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Tyler Perry's "Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Scorned" is showing at at 3 and 8 p.m. Saturday, March 29, and at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 30, at 2211 Woodward Ave. in Detroit. Tickets range from $44.50 to $52.50. Visit Ticketmaster.com or call 313-471-6611.
Tyler Perry's latest musical, "Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Scorned," is headed to the Fox Theatre this weekend, packed with what his fans expect when they visit one of his live stage productions — a dramatic story, comedy and powerhouse voices to help bring home the message of the musical.
In case you live under a rock, Perry is a popular writer, producer and director. He may be best known for the character Madea — the sassy, troublemaking elder of both popular films and stage plays. In fact, Perry also recently announced a new stage play featuring the naughty character, "Madea's Neightbors from Hell."
This time around, those voices include Detroit native Monica Baire, who plays Jasmine — the best friend of the show's main character, Anita Lincoln, played by Cheryl "Pepsii" Riley.
Blaire told BLAC Detroit magazine in 2011 that "I do a lot of work with myself to be my most authentic self." And that spirit seems to perfectly align with the sentiment throughout most of Perry's work for film and stage — finding your inner strength and living an authentic life despite the challenges that may come along. The same is true of "Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Scorned."
"Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Scorned" centers on the story of a successful, modern woman, Anita. She has everythng a contemporary woman could ask for — from luxury items to great friendships in her life. But finally she decides that she wants to fall in love. After some convincing from her best friend, she signs up for online dating and meets a meets a man on the Internet. The two get involved in a relationship and — as these things can sometimes go — everything is great until it's not.
The cast also includes Patrice Lovely (Grandma Hattie), Ray Lavendar (Victor) Zebulon Ellis (Reverend), Muhammed Ayers (Randy), Candice Pye (Mona) and Olrick Johnson (Detective Larry).
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The only problem now is that Mandriva keeps resetting the DNS settings to the router IP instead of my ISPs DNS servers and I have to keep resetting them by going into MCC>Network&Internet>Alter Misc Internet Settings.
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Christian House plans to add living space for 23 residents
Rezoning of Christian Campus Ministry Fellowship House, 112 E. 12th St., from C-1 (neighborhood business district) to CC (center city district) was approved Tuesday night by the Rolla Planning and Zoning Commission.
The commission approved the rezoning for recommendation to the Rolla City Council, which will make the final decision.
At the public hearing, Dale Wands, a property developer who owns nearby property, spoke in favor of the rezoning. No one spoke against it.
Community Development Director John Petersen said he had received only one telephone call about the rezoning request, and that call was merely a request for additional information, not a call either against or for the rezoning.
Petersen, who recommended the rezoning, noted the Christian Campus House functions like a dormitory without kitchen facilities. The "footprint" of the building is 6,736 square feet. The total lot area is 19,980 square feet.
"The applicant is requesting a change in zoning to CC to permit the improvement and expansion of the fellowship house facility," Petersen reported.
The plan is to demolish five attached brick dormitory rooms behind the main structure and replace them with modern dormitory rooms. The property lies between Oak and Elm streets. The lot is .46 acres.
Currently 41 residents live in 13 bedrooms. In the proposed design, there will be 64 persons up from the current 41.
"Under the new construction proposal, the total lot coverage would be 8,978 square feet or 45 percent (of the lot), five percent above the maximum lot coverage allowed," Petersen said.
But the CC zoning district does not have coverage restrictions "which makes this rezoning strategy desirable," he said. "CC zoning is intended to provide maximum flexibility in terms of lot area/coverage requirements.
The new construction will result in three more parking spaces added to the current 24 on-spite spaces.
Dormitories and fraternities/sororities are required to have two on-site parking spaces for every three occupants. That would be 42 spaces total. There will also be a 23-space parking lot nearby, dedicated to occupant use.
Voting to recommend the rezoning to the council were: Russell Schmidt, Monte Shields, Don Brown, Robert Anderson and Dennis Bennett. Absent were Greg Sawyer, Janece Martin and Jack Morris.
In other business or discussion:
Petersen reported the council approved on March 4 the Bruss's First Addition, a minor subdivision, part of Block 11 and 49, of Bishop's 4th Addition, to allow the construction of a CVS Pharmacy near the corner of Bishop Avenue and Kingshighway.
Petersen also noted that he has completed a draft ordinance pertaining to the establishment of family entertainment and recreation complexes. He said he will give the draft to Administrator John Butz and it will then come to the planning and zoning commission for consideration.
