Walkers and runners on the Lady Bird hike-and-bike trail on Memorial Day got a chance to see faces and read stories about Texas soldiers killed in war.
How we spent a very powerful Sunday. We hope you enjoy a little video of what our guys in uniform did today in the Austin Marathon trying to raise money for Wounded Soldiers.


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Browser wars: Rest in peace
Summary: IBM VP says Web browsers are yesterday's news.
By John R. Patrick, vice president, Internet Technology, IBM Corp.
They say necessity is the mother of invention, and that is nowhere more apparent than with technology.
Take the telephone, for instance. After the printing press and the telegraph, the telephone was one of the biggest advances in communications mankind has ever seen. Few recall this date, but in 1891, Almon B. Strowger developed his "Strowger machine-switching system." Essentially, this system freed telephone users from operators — from interaction with Ma Bell.
The era of "operated-assisted" calls was over. The telephone became faster and easier to use, and had greater privacy — personal and business communication would forever be changed.
Just over a century later, we are on the cusp of a similar phenomenon. Today, most interactions with the Web are through a browser. "So what's wrong with that?" you say. "I fire up my browser, go to my stock trading site, banking site, and so on, and maybe click here to buy something. It works."
But just as talking to an operator for every call limited what you could do with the phone system, having to use a browser is limiting what can be done on the Web. And just as Ma Bell was in the midst of each phone call, so browser makers' brands are front and center in every experience on the Web.
Eclipsing the PC But things are changing — fast.
First, the PC will clearly no longer be the center of the technology universe. While today PCs make up 80 percent or 90 percent of Internet communications, the growth of wireless and pervasive products will reduce the number to less than 40 percent very quickly.
Europe, Asia and to some extent Latin America have already moved heavily in that direction. PCs are not going away — in fact, PC growth will continue — but the days of the PC and the Web browser being the primary means for people to access the Internet are over.
Second, emerging standards such as WSDL, SOAP, and UDDI will enable a new generation of "Web services," essentially allowing PCs or any of these wireless devices to communicate with multiple systems via the Internet. No longer locked into a single "Web site" and without the limitations of the browser, we'll see an explosion of truly customizable content with the look, feel and accessibility of the desktop or device.
For example, imagine tracking all your frequent-flyer points in a single application — one that (if you are online) automatically goes to each of the airlines' Web sites, logs in your account number and password, and downloads the balance. And, if you are offline, still allows you to access and manipulate the data. All this with an application sitting on your desktop, looking and feeling like a Windows (or Linux) application, not like a browser.
Most people think of the Internet and the Web as being the same thing. They aren't. The Internet is the underlying communications network and the web is an application for retrieving pages and hyperlinking. There will be more and more applications that use the Internet and don't require a browser.
Instant-messaging applications are a good example. More recent is the emergence of peer-to-peer applications. We will see many applications being developed which look and feel like the native desktop but which utilize the Internet seamlessly in the background. They will operate offline and then update things the next time you connect. Individuals will no longer be shackled to the traditional browser model of the past.
We're only at the beginning of this new wave of innovation. Web-services creation tools, emerging standards and innovative ways to develop client code that connects to these Web services are going to trigger yet another wave of increasing Internet usage.
Certainly, the browser — like our friendly operator — will not cease to exist. What we may see, however, is a return to what it was originally intended for — to "browse." Features in existing browsers will still make them the tool of choice for viewing content and data — or just "surfing."
The Internet will again become the avenue for innovation of new tools and applications; let's enjoy the ride.
John R. Patrick is vice president for Internet technology with IBM Corp. Patrick joined IBM in 1967 and spent the first half of his career in various sales, marketing and management positions. He helped start IBM's leasing business at IBM Credit Corp. and was senior marketing executive for the launch of the IBM ThinkPad. He is a founding member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C); a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; and a member of the advisory boards of ThirdAge Media, space.com, IntraLinks, and Neoteny.
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Chip Wilson, Lululemon founder, congratulates Dincer, Koko Monk Chocolates, "New Business of the Year" finalist and Probyn, ReadyGo Media, "Service Excellence" nominee at the West Side Business Awards.
ReadyGo Media recently partnered with Koko Monk Chocolates to launch their new retail shop and café located in Kitsilano.
Industry experts put the new business failure rate at 60-80% in the first year–with food services and new food products scoring as one of the worst sectors. While the figures vary, one thing is certain–ReadyGo Media understands every decision is critical for new and growing businesses.
ReadyGo Media helped Koko Monk Chocolates define key business goals empowering them to get the most from their budget and time. They needed to build the brand and drive awareness.
ReadyGo Media spearheaded the planning, promotion and publicity for an exclusive, sponsored media event marking the launch of their first retail store.
The results? Brand development and exposure that built trust–of consumers and affiliates–achieved through an outpouring of compelling, authentic stories…ultimately generating more and more opportunities.
Measured over a five week period before and after the campaign.
Partnering with ReadyGo Media has proven to be an excellent business decision. With strong signs of continued growth, recognition and profitability, Koko Monk Chocolates is looking forward to their first year anniversary just around the corner in February 2014.
With thanks to Robert Womak of VanFoodster.com.
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Q: StreamTask.getCheckpointLock deprecation and custom Flink sources When writing custom checkpointed sources for Flink, one must make sure that emitting elements downstream, checkpointing and watermarks are emitted in a synchronized fashion. This is done by acquiring StreamContext.getCheckpointLock
Flink 1.10 introduced a deprecation to StreamTask.getCheckpointLock and is now recommending the use of MailboxExecutor for operation which require such synchronization.
I have a custom source implementation which is split into multiple phases. A SourceFunction[T]  for reading file locations and an OneInputStreamOperator for downloading and emitting these elements downstream. Up until now, I used StreamSourceContexts.getSourceContext to receive the   SourceContext used to emit elements, which looked as follows:
ctx = StreamSourceContexts.getSourceContext(
      getOperatorConfig.getTimeCharacteristic,
      getProcessingTimeService,
      getContainingTask.getCheckpointLock,
      getContainingTask.getStreamStatusMaintainer,
      output,
      getRuntimeContext.getExecutionConfig.getAutoWatermarkInterval,
      -1
)

And this context is being used throughout the code to emit elements and watermarks:
ctx.getCheckpointLock.synchronized(ctx.collect(item))
ctx.getCheckpointLock.synchronized(ctx.emitWatermark(watermark))

Is using the checkpoint lock still the preferred way to emit elements downstream? Or is it now recommended that we use MailboxExecutor instead and make collection and watermark inside the mailbox execution thread?

A: Checkpoint lock in source context is not deprecated as there is currently no way around implementing a source without the lock. These sources are already dubbed legacy sources exactly for that reason: they spawn their own thread and need the lock to emit data (push-based).
There is currently a larger rework for sources (FLIP-27), which will offer a pull-based interface. This interface is called from the main task thread, such that no synchronization is necessary anymore. If some async work needs to be done, then MailboxExecutor is the way to go.
FYI, new operators should (rather must) only use MailboxExecutor instead of checkpoint lock.

