At least until I can think of something that fits my frame of mind.
Quick, David! I [i]suggest[/i] that you take this Avatar! [img]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RRYNK-caPgI/SwVweXTRANI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/sQ0aSfBuRwo/s1600/Avatar+Zoe+Saldana.jpg[/img]
that movie ruined the word Avatar! __<" title="mad" /> though now i'm imagining a parody version of it called AveyTare but i REALLY don't want to imagine dave as one of those creatures (either dave!)
That'd be pretty cool, actually -- wait here while I go paint my face blue.
Now there's more room.
I like it.
i don't quite understand it but yeah... i like it!
It's for a script that I'll be adding soon.
I think it's for a script he's adding soon.
It's not wider yet?
This is as wide as it will be.
My god, he's online.
It's [i]WIDE![/i] Extra wide! Wide! And Wini, you're right about that blotter -- I'm gonna wait until I'm in a better headspace for that.
Alright, I've changed the reply box editor. Instead of text buttons, images are shown. Additionally, I wrote a small script to implement keyboard shortcuts. [code]CTRL + B = [b][/b] CTRL + I = [i][/i] CTRL + U = [u][/u] CTRL + N = [url][/url] CTRL + M = [img][/img] CTRL + J = [*] CTRL + L = [list][/list] CTRL + K = [list=][/list][/code] I'll work to add these on the quick reply box soon.
That is pretty cool...


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Sweden is a sick society against homeschoolers' family
Swedish court rejects appeal of order separating parents from only child
The justices of the Supreme Court of Sweden have finished the destruction of a family that was begun in their lower courts, rejecting an appeal of a ruling that permanently separated a young boy from his parents because he was being homeschooled.
"In a perfunctory order the Swedish Supreme Court rejected a desperate appeal by Christer and Annie Johansson, parents of Domenic Johansson, who was torn from his parents while minutes from takeoff on an international flight as the family prepared to move to India," said a report from the Home School Legal Defense Association, which along with a team from the Alliance Defending Freedom has been fighting on behalf of the family.
Michael Donnelly, HSLDA's director for international affairs, said the decision is reprehensible but characteristic of the Swedish court system's callousness.
"We are grateful for the many people who responded to our request to send letters to the court. We are heartbroken by the court's unwillingness to hear this case," he said. "How can anyone respect the Swedish justice system that allows this kind of injustice to go unheard."
Donnelly vowed that the fight will continue.
"How can we give up?" he asked. "The fact that both Johanssons have survived after nearly four years without their only child is a testimony to their faith and hope. We will leave no stone unturned in helping this family plead their case, but there are few courts left to which they can turn. We ask our friends and supporters to keep this family and their legal team in their thoughts and prayers."
He said some may wish to ask the court to reconsider their decision. The family's lawyers are also reviewing other legal procedures that may be available to request reconsideration or to take the case to the European Court of Human Rights.
WND has reported on the case from its beginning, when Domenic was seized by armed Swedish police officers operating on the orders of social services agencies from on board a Turkish Airlines flight June 25, 2009, because he was being homeschooled.
He was 7 at the time.
The family was in the process of moving permanently to India, Annie's home country, but the armed officers were ordered to board the jet and seize the boy.
WND reported last December that an appeals court panel in Sweden had imposed the "death penalty" on the homeschooling family, granting the state full custody of Domenic.
The appeals panel reversed a lower court ruling that granted the Johanssons custody of their son.
Christer and Domenic Johansson
During the first months following his seizure, the parents were only permitted to visit Domenic once every two weeks. The visits soon became every five weeks, and in 2010, all visitations were cut off, HSLDA said. The parents haven't seen their son in three years now.
"The United States Supreme Court has written that terminating parental rights is the family court equivalent of the death penalty," HSLDA said.
The Johansson case in Sweden, the group said, "demonstrates what can happen when the family is not respected as an integral unit of society."
The HSLDA said the Swedish Supreme Court, by rejecting the appeal, affirmed the lower court order permanently separating the family.
Family attorney Ruby Harold-Claesson said the court decisions were biased, since social services officials were allowed by the court to introduce their selected psychiatric expert while the family was not allowed to supplement its information or have an impartial psychiatric evaluation of the child.
"It's obvious that [(the Supreme Court] haven't even read the appeal," Harold-Claesson told HSLDA.
"I had hoped something would change with this case, but sadly this is more of the same inhuman treatment from a ruthless system that has no regard for the rights of parents and children to be together. The court doesn't seem to even notice how the state was permitted to introduce new evidence in the court of appeals but the Johanssons were not. In the Swedish system it seems as if individuals have no rights when they oppose the 'almighty state'."
She also noted the impropriety of a judge on the appeals court panel who also had been in charge of the administrative court system that originally took Domenic away from his parents. He then retired and was appointed to hear the parental termination hearing in the district court system, something Harrold-Claesson said should never have happened.
"I asked for the recusal of this judge because he was the chief judge in the Stockholm administrative court where all the cases for Domenic Johansson had been decided in favor of the state—how could he be impartial?" she asked.
Michael Farris, the chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association, says it's among the most brutal cases he's ever seen.
It was last June when a Swedish district court said the parental rights would not be terminated. In a 23-page opinion, the court said it could not ignore the unanimous and extensive testimony of firsthand accounts of friends, family and others that Domenic Johansson was being properly cared for by his parents prior to Swedish authorities seizing him in 2009.
Farris said the actions by Swedish officials cannot be explained.
"The taking of this child for homeschooling and while the family was moving out of the country is an egregious violation of basic human rights and international law standards. Sweden is a party to numerous treaties that require them to respect the rights of parents to make education decisions and to leave the country if they choose. This is a dangerous precedent if permitted to stand."
HSLDA President J. Michael Smith said that there is no known reason for Sweden's behavior in the case.
"Based on the review of available documentation of this case, we don't know of anything that would justify either the long-term separation of the family or the termination of their parental rights," he said. "There is no doubt that this family needs help."
Harrold-Claesson is a noted international human rights attorney who has dedicated her life to fighting what she describes as the brutal Swedish social services system.
"The evidence was overwhelming in favor of the Johanssons, and that is why the district court found in their favor," she said. "These are good parents who were taking good care of their son. This is an unbelievable case of overreaching on the part of Gotland's politicians. It is despicable that the Swedish courts – with the exception of the district court – have been willing to back up the social workers in this case."
The attorney said the Swedish system is tilted so that social workers and foster care professionals gain financially when children are removed from their homes.
"They take children to feed a bureaucratic machine of foster homes based on subsidies. They impose their will on vulnerable families who don't have the resources to fight back, and most lawyers don't dare to challenge the system for fear of their career," she said.
