Stocks manage to reverse an earlier selloff on Friday, but the dismal jobs report leaves many investors uneasy.
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Stocks managed to reverse an earlier selloff on Friday, but the dismal jobs report left many investors uneasy.
The disappointing job growth for September caught many investors off guard and renewed worries about the strength of the U.S. economy. It also pushed back any interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve into late this year or early next year.
"It essentially takes October off the table as a potential liftoff date, casts doubt about December and shifts the higher probability toward the first quarter of 2016," Terry Sandven, chief equity strategist at U.S. Bank Private Client Reserve, told TheStreet. "For investors it prolongs uncertainty, fueling angst and concern and for equity prices it means more of the same: a generally-sideways trending market with a near-term bias."
The U.S. economy added 142,000 jobs in September, according to the Labor Department, well under estimates of 200,000. The unemployment rate held steady at 5.1%. Year-over-year growth in average hourly earnings held steady at 2.2% compared to expected growth of 2.4%.
August's payrolls figures were revised sharply lower to 136,000 from 173,000, while July was cut to 223,000 from 245,000. Investors had hoped August, a historically hard-to-read month, would see an upward revision. Over the past decade, August was the month with the lowest first estimate which was then revised in the following two months, according to a Reuters analysis. Since 2005, the government has added an average 58,000 more jobs to payrolls in August than initially reported.
"We've moved well beyond the 'bad news is good news' scenario," said Randy Frederick, managing director of trading and derivatives at the Schwab Center for Financial Research on market reaction to the report.
"At this point, to use a metaphor, the patient has been in ICU for a very long time and people are ready for it to get out and walk on its own so, therefore, bad news is no longer good news," he added. "Now we need actual good news to have good news and good news is going to be strong payrolls, it's going to be strong employment numbers, it's going to be an uptick in inflation."
Even so, equity markets managed to pull higher on Friday as rallies in the energy and biotech sectors overshadowed earlier weakness associated with the disappointing jobs report. The S&P 500 added 1.4%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average slid 1.2%, and the Nasdaq gained 1.7%. Benchmark indexes had been more than 1% lower earlier in the session.
The energy sector was among the top performers on Friday after crude oil prices closed higher. West Texas Intermediate crude rose 1.8% to $45.54 a barrel after the active oil-rig count fell by 26 to 614 over the past week, according to Baker Hughes data.
Exxon Mobil (XOM - Get Report) , PetroChina (PTR - Get Report) , Royal Dutch Shell (RDS.A - Get Report) , Chevron (CVX - Get Report) , BP (BP - Get Report) and Total (TOT - Get Report) climbed, while the Energy Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLE - Get Report) added 4.1%.
Biotech stocks clawed back from some of the losses suffered over the past two weeks on Friday. The industry has been under pressure since Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spoke out against so-called "price gouging" of specialty drugs. Pfizer (PFE - Get Report) , Bristol-Myers (BMY - Get Report) , Celgene (CELG - Get Report) and Eli Lilly (LLY - Get Report) were among the best performers, while the iShares NASDAQ Biotechnology Index ETF (IBB - Get Report) rose 3.5%.
Bank of America (BAC - Get Report) slid 1.2% as a class-action shareholder suit against the bank moved forward. The suit alleges Bank of America's Merrill Lynch investment banking unit shortchanged shareholders in the $1.5 billion deal to sell Zale to Signet Jewelers (SIG - Get Report) . Bank of America advised Zale on the sale.
Micron Technology (MU - Get Report) added more than 7% after the chipmaker reported a better-than-expected fourth quarter. Shares were higher even as first-quarter guidance came in below forecasts. The company anticipates current-quarter profit no higher than 26 cents a share compared to analysts' estimates of 38 cents.
Progress Software (PRGS - Get Report) dropped 10.3% after quarterly revenue and sales forecasts missed estimates. The enterprise software company expects first-quarter sales as high as $118 million, around $3 million below expectations. No reason was given for softer sales growth.


