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This was my first year going as a Professional Crafter, and I must say, placing those first few orders was so exciting. I'm sure there were angels singing : )
I had a great time connecting with old friends and meeting new friends too. Heres' a few pics to share. (and as usual, most are very dark due to the lighting in the convention center)
Webster's Pages
The Girls' Paperie
Dear Lizzy from American Crafts
Jenni Bowlin
My Minds Eye
Epiphany Crafts
For those of you that have been scrapbooking for awhile, remember the company Lil' Davis?? They had a cute little pic of their daughter Davis on all their packaging quite a few years back. That's Davis on the right in the pic above, she's 9 1/2 now!! It was so great to see Brian and Tricia, and see they are back with their new company called Epiphany Crafts.
Ok, now it's off to pack. School gets out early tomorrow, and no school on Friday, so we're headed to Grandpa and Grandma's for the weekend to do some skiing. I bought Gracie the cutest snow suit today, she looks like a pink marshmallow ; )
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Onida Man Killed When Tree Falls on Him
ONIDA - An Onida man was killed when he was struck by a tree that was being cut down.
Sully County Sheriff Bill Stahl tells KCCR and KGFX that 78-year-old Wayne Rawstern was killed Monday morning when the cottonwood tree fell on top of him. Rawstern was helping a neighbor and two other people cut down the large tree in a vacant lot when the accident happened.
Rawstern was pronounced dead at the scene. No one else was hurt.
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A friend of mine, Euclid, just showed me an interesting quote describing a bunch of golfers madly competing on an IBM 704 computer in 1959! Except back then it was called "program bumming" (not golf) and they were "ski bums", not golfers. I wish I knew about this quote when I first wrote this article. :-)
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While I couldn't draft Barry Bonds, I did at least name my fantasy team after him.
So I just had my fantasy draft. Overall, fun stuff. Football in my mind is superior, NBA is not as fun as you would think. College basketball brackets are great, bowl pick 'ems suck hard. MLB draft so far ranged in the middle, but still not as fun as the NFL.
Overall, I am pretty much on the fence about my draft. Thing about Fantasy sports is if you're active, the draft won't matter. I won fantasy football two out of three years because of guys I picked up off waivers rather than through the draft. If I stuck with the draft I would have been relying on Deshaun Foster three years ago instead of dropping him for Frank Gore, who ended up carrying me to a Fantasy Football title. I don't expect to be staying with Kurt Suzuki for the entire 162 game season, so at this point I did my part in the draft and I'm going to keep an eye out for guys who are off to hot starts or who are going to get a lot of playing time this year.
Guys I really like from my draft is of course my first pick Ryan Howard, who I think is going to have another MVP season because he plays in such a small ballpark and I also like Dan Uggla for some strange reason. I think Uggla's stats this year are going to be more rounded, which means less home runs but less K's. The guy's got a sweet stroke. Hopefully the Marlins put him in the three hole this year instead of two so he can get more RBIs. Carlos Beltran I also think is capable of a big season. The guy has gone under the radar the last couple of years, but I think he's feeling the pressure of the NY media which can produce a big season. However, it can also produce a big drop off, but I think Beltran's too talented to drop off dramatically.
My bench is mostly fast guys, specifically highlighted by a three headed speed monster of Coco Crisp, Lastings Milledge and Fred Lewis. I think Crisp is due for a big year, especially in Kansas City where they will be looking at him more as a leader, and I think with his playoff experience, he'll build on that. I also like Milledge. The guy struggled in the beginning last year because he wasn't used to being the main man, but I think now he's used to Washington, we'll see him get on base more. The guy has more speed than his stats show and I think we'll see that this year, as long as he gets on base more and cuts down his K's. Lewis is a questionable pick because I have that rotten feeling he's going to have an off year from a solid year the previous season. As a Giants fan though, I love him. He was in my opinion our most consistent player last year and that was in his first season as a starter. I got mad at Bochy last year for not running Lewis more in the last couple of years. He's faster than people think, and I think he showed that at times last season.
I'm not so high on the Giants pitching staff. I think Tim Lincecum will drop off (not Mark Fidrych bad, but still a drop-off), don't think Randy Johnson's going to do as much as people think and I think Barry Zito will finally implode for good this season. But in comparison to other staffs, there is so much upside I just had to pick them, even if it is quite a risky pick. My worst pick of the bunch other than Suzuki is probably Pablo Sandoval. In my mind, I picked him solely on his potential, which was an outstanding 421. Yet I don't think he's going to have that good of a year. He barely played last year and I just don't think he's going to produce the kind of numbers people saw from him down the stretch last season. However, Sandoval was my last pick, and it was a very high risk, high reward pick, so I went with him. Jed Lowrie could be a similar situation, but I think Lowrie could have more potential to do better than I pessimistically think because A.) Boston hates Julio Lugo and B.) Mike Lowell's health is so poor. Lowrie will get a lot of at bats, especially with the way he played, even though I'm scared he's going to have an Angel Berroa-esque second year drop off.
Guys I wished I picked? I was so down on Shin-Soo Choo. I didn't watch much of the WBC, but for some reason, the games I did watch featured Korea and Choo was the only major leaguer of the bunch. I think Choo really could be a surprise. He played well in the WBC and he's a consistent kind of guy. Not flashy, but he's super-disciplined. I might try to make a trade with the guy who drafted him, who desperately wants Lowrie. I like Lowrie, but I would be willing to part with him for Choo.
Overall, predictions are fun and all, but it doesn't mean anything. Only when the season starts I can see how well I drafted. Here's to the 2009 MLB season and my team "Bring Back Barry."


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Memorable debut for Stassi includes two hits
ARLINGTON -- It'll be tough for Max Stassi to forget his first Major League hit.
Stassi got the start as the designated hitter on Tuesday at Rangers Ballpark and collected his first career hit in the fifth inning off Jason Frasor. But Stassi then made a baserunning mistake that he'd never made before.View Full Game Coverage
ARLINGTON -- It'll be tough for Max Stassi to forget his first Major League hit.
Stassi got the start as the designated hitter on Tuesday at Rangers Ballpark and collected his first career hit in the fifth inning off Jason Frasor. But Stassi then made a baserunning mistake that he'd never made before.View Full Game Coverage
The rookie slid safely into second on a ground ball as Frasor fielded, then sailed the throw over Elvis Andrus' head covering the bag. But Stassi thought Andrus had made the catch to complete the force and stepped off the bag to start walking back to the dugout. Ian Kinsler alertly tagged Stassi from behind to record the second out of the inning.
"I slid in and lost track of the ball," Stassi said. "I thought [Andrus] was on second, and the ball went past him. That's totally on me, and it's something that'll never happen again in my career. It just so happened on my debut.
"It didn't feel too good, especially in a close ballgame."