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Mid-calorie carbonates won't check US soda fall – BMC predicts
In a recent speaking slot at InterBev 2012 in Las Vegas, Hemphill said his consultancy predicted that carbonated soft drinks (CSDs) would suffer an eighth consecutive year of volume declines in 2012, and probably also in 2013.
Hemphill noted that, looking back over a five year analysis period, people had expected diet CSDs to save the category.
"They did outperform the market. They did a little better than regular in the overall market. But they didn't really grow, and thus help the overall market," he said.
"Our thinking is that many people who were traditional diet drinkers may have simply moved out of the category to categories such as bottled water," Hemphill added.
What's America drinking?
Glossing the reasons for the shift away from CSDs, Hemphill cited economic problems in the US over the past five years and problematic health perceptions, with people keen to avoid sugary sodas.
More variety in the marketplace, and political action – such as New York City Mayor Bloomberg's attempts to get consumers to drink fewer full-calorie beverages and cut CSD consumption, was also hitting the category hard, Hemphill added.
Reflecting on attempts by three large CSD manufacturers to carve out a niche with mid-calorie soft drinks – in a bid to bolster the category, Hemphill said efforts had met with "mixed success" thus far.
"Dr. Pepper 10 seems to be doing fairly well by targeting more of a male consumer who under-indexes on the diet side of things," he said.
"Pepsi NEXT – truly a mid-calorie product – has probably met with more mixed results. Coke has also tested a couple of products, but they seem to be less drawn on the concept.
"Basically, we don't think it's going to have a monumental overall effect on the category – the products will probably appeal to some consumers, but it's not going to turn around the overall fortunes of the category."
Tap waters rising?
Hemphill also linked soft drink market health in general to alcohol consumption (in a year when its main engine beer was seeing a US rebound) and tap water consumption, which continued to rise.
"When tap water consumption tends to decline, I would say… we've fully rebounded from the weak economy," he said.
But Hemphill did note that LRBs (excluding tap water) posted modest growth over the past five years, with bottled water a big share winner, followed by energy and diet; CSDs lost the most share.
"If you look at market over H1 2012: bottled water, energy drinks, RTD coffee/teas, sports drinks, value-added water were the winners, while CSDs, fruit beverages and milk declined," Hemphill said.
"We're generally seeing better performance in more niche, premium price categories – energy, bottled and canned coffee, bottled and canned teas, sports drinks – than in traditional, mainstream categories.
Hemphill said one reason was that higher income, better educated consumers had fared fairly well during the recession, whereas middle-income, working class, less well-educated consumers had not.


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Im really stuck here, and feel quite dumb, because it looks so simple. However, I'm sure I'm overlooking something here.
I have given this equation:
$x=c_0y + c_1z$ where $x,y,z$ are some variables and $c_0,c_1$ are constants.
My goal is to get an equivalent equation in the form of $x-y = ?$
I went ahead and tried moving the components around, but whatever I do, I dont get it in the desired form:
$x - c_0y = c_1z$
$\frac{x}{c_0} - y = \frac{c_1z}{c_0}$
The constants just wont get to the other side... I just cant get my head around this. Any help or hint is very appreciated! Thanks in advance!


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Jersey lawmakers on Saturday pledged to continue to seek more details in the bridge scandal engulfing Governor Chris Christie, with the Democratic Assembly speaker-elect saying he planned to call the body into special session.
At issue is the role of the governor, his staff and political allies in the closing of lanes leading to the George Washington Bridge and the huge traffic jams that resulted.
The calls for a continued legislative investigation came a day after more than 1,000 pages of papers subpoenaed by state lawmakers were made public.
The papers relate to revelations that a member of Christie's staff appeared to have orchestrated the traffic jams, which severely affected the town of Fort Lee over four days in September, in what may have been political payback because the town's Democratic mayor did not endorse Christie's re-election.
Christie, a powerful figure in the Republican Party and a likely contender for the White House in 2016, has adamantly denied any knowledge of a scheme to snarl traffic.
"The documents released this week related to the George Washington Bridge situation clearly show the need for a continued thorough investigation by the New Jersey General Assembly," Assembly Speaker-elect Vincent Prieto said in a statement.
"Many questions remain unanswered about this threat to public safety and abuse of power," he said. "I expect to call the Assembly into special session on Thursday to consider legislation that would reauthorize subpoena power so this investigation can continue."
Prieto is set to take the oath as speaker this coming week.
On Thursday, Christie apologized for the traffic jams and said he had fired a top aide, Bridget Kelly, and severed political ties with his former campaign manager after emails surfaced that seemed to link them to the scandal.
Two of Christie's appointees at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the bi-state agency that oversees the bridge and other transportation facilities in the region, have resigned over controversy arising from the closures.
Assemblyman John Wisniewski, a Democrat and chairman of the Assembly Transportation Committee, told CNN on Saturday he would on Monday ask Christie and his staff to hand over more correspondence and documents related to the bridge scandal.
"There's still a lot of documents we haven't gotten we'd like to see," Wisniewski told CNN.
Wisniewski told CNN no evidence or documents have surfaced that link Christie to the lane closures, but he said the committee was probing whether anyone else in the governor's office might have been involved.
"Our investigation would be made immeasurably simpler if the governor's office would say, 'Please tell us what you'd like, we'll turn over all of those documents, the governmental emails, the personal emails, the correspondence, so that you can look at them and determine for yourself,'" Wisniewski told CNN.
A representative of the governor did not respond to requests for comment on Saturday.
Wisniewski on Friday said the documents released that day raised more questions than they answered about whether Christie knew about the traffic tie-up, and in particular he pointed to a reference to a potential meeting between Port Authority Chairman David Samson and Christie one week before the jam.
The documents show chaos and anger but fail to clear up whether the epic tie-up was the result of what Christie said may have been a Port Authority traffic study.
The hastily called closure of three local access lanes leading to the bridge slowed school buses and emergency workers, as well as commuters.
Wisniewski said he believes laws were broken but said any decision to bring criminal charges would depend on prosecutors.
U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Paul Fishman, whose job Christie held before being elected governor, has opened an investigation into the decision to close the lanes to the bridge.
Documents previously released show Kelly emailed Port Authority executive David Wildstein in August to say, "Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee." Wildstein, a Christie appointee, replied: "Got it."
Kelly could not be reached for comment on Saturday.
Wildstein has admitted to ordering lane closures and resigned his post. He declined to answer questions in an appearance before the Transportation Committee on Thursday, invoking his constitutional protection not to say anything that might incriminate him.
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has agreed to a financial settlement with the family of a 12-year-old boy who was seriously injured during a 2009 accident on the
roller coaster.
"There's a confidential settlement," said Art Morgan, the family's attorney. "We can't say the amount."
A Knott's spokesperson declined to comment on the settlement.
Kyle Wheeler was sitting in the front row of Xcelerator when the roller coaster's launch cable snapped, whipped toward the riders and split the fiberglass car in half.