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United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka, the present United States naval base located next to the city, beginning in 1945
JMSDF Yokosuka Naval Base (横須賀基地_(海上自衛隊)), which hosts the headquarters of the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force as well as several major units assigned to the District Force.
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The National Weather Service says it's going to be a messy New Year's Eve for most of Maine.
Southern Maine was the first to get hit on Monday, with the rest of the state expected to start experiencing the white stuff late Monday night. The National Weather Service says what kind of precipitation you get will depend on where you're located. Northern parts of the state will see all snow, while central regions will see snow transitioning to a mix of snow and sleet. Coastal regions can expect a mix of snow and sleet, changing to all rain.
Snowfall amounts will vary, depending on location. Coastal areas will only see about an inch, but the NWS says some northwestern parts of the state could see as much as 10" of the white stuff.
Obviously, this will cause some travel problems, during the day, and possibly for New Year's Eve revelers. We'll relay cancellations and closings, throughout the day.
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A Brief Guide to Woody Allen's Favorite Things
Like every good neurotic, obsessive, or perfectionist (and sometimes all of the above), director Woody Allen is a lover of lists. Over the span of his career, the iconic filmmaker has shared his likes, dislikes, and absolute favorites of just about everything that highlights his eclectic tastes. In honor of his birthday, we've collected some of those lists — and they deserve a bookmark in your browser for eternal reference.
Woody Allen's films are littered with cultural references, including a number of literary influences — as his 1975 film Love and Death demonstrates, with never-ending nods to Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. When speaking with Five Books last year, the filmmaker discussed the titles that have stuck with him throughout his lifetime:
Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger
"Catcher in the Rye has always had special meaning for me because I read it when I was young — 18 or so. It resonated with my fantasies about Manhattan, the Upper East Side, and New York City in general."
Really the Blues, Mezz Mezzrow
"The story, while probably just a lot of junk, was compelling for me because it was about many musicians whose work I knew and admired and the ins and outs of jazz joints that I knew about and the legendary songs that were played in the legendary nightclubs. So I had a great time reading it when my own jazz passion was forming. But I know it's not a very good or even a very honest book."
The World of S. J. Perelman, S. J. Perelman
"The funniest human being in my lifetime, in any medium — whether it's stand-up, television, theater, prose, or movies — is S. J. Perelman. There is nobody funnier than S.J. Perelman."
Epitaph of a Small Winner, Machado de Assis
"I was shocked by how charming and amusing it was. I couldn't believe he lived as long ago as he did. You would've thought he wrote it yesterday. It's so modern and so amusing. It's a very, very original piece of work."
Richard Schickel's biography of Elia Kazan
"It's the best show business book that I've read. It's brilliantly written and it's about a brilliant director who was very meaningful to me when I was growing up and becoming a filmmaker."
Read the full interview.
Favorite films he's directed
"There are a few better than others, half a dozen, but it's a surprising paucity of worthwhile celluloid," Allen said of his own movies in a maudlin interview for The Times. "I didn't compromise or sell out, but I've never achieved what I hoped to." Allen does, however, value his work on these six films:
"Some of the reviews have said Purple Rose is about the movies. I don't agree with that. To me, the film is strictly about reality and fantasy. Cecilia could have had fantasies about radio, or books, or those popular magazines. To use the movies is merely a visual convenience. The movie is about the fact that fantasy life is very beautiful and seductive, but you must eventually choose between the real and the fantasy. And if you choose reality, you're submitting yourself to be hurt. But that's what makes you human. Choice is the most human attribute, according to Van Johnson in the movie."
"I had an idea about wanting to do something about the role that luck plays in life, and that we're all terrified to face up to that. Everyone wants to think that they, you know, control their lives, or at least have some control. You like to think, you know, well, if I exercise and eat right and don't smoke, I'm going to… But that doesn't do it. And no amount of planning can account for the big part that luck plays. I wanted to write a story that would illustrate that."
Bullets Over Broadway
"The Purple Rose of Cairo, I thought that hit right on the nose. Bullets Over Broadway did. Husbands and Wives did. Midnight in Paris did. They were just what I wanted to make. They were what I conceived in my bedroom, where I write. I've always worked in my bedroom. I get up in the morning, have breakfast, do the treadmill, get the kids off to school, and then I go back into the bedroom and lay down on the bed and write. That's how it works."
"Beyond the cleverness in Allen's script, this is a film that's wonderful to watch from a technical standpoint. The cinematography (Gordon Willis) and optical effects (Joel Hynick and Stuart Robinson) used to inject Allen's Zelig into the original news footage is amazing. There's a seamlessness to the process and the way Allen weaves those segments with the interviews and re-creations of Zelig's life."
Husbands and Wives
"Javier and Penelope are very serious actors. I always found that amusing. They are so great, and like most serious actors like Robert De Niro, they think they are great because they do all that work. They are born great. They are great when they wake up in the morning. They don't have to do all that work and they would still be great. I never rehearsed with any of the actors. I never talked to them about the plot or anything. I just show up and do it. I get a lot of great performances simply by hiring great people."
Favorite films of all time
Allen chose these movies as the greatest films of all time when voting in the Sight and Sound poll. Many of these titles pop up on Allen's other lists, but their resonance can't be understated.
"Someone else might list ten comedies. It's simply that I enjoy more serious films. When I have the option to see films, I'll go and see Citizen Kane, The Bicycle Thief, The Grand Illusion, The Seventh Seal, and those kind of pictures."
The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959) 8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963) Amarcord (Federico Fellini, 1972) The Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio de Sica, 1948) Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941) The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel, 1972) Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937) Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957) Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950) The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
Favorite Criterion films
"I loved The White Sheik and I Vitelloni and La Strada, and of course 8 ½. But Amarcord is one, for me, that I could see every year. He so clearly recreates his childhood in Rimini, and you're there in that world, with his mother and his father, with his relatives, with local people, with the local stores, the local rituals of marching around the town square and things that everybody's done: looking at strangers and seeing that they look like movie stars, and hanging out at the cinema, and ogling particular women who are the heartthrobs of the neighborhood. You are in a world that he recreated, and he recreated it not in a literal, photographic way — he did it in an exaggerated, cartoonlike way — and still, you're there. You understand all those memories and experiences."
Bicycle Thieves The Seventh Seal 8½ The 400 Blows Rashomon The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie Paths of Glory Grand Illusion Throne of Blood Wild Strawberries Scenes from a Marriage Smiles of a Summer Night Nights of Cabiria The Exterminating Angel
Favorite Italian films
Allen's love letter to Rome, To Rome With Love, inspired the director to shower his favorite Italian films with praise and admiration:
Bicycle Thieves, Vittorio De Sica
"This, to me, was the supreme Italian film and one of the greatest films in the world."
Shoeshine, Vittorio De Sica
"The poetry of the piece for me was the relationship of those two boys. It went from such simple, mutual excitement, affection, to where they are finally and violently opposed."
Blow-Up, Michelangelo Antonioni
"It's so beautifully photographed by Carlo Di Palma, and the story was so interesting, even though it unravels in certain ways. Here's a life that's fully vital, full of music and beautiful women and open sex and swinging London at its height. But if you take a moment in that life and stop for a second, and blow it up and blow it up, what you see is death."
Favorite jazz music
"I've been a great jazz fan my whole life," Allen told the Village Voice in 2010. "I certainly like modern jazz as well, but my favorite kind is New Orleans jazz. Something about the primitive quality, the simplicity of it, the directness. It is the one style of jazz that stays with me the most." For more on Allen's jazz proclivities, Barbara Kopple's 1997 documentary Wild Man Blues — chronicling Allen's European tour with the Eddy Davis New Orleans Jazz Band — is required viewing. And if you haven't seen Woody sing or throw it down with his clarinet, the above clip should fix that.
Favorite font
"Windsor is an unusual design cut by Stephenson Blake in 1905. Windsor is a bold face with heavy rounded serifs and strong diagonal stress," Linotype.com says of Allen's favorite typeface. "The overall effect is one of friendliness and warmth." The filmmaker's signature white type, Windsor Light Condensed, on a black background has become a staple of his movies. One of the many websites dedicated to Allen's typography quirks shared this story about his origin with Windsor:
"I'm currently taking a typeface design course with Ed Benguiat, and just last night he described a time when he would have breakfast at the same New Jersey diner every morning. Among the other that would dine there was Woody Allen. On one occasion [between 1975 and 1977], referring to Benguiat as a 'printer,' Allen asked him what a good typeface was. Benguiat had an affinity for Windsor and suggested it to him that morning. He's used it in every film since."
Favorite Ingmar Bergman films
Allen's love affair with the work of Ingmar Bergman has been well documented, and one only needs to watch movies like Love and Death and Another Woman, or Allen's play Death Knocks, to see Bergman's influence. "For me it was Wild Strawberries. Then The Seventh Seal and The Magician. That whole group of films that came out then told us that Bergman was a magical filmmaker," Allen told Time. "There had never been anything like it, this combination of intellectual artist and film technician. His technique was sensational."
And when Bergman died in 2007, Allen discussed his legacy in an article he penned for the New York Times , humbling himself to the Swedish master:
"Because I sang his praises so enthusiastically over the decades, when he died many newspapers and magazines called me for comments or interviews. As if I had anything of real value to add to the grim news besides once again simply extolling his greatness. How had he influenced me, they asked? He couldn't have influenced me, I said, he was a genius and I am not a genius and genius cannot be learned or its magic passed on."
The Seventh Seal Wild Strawberries The Magician Cries and Whispers Persona
Favorite comedians
"I love Mel Brooks. And I've had wonderful times working with him. But I don't see any similarities between Mel and myself except, you know, we're both short Jews. That's where it ends. His style of humor is completely different. But Bob Hope? I'm practically a plagiarist."
For more Allen/Hope fun, check out this SCTV sketch, "Play It Again, Bob," starring Rick Moranis as Allen and Dave Thomas as Hope (an impression that has been hard to top).
Favorite restaurant
"It was unique and amazing. I would eat my dinner there every single night for maybe 10 years. It was like a home away from home," Allen said of Elaine's — an iconic restaurant on New York's Upper East Side that closed its doors in 2011. "One great thing was that you were completely undisturbed. Nobody asked you for autographs and made a fuss over you; you were just part of the wallpaper."