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Roald Sagdeev
Roald Sagdeev is a Russian physics researcher and professor who was a director of the Space Research Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences and a former advisor to the Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.
He has been awarded the Lenin Prize, Hero of Socialist Labor, and the Carl Sagan Memorial Award. Sagdeev is the author of The Making of a Soviet Scientist: My Adventures in Nuclear Fusion and Space (1994) and a co-author of Nonlinear Physics (1998).
He earned his PhD at Moscow State University in 1966 and currently is a Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland. He is also a Senior Advisor at the Albright Stonebridge Group.
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Leonard Bernstein at 100: Four UCLA Professors Reflect on an American Music Icon
November 13, 2018 • 8 min read
JulianaGondek
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RobertFink
Leonard Bernstein at Carnegie Hall, New York, N.Y. Photographer: Gottlieb, William P.
World-wide celebrations are underway honoring American composer, conductor and educator Leonard Bernstein, who died in 1990 and would have been 100 on August 25, 2018. A multitalented musician, Bernstein rose to international fame during his tenure as the music director of New York Philharmonic. He was a dynamo on the podium, and a prolific composer of music across genres, including opera, chamber and vocal music, orchestral works, piano music and ballets. His music also made its way into popular culture in Broadway hits and Hollywood films, including West Side Story and the film On the Waterfront.
Opera UCLA joins the global celebration with an evening dedicated to Bernstein's theater music plus his late masterpiece SONGFEST, a collection of twelve beautiful settings of American poets, on Nov. 17.
Four professors in the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music share their thoughts and personal moments with "Lenny."
Peter Kazaras, UCLA professor of music and director of Opera UCLA
I first met LB in person in his apartment in 1971. I was going to see the new production of Tristan und Isolde at the Met over Thanksgiving weekend, and my college friend Jamie Bernstein had invited me to a party at her house that night. I told her I was going to the opera and she said "So's Daddy! You can go together! Why don't you come for dinner first?" Um, sure.
I turned a corner and there was this extremely short man with an extremely low voice who said "Don't tell me — you must be the world-famous Peter Kazaras." I said, "And I have a pretty good idea who you are as well." Huge smiles, welcoming handshakes, and it was off to linguini with clams. And Lukas Foss, who had just conducted that afternoon's concert at the New York Philharmonic.
A riotous dinner ensued. We talked about Tristan, we talked about his proposed recording (still 10 years in the future at that point), and we talked about how Eileen Farrell (his dream Isolde) couldn't sing the role because "she never had a high C." I disagreed, pointing out that she sang a stunning high C in her recording of "Ozean, du Ungeheuer" — "the famous agogic high C!" as I described it. "Who the hell ARE you?" asked Lenny. "I've listened to a lot of opera" was my only response.
Then came the performance (pretty stunning — soprano Birgit Nilsson at her peak) and then my return to the apartment on East 79th street. This was pre-Dakota days. I was enjoying the party when LB returned at around 1:30 a.m. "Aha! I was hoping to find you here! Come to the studio with me!" And then I was interrogated as to what I thought and why I thought it. We went through each singer, rather meticulously. Then he said "How about Leinsdorf" (who had conducted). I demurred — no way was I going to discuss another conductor with him, let alone criticize someone! But he insisted — "I am asking you because I want YOUR opinion!" Well, ok, I thought, here goes: "I thought it all very competent, he finished at 11:57pm, a good three minutes before the midnight deadline at which overtime would kick in for the musicians, and it was clean and it worked. But it was not inspired, and it did not sound like Tristan to me." "Aha! Precisely! That's exactly it! Leinsdorf is totally competent, and that's his strength and his downfall — this was not inspiring, it did not transport us to the other world of Tristan time." He went to a harpsichord in the corner of the studio and started to play the Tristan Prelude from memory (of course) ON THE HARPSICHORD at 2 a.m. And as he played, he talked, guiding me through the piece. He insisted again and again on the need for limning "Tristan time" in a way that was very different from ordinary time. It was, of course, unforgettable.
Juliana Gondek, UCLA professor of music
I met LB in the early spring of 1984. I'd just returned from winning the Geneva International Singing Competition, which had brought me to the attention of Stephen Wadsworth, librettist and director for Lenny's final opera, "A Quiet Place." It was being produced in its revised form at La Scala and Kennedy Center during the summer of 1984. I was hired off a recording Stephen had heard to cover the lead soprano role of Dede, the adult daughter (and wife to Peter Kazaras's character).
One day during Washington rehearsals for "A Quiet Place," Lenny announced auditions for Sharks and Jets to sing on his upcoming Deutsche Grammophon recording of "West Side Story" in New York City. I won a coveted spot as a "Shark girl" and a few weeks later, a number of my "Quiet Place" chums and I found ourselves waiting in an upper floor hallway in Rockefeller Center outside the soundproofed orchestral hall of RCA Studios. Inside, a BBC documentary film crew was waiting with Lenny, a team of recording engineers and technicians, and a full symphony orchestra for the celebrated diva Kiri Te Kanawa to arrive for the project's first morning session.
The minutes ticked by – 20….30….40 minutes with no "Maria" in sight, 80 musicians earning big bucks to sit doing nothing, and LB growing more "animated" by the minute. FINALLY, after an hour or more of wondering whether the session would be called off, those of us lined up along the hallway heard stiletto heels clicking ferociously on the linoleum from around the corner. Kiri Te Kanawa came into view, wrapped to the chin in a fur cape (on the hottest day of the year), accompanied by her assistant. As they swept past my pal Stella and me, I heard Dame Kiri rasp to her companion "What do I tell him?!" in a barely there, obviously hoarse voice. Stella and I stared at one another in astonishment, slack-jawed, eyes popped, and exclaimed "Oh my gosh! She's VOICELESS!" Te Kanawa and assistant entered the orchestral hall and the door slammed shut behind them. After 5 or 6 minutes of silence, the door exploded open, and Miss Te Kanawa and assistant clicked ferociously past us again, back along the hallway from whence they had come and disappeared around the corner.
David Stahl, a brilliant young conductor mentored by LB, stepped into the hallway and announced that the session would commence shortly. Lenny seemed edgy and out of sorts, scowling and snapping at the sound engineers, but once that glorious orchestra began to play, he dissolved into grins, nods, "thumbs up" and began dancing on the podium to his own iconic music. The session in which we recorded "America" with the great American mezzo-soprano Tatiana Troyanos turned into a beach party. LB vamped, flirted, cracked jokes, and gave us his sexiest Chita Rivera imitation. He encouraged us Shark girls to yip and bark to our heart's content and I'm tickled that I got a nanosecond-long improvised solo in the final edit: When "Anita" sings "An' de bullets flying", there I am with "Watch out!"
Richard Danielpour, UCLA professor of music
In the first week of March 1984, I remember Mr. Bernstein gave a concert with the Vienna Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall. This concert was one of the greatest I've ever attended. It included the Mozart 40thSymphony in G minor on the first half, and the second half was Mahler 4. I remember I was sitting up in one of the dress circle seats, where students often sat, and afterward I thought, "I've got to go back and see him."
So I went to the dressing room, and he was sitting there in his robe with his cigarette in one hand and his silver goblet of scotch in the other. I said, "I have to ask you, how do you do it?" He put down his cigarette and scotch and said "you mean this–" and conducted a 4/4 bar. I said, "No, I mean IT, how do you get this magic to happen?" And he took a puff of his cigarette and said "You know, in the end, it's all about love." As a hungry 28-year-old composer, I said "You mean the love that you and the orchestra have for the music?" He said, "In a way." I said, "You mean the love and respect that you and the orchestra have for one another?" and he said "Sort of, you'll just have to stick around for 20 years and you'll eventually get the idea."
Many years later, back at Carnegie Hall, I had now met him; he had listened to my music. He said "whenever you finish a piece, just bring it to me and we'll look at it together," and that's how my lessons were.
A couple of weeks after, he had said "Danielpour, I've been listening to your music and loving it." I went back to another concert where he invited me for real, and it was Mahler 6 with Vienna. Again, I had to go back, and I could tell he was a little tired because it's a hell of a work to conduct. He looked at me and said "Don't you wish you'd written that?" and I said "Yeah!"
He told me a story about how he wasn't getting it when he first started trying to conduct the Mahler 6th Symphony with the Israel Philharmonic. He was conducting it with Israel Philharmonic and the timpanist said "Maestro, why don't you try to conduct the beginning like you're trying to conduct a gestapo march." He said, all of a sudden, he saw Mahler as a prophet who was in a way foretelling what was about to happen in Germany 25-30 years later.
He was talking about all this, and he said, "Bring me some music, come and visit, don't be a stranger, but for now I'm tired, get out of here." He took my hand in his hands as a rabbi would and kissed my forehead as if he was giving a blessing, and said "Go on, get out of here, you're going to make a lot of people happy in the years ahead, go do it."
Robert Fink, UCLA professor of musicology
Leonard Bernstein was the inescapable musical figure of my 1970s youth: I grew up, also Jewish, in his hometown of Boston. I knew firsthand many of the musical places and institutions that nurtured him (Harvard, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood), read his books, winkled tricky scores like Candide and Mass out of the local library to pound them out on the piano, and listened to his high-voltage recordings (Beethoven! Shostakovich!! Mahler!!!) for hours and hours on end. To say that Bernstein was the primary reason I became a music lover, then a musician, and finally a music professional, is not eulogistic hyperbole, but a simple statement of fact.
I did not realize that by the time I imprinted on Bernstein, the world of grown-ups was already getting tired of "Lenny." He got saddled with blame for the curdling of Sixties "radical chic;" he was ostracized by serious composers because he could not—or would not—master atonal composition; and he seemed to lose his pop touch, too, as jazz gave way to rock, and aging hipsters like him became terminally uncool. It says something about our ideology of "great music" that, though we cannot resist celebrating the Bernstein centennial, some critics are resisting the man himself in terms that echo some of the least edifying, most "Bostonian" moments in the history of Western music. The party isn't even close to over, and already critics are a little disgusted with their guest of honor. The familiar whispering starts: he was never that serious a composer, he lacks discipline, he panders, he's shallow, glitzy, derivative, he borrows too much, wrote too fast, is irredeemably vulgar, too loud, too sweaty, too sexual, too…well, you know the rest. (Don't make a shanda fur di goyim, Lenny.)
Leonard Bernstein is great because he continues to make a mess of our neat categories. It's not possible to be the best composer, the most popular songwriter, and the most charismatic conductor; a TV personality, and a revolutionary, and a prophet, and everybody's lover all at once. It's like he won't go away. He's inescapable. But that's why we are compelled to celebrate his 100th birthday. Happy Birthday, Lenny, have another piece of cake. You deserve it all.