The severed cable lashed Kyle's left calf and sprayed debris in the face of his father, Russell, who was sitting next to his son as Xcelerator raced toward the coaster's trademark top hat element.
Every moment of the harrowing September 2009 accident -- from the initial thrill to the ensuing terror -- was captured by
that has since been viewed more than 700,000 times on YouTube.
Anita Wheeler watched helplessly from the ground as the 80-mph episode unfolded before her eyes.
"I literally thought I had just watched my son and husband die in front of my eyes," the Weaverville, Calif., mother wrote in an
shortly after the accident.
Over the ensuing months, Kyle underwent multiple surgeries to repair muscle damage to his leg and graft skin over his injuries. The operations were followed by physical therapy to restore function to his left knee and ankle.
"Our lives have been changed forever," Anita Wheeler told the
, a Northern California newspaper.
Moving from a wheelchair to crutches and then a knee brace, Kyle is now able to walk on his own again, his mother said.
"This whole experience has been terribly hard on my whole family," Anita Wheeler wrote online. "I am overwhelmed with emotion most days."
And while Kyle has fully recovered from the accident, according to Morgan, the family's lawyer, the boy will need a $30,000 surgery later in life to remove scar tissue. The family has racked up more than $60,000 in medical bills so far, according to Morgan.
An investigation by the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health found that the Xcelerator accident could have been prevented with proper maintenance, casting blame on both the theme park and the ride manufacturer, Switzerland-based Intamin.
The report said the snapped cable exhibited "gross amounts of fatigue" and found the force of the accident sheared off 18 of the 20 magnets on the bottom of the coaster cars used for launching and braking.
The state's Xcelerator investigation also looked at a similar accident involving an Intamin coaster that occurred in 2004 at Knott's sister park, Cedar Point in Ohio, when metal debris from a launch cable struck four riders on the 420-foot-tall Top Thrill Dragster.
Knott's reopened Xcelerator more than a year ago after making modifications required by the state report, theme park officials said.
"Safety is always our No. 1 concern," said Knott's spokeswoman Jennifer Blazey. "Our maintenance and ride operations crews work diligently to insure rider safety."
A spokesman for ride manufacturer Intamin declined to comment.
The settlement covers Kyle's medical bills as well as the family's emotional distress, Morgan said.
Meanwhile, Anita Wheeler remains too emotionally distraught to discuss the accident.
"I can't talk about it without crying," she said by phone from her home. "It was horrible."


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God created light on the first day because without light, it's impossible to do anything. When the lights go out—maybe because of, I don't know, a a hurricane—I want a mega-powerful, super-efficient LED flashlight in my sock drawer, not some cheap plastic piffle that'll dim out on me.
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At $63, the Solar Force M6 costs more than a Mini Maglite, but unlike a Mag, the the M6 is housed in a tough aluminum alloy case that's completely waterproof. When the shit hits the fan—and water fills the basement—you'll be glad your flashlight is built for survival.


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I am familiar with every crochet technique. If you find something I do not know, I will master it before your lesson (except Freeform.) I am also a Published Designer, CYC Certified instructor, over 9 years teaching experience.
Students are expected to provide all tools and materials but I will help you find what you need for your project. Recommended duration for in-person lessons is 90 ...
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Private and group lessons or classes are provided in locations around the NYC area, in my space or via webcam. My focus is on providing an entertaining, relaxing and enjoyable experience as you learn a leisure time activity. I am extremely patient and detail oriented. When you let me know what you would like to learn or make, I will guide you through everything from selecting materials to fine tuning your technique. Take a lesson with me to fi
Teaching is a wonderful extension of my work as a professional crochet and knit designer and technical editor. A web search will reveal some of my published work over the last decade. As a craft teacher in the NYC area for over 8 years, I have worked with individuals, groups and classes of all ages and skill levels. Most of my experience focuses on working with older adults and people with special needs. Minors must have a supervising adult present. I do not work with groups of young children.
I have studied the history and mastered the skills to make and teach a vast variety of textile techniques. Please see my experience.
If you are using this site without the assistance of a TL Rep, I recommend the schedule as you go option. I often have openings in my calendar sooner than the site allows. After we make contact, we can choose the best date and time.
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Recommended duration for in-person lessons is 90 minutes. A surcharge may be added for travel outside of areas accessible by one MTA fare or expected travel time exceeding 90 minutes.
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Textile based crafts including crochet, knitting, embroidery, sewing, patchwork, plastic canvas, needlepoint, counted cross stitch, bobbin lace, historic textile and costume conservation and storage, and more.
I also love to research and develop craft projects for classes or master techniques students would like to learn.
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I have been crocheting for some time now, and have done many different types of projects. I also sell scarves/hats online. I can help you with the basics of crochet to get you started on your crocheting adventures.
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History has always fascinated me. The way our world has developed and changed and continues to evolve is amazing. Everything can be tied back to the past, and I feel it's important to take a look back, put yourself in that time, and really study how things were to help understand why things are the way they are now.
Crocheting and knitting are a couple of good habits/hobbies I picked up about 10 years ago. I sell scarves online and I'm always working on some sort of project. I will have you knitting and pearling with the best of them!
Music, history, crochet, and knitting....I'm your girl!
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During our session you will learn the basic stitches of crochet. You will learn the new technique of the foundationless chain as well as how to read your work as you go along. You will learn as an intermediate you will learn how to read crochet diagrams for lace crochet or filet crochet.
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Baltimore county (Adult enrichment Program) and the Police Athletic Program. I am recently retired from Black Sheep Yarn Shop as their Knitting and Crochet Instructor, I give classes in beginner knit and crochet, thread crochet,
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Are you ready to start creating beautiful, funky, or elegant crochet pieces? Now is a great time to start! I have been working as a knitting and crochet artist and teacher since 2009, teaching beginner through advanced students how to crochet items beautiful scarves, warm, colorful winter hats, and funky bracelets and headbands. If you can imagine it, you can create it!
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As my student, you can expect to learn basic through advanced skills crochet skills, including making a slip knot, single crochet, double crochet, triple crochet, how to make a granny square, crocheting in the round, and how to read patterns. In knitting, you will learn the skills of casting on stitches onto the needle, the garter and stockinette stitch, how to knit in the round using circular or double pointed needles, and how to read patterns.
No matter what your level, my goal is to make you feel confident and experienced enough for you to complete and cre
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From beginner to beginning expert level! Come in with no knowledge or just needing to fine tune your skills.
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I graduated from Howard University with a Bachelor in Music Education and am getting my graduate degree in Music Education from the University of Maryland.
My primary instrument is clarinet and euphonium but am familiar with most instruments at a beginner to intermediate level.
As a woodwind specialist, I have taught clarinet, flute and saxophone during summer camps and programs for multiple years.
I'm currently the clarinet technique teacher at Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, DC.
