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1 August 2004: Travelling with UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors in Darfur

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Children and women in the Dereg settlement, South Darfur

UNICEF’s Sacha Westerbeek accompanies the Belgian Minister of Development and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors (celebrity supporters of UNICEF), who want to see for themselves the situation of displaced people in Darfur. Visits include a stop at a hospital and a visit to an informal settlement where Darfurians are living in makeshift shelters.

NYALA, Darfur, 1 August 2004 – In a bus we drive to the plane that is going to take us to Nyala, South Darfur. When the bus stops, I can see the technicians working on the engine. The pilot is friendly and promises to call my mobile when everything is fixed. Feeling more anxious than before, we drive back to the waiting lounge.

With me is a group of nine Very Important People, among whom are: Mr. De Decker (Belgian Minister of Development), Martin Bell (former BBC correspondent), Frank De Winne (astronaut) and Silvia Abascal Estrada (actress). This interesting group has one thing in common: They all care about UNICEF and are here to see how we operate in Darfur.

When we eventually arrive in Nyala we stop for a courtesy visit with the Wali, the Governor of Southern Sudan. He tells the group about the improved security situation in Darfur. His message is clear: ‘Nothing to worry about, everything seems to be under control.’

I had planned to take the group to Kalma IDP (internally displaced persons) camp, 14 km out of Nyala, but unfortunately this is not possible due to a ‘situation’ in the camp. UN and NGO staff have to leave as soon as possible as their safety can not be guaranteed.

Instead we go to the hospital in Nyala to visit the therapeutic feeding centre. The visitors take photos of the children and listen to the stories of the women. Many of the women were forced to leave their homes, lost all their belongings and witnessed the killings of their husband or relatives.  Afterwards we are on our way to the next location.

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Darfurians travelling by donkey in Nyala

Dereg camp is an informal settlement just outside Nyala town. There are no humanitarian organizations present yet to provide for basic needs. I listen to people who have been requested to return to their villages of origin.

Overnight they walked all the way back to Nyala as they felt insecure. I see malnourished children, and children with rashes and skin diseases I’ve never seen before. The makeshift shelters are no bigger then a small tent. All over Darfur, entire families are sharing shelters made out of grass, sticks, and (with a bit of luck) pieces of plastic.

The rain starts in the afternoon. We’d better go back. Due to lack of accommodation facilities they have to share the three available – very basic – rooms and sanitation facilities. They don’t mind, knowing that it is only for two nights. (Which is a good thing as one of the visitors fell through his bed during the night.)

The IDPs in the camps are not sure how long they will stay. But they have no beds to worry about. If they are lucky the family can sleep on a mat.

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AG report gives new details on Lancaster deaths

CONCORD - The Attorney General's Office final report on the April 17, 2012, homicide in Lancaster provides additional details but no specific motive for the middle of the night murder/suicide on Wesson Road involving neighbors who had had property boundary disputes.

The investigation by the Attorney General's Office and New Hampshire State Police says the incident began when David Collins, 44, was fatally shot after his neighbor, Gene Sly, 64, came to the Collins residence at 43 Wesson Road at 3 a.m.

Collins' son, Nicholas, said he was awakened by knocking at the door and said Sly, who lived next door at 53 Wesson Road, asked to speak to his father.

Nicholas woke his father and went back to bed, only to be awakened by a gunshot. He went to the front hallway, where his father was lying on the floor, wounded. Nicholas said he saw Sly was running across the yard to his residence.

After telling a responding Lancaster Police Officer what he knew, Nicholas loaded three bullets into a handgun. Officer Richard Ball was unable to stop Nicholas from leaving the residence, so he ran after him toward the Sly residence, noticing something burning in the Sly driveway.

Ball said Nicholas fired three shots at the Sly home from a distance of about 30 feet and then ran back to his own home, where Ball was able to get possession of the gun.

When ambulance personnel arrived, David Collins was dead from bullet wounds to the right temple and right abdomen.

Officers from Lancaster, Northumberland and the New Hampshire State Police surrounded the Sly residence, but were unable to contact the Slys. It was not until later that a remote device was able to determine there was no one within the residence.

During a later search, it appeared the Slys intended to leave either temporarily or permanently.

But while the whereabouts of the Slys were unknown, the fire department was unable to approach the residence to extinguish the fire in the driveway.

As a result, the pickup truck with camper attached was almost completely destroyed by the fire. Two bodies were found in the debris, one identified as Gene Sly through dental records and a hip prosthesis, was in the cab. The other, apparently in the over-the-cab area of the camper, could not be positively identified, but because of the circumstances was presumed to be Sly's wife, Elena, 64.

Investigators found a .38 revolver in the debris, but its condition was such that forensic laboratory personnel were unable to determine whether it had fired the two .38 casings found at the Collins home. Several .38 and .22 bullet casings and bullets were also found in the fire debris, but were not suitable for comparison with a firearm and the bullets did not appear to have been fired from a gun.

Because of the extent of the fire damage to the truck and camper, the State Fire Marshal was unable to determine the origin or cause, but concluded the fire was most likely intentionally set.

The report concludes that evidence supports the original hypothesis: Gene Sly intentionally killed David Collins, after which he either killed his wife, Elena, or they both committed suicide.

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Two drivers, two crashes, two charges in Manchester

MANCHESTER - Police arrested two drivers Tuesday morning after parked cars were hit in two separate crashes three blocks apart and within 20 minutes of each other. Each driver was charged with operating under the influence.

Lt. Maureen Tessier said it is unusual, but not unheard of, to make arrests for impaired driving in the morning.

Two arrests involving crashes so close together in both time and location, however, does not happen everyday.

In the first incident, reported at 10:05 a.m. at Chestnut and Cedar streets, police said Meghan Comer, 25, of 3030 Brown Ave. was "huffing" a can of compressed air when she sideswiped a parked vehicle and then rear-ended a second parked vehicle which sent her Hyundai Sonata crashing into a third parked vehicle.

A witness reported seeing the Hyundai drift into the parking lane north of the crash site before it drifted again into the parking lane and hit the cars.

Officer Walter Feldhouse found a can of compressed air in the front seat of Comer's car and determined she was impaired after "huffing" or inhaling compressed air just prior to the collision, according to police.

Comer was taken to the hospital from the accident scene and subsequently arrested for OUIL/OUID.

Lt. Maureen Tessier said the state's statutes were revised as of January to prohibit operating a vehicle while under the influence of chemical substances.

She said "huffing" compressed air is more common than one would think. "It's accessible to people and not illegal to possess, just illegal to use in that manner and drive a car," she said.

Inhaling compressed air can give a user an instant sense of euphoria.

The second crash happened 20 minutes later at 10:25 a.m. at 315 Cedar St., just east of Beech Street.

In that crash, Christian Toribio Viera, 32, of 94 Ashland St., was driving a Mazda Protege on Cedar Street when police said he hit a parked vehicle at 315 Cedar St. Police said Viera backed up the Mazda and appeared to be trying to leave the scene but then hit the same parked car a second time.

Just before the crash, according to police, another driver followed the car after seeing it operating erratically on Chestnut Street, running a red light on Lake Avenue.

An investigation revealed Viera had recently consumed several medications and possibly some illegal drugs, police said. He was arrested and charged with OUID. Police seized eight single pills that were in his pocket, which will be sent to the State Police laboratory for analysis.

Tessier said Viera was not injured in the accident but later was taken from the police station to a local hospital after he experienced a medical problem and was becoming unresponsive.

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Battle On

As the state budget leaves the House and the action switches to the Senate, the heat is being turned up under the House over gambling.

After the House passed the budget, Gov. Maggie Hassan and Senate Finance Committee Chair Chuck Morse, R-Salem, both released statements urging the House to approve Senate Bill 152 which would allow one "high-end, highly-regulated" casino with up to 5,000 video slot machines and 150 table games.

Several traditional opponents of expanded gaming have switched course and backed the bill including the National Education Association New Hampshire which held a press conference last week to say the gambling money is needed to pay for essential services like higher education and catastrophic special education aid for school districts.