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Q: JavaScript: Find nested [quote] I want to do form validation at user side with JavaScript (jQuery is also used). The goal is to remove nested bbCode [quote] tags deeper than level 2. Say, we have this text:
[quote=SoundMAX][quote=Laplundik][quote=SoundMAX]
blahblahblah[/quote]
blahblah
[/quote]
blah[/quote]

And get this:
[quote=SoundMAX][quote=Laplundik]
blahblah
[/quote]
blah[/quote]

My only idea is to .replace [quote] with <div>, then create DOM object and remove anything deeper than 2 with jQuery, and parse all backwards to bbCode. But that solution seems too complicated, are there more elegant one?
EDIT:
Thanks for nice solutions. Based on darioo's answer, I did this:
var text=$('#edit-privatemsgbody').val();
var tmp=[];
var level=0;

for (var i=0,l=text.length;i<l;i++){
 if(text[i]=='['&&text[i+1]=='q') level++;
 if(text[i-6]=='q'&&text[i-7]=='/'&&text[i-8]=='[') level--;
 if(level<3) tmp.push(text[i]);
}
alert(tmp.join(''));

Which works just fine.
But idealmachine's solution was like a flash. I didn't know about replace callback function parameters before, now that is handy! I'll settle with it.

A: Actually, you can use regex if you look at it as a limited tool that cannot handle the nesting itself. The .replace string method can call a function to find the replacement text for each match, which allows us to track how deep we are in the markup structure (code also posted at http://jsfiddle.net/Zbgr3/3/):
var quoteLevel = 0;

alert(s.replace(/\[(\/?)quote[^\]]*\]|./gi, function(tag, slash) {
    // Opening tag?
    if(tag.length > 1 && !slash.length) quoteLevel += 1;
    // What to strip
    var strip = quoteLevel > 2;
    // Closing tag?
    if(tag.length > 1 && slash.length) quoteLevel -= 1;

    if(strip) return '';
    return tag;
}));

If you want some tolerance for errors in the markup, you could add some extra code that, for example, prevents quoteLevel from falling below zero.

A: Use a regular array as a stack. Every time you encounter [quote], increase your array by one using its push() method. When you encounter [/quote], decrease your array by one using its pop() method.
If you encounter [quote] and your array length is 2, remove that [quote], and remove the next [/quote] you encounter.
If you don't have the same number of open and closed quotes, then you'll have to handle that in a way you find appropriate.


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Various Artists: Pin-up Girls, Vol. 2: Not Easy To Get (Colored Vinyl LP)
The term 'Pin-Up Girls' was first attested to in English in 1941, before it was adapted in the film and music
industry, when glamorous girl posters were ubiquitous in the lockers of G.I.s during World War II. This album containing 20 Pin-Ups kicks off with actress/singer Doris Day with 'Everybody Loves A Lover', Day's last big charting hit and ends via Francoise Hardy's 'Oh Oh Cheri' and Marilyn Monroe's sensual 'I Wanna Be Loved By You'. The flip-side opens with the legendary Mae West, one of the most controversial movie stars of her day, followed by a.o. Sophia Loren and Jayne Mansfield the final is for, how applicable, Judy Holliday with 'The Party's Over'.


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Armstrong confirms Giro start
It's official: Lance Armstrong will be in Venice next month to race the 2009 Giro d'Italia. "The recovery is going well and the plan is to be at the Giro," Armstrong spokesman Mark Higgins told VeloNews. Several Italian media outlets reported that Armstrong confirmed to race officials Thursday that he will be at the May 9 start of the centenary Giro. Both La Gazzetta dello Sport and Tutto Bici reported that Giro race director Angelo Zomegnan received official confirmation from Armstrong on Thursday.
VeloNews. Several Italian media outlets reported that Armstrong confirmed to race officials Thursday that he will be at the May 9 start of the centenary Giro. Both La Gazzetta dello Sport and Tutto Bici reported that Giro race director Angelo Zomegnan received official confirmation from Armstrong on Thursday. %0A%0Ahttps://www.velonews.com/2009/04/news/armstrong-confirms-giro-start_90603?utm_source=share%26utm_medium=email"> Email Icon
It's official: Lance Armstrong will be in Venice next month to race the 2009 Giro d'Italia.
"The recovery is going well and the plan is to be at the Giro," Armstrong spokesman Mark Higgins told VeloNews.
Several Italian media outlets reported that Armstrong confirmed to race officials Thursday that he will be at the May 9 start of the centenary Giro.
Both La Gazzetta dello Sport and Tutto Bici reported that Giro race director Angelo Zomegnan received official confirmation from Armstrong on Thursday.
There were some doubts about whether or not Armstrong would be able to bounce back from a broken collarbone suffered in the first stage of the Vuelta al Castilla y León in northern Spain.
That crash occurred on March 23, just 41 days from the start of the 2009 Giro.
Armstrong underwent surgery and had 12 screws placed into his fractured clavicle. After a recovery period, the seven-time Tour de France champion has resumed training and is currently in Aspen, Colo.
Armstrong has never raced the Giro and will likely be using the three-week race to prepare for July's Tour de France.