The Astros were leading 2-1 at the time, but eventually lost, 4-2. The incident prompted a teaching moment for Stassi from Astros manager Bo Porter and third-base coach Dave Trembley.
"It's a lesson well learned," Porter said. "When you are a forceout, do not leave that base without knowing from the umpire that you are out."
Stassi reiterated that it would be the first and last time the incident occurs in his career, but the mental mistake didn't hamper Stassi in his next at-bat. He collected his second single in the seventh and became the 12th player in franchise history and the second this year to record two or more hits in his Major League debut. Robbie Grossman accomplished the feat on April 24 against the Mariners. Stassi finished 2-for-3, striking out in his first at-bat against former Astros pitcher Travis Blackley in the second inning.
"I was really excited to be out there," Stassi said. "After my first at-bat, I started to get settled in and slowed the game down a little bit.
"I was just taking it in. It's the only time it's going to happen in my career, my first night. I was just enjoying it and trying to make the most of it."
Stassi was called up earlier Tuesday from Double-A Corpus Christi when Carlos Corporan was placed on the 7-day concussion disabled list. Stassi will serve as backup to starting catcher Jason Castro
"It's great for him," Tuesday's starting pitcher Jarred Cosart said. "I got my first taste this year. I was able to get a win in my first outing. That's a little different for hitters. He's going to get his at-bats and have plenty opportunities, but to come up in the first game and after the first at-bat get the jitters out of the way. He put together two good at-bats off two tough pitchers. To get the first two out of the way is good, now he can probably relax and look forward."
Stassi and pitcher David Martinez both were still amazed to receive their first big league call-up on Tuesday.
"It was unexpected," Stassi said before the game. "I was just hanging out on an off-day at Sonic with a couple teammates in Double-A. Next thing I know, my phone is ringing and it's my manager, Keith Bodie, and he's telling me to pack my stuff and I'm heading to Arlington. It was a pretty exciting time."
Stassi was named the Texas League Player of the Month in July, hitting .333 with 11 home runs and 24 RBIs in 24 games for Corpus Christi. He has also been named Texas League Player of the Week twice this year. Stassi is slugging .529 this season with 17 home runs and 60 RBIs overall, and he credits his routine for his Minor League success this year.
Martinez was promoted to Triple-A Oklahoma City earlier this month. He has a combined 14-3 record with a 2.20 ERA in 28 appearances (20 starts). The product of the club's Venezuelan Academy, Martinez can give the Astros multiple innings out the bullpen. The Astros designated Wade LeBlanc for assignment as the corresponding move.
"I don't know what will happen with me, but I'm confident in myself," Martinez said of when he makes his Major League debut. "I'll just wait for the moment."
Master Tesfatsion is an associate reporter for MLB.com.


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Miller & Hillyer of New York,portrait artist firm.William H Miller 1820 - 1907 & William Hillyer 1815 - 1907. The partners were William H. Miller, William Hillyer, and, after 1859, Stephen Krauss (see entries on each). From 1846-58, the firm was Miller & Hillyer; from 1859-60 they were Miller, Hillyer & Krauss; after 1860 they were Miller & Hillyer once again. After 1862 the partners turned to photography and gave up miniature painting. Sources: G&W; NYBD and CD 1846-64; Am. Inst. Cat. and Trans., 1846; NYHS, Catalogue, 1974 (cat. no. 2357). For more information: Email: Bob Frassinetti. Press here to go back to web blog:Daily Updates on Art, Antiques, Collectibles as well as travel information for Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Fedora PowerManagement SIG
The PowerManagement SIG (Special Interest Group) is a group of Fedora contributors that wants to improve the current state of power management and savings across the whole Fedora distribution. This starts at kernel components, goes over userland improvements up to usability and user experience on the Desktop.
- Phil Knirsch <firstname.lastname@example.com> (Lead, tuned, monitoring, documentation)
- Jiri Skala <email@example.com>(BLTK packager)
- Marcela Maslanova <firstname.lastname@example.com> (initscript/udev service start/stop review)
- Petr Lautrbach <firstname.lastname@example.com> (initscript/udev service start/stop automation)
- Jan Scotka <firstname.lastname@example.com> (QA coverage)
- Karel Volny <firstname.lastname@example.com> (QA coverage)
Joining the SIG
As with most other Fedora projects and SIGs all it takes is your interest. There are enough topics to cover around Power Management, so it's unlikely we will run out of work to do. :)
How you can help
- Meetings:We will hold weekly meetings to discuss the general topic: IRC meetings - Every Thursday at 15:00 - 16:00 UTC
- Meeting logs:SIGs/PowerManagement/Meetings
- Work Areas: We have several real technical oriented work areas, listed below. If you want to contribute to any of them feel free to check out the specific areas.
- Testing: In order to be able to make any kind of comparison we will need reproducible testing. This includes measurements itself as well as reproducible workloads. For the later we've included BLTK in Fedora 11 already, for the former we're still investigating how to address this properly.
- Bugs: In case you find something that should be improved in regard to power management please open a Bugzilla for it. We have several tracker bugs for Fedora for power management:
- Documentation: A large topic that we want to address is documentation improvements. Right now a lot of the technical pieces are there, but there is no comprehensive documentation available that describes in understandable terms with examples how to use it.
Work Areas
Work around kernel, hardware and driver topics are being covered in detail here: SIGs/PowerManagementKernel
Same for the underlying basic user space topics: SIGs/PowerManagementBaseOS
Same for the whole Desktop space: SIGs/PowerManagementDesktop
Measurement and results
Contains various measurement reports
- RHEL 5 vers. F12 comparison or power consumption of wifi in notebook
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- Comparison virtualized 32 bit and 64 bit systems
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Watch for Hail - Winter Weather Driving Tips from Caltrans, NOAA, and CHP
Watch for Hail
NOAA's National Weather Service, California Highway Patrol, and Caltrans want you to be aware of the driving hazard that hail storms can cause. Roadways can become icy and slick very quickly! When you start to see hail, ease off of your gas pedal and slow down. Don't slam on your brakes, or you could lose control of your vehicle. If you start to slide, don't overcorrect by turning your steering wheel really hard in either direction. Instead, turn your steering wheel in the direction the rear of your car is traveling to regain control of your vehicle. And, remember that your car's headlights need to be on whenever your windshield wipers are on - it's the law. For current highway conditions, please call 1-800-427-7623 or visit www.dot.ca.gov.
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In the field of commercial property marketing, Southeast Property Management Company offers the highest level of expertise, sophisticated marketing strategies and a professional commercial sales team.
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The request_stat_path function returns the file information structure for a specified path or, if no path is specified, the path entry in the vars pblock in the specified request structure. If the resulting file name points to a file that the server can read, request_stat_path returns a new file information structure. This structure contains information about the size of the file, its owner, when it was created, and when it was last modified.