"Given how education has come to rely on gaming in New Hampshire, and how the methods of gaming have changed in the state," said NEA-NH president Scott McGilvray, "it is difficult for an education association to claim that one form of gaming is morally superior to another."
He noted much has changed in the last decade since the organization's board of director opposed expanded gambling.

Over the past half dozen years, the NH Lodging and Restaurant Association has not taken a position on the gambling proposals before lawmakers. The individual business owners often checked in, but the organization did not.

A decade ago the organization opposed expanded gambling and last week, with more and more organizations and industry representatives weighing in, the NHLRA board of directors voted "overwhelmingly" to oppose the proposal before lawmakers.

The organization cited concerns about lost business, the state's family-friendly image and proliferation once a casino has a foothold in the Granite State.

But as the organization's president Mike Somers noted, the membership is divided on the issue.

Long-time Manchester area restaurateur Chuck Rolecek, along with Shorty's president and COO Jay DelMonte, Joe Faro, owner of Salem's Tuscan Kitchen, Jim Makris, owner of Concord's Makris Restaurant and others all endorsed SB 152.

They also took the opposite view of the lodging and restaurant group, saying a casino would help their businesses.

"Projects of this size don't come often," said Rolecek "Casino gambling would provide significant economic development to southern New Hampshire. The thousands of jobs that would come to a casino speak for themselves. So do the thousands of construction jobs a project of this magnitude would bring."

Delmonte questioned what would happen if the state did nothing as casinos open in Massachusetts.

"What if we don't move forward as a state?" Delmonte said. "The answer is clear. The casinos that are going to open in Massachusetts will most certainly draw away business from New Hampshire. That is millions of dollars that could be spent here, but will be lost to our south."

Earlier two police unions backed the Senate-passed plan breaking with much of law enforcement which has consistently argued expanded gambling would produce more crime and wreck families and individual lives.

Representatives of the New Hampshire Troopers Association and the New Hampshire Police Association said last month a casino would bring no more crime than a large shopping mall.

They touted the benefits of the additional revenues allowing the state to add troopers and other law enforcement personnel and fund programs eliminated the past two years like Children in Need of Service aimed at rehabilitating at-risk kids before they become criminals.

The New Hampshire Association of Chiefs of Police has long opposed expanded gambling and has not changed its mind.

Association Second Vice President Richard Crate, chief of the Enfield Police Department, took issue with the statement a casino would not create any more crime than a new shopping mall. That's ludicrous, he said.

The issues, he said, are increased crime, addiction, "the breakup of the family" and potential financial damage to the existing hospitality industry.
Others organizations or constituencies coming out for gambling revenues in recent weeks are the State Employees Association, and the mental health and developmentally disabled communities.

The Granite State Coalition Against Expanded Gambling has also been active contacting House members and meeting with editorial boards and organizations to make its case.

Last week the coalition's chairman, former State Sen. Jim Rubens sent an email to lawmakers and the media questioning claims by casino supporters that the New Hampshire facility would be "high end," or stimulate development. He also noted the winning bidder would have a monopoly.

"Watchword for New Hampshire Legislators? Eyes Open!" Rubens wrote.

Lobbyists for the various proposals for the casino were also working House members one at a time.

The House Ways and Means Committee has yet to schedule a public hearing on SB 152. The bill has little chance of winning the committee's endorsement some of its members are the staunchest anti-gambling members of the House.

Once the public hearing is done and the committee makes it recommendation, the emails and calls will really begin for House members.

Charter Schools

Charter schools and their supporters took one of the biggest hits in the House approved budget package. They haven't taken that kind of hit in a long time.

Not only did the House strip out the $2.5 million in funding for new charter schools Hassan included in her budget proposal, the House added a moratorium on any new charter schools.

While the state board suspended applications for new schools, it did not officially declare a moratorium.

The House did follow Hassan's lead and give the state Board of Education, which has to approve new charter school applications, more authority and oversight to determine if a new facility is needed in a geographic area or in a subject area like math and science or the arts.

The House beat back attempts to reverse those changes along with another requiring state audits every three years.

Charter schools are public schools and they receive state aid of about $5,200 per student which is about $1,200 more per student than regular public schools.

Charter school supporters have to hope they have a more sympathetic ear in the Republican controlled -- 13-11 – Senate, which in the past has been supportive.

"It seems as though public charter schools are once again a bargaining chip in political negotiations. The house cut out money for news charter schools but the state will lose more than twice that in federal grant funds if the senate lets this stand," said Matt Southerton, director of the New Hampshire Center for Innovative Schools. "There are at least a half dozen lobbyists in Concord whose job is to protect the status quo and they are trying to circumvent the democratic process by using HB 2 instead of going through a policy committee where we can all witness them testify.

"I honestly don't know why they perceive charter schools as some great threat, they represent only about 1.5 percent of all public school students. Their behavior is grotesque," he said.

Senate Jumps

It did not take the Senate long to begin running out House bills that are important to the lower chamber.

This week there are hearings on some key bills that House members hold dear such as re-instituting the state's minimum wage law that was eliminated by lawmakers during the last legislative term. House Bill 501has a public hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee at 2:20 p.m. Tuesday in Room 101 of the Legislative Office Building.

Another bill that received a lot of attention, House 573, which would legalize medical marijuana or "cannabis for therapeutic purposes," has a hearing at 1 p.m. Thursday in Room 100 of the State House.

The same day and in the same room, House bill 621, decriminalizing marijuana, and House Bill 153, legalizing industrial hemp as an agricultural product, have hearings Thursday beginning at 9 a.m.

The Senate Finance Committee will hear House Bill 443, which would prohibit the privatization of state prisons Tuesday at 1 p.m. in Room 103 of the State House.

Taking these bills up early when the full Senate meets in session again April 18 should be the official start of the legislative war between the Senate and House.

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Sunapee ready to dig in for a new library

SUNAPEE — The Abbott Library Foundation has reached is fundraising goal of $1,325,000, ending the two-year fundraising campaign.

Select Board Chairman Fred Gallup, Chairwoman of the Abbott Library Trustees Terri Jillson White and Chairwoman of the Abbott Library Foundation Melinda S. Flater met on Friday to sign the Tripartite Agreement, allowing the construction of the new Abbott Library to begin.

Gallup also signed the contract with Trumbull-Nelson Construction Company to build the new 7,200-sguare-foot library on a new location on Route 11 to replace the current 3,500-sguare-foot library built in 1929.

“Our anticipation is construction will begin in the next two to three weeks,” White said Friday afternoon.

Construction is expected to be complete by next summer, she said.

The town has wanted to build a new library for the past 12 years, White said.

“It will be much larger. It will be a 7,200-(square)-foot library. It will all be on one story, there will be more parking and more land around the building better access,” White. “The space that we have right now is too small. We have limited parking, we’re on two stories, we have limited seating, no room for programing, no room for staff to work and we have one tiny office,” White said. “We really out grew our space many years ago.”

The $2.7 million project is also being funded through the $975,000 bond article that Town Meeting voters passed in March and $125,000 from the new library capital reserve fund, White said.

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Manchester vote restricting access to horses spurs riders to rally

MANCHESTER — Horse-riding advocates and a Manchester Water Works official released literature on Tuesday that they hope will bolster their case on Thursday, when the Manchester Board of Water Commissioners votes on whether to restrict horses from Water Works property.

Horse advocates noted that scientific studies have found that horse manure rarely contains Cryptosporidium and Giardia, two organisms responsible for most water-borne illnesses in the United States.

Manchester Water Works answered with material from the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, which says horse manure can impair water quality and contain pathogens potentially harmful to humans.

Water Works Director David Paris acknowledged the two pathogens are seldom found in most horse droppings.

"However the risk is not zero," Paris wrote in an email, "and while horse feces is not 'hazardous' by the definition of a chemical, ignitable, reactive or corrosive, it does contain nutrients ... (nitrogen and phosphorous in particular) and can have crypto, giardia and coliform bacteria which are listed tap water microbiological contaminants."