It's interesting how some furniture designs are timeless (mainly tables and chairs) and others became obsolete - for example: pie safes, dry sinks,"entertainment centers" designed for TVs that were narrow and deep, computer desks with shelves for floppy disks and typewriter desks (as obsolete as typewriters).
How about a telephone stand. I still have one with a seat and small table.


Yoo Seul (Kim So Hyun) is a student of an art high school. She is a talented pianist and who won various contests, but is driven by her mother. Yoo Seul's mother wanted to become a pianist when she was younger, however she failed to do so, and that's why she's forcing her dream on Yoo Seul. One day, Yoo Seul has an accident, which results in that Yoo Seul may never play the piano again. With the help of her friend Cha Shik (Ji Soo) and Yoo Seul's rival Jin Mok (Shin Jae Ha), Yoo Seul begins to live a new life.
I did not expect to laugh as much as I did in a drama about such serious, earnest themes. But the drama has a playful tone to it, where characters in the world are very serious, but we're able to see the irony and the humor in the moments. Man Cha Shik is such a great character. I mean, they're all good characters with lots of potential, but Cha-shik is so lovable right away. He's delightfully dim, but I like that it doesn't necessarily prevent the depth in his character. The directing/editing/cinematography was on point up till the end. I would give this full hearts but I took off half a heart point because I had certain expectations of the ending that weren't met.


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Customer's Request That Servers 'Show More Skin' Is Met With Delicious Wit
By Ron Dicker
A customer's request that servers at a West Virginia restaurant "show more skin" really got under the owner's skin.
"It was brutish," Daniel McCawley, who owns Atomic Grill in Morgantown, told ABC News. "I was upset. I'm a father of a 12-year-old girl and I've got five sisters. The way that women are treated is pretty personal as far as I'm concerned."
But McCawley didn't just get mad, he got clever.
As a response to the now-deleted UrbanSpoon comment, McCawley went ahead and posted more skin -- potato skin, that is -- on the restaurant's Facebook page and offered a $7 potato skin special. All the proceeds go to the West Virginia Foundation for Rape Information Services.
Kudos flooded the page, and the gesture also caught the attention of media outlets.
"OMG DO YOU LOVE THIS GUY OR WHAT?" Jezebel's Rebecca Rose wrote.
You're the bomb, Atomic Grill.
(h/t Uproxx)
Ron Dicker
General Assignment Reporter, HuffPost
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We meet Elle Haus, a vivacious Formula 1 journalist from Australia. When she's not following the travelling circus, Elle works as a part-time tropical traveller and can be found enjoying cocktails by the beach at an exotic location. This time she shows us how her typical race Sunday looks like.
06:00 I'm lucky that once a year the gigantic Formula 1 machine rolls into my home town and I can wake up on race day in my own bed. But there's no sleeping in; I like to be up early. Even after all these years following the sport, I'm still like a kid on Christmas morning the day of a Grand Prix and I'm too excited to sleep.
08:00 The Australian race doesn't start until late afternoon so I have the luxury of taking my time heading into the circuit, stopping by Melbourne's iconic Lygon Street (aka "Little Italy") for breakfast and coffee, the first of many coffees for the day. The atmosphere here is electric: the Ferrari flags are flying high, the outdoor dining areas are overflowing with a mixture of regulars and the racing community, all admiring the parade of locals who have converged on the strip to showcase their beautiful Italian sportscars. The entire city comes alive when the Formula 1 show is in town and Melbourne never fails to deliver a world-class event, both on and off the track.
The next 90 minutes are a frenzy of keystrokes for my race report as well as looking for story angles coming out of the race.
09:30 I arrive earlier than required at Albert Park Lake because I like to take my time walking around to soak up the atmosphere. The paddock is quiet this early; the drivers are yet to arrive and there's a causal calm that won't last long. I take the opportunity before the mayhem ensues to check my texts, emails and tweets and to get myself organised. I take my iPad and MacBook with me wherever I go but part of me is still a little old-school and I also have my trusty notebook with a solid pen on hand. There are a few other early-birds wandering around so it gives me a chance to say hello and have a friendly chat. We talk about winter testing results, regulation changes, tyres (there's always talk about tyres), our race day predictions as well as whispers from the paddock across the last three days.
12:00 The drivers start to arrive, greeting fans along the "Melbourne Walk" as they head into the paddock, posing for photos and signing autographs. This is always enjoyable to watch as it means so much to the fans getting up close to their heroes, and the majority of drivers are incredibly generous with their time. Being the season-opening race, everyone is nice and refreshed from the long break. Many of the drivers arrived early in the week and there is a relaxed atmosphere in the lead-up to race day with media and sponsor events, sightseeing, photo opportunities and parties (Melbourne knows how to party hard!); but come Sunday afternoon it's down to business.
16:00 Lights out and it's "Go! Go! Go!". The next 90 minutes are a frenzy of keystrokes for my race report as well as looking for story angles coming out of the race (racing incidents, penalties, off-track drama and so on). I'm running on pure adrenalin (and a lot of caffeine) at this point, and the time flies by as fast as one Formula 1 car slipstreaming past another down the main straight. After the race it's time to compile some quotes from the drivers and team personnel and debrief before heading out.
After the race: After the fans and drivers have departed and the teams begin packing up, I take a final walk around catching my breath in the peace and quiet before heading into Crown Casino for a well-earned drink (or two).