Use request_stat_path to retrieve information on the file you are currently accessing instead of calling stat directly, because this function keeps track of previous calls for the same path and returns its cached information.
struct stat *request_stat_path(char *path, Request *rq);
Returns a pointer to the file information structure for the file named by the path parameter. Do not free this structure. Returns NULL if the file is not valid or the server cannot read it. In this case, it also leaves an error message describing the problem in rq->staterr.
char *path is the string containing the name of the path. If the value of path is NULL, the function uses the path entry in the vars pblock in the request structure denoted by rq.
Request *rq is the request identifier for a Server Application Function call.
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Q. Our local library, like so many others, now offers ebooks for loan. Their inventory is not as great as I would like. I'd like to be able donate ebooks I have purchased, just as I would donate paper copies of books I no longer wish to own, but I'm told this isn't possible. Could you explain the difference to me and let me know if there is legislation in the works that can correct this seemingly unfair disparity?
A. This question, which came to us in several different forms this past week touches on a number of issues related to digital content management. We asked Carrie Russell, our colleague in ALA's Washington Office, for assistance.
Here's what she said:
Ebooks cannot be donated because their use is governed by contract rather than the copyright law. Under the copyright law, there are exceptions that allow a user to exercise a right of copyright under certain circumstances. One of the exclusive rights of copyright is the "right to distribute." But first sale says that once a person lawfully acquires a work that person has the right to distribute that particular copy anyway that he wants. So libraries can lend the books that they purchase, and you can donate books to the library.
With ebooks, the contract defines what you can or cannot do with a work. In general, contracts for ebooks you acquire – from iBooks, for example –have a non-negotiable license linked to the work. This is when you click on an "I agree to these terms" button. You are bound by the contract. If you read the contract, generally you will see terms that restrict what you can do. "Non-commercial personal use only" is the kind of language that prevents you from donating. If you violate the contract terms, you violate the license agreement, not copyright law.
Sometimes the contract is enforced by digital rights management that prevents you from transferring the ebook file to another person or library. A tech savvy person can circumvent this technology, but it is generally effective.
As for legislation, there is none. The U.S. Copyright Office did a study on digital first sale some years ago – the Section 104 study. The Copyright Office said there is no such thing as digital first sale.
Interestingly, there is an upcoming Supreme Court case – Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. – about first sale (not digital). Most people believe that, regardless of the Court's decision, there will be a need to tweak the copyright law around first sale. It is possible that digital first sale may be discussed – I doubt it, but who knows.
Since contract law is a state law, you could reach out to your state legislators. They will likely be unfamiliar with the entire issue but you could give it a shot.
Because of the importance of make digital content available in libraries of all types, ALA has appointed the Digital Content and Libraries Working Group. Its work, along with additional resources of all kinds, may be found on the Ebooks & Digital Content part of the ALA site.
For general information on donations of more traditional materials, please see ALA Library Fact Sheet 12: Sending Books to Needy Libraries; Book Donations.
I'm very interested in how Unglue.it (a campaign to use crowdfunding to unglue ebooks, pay what authors and publishers require, and allow them to be used for free ultimately) could help libraries. What if all interested and forward-thinking libraries participated in crowdfunding campaigns on certain books (voted on by their patrons) in order to liberate them from those limiting licenses? Instead of buying 50 print books per library x 100's of libraries, 100's of libraries could contribute toward ungluing a book, that millions of people could then read? I'm sure I'm oversimplifying it …. https://unglue.it/
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Thank you very much for addressing this issue in detail!
Hadn't thought of it
Thanks for the explanation. I guess it makes sense that there
Still not impossible
While there are currently some legal obstacles as outlined above, the law wasn't written with our current digital landscape in mind. There is currently a business selling used mp3s that could serve as a model. I would encourage any potential donors who are interested in this issue to reach out to state legislators as mentioned. The issue of contract law governing digital content is a huge issue for libraries. There has been a significant amount of new music released since iTunes that libraries have simply not been able to collect, preserve, or provide access to for their communities. The advent of these issues now arising with ebooks that aren't being released for libraries points to a new opportunity for library users to let their state and federal legislators know that they value the role libraries play in preservation and access in their communities and that the law needs to support these activities.
Still not impossible - first sale for digital files
I agree with Kathleen that there are ways for businesses to sell digital content outright. Usually these are innovative upstart companies that are trying new business models.
I also agree that talking with your state legislators is key. If they don't here from anyone, nothing is going to change.


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TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Oct. 29, 2012) - Liberty Silver Corp. (TSX:LSL) ("Liberty Silver" or the "Company") stated that it is not aware of any material undisclosed development or other reason that would account for recent appreciation in the trading price of the Company's shares.
The Company wishes to advise the investment community that all official information regarding the Company must be derived solely from disclosure documents filed on www.sedar.com, www.sec.gov and the Company's website (www.libertysilvercorp.com).
The shares of Liberty Silver trade on the TSX in Canada. For the present, the Company's stock will not immediately be listed, traded or quoted on any of the OTC Markets. The Company is reviewing the requirements necessary to permit its stock to resume trading on the OTCBB. The Company's stock may be traded in the US on the "grey market" or through US broker dealers who have access to the TSX.
About Liberty Silver Corp.
Liberty Silver Corp. is focused on exploring and advancing mineral properties located in North America. Liberty Silver is led by a skilled, experienced management team and board of directors with significant experience managing exploration, development and mining projects. Liberty Silver is committed to creating value for its shareholders by advancing its current projects utilizing its mitigated risk approach to developing new resources on its current properties, and acquiring new properties that have the potential to increase their resource base. The Trinity Silver Project, located in Pershing County, Nevada, is Liberty Silver's flagship project. Liberty Silver has the right to earn a joint venture interest in the 10,579 acres Trinity property pursuant to the terms of an earn-in agreement with Renaissance Gold Inc.
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This is our weekly public Open Night / Social Night.
Everyone is invited to come down and see what the Hackspace has to offer them and the community.
Many of our regular members also use these nights to catch up with other Hackspace members.