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Brisebois is Puck-Moving Defenseman Who Plays with an Edgeby Dave Vest / Arizona Coyotes
GLENDALE -- The Coyotes added another talented young defenseman to the organization on Wednesday when they signed Mathieu Brisebois to a three-year entry-level contract.
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"I'm really excited," said Brisebois, a fast, offensive-minded defenseman who likes to move the puck and play on the power play. "It's part of a dream come true for me and something I've worked hard for for so many years. This is a reward for me."
Brisebois is playing for the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. He entered Wednesday's game vs. Sherbrooke co-leading the QMJHL in points among defensemen with 67 (17 goals, 50 assists).
"He's a puck-moving defenseman but he plays a hard game and he has an edge to him, which we like," Coyotes Assistant General Manager Brad Treliving said. "He's a strong kid."
He added, "Like every young player he needs to learn more about defending against bigger and better players and playing within a system, but when you look at the young defensemen in our system, we don't have a lot of guys with his skill-set. He's got some dynamic elements to his game."
Like his father, Brisebois started his hockey career as a forward. Unlike his dad, he switched to defense at a key stage in his development.
Brisebois will continue to play for Rouyn-Noranda until that team's season ends. After that, he will report to the Portland Pirates, the Coyotes' affiliate in the American Hockey League.
"I am always ready to play at higher level," Brisebois said. "That would be a pleasure for me."


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Not everything you've heard about the Affordable Care Act, good or bad, is right.
Here are the facts on some of the biggest myths surrounding Obamacare.
Ed Fensholt's job at the insurance broker, Lockton, is making sure employers follow the law when it comes to healthcare coverage for their employees. Recently he's taken on the responsibility of explaining the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare to the many companies that will undergo major rule changes.
"We do get engaged in enrollment meetings where the employer is enrolling their employees in coverage and fielding questions from the employees. And it is rather striking how few Americans really understand that, in fact, there is a health reform law and no the Supreme Court did not strike it down," Fensholt said.
He said that is "most common myth No. 1," that Congress repealed and the Supreme Court overturned the Affordable Care Act.
"They know something about the Supreme Court taking some action, they hear things in the news about Republicans voting to repeal health reform. They don't understand that has to work through the Senate as well, and then get the President to sign it," Fensholt said.
The ACA is very much the law of the land, and it's most everyone's responsibility to get enrolled if you don't already have it through an employer.
Most common myth No. 2 is that, come Jan. 1, ACA means free insurance.
"How much you pay for that will depend on your household income, and the level of coverage you want to buy," Fensholt said.
This means that the more a person makes, the less the government helps them pay. In Missouri and Kansas, those rates have not been released.
Most common myth No. 3 is that insurance remains a choice.
"The health reform law requires virtually every American, man, woman or child to have a minimum level of health insurance beginning in January 2014. And if they do not, they are subject to a tax penalty," Fensholt said. "For most of us, that penalty will be about one percent of household income or adjusted gross income for 2014 that doubles to two percent of household income for 2015, then increases to 2.5 percent of household income by 2016."
Most common myth No. 4, ACA replaces Medicare.
"About 17 percent of Medicare beneficiaries, about one in five of them are worried they're going to lose their Medicare coverage and be forced to buy private insurance through the exchanges. Nothing could be further from the truth. They can keep their Medicare, their Medicare coverage is adequate to satisfy the individual mandate, they don't need to do anything and shouldn't do anything," Fensholt said.
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Choose the Right Batting
How to Choose
Batting is the soft layer between the quilt top and the backing. It gives the quilt dimension and definition as well as offering warmth. Because it comes in various thicknesses, it can make a quilt flat or puffy, stiff or drapable. It is available by the yard or packaged to fit standard bed sizes.
Historically, quiltmakers used whatever natural fibers were on hand for the quilt's middle layer. Today's quilter can choose from natural and synthetic products that have a variety of characteristics.
The batting you choose should complement the nature and use of your finished quilt. The following pages will help you compare batting products and choose the one that will work best for your project.
Batting Qualities
These terms will help you compare the various types and features of batting products.
Drapability: The density or sparseness of the quilting and the loft of the batting will affect the drape, or relative stiffness or softness, of the finished quilt.
Grain line: The lengthwise grain is stable and doesn't have much give; the crosswise grain will be stretchy.
Loft: This term describes the thickness of the batting. Different loft levels result in different appearances in a finished quilt.