I have been knitting and crocheting for 12 years and have made a wide range of products from hair bows to sweaters.
I am patient and willing to teach all levels of students in a variety of subjects and am willing to cater the lessons to your needs.
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I want you to enjoy crocheting! Let's smile, make jokes, and learn a new hobby together! After your initial lesson you will have a grasp on basic stitches. From there, I will help you develop your crochet skills so you can venture out and begin creating for yourself or for gifts! Nothing beats a hand-made gift!
After each lesson, I will give you a small assignment to work on that will help you develop. I will let you lead the pace. Crocheting is fun and should never be stressful!
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I have taken a master doll course and can teach you how to make a doll or just basic crochet techniques. Your choice. I also can teach local or online. I look forward to working with you!
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"If you can hold a pencil, you can learn to crochet!" Today is the day you learn how to crochet and discover a relaxing hobby you'll enjoy for life! Join me in learning how to make crochet fun and easy. In this class, you will learn basic stitches, including chain, slip stitch, single crochet, half-double crochet, double crochet, and treble crochet. To get you started on crocheting bigger and better things!
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A campaign pushing back against online anger over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza is drawing wide attention on the Internet, even as the deadly fighting rages on.
The Twitter- and Facebook-based movement under the hashtag #JewsandArabsRefuseToBeEnemies was started some weeks back, before Israel's ground invasion of the Gaza Strip last Thursday.
It was created by two students at New York's Hunter College, Dania Darwish from Syria and Abraham Gutman from Israel.
While "peace camps" have long existed on both the Palestinian and Israeli sides, they are often dismissed as naive or worse, especially since the collapse of the Oslo Accords more than a decade ago. In an interview with the BBC on Wednesday, Gutman acknowledged that the #JewsandArabsRefuseToBeEnemies movement was likely to accomplish little on its own, but said it could set a helpful tone.
"We know the limitations of social media campaign. We know the limitations of a hashtag," Gutman said. "Tweet doesn't have to be the only thing that someone does. We want to believe that from the bottom up, hate and the dialogue and the way people talk to each other can change."
The efforts of Gutman and Darwish have enjoyed a viral reception over the past several days, with people tweeting their own photos and messages, though unavoidably, a few of the posts with the hashtag were of a partisan nature.
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For years my monthly bill was much higher than my immediate neighbors. I complained. I got nowhere. Insult came with injury when a goodly portion of my front yard was surrendered to the utilities for water, natural gas and communication services. I hoped my neighbors would understand my sacrifice to their well being.
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BOSTON (AP) — A federal prosecutor who has been sharply criticized following the suicide of an Internet freedom activist appeared to fight back tears as she defended her office's handling of a hacking case against him.
U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz says Aaron Swartz's family has suffered a "horrible tragedy" and that she is personally "terribly upset about what happened here." But she says she believes the case was handled fairly.
Ortiz made her remarks Thursday at an unrelated news conference in Boston.
Ortiz has been blasted online by Swartz's supporters, who believe her office was overly aggressive in charging Swartz with 13 felonies for tapping into MIT's network to download nearly 5 million academic articles from an online clearinghouse for scholarly journals.
Swartz was found dead in his New York apartment last week.
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the fisrt disc is almost the same as what you all got, added a French audio and English DTS 5.1!
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The U.S. Supreme Court decided in a closed-door meeting Friday it's going to hear an epic fight over whether companies can patent isolated genes.
The high court is limiting its review to whether companies can patent the process of taking the human gene out of the body for research, SCOTUSBlog reported.
The case centers on two Myriad Genetics patents for genes that show whether women have increased chances of getting breast or ovarian cancer.
Cancer groups and patients challenged the patents on the grounds that you can't patent " products of nature." They argue that allowing one company to patent genes will interfere with research into potential cancer cures.
While the advocates won a trial court ruling in 2010, an appeals court found that isolated genes could indeed be patented, the Wall Street Journal reported. The process of removing these genes made them different from the "natural" DNA in our bodies, the appeals court ruled.
Now that the Supreme Court is reviewing that decision, the financial implications for biotech companies could be massive.
Companies say they've been patenting genes for three decades and need that protection to keep getting investment dollars, BloombergBusinessweek reports.
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Cowboys Sign QB Aaron Corp After Release by Bills
IRVING, Texas (AP) - The Dallas Cowboys have signed quarterback Aaron Corp, twice released by Buffalo after joining the Bills as an undrafted free agent last year.
The Bills released Corp less than a month after signing him in 2012. They re-signed him in February and let him go him again on April 29.
Corp was set to be the starter at Southern California in 2009 but he broke his left leg before the season and Matt Barkley took over. He transferred to Richmond in 2010 and started five games before a season-ending knee injury. He finally played a full season in 2011, throwing for 2,682 yards and 17 touchdowns.
Kyle Orton is the backup to Dallas quarterback Tony Romo, who went undrafted out of Eastern Illinois.
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ICD-10 Code S09.21XS
Traumatic rupture of right ear drum, sequela
Diagnosis Code S09.21XS
Short Description: Traumatic rupture of right ear drum, sequela
Long Description: Traumatic rupture of right ear drum, sequela
Version 2019 of the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code S09.21XS
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The code S09.21XS is valid for submission for HIPAA-covered transactions.
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- Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00–T98)
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- 906.0 - Lt eff opn wnd head/trnk (Approximate Flag)
Present on Admission (POA)
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Ear Disorders
Your ear has three main parts: outer, middle and inner. You use all of them in hearing. Sound waves come in through your outer ear. They reach your middle ear, where they make your eardrum vibrate. The vibrations are transmitted through three tiny bones, called ossicles, in your middle ear. The vibrations travel to your inner ear, a snail-shaped organ. The inner ear makes the nerve impulses that are sent to the brain. Your brain recognizes them as sounds. The inner ear also controls balance.
A variety of conditions may affect your hearing or balance:
- Ear infections are the most common illness in infants and young children.
- Tinnitus, a roaring in your ears, can be the result of loud noises, medicines or a variety of other causes.
- Meniere's disease may be the result of fluid problems in your inner ear; its symptoms include tinnitus and dizziness.
- Ear barotrauma is an injury to your ear because of changes in barometric (air) or water pressure.
Some ear disorders can result in hearing disorders and deafness.
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An injury is damage to your body. It is a general term that refers to harm caused by accidents, falls, hits, weapons, and more. In the U.S., millions of people injure themselves every year. These injuries range from minor to life-threatening. Injuries can happen at work or play, indoors or outdoors, driving a car, or walking across the street.
Wounds are injuries that break the skin or other body tissues. They include cuts, scrapes, scratches, and punctured skin. They often happen because of an accident, but surgery, sutures, and stitches also cause wounds. Minor wounds usually aren't serious, but it is important to clean them. Serious and infected wounds may require first aid followed by a visit to your doctor. You should also seek attention if the wound is deep, you cannot close it yourself, you cannot stop the bleeding or get the dirt out, or it does not heal.