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To EMV Or Not To EMV
By PYMNTS 60 60 PYMNTS.com Karen Webster
Posted on March 10, 2014 March 16, 2014 12:30 pm
Maybe not the question that our Congressional men and women are discussing today in DC, but one that's on my mind, anyway, these days in spite of the speed at which the EMV train is moving in payments, post-breach.
The ripple effect from the breaches has, among other things, put this issue front and center for lawmakers. They have another hearing today in Washington to continue to gather information to assess basic the facts and to wrap their heads around what needs to be done to prevent it from happening again. This Congressional hearing will include a few people with relevant points of view on the topic.
One of them is Dave Fortney, SVP at The Clearing House, who will be testifying about the technologies that The Clearing House says will reduce the risk of future breaches. (Dave is also one of The Innovation Project 2014 panel participants talking about this very topic with former White House Cyber Security Czar Richard Clarke). His two areas of focus today are EMV and tokenization.
We had a quick chat about his testimony yesterday, and it has a few broad themes: EMV alone wouldn't have prevented the breach, and tokenization is a superior way to protect cardholder data since it renders it useless to the bad guys. Moreover, a combination of EMV + tokenization is what will mitigate the future risk of a breach, but it will require the cooperation of banks and merchants to make it real and timely.
The punctuation mark here, though, is that today's data risks are bigger (there are more people using more cards in more places), more pervasive (breaches are system wide, not just one location), and the product of a sophisticated and massive criminal ecosystem that, to use Fortney's words, is totally "disaggregated" that it can create and distribute malware and then the compromised data products thru its network very quickly.
To make that point, Fortney drew the comparison between TJ Maxx and Target. TJ Maxx was the result of a solo hacker sitting in the parking lot in a 1989 Chevy stealing card numbers off of a Wi-Fi connection. He got caught and is serving time. Target is the result of a faceless cybercriminal(s) from a foreign country using high speed computers and software to plant malware that penetrated Target's entire POS network. If they're caught, they may never serve time if they operate in a country that provides safe harbor for them.
Cybercrime is a pretty big business now, too. The bad guys get up every day and go to work, but they just go to work figuring out how to steal money from businesses and people and, when they're just having fun, otherwise wreaking havoc on our financial systems.
Fortney says that most of the post-breach security activity today is coming from big retailers getting ready to accept EMV cards. Merchants have witnessed the aftermath of the Target breach in terms of its hard costs (liability) and soft costs (reputational risks) and want nothing to do with either. The threat of the network-liability shift has merchants now scrambling.
Issuers are moving away from thinking that they wanted to just issue cards to certain customers in their portfolio to replacing all cards at the reissue cycle and in some cases, even accelerating those cycles to eliminate their risky mag stripe predecessors.
Tokenization is the "part two" of the security-deployment process. Part two, since the risk that merchants are insuring against now is card counterfeiting, thus the rush to EMV cards which are more expensive and harder to produce.
But, guess what. These EMV cards will be "hybrid" cards and also have mag stripes on them that, of course, will still contain static customer account numbers. It will be a while before all merchants have EMV terminals, so what we will have for a while is a situation not much different from what exists today – cards with mag stripes used at merchant terminals, but with more costs layered onto merchants and issuers.
The "standard" that seems to be gaining ground in the U.S. is something Fortney described as "Chip and Choice," which could be PIN, could be signature, could be neither, depending. So it does sort of beg the question: if we still have mag-stripe cards with account information on them and no required PIN to make it harder to use stolen credentials, aren't we just taking our eye off of where the puck in payments is really heading – the mobile and connected devices future and spending a lot of time and money along the way?
It's also not as if EMV, where implemented, has eliminated fraud, it has just pushed it to other places, such as online. That's why EMV alone is not the answer and something else is needed to reduce the risk of fraud.
As Fortney points out in his testimony, "EMV was designed prior to the internet, mobile smartphones and tablets, it does not address transactions initiated via those means."
But tokenization does. And that's the "something else" that is being paired with EMV to create a secure payments environment.
The Clearing House has something called Secure Token Exchange (formerly Secure Cloud). In his testimony, Fortney says that it's in pilot mode with one bank now and will soon be expanded. Regardless of the technology used, it turns customer account information into a token behind the bank's firewall and passes it back to the merchant for processing. It was designed to complement existing tokenization efforts and minimize disruption to the existing ecosystem. Secure Token Exchange has joined forces with the relevant stakeholders in payments to move the notion of tokenization along in a more cohesive and coordinated fashion.
Tokenization can be done on the back end in a way that eliminates merchants having to worry about safeguarding data since banks and processors take on that burden. Merchants get the best of all worlds: they don't lose any of the data benefits – knowing what consumers bought and when and how they paid for it – but totally lose the liability associated with keeping that information around.
Tell me if I'm crazy, but isn't there a way to move towards this more quickly, and even in a way that leapfrogs EMV completely while setting the stage for a secure, mobile-ready global payments standard? (BTW, leapfrogging EMV is an Innovation Project ThinkAThon question).
Now I realize it's much easier said than agreed to. But you have to admit that it doesn't make much sense to take a 30-year step backward, at the precise moment in time that we are gaining steam around mobile, just to make the point that we're doing something to protect cardholder data. 'Cuz as we all know, EMV isn't the silver bullet.
It does makes for good PR though and gives our Congressmen and women something to take back home as an action item and talk about. Then again, about the last thing we need them to do be doing, and this is all me again, is to think that they need to devise legislation to make sure that the industry does "something" to keep consumer data protected. As quickly as technology moves and as slowly as Congressional bills move thru the system, any such requirement would be obsolete the moment it was drafted. And, the industry can only afford one 30 year step backwards at a time.
Dave Fortney and 5 other C-suite execs will debate the various approaches to ensuring the safety and soundness of our payments systems in the face of cyber attacks with Richard Clarke in The Innovation Project's "Uber Solutions for Keeping the Criminals at Bay" on March 19, 2014. To request an invitation, please click here.
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I tried ...onClick='advancedview.php?id=$uniqueid' but its not workin on ie. Thanks

A: A buttons onclick event parses javascript, so if you'd like to change the location you set window.location
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Q: C# & SQL Server : stuck at inserting 32,765 records in a Transaction I seem to understand what is happening but I'm lost really. I have a transaction in Visual Studio, Winforms, C#
using (SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection(Program.connectionString))
{
    connection.Open();

    SqlTransaction processTransaction = connection.BeginTransaction();

    try
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < dataGridView1.Rows.Count; i++)
        {
            ...
        }

        processTransaction.Commit();
        processTransaction.Dispose();

        MessageBox.Show("Success");
    }
    catch (SqlException ex)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);

        processTransaction.Rollback();
        processTransaction.Dispose();
    }
}

The problem is: I'm inserting and looping a dataset of 93'000 rows, more or less, but it is stopping at 32,765. I googled and researched and said that the limit of int is 2,147,483,647. Then the limit for int in Turbo C is I think more or less 32767. I have a Backgroundworker but it just displays how many loops I did
this.label1.Text = (int.Parse(this.label1.Text) + 1).ToString();

What seems to be the problem?
EDIT: The exception that I'm receiving is that the loop is completed. The same error as "zombie transaction".

This SqlTransaction has completed; it is no longer usable.

A: The limit of smallint is 32,767 so I guess you need to change the column type to greater one.