There are snacks, refreshments, often tours of the machines and the facility, and great conversations. :)
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text: (UPDATE) Hannya Mask Project: A Woman Scorned By Anthony Iannucci: Over one year ago, a massive 9.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Japan, birthing a devastating tsunami that had swept over the cities and farmland in the north-east part of the country and set off warnings as far away as the west coast of the USA and South America. The death toll high and the long-term impact still in question, the citizens of Japan were in great need of assistance and support from the world community. That need still exists today. During the year since this event, good and compassionate people from all over the globe have helped in various ways whether it be donating independently, to massive fund-raising drives... I personally have always had a soft spot in my heart for all thing Japanese and had the extreme pleasure and honor of being able to live and work in Yokohama in 2000. Together with good friend and renowned FX artist Nix Herrera, we organized The Hannya Mask Project to help raise money for those in need in the effected areas of Japan. Nix created the sculpt, mold, and casts of the resin Hannya mask blanks, which were then sent to 50 artists from all over the North America. Each given the freedom to modify and create some great works of art from the original blank masks. These 50 Hannya masks were then exhibited at Orlando's Twelve21 Gallery and put up for auction online. Partnered with American Red Cross of Central Florida, when 2 rounds of the auction concluded we had raised $5,282.61 for the relief effort. We would like to thank everyone for their support, from the artists who donated their time and talent, to the gallery and Laughing Samurai for creating the website www.hannyamaskproject.com (where the masks can still be viewed), to the many sponsors who helped promote in various ways and a special thank you to all those who bid on and purchased these works of art. It is a testament to the power or organized action and the difference it can make." Ant Iannucci Ascension Tattoo Photos by Mickey Medina To see more photos please visit the following links: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2600086609007.148386.1460060948&type=3 and https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2553605527009.147687.1460060948&type=3 [For more information visit: www.hannyamaskproject.com.]


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Chicago's pension system is arguably in the worst shape of any in the country—and a prominent union leader says that the city's financial traders should help rescue it. In a conversation this week with the Chicago Sun-Times editorial board, Karen Lewis, the president of the Chicago Teachers Union, endorsed the idea of levying a per-transaction tax on futures, options and stock trades processed on the city's exchanges.
Chicago's five municipal pension funds, including the teachers' fund, have a combined shortfall of more than $27 billion. The Illinois legislature, which broke a long-standing logjam by passing pension reforms for state employees late last year, approved a pension-overhaul plan for some of Chicago's unions last month. But Gov. Pat Quinn hasn't signed it yet, in part because he disagrees with his fellow Democrat, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, about how to fund it. (The legislature's plan, which Emanuel backs, calls for an increase in property taxes.)
Per-transaction taxes have been floated over the last several years, most notably at the national level in 2008, when some policymakers suggested that Wall Street firms pay a transaction tax to offset the costs of the various financial-services industry bailouts. (You no doubt will be shocked to learn that this proposal did not make it through Congress.)
The Illinois proposal, which would also need state legislative approval, calls for a $1 levy on commodity futures and options trades and $2 for stock trades; trades made on behalf of retirement funds would be exempted. Lewis and other supporters of the tax say it would raise about $12 billion a year.
A spokeswoman for CME Group, which operates the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, told the Sun-Times that transaction taxes would more than double the cost of the typical trade, and that they would effectively drive futures traders and other financial pros out of the city. Quizzed on that point by the Sun-Times editorial board, Lewis responded, "This is an opportunity to actually make heroes out of these people, instead of everybody being angry at them about their money and their greed and all these other things."
Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg, who supports the tax, had a more entertaining response to a similar hypothetical in a recent column. "I bought my beef and broccoli lunch Tuesday," he wrote. "The bill included the 10.75% Chicago restaurant tax. I did not move to Liberia. If I can do that, I bet a trader can pay two bucks to buy 100 shares of TechDrek."
That's right: Chicago has a 10.75% restaurant tax.
Also on Encore:
Majority would trade pay for a pension
Detroit pension deal avoids big benefit cuts
Illinois legislators pass pension reforms
Matthew Heimer covers retirement for MarketWatch and edits the Encore blog. Follow him on Twitter @MatthewHeimer.


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VeraSun Energy Corporation, Sioux Falls, SD, announced that it is seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on October 31. This announcement followed the company's report of significant losses in the third quarter.
A large part of the problem was that VeraSun had locked in corn prices earlier this summer (when corn was near $8 per bushel) and then corn dropped to less than $5 per bushel. VeraSun also cited worsening capital market conditions and a tightening of trade credit for constraining its liquidity position.
VeraSun and 24 of its subsidiaries have filed voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter 11 to facilitate access to additional liquidity while they reorganize, the company reported. The company plans to maintain its operations and has taken steps to "ensure continued supply of product to its customers and to fulfill all customer obligations."
VeraSun also reported that it does not expect to scale back its purchases of corn and other raw materials. It expects that suppliers will be paid in full for goods and services furnished after the filing data as required by the United States Bankruptcy Code.
The bankruptcy of any major ethanol producer is not a positive sign for the industry, says Todd Alexander, partner, Chadbourne & Parke LLP, New York. Alexander represents developers and lenders participating in U.S. and international biofuels financings. He has participated in the limited recourse financing of power projects in various countries.
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But, the VeraSun Chapter 11 announcement may possibly be "a sign that operating margins have been squeezed to or close to their breaking point," Alexander says.
"There is a general consensus that many ethanol facilities did not properly size their working capital lines to allow them to fully fund their margin calls," Alexander says. "As a result, they were forced to accept losses that could have been better managed. In addition, ethanol producers' ability to effectively lock in longer term ethanol sales contracts has greatly diminished as a result of the increased capacity that has entered the market during the last 12 months. This has made it more difficult for ethanol producers to manage their crush spreads and has made earning less predictable."
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(As related to me by Billy Sumner and Carr Harris)
I had heard about this eccentric old gentleman chicken breeder from Virginia for years before I discovered that I actually possessed some of his blood on my yard. He died nearly 45 years ago: which means he was breeding Asil and Shamo before anyone on this site was even born. He had the most sought after Asil and Shamo on the eastern seaboard. The American cockfighters bought his birds to cross onto their American Gamefowl. None of these people bred them pure, however three young men from different backgrounds, and states, became the sole possessors of Manuel's Asil and Shamo upon his death.
Manuel imported his Asil from Pakistan and his Shamo from Japan. His were not the first imports of these breeds into the United States, but they were considered to be the best in their day and the Asil are still viewed that way. The Shamo are another story that will be related further in this article.
Today, Manuel Reynolds' Asil are sold as Hyderabad Asil in the United States. Whether that is because Manuel related to the sole inheritor of his Asil that they were indeed Hyderabad in origin, or whether the name was just attached to them, I cannot say with any degree of certainty. What I can tell you is that his Asil are different than any other Asil in America. Generally, the females come laced, whereas the males show no lacing. They are heavily beetle browed, around 5 to 7 lbs., and of excellent type and constitution. Of all the Asil I have kept, they are the gamest of the game. Unless raised together, the females fight like cocks, and cannot be kept with any other hens. If they are penned with other hens, the result will be death. This is not simply a pecking order thing I'm speaking of. I'm telling you they will kill the other hens.
Pure Manuel Reynolds' Asil hen: today refered to as a Hyderabad Asil
Hyderabad Asil cock.
Assuming Manuel Reynolds' imported his Asil a century ago, and then there have only been 2 primary breeders of these birds during this time. These birds have not received any new blood during this time, but have been inbred with no disastrous results because of the vigor of the breed, and vast numbers hatched.