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General Equivalence Map Definitions
The ICD-10 and ICD-9 GEMs are used to facilitate linking between the diagnosis codes in ICD-9-CM and the new ICD-10-CM code set. The GEMs are the raw material from which providers, health information vendors and payers can derive specific applied mappings to meet their needs.
- Approximate Flag - The approximate flag is on, indicating that the relationship between the code in the source system and the code in the target system is an approximate equivalent.
- No Map Flag - The no map flag indicates that a code in the source system is not linked to any code in the target system.
- Combination Flag - The combination flag indicates that more than one code in the target system is required to satisfy the full equivalent meaning of a code in the source system.
Present on Admission
The Present on Admission (POA) indicator is used for diagnosis codes included in claims involving inpatient admissions to general acute care hospitals. POA indicators must be reported to CMS on each claim to facilitate the grouping of diagnoses codes into the proper Diagnostic Related Groups (DRG). CMS publishes a listing of specific diagnosis codes that are exempt from the POA reporting requirement.


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Welcome to Wise Bread Jacoba! Thank you for answering these commonly misunderstood "deductions." I have to admit, I also ask my accountant all sorts of questions when I see her, even if it is in a social setting. I hope that isn't super annoying. =)
3 Tax Deductions You Can Never Take
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I spent a fair share of my mid-twenties lugging around a two-volume set of the Internal Revenue Code to class every day (picture a small woman with two encyclopedia-sized bricks on the subway), so I know first hand just how overwhelming our tax laws can seem. Every tax season, people ask me about the same mythical deductions — stuff they feel they ought to be able to deduct on their tax returns, even though the government doesn't exactly see eye-to-eye with them. While it may be freezing in some parts of the country, tax season is right around the corner, and it pays to take a look at these three common points of confusion before filing this spring.
(See also: 16 Great Tax Deductions You May Have Overlooked)
1. Can I deduct my personal credit card interest?
Nope, unfortunately not. When you make personal charges on your plastic — like going out to eat, trips to the grocery store or Disneyland, really any of the expenses you associate with your daily life — the interest is never deductible.
Here's the source of the misunderstanding. You used to be able to deduct credit card interest. But you can thank President Reagan and Congress (Democrats and Republicans alike) for eliminating the interest deduction for consumer loans, which includes your Mastercard or VISA. They believed that consumer interest deductions generally encouraged folks to overspend and over-borrow, so they changed the law.
People may also be confused because you often can deduct the interest that you pay on the business expenses you put on your credit card.
A note of caution: If you are self-employed or run your own shop, I always recommend having a separate credit card for business purposes (or else it's nearly impossible to calculate which portion of the interest is deductible).
2. Can I deduct my new interview suit or work clothes?
Here's another one I get all the time, especially in the current job market when so many people are out there pounding the pavement, and the cost of getting your foot in the door adds up pretty quickly.
The tax laws are a little tricky here. You can't deduct your new interview outfit (on the theory that you could also wear it for personal use, like to a cocktail party, wedding, date or any other event where you want to look pulled together). And you can't deduct the cost of your ordinary, run-of-the-mill work clothes, either. Think: no deduction for things I could otherwise wear out in public anyway — normal pants, dresses, skirts, shirt — even if you work at a clothing store that asks you to dress nicely while you're on the clock.
But there are some good news. While your fancy interview suit is off limits, you may be able to deduct some of the expenses you rack up looking for a job, like the amount you pay to an employment service, and the cost of preparing and sending out all those resumes under certain circumstances. And there is a clothing deduction exception if you wear a specialized uniform to work and it's not suitable for everyday life. (How many UPS guys are going to whip out their uniforms to wear around town on their day off?)
3. Can I deduct my commuting costs?
Again, this one is a no-go for the IRS. You can't deduct the cost of commuting from your house to your job, on the theory that you choose where you want to live in relation to your workplace and the time in your car or on the train is personal.
But of course, because it's the tax code, there is an exception. People who are self-employed with a home office may be able to write off some of the costs of traveling between their residence and another location where they have work-related business. You may also be able to deduct the costs of going from your job (wherever you work) to other work-related meetings and outings. My advice? Sit down with an accountant or tax professional if you plan on deducting these kinds of costs on your return this April, so you can make sure you're calculating everything properly.
Jacoba Urist is a tax and estate attorney from New York. She is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post and is writing a book "The Happiest Parent" about preparing the best possible future for every child. Follow her on Twitter at @TheHappiestPare.
Hi Jacoba! Welcome to Wise Bread! Awesome first article. I didn't know you couldn't deduct interview clothes! For some reason I was under the impression job-search expenses could be deducted. That's really useful to know and will save many people from trying to claim that as a deduction!
Since I work from home, I'm going to have to look into deducting some of my travel costs! I figured I couldn't really do anything like that working from home, but maybe I will be able to save a little bit!
What I want to see is the ones that you CAN take and people usually do not know about or forget about.
2011 was the first time my wife and I were able to deduct any of our medical costs. As I worked my way through the tax forms, I was surprised by the number of things that are deductible. Too bad the floor is so high. Even worst, I think the floor is even moving to 10% starting in 2013.


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The Tennessee legislature has put a moratorium on annexations, and even if the moratorium wasn't in place, the Memphis City Council hasn't been anxious to annex any territory beyond South Cordova for several years.
But the issue of annexation as a process remains a lively one, specifically whether residents of an area to be annexed should be able to vote on the annexation.
"We are one of the handful of states in the United States that still allows a municipality to really exercise their heavy hand of government and simply come in and take a particular territory," state Rep. Steve McManus said on the WKNO-TV program "Behind The Headlines." "What we are considering is a moratorium for about a year to see if really we want to change the law and become one of the majority of states that will say, 'If a particular area is going to be annexed, it's got to be done by referendum.'"
The program, hosted by Eric Barnes, publisher of The Daily News, can be seen on The Daily News Video site, video.memphisdailynews.com.
McManus represents the South Cordova area that was annexed in 2011 after a 10-year court fight ended abruptly with a dismissal of one of several lawsuits over it.
McManus and other residents of the area say there was not adequate city notice and even tried a de-annexation petition that a legal opinion from the Tennessee attorney general's office held was not legal.
In January, Jim Tomasik, one of those residents, will launch a petition to drive to get Memphis City Council member Bill Boyd recalled as a council member.
"Why is it just because we are in the county of Shelby County, we are supposed to bail the city of Memphis out of their financial mayhem that they've created," Tomasik said. "We didn't make this mess. We don't want anything to do with it."
Boyd said he is not concerned about the recall effort. He is also opposed to requiring a referendum before a city or town can annex an area already in its state-required growth plan and reserve area.