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Inflation Reduction Act: Wage and Apprenticeship Requirements
By Bernice Diaz & David Chidlaw on November 15, 2022
President Joe Biden signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 ("HR 5376") (the "IRA" or the "Act"), on August 16, 2022.
There are numerous tax credits in the legislation that intend to facilitate access to clean energy. For the most part, these credits are available to energy producers or to support the construction or alteration of facilities to include energy efficient components. For example, the Act substantially changes and expands existing federal income tax benefits for renewable energy, including the existing Section 45 of the Internal Revenue Code production tax credit ("PTC") and Section 48 of the Internal Revenue Code investment tax credit ("ITC"). Specifically, the Act replaced the renewable energy credit regime with a two-tiered system that would provide a "base" credit equal to 20% of the maximum credit and an "increased" credit equal to an additional 80% of the maximum credit that would be available only if certain prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements are satisfied in connection with the relevant project.
Prevailing wage requirements have long accompanied federal funding of construction projects. For example, many transportation and water infrastructure projects often benefit from federal support via contracts and grant programs. A primary source of federal support for clean energy infrastructure projects, however, is through the tax code. That assistance—primarily in the form of production and investment tax credits—has historically not required recipients of these credits to abide by the Davis-Bacon Act and thus pay prevailing wages. This created a perceived loophole for clean energy construction, which the Inflation Reduction Act has effectively closed for federally supported clean energy construction projects by conditioning the majority of the tax credit value on payment of prevailing wages.
While many of the Act's programs contain prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements in order to receive the full amount of available support, we focus here on two of the programs that have historically had the most widespread use.
Section 45: Production Tax Credit
The PTC provides an ongoing tax credit for the first ten years of a project based on the amount of renewable energy produced and sold in each year. The Act extends the current PTC for qualified facilities that begin construction prior to January 1, 2025, but (as with the ITC discussed below) implements a new structure with a "base" credit amount and "increased" credit amount. The PTC is available for the following specific types of projects, each of which have their own definition under the Code: wind, closed and open-loop biomass, geothermal or solar energy, small irrigation power, landfill gas, trash, refined coal production, qualified hydropower, Indian coal production, and marine and hydrokinetic.
With the changes from the Act, a company is eligible for a 0.3 cents per kilowatt hours of electricity ("kWh") production tax credit. But if the company meets the prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements, the amount of credit is multiplied by 5 for a total credit of 1.5 cents per kWh.
Section 48: Investment Tax Credit
While the PTCs are ongoing credits based on the amount of energy produced, the ITC is a one-time tax credit based on a percentage of the qualifying costs of a project. As with the PTC, the Act extends the current framework for the ITC for energy projects that begin construction prior to January 1, 2025, and implements a similar base credit and increased credit structure. These energy projects include the following types of energy, each of which have their own definitions and requirements under the Code: solar, fiber-optic solar, geothermal, fuel cell or microturbine, combined heat and power system, small wind energy, thermal energy, waste energy recovery, energy storage (e.g., batteries), biogas, and microgrid controllers.
The base credit provided under Section 48 is 6% of the basis of each energy property placed in service during the taxable year. However, if the company meets the prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements, the bonus credit increases in value fivefold for a total credit of 30% of the basis.
While some renewable energy projects may qualify for both the ITC and PTC, an entity is only permitted to take one of these credits for any particular project.
Prevailing Wage and Apprenticeship Requirements
Many of the Act's new and restructured programs provide either a base credit or an increased rate if: (i) the contractors and laborers are paid prevailing wages; and (ii) registered apprentices represent a percentage of labor hours. For those employers who meet the prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements, the "increased" credit is generally five times the base credit rate.
Prevailing Wage Requirement
To satisfy the prevailing wage requirement, laborers, mechanics, contractors, and subcontractors must be paid wages at least at prevailing rates in the locality in which the facility or project is located as determined by the Secretary of Labor, during the construction, alteration, and repair of the "qualified facility" (for a ten-year period) under Section 45 (PTC) or the "energy project" (for a 5-year period) under Section 48 (ITC). The terms qualified facility under Section 45 and energy project under Section 48 both refer to the construction of a facility that produces or stores a certain type of energy specified in the respective statutes.
Correction and Penalty
Failure to satisfy the prevailing wage requirement can be corrected by (1) paying the worker, who was not paid the prevailing wage, the difference between the prevailing wage and the amount the worker was paid plus the interest; and (2) paying a penalty of $5,000 per affected worker to the Secretary of Treasury. The penalty increases if the prevailing wage requirements are intentionally disregarded. In particular, part (1) increases to three times the amount and part (2)—the penalty paid to the Secretary of Treasury—increases to $10,000 per worker, in the case of intentional disregard. To qualify for this relief, pursuant to the rules the IRS will issue, payments of the required amounts generally must be made within 180 days after the date on which the IRS determines that the wage requirement has not been satisfied.
Apprenticeship Requirement
To satisfy the apprenticeship requirement, the following percentage of total labor hours for construction, alteration, or repair work on the qualified facility or energy project must be performed by qualified apprentices:
Construction Begins Before 1/1/2023 During 2023 After 12/31/2023
Required Percentage 10% 12.5% 15%
Each contractor and subcontractor who employs four or more individuals to perform construction with respect to a qualified facility or an applicable project must employ at least one qualified apprentice. Furthermore, this requirement is subject to the apprentice-to-journey worker ratios of the Department of Labor or the applicable state apprenticeship agency.
Correction, Penalty, and Exception
The apprenticeship requirement will still be satisfied if the taxpayer pays a penalty to the Secretary of Treasury equal to $50 ($500 in the case of intentional disregard of the apprenticeship requirement) multiplied by the total labor hours for which the apprenticeship requirement was not satisfied. In addition, the Act includes a "good faith effort" exception, which provides that a taxpayer shall be deemed to have satisfied this requirement if the taxpayer has requested qualified apprentices from a registered apprenticeship program and either (i) the request is denied for reasons other than a refusal to comply with the program's standards and requirements; or (ii) the registered apprenticeship program fails to respond to the request within five business days after the date the registered apprenticeship program received the request.
Limited Transition Relief from Prevailing Wage and Apprenticeship Requirements
Projects that begin construction before the date that is 60 days after the official guidance is published by the Treasury Department regarding prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements, are exempt from such requirements and will automatically qualify for the increased (5x) credit rates mentioned above. Likewise, qualified energy projects under Section 45 and 48 with a maximum output of less than one megawatt are exempt altogether from the prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements. 26 U.S.C. § 45(b)(6)(B)(i); 26 U.S.C. § 48(a)(9)(B)(i).
Request for Comments on the Implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act
On October 5, 2022, the Treasury Department and the IRS issued six notices asking for comments on different aspects of the energy tax benefits in the IRA, including the provision relating to prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements under the Act. The IRS anticipates that constructive comments from interested parties will aid the agency in drafting guidance that is reflective of the needs of taxpayers entitled to claim the benefits.
The specific questions in the notices presumably point out the areas where the IRS and the Treasury Department intend to issue regulations or other guidance and identify where they anticipate potential confusion or ambiguity. In the notice regarding prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements, the agencies requested comments, inter alia, on the following questions:
Is guidance necessary to clarify how the Davis-Bacon prevailing wage requirements apply for purposes of Section 45(b)(7)(A)?
Section 45(b)(7)(A) provides that that a taxpayer must ensure that any laborers and mechanics employed by the taxpayer, or any contractor or subcontractor, are paid wages at rates not less than the prevailing wage rates for construction, alteration, or repair of a similar character in the locality in which such facility is located as most recently determined by the Secretary of Labor in accordance with subchapter IV of chapter 31 of title 40, which is commonly known as the Davis-Bacon Act.
What should the Treasury Department and the IRS consider in developing rules for taxpayers to correct a deficiency for failure to satisfy prevailing wage requirements?
What documentation or substantiation should be required to show compliance with the prevailing wage requirements?
Is guidance for purposes of Section 45(b)(7)(A) needed to clarify the treatment of a qualified facility that has been placed in service but does not undergo alteration or repair during a year in which the prevailing wage requirements apply?
What factors should the Treasury Department and the IRS consider regarding the appropriate duration of employment of individuals for construction, alteration, or repair work for purposes of Section 45(b)(8)(C) requirement?
Section 45(b)(8)(C) provides that each taxpayer, contractor, or subcontractor who employs four or more individuals to perform construction, alteration, or repair work with respect to a qualified facility must employ one or more qualified apprentices from a registered apprenticeship program to perform that work.
Section 45(b)(8)(D)(ii) provides for a good faith effort exception to the apprenticeship requirement.
What, if any, clarification is needed regarding the good faith effort exception?
What factors should be considered in administering and promoting compliance with this good faith effort exception?
Are there existing methods to facilitate reporting requirements, for example, through current Davis-Bacon reporting forms, current performance reporting requirements for contracts or grants, and/or through DOL's Registered Apprenticeship Partners Information Management Data System (RAPIDS) database or a State Apprenticeship Agency's database?
What documentation or substantiation do taxpayers maintain or could they create to demonstrate compliance with the apprenticeship requirements in Section 45(b)(8)(A), (B), and (C), or the good faith effort exception?
The agencies requested that those interested in providing feedback to the questions in the notices provide their feedback by November 4, 2022, via the Federal eRulemaking Portal (the "Portal") or by mail. However, the Treasury Department and the IRS will still consider written comments submitted after November 4, 2022, that do not delay the issuance of the guidance. As of November 14, 2022, there are 296 comments posted on the Portal.
On October 31, 2022, a coalition of 22 construction and energy groups led by the Associated Builders and Contractors ("ABC")—a national construction industry trade association representing more than 21,000 members—sent a letter to the Treasury Department and the IRS requesting a 60-day extension to the November 4 deadline to provide comments on the implementation of the IRA. A previous request for extension by ABC has received no response.
Bernice Diaz
Bernice Diaz is an associate in the Labor and Employment Practice Group in the firm's San Diego office.
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David Chidlaw
David B. Chidlaw is a partner in the firm's San Diego office where he specializes in labor and employment matters on behalf of management, employers and high net worth individuals.
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We are starting the term by looking at different things that happened during the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age.
Hopefully we will be able to answer all our amazing questions!
Look at Foxhill class creating their own Stonehenges using clay. We had lots of fun working as a team!
Keep checking out our website to find out what goes on in the Foxhill Class.
We are learning our 3, 4 and 8 times table. Here are some songs that can help you practise these tables.
Here is a recommended reading list for Year 3. There are lots of different books that you could read and enjoy!
Why not write a review on one of the books that you have read to go in our reading area.
kits in school on these days.
Here is a link to the Foxhill's curriculum page. On this page you will find Year 3 spelling lists and maths, reading and spelling ideas. Have a look to find out how you can help your children at home with their Year 3 learning.
Download the different documents below to find out what we cover in Year 3 in our Grammar and Maths curriculum.