Manuel's Shamo looked vastly different than the Shamo seen today. They did not possess the long legs of the Shamo of today. They had parrot beaks and big thick heads; the scales on the front of the legs are often lifted as if the bird had scale mites (which they do not) and was considered a very desirable trait. Also, they were not as upright as many of the Shamo seen in our shows in America. In there day, Manuel's Shamo were the most sought after Shamo in America. Today, only one man possesses pure Manuel Reynolds' Shamo blood: Billy Sumner, of North Carolina.
Recently, I had a conversation with Craig Russell, of Pennsylvania, concerning the Shamo. Craig is the foremost authority on chickens in America today in my opinion. I asked him which he considered to be the more correct Shamo type. Craig lived in Japan for several years during the 1970's, as well as in other areas of Asia. He stated that when he traveled around to different areas of Japan, you would see birds that people were calling O Shamo with variable type. Some carried their bodies at, or around 45 degrees, while others carried them nearly horizontal. Carr Harris, who knew Manuel Reynolds agreed. Carr further added that the Shamo in America today show the influence of Thais. He stated that this could be seen in the 'snake-headed' feature of many Shamo. Both Carr Harris, and Craig Russell believe the head of Manuel Reynolds' Shamo to be the more correct in type: thick all over, and without taper towards the front.
Billy Sumner still shows the Manuel Reynolds Shamo as they have been shown in America for nearly a century now. He seldom wins today because most exhibitors and judges aren't even aware that standing in the cage before them is an old strain of fowl, that has been bred pure from imports, which came to our shore nearly a century ago. A breed of fowl kept by only two breeders in the United States in all that time, which in turn has been bred to look, and act, like Manuel Reynolds believed they should be.
This Shamo cock has 1/2 Manuel Reynolds blood. This can be seen most easily in the beak, head, length of leg and neck. Manuel's pure Shamo stock were somewhat more upright than this bird, but not much.
Up and down the eastern seaboard, American cockers of the early twentieth century used the Asil, and Shamo bred by Manuel Reynolds to bring the added weight, and height to their American Gamefowl. If the actual histories of all the Roundhead breeds on the east coast could be told, I believe somewhere in their background would exist one of Manuel's birds. He was the quintessential American breeder.
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07/19/2014 8:15amAfter an audit determined the Utah State Fair was the "most under- attended and highly subsidized state fair among comparable intermountain states," the State Building Board has looked a number of solutions.
Stay-at-home mothers are on the rise
07/19/2014 9:13amOne mother talks about her decision to stay at home with her children amid a rise in stay-at-home moms.
Report: Utah unemployment rate second lowest in US
07/19/2014 10:49amUtah is tied for the second lowest unemployment rate in the nation, as the state's jobless rate dropped to 3.5 percent. Nationally, the U.S. unemployment rate registered at 6.1 percent.
SL County program offers shelter dogs to 'rescue' workers
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07/19/2014 4:56pmState Sen. Luz Robles, the Salt Lake Democrat challenging 2nd District Rep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah, rallied some 40 volunteers gathered at Warm Springs Park on Saturday morning before sending them off to canvass area voters.
Search of Magna field yields no more dead horses
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Name: TC
Gender: Female
Age: 13
Location: indiana
I really dont know that much about sex, so i let my boyfriend do it all. He keeps calling me a scardy cat cuz i wont touch his dick or give him any pleasure, and he is getting really bored with me
I am so sorry to hear of the trouble you are having with your boyfriend. Actually, he's no friend at all. Real friends honor their friend's limits and boundaries, and he's not doing that.
You can't be expected, at your tender age, to know much about sex. Hell, you don't even sound like you are particularly interested in the topic. You don't mention your boyfriend's age, but it sure sounds like he is way more advanced than you, at least when it comes to his interest in sex. Unfortunately, he's not so advanced that he's man enough to leave you alone when you ask him to. And that really makes me angry. Bullying, belittling or harassing someone for sex, particularly when it's clear that person is not ready or not interested is abuse. And that is never a good thing.
I hasten to add that in the eyes of the law he is a criminal. He is taking advantage of an underage person for his own sexual gratification and that's against the law. If you guys get busted, there will be hell to pay.
I know the kind of pressures you are experiencing. You want a BF and you want your BF to like you. But if you let him take advantage of you, it's not the same thing as him liking you. It's more an indication that he's focused on his needs and desires, not yours. I don't think his behavior indicates he cares for you, but he is showing you that he has power over you and is able to manipulate you into doing what he wants. And what kind of relationship is that?
Listen, TC, you don't have to submit to him. You can stand tall and tell him NO. He will, in the end, respect you more for your courage to defy and deny him than if you just cave in to his will.
I'm not sure I know what you mean when you say that you "let your boyfriend do it all." But it sure doesn't sound like a good thing to me. If he's having his way with you, even though you are being very passive about it, doesn't make it right. I hope this isn't how you intend to interact with other males who will come into your life in the future. And there will be plenty of them. If they sense that you are weak and vulnerable, you will be a goner for sure. You could easily wind up being a victim for the rest of your life. Please, TC, don't let that happen to you.
I know you'd probably rather be thinking about a lot of other stuff at this time in your life, but the situation with your BF demands that you grow up fast and get savvy about the fundamentals sex right away. I'll have a number of resources for you in a second, but I can't emphasize enough how important it is for you to wise up about pregnancy protection. I wish I didn't have to say that to you, but I must. If you are being sexually active, even if you are just letting your BF do everything, you absolutely must protect yourself from an unwanted and unplanned pregnancy. If you don't you will find that you will be the one having to deal with the consequences. If your BF is not considerate enough to respect your wishes when it comes to sex in general, you know for sure that he'll not be around to look after you and your unborn child.
Ok, here are those resources I mentioned. Planned Parenthood, SCARLETEEN, Sex Ed 101 and Midwest Teen Sex Show.
Promise me that you will take this seriously. That you'll not just roll over (literally or figuratively). Promise me that you will respect yourself and take a stand and not allow your BF to manipulate you into anything you don't want to do. More hangs in the balance than you can comprehend. You'll have to trust me on this.
One last thing, if you were wise enough to find my sex advice website and you were mature enough to write to me, then I believe you are strong and resourceful enough, despite your tender age, to stand up to your BF. Do it now. Demand that he respect you, your body and your wishes.
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Favorites and duds from today's commenting...
So, fun fact about this Kinja format. When you save, it defaults to "save as private", which is just a draft, and not an actual post, and then you leave it there for hours, and then Shitehawk emails you, but you've gone to bed, so Shitehawk calls you on your home phone and wakes your wife up and just screams at her that her husband is a complete idiot who forgot to post the roundup and your wife just looks at you wondering what the hell is going on because you've been living a secret double life as a sports blog comment adjudicator. On to the roundup.