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By Width of a Post on March 29, 2019 • ( 4 )
By Ron Beaumont
They tried to make me go to Rehab, I said No, No, No,
Yes they've been bad, driving me mad I know, know, know
But I go every time in the hope that they'll be fine
I might be better off in Rehab but I must go, go, go.
I never miss a Saturday, No matter how badly they play,
There's nothing, nothing that will keep me
From home games but I don't travel away.
There really hasn't been a lot of class, Too much hoof ball instead of a pass.
They tried to make me go to Rehab, I said No, No, No.
I can't give it up, whether League or the Cup, I have to go, go, go.
I have to get my hit, from the claret and amber kit
I know I ought to go to Rehab but I wont go, go, go.
My mate said "Why not be a Leeds fan?" I said you've got no idea.
If we're gonna, lose again I'll face it, There's no chance of glory hunting here,
He said "I think that you're depressed." Wouldn't you be after all the Rahic mess.
They tried to make me go to Rehab, I said No, No,No,
Whoever's the boss we're still at a loss But I still go, go, go.
I know that I should think again, And I wish, I wish it all would end,
I know, know there's no good reason, To buy my ticket for next season
But I'd still make the same decision, even if it's second division
They tried to make me go to Rehab, but I said No, No, No
Yes it looks black but they will be back so I'll go, go, go
It's a habit I can't quit, Though this year has been shit,
Will I manage to keep out of Rehab, I don't know, know, know.
‹ "You're not fit to wear the shirt"
Apathy ›
Sandra Wade
March 29, 2019 • 10:09 am
Steve slator
March 29, 2019 • 12:41 pm
Great funny and from the heart post
Frank Talbot
I am the same as you, Mate. Claret and amber sre the colours of my life. Brilliant post
March 30, 2019 • 5:39 pm
Renewed my season ticket this morning; and that of my 10 year old son, who said to me "Can we still watch them, dad…even in league 2?" At last week's horror show, I told him we could leave early, if he wanted (which we've never ever done). But he decided to watch to the end, wth a grit that made me proud; rewarded by a David Ball goal.
Incredibly, even my 13 year old son, who has only used his season ticket a handful of time this season asked me if I could renew for him, which I'll do on a flexicard. Green shoots, under the manure of this season's results……