Resiliency: This is the batting's ability to regain its original shape--how quickly it can spring back when unfolded and how it resists creasing.
Warmth: Cotton battings absorb moisture, making them cool in the summer and warm in the winter. Wool battings provide warmth with little weight.
Washability and shrinkage: Polyester and wool battings resist shrinking, while cotton can shrink from 3 to 5 percent. Some quilters prefer the puckered, antique look that results when batting shrinks.
Compare types of batting and the pros and cons of each using this chart.
Click here to download the Batting Characteristics chart. [1]
How Will Your Quilt Be Used?
Before you make your final batting choice, consider how you'll use your quilt. These questions will help you evaluate which batting is best for your project.
Is it a baby quilt that will be washed and dried extensively? Will it be placed on a child's bed and get pulled and tugged? Are you making a wall hanging that needs to maintain sharp, crisp corners? Or are you making a quilt that you want to drape loosely over a bed and tuck beneath the pillows? Is it an heirloom project that will be used sparingly and only laundered once every few years? Or is it a decorative item that will never be washed? Is it a table runner that needs to lie extremely flat?
Click here to download a chart that will help you use the answers to find the best batting for your project. [2]
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Eternal, Not TemporalTim Savage
20 Then Jesus turned to his disciples and said, "God blesses you who are poor, for the Kingdom of God is yours. 21 God blesses you who are hungry now, for you will be satisfied. God blesses you who weep now, for in due time you will laugh. Luke 6
What are my goals? What do I spend my time and efforts on? What do I invest in and count on? In this chapter Jesus clearly reveals the future. If I spend my time gathering wealth and chasing power and influence my rewards may be immediate, but they will be brief and temporal. The world wants us to believe that the house we live in, the car we drive and our lifestyle are most important, but Jesus teaches us that money, power and influence are fleeting and insignificant. This doesn't mean that God can't or won't bless us here on earth, He doesn't say that we have to live in squalor or do without, it means that we must be investing in things eternal; that we should be storing up treasures in heaven. If we chase the things of the world, we may obtain them, but they have no value in eternity. It's pretty obvious that we want the greatest rewards in the place we will spend the most time.
I must keep my eyes trained on the goal. I must put my time and efforts towards those things that serve the Lord. If I do He will always provide and bless. I have to keep a Godly perspective on my life and invest in the eternal, not the temporal.
Dear Heavenly Father, Thank You for the incredible blessings You give to our family. May I never take them for granted. Help me to keep my eyes on You and not this world. I want to gather treasure in heaven, not here on earth. In Jesus name, Amen


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2013 International Home and Housewares Show in Chicago: Some favorites
More than 2,130 exhibitors showcased their newest and most innovative designs for the recent 2013 International Home + Housewares Show in Chicago. Technology played a big role this year, with clever technology hidden inside all manner of household items. Also on display were space-saving and convertible products made to serve multiple purposes and take up minimal space. Here are a few of our favorite picks from the show. --LARA EWEN. Special to Newsday
Streamline your utensil drawer with the Magnetic Measuring Spoon set from iSi ($8.95), which also won an innovation award this year. The four-piece set nestles together magnetically, and each spoon sits flat on a counter for simplified measuring. The slim design of the spout is made of a flexible material that fits easily into small openings, and each translucent spoon is marked with a half-line for half-measurements. Available from pre-order on amazon.com.
See yourself in a whole new light with the Sensor Mirror from simplehuman ($200, with a five-year warranty), which won an innovation award at the show. The bright LED light ring mimics natural sunlight, and the distortion-free lens reflects evenly and consistently. The light senses when you're ready for your close up and turns on, shutting itself off when you leave. Rechargeable and cordless, the five-times magnification mirror can go anywhere, and it's fully tiltable, so you can see every angle of your beautiful visage. Available from simplehuman .com, and at Brookstone and Bed Bath & Beyond next month.
Move easily and elegantly from your stovetop to your oven to your table with pans and pots from the Casteline Removable Handle Collection from Cristel ($199.95 to $309.95). The bases are made from alternating aluminum and 18/10 stainless steel, which is supposed to provide heat dispersal for the entire dishwasher-safe collection. The handles are removable, which allows for both streamlined tabletop presentation and space-saving cabinet storage. Available at broadwaypanhandler.com.