Favorites, in no particular order:
RMJ=H with a funny joke at the expense of a CTE sufferer in the Football Popularity post. This joke was a damned oasis in a desert of horrible, horrible, commenting that all belongs in the duds if there was enough space. Later, he got in a shot at Detroit in a post about Seattle, which shows how smart and versatile this guy is. Good work today.
Nikkolai is a guy who can be counted on for a decent one-liner now and then, and this easy swipe at Tim Tebow is no exception to that occasional type of success. Also, did you know it would be funny to refer to a particular Carrie Underwood song in a reply to this comment? It would be hilarious! Nik, dismiss that nonsense.
Much like Richard Sherman started a national discussion on rape, 2012 Commenter of the Year runner-up Raysism sparked similar dialogue with his joke that, while based on the topic of rape and suicide, was not actually about that in the Missouri Swimmer post. This departure from Ray's usual lighthearted humor earned him a solid round of applause, and several First Take-style showdowns in adjacent threads. However, I enjoyed this sendup in the Seahawks Tattoo post even more, and that's why it's your Comment of the Day.
This is so stupid and self-referential and just completely absurd by prodigal son BronzeHammer in the Pro Bowl Hit post that I couldn't help but laugh at it, even though I didn't even notice the "Pho Bowl" switcheroo until the second read-through. Keep joking, buddy. We enjoy it.
The delivery was a bit clunky on this joke in the Macklemore-Carroll post, but the pull was funny enough that marmol heater earned a spot in the Favorites today. What's with that funky ellipsis, pal - I guess that's from the Chicago Manual of Style (little inside baseball for you there, folks, marmie is from Chicago). Also, this gross sequence in the Skittles Sausage post was disgusting and made me laugh and puke a little.
I liked this quick dialogue from The Amazing Sneijderman in the Today Show Producer post. It was funny, but it was like it was based on true facts, which made it funnier, to me at least, and that's what counts on Mondays around here.
Total Fucking Duds
Lotsa duds today. This piece of junk from idiot WonderZimms both is stupid and gives Joseph Finn a chance to say something vapid. Hey, loser, maybe you should ask yourself your own question before you post. I wonder what the answer might be...
Yes, manuellabor, the joke was not very good. But it was at least an attempt at humor. You, on the other hand, pulled the ever-so-original move of farting out a link to an Adam Sandler movie. Looks like a recurring theme in the duds tonight is going to be people who should take their own goddamn advice.
Maceo the Cat has to be the shittiest of all of the "Serious Sports Takes" Deadspin commenters. This whole thread is testament to his inability to understand simple concepts. Now let us never speak of him again.
Complete tool RigmasTFT with this turd in the Pro Bowl Nap post. I'm not even sure what the punchline is supposed to be here, but the best part to me is that the URL shows that he edited it from the original joke, which was "Wow, Chris Kluwe's life has really gone downhill lately." If you take two swipes at it, and you miss both times, redact, walk away, and think about what you've done.
A football player did drugs. You need more than that to make a good joke.
I think that I've discussed this pet peeve of mine before, where someone takes a good idea for a joke and then absolutely murders it. The fact that the mayor of Sochi has the word "homo" in his name is a good catch, but it doesn't stand on its own for a joke. It demands subtlety - less is more. Maybe make the joke "CORRECTIONS: We at BBC would like to correct an error in our earlier story about there being no homosexuals in Sochi. The mayor's surname is actually Pakv." or something. Let the reader see it at first, not understand it, then go back and re-read the post and laugh heartily. Make it a joke and a bit of a brain-teaser. Don't fucking bold-text the only possible punchline. Fuck, that pisses me off.
Well, thanks for waiting up for this. As always, omissions and death threats in the comments below.


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Remember your old gym teacher, with the pedo moustache and the too-tight shorts, who'd always prop up one leg on things, giving you an uncomfortably good view of his crotch? PlayStation spokesman Kevin Butler will never forget.
When Sony first launched the Kevin Butler-fueled ads for the PlayStation 3 and its games, I thought I'd never see enough of him. Now I have officially seen far too much of Kevin Butler, and I will forever associate ModNation Racers with gym teacher / football coach crotch.
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I got the bulk of my gloating in by quoting Conan the Barbarian, but I couldn't let Bloomberg's and Giffords's post-gun-control-failure statements just sit there.
Bloomberg, the micro-managing tyrant of NYC, said:
Today's vote is a damning indictment of the stranglehold that special interests have on Washington. . . . More than 40 U.S. senators would rather turn their backs on the 90 percent of Americans who support comprehensive background checks than buck the increasingly extremist wing of the gun lobby. [emphasis added]
Gabrielle Giffords, who was tragically shot in the head by a lunatic and then granted supreme moral authority by the hard-core anti-gun crowd, said much the same thing:
I watch TV and read the papers like everyone else. We know what we're going to hear: vague platitudes like "tough vote" and "complicated issue." I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress. I know what a complicated issue is; I know what it feels like to take a tough vote. This was neither. These senators made their decision based on political fear and on cold calculations about the money of special interests like the National Rifle Association, which in the last election cycle spent around $25 million on contributions, lobbying and outside spending. [emphasis added]*
President Obama, of course, was not one to leave the special-interest-bashing to others, as the New York Times noted:
Standing in the Rose Garden next to former Representative Gabrielle Giffords and other victims of gun violence, Mr. Obama flashed anger as he said that the gun rights lobby had "willfully lied" about the legislation, and that Republicans and Democrats had "caved to the pressure."
Bloomberg, of course, founded and bankrolls Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a notorious anti-gun organization filled with criminal mayors. Giffords similarly started her own super-PAC to push for strict gun control.
I'm not saying that Bloomberg and Giffords aren't free to spend their money (or in the case of Giffords, donor money) to lobby for policy changes they support. Free speech and the right to petition legislators and the government for the redress of grievances are at the heart of our political system.
That said, it's disingenuous at best, and damnably hypocritical at worst, to bemoan the grip that other special interests have on Washington merely because they defeated your special interests.
Gun control isn't about guns. It's about control. Control of you, gentle reader. I'll leave you with an excerpt from Rudyard Kipling's The Gods of the Copybook Headings:
When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
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Everyone's favorite green tea brings a grassy depth to these sweet treats.
¾ cup confectioner's sugar
5 oz. unsalted butter, cut into cubes
1¾ cups all-purpose flour
3 large egg yolks
1 ½ Tbsp. matcha (powdered green tea)
1 cup granulated sugar (for coating)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a sheet pan with parchment paper. Whisk sugar and matcha together in a bowl. Add sugar mixture and butter to bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Mix until smooth and light in color. Add flour and mix until well combined. Add egg yolks and mix just until eggs are fully incorporated and a mass forms. Form dough into a disk and refrigerate until firm (about 30 minutes). Roll dough out to ½-inch thickness. Cut with a small leaf cookie cutter (or whatever you prefer). Toss each cut cookie in a bowl of granulated sugar to coat. Place cookies on a parchment-lined pan. Bake 12–15 minutes, or until slightly golden around edges. Makes about 25.