Khaya Dladla bags a SAFTA Nomination. Khaya Dladla has skillfully and passionately brought life to the GC character, of which he portrayed on SABC 1's leading soapie, Uzalo.
There is no denying the fact that Khaya Dladla is truly a beast in these television streets. His style of acting and delivery has definitely catapulted him to stardom.
The hard work is seemingly paying off, in the form of a South African Film and Television Award (SAFTA) nomination. The Umlazi born actor is nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a soapie for his portrayal of GC.
The news came as no surprise hence Khaya Dladla's character on Uzalo was very popular with the audience and provided great television viewing. In an Instagram post, Khaya mentioned that he felt humbled by the nomination.
Khaya Dladla's fans are vouching for him. Peep the comments below.


A very rare opportunity presents itself in the unveiling of 40 Walnut Avenue! Located in the heart of charming downtown Larkspur, the +- 2,783 square foot residence is directly accessible from the infamous "Arch Street Steps" which start just across the street from Equator Coffee, Picco, and Perry's! The recently updated residence uniquely combines in town living with the many recreational aspects on one of the larger lots in the downtown area. The ideal floorplan includes an upper level great room that opens directly to a deck and patio, great for outdoor entertaining; lower level great room; and detached office, ideal for working at home. Moreover, the lovely master suite is located on the main level, allowing for one level living if needed or wanted. The updated 4 bedroom, 2 full bathroom home offers clean lined designer finishes throughout. Perfectly site placed on a sprawling +- 23,000 square foot lot, the sun drenched property is very private and offers lovely views of town as well as partial water views. The sprawling grounds include old growth trees, a myriad of fruit trees, and large decks, ideal for entertaining. A typical day at 40 Walnut includes grabbing Equator Coffee in the morning, walking to Pilates, which is next door to Equator, walking right up the steps to work out of the detached home office, and then heading back into town for dinner at Perry's, Picco, or Left Bank.


The ELC Cleaning Trolley is perfect for Mum and Dad's little helper. Your little one can watch the dust balls whizz around as they vacuum the carpet, they can sweep and mop the floor, as well as cleaning the worktops with the spray bottle.
A great way to get your little one used to the idea of cleaning up after themselves, the cleaning trolley is perfect for learning about the real world through imaginative play. Your little one can use their imagination to make up stories, or practise tidying up just like Mum and Dad.


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Stakeholder Trends and Insights
Greenpeace Calls for UK Microbead Ban, Outlines Risk of Plastic in Seafood in New Report
Published 6 years ago. About a 3 minute read.
Just a day after a group of cross-party MPs called on the UK government to ban microbeads, Greenpeace released a report outlining the science on the impact of microplastics, including microbeads, on oceans and seafood. The non-profit is also urging the UK government to ban microbeads, "both due to the damage they cause to marine life and as a precautionary measure against the risk of human consumption."
Greenpeace's report, entitled Plastics in Seafood, collates academic research to identify risks of plastics spreading toxic chemicals, being eaten by marine life, and traveling up the food chain. The non-profit launched a campaign in spring 2016 to persuade the UK government to ban the use of solid microplastics in consumer products such as toothpaste, washing powders and facial scrubs.
"As more and more research shows that microplastics can harm marine life and even end up on our dinner plates, a ban on microbeads is a simple way for Theresa May's Government to show that they take the effects of plastic pollution on marine life and human health seriously," said Louise Edge, a Senior Oceans Campaigner at Greenpeace UK.
"An estimated 8 million tonnes of plastic enter our ocean every year, and whether it is in the form of microbeads or throwaway plastic packaging, the science shows us that it's a toxic time bomb. We need action now to stem this tide of plastic waste and an easy first step is to stop companies deliberately putting tiny plastics into products. Theresa May's Government needs to take the bull by the horns now and bans microbeads outright."
Many companies have already made voluntary commitments to phase out microbeads from their products: Unilever and adidas have already phased them out, while others such as L'Oréal, Johnson & Johnson and P&G aim to eliminate them by the end of 2017. Nonetheless, the UK government's cross-party Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) is calling for a national ban – and later ideally a Europe-wide ban – to create a "level playing field for all cosmetics companies," and encourage laggards to catch up. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) also proposed a ban in its 2015 report, Plastics in Cosmetics.
Microplastics are often the result of plastic litter such as packaging breaking down in the ocean, but microbeads are unique in that they are manufactured at a tiny size for use in a range of household products. Greenpeace's study reveals that the potential consequences to human health of both microbeads and other microplastics are "greatly under-researched." While the effects on human health remain unclear, the report does provide evidence of microplastics appearing in seafood. A study from the University of California, Davis and Hasanuddin University published last September found that roughly a quarter of the fish sampled from fish markets in California and Indonesia contained man-made plastic or fibrous material in their guts. Greenpeace argues that a "prolonged industry-led phase out of microbeads simply isn't good enough."
Published Aug 26, 2016 4pm EDT / 1pm PDT / 9pm BST / 10pm CEST
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Having practiced law in New York City, Amy soon discovered that her dream job was writing. In addition to volunteering with school, church, and community groups, Amy is currently working on her second novel, The Ghosts of Peppernell Manor, set in the area around Charleston, South Carolina.
Though Amy lives within site of the Atlantic Ocean, she is partial to the blue waters of the Pacific and spends as much time as possible on the Big Island of Hawaii, which is the setting of her as-yet-unwritten third novel.
Amy can be found on Twitter, Facebook, her website and her blog.
The book opens with Macy being taken to Hallstead Island by Pete, the handyman and boat captain. You can tell from the start that book is going to be a suspense as Pete is very vague with his answers to Macy's questions by Hallstead House and it's inhabitants. You can also tell that it's going to be a romance as Pete and Macy seem to have a connection from the start. Macy arrives at Hallstead and is enchanted by the possible charm that the house holds but yet off put by the housekeeper and her husband, to the point that she actually hides when she hears them talking.
All in all I thought this was a great book that kept me guessing. Every time I thought I new what was going to happen I was totally off base. The one thing I did call was that Macy and Pete would be the romance part of the romance suspense genre. One of the main things that caught me off guard was Macy's relationship with Ms. Hallstead. I thought that Ms. Hallstead was going to be a tyrant that hated Macy but that couldn't have been further from the truth. The only thing that did bug me a bit was the book seemed to drag in some spots and I felt like that was because the author was a bit to through. If some parts had been cut out the book would have been a lot better.
Many thanks for the kind words and for hosting me today!
Anytime, it was a great read!