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By Michael J. Cummings...© 2003 ...........A coastal town in Norway is on its way to becoming a major health resort thanks to its new municipal baths. In anticipation of an influx of tourists in the coming summer season, property values are rising, business is picking up, and unemployment is decreasing.
........."Mark my words, Mr. Hovstad—the baths will become the focus of our municipal life!" the mayor says. "Think how extraordinarily the place has developed within the last year or two! Money has been flowing in, and there is some life and some business doing in the town. Houses and landed property are rising in value every day."
.........Hovstad mentions that he plans to run an article about the health resort—written by Dr. Stockmann, the medical director of the baths—in the spring, the right time to generate interest in the new community asset. The doctor, who came up with the idea for the baths, has been an untiring promoter of their potential benefits.
.........Peter Stockmann reminds Hovstad that he, as mayor, played a "modest" part (really meaning the most important part) in making the baths a reality. It was the mayor's practicality and business sense, he hints, that were the driving forces behind the project.
........."You have an ingrained tendency to take your own way, at all events; and, that is almost equally inadmissible in a well ordered community, The individual ought undoubtedly to acquiesce in subordinating himself to the community—or, to speak more accurately, to the authorities who have the care of the community's welfare."
.........Dr. Stockmann then opens a letter he received, then waves it before Hovstad and his wife, announcing a remarkable discovery: The baths are contaminated. The doctor speaks in a triumphant, jubilant tone, for he believes he has done a great service for the public welfare. He says several cases of typhoid fever and gastric fever the previous year aroused his suspicion about the spa water, so he took samples of it and sent them to a university for analysis. The letter he holds contains the results of the analysis: The spa is a cesspool of disease. It seems that tanneries in the town leached impurities into the water. Hovstad—seemingly idealistic, like Dr. Stockmann—promises to publish news of the discovery and says his printer, Aslaksen, a prominent citizen, will back the decision, as will a homeowner's association.
.........In the days immediately following the discovery, Mayor Peter Stockmann discovers it will cost an enormous sum in tax dollars to make improvements, including laying new pipes to handle the leachate, which his brother says are necessary to eliminate the pollution. So he decides to challenge his brother's findings as faulty and asks him to renounce them. The doctor—viewing himself as the guardian of the common weal, a savior—refuses.
.........Meanwhile, Hovstad, fearing the wrath of the taxpayers, decides not to publish Dr. Stockmann's article. At a town meeting in a large room provided as a goodwill gesture by Captain Horster, almost everyone lines up against Dr. Stockmann—Mayor Stockmann, Hovstad, Aslaksen, the homeowners, ordinary citizens—and shout him down when he attempts to explain the problem and alert the town to the danger. One citizen wonders whether he has an alcohol problem. Another suggests insanity runs in his family. Still another thinks he is getting even for not receiving a salary increase as the spa's medical director. All agree that he should be labeled "an enemy of the people," one bent on destroying the town. When Stockmann and his family leave the meeting, the crowd hisses and boos, then begins chanting "enemy of the people," "enemy of the people."
.........The next morning, the Stockmanns discover broken windows and rocks littering the floor. The doctor piles the rocks on a table, saying he will save them as heirlooms for his children. A letter arrives in which the landlord gives Dr. Stockmann notice of eviction. It doesn't matter, Stockmann tells his wife, for he and his family will cross the sea and resettle in the New World. Then Captain Horster arrives and announces his employer has fired him. The mayor enters and announces that the citizens are circulating a petition pledging that they will no longer seek the medical services of Dr. Stockmann. The mayor advises his brother to leave town for a while, then return and confess his error in writing. Such a move might earn him reinstatement as medical director of the spa. Dr. Stockmann says he will never admit that he was wrong—never, never—under any circumstances.
.........After the mayor leaves, another visitor arrives. He is Morton Kiil, the father of Dr. Stockmann's wife, Katherine. Kiil is the owner of polluting tanneries. In his will, he had stipulated that a handsome sum be bequeathed to Katherine and the Stockmanns' children. However, he tells the doctor that he invested the bequest in stock in the baths. Furthermore, he is going around town buying up all the remaining stock in the baths. Thus, if Dr. Stockmann sticks to his story—that is, if he refuses to recant—the stock will become worthless and his wife and children will inherit nothing. Kiil tells the doctor that he has until 2 p.m. to change his position.
........."I am the strongest man in this town," he says.
.........Then he announces he has made another important discovery. Gathering everyone close to him, he says "The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone."
.......Ibsen wrote An Enemy of the People in Dano-Norwegian, a mixture of the Danish language and Norwegian dialects. Dano-Norwegian evolved from Danish while Norway was a province of Denmark. Although Norway gained its independence in 1814, Norwegians continued to speak and write in Dano-Norwegian, also known as Riksmål. Beginning in the middle of the 19th Century, Norway began developing a new Norwegian language, Landsmål (the language of the land or country), free of Danish influence. .......Meanwhile, Riksmål developed further and eventually became known as Bokmål, the language of books. Today both varieties of Norwegian are written and spoken in Norway. The Dano-Norwegian of Ibsen is simple, concise, to the point. However, it takes a talented translator to capture the subtleties of the language and the nuances written into the dialogue of An Enemy of the People. Therefore, English-speaking students of Ibsen should choose their translations carefully. One highly respected Ibsen translator was William Archer (1856-1924), a Scottish-born London journalist, drama critic, and playwright who translated many of Ibsen's works.
.......Because Ibsen wanted to make his plays uncompromisingly realistic, he wrote the dialogue in simple, everyday, middle-class language rather than elegant, lofty, or trope-laden language characteristic of romantic plays. But in mimicking vernacular speech, he chose and arranged his words carefully; every word and every sentence counted. An Enemy of the People is not without weaknesses, however. On the one hand, the play is often transparently didactic in presenting its message, the importance of accepting the truth. In addition, Dr. Stockmann is so idealistic, so zealous, so triumphal in his campaign to proclaim the truth that he becomes a caricature rather than a real person. Ibsen's realism thus becomes less real.
.......On the Ibsen stage, actors did not embellish their lines with broad flourishes of a hand or other exaggerated body movements. They became ordinary people going about their ordinary lives. The proscenium arch was important, however. This arch, from the sides of which a curtain opens and closes, acts in an Ibsen drama as a frame for the realistic portrait painted by Ibsen, a portrait that moves. The proscenium arch became a doorway or window through which the audience—peeping through the arch—could eavesdrop on people in quiet turmoil. The arch helped Ibsen create the illusion of reality.
.......The spa represents the town's leading citizens and their followers. Although it appears wholesome and healthful, it contains unseen contaminants. Mayor Stockmann and his followers pass themselves off as upright citizens but are really corrupt at heart. The spa water undergoes a test that reveals it polluted. In reporting the results of the test, Dr. Stockmann says, "The whole Bath establishment is a whited, poisoned sepulchre, I tell you—the gravest possible danger to the public health!" The citizens also undergo a test—the crisis precipitated by the report—that reveals them unethical and unscrupulous, just as "poisoned" as the baths.
.......Dr. Stockmann's daughter, Petra, a schoolteacher, foreshadows the direction of the plot and the theme during a conversation at the dinner table in Act 1. Dining with the Stockmanns are Hovstad, Billing, and Horster. Petra, an idealist like her father, says, "There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children." The school thus is what the community is revealed as later: false.
.......As the conversation progresses, Petra says, "If only I had the means, I would start a school of my own; and it would be conducted on very different lines." Captain Horster then tells her that he has an old house standing empty and that he would be happy to provide her a room in it for the school. It is Horster, of course, who provides space later on for the town meeting. His goodwill gesture results in his dismissal from his job.
.......The central conflict in the play centers on the clash between Peter Stockmann and his younger brother, Dr. Thomas Stockman. In the Old Testament of the Bible (Genesis 4:1-16), Cain—the first-born son of Adam and Eve—murders his younger brother, Abel. Cain, a farmer, was envious of Abel, a shepherd, because God had accepted Abel's offering over Cain's. Motifs pitting one family member against another continued to appear in literature down through the ages. In Sophocles's Oedipus at Colonus and the Greek myth on which it is based, brothers—Polynices and Eteocles—vie for the kingship of Thebes and kill each other. In Shakespeare's Hamlet, Claudius kills his brother, the king, in order to succeed him as king and marry his wife. In the play Inherit the Wind and in films based on it, a fundamentalist preacher, the Rev. Jeremiah Brown, condemns his own daughter, Rachel, to hell because of her relationship with Bertram Cates, who is on trial for teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution in a local school. The authors of the play, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, based their work on the 1925 Scopes trail in Dayton, Tenn., in which a teacher violated the Butler Law by teaching evolution.
Truth must not be hidden, diluted, or altered even when it goes counter to the wishes of the majority.
Shiny apples are sometimes rotten at the core. The baths appear safe and salubrious, but poison befouls their waters. In like the manner, the town's leading citizens are outwardly attractive but inwardly repulsive.
Seemingly upright citizens will compromise their morals when their wallets and livelihood are threatened. In other words, the love of money is the root of all evil.
.......Supposedly, Steven Spielberg's highly successful 1975 film, Jaws, was based in part on Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People. Instead of polluting the water with a toxic agent, Spielberg polluted it with a gigantic shark. In Jaws, the residents of Amity Island on the Atlantic coast, who are dependent on the tourist trade for their livelihood, keep their beaches open in spite of warnings from Police Chief Martin Brody and ichthyologist Matt Hooper that a gigantic great white shark roams the waters. In Ibsen's play, the townspeople attempt to keep the spa open in spite of warnings that a danger of another kind, disease, infests the waters.
Because Dr. Stockmann's discovery of contamination in the town spa threatens to undermine the town's economic future, the mayor and his supporters attempt to silence the doctor and keep his discovery secret. In your own community, do you recall any instance in which a local government, business, factory, school district, hospital, day-care center, newspaper, or another entity attempted to withhold vital information from the public?
Under what circumstances does a government have a right to withhold information from the public?
In their attempt to refute Dr. Stockmann at a town meeting, citizens suggest that he has an alcohol or a mental problem or may be seeking revenge for not receiving a pay raise as the spa's medical director. In a good dictionary, look up the Latin term ad hominem (referring to a rhetorical tactic used in an argument to discredit an opponent). Next, decide whether the citizens' accusations are ad hominem attacks. If you believe they are, explain why they can be categorized as such. In addition, decide whether these attacks are fair or whether they are simply ruses to condemn Dr. Stockmann while obscuring the truth.
Newspapers today pride themselves on their willingness to print the truth. But do they always print the truth? Or do they sometimes bow to the same forces that pressured Hovstad to abandon publication of Dr. Stockmann's story?
What about you—do you frequently change your opinion after yielding to pressure from your peers?
Which of the following is most responsible for what goes wrong in the spa town: (1) capitalism, which fosters economic competition and a desire to make money; (2) democracy, which allows citizens to elect leaders, such as Mayor Stockmann; (3) propaganda, which often uses unscrupulous tactics in attempts to persuade people to accept a particular viewpoint; (4) unethical and dangerous environmental policies of the tannery operation; (5) spineless citizenry; (6) inability of Dr. Stockmann to communicate the seriousness of the problem the town faces.
If you were an attorney arguing to close the town spa, you would need evidence that the spa water is indeed contaminated. How would you obtain this evidence?
.......The climax of the play occurs when people of the town declare Dr. Stockmann an enemy of the people.