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Joanne Bergan
Joanne Bergan and her husband Carl were sailing friends of ours from Seattle. They cruised with us in Mexico on their Cal 39 Far Niente, and when we set out to cross the Pacific they went south, to Central America and beyond, further south, to Ecuador.
One day in Ecuador Joanne got sick from food she ate at a local restaurant. It immediately became serious and she was hospitalized. Within 10 hours she was dead.
It was that sudden.
To write about Joanne Bergan I guess I really should know more about her. I don't know that much, I just have a bunch of memories of a smart, wonderful, irrepressible, great, loving person, who was also a sailor, and a partner for Carl, and a mother of Dalton, and
I, we, all of us that knew her…miss her.
So if my memories are wrong, or incomplete, I apologize.
Carl and Joanne were from California, and they had been together forever, from before they came to Seattle. They were sailors. They had a string of boats in the 80's, including a Yamaha 36, then a J36, and a number of other boats. I think it was Carl who was behind this parade of boats, he seemed to be constantly interested in some new boat or the other, but Joanne went along, and she shared his enthusiasm with what ever new boat he came up with. They were happy, they had fun, they did well on the race course.
Carl was pretty easy going, but Joanne; she was hot. She drove around in a Mazda Miata with the top down, and I think she drove Carl too. Joanne was restless, ready to go, needing to go, always needing to do something, anything. That was Joanne.
Carl went along. He adored her.
And Joanne had a sharp wit; and a sharp tongue. I can hear her voice, a little loud, sometimes a bit of sarcasm, sometimes a bit annoying, and always with a ready laugh.
Their son Dalton was learning to sail when we met the family, through sailing, and Joanne was so proud of Dalton. She made sure he had all the support any young sailor could ask for, and he improved quickly. They were happy.
Then job things got in the way. Maybe it was corporate downsizing, I don't know, but all of a sudden the Bergan's lives had some options. Maybe they just decided that fast track careers just weren't that important. Whatever it was, they decided to go cruising.
It was just a few months before Judy and I were about to depart on our cruise when they called up and invited us to see their newest boat. It was a Pearson 40, and they were bubbling with excitement as they showed us all the cruising features they were putting into it. Joanne declared that maybe they would come cruising with us. I was skeptical because it had taken Judy and me two years to get our boat ready, and here was Joanne saying they could do it in a few months. That was Joanne, anything was possible.
Unfortunately the Pearson's sailing characteristics turned out to be unsuitable for cruising, or at least that was Carl's view. They didn't leave when we did in July of 1996. They sold the boat.
The next thing we heard was that they were looking for another boat. Then they found one called Far Niente. That was all we knew. We were in California, headed south.
So it was a surprise when we heard a hail outside of our boat while anchored in Mag Bay in Mexico that December.
"Hey Wings"
It was Carl and Joanne.
They caught up with us.
From then on we cruised together, loosely that is, like we do on Wings when we are with another boat. It isn't lock step, more like: "Maybe we'll go over to San Carlos"
"Well, we think we'll take a look at Sante Rosalia before we cross to San Carlos."
"Ok, we'll see you later then."
That's how we sailed together in Mexico: loosely.
But wherever we went, Far Niente, and Carl and Joanne, weren't too far away.
And wherever they showed up it was Joanne that spurred us on to some crazy adventure or the other; she was never happy sitting still.
We last saw them in Huatulco, after Acapulco, and when we headed back to Acapulco, they went on south.
Joanne wanted to hit Panama and the Galapagos.
Now Joanne is gone, and Carl, who had a rough time for a few years after her death, is moving on.
But we know he misses Joanne.
And so do we.
Fred & Judy, SV WINGS, Mexico
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Every cell phone user knows those where those dreaded dead spots are — locations where your carrier's signal fails, calls drop and data slows to a crawl.
And it doesn't matter which carrier you use; they all have their weak spots. When you sign up for service, you've got to cross your fingers and hope that the signal's decent at your primary locations, such as where you live and work.
But if you're an iPhone user considering changing wireless providers, you've now got a way to check the service quality of competitors. A new iOS app called CarrierCompare looks at the signals of the three major U.S. carriers who offer the iPhone (AT&T, Sprint and Verizon) at your current location. (Thanks to frequent TechBlog commenter Dave Small for pointing this out!)
This free app is very simple. Launch the app, touch the "Tap to Compare" screen and the program begins sniffing for signals.
When the comparison is complete, you're shown the quality of the network for AT&T, Sprint and Verizon based on network response, signal strength and download speeds. What's interesting is that you'll often get different results when you run the app, which makes sense. Cell tower congestion and signal interference, which affect connection quality, can change by the second.
[A clarification: The data shown for carriers other than the one you're using comes from other people in the area using the app. Your AT&T GSM phone can't see the signals for Spring and Verizon's CDMA network, and vice versa.]
For example, here are two tests done about 30 seconds apart at my home in the Montrose area of Houston.
Sometimes the app won't be able to gather enough information and will report a carrier's scan as "Incomplete".
Here are two comparisons I did at the Tellepsen Family YMCA in downtown Houston.
The key is to do multiple scans over several time periods at the same location. After a while a picture emerges. I've got pretty good service at home, it turns out, and generally fair service at the gym, where, as I wrote last week, I rely on my iPhone to stream video while I work out. The YMCA tests confirm that I usually have a good enough signal for reliable video streaming.
The app lets you share what you find via Twitter and email. It's ad-based, and while there's a reference to a CarrierCompare Pro that lets you pay to remove the ads, I couldn't find that version in the iTunes App Store.
When the newest iPhone comes out, I've been considering switching from AT&T to Sprint or Verizon – largely because I'm unhappy with the way the company uses throttling to
punish its unlimited users manage its network. I haven't yet used this app to see what the service is like at work, but I recently moved to a different corner of the Mighty Houston Chronicle building and the AT&T signal is terrible there. I have to move to a different area just to make and receive calls at times.
I'll run some tests there later today and update this post with the results. Meanwhile, if you're an iPhone owner, download this free app and let us know the results in the comments.
Oh, and you might also want to try a similar app, RootMetrics' Coverage Map, which uses aggregated reports from its users to map service quality.


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Pruning Your Community Garden: an Approach to Community Lifecycle Management (Part 2)
Part 1 of this blog series established that community administrators and owners need a way to assess and manage their respective community gardens and prune away communities that are no longer useful; see http://blogs.cisco.com/ciscoit/pruning-your-community-garden-an-approach-to-community-lifecycle-management-part-1/). This blog describes the primary tool that will be leveraged by community administrators and owners within Cisco's Integrated Workforce Experience (IWE) to view and tend to their respective community gardens. The tool is called the Community Lifecycle Management Portlet (LCMP). The LCMP represents one of several components that have been developed – in a partnership between Cisco IT and the Collaboration Business Technologies organization – as an extension of Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform (Quad) to maintain the overall health of our community ecosystem.