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Appealing to a Captive Audience : Advertising: Inmates might make just cents a day, but their cumulative buying power has drawn notice. One catalogue is geared exclusively for those behind bars.
L.A. Times Archives
From Associated Press
BEDFORD HILLS, N.Y. —
Jan Warren recently quit smok ing, a decision she made not so much to preserve her health, but to save money. Where she shops, cigarettes cost at least $1.14 a pack--about a third of her $3.88 weekly salary.
Every two weeks, Warren is allowed to shop at the general store in what's been her home the last eight-plus years--the maximum-security prison north of New York City she shares with more than 700 other women. Warren is serving a 15-year sentence for possession and sale of cocaine.
Warren's purchases are mostly relegated to the prison's general store, or commissary, which offers cigarettes, toiletries and other basic items. But at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, where Warren works as a clerk, prisoners are also permitted to purchase some goods from the outside, as they are at many institutions.
For prisoners who want to shop beyond their walls, the primary options are catalogues and advertisements in magazines and other publications. Most mainstream ads, though, hawk goods inmates can't afford or aren't allowed to have.
The idea of convicts as consumers raises questions that can't easily be answered and often make marketers wary: How much money do prisoners actually have to spend? How safe is it to do business with criminals? What kind of goods would they, or should they, be allowed to have?
Some businesses see only promise in targeting such an isolated group.
"Prisoners are starved for the opportunity to buy things," said Richard D'Antoni, advertising director of Prison Life, a bimonthly magazine with news, opinion and fiction written by current and former prisoners.
"We living out here with all this constant bombardment of electronic and print messages don't realize the degree to which we are exposed," said D'Antoni, a former prisoner who said he served more than two years for a federal drug conspiracy conviction. "Once you're removed from this environment . . . you suffer almost a withdrawal."
D'Antoni said he likes to stress rehabilitation in seeking advertisers for the magazine, focusing on correspondence courses, literature and job training. But Prison Life nonetheless has a wide array of ads to meet inmates' needs, practical and otherwise: legal services, compact discs, sporting goods, pen pals, body-building supplements, lingerie, learn-to-juggle kits, "Women and Weaponry" calendars and X-rated audiotapes. Its only big name-brand ad has been for Newport cigarettes.
D'Antoni admitted that attracting advertising for a magazine with regular features such as "Cellmate of the Month" can be a hard sell.
"There's a negative assumption that has to be overcome, being that prisoners are . . . segregated from society and I think in some regards today you consider them to be almost dead," he said.
D'Antoni said the magazine was started after its founder, Joe Strahl, saw how much money prisoners spent in their institutions' commissaries and realized the potential for a thriving market.
As a group, prisoners do have buying power. Last year, inmates were paid a total of nearly $165 million for their work in prisons nationwide, according to the Criminal Justice Institute, a South Salem, N.Y.-based agency of the Justice Department. Many get money from family and friends to supplement their salaries. And they have few, if any, expenses.
Federal prison commissaries sold $84.5 million worth of goods in the fiscal year ended September, 1994, said Thomas Metzger, a spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Prisons. An additional $1.4 million was poured into vending machines in federal institutions.
Considering that federal prisoners accounted for only about 8% of the nearly 1.1 million inmates the Criminal Justice Institute counted in all U.S. prisons, jails and correctional programs last year, there may be hundreds of millions of prisoner dollars available for spending.
How that money can be spent is the perhaps most difficult issue to nail down. All federal prisons and many state institutions funnel inmate salaries into accounts for use only in their commissaries. Federal prisoners can get special permission to make outside purchases with money from their commissary accounts, but those occasions are very rare, said Helen Butler, a spokeswoman for the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
However, D'Antoni of Prison Life said he was able to purchase books, publications and running shoes from the outside while incarcerated. He said he had friends who ordered items from a Tiffany & Co. catalogue.
On the state and local levels, purchasing rules vary. State prisons in Texas have strict rules similar to the federal system, said Larry Todd, a spokesman for the state's criminal justice department.
"It's a matter of security," Todd said. "Some of the inmates can turn a soda straw into a weapon. They're very creative."
Smaller states have more liberal rules on prisoners' purchases because they have fewer discipline problems, said Patrick Branson, a spokesman for North Dakota's state corrections department, which allows inmates to purchase such items as Walkmen, stereos, televisions and jeans.
Another security consideration is how inmates might go about making their purchases. Several years ago a convict admitted using stolen credit card numbers to rack up hundreds of thousands of dollars of purchases--which he said included Rolex watches, snakeskin boots and diamond-studded false teeth--from his Florida prison cell.
As a safeguard, merchants today have access to systems that can track the address on a credit card and turn up possible past fraud from that location, said Nancy Elder, a spokeswoman for MasterCard International in New York.
Some cataloguers exclude towns where prisons are located from their mailing lists to prevent credit card fraud problems with inmates, said Jack Baer, vice president of Muldoon & Baer Inc., a New York-based catalogue consultant.
"It becomes very difficult to threaten someone after the fraud when they're already in jail," Baer said.
The problems prisoners have in dealing with big cataloguers provided the inspiration for N.Y. Express, a catalogue concern based in Rehoboth Beach, Del., started by Richard Sabia, a former food service administrator at the Bedford Hills prison.
The N.Y. Express catalogue now only goes to New York state prisons, but the company hopes to expand.
The catalogue includes candy, kitchen utensils, jewelry, cards, silk flowers and toys. The $6.95 fuzzy "I Love You" bear has been the biggest seller since the company's inception in late August, Sabia said.
The company also makes sure it doesn't include anything in the catalogue that New York state prisoners can't have, he said. For example, it offers photo frames without glass because inmates are forbidden to own anything containing glass.
Prisoners, inmate Warren said, have to accept not being able to make purchases from big cataloguers and department stores. They must satisfy themselves with making their own items or settling for cheaper, lower-quality goods.
Flipping through the N.Y. Express catalogue, she laughed. "This, compared to a Spiegel catalogue--come on, let's face it, it's not that attractive. . . . [But] I can't imagine what it would be like if we didn't have these."