"I don't think the citizens would ever approve any annexation. It's a fairness thing, in my opinion," he added. "It's an imaginary line, and right across the street, in some instances, are the citizens who are paying all the taxes for the streets, the streetlights. Those residents (on the other side) go to work, they go to church … they utilize those services that only Memphis taxpayers pay for. It's a fairness thing."
"What does that say about Memphis?" McManus asked of Boyd's claim that voters would reject annexation. "Give the people the right to vote. … If you need the money and people have the right to vote, you are going to look within and you are going to do everything you can to make this city a better city."
He termed the South Cordova annexation a "land grab" meant to garner revenue. Boyd said the annexation was "almost a wash" in terms of revenues the city gets from property taxes versus what it spends to provide services to the area.
"Why are these people living right next door to Memphis if they don't like Memphis, if it's so terrible?" Boyd said. "Why do they go to church, why do they go to work, why do they do all of these things inside the city of Memphis if they think it's a failing and terrible city to live next door to?"
Tomasik countered Millington's recent referendums on annexation, which saw residents of Kerr vote down annexation, while residents in Lucy approved it.
McManus said the legislature's study of the issue will likely pit the Tennessee Municipal League, representing cities and towns opposed to such referendums, against "representatives like myself who are listening very closely to what the citizens are saying."
But the legislature passed the 1990s legislation that requires counties to have "growth plans" – plans in which the cities and towns within a county negotiate and agree on what unincorporated parts will be in their annexation reserve areas.
The cities and towns then begin to extend infrastructure in those areas in anticipation of future annexation.
"When the person moved into the South Cordova area, at the closing they should have been notified that there was a lawsuit pending," Boyd said. "That should have been on your closing statement. … It's about two pages."
McManus said he was aware of the reserve area. But he said the lack of city notice after several years of legal motions was a "PR nightmare" of the city's making.
"I will say there are an awful lot of people who had absolutely no idea," he said.
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I've switched to systemd and am about 98% successful. The one thing that is nagging me is the hwclock deamon. What is replacing the standard DEAMONS (hwclock...) in a fully switched systemd implementation? I can't find anything related to hwclock in /lib/systemd/system that would run this on boot and shutdown...
The Arch Wiki on systemd states that "Recent kernels set the system time from the RTC directly on boot without using hwclock, the kernel will always assume that the RTC is in UTC." So, does this mean that hwclock should no longer be used? I have seen other distros (Mageia) create hwclock-load and hwclock-save services (https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2521), but what's the correct method? Can someone advice?
You could try hwclock --debug.
Systemd wants you to link ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo... to /etc/localtime
I may have to CONSOLE you about your usage of ridiculously easy graphical interfaces...
Look ma, no mouse.
You could try hwclock --debug.
I'm not sure what you mean by that. I believe hwclock itself works fine, but I'm wondering what systemd service is replacing the entry to rc.conf for DAEMONS (hwclock...), since in "pure" systemd, the rc.conf file is no longer used.
Systemd wants you to link ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo... to /etc/localtime
Yes, I've done that. The only remaining question is how hwclock is invoked in the systemd scenario. Or is hwclock no longer needed?
I'm having a fuss with it taking my clock correctly on machine.
Now I know what I'm doing, I'm using ntpd.service on the other machines, so I don't have to fuss with the clock.
Do a time sync with ntpdate <time.server.ip.address> to get the UTC to read the right time and then when you type date it should be your localtime.
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I may have to CONSOLE you about your usage of ridiculously easy graphical interfaces...
Look ma, no mouse.
systemd includes code to set the clock, so no hwclock is required.
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/sys … 6e2428fd9b
PS: I'm using chrony on my laptop. It is more reliable than ntpd for me.
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Anyhow, ntpd.service will set it right if you have a misfit windows to contend with, not allowing you to set your hardware clock to a sane UTC.
I may have to CONSOLE you about your usage of ridiculously easy graphical interfaces...
Look ma, no mouse.
Yes, sorry, I wasn't clear on this - I *am* using NTP, but since this for a laptop I am also using NetworkManager and I'm starting NTP using networkmanager-dispatcher.
Now, in the Arch Wiki for NTP (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTP), in the NetworkManager section, it states:
Note: ntpd should still be running when the network is down if the hwclock daemon is disabled, so you should not use this.
I read this as: make sure to run hwclock when you use NTP + NetworkManager.
But, based on this discussion: is the consensus is that with systemd we no longer need hwclock, also if you use NetworkManager?
By the way, when I was going through the (very good) documentation on the Arch Wiki / Forums on switching to systemd, I got stumped by my very first entry in the rc.conf, which was hwclock, for which there is no hwclock.service to convert to. We should probably mention in the Wiki that this one can be removed from rc.conf's DAEMONS array when switching to systemd.
It's poorly worded. I think it means that if ntpd is used it should remain running regardless of whether the network is up or down.
If the network is down, ntpd will be able to tell when it gets network errors, and it will just keep trying until it can update the time.
Hwclock might not "keep time".
I may have to CONSOLE you about your usage of ridiculously easy graphical interfaces...
Look ma, no mouse.
Okay - I won't worry about hwclock and see if there's time issues.
Interestingly enough, I noticed that the ntpd.service was "enabled" on my system. I don't recall enabling that, but perhaps I did. I disabled it, since I want NetworkManager to start it after it connects to a network. I assume that's the proper way of configuring it.
I read the note about Chrony. I'll see if this ntpd / NetworkManager in my systemd setup works, if not, I'll try out Chrony.
What I did, was just set up cron to run ntpd and sync my clock about 30 seconds after startup. I did this because otherwise it was interfering with fsck and making it think the last access time was in the future.
Yes, I also noticed (ironically) timing issues with when ntp is started. To not confuse this thread about hwclock, I started a new one here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=150504
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Rape, act of sexual intercourse with an individual without his or her consent, through force or the threat of force. In many jurisdictions, the crime of rape has been subsumed under that of sexual assault, which also encompasses acts that fall short of intercourse. Rape was long considered to be caused by unbridled sexual desire, but it is now understood as a pathological assertion of power over a victim.
Scope, effects, and motivations
The legal definition of rape has changed substantially since the late 20th century. The traditional definition was narrow with respect to both gender and age; rape was an act of sexual intercourse by a man with a woman against her will. As rape is now understood, a rapist or a victim may be an adult of either gender or a child. Although rape can occur in same-sex intercourse, it is most often committed by a male against a female. There is also an increasing tendency to treat as rape an act of sexual intercourse by a husband with his wife against her will and to consider forced prostitution and sexual slavery as forms of rape.