Horse riders have planned a rally for 3:30 p.m. Thursday in front of Water Works headquarters on Lincoln Street.

The proposed regulations would:

• Allow horses on gravel fire roads as long as they wear some kind of diaper or waste-collection device.

• Allow horses on watershed property as part of a Water Commission-approved, organized riding event, as long as participants immediately remove horse droppings.

• Prohibit horses from water, the shoreline, beaches, boat launches or public parks.

The regulations would cover Water Works property within the watershed of Lake Massabesic, the drinking water supply for 160,000 residents of greater Manchester.

Horse riders showed the New Hampshire Union Leader the results of microbiological analysis of two samples of horse manure that horse riders had submitted to the University of New Hampshire Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory. They showed no traces of pathogens. One was analyzed this year, one three years ago.

The also shared a paper, written in 1998 by the California organization EnviroHorse and revised in 2001. The review of scientific literature found few instances of pathogens in horses used in trail riding in California and Colorado.

The EnviroHorse author said lactating horses and foals are more likely to have the dangerous organisms. But adult recreational trail horses are not a "significant source of Cryptosporidium environmental contamination in watershed areas," it reads, quoting a 1996 study in Colorado.

Paris said the study did not rule out the pathogens altogether. He said state standards say no pathogens should be in drinking water. He also said the EnviroHorse paper was written for horse-riders in the western United States.

"Back country is not the same as watershed, where almost every trail goes close to water at some point, so the risk from even one infected horse could be significant," Paris said.

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To succeed in today’s highly ambiguous, uncertain, and changing environment, organizations must develop a cadre of leaders who can lead anywhere in the world. Participants will attain the skills and strengths to achieve goals and increase the overall effectiveness of their organization in attaining results. The seminar is uniquely designed to equip participants with the practices and competencies required to lead effectively at any level and will enable those enrolled to reflect on the following questions:

  • How does my personal leadership style influence and inspire those I manage?
  • How do I create a powerful personal leadership state and have the credibility necessary to lead in turbulent times?
  • How do I help develop others to realise their potential?
  • How do I build upon my existing strengths as a leader?
  • How do I extend my leveraging of effective negotiation techniques?

Objectifs d'apprentissage

At the end of the seminar, the participants should be able to:

  • Recognize the different leadership styles and its effective application;
  • Demonstrate how to lead teams to achieve high performance in times change;
  • Illustrate effective negotiation and conflict management techniques;
  • Examine the influence and leveraging skills of high performance leaders; and
  • Develop an action plan to resolve personal leadership challenges.

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DAY ONE - Your Personal Leadership

  • Session 1: Leading from the Mind’s Eye, The Foundation of High Performance Leadership - Playing to Win
  • Session 2: What is your Personal Leadership Style?
  • Session 3: The Role of Secure Bases in High Performance Leadership - Caring to Dare
  • Session 4: Learning to Influence: Driving Organizational Change

DAY TWO - Leading Others

  • Session 5: Conflict Management; Effective Dialogue
  • Session 6: The Art of Negotiation
  • Session 7: Leaders Leading Leaders
  • Session 8: Action Plans: Facing Your Leadership Challenges

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The seminar is a two-day event focusing on improving the participant’s individual leadership style. Professor George Kohlrieser, a world renowned leadership and negotiation expert, will cover topics such as leadership mind-set, leadership in action, and effective negotiation and dialogue skills. A diverse selection of activities will be used such as: role-playing, lectures, coaching, videos, group exercises and action learning. Entailing both theoretic and experiential elements, Professor Kohlrieser will place particular emphasis on the developing of participant leadership capabilities and confidence in times of transition and uncertainty.

A veteran hostage negotiator with over 40 years’ experience, Professor Kohlrieser builds on the proven techniques of hostage negotiation and explains how these skills can contribute to high performance leadership, particularly in times of organizational change.

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The High Performance Leadership (HPL) seminar builds on decades of UNITAR experience in strengthening the knowledge and skills of middle and senior-level officials from around the world. The primary intended beneficiaries of this seminar are:

  • Delegates and representatives of UN-member countries
  • Government and Ministry Officials, Central Bank Staff, Finance and Trade Officials
  • NGO and Civil Society Representatives
  • Managers from the private sector
  • Aspiring leaders

Benefits for the Participant

  • Articulate and develop your leadership role within your organization.
  • Enhance your personal leadership presence and efficiency.
  • Learn how to lead teams to achieve high performance in times of ambiguity, uncertainty, and change.
  • Understand the influence you have on those you lead and develop effective relationships.

Benefits for the Organization

  • Develop future leaders with the ability to deliver success in any business context.
  • Instigate innovation, manage difficulty, and lead change.
  • Achieve more with less.
  • Gain competitive advantage with successful leadership that is aligned with an organization’s vision and business strategy.

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Speaker's Profile

Professor George Kohlrieser

George Kohlrieser is an organisational and clinical psychologist. He is the Professor of Leadership and Organisational Behaviour at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Switzerland. IMD is ranked First in the World for open programs by the Financial Times (2012 and 2013).

At IMD, Professor Kohlrieser created and directs the school’s flagship High Performance Leadership (HPL) and Advanced High Performance Leadership (AHPL) program. Building on lessons from 40 years as a psychologist and hostage negotiator, he works with companies and organizations based all over the world and serves on the advisory board of the Neuroleadership Institute. Kohlrieser is a respected media commentator and has been a contributor on the BBC, CNN, ABC, and CBS. His work has also been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Economist, and other leading newspapers and magazines.

He is the author of Hostage at The Table: How Leaders Can Overcome Conflict, Influence Others and Raise Performance (2006), and co-author of Care to Dare: Unleashing Astonishing Potential Through Secure Base Leadership (2012).

The publication Hostage at the Table: How Leaders Can Overcome Conflict, Influence Others and Raise Performance received the Best Business Book Award 2007 from the Dirigeants Commerciaux de France (DCF), and the Best Management Book 2008 Award from Managementbuch.de, the German business bookseller.

Prof. Kohlrieser also received the Brand Laureate International Brand Personality Award in 2010 from the Asia Pacific Brands Foundation (APBF) for his contribution to the field of high-performance communication and the global European Case Clearing House (ECCH) Renewable and Sustainable Energy, Technology and Development Hot Topic Case Award in 2011.

For more information about Professor Kohlrieser, visit www.georgekohlrieser.com.

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Professional Coaches

Professor Kohlrieser will work with professional coaches to deliver the seminar. The coaches will help participants to identify and prioritize the key leadership capabilities required for organizational growth. To facilitate this, the coaching staff will support participants in issues of basic understanding and application of the concepts and tools throughout the course.

Admission Criteria
Acceptance to this seminar is based on professional achievement and organizational responsibility. Early registration is encouraged since events often fill to capacity. Qualified registrants are accepted on a rolling, space-available basis. Due to the interactive nature of the seminar, the number of participants is limited. Requests for participation received after the deadline will be considered only if space remains available.

Conference Venue
The seminar will take place at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. The Palais des Nations was built in the early 20th century as the headquarters of the League of Nations. Since 1946, the Palais has housed the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG), which is the second largest United Nations centre after the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The Palais des Nations is situated in a beautiful park in Geneva, overlooking Lake Geneva, with a splendid view of the Alps and, on a clear day, Mont Blanc - the highest mountain in Europe.

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Using cURL for FTP over SSL File Transfers

I recently helped a client work through some errors while trying to transfer a file over a secure FTP connection (FTP over SSL) with cURL. If you haven't used curl, it is a great tool that lends itself to scripted data transfers quite nicely. I'll quote from the curl website:

curl is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS and FILE. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, kerberos), file transfer resume, proxy tunneling and a busload of other useful tricks.
Anyway, using curl with FTP over SSL is usually done something like this:

curl -3 -v --cacert /etc/ssl/certs/cert.pem \ --ftp-ssl -T "/file/to/upload/file.txt" \

Let's go over these options:

The last part of the command line is simply a way to specify the username, password, host and port all in one shot.