The LCMP provides two different views: one for community owners (Figure 1) and another for community lifecycle administrators (Figures 2 and 3). The primary differences between the two views are listed in Table 1.
Table 1. LCMP Primary Functional Differences
Figure 1. LCMP Community Owner View Mockup
Figure 2. LCMP Community Lifecycle Administrator View Mockup (Communities Tab)
Figure 3. LCMP Community Lifecycle Administrator View Mockup (Lifecycle Policies Tab)
The Community Display Area
The community display provides an alphabetical listing of the communities that the user owns or co-owns (Figure 4), or all communities in the system (Figure 5).
Figure 4. LCMP Community Display Area (Community Owner View)
Figure 5. LCMP Community Display Area (Community Lifecycle Administrator View)
Navigational Controls
The LCMP provides a rich assortment of options for controlling the information that is shown within the community display area (Figure 6). Note that a community lifecycle administrator has an additional filtering option available to control which set of communities are displayed: all communities in the system (All Communities) or only communities where the lifecycle administrator is an owner or co-owner (Communities I manage); see Figure 5.
Figure 6. LCMP Navigation Controls (Community Owner View)
Context-Sensitive Actions
Each community shown in the community display area includes a context-sensitive actions drop-down button (Figures 1 and 2). The actions that are available depend on the state that the community is in and whether the user is a community owner or a community lifecycle administrator (Table 2).
Table 2. Context-Sensitive Actions Menu
Lifecycle Policies
The community lifecycle administrator's view of the LCMP includes a special Lifecycle Policies tab that allows the deletion eligibility rules to be specified on a per community category basis (Figure 3). That is, each community category can be individually configured with a different rule regarding how long a community within that category must reside in the marked for deletion state before it can be deleted. If the threshold for Category1 is set to X days, this translates to the following rule within the system:
- Any community within Category1 that is placed into the "Marked for Deletion" lifecycle state must reside in this state for at least X consecutive days before the community can become eligible for deletion.
After a community becomes eligible for deletion, it can be deleted from the system by a community lifecycle administrator.
A Little about Inactive, Deactivate, and Reactivate
Within Cisco Quad there is an additional intrinsic lifecycle state called Inactive. The Inactive lifecycle state is primarily used to take a community out of service without explicitly deleting it. After a community is in the Inactive state, it is invisible to its community owner(s) and community member(s), and appears as being invisible to all except for community lifecycle management administrators. Deactivate and Reactivate correspond to additional actions that are available to community lifecycle administrators as they tend to the community garden.
Leveraging the Inactive lifecycle state provides Cisco IT with the ability to implement two different community deletion policies depending on the Enterprise Records and Information Management (ERIM) requirements (Figure 7).
Figure 7. Using the Inactive State to Satisfy ERIM Data Retention Requirements
The version of the LCMP described in this blog represents Cisco IT's first step toward providing robust community lifecycle management tools for community owners and community lifecycle management administrators. We have many exciting enhancements planned for our community ecosystem tools and I look forward to taking you along on the journey.
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Previously, I discussed what my concepts of daily travel and vacation long guns were, and said that they were distinctly different than long guns you might choose for defending your home, i.e. "sheltering in place" in the event of disaster.
Speaking of being armed during times of disaster, I saw in this month's American Rifleman that the NRA was combating a law in North Carolina that prohibits possession of firearms outside your home during times of disaster.
As of this writing, a federal judge had struck the law down. Interesting. Banning the possession of firearms when you need them most. It was not mentioned that any other states had followed suit, but you may want to check your own state laws just to be sure. The law prohibits store owners and shop keepers from protecting their property as they did during the last Los Angeles riots should it remain in effect—not to mention prohibiting you from stepping outside your home to protect other parts of your property. If any law violates the foundation of the Second Amendment, this one does.
While the parameters for travel guns are very specific (and these same guns can also perform as shelter-in-place guns), shelter-in-place survival guns give you more leeway in your selection.
The addition of reliable optics and lights on these guns do not pose the same problem as it does for travel guns—you can keep all the batteries you need stored at home since those home stockpiles will be your point of re-supply. Caliber can be of a less common type since you have stockpiled your supplies. But a different concept comes into play for selecting home-defense guns: the layering of weapon coverage for your permanent position.
Your weapons should cover threats at extreme range (200 yards+), moderate range (200 yards down to 50 yards or less), close range (15 yards and in), and intimate range (closer that 3 feet). You don't need a lot of guns; a minimum of four will suffice, but get more if you can afford them.
Requirements for such weapons, in addition to being from a military lineage, should be as follows:
Extreme Range Rifle
The 5.56mm does not get it for true extreme range shooting. It is accurate, but runs out of gas. For the AR-15 weapon system cartridge selection begins with the 6.8 SPC and goes up from there. The addition of an adequately powered scope sight is helpful, depending on the layout of your living area. If you won't be shooting at extreme range, you may still need a caliber able to penetrate heavy cover or vehicles. For me, my M-1 Garand works well in that role (a Springfield M1A is as good as it gets), while my custom 6.8 SPC AR with scope works well at the extremes. Stay away from bolt guns if you can, as your threats may be numerous.
Moderate Range Rifle
Here is where the 5.56 ARs and 7.62×39 or 5.54×39 AKs, and the M1 carbine shine. If semi-autos are banned in your area, then your next best choice is a lever gun. Pump rifles are fine, but you can't lay the forend on a solid rest and keep shooting. The .357 or .44 Magnum Marlin 1894 carbines come to mind here.
Close Range Long Gun
At 15 yards and in, the shotgun still shines, even though it has a reduced magazine capacity. If you have a semi-auto that runs good, the home is a good place to use it. You can even trick it out with high-capacity competition magazines or speed loading systems. Concealment is not an issue. Of course, your AKs and ARs are still good to go for this purpose, as are pistol-caliber carbines.
Intimate Range Weapon
Three feet and closer means pistols, weapons with bayonets mounted (as the ultimate weapon retention device), and combat tomahawks or large knives as last-ditch options. For pistols, I still err on the side of capacity. The 1911 or a classic combat revolver are great and reliable tools, but not when you are expecting a lot of company. If you can't afford anything else, go with what you've got, and practice reloading.
Think about your defense mission at home and reevaluate what you have. If you don't have a gun safe, get one, and fire-lined ones are the best. You don't want marauders cleaning you out in advance of a major event. Know your local laws and practice, practice, practice.
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Adding tactical lights and/or laser sights to a survival gun can be a smart move for short-term survival situations. (Remember, these things need batteries to function.) It's an important choice to make, and Scott Wagner wrote an entire book about it.
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