Technology has now eliminated the need to have a proverbial green thumb. Even those with no indoor gardening skills can fill their homes with plants using the Click and Grow system ($79 for a starter kit; $19.90 for refills). The clever battery-operated electronic smartpot will provide the exact amount of water, fertilizer and air needed to keep your plants and flowers flourishing, and all you need to do is refill the reservoir once a month or so and remember to change the batteries. Available from clickandgrow.com.
Keep your coffee close and your computer safe with this new line of desk mugs and travel mugs (shown) from Mighty Mug ($14.99-$19.99). A patented Smartgrip technology uses a vacuum seal to lock the product in place on any smooth, flat surface, but also allows the mug to be easily lifted. Available in multiple colors, including a stainless-steel version, from themightymug.com.
Pets are naturally attracted to running water, and design-savvy homeowners are naturally attracted to sleek stainless steel. Pioneer Pet has ingeniously combined the two to create the Raindrop Drinking Fountain ($69.99 for 60-ounce size; $89.99 for 96-ounce size). Winner of an innovation award in the pet products category, the fountain features a dishwasher-safe stainless-steel bowl and a replaceable charcoal filter to keep the running water clean. Operates via a 6-foot-long power cord. Available at Petco and Petco.com.
This is an age when people can get robots to do their dirty work. Case in point: Grillbot ($99.95), a grill cleaning robot. With three electric motors, a built-in timer and an onboard computer that regulates speed and direction, this rechargeable device makes quick work of grimy grills. It comes in red, blue, black or yellow, and is available for pre-orders now (first orders expected to ship in mid-July) from grillbots.com.
Keep your hands out of harm's way while getting every last slice out of your food with the Pull'n Slice Mandoline from Chef'n Corp. ($49.95). Winner of an innovation award at the show, the device keeps food stationary while protecting fingers with a safety hood that gets pushed and pulled along the blade to slice. It's equipped with four thickness settings and straight, French fry and julienne blades. Available at Williams-Sonoma and williams-sonoma.com.
Take your lunch and your place mat with you in one convenient package with the FlatBox-LunchBox from Solvetta ($19.99), which won an innovation award. This washable neoprene bag stands about 18 inches high, and unfolds to create its own 18-by-18-inch place mat. It will be available in five colors, beginning in July, from solvetta.com.
Indoor vertical gardeners can try out this new modular wall-mounted system from Urbio ($15 to $175). Each recycled plastic vessel magnetically attaches to an individually mounted wall plate, allowing for an easily customizable planting solution. Filled with pumice, soil and herbs or succulents (not included), or even just used as a sleek storage solution, this system provides a simple way to turn any wall into a work of vertical art. Available at myurbio.com.


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Mavericks win 17th straight at home against Kings
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- December 10, 2012 - 10:21 PM
DALLAS - O.J. Mayo scored 19 points and the Dallas Mavericks took control with a 31-3 run in the first half to win their 17th straight regular-season home game against Sacramento with a 119-96 victory over the Kings on Monday night.
Chris Kaman, playing on a sprained left ankle he suffered last week, scored 16 of his 18 points in the first half and reserve Darren Collison added 15 points for the Mavericks, who won their third in a row.
Francisco Garcia, who was 7 of 12 from 3-point range, and DeMarcus Cousins scored 25 points apiece for the Kings, who haven't won in Dallas during the regular season since Feb. 27, 2003. Jason Thompson added 11 points and 12 rebounds.
Mayo hit a jumper late in the first quarter to kick off the game-turning run for the Mavs, who led by as many as 28 in the first half and were up 65-43 at halftime.
Dallas starting forward Shawn Marion missed his second straight game with a strained right groin. Kaman played 21 minutes on a gimpy ankle which coach Rick Carlisle described as "a glowing purple" before the game.
Sacramento, which picked up its first road win of the season Saturday at Portland, opened the game by hitting 5 of 6 from 3-point range. The Kings took a 28-27 lead with 2:26 remaining in the first quarter on Thompson's tip-in basket.
But the Kings scored only three points over the next 10:52 — all on free throws. They missed 12 straight shots from the floor and had nine turnovers in that span.
Thompson's basket broke the drought with 3:34 left in the first half.
Mayo started Dallas' run with a 20-footer and Vince Carter closed the opening quarter with a steal and dunk that gave the Mavericks a 36-29 lead.
Brandan Wright capped the big spurt with a dunk, putting the Mavericks up 58-31.
The Kings hit 9 of 13 shots to open the second half and went on a 23-12 run, cutting the deficit to 77-66 on Garcia's 3-pointer. Garcia started in place of an injured Tyreke Evans, who missed his third straight with a sore left knee.