How FTP Works

Before I get to the problem, I need to explain a bit about how FTP works. FTP operates in one of two modes - active or passive. In active mode, the client connects to the server on a control port (usually TCP port 21), then starts listening on a random high port and sends this port number back to the server. The server then connects back to the client on the specified port (usually the server's source TCP port is 20). Active mode isn't used much or even recommended anymore, since the reverse connection from the server to the client is frequently blocked, and can be a security risk if not handled properly by intervening firewalls. Contrast this with passive mode, in which the client makes an initial connection to the server on the control port, then waits for the server to send an IP address and port number. The client connects to the specified IP address and port and then sends the data. From a firewall's perspective, this is much nicer, since the control and data connections are in the same direction and the ports are well-defined. Most FTP clients now default to passive mode, curl included.

The Problem

Now, a problem can arise when the server sends back the IP address from a passive mode request. If the server is not configured properly, it will send back it's own host IP address, which is almost always a private IP address and different from the address the client connected to. Usually a firewall or router is doing Network Address Translation (NAT) to map requests from the server's public IP address to the server's internal IP address. When the client gets this IP address from the server, it is trying to connect to a non-routable IP address and the connection times out. How do you know when this problem has manifested itself? Take a look at this partial debug output from curl:

... > PASV < 227 Entering Passive Mode (172,19,2,90,41,20) * Trying

Here the client has sent the PASV command, which asks the server for a passive data connection. The server returns a string of six decimal numbers, representing the IP address (first four digits) and port (last two digits). Here the IP address is - a non-routable IP address as per RFC 1918. When the client tries to connect to this address, it will fail.

The Solution...Sort of

In 1998 RFC 2428 was released, which specified 'Extended Passive Mode', specifically meant to address this problem. In extended passive mode, only the port is returned to the client, the client assumes the IP address of the server has not changed. The problem with this solution is that many FTP servers still do not support extended passive mode. If you try, you will see something like this:

> EPSV * Connect data stream passively < 500 'EPSV': command not understood. * disabling EPSV usage > PASV < 227 Entering Passive Mode (172,19,2,90,41,20) * Trying

...and we're back to the same problem again.

The Real Solution

Curl has a neat solution to this problem, requiring two additional options. The first is --disable-epsv, which prevents curl from sending the EPSV command - it will just default to standard passive mode. The second is --ftp-skip-pasv-ip, which tells curl to ignore the IP address returned by the server, and to connect back to the server IP address specified in the command line. Let's put it all together:

curl -3 -v --cacert /etc/ssl/certs/cert.pem \ --disable-epsv --ftp-skip-pasv-ip \ --ftp-ssl -T "/file/to/upload/file.txt" \

If this succeeds, you'll see something like this:

* SSL certificate verify ok. ... < 226- Transfer complete - acknowledgment message is pending. < 226 Transfer complete. > QUIT < 221 Goodbye.

The final 226 Transfer complete is the sign that the file was transferred to the server successfully.


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The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development will next week host a series of awareness campaigns under the Access to Justice Week canopy. In partnership with the South African Women Lawyers Association and Legal AID South Africa, the department will run the awareness programme starting from Monday in all nine provinces. During this week, identified courts in the North West, together with private attorneys, will offer free legal advice to needy members of the community, according to ...
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The hospital's first training program for nurses is proposed and developed. A formal one year course of instruction is offered and includes students from the Women's Hospital of Philadelphia from 1879 to 1882. In 1883, an independent school is established and the first class of four students is graduated in 1884. Three 1885 graduates achieve a first - they are assigned to the Men's Medical Ward. Because of the outstanding work of these three, hereafter trained women nurses are employed on all medical wards, male and female. The class of 1893 is the first to receive class pins, the design of which incorporates the seal of the Good Samaritan.

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Analysis: Is the U.S. the next Haiti?

By MARTIN HUTCHINSON, UPI Business and Economics Editor   |   Dec. 31, 2003 at 2:52 PM

WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Haiti, independent two hundred years Thursday, holds a distinction that is almost but probably not quite unique: it was richer per capita in 1804 than it is in 2004. Presumably even as Jean-Jacques Dessalines ordered in that year that all whites be killed, he believed optimistically that the future Haiti, cleansed of oppressors, would progress rather than decay. So the questions arise: what made him wrong, and how do we know that by 2204 the United States will not have shared Haiti's fate, and be poorer than it is today?

There's no question that the Haiti of 1804 was richer than Haiti today. In 2000 dollars, world gross domestic product per capita in 1800 was about $722 (economist J. Bradford deLong's estimate), U.S. GDP per capita was about $1,350 and Haiti was one of the world's richer places, probably not much poorer than the United States. In 1789, as the Trinidadian Marxist historian C.L.R. James has written, Haiti was "an integral part of the economic life of the age, the greatest colony in the world, the pride of France, and the envy of every other imperialist nation."

Today, Haiti's GDP per capita is estimated as about $425. Thus we can estimate that the country's wealth per capita has approximately halved over the past 200 years, in an intermittent but inexorable decline. If other countries are poorer now than in 1800, it is surely not by such a margin.

At first sight, referring to the United States as the next Haiti is laughable, and in an absolute sense it is. Absent global conflict or ecological catastrophe it is vanishingly unlikely that even in 2204 the U.S. will be in such an appalling condition as is Haiti today. But in a relative sense, the question of whether the U.S. might be poorer per capita in 2204 than its very high current level of wealth is by no means so foolish. Certainly Midwestern blue collar workers, who have suffered intermittent unemployment over the last 30 years, and remember the high-wage heavily unionized Midwest of the 1960s, can be under no illusion that material progress is in any way inevitable on an individual basis, even in a society that is overall becoming richer.

There are a number of factors that could make the United States poorer in 2204 than it is today:

-- Population: In 1789, Haiti's population was around 600,000; today it is around 7.5 million. It's a growth rate of only 1.27 percent per annum, but in the absence of major new industries, it has been enough to impoverish the populace, and change a wealthy agrarian economy into an overpopulated slum. The U.S. population is projected to grow somewhat more slowly, by only 0.79 percent per annum until 2050, but even so, growing at that rate by 2204 it will total 1.4 billion. Could this exhaust even the U.S.'s abundant resources?

-- Environmental or resources disaster: Apart from the possibility of global warming to an extent that proved seriously disruptive, there is also the possibility of some key natural resource, most likely oil, depleting to the extent that the U.S. was forced to move to substitutes. While switching to $50,000 battery-powered cars with a top speed of 50 miles per hour and a range of 100 miles between recharging might well increase nominal GDP, it would sharply reduce real living standards, as consumers were forced to pay twice as much for a product with fewer capabilities than its predecessor. The declining use of such cheap, effective products as coal, mercury and asbestos has already reduced growth in living standards (however much it may have improved health); future such forced substitutions may be very much more expensive.

-- Slowing technological change: Since the middle 19th century, it has been fashionable to believe that technological change is exponential, with each percentage increase in human knowledge becoming the basis for an equal percentage (and greater absolute) increase in the following year. In fact, most industries, once established, become asymptotic; their growth rate declines over time as they slowly approach a point of saturation. Even in the economy as a whole, asymptotic growth may be the rule not the exception over a period as long as the next two centuries. As an example of how growth may not be exponential, or even linear, consider the extension in U.S. life expectancy over the last century. In 1903-1936 it grew 13 years, to 61 years. In 1936-1969 it grew 10 years, to 71 years. In 1969-2003 it grew by only 6 years, to 77 years. U.S. life expectancy is increasing asymptotically, in other words, apparently converging on an ultimate figure of 97-98, and reaching about 93 by our target date of 2204. The economy may well behave in a similar manner.

-- Financial collapse: U.S. consumer debt is currently at record levels, the Federal budget deficit is $500 billion, and Federal off-balance sheet liabilities such as future social security and Medicare payments are a multiple of GDP. As Russia and Argentina are currently showing there is life, lots of life after default, and 200 years is plenty of time to recover. However, each default event is a crisis of confidence, each period of financial stringency is a blow to economic growth. It seems likely that there will be plenty of such crises and stringent periods before 2204.