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I was recently onsite at a client location working with them on a TFS implementation along with a complete redesign of their ALM processes with an Agile adoption thrown in, just to keep things simple. The client is a medium-sized company with about 200 developers worldwide including some off-shore contractors. In the afternoon of the second day of the engagement I was at the white board talking about source control and builds, trying to get a better idea of how they currently managed their build process and what code branching strategy they used. I kept getting this strange, confused look from the developers and development managers in the room. I was obviously under a false assumption. That it took me almost two full days to realize it was embarrassing. I stopped and finally asked the question I should have asked much earlier, "How do you build your solutions and how do they get deployed?" The answer, given the size of the company shocked me and (re)taught me a valuable lesson about assumptions.
Me: What is your current process of managing builds and code promotion?
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Me: By local build, do you mean "F5"?
Again, because of the size of the company I was taken completely by surprise. I should not have been. At that point the discussion changed and we approached it from a different angle. I found that the major reason they were using the system they were, besides an obvious process issue, was a lack of resources.
Like many organizations where software development is not the primary line of business (and even some where it is), the development staff is seen essentially as a cost center. Allocating resources to development always comes secondary to supporting the main line of business, but in IT resource allocation, coming second often means coming never. To the development teams' credit, they (like developers are wont to do) found a way. It wasn't the best way, or even a good way, but it did get the job done – sort of.
I have already addressed the power of leveraging Azure for testing, but what about builds? Even better, what about the cornerstone of creating quality software: continuous integration builds? That too is not only possible with Azure, it is easily achievable. Leveraging a build with Azure comes in two distinct flavors: With Visual Studio Online and without.
If your source control is already hosted in VSO, using the hosted build services of Azure is simplicity in itself. All the details are described in the online Azure documentation. It's fairly straightforward and involves simply linking an Azure cloud service or web site to your Visual Studio Online account.
If you need something installed on the build server that is not on the list, you will need to configure your own build server. The good news here is that you can also create your own build server in Azure, configure it with all the special bits you need and leverage it for your VSO projects with no extra configuration required. From the Azure instance, simply install and configure TFS build to connect to your VSO TFS instance and you are done.
It's a bit trickier to set up a build server on Azure linked to an on-premise TFS instance, but only because of setting up the network link and, if applicable, the Active directory link. I won't address the process of linking Azure with a local instance of Active Directory or extending a network from local to Azure, but it is not overly complicated. You can check out Keith Mayer's TechNet blog and Brien Posey's article in Redmond Magazine for details on extending Active Directory. Microsoft's online Azure documentation has clear instructions on how to create network connectivity between your on premise network and Azure. Once the active directory and/or networking configurations are taken care of, the whole process of creating and deploying build servers is simple and the servers are configured just as they would be for an on-premise server.
After downloading the profile, just add it to the solution and modify the build definition to use it by adding some MSBuild arguments to handle the work.
Azure doesn't simplify the process of deploying technologies other than web sites, it just makes it simpler to acquire the resources, which often times is 90% of the battle. In the case of non-web site applications, the process is pretty much the same as with on-premise resources with the notable exception of not requiring IT involvement or the requisition of new hardware.
With the resources and flexibility that is offered by Azure, the roadblocks to creating a sustainable build environment are essentially removed. We can now easily create and manage builds, including continuous integration builds without involving IT. We can than move forward to a continuous deployment scenario that after all, is not only the next logical step, but also the only viable step that makes sense. Continuous Integration for our code helps stabilize out development efforts. Continuous deployment helps stabilize our development and testing efforts and eventually our production deployment efforts. While we probably do not want to continuously deploy CI builds, the option is certainly open if we wanted. However, we can setup a nightly build to be continuously deployed. How many times have the QA teams not been able to perform required testing because there was no build deployed or because no one was available to go through the manual steps in order to perform a deployment or no environment was available?
OK, maybe I couldn't figure out any other way to get a Matrix reference to work and maybe a "world without rules" takes it a bit too far, but I am not completely off course. Even if we haven't achieved a development world without rules, we are very close to having a world without infrastructure limitations. A world were nothing prevents us from creating, testing and deploying our software in the most efficient way possible. In this new world we can be responsive to our customers' needs while working on the next cool thing without being sidetracked by resource blockers or the imposed limitations of hardware acquisition and limited IT manpower and resources.
So even if "A World without Rules" is a fantasy, a world without barriers is not. The way has been cleared for development teams to be free from the ball and chain that is local un-scalable resources, in both personnel and technology. It is just too easy to leverage Azure in our efforts to achieve automation and as a result, more consistent quality.
A question may remain about the affordability and the cost of Azure. While I do not claim to be an accountant, I have battled my way through many finance meetings so I have this tidbit to offer: Taking in to account the loss of developer productivity plus internal IT costs against the overall cost of maintaining Azure assets for build and QA deploy scenarios, I would say Azure has the potential of being essentially free.
For a complete discussion on the technical details of leveraging Azure for continuous integration and continuous deployment check out the eBook at ASP.NET and the presentation on Channel 9.


Tomorrow on the field in Evanston, Ill., No. 20 Northwestern will host No. 17 Iowa in a huge matchup in the Big 10.
What's unique about that matchup and why should people in the Capital Region care?
Well: Northwestern has a RB who is a Shenendehowa graduate (Corey Acker) and Iowa features a running back who is a Troy High School grad (Jordan Canzeri).
Acker joined us today to talk about the big matchup, the keys to the game and more.
Northwestern is coming off its first loss of the season, a 38-0 loss against Michigan. We asked him how good the new-look Wolverines really looked and we asked him how the Wildcats can rebound this week.
Furthermore, we asked him about Canzeri, and how cool it is to see another Section II product in the Big 10.
Acker and Canzeri met in high school -- with Canzeri getting the edge. Acker said he's hoping for a different result this time around.


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…When you're sure it's going to rain because the wind is whipping around; and the thunder clouds, with all their shades of grey and white and in between are rolling across the sky. But then the next thing you know, there's bright blue sky and the sun shining brightly. So, it's back and forth, all day today and what makes it particularly wonderful is that the air is crisp and relatively cool even as the sun warms everything.
at Little Gnesta B & B we have riders from Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Montreal.


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1) Plain flour - 3 cups (13 oz./375 g).
2) Icing sugar - 1 3/4 cups (8 oz./225 g).
3) Cold unsalted butter - 1 stick (4 oz./115 g), cut into pieces.
4) Water - 1 tbsp.
5) Egg - 1, lightly beaten.
6) Some extra icing sugar (for decoration).
Instructions: 1) Pour 1 cup of icing sugar into a bowl. Sift it with the flour.
2) Use your fingertips to rub in the butter until the mixture looks like bread crumbs.
3) Add the water and egg. Combine the ingredients of the bowl well to make a firm dough.
4) Enclose the mixture in plastic food wrap and refrigerate for about half-an-hour.
5) Turn up the oven temperature to 350 degree Fahrenheit (Gas Mark 4).
6) Grease two or three large baking sheets.
7) Next, take the dough out from the fridge. Knead this lightly until soft enough to spread out.
8) Spread out the dough on a floured surface to about 5 mm thickness.
9) Cut out various star shapes from the dough using six star-shaped cookie cutters of graduating sizes, from 1 1/2" (the smallest) to 4" (the biggest). Make two shapes of each size.
10) Lift the shapes onto the greased baking sheets and bake for 10-12 mins.
11) Take the baked stars away from the oven and cool for one or two minutes before laying in a wire rack to cool off completely.
12) Sift the remaining icing sugar in a bowl to make icing. Add in 2 tbsp. of water, little by little. The icing should be thick enough to quickly form a thick coating on the back of the spoon.
13) Use a pastry bag fitted with a fine nozzle to pipe icing around the edge of each cookie.
14) When the icing has set around the edges, fill the center of the cookies with icing. Dilute this a little by adding a few drops of water.
15) When the icing has nearly hardened, arrange the cookies into a tower keeping the bigger ones at the bottom and the smaller ones at the top.
16) Press these down lightly to let the icing hold these together.