The Mavericks closed the third with an 11-4 spurt. Mayo's 3-pointer with 26.7 seconds left made it 88-70.
Dallas stretched its advantage to as much as 26 in the fourth, and Sacramento got no closer than 17 in the final 12 minutes.
NOTES: Dallas F Dirk Nowitzki received the Naismith Legacy Award at halftime. The award goes to players or coaches who further the values of the sport. Nowitzki is the first international player to receive the honor. . The Kings haven't had a four-game winning streak since March 23-29, 2011. . Sacramento has won two playoff games in Dallas since last beating the Mavericks on the road in the regular season. The Kings won in Dallas during the 2003 conference semifinals and again in a 2004 first-round matchup.
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Wedding dress by Charles James for Baba Beaton, 1934
The Parisian fashion designer Madeleine Vionnet (1876 – 1975) is credited with having invented the bias cut. She commented: 'Maybe because everyone else made dresses that flowed in the same direction, I saw that if I turned the fabric on an angle… it gained elasticity'.
Elasticity is something that this silk satin gown by Charles James (1906 -1978) certainly needs. The wedding gown, which looks as it has been poured onto its mannequin, has no fastenings of any real meaning – not a zip, not a button, not a dome, just a hook and loop at the neck. Created in 1934, it is an early example of the Anglo-American designer's work. James, who opened premises in London in 1929, was to become renowned for his complex approach to cut and drape.
While the gown, which was worn by Barbara 'Baba' Beaton on the occasion of her marriage to Alec Hambro, gives the appearance of simplicity, its construction is clever and complex. It is elaborately seamed and darted, especially at the back. James commented 'all my seams have meaning – they emphasise something about the body'.


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Hi All,
I am using data table on my web page and displaying a list of records. I am displaying 20 rows per page. Infront of each record there an EDIT button and when edit is clicked Colorbox popup opens with the form and I can edit the record.
Till here it's fine.
But if I move from page 1 to 2,3,4 so on and then I click on EDIT button to edit any record colorbox is not working the edit form opens in new tab.
I heard it has something to do with jquery delegate... I am not an expert.
Any help in this regards will be highly appreciated.


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Foundational Elements of All Apprenticeships
Common Elements of Apprenticeships
Apprenticeship standards:
This document covers the description of how the apprenticeship will be conducted by the sponsor. It includes selection, hiring, evaluating and general guidelines.
Work Process Schedule:
Work process schedule is the on-the-job training part of the apprenticeship. The length of time spent in each area is determined by how complicated the skills are. Apprentices should plan to spend enough time in each area to become competent.
Related Training Curriculum:
This is the classroom part of the apprenticeship. It gives the apprentice the necessary theoretical and technical knowledge needed to become a successful journeyperson. It also gives additional practice of job-related skills and knowledge. The National Apprenticeship and Training Standards require that a minimum of 144 hours per year of apprenticeship training is to be provided to each trainee. This can be increased by trade and craft standards or by program sponsors. Some industries require as much as 200 to 300 hours in related study.
Wage Schedule:
As an apprentice, your wages are determined based on a percentage of the journeyperson rate for the trade being apprenticed. This schedule states the pay for the apprentice. Usually, apprentices start at 50 to 60 percent of the journey rate. Usually, apprentices get pay raises every 1,000 hours or at about six-month intervals. This varies according to the sponsoring employer.
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The South Tama County girls tennis team took to the courts on Monday to face Union at the STC Tennis Complex. The Trojans posted a convincing 9-0 win to remain undefeated on the season.
STC's Emily Martin took to the court to face Union's Leah Jungling at No. 1 singles. Martin served well and used a steady ground game to easily win 8-1. Teammate Madison Baack continued her dominance at No. 2 singles as she downed Mariah Scott by a score of 8-1.
Tori Appelgate took to the court at No. 3 singles against Union's Emily Dalluge. Appelgate played a flawless net game to smother her opponent. Hitting big forehands and backhands to each corner, Appelgate followed them to the net to easily put away shot after shot. Appelgate dominated in an 8-1 victory.
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South Tama junior Tori Appelgate returns a serve during ther No. 3 singles match. Appelgate dominated her match over Unions's Emily Dalluge, winning 8-1.
Regina Balderas was locked into a dramatic match with Jena Boisen at No. 4 singles. Balderas found herself down early, but fought back to even the match at 5-5. She steadied her game in order to reel off three straight games to register an 8-5 win.