Rape is often explained or excused as a manifestation of racial, ethnic, and class hatred or as stemming from a patriarchal system in which women are viewed as the property of men. Whatever its origins, rape is a serious crime and is treated as a felony in most countries with common-law systems. In many rape trials, the guilt or innocence of the accused hinges on whether or not the victim consented to sexual intercourse. The determination of consent often can lead to distressing cross-examinations of rape victims in court. As a result, many rape victims choose not to report the crime to police or refuse to press charges against their assailants. According to a study conducted in the United States in the 1990s, for example, fewer than one-third of rapes in the country are reported to police, and about half of all rape victims do not discuss the incident with anyone. Even when brought to trial, those charged with rape have a higher-than-average rate of acquittal, mainly because it is difficult to prove a crime for which there are usually no third-party witnesses and because the testimony of women often may be given less credence than that of men. Rape is thus both underreported and underprosecuted. To protect women from humiliating cross-examination, many jurisdictions have adopted rape shield laws, which limit the ability of the defendant's counsel to introduce the accuser's sexual history as evidence.
The psychological motivations of rapists are more complex than was formerly thought. They may include the desire to punish, to gain revenge, to cause pain, to prove sexual prowess, and to control through fear. The psychological reactions of victims of rape also vary but usually include feelings of shame, humiliation, confusion, fear, and rage. Victims often report a feeling of perpetual defilement, an inability to feel clean, an overwhelming sense of vulnerability, and a paralyzing feeling of lack of control over their lives. Many are haunted by fear of the place in which the crime occurred, or of being followed, or of all sexual relationships. Others experience long-term disruption of sleep or eating patterns or an inability to function at work. The duration of the psychological trauma varies from individual to individual; many feel the effects for years, even with considerable supportive therapy. In view of the great psychological harm it causes, many psychologists regard rape as a form of torture—a permanent mutilation of an individual's life. In addition to these psychological effects, in some societies victims of rape face the danger of ostracism or even death at the hands of relatives seeking to preserve their family's honour (victims of abduction without rape may be treated in the same way).
Statutory rape
The age at which an individual may give effective consent to sexual intercourse is commonly set in most countries at between 14 and 18 years (though it is as low as 12 years in some countries). Sexual intercourse with a person below the age of consent is termed statutory rape, and consent is no longer relevant. The term statutory rape specifically refers to the legal proscription against having sexual intercourse with a child or any other person presumed to lack comprehension of the physical and other consequences of the act. The term statutory rape may also refer to any kind of sexual assault committed against a person above the age of consent by an individual in a position of authority (e.g., employers, teachers, clergy, doctors, and parents). Statutory rape often leaves the victim with long-term psychological and physical damage, including sexually transmitted diseases and the inability to bear children.
For example, statutory rape was particularly prevalent in South Africa in the period following the abolition of apartheid, when it was estimated that some two-fifths of South African rape victims were under age 18. Many rapes in the country were committed in the mistaken belief that sexual intercourse with a virgin (including an infant) would cure the rapist of HIV/AIDS. According to Interpol, in the early 21st century there were more rapes per capita in South Africa than in any other country. A 2009 study conducted by the Medical Research Council in South Africa showed that more than a quarter of South African men said they had committed rape. Nearly three-quarters of those men committed their first rape before reaching age 20, and nearly half of them were repeat offenders. Many of the participants expressed no remorse for the assaults.
Rape as a weapon of war
The rape of women by soldiers during wartime has occurred throughout history. Indeed, rape was long considered an unfortunate but inevitable accompaniment of war—the result of the prolonged sexual deprivation of troops and insufficient military discipline. Its use as a weapon of war was gruesomely demonstrated during World War II, when both Allied and Axis armies committed rape as a means of terrorizing enemy civilian populations and demoralizing enemy troops. Two of the worst examples were the sexual enslavement of women in territories conquered by the Japanese army and the mass rape committed against German women by advancing Russian soldiers.
In the second half of the 20th century, cases of rape were documented in more than 20 military and paramilitary conflicts. In the 1990s, rape was used as an instrument of ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia and as a means of genocide in Rwanda. In the former case, women belonging to subjugated ethnic groups were intentionally impregnated through rape by enemy soldiers; in the latter case, women belonging to the Tutsi ethnic group were systematically raped by HIV-infected men recruited and organized by the Hutu-led government.
In the late 20th century, in part because of the prevalence of rape in the Balkan and Rwandan conflicts, the international community began to recognize rape as a weapon and strategy of war, and efforts were made to prosecute such acts under existing international law. The primary statute, Article 27 of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (1949), already included language protecting women "against any attack on their honour, in particular against rape, enforced prostitution, or any form of indecent assault"; this protection was extended in an additional protocol adopted in 1977.
In 1993 the United Nations (UN) Commission on Human Rights (replaced in 2006 by the UN Human Rights Council) declared systematic rape and military sexual slavery to be crimes against humanity punishable as violations of women's human rights. In 1995 the UN's Fourth World Conference on Women specified that rape by armed groups during wartime is a war crime. The jurisdiction of the international tribunals established to prosecute crimes committed in the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda both included rape, making these tribunals among the first international bodies to prosecute sexual violence as a war crime. In a landmark case in 1998, the Rwandan tribunal ruled that "rape and sexual violence constitute genocide." The International Criminal Court, established in 1998, subsequently was granted jurisdiction over a range of women's issues, including rape and forced pregnancy. In a resolution adopted in 2008 the UN Security Council affirmed that "rape and other forms of sexual violence can constitute war crimes, crimes against humanity or a constitutive act with respect to genocide."
In 2008 the government of Congo (Kinshasa) and various international organizations increased efforts to combat the country's rape crisis—the continuing use of rape on a massive scale by all sides in the brutal civil war that had begun in 1998. Instruction in forensic techniques and construction of courthouses, legal clinics, and prisons subsequently yielded a substantial increase in arrests, prosecutions, and convictions in Congo. The crisis and its victims—by then more than a quarter of a million women and girls, by some estimates—were documented in the 2008 film The Greatest Silence by filmmaker Lisa Jackson.
In 2009 UN officials and several human rights and aid organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Oxfam, reported a large number of rapes of males in eastern Congo. The attacks, estimated in the hundreds, were believed to be in retaliation for joint military operations between Congo and its former rival Rwanda.Anne L. Barstow
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capital punishment: Capital punishment in the early 21st century…of the death penalty for rape in 1977 and specifically for child rape in 2008.…
war crime: Rwanda and Yugoslavia war crimes tribunalsIn both tribunals rape, murder, torture, deportation, and enslavement were subject to prosecution. The tribunals thus were among the first international bodies to recognize sexual violence formally as a war crime.…
sexism…the forms of domestic violence, rape, and the commodification of women and their bodies. Where they are seen as property or as second-class citizens, women are often mistreated at the individual as well as the institutional level. For example, a woman who is a victim of rape (the individual or…
rape shield law…history as evidence during a rape trial and therefore can prevent the accuser from being discredited by information that is not relevant to the defendant's guilt or innocence.…
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There is an urban legend, of a powerful rage, that awakens inside the human soul. There is someone named Duff, and inside him lays rage incarnate. When the rage boils to the surface, he transforms into Duffington. Duffington is a dark entity that revels in the night and looks for unsuspecting victims to slaughter. It is impossible to know when he is coming for you and impossible for anyone to track him, as he glides over the ground and melds into shadows. The last thing victims ever hear is a small cackle before their throat is slit.