-- Creeping "Weaselization:" The share of public spending in U.S. GDP has increased enormously in the last 80 years, from less than 10 percent of GDP to more than 30 percent today. Given today's fiscal problems and looming pensions and Medicare crises, it's likely that the share of public spending in GDP will continue to increase, even in the free-market United States. At some point, probably when total public spending rises close to 50 percent of GDP, as in the "Axis of Weasels" of France and Germany, a number of effects kick in that seriously hamper economic growth. Taxes become too high, so entrepreneurship is no longer attractive. The "new class" of public sector employees becomes so large that it dominates the political system, voting itself excessive perquisites and passing damagingly anti-business legislation. As in France, the public sector becomes a more attractive career path than the private sector, so the best graduates head to "Ecole d'administration" and not business school. On present trends, all these effects are likely to appear well before 2100, let alone 2200, and economic progress thereafter must be highly problematic.

-- A society in conflict: Conversely (but by no means incompatibly with the previous possibility), if irresponsible pro-business policy dominates, there is a danger of increasing inequality and a "Latin American" future. Immigration is high, so wage levels at the low end are barely sufficient to sustain existence. Transition to adulthood for the less able of those leaving high school becomes difficult (because they can't get decent jobs) so crime and other social pathologies skyrocket. The rich and upper middle class segregate themselves from rising crime in "gated" housing communities, and award themselves ever more extravagant remuneration (possibly disguised as stock options or in some other form.) As the GINI (inequality) coefficient of the society rises from the United States' current 0.42 towards Argentina's 0.50 or Brazil's 0.58, social cohesion breaks down, business becomes corrupt and oligarchic, and economic growth stagnates.

Some of these developments are more or less inevitable over the next 200 years, and in isolation might slow only moderately the growth in living standards. "There is a great deal of ruin in a nation" observed Adam Smith, and as Haiti since 1804 has so eloquently demonstrated, a huge amount has to go wrong for living standards not to increase in so long a period as two centuries. But Haiti also shows that such stagnation is all too possible, and certainly one can imagine a number of poisonous cocktails from the above ingredients that would produce such stagnation.

Certainly population growth, the bane of Haiti in 1804-2004, appears a serious danger to the U.S. in 2004-2204 if it is not sharply reduced.

It is indeed not certain that your children will be richer than you are. Regrettably, contrary to what almost all of us have believed since 1850 or so, it is not even certain that your great great grandchildren will be richer than you are.

Happy New Year!

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Outside View: A Sept. rollout for Iran war

By DAVID ISENBERG, UPI Outside View Commentator   |   Sept. 5, 2007 at 12:44 PM

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card once famously said of the administration’s 2002 campaign to get support for the invasion of Iraq, ''From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August.''

Now August is behind us, and -- right on schedule -- marketers both in the White House and among their supporters outside are rolling out their newest product, a public relations blitz urging a U.S. military adventure in Iran.

Consider the recent speech by President Bush to the American Legion. In it he said, “Iran's active pursuit of technology that could lead to nuclear weapons threatens to put a region already known for instability and violence under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust.

“Iran's actions threaten the security of nations everywhere. And that is why the United States is rallying friends and allies around the world to isolate the regime, to impose economic sanctions.

“We will confront this danger before it is too late,” he concluded.

Of course, President Bush’s speech, not for the first time, stood in 180 degree contrast to reality.

The day before, while making public the recently completed agreement with Iran regarding its nuclear program, Olli Heinonen, deputy director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said, "We have in front of us an agreed work plan. We agreed on modalities on how to implement it. We have a timeline for the implementation."

But however distorted their relationship to reality, Bush’s words have impact.

"I have authorized our military commanders in Iraq to confront Tehran's murderous activities," he said. Shortly thereafter, the U.S. military in Iraq arrested and detained eight Iranian energy experts meeting in Baghdad with the Iraqi government, handcuffing, blindfolding and interrogating them.

They were only released when the Iraqi government protested.

On Sept. 10 the American Enterprise Institute, a sort of neoconservative administration-in-waiting, will debut the newest book by its “Freedom Scholar” Michael Ledeen, one of the foremost proponents of the military adventure in Iraq.

Titled “The Iranian Time Bomb: The Mullah Zealots’ Quest for Destruction,” it is a rehash of neocon arguments for “regime change” -- by military force, if necessary -- in Tehran. Although he calls for supporting and funding the regime’s domestic opposition, Ledeen concludes that this “administration or the next will likely face a terrible choice: appease a nuclear Iran, or bomb it before their atomic weapons are ready to go.”

Jim Lobe, the Washington bureau chief of the Inter Press Service renowned for his coverage of the neoconservative influence in the Bush administration, notes that the rollout of Ledeen’s book comes just four days after AEI will launch its Sept. 6 “All or Nothing” campaign to “save the surge” in Iraq. He wrote:

“The chronological juxtaposition of the Surge panel Sept. 6 and the rollout of Ledeen’s book Sept. 10 underlines the balance that AEI and other hawks (including the vice president’s office) are trying to achieve between their two top priorities at the moment -- sustaining the surge well into next year and rallying Congress and the public behind an attack on Iran before the end of Bush’s term, if by then “diplomacy” does not achieve the desired results of 1) freezing its nuclear program and/or 2) halting Tehran’s support for its Shia allies (including the al-Maliki government) in Iraq.”

Meanwhile, Kimberly Kagan, who directs the Institute for the Study of War, has written a lengthy report titled "Iran's Proxy War Against the United States and the Iraqi Government" that was posted on the Web site of neoconservative organ the Weekly Standard.

Kagan is the wife of Frederick Kagan, an AEI scholar and one of the intellectual architects of the Iraq surge. She is also listed as one of the participants in her husband's research team that came up with the idea for the surge in the first place.

Of course, there are also exceptions to the “don’t do rollouts until after Labor Day” strategy.

One was at the end of July, when the State Department unveiled a series of arms sales in the region to contain Iran. In her July 30 announcement of the potential sale of $20 billion in arms to Saudi Arabia and the other five members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the arms will "support a broader strategy to counter the negative influences of al-Qaida, Hezbollah, Syria and Iran."

However, the exact nature of the Iranian threat or how these U.S. weapons transfers will counter it was never spelled out.

The other was in August when the Senate unanimously passed a resolution sponsored by Sen. Lieberman, I-Conn., accusing Iran of acts of war against the United States -- a resolution with no purpose other than to strengthen the case for war against Tehran.

A third was the White House decision to designate at least elements of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps as a terrorist organization, using the president’s authority under a September 2001 executive order. Robert Baer, a former high-ranking CIA field officer in the Middle East, wrote recently in Time Magazine that:

“Reports that the Bush administration will put Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the terrorism list can be read in one of two ways: It's either more bluster or, ominously, a wind-up for a strike on Iran. Officials I talk to in Washington vote for a hit on the IRGC, maybe within the next six months.”

(David Isenberg is a senior analyst with the British American Security Information Council. He is also a member of the Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy, an adjunct scholar with the Cato Institute, contributor to the Straus Military Reform Project, a research fellow at the Independent Institute, and a U.S. Navy veteran. The views expressed are his own.)

(United Press International's "Outside View" commentaries are written by outside contributors who specialize in a variety of important issues. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of United Press International. In the interests of creating an open forum, original submissions are invited.)

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Drug czar: Legalizing marijuana won't solve U.S. drug problem

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WASHINGTON, April 17 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama's point man for drug policy said legalizing marijuana won't solve the nation's drug problem, but addiction treatment will increase.

Gil Kerlikowske, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, said in a speech at the National Press Club in Washington the legal possession of small amounts of marijuana in Colorado and Washington state presents complex questions.

"The Justice Department's responsibility to enforce the Controlled Substances Act remains unchanged," Kerlikowske told reporters. "Neither a state nor the executive branch can nullify a statute passed by Congress, nor should we lose sight of the fundamental fact that using marijuana has public health consequences, and the most responsible public policy is one that restricts its availability and discourages its use."