In ArcGIS v9.3.1 I want to be able to set certain variables such as the gp.workspace from a configuration file outside the python script so it is not hard-coded in the script.
gp.workspace = "'" + source + "'"
Can gp.workspace be set with a variable? If so, what am I doing wrong with the syntax?
Any help or hints regarding this issue are greatly appreciated. Thanks.
should work.... Although it is possible that the syntax for 9.3 is different.
If you are running this from within an ArcMap/Catalog session you can also create a tool script dialog box and attach your script to it to get the input that way and the dialog will ensure it is a workspace as well.
Thank you for the reply Stacy.
I was using python syntax that is compatible with ArcGIS v10, but I was mistakenly running the code on an ArcGIS v9.3.1. Once I ran the code on an ArcGIS v10 machine it worked fine. This type of stuff happens as I am working in dual environments as my organization works on upgrading GIS software and GIS dependent applications.


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TLPI is pleased to offer the following projects for the improvement of tribal justice systems. Take a look and visit the corresponding websites to learn more.
The Tribal Court Clearinghouse
The Tribal Court Clearinghouse is a comprehensive website established in June 1997 to serve as a resource for American Indian and Alaska Native Nations, American Indian and Alaska Native people, tribal justice systems, victims services providers, tribal service providers, and others involved in the improvement of justice in Indian country. It is one of the most comprehensive websites on tribal justice system issues, and includes a wealth of tribal, state, and federal resources. The Clearinghouse website contains extensive resources on tribal, state, and federal law along with extensive Indian country subject-matter resources, a training events calendar, and resources from all TLPI webinars.
Tribal-State Collaboration Project
TLPI provides resources and training/technical assistance to develop, promote and enhance intergovernmental collaborations, with a special focus on judicial collaborations, such as joint jurisdiction courts. This project includes the WalkingOnCommonGround.org website which serves as a resource on tribal-state-federal-local collaborations and contains a wealth of collaboration resources, including an interactive map with memorandums of agreements searchable by subject matter.
This project - currently funded by a grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance – also includes providing resources for implementing both the Tribal Law and Order Acts "enhanced sentencing" provisions and the Violence Against Native Women Act "Special Domestic Violence Criminal Jurisdiction."
~Tribal-State Collaboration Project Brochure
Tribal Justice Collaborative Project
The mission of the Tribal Justice Collaborative (TJC) is to protect family unity and ensure children have meaningful relationships with both parents and their extended families including the larger tribal community to which the child belongs. This is achieved through collaboration among tribal courts, state courts, tribes, child welfare, and all systems providing services to Native children and families.
The Tribal Justice Collaborative is guided by a judicial advisory, whose goal is to improve outcomes for tribal children and families by promoting best practices for courts and child serving agencies.
Tribal Healing to Wellness Courts Project
TLPI provides a Tribal Healing to Wellness Court Training and Technical Assistance project which includes onsite and offsite technical assistance, regional and national trainings, a publication series, and a webinar series.
This project – currently funded under a grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance - includes the WellnessCourts.org website which serves as a resource center for project resources and contains relevant law and policy updates for Tribal Healing to Wellness Courts.
~Healing to Wellness Courts Project Brochure
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
Tribal Youth Resource Center (TYRC)
The Tribal Law and Policy Institute in partnership with the National Native Children's Trauma Center serves as the Training and Technical Assistance provider for OJJDP Tribal Youth Programs and Tribal Juvenile Healing to Wellness Courts grantees, as well as to all interested federally recognized tribes. This free training and technical assistance center is designed to help expand tribes' potential in protecting and nurturing their most sacred asset – tribal youth – through a culturally based and trauma informed lens. The Tribal Youth Resource Center accomplishes this mission through a variety of regional trainings, web-based trainings, onsite trainings, and teleconference consultations ranging from court development, assessing compliance with OJJDP grant requirements, strategic planning through sustainability, restorative practices, youth leadership & empowerment, parent engagement to a whole host of all other programmatic training and technical assistance offerings. Request training and technical assistance at TribalYouth@TLPI.org and please visit the www.TribalYouth.org website.
Capacity Building Center for Tribes
TLPI is a major partner in the Capacity Building Center for Tribes. The Center for Tribes is a cooperative agreement between the Federal Children's Bureau and the Butler Institute for Families, at the University of Denver. The Center for Tribes is comprised of four organizations (DU, TLPI, University of Southern Maine, Westat), each with experience working with tribal and state partners designing, delivering and evaluating technical assistance and capacity building services in Indian country.
TLPI is a major partner in the Capacity Building Center for Tribes and provides the Center with significant Tribal child welfare expertise, including highly experienced staff, a pool of consultants, and a National Advisory Committee.
This project provides capacity building assistance with American Indian and Alaska Native Nations to help strengthen the child and family systems of Native nations in order to nurture the safety, permanency, and well-being of Native children, youth, and families.
Be sure to visit the Center for Tribe's Tribal Child Welfare Information Exchange for the latest news and resources, including a tribal ICWA managers peer-to-peer network.
~Capacity Building Center for Tribes Project Brochure
Establishing Tribal Domestic Violence Courts/Dockets
TLPI provides an Establishing Tribal Domestic Violence Courts and/or Dockets. The project will provide Native nations with information and resources geared toward the development and implementation of a tribal domestic violence court or docket.Under the project, TLPI will work with tribes on domestic violence training for all systems and services interfacing with victims/survivors. TLPI will also work with tribes on collaborating and coordinating the systems in order to promote victim/survivor safety and batterer accountability.
~Tribal Domestic Violence Courts/Dockets Brochure
Strengthening Tribal Response to Violence Against Native Women
The Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) Strengthening Tribal Response to Violence Against Native Women - provides training, technical assistance and resources designed to help individual tribal governments and tribal communities enhance victim safety and more effectively address offender accountability.
Capacity building training and technical assistance support are available to any tribal government or tribal community not currently OVW grant funding. Initiative partners provide individualized training, technical assistance and resources to strengthen the response of tribal governments to effectively address sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking.
Initiative training, technical assistance, and resources will focus on:
Legal response—tribal protection orders
Coordinated Community Response (CCR)
Shelter and safe housing
www.tribalresponse.org
Upcoming webinars to learn more about training and technical assistance opportunities:
Visit our website to learn more about upcoming webinars and funding opportunities www.tribalresponse.org
Contact TribalResponse@tlpi.org or 651-644-1145
VAWA 2013 Enhanced Tribal Jurisdiction
TLPI - in partnership with the National Congress of American Indians and the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges - provides training and technical assistance for tribes interested in implementing the "Special Domestic Violence Criminal Jurisdiction" provisions of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) of 2013.
This project's Tribal Implementation of VAWA website provides resources developed in conjunction with the Inter-Tribal Working Group concerning due process, jury pools, code development, and other topics relevant to the exercise of this tribal authority to prosecute non-Indians for domestic violence, dating violence, and violations of protection orders. With funding from the Bureau of Justice Assistance – TLPI has developed three additional resources under this project:
An Implementing TLOA and VAWA Tribal code resource which provides guidance for Native nations interested in implementing enhanced sentencing under the Tribal Law and Order Act (TLOA) and/or the special domestic violence criminal jurisdiction under VAWA 2013
A comprehensive VAWA resource on the Tribal Court Clearinghouse.
TribalProtectionOrder.org, which serve as an online resource on the drafting and enforcement of tribal protection orders.
Tribal Legal Studies
Since 1998, TLPI has provided a Tribal Legal Studies program which is designed to formalize and institutionalize tribal legal education – most recently through the development of a series of textbooks and instructor guides for use by tribal colleges and tribal justice systems courts as well as use as in-service training and self-study. Four textbooks in the series have been published (some with multiple editions) with several additional volumes planned, including Tribal Code Development.
With funding from the Bureau of Justice Assistance, this Tribal Legal Studies project provides a copy of each textbook, free of charge, to every tribal court and maintains TribalLegalStudies.org, where purchase information is available.
Tribal Legal Studies Textbook Series
Introduction to Tribal Legal Studies: 3rd Ed. (coming December 2015)
Tribal Criminal Law and Procedure 2nd Ed. (2015)
Structuring Sovereignty: Constitutions of Native Nations (2014)
Sharing our Stories of Survival: Native Women Surviving Violence (2008)
Indian Nations Conferences: Justice for Victims of Crime
Starting in 2002, TLPI has coordinated and hosted a series of 7 National Indian Nations Conferences which bring together victim advocates, victims, tribal leaders, service providers, and federal/state agency representatives to share knowledge, experiences and ideas for developing programs that serve the unique needs of Indian country crime victims. Information and resources from prior conferences can be accessed at OVCINC.org.
TLPI was recently awarded another Office for Victims of Crime grant to host the 15th National Indian Nations Conference. Please save the dates: December 8-10, 2016 for the next Indian Nations Conference with Pre-Conference Institutes on December 7th.
Center for Native Child and Family Resilience
Sponsored by the Children's Bureau, the Center for Native Child and Family Resilience (the Center) is a partnership between JBS International, Inc., the Tribal Law and Policy Institute, and Mathematica Policy Research. The Center gathers and disseminates information about Tribally relevant practice models, interventions, and services that contribute substantively to child maltreatment prevention efforts and family resilience developed by and for American Indian and Native Alaskan populations. We also provide technical assistance and capacity building services and support to organizations working in Indian Country to develop, adapt, or expand these programs.
Many prevention and intervention models in Indian Country build resilience by using Tribal cultural values, the transmission of family traditions, and the experiences of Tribal youth. Guided by these values, traditions, and experiences, Tribal community initiatives have shown great promise in developing resilience-based models for child abuse prevention. The experiences of Tribal communities suggest that these approaches are often effective in enhancing family resilience and reducing the risks of harm to children and adults—yet rarely have these strategies used collaborative community-based evaluation to demonstrate their effectiveness.
As part of a Children's Bureau project to raise awareness of Tribally engaged prevention and intervention efforts, the Center supports and enhances resilience-related approaches to Tribal child welfare by supporting Tribes in developing and building evidence-based standards of care. The Center embraces the unique opportunity to honor these valiant community efforts that improve Native family resilience and to help empower Tribal communities of care by using culturally engaged, community-based evaluation models to demonstrate the effectiveness of these efforts and disseminate Native solutions to the field.
Tribal Legal Code Resources
TLPI has developed a series of community based Tribal Legal Code Resources which are designed to provide guidance for tribes interested in drafting and/or revising their laws. These resources are not model or sample codes. Instead, they draw from many sources and provides tribes a range of options to choose from, based on the specific vision, values, and needs of their specific tribal community. These code resources includes various examples of different tribal statutory language with critical commentary along with discussion questions and exercises designed to help tribes customize their laws to meet the needs of the individual community.
Current Tribal Legal Code Resources include:
Tribal Laws: Implementing Tribal Law and Order Act Enhanced Sentencing and Violence Against Women Act 2013 Enhanced Jurisdiction
Tribal Juvenile Delinquency and Status Offense Laws
Tribal Domestic Violence Laws
Tribal Sexual Assault/Stalking Laws
Tribal Criminal Children's Laws
Tribal Civil Children's Laws (Child Welfare/Child Dependency Laws)
American Bar Association Programs and Activities
Over the past ten years, a number of TLPI staff members have been actively involved with various programs and activities of the American Bar Association (ABA) including the following entities:
Native American Concerns Committee of the ABA Section on Civil Rights and Social Justice (formerly known as ABA Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities ), including the Tribal Sovereignty edition of their Human Rights Magazine.
Tribal Courts Council of the ABA Judicial Division
ABA Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence
National Native American Bar Association
~Human Rights Magazine; Vol. 40, No. 4- Tribal Sovereignty
~Native American Concerns Committee Brochure
~Tribal Courts Council Brochure
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%
% Read a BEDGRAPH file into a numeric format
% when the original format has lines of this form:
% chr1    13487   13537   -1
%