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Bike Buyer DMX Tutorial
Applies To: SQL Server 2016 Preview
In this tutorial, you will learn how create, train, and explore mining models by using the Data Mining Extensions (DMX) query language. You will then use these mining models to create predictions that determine whether a customer will purchase a bicycle.
The mining models will be created from the data contained in the AdventureWorksDW2012 sample database, which stores data for the fictitious company Adventure Works Cycles. Adventure Works Cycles is a large, multinational manufacturing company. The company manufactures and sells metal and composite bicycles to North American, European, and Asian commercial markets. Its base operation is located in Bothell, Washington, with 290 employees, and it has several regional sales teams located throughout their international market base. For more information about the AdventureWorksDW2012 sample database, see Data Mining Solutions.
Tutorial Scenario
Adventure Works Cycles has decided to extend their data analysis by creating a custom application that uses data mining functionality. Their goal for the custom application is to be able to:
Take as input specific characteristics about a potential customer and predict whether they will buy a bicycle.
Take as input a list of potential customers, as well as characteristics about the customers, and predict which ones will buy a bicycle.
In the first case, customer data is provided by a customer registration page, and in the second case, a list of potential customers is provided by the Adventure Works Cycles marketing department.
In addition, the marketing department has asked for the ability to group existing customers into categories based on characteristics such as where they live, the number of children they have, and their commute distance. They want to see whether these clusters can be used to help target specific kinds of customers. This will require an additional mining model.
Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services provides several tools that can be used to accomplish these tasks:
The DMX query language
The Microsoft Decision Trees Algorithm and the Microsoft Clustering Algorithm
Query Editor in SQL Server Management Studio
Data Mining Extensions (DMX) is a query language provided by Analysis Services that you can use to create and work with mining models. The Microsoft Decision Trees algorithm creates models that can be used to predict whether someone will purchase a bicycle. The resulting model can take an individual customer or a table of customers as an input. The Microsoft Clustering algorithm can create groupings of customers based on shared characteristics. The goal of this tutorial is to provide the DMX scripts that will be used in the custom application.
For more information:Data Mining Solutions
Mining Structure and Mining Models
Before you begin to create DMX statements, it is important to understand the main objects that Analysis Services uses to create mining models. The mining structure is a data structure that defines the data domain from which mining models are built. A single mining structure can contain multiple mining models that share the same domain. A mining model applies a mining model algorithm to the data, which is represented by a mining structure.
The building blocks of the mining structure are the mining structure columns, which describe the data that the data source contains. These columns contain information such as data type, content type, and how the data is distributed.
Mining models must contain the key column described in the mining structure, as well as a subset of the remaining columns. The mining model defines the usage for each column and defines the algorithm that is used to create the mining model. For example, in DMX you can specify that a column is a Key column or a PREDICT column. If a column is left unspecified, it is assumed to be an input column.
In DMX, there are two ways to create mining models. You can either create the mining structure and associated mining model together by using the CREATE MINING MODEL statement, or you can first create a mining structure by using the CREATE MINING STRUCTURE statement, and then add a mining model to the structure by using the ALTER STRUCTURE statement. These methods are described in the following table.
Use this statement to create a mining structure and associated mining model together using the same name. The mining model name is appended with "Structure" to differentiate it from the mining structure. This statement is useful if you are creating a mining structure that will contain a single mining model.
For more information, see CREATE MINING MODEL (DMX).
Use this statement to add a mining model to a mining structure that already exists on the server. This statement is useful if you want to create a mining structure that contains several different mining models. There are several reasons that you would want to add more than one mining model in a single mining structure. For example, you might create several mining models that use different algorithms to see which algorithm works best. You might create several mining models that use the same algorithm, but with a parameter set differently for each mining model to find the best setting for the parameter.
For more information, see ALTER MINING STRUCTURE (DMX).
Because you will create a mining structure that contains several mining models, you will use the second method in this tutorial.
For More Information
Data Mining Extensions (DMX) Reference, Understanding the DMX Select Statement, Structure and Usage of DMX Prediction Queries
What You Will Learn
This tutorial is divided into the following lessons:
Lesson 1: Creating the Bike Buyer Mining Structure
In this lesson, you will learn how to use the CREATE statement to create mining structures.
Lesson 2: Adding Mining Models to the Bike Buyer Mining Structure
In this lesson, you will learn how to use the ALTER statement to add mining models to a mining structure.
Lesson 3: Processing the Bike Buyer Mining Structure
In this lesson you will learn how to use the INSERT INTO statement to process mining structures and their associated mining models.
Lesson 4: Browsing the Bike Buyer Mining Models
In this lesson, you will learn how to use the SELECT statement to explore the content of the mining models.
Lesson 5: Executing Prediction Queries
In this lesson, you will learn how to use the PREDICTION JOIN statement to create predictions against mining models.
Before doing this tutorial, make sure that the following are installed:
Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services (SSAS), SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services (SSAS), SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services (SSAS), or SQL Server Analysis Services
The AdventureWorksDW2012 database. By default, the sample databases are not installed, to enhance security. To install official sample databases for Microsoft SQL Server, visit the Microsoft SQL Sample Databases page and select the databases that you want to install. For more information about how to install the sample databases, see Initial Installation (Analysis Services).


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How can I learn how to properly use the equipment in the fitness area?
The community center has a full-time wellness coordinator and also nightly staff that can walk you through proper use of the equipment. Members may also call and set up an appointment for a free weight room orientation that will include demonstrations of proper use of the equipment.
How do I use the digital sound system for the televisions so I can watch TV while I work out?
To be able to listen to the televisions while you work out you need to bring a digital headset and tune your dial to the station number indicated under the television you wish to watch. Your digital radio will pick up the frequency and you will be able to hear the program.
How many laps around the walking track make a mile?
17 laps around the inside lane, 16 laps in the middle lane, and 15 laps around the outside lane make 1 mile.
How old does a member need to be to use the fitness equipment or the walking track?
Members age 14 and over may use the fitness equipment. Members age 10 and over may use the walking track; however with parental supervision younger members may use the walking track.
Is there an additional cost to attend the aerobics classes?
Yes, classes can either be purchased by the session or by punch pass. A session fee covers one class for a 6-8 week session. The punch pass can be purchased with 10 or 20 punches and is good for any of the classes offered at the Community Center. Each class attended equals one punch. Members get a reduced rate on session fees and punch passes.