Caitlin Svacina remained perfect on the season at No. 5 singles when she defeated Kylee Faber. Svacina took hold of the match early and never looked back. She tallied an 8-0 victory for STC. In the last singles action of the night, Taylor Muhlstein stepped on court for the Trojans at No. 6 singles. She faced off against Union's Hannah McRae. Muhlstein's experience proved too much as she rolled to an 8-1 victory.
In doubles play, STC swept all three varsity matches. The team of Martin and Baack remained unbeaten as they downed Jungling and Scott by a score of 8-3 at No. 1 doubles. Appelgate and Balderas teamed up at No. 2 doubles to defeat Dalluge and Boisen 8-3. Leah Mann partnered with Caitlin Svacina at No. 3 doubles for STC. They bounced Faber and McRae easily by a score of 8-0.
In junior varsity singles action, Sydney Meek recorded an easy 6-0 win over her opponent from Union.
South Tama will host Grinnell at 4:15 p.m. Friday.


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Marketplace for Friday, December 30, 2011
2011 was a year of leadership changes and a rise in cloud computing in the world of Silicon Valley. IBM joins other tech giants and gets a new CEO. Verizon has reversed its decision to add a new $2 fee; Eve Troeh looks at how customers fought back on fees this year. The Weekly Wrap talks about the most negative and positive news from Wall Street in 2011, while the Dinner Party guys offer their favorite offbeat stories. And as a biopic of Margaret Thatcher opens this weekend in theaters, Stephen Beard visits the former U.K. prime minister's hometown.


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Just wait until someone hacks the list of people with "show porn" checked and joins it to the table of politician names.
If they genuinely want to do this without being assholes about it, they should put a couple of different types of content under it. That way it would not be a "List of people who want to see porn on the internet", but a "List of people who do not want censors to decide what they can't and cannot see". At least that would be a more socially acceptable excuse.
As all content transfer moves to the internet, the government has now effectively made itself responsible for it.
This isn't a "porn filter", this is a filter for all communications the govt decides it doesn't like. Including porn.
(1) Are you going to block playboy.com ?
(2) Can I get playboy vi Amazon.com, Apple Store, Google Play, then? With a prepaid credit card? Why not?
When all this material moves to these sites, are you going to block them ? block tumblr, imgur, etc?
Why not block google.com?
Why am I being expected to out-source my morality to the ISPs webfilter?
The government isn't deciding what is classed as pornography. They are fobbing the task off onto the private sector - the ISPs assume the role (Or contract it to a specialist list provider). That way you pay for it stealthily via your monthly bill rather than the cash-strapped government having to justify hireing an army of censors.
Well, they certainly won't allow sex with 14-year-olds, like Romeo and Juliet.
I think they should add religious content to the list of things they're going to block; maybe then people would start seeing the problem with such censorship.
I think they should add religious content to the list of things they're going to block; maybe then people would start seeing the problem with such censorship.
I'm seeing a pattern here, it goes like this:
1. The government does something dodgy.
2. People claim it's going to far but don't actually do anything about it. People claim that the government only has to go a tiny bit further then everyone will wake up and realize it's not acceptable. I.e. your comment '..then people would start seeing the problem..'
3. People forget all about it and lose another tiny bit of freedom forever.
The GOTO is conclusive proof that the whole scheme reeks of evil.
This wont end cleanly
This won't END.
This site is sure to get blocked, there are pictures of cocks all over the place.
I'm just seeing arseholes. I reckon it's my Tivo's fault.
The crucial point is that if no porn is available, the boys will just wank off the photos of clothed models and celebrities as they did before the Internet was widely available, and it's hard to find any valid argument why wanking off the photos of clothed people is inherently better than wanking off the photos of nude ones. It certainly didn't do me any good not to have porn available when I most needed it back in the 80ies.
The crucial point is that if no porn is available, the boys will just wank off the photos of clothed models and celebrities as they did before the Internet was widely available, and it's hard to find any valid argument why wanking off the photos of clothed people is inherently better than wanking off the photos of nude ones. It certainly didn't do me any good not to have porn available when I most needed it back in the 80ies.
Its hard to find any valid argument why wanking off to any photos is inherently a bad thing. Anyway, before the internet came along, people just passed top-shelf magazines around the playground, no clothed people required.