Law enforcement will uphold federal law and will continue to pursue drug traffickers, Kerlikowske said via a recording by Minnesota Public Radio.

However, marijuana has public health consequences and it is the administration's policy to focus on evidence-based drug policy reform.

For example, most patients see their primary care physician at least once a year and that annual meeting is a good time to address addiction issues.

In addition, the Obama administration committed -- some via the Affordable Care Act -- more than $10 billion to drug education programs and support for expanding access to drug treatment for addiction, Kerlikowske said.

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Allen becomes GM of Buccaneers

Jan. 9, 2004 at 1:03 PM

TAMPA, Fla., Jan. 9 (UPI) -- The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have named Bruce Allen as their new general manager.

Allen, the son of Hall of Fame coach George Allen, spent the last nine years in the Oakland Raiders' front office. He had the title of senior assistant last season and was the team's salary cap manager and dealmaker with free agents.

The Bucs had a front office void to fill since long-time GM Rich McKay resigned last month over philosophical differences with Coach Jon Gruden. McKay later was named GM of the Atlanta Falcons.

The move to Tampa Bay reunites Allen with Gruden after the two worked together with the Raiders for four seasons.

The Tampa Tribune reported Friday that team owner Malcolm Glazer tabbed Allen in part to comply with the wishes of Gruden, who said Allen was his first choice.

Gruden reportedly will have more authority over personnel decisions and the draft than he had in the past. Allen is expected to handle contract negotiations and manage the salary cap.

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USBWA names co-winners for top player

March 30, 2006 at 7:10 PM

ST. LOUIS, March 30 (UPI) -- The United States Basketball Writers Association has named Duke guard J.J. Redick and Gonzaga forward Adam Morrison college basketball co-players of the year.

It is the first time in the St. Louis-based organization's 50-year history that there were co-winners.

Redick, a 6-foot-4 inch senior, was the nation's second-leading scorer at 26.8 points per contest. Morrison, a 6-foot-8 inch junior, led the nation with 28.1 points per game.

"About once in a generation, we see a situation where there are two extraordinary players who separate themselves from the rest of college basketball and clearly stand together as the best in the game," said USBWA President Tony Barnhart of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The pair will be presented with the Oscar Robertson Player of the Year trophy at the site of the Final Four in Indianapolis on Friday.

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Texting while biking hurts Sox' Valentine

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BOSTON, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine was slightly injured when he ended up in a ditch after reading a text as he pedaled his bicycle.

The accident occurred Tuesday as Valentine was reading a message from second baseman Dustin Pedroia, The New York Times reported.

The manager was riding on a rain-slicked path in the Central Park Reservoir before the start of Tuesday night's game against the Yankees. Pedroia had sent him a text saying he would play in the game that night despite a broken left ring finger.

Engrossed in the message, Valentine did not see the umbrellas of two French tourists ahead of him. When he finally saw them, he swerved to avoid them, skidded on the wet pavement, lost his balance and ended up somersaulting with his bike down the side of a hill.

Valentine was wearing a helmet and sustained injuries to his knees and hips.

Showing up at the game with bandages on his legs, the manager said if Pedroia "can play with that, I can certainly manage with this."

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Notre Dame's ACC football schedule released

April 22, 2013 at 12:10 PM

GREENSBORO, N.C., April 22 (UPI) -- Notre Dame and the Atlantic Coast Conference announced league football opponents for the Fighting Irish, who will join the ACC for all sports except football.

Notre Dame is moving to the ACC in most sports but remaining an independent in football. However, the agreement with the league states the Fighting Irish must play five ACC schools each football season while playing each conference member at least once every three seasons.

"The football partnership between the ACC and Notre Dame will not only enhance our league's already ambitious football schedules but also will provide terrific fan excitement," ACC Commissioner John Swofford said.

The ACC said conference teams Louisville, North Carolina and Wake Forest will play at Notre Dame in 2014 while the Fighting Irish will play at Florida State and Syracuse.

The home games in 2015 will be against Boston College and Georgia Tech while Notre Dame visits Clemson, Pittsburgh and Virginia.

In 2016, Notre Dame plays host to Duke, Miami (Fla.) and Virginia Tech while traveling to Georgia Tech and North Carolina State.

The dates of the games will be determined later.

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Trump to moderate Dec. 27 GOP debate

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Real estate mogul and U.S. reality TV star Donald Trump will moderate the next Republican presidential candidates' debate, Newsmax Media said Friday.

Christopher Ruddy, chief executive of the conservative Web site, told The New York Times the site's readers "really love Trump" because they see him as not "owned by the Washington establishment [or] the media establishment."

The debate will be broadcast on ION Television Dec. 27 from Des Moines, Iowa, a week before the Iowa caucuses Jan. 3.

"I was asked to do it by a number of people, including some of my friends that are Republicans, strong Republicans," Trump said on Friday's edition of MSNBC's "NewsNation."

"I thought it would certainly be a little change of pace for Donald Trump, so I'll do something I haven't done before," Trump said. "I think I have a lot of good questions to ask. I feel very strongly about the country. So we'll see how it turns out. It could be the last debate for the primary in Iowa."

One candidate who will not participate in Trump's debate is former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman.

"We have declined to participate in the 'Presidential Apprentice' Debate with The Donald," Huntsman spokesman Tim Miller said Friday, The Hill reported. "The Republican Party deserves a serious discussion of the issues so voters can choose a leader they trust to defeat President Obama and turn our economy around. We are confident that leader will be Jon Huntsman."

Miller said Huntsman will participate in a "Lincoln-Douglas"-style debate this month with fellow GOP presidential hopeful, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

"We look forward to discussing the issues that matter to the American people in a serious, substantive debate with Speaker Gingrich later this month," Miller said. "It is telling that Governor Romney has declined to participate because this substantive format makes it hard for him to hide from his record."

Newsmax began inviting candidates to the debate Friday afternoon, the Times said.

Trump this week said he would consider running as an independent candidate for president if the eventual Republican nominee is not to his liking. He flirted with a run for the GOP nomination this year but dropped out of the race, declining to make public his income tax returns.

He also considered running for president in 1987 and 1999, the Times noted.

President Obama likened Trump to a carnival barker for his repeated comments expressing doubt about Obama's place of birth.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 18 (UPI) -- Democrats have filed a lawsuit in Ohio seeking to restore three days of early voting for all eligible voters in the state.

The Republican-dominated Legislature shut down voting on the final three days before Election Day. However, military dependents can still cast ballots on those days.

A federal lawsuit filed Tuesday by the Obama campaign, the Democratic National Committee and the party's state committee says there is no meaningful distinction between military families and other Ohio voters, The Columbus Dispatch reported. In their complaint, the plaintiffs say the law as it now stands denies other Ohio voters equal access.

Secretary of State Jon Husted, who is named as a defendant with Attorney General Mike DeWine, said Ohio had to keep those three days for military families to comply with federal law.

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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- The cast and crew on a film blamed for inciting protests at U.S. State Department posts in Libya and Egypt say they were "grossly misled" by the producer.

The 80 actors and crew members of "Innocence of Muslims" said in a statement Wednesday they are "extremely upset and feel taken advantage of by the producer," CNN reported.

"We are 100 percent not behind this film and were grossly misled about its intent and purpose," the statement said. "We are shocked by the drastic re-writes of the script and lies that were told to all involved. We are deeply saddened by the tragedies that have occurred."

Cindy Lee Garcia of Bakersfield, Calif., told Gawker.com she was hired to act in the film, but she and the rest of the cast had been told the project was about life in Egypt 2,000 years ago.

"It wasn't based on anything to do with religion, it was just on how things were run in Egypt," she said. "There wasn't anything about Muhammad or Muslims or anything."

Garcia said she was cast in the project after answering a casting call on Craigslist in July 2011 and was given a script with the title, "Desert Warriors."

"Muhammad wasn't even called Muhammad," she said. "He was 'Master George.'"