f=fopen(filename,'r');

% This maximum file length is actually not a maximum, it simply
% helps Matlab to allocate a big chunk at the start. If lines
% exceed the maximum the code slows down due to reallocations of
% the beddata array.

maxlines=3260000;
beddata=zeros(maxlines,4);

% Read in each line, and compare the chromosome string to known chromosomes

iline=0;
tline=fgets(f);
knownchromosomes={'chr1','chr2','chr3','chr4','chr5','chr6','chr7', ...
                  'chr8','chr9','chr10','chr11','chr12','chr13', ...
                  'chr14','chr15','chr16','chr17','chr18','chr19', ...
                  'chr20','chr21','chr22','chrX','chrY'};
nchromosomes=length(knownchromosomes);
%maxlines=10;
while tline~=-1,
    iline=iline+1;
    if mod(iline,10000)==0,
        iline
    end;

    % The last three numbers are the numeric values, the ones
    % before that are part of the chromosome name
    linenumbers=sscanf(tline,'%s %d %d %d');
    chromosome=char(linenumbers(1:end-3))';
    for k=1:nchromosomes,
        if strcmp(chromosome,knownchromosomes{k})==1,
            beddata(iline,1)=k;
            k=nchromosomes+1;
        end;
    end;
    beddata(iline,2:end)=linenumbers(end-2:end);
    tline=fgets(f);
    %if iline>maxlines, break; end;
end;
fclose(f);

% Remove unneeded lines from the array
%
beddata=beddata(1:iline,:);

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In Passaic County, New Jersey, a woman filed a lawsuit against the man who refused to send child support for their twin daughters. The court, through Superior Court Judge Sohail Mohammad, naturally required that she produce proof this man was the children's real father; so, a paternity test was done on both babies.
When the test results arrived, everyone was quite shocked by the result: the twins have different fathers! It certainly is a very rare occurrence but the DNA results do not lie. These girls really had different fathers. Considering they are twins, this is both weird and incredible!
Of course, as this case has proven, it is possible for a woman to get pregnant with twins from two different men after two eggs are fertilized in the same ovulation period. It is possible, yes, but also quite weird!
So, how did the judge rule on this case? Well, since the accused only fathered one of the twins, the judge decided that he only needed to support one, not both. What was outrageous, however, is the ruling that the man only owes the child $28 per week!
Netizens who learned of the news are now debating which one is more outrageous: that this woman got pregnant with twins by two different men or that the judge only ruled such a small amount of child support.