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Authorship and Contributorship: Who Did What?
By: Patricia K Baskin
Authorship Best Practices Ethics
This issue's Ethical Editor column addresses the topic of authorship in scholarly journals. The column discusses requirements for authorship, author order, inappropriate authorship (gift, guest, and ghost authors), and the increasing numbers of authors in bylines.
Increasing technological development fosters global collaboration among authors in different disciplines and consequently leads to the proliferation of authors on papers. Contributing to confusion about who did what for journal articles is the existence of a variety of publishing forums (including blogs and data repositories) whose authors report and interpret research findings. Publishers, funding agencies, academic institutions, and commercial enterprises, as well as the public, face challenges in determining the contributions that individual authors listed in a byline made to the conduct and reporting of the research. The lack of transparency of the roles played by different authors in a byline is a problem.
Authorship standards were not defined in any studied way by most of the publishing community until 1985, when the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE)1 published a statement on authorship criteria. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, ICMJE and others recommended a contributorship model, which was adopted by few journals. According to the ICMJE criteria, until fall 2013, every byline author
Had to have made substantial contributions to conception and design, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data.
Had to have drafted the article or revised it critically for important intellectual content.
Had to have approved the version to be published.
In 2013, ICMJE added another criterion: 4) agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work were appropriately investigated and resolved. ICMJE states that anyone who contributes to a study but does not meet all four criteria should be listed in acknowledgments rather than in the byline.
ICMJE encourages journal editors to develop contributorship policies that require authors to list their specific contributions, but journal editors do not commonly do so. Specific information about author roles would, however, contribute to greater transparency.
In general, the ICMJE guidelines function as intended as long as authors follow them. The problem is that the guidelines are often disregarded because many contributors to a research paper do not meet all four criteria. In the minds of many authors, the four ICMJE criteria are impractical and do not mesh with the culture of assigning authorship in research groups. For instance, a person who designed a study (criterion 1) but who did not draft or revise the manuscript (criterion 2) would need to be excluded from the byline if an author group followed the guidelines (ICMJE now exhorts author groups to give those who qualify only for criterion 1 the opportunity to meet criteria 2 and 3). A researcher or medical writer who provided intellectual input on a paper for a pharmaceutical company may fulfill criterion 1 or 2 or both but not be listed as an author because he or she was not among those who approved the final version ( criterion 3).
In 2007, Neurology encountered several situations in which academic authors were invited to be paid "guest authors" of papers that had been written by commercial entities (pharmaceutical and medical-writing companies). The editors decided to redefine the journal's authorship criteria in hopes of avoiding guest and ghost authorship.2,3 The editors also decided to simplify the criteria and strengthen the contributorship model by requiring specific statements of contributions from the authors so that readers could tell who did what—research, writing, funding, and so on. Since the criteria were redefined and the requirement put in place for providing information about who did what, all authors have been required to state their contributions to the research or writing (completing an exhaustive checklist is mandatory), and their contributions are stated in the journal; authors are responsible for the contributions that they made, not for the entire article. The editors also believed that adherence to these criteria would enhance the professionalism of medical writers and give them credit for their intellectual contributions.
Neurology's three criteria are4
Design or conceptualization of the study.
OR analysis or interpretation of the data.
OR drafting or revising the manuscript for intellectual content.
The first two Neurology criteria are derived from ICMJE criterion 1; the third is derived from ICMJE criterion 2. Final approval, ICMJE's criterion 3, is received from all authors in Neurology's electronic tracking system during the review process, so this requirement is not stated separately in Neurology's author criteria. Only one of Neurology's three criteria is needed to qualify a person for authorship.
Professional writers employed by pharmaceutical companies or other academic, government, or commercial entities who have drafted or revised the intellectual content of the paper must be included as authors according to Neurology's criterion 3. This requirement recognizes that those who first draft a manuscript or revise it for intellectual content are able to frame the manuscript in a way that may influence the reporting and interpretation of the findings. The editors of Neurology believe that these writers should be named in the byline and their disclosures gathered as for all other authors.
Contributors who do not qualify for authorship are listed either as coinvestigators in an appendix or in the acknowledgments section with their contributions.
Neurology's criteria take a step toward increasing the transparency of author contributions in research studies. In the last few years, other groups have recognized the need for identifying author contributions to scientific papers a s author numbers have increased and it has become harder to discern the quality of each listed author's contributions. A few journals, including JAMA and Science, now require authors to choose from a checklist of contributions. Some preliminary studies are under way to create a taxonomy of specific contributions to enable researchers to assign contributor roles.5
FundRef, a recent initiative of CrossRef, which is described in this issue of Science Editor, allows institutions to "identify major funders of their employees' scholarly output".6 The ORCID registry of unique identifiers, also described in this issue, will allow institutions to better evaluate specific researchers' activity in scholarly efforts.7 It is expected that those initiatives and development of better definitions of author contributions will lessen author disputes; improve the capturing of researchers' contributions from journals and other scholarly sources, such as data sets; and help funders to track research publications. For Neurology, the objective is transparency: to let readers know who contributed to the intellectual content of studies and the resulting manuscripts, which is an essential component of the highest quality of scientific reporting.
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PATRICIA K BASKIN is executive editor, Neurology Journals, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Transitions and Embracing Change
How Smart Is Your Content? Using Semantic Enrichment to Improve Your User Experience and Your Bottom Line
Developing a Social-Media Strategy
Perspectives on Transitioning from Print to Online Only
ORCID Picks Up Steam
CLOCKSS: Preservation of Online Publications
SocialCite: A New Service Designed to Help Experts Improve the Literature
What Editors Need to Know about CrossRef in 2014: Service Offerings Benefit Many Parties in the Scholarly Communication Process
Postpublication Peer Review in Plant Science
The Sunshine Act and Authors
From Open Access, to Twitter, to Science Fiction, to Film: Some Communication-Related Highlights of the 2014 AAAS Annual Meeting
Correct Terminology in Science: Industry Glossary of Abbreviations
Solution Corner
The New Face of the Council of Science Editors: Moving Forward, Reaching Out
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Q: Interval Range of values after a question that I put before, I need to create ranges of DAP values for differents 'EspCodigo'. See table.
Previous result:
InvntID EspCodigo   DAP   Objectivo
15      Ec          15    Rolaria_Ec
16      Ec          5     Rolaria_Ec
26      Pb          50    Folha_Pb
27      Pb          20    Lenha_Pb
28      Ec          12    Rolaria_Ec
29      Ec          30    Rolaria_Ec
30      Ec          5     Rolaria_Ec
31      Ec          7     Rolaria_Ec
32      Ec          40    Desenrolar_Ec

I had use the function Partition but it presents not so good result like example:
Range: Partition([DAP];0;250;5)

 Range      Count    EspCodigo
  0:  4     32        EC
  5:  9     294       EC
 10: 14     673       EC
 15: 19     521       ...
 20: 24     421       ...
 25: 29     288       ...
 30: 34     199       ...

The answer should be:
The ranges are not: >0 to <5, >=5 to <10, >=10 to <15, >=15 to <20, ... How can I make like this?
Thanks,

A: I'm sure in Access you will be able to define an additional query over the top of the existing query (the one which has the Partition function) and apply a formula to transform the Range column to the presentation format you want i.e. set a formula over the Range column to something like:
=">" & Replace(Range, ": ", " to <=")

i.e. you want to prefix each Range value with ">" and then replace the ": " with " to <=".


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I wondered how that would go down when I had a child. Would I be able to handle the chaos of childhood exploration? Especially being a mom to a boy? Boys are messy, boys are dirt wrapped in smiles and hugs and kisses and I-Love-You's.
I'm thankful for the Aspergers, in a way, because The Boy does have a dash of OCD, He needs his hands nice and neat, clean and non-sticky. The Boy won't tolerate dirt or debris in his world. He adores order. I respect that so much. I admire his early love of organization … and part of me worries that I'm encouraging Asperger behavior because I do not mind (at all) his orderly, neat, clean, tidy, perfect little ways.
For now, I'm not going to think about this too much, not going to worry that I'm somehow corrupting him, though I will tell you, I DO encourage him to get his fingers dirty with glue, his hands messy with play-do and dirt and cookie dough. Slowly but surely, I'm building his tolerance for these types of sticky, yucky things. But, yes, I do have a canister of hand wipes at the ready!
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I have a love affair with my P-Touch … It's a cheap high, heehee. And, truth be told, organizing stuff relaxes me. Well, that and wine.
I have always loved organizing and cleaning. When I was a little girl, I would (and i'm 100% not joking) I would mess up my perfectly clean room just to reorganize and clean it — all of my books were alphabetically arranged in order: A-Z, perfectly. I was 8 when I began this organizational obsession of mine. They did not have P-Touches back then, but they had those Dymo Label makers & I was ob-freaking-sessed with that thing by the time I was 4. I labeled everything, even my mom's vacuum!
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Malawi - Information for the people
Participatory climate services, advanced lightning detection, solar-powered weather stations, and other advanced technologies are saving lives and building resilience in Malawi through this Green Climate Fund-financed project.
Global - Information is power
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Sierra Leone - Regaining old glories
Sierra Leone is rebuilding its climate services from the ashes of war using new technologies to provide early warnings for vulnerable communities.
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'Cooperatives and credit union established at Maiana' October 2022
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