She said the dialogue in the online trailer is overdubbed, with the word "Muhammad," as well as several offensive references to Islam, inserted in place of the original dialogue.

The producer of the film, who has been identified as Sam Bacile, has been unavailable for media inquiries and there are reports he is in hiding.

"I'm going to sue his butt off," Garcia said.

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BROCKPORT, N.Y., Oct. 25 (UPI) -- A central New York state college student pleaded not guilty to beating his girlfriend to death in her Brockport University dorm room.

Clayton S. Whittemore, 21, allegedly admitted to Monroe County Sheriff's deputies he and his girlfriend of two years, Alexandra Kogut, 19, had been drinking and were arguing. Whittemore told officers he "just snapped" and began punching Kogut, the Democrat and Chronicle of Rochester (N.Y.) reported Thursday.

Kogut's breathing became labored and Whittemore said he beat her with a curling iron "until the noise stopped" so she didn't have to suffer, the report said.

Whittemore was being held without bail at Monroe County Jail awaiting his next court appearance, scheduled for Dec. 18.

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. presidential campaign mostly stood down Tuesday due to preoccupation with post-tropical Cyclone Sandy but politics was in play just the same.

The White House said President Barack Obama was focusing on the government's response to the storm -- which has been blamed for at least 39 deaths in the United States, and at least 107 overall -- and Republican nominee Mitt Romney held what his campaign called a storm relief event in Ohio.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie -- whose state took the first, and possibly the worst, hit from Sandy -- said in several interviews Tuesday the president has been handling the storm admirably.

He told NBC Obama "deserves great credit."

Christie said on Fox News he had been in constant contact with the president, who called the governor at midnight Monday night to ask "what he could do."

"I said, if you can expedite designating New Jersey as a major disaster area that that would help us to get federal money and resources in here as quickly as possible to help clean up the damage here," Christie said.

"The president was great last night," he said, telling Fox viewers he got a call 2 hours later from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the president signed the emergency declaration early Tuesday.

"He's done -- as far as I'm concerned -- a great job for New Jersey," Christie said.

When a Fox News host asked Christie whether Romney would go to New Jersey for "some storm-related event," Christie responded with the kind of blunt talk that has helped make him a national figure in the Republican Party.

"I have no idea, nor am I the least bit concerned or interested," he said. "I've got a job to do here in New Jersey that's much bigger than presidential politics and I could [sic] care less about any of that stuff.

"I've got 2.4 million people out of power. I've got devastation on the shore. I've got floods in the northern part of my state. If you think right now I give a damn about presidential politics, then you don't know me."

At an event in Kettering, Ohio, near Dayton -- attended by former NASCAR driver Richard Petty and country music singer Randy Owen -- Romney helped gather donations and urged supporters Tuesday to help those affected by the storm.

"We have heavy hearts, as you know, with all of the suffering going on in a major part of our country," he said. "A lot of people are hurting this morning and they were hurting last night."

However, USA Today said the event "looked like a campaign rally and sounded like one."

Although Romney did not deliver his customary stump speech, the event featured the screening of a film biography of the nominee and some of those attending chanted, "We want Mitt!" before he spoke.

Former President Bill Clinton appeared at a campaign rally at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, using the storm as a context for criticizing Romney's policy on climate change, CBS News reported.

"He ridiculed the president [during their first debate] for his efforts to fight global warming in economically efficient ways," Clinton said.

"In the real world, Barack Obama's policies work better," he said.

The Romney campaign Tuesday released a memo from its political director claiming battleground states Minnesota and Pennsylvania -- which previously appeared to be in Obama's column -- were trending toward Romney, The Hill reported.

"With one week to go, and 96 percent of the vote on the table on Election Day in Pennsylvania, this expansion of the electoral map demonstrates that Governor Romney's momentum has jumped containment from the usual target states and has spread to deeper blue states that Chicago never anticipated defending," the memo read.

The Hill noted the RealClearPolitics average of polls show Obama leads Romney by 4.7 percent in Pennsylvania.

Obama campaign manager Jim Messina said the Romney campaign was posturing and Obama is "leading or tied in every battleground state across the country, and he leads early voting in every state across the country," The Hill reported.

"Three things are now absolutely clear in this race -- we have a significant early vote advantage in states from North Carolina to Nevada, there is no Romney momentum in the battleground states, and the Romney campaign has found itself with a tremendously narrow and improbable path to 270 electoral votes," Messina wrote in a memo.

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- A slim majority of the U.S. public says President Obama and Republicans will not find a way to avoid the "fiscal cliff," a poll released Tuesday indicated.

While 51 percent of those surveyed by the Pew Center for People & the Press and The Washington Post said there will be no agreement by the Jan. 1 deadline, only 38 percent predicted there would be one. The Republicans, who control the House, the Democrats, who have a majority in the Senate, and President Obama must agree on a deficit-reduction plan to avert a package of automatic across-the-board spending cuts and tax hikes that will total hundreds of billions of dollars.

More than half of respondents -- 53 percent -- said Republicans in the House are more responsible for the situation, which many fear would plunge the nation back into recession if not carefully resolved, than Obama. Only 29 percent blamed the president.

There were sharp partisan differences. Republicans were less optimistic about an agreement by a 66 percent to 25 percent, and 68 percent said Obama would be responsible.

Among Democrats, 47 percent predicted an agreement and 40 percent did not, while 85 percent said Republicans should take the blame. More than half, 51 percent, of independents do not expect an agreement, while 37 percent do not, and 53 percent said they would blame Congress.

More than half, 62 percent, said the cuts and tax hikes would be bad for the U.S. economy, and 60 percent said it would hurt them personally. But only 26 percent said they understand exactly what would happen.

Pew interviewed 1,000 adults by telephone Nov. 8-11. The margin of error is 3.7 percentage points for the whole sample, ranging up to 7.1 percent for Republicans among sub-groups.

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WASHINGTON, May 24 (UPI) -- The United States, despite the elimination of Osama bin Laden and other top al-Qaida leaders, still faces terror threats, President Barack Obama warned.

There have been no large-scale attacks on the United States since Sept. 11, 2001, the country is more secure and fewer U.S. troops are in harm's way, Obama said while speaking at the U.S. Defense Department's National Defense University in Washington.

However, he warned: "Now, make no mistake, our nation is still threatened by terrorists. From Benghazi to Boston, we have been tragically reminded of that truth. But we have to recognize that the threat has shifted and evolved from the one that came to our shores on 9/11."

Obama said no U.S. president can promise total defeat of terror, but "what we can do -- what we must do -- is dismantle networks that pose a direct danger to us, and make it less likely for new groups to gain a foothold, all the while maintaining the freedoms and ideals that we defend."

Obama said the core of al-Qaida in Afghanistan and Pakistan is on the path to defeat and their current operatives "spend more time thinking about their own safety than plotting against us."

But what has emerged are various al-Qaida affiliates from Yemen to Iraq to Somalia to North Africa, with al-Qaida's affiliate in the Arabian Peninsula being the most active in plotting against the United States, Obama said. The current unrest in the Arab world also has helped extremists in gaining a foothold.

"And finally, we face a real threat from radicalized individuals here in the United States. ... Deranged or alienated individuals -- often U.S. citizens or legal residents -- can do enormous damage, particularly when inspired by larger notions of violent jihad."

On Afghanistan, Obama said the United States will complete the transition to Afghan responsibility for that country's security.

"Our troops will come home. Our combat mission will come to an end. And we will work with the Afghan government to train security forces, and sustain a counter-terrorism force, which ensures that al-Qaida can never again establish a safe haven to launch attacks against us or our allies," he said.

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Kelly Ripa returned from vacation with a short bob.
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Kelly Ripa, who hosts ABC's "LIVE with Michael and Kelly" with retired football player Michael Strahan, got back to work on Tuesday rocking a brand new haircut.

The bubbly, 42-year-old television personality tweeted about the new 'do just before taping.

"Back in the saddle........with a new cut!" she warned Twitter followers, before discussing the transformation with her co-host.