I'm waiting for the big ISPs' lists of people who have opted out of filtering to be leaked and the press to publish a list of MPs who have asked the ISP to let them watch porn through the internet connection that they put on their expenses...
(Also: please will people write to their MPs and tell them to oppose this shit?)
Its hard to find any valid argument why wanking off to any photos is inherently a bad thing.
My thoughts exactly. When you are old enough to want to see it you are old enough to see it IMHO. We need to discover another continent again so we can ship off the all the Puritans to it again.
Its hard to find any valid argument why wanking off to any photos is inherently a bad thing.
My thoughts exactly. When you are old enough to want to see it you are old enough to see it IMHO. We need to discover another continent again so we can ship off the all the Puritans to it again.
I suggest an inflatable continent. We can slash it once we're done and let them all sink...
Porn censor sounds about as useful as telephone sanitizer, which gives me an idea.... we need to buid a few big space ships, but, we will only need fuel for one....
Every now and again a few people get together behind the dream of launching a self-sufficient ship and declaring independence. As far as I know, none has ever been able to raise the money for it - though Blueseed gave it a good go with their business plan. They wanted to station lots of cheap workers just outside of US territorial waters so they could commute by ferry to the mainland to work, but avoid the requirements for a full HB-1 visa (as they aren't residents), employer-provided healthcare coverage,
I'm waiting for the big ISPs' lists of people who have opted out of filtering to be leaked and the press to publish a list of MPs who have asked the ISP to let them watch porn through the internet connection that they put on their expenses...
And there in lies the problem with any kind of opt-out system when applied to something like this. Were the list to be opt-in and it were to leak then all you'd really be able to say about it is "here's a bunch of people who, for whatever reason, want to try and l
There are lots of bad arguments though. The standard approach is to swiftly change the topic: Whenever the block is being discussed, rapidly turn the conversation towards child pornography or (second choice) graphically violent pornography. It's much easier to win support for blocking those. The trick is to simply ignore the existance of regular non-child pornography as much as possible.
For example, look at how Cameron announced the block officially: https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/the-internet-and-pornography-prime-minister-calls-for-action [www.gov.uk]
There's some general fluff by way of introduction in the first section that can be ignored - that's just padding about the value of the internet in a somewhat pathetic attempt to reassure people he does value free speech really. But when it comes down to the meat of the argument, approximately half of the length of the speech is about child pornography. Why? There is already a national filter for this. It's already illegal. Nothing is changing in that area beside granting the IWF permission to investigate rather than just act on reports, and a demand that google needs to do something. It's in there because it presses the 'outrage button' - after a long talk about the evils of child porn, something loathed by all, the reader is in a moral-crusadin' mood and ready to condemn just about anything given half a chance.
It's quite fun to figure out what he actually saying. It's a true political speech: Riddled with contradictions and a few outright lies. My personal favorite is 'This has never been a debate about companies or government censoring the internet but about filters to protect children at the home network level,' followed later by 'And, in a really big step forward, all the ISPs have rewired their technology so that once your filters are installed, they will cover any device connected to your home internet account.' I'm not sure if this is an attempt at doubletalk, or simply that his speechwriter doesn't actually know the definitions of 'internet,' 'home network level' or 'install.' Or 'rewire.'
There are lots of bad arguments though. The standard approach is to swiftly change the topic: Whenever the block is being discussed, rapidly turn the conversation towards child pornography or (second choice) graphically violent pornography.
Herein lies half the problem with the discussions with the public that have been had over this. The politicians seem to (intentionally or not) confuse several issues:
1. Kids accidentally stumbling across porn
2. Kids intentionally looking at porn
3. Adults looking at kiddie porn (or faux kiddie porn)
4. Adults committing child abuses
(And similar arguments for violence, rape and murder... and yet we still get to see plenty of violent stuff on TV and in the papers that is probably more extreme than the faux-rap
It's a matter of degrees. Doing so occasionally isn't a problem. Doing so constantly is.
But in neither case does it make any sense to censor the net, as there's plenty of material out there that they can't censor.
The crucial point is that if no porn is available, the boys will just wank off the photos of clothed models and celebrities as they did before the Internet was widely available
Wouldn't Rule 34 imply that the whole Internet would have to be filtered out under this scheme?
It certainly didn't do me any good not to have porn available when I most needed it back in the 80ies.
It might have done. You hear apocryphal stories of people who can't get aroused by partners who won't do the things porn actresses do.