The sleek bob, Kelly wrote later, was inspired by 59-year-old actress Ellen Barkin.

Though Ripa's new look garnered positive reactions from the Twittersphere, she's not getting much support from mom.

"She goes, 'I don't need to see it to know I don't like it. You know I'm a long-hair girl,'" Ripa quoted her mother as saying.

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Ronald Wilson Reagan /ˈrɑnəld ˈwɪlsən ˈreɪgən/ (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989), the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975) and prior to that, an actor.

Reagan was born in Tampico in Whiteside County, Illinois, reared in Dixon in Lee County, Illinois, and educated at Eureka College in Eureka, Illinois, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and sociology. Upon his graduation, Reagan first moved to Iowa to work as a radio broadcaster and then in 1937 to Los Angeles, California. He began a career as an actor, first in films and later television, appearing in over 50 movie productions and earning enough success to become a famous, publicly recognized figure. Some of his most notable roles are in Knute Rockne, All American and Kings Row. Reagan served as president of the Screen Actors Guild, and later spokesman for General Electric (GE); his start in politics occurred during his work for GE. Originally a member of the Democratic Party, he switched to the Republican Party in 1962. After delivering a rousing speech in support of Barry Goldwater's presidential candidacy in 1964, he was persuaded to seek the California governorship, winning two years later and again in 1970. He was defeated in his run for the Republican presidential nomination in 1968 as well as 1976, but won both the nomination and election, defeating incumbent Jimmy Carter in 1980.

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Alan C. Wetzel

          Alan C. Wetzel, 57, husband of Rosanne Glod, of Barto, passed away on

Sunday, April 27, 2014 at his home.

          Born in Sellersville, he was a son of Robert E. and Jane C. (Zepp) Wetzel of Elizabethtown.

          He worked 18 years as a Controller for Teleflex Marine Corp., in Limerick, retiring in 2013 and also at Baldwin Brass, Reading and Easton Printing.

          He was a 1974 graduate of Upper Perk High School where he played the trombone in the band and a 1978 graduate of Kutztown University.

          He was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church, Bath and Most Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, Bally.

          Surviving along with his wife and parents, are 3 daughters, Lauren A. Glod-Wetzel, of North Arlington, NJ, and Megan N. Glod-Wetzel and Kristen M. Glod-Wetzel, both of Barto and a brother, Rev. Jay R. Wetzel and his wife, Jill, of Bath.

          A funeral mass will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, May 1, 2014 at Most Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, 610 Pine Street, Bally PA 19503.  Burial is in St. Isidore's Cemetery, Quakertown.  There will be a visitation from 6:30 to 8 p.m., with a sharing time at 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday evening at Mann-Slonaker Funeral Home, 222 Washington Street, East Greenville.  Offer sympathy to the family at www.mannslonakerfuneralhome.com.

          Memorial contributions may be made in his memory to the ALS Assoc. Greater Philadelphia Chapter, 321 Norristown Road, Suite 260, Ambler, PA 19002; Most Blessed Sacrament Church, P O Box C, Bally PA 19503, St. John's Lutheran Church, 206 E. Main St, Bath PA 18014, or Montgomery Co. SPCA, 1059 Sweisford Road, Perkiomenville, PA  18074.

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Discreet and quiet to the extreme, Erpeto only ever talks through his puppet Plumpy. Similarly, when he fights alongside the Freaks, it is never him who cuts his opponents up into little pieces, but rather his puppet, who's a dab hand with a knife.

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    When played first in the round, Erpeto's Power is increased by 3. If Erpeto is played second in the round, their Power is equal to the amount shown on the card.
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    If Freaks wins the round, at the end of each of the following turns the opponent will lose 2 Life point(s) if he/she has more than 3 Life point(s). If the opponent has 3 or less Life point(s), the poison effect is not triggered.

    At level 2: min 3 894 Clintz
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    At level 4: min 3 623 Clintz
    At level 5: min 4 019 Clintz
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Having been around in Clint City since anyone can remember, the Freaks Circus offers unbelievable daytime shows for you and your kids, including fire breathers, knife throwers, big cats and magicians! But when night falls, the show turns into something quite different which, let’s just say, is not recommended for the weak at heart… Come see the Freaks; you're in for a big surprise!!!

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Chavis Americanus
A person who wears clothing such as Volcom, Hurley, and other skate brands to look cool. They basically do what everyone else does, and frequently make fun of American greebos for the simple reason that they are different. They also wear hats with skate logos, usually at an idiotic angle. They are weaker, dumber, and richer than normal chavs. Most are too weak to make fun of greebos alone, so they tend to travel in packs. Most are homophobes and are generally narrow minded.
You see a pack of people wearing skate logos on shirts, hoodies, and tastelessly angled hats.
Some are wearing shorts, while others are clad in pants whos tightness rival that of the 80's. You are wearing alternative clothing( band T-shirt, studded belt and medium fit pants)
The Amchavs start slinging insults that cut like a marshmallow, such as "get a haircut". You pity them and keep walking.
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The best school in the universe. Period. Yes, better than Harvard. And not in the middle of nowhere. Yes, Williams sucks.
Girl: I go to Williams. Where do you go to school?
Boy: Amherst.
Girl: Take me. Take me now.
Boy: Don't want no STDs.
Girl: Damn, but there is nothing else to do in the middle of nowhere.
by lordjeff March 20, 2005
Number Two, and bitter about it. See shit for more information.
"Like all of my classmates, I go to Amherst College because I didn't get in to Williams College."
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Bluenotes is a retail clothing store which mainly sells its own brand name clothing. Styles are mostly skate and prep, and they make their clothing compete with name brands and in my opinion, I think they are equal to and/or surpass many of these name brands (Quiksilver, Hurley, even AE or Hollister).
Bluenotes jeans are the bomb, and their shirts/polos kick ass
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Store with over 100 Canadian locations, formaly owned by American Eagle. It makes its own jeans, but shirts, socks, bags, pants, ect are almost always other brands. It's clothes are often "skater"/"punk" appealing, but "prep"s and lots of others can be seen sporting there stuff, especaily jeans which are recognisable by the leather-like tag that most jeans have, but is about 1/3 as fat.
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Evvy, noun and adjective; is an awesome individual with a cracking yet unusal name. Their talents lie in acting, cooking, modesty, modeling and they play a mean tuba of other such instruments. People with this name tend to be accident prone and have many story tops to prove so. They are tall and pretty damn hot. They tend to hide in the shadows as natural skin complection acts as perfect camoflarge as they hunt their prey. They can also go by a number of nick names such as; elmo (as they are generally muppets), possom and muffin etc. On a whole they rock your socks!
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the generic term for a line of pens by Sakura that write using gel ink. comes in 65 "funky" colors. made popular by preteen girls who think they are cute.
I will only write notes to boys I like using gelly pens.
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A phrase used when someone asks you to do something, and you either don't like the person, don't want to go, or both. This phrase is used very often by lazy people and liars.
Bob: Hey, you want to go to my house on friday?
Jim: Nah, I got stuff to do.
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Acronym for Mother Of The Year

The companion to FOTY or Father of the year

pronounced Moatee
Jim: So did you get to see your boy last night?

Ed: Yeah but MOTY did nuthin;' but nag my ass as I tried to explain football to him. I swear I'm gonna have to get my own place.
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Short for Man Of The Year.
I am MOTY, woo! Go me!
by kingmustard May 08, 2005
anyone or anything with mostly ugly and/or undesirable characteristics.
Some people walk around in public thinking they look good, but really, they look moty.
by ken81086 May 21, 2009
A feline-loving co-worker that constantly proclaims his need and urge to immediately urinate out his dickhole or deficate out his buttcrack.
"Hey dude! I was just in the men's room and there was a total moty talking about how he was deficating out his buttcrack!"
by Angelikki August 29, 2008
A beast, a beast of the jungle. Usually has long hair, hacks. Hacks with JAF, and some poof called Leptest. :-D Whoever that is. He licks crackwhores for money. And also has a nice cleavage. :-P

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