The crucial point is that this is Britain - which together with US is the homeland of sexual puritanism coupled with extreme deviance when it comes to violence.
I don't think the rest of the world has anything to fear from this particular twist. They're just following their voters and their culture. This is a very democratic move on which most people clearly agree. He wouldn't be pushing for it this aggressively otherwise. He has voters to please after all.
Well, except maybe other countries that inherited th
it's adult content. not just illegal content. everytime it's mentioned it's slapped on with a sauce of filtering for illegal content, but "adult content filter" is really any porno filter.
bet you 100000 bucks that The Sun will not be blocked though!
This is the UK we're talking about... so exactly WHAT sun do they see any way?
It's a tabloid newspaper that has pictures of topless models with usually larger than averaged sized breasts on page three.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_3 [wikipedia.org]
And since one person's idea of porn may not fit with another.
Most teenage boys would have no issues jacking off to hot women in swimsuits; yet we publish magazines in grocery stores with this content, let alone online.
As a society we love sex and porn; we just dont want teenagers expressing any interest at all, and to ignore that Victoria's Secret store in the mall while they shop.
The not unreasonable assumption is that if a child can find porn, then an ISP can automate the process of finding it and blocking it. To the layperson, the idea that all these clever people can come up with a way to search the internet and classify content and even rate the quality of that content but are suddenly flummoxed by coming up with a way of reliably blocking porn that kids can find sounds more like "well, we don't want to block porn, so we'll tell you it's impossible and tell you that you don't understand the internet".
Ok, this will sound pretty cynical, but imho the current crop of politicians don't care if legislation is difficult or even impossible. And they know how difficult this task is, in fact, the more difficult, the better. All they really care about is whether a new law means that they can funnel money through parliament to one of their mates.
This sort of thing is perfect for that. A never-ending task whereby they can pay some private company run by one of their cronies an obscene amount of cash to continually search the web looking for new porn to block.
Everyone wins except the taxpayer.
The not unreasonable assumption is that if a child can find porn, then an ISP can automate the process of finding it and blocking it.
That there is the problem. You see, the assumption is unreasonable - you can understand why the assumption would be made, but it's still wrong non the less.
The difficulty comes with specificity [wikipedia.org], when you search for something you also get a lot of false positives. For example: You search for a pornstar and also find the facebook page of some poor schmuck with the same name. Another example would be you search for some porn term and get a wikipedia page. When searching this is not a problem, false positives have little real cost, since we just skip over them.
Now lets consider the filtering scenario. Lets say you search for Joe Bloggs' facebook page, trouble is there is also a Joe Bloggs who stars in certain adult entertainments and the system gets confused. Suddenly the facebook page of our upstanding member of society has been filtered, and worse all of his friends are now flagged as having looked for 'bad things'.
You see, the key difference between search and filtering is that of the involvement of human decision. Search uses a flawed heuristic to give us a set of things to look at first with ultimately a human deciding and making up for the flaws in the search algorithm. Filtering uses said flawed heuristic and then sticks another flawed decision boundary on top, and there is no human presence to counteract it's mistakes
The not unreasonable assumption is that if a child can find porn, then an ISP can automate the process of finding it and blocking it. To the layperson, the idea that all these clever people can come up with a way to search the internet and classify content and even rate the quality of that content but are suddenly flummoxed by coming up with a way of reliably blocking porn that kids can find sounds more like "well, we don't want to block porn, so we'll tell you it's impossible and tell you that you don't understand the internet".
Fuck off moron. Install nanny ware for your kid if you're a concerned parent. You don't parent the fucking nation. Retard.
Still, three cheers for the first enterprising foreign VPN company to offer free VPN services (ad-supported?). I anticipate approximately every single teen male in the UK becoming aware of it within a week of its launch.
Also, the earlier Firehose articles were more complete (but that's Slashdot editors for ya): BBC News [bbc.co.uk] giving a good amount of political commentary, and technological implementation of the blocking by Twitter [guardian.co.uk].
If you choose to have censored internet access you can't sign up and are told to choose another ISP.
I love those guys.
Monitoring at the ISP level won't work and they know it. Google defaults to HTTPS for a lot of traffic, for example. That is why they are going after Google directly.
Everyone in the UK should be using a VPN by now anyway.
Now little Timmy won't be bothered by all those nasty websites he has no interest in.
Well, at least not until he comes across some of those sites that slip by the filters - as they inevitably do - or he learns how to turn the filter off (as children eventually will).
And it's not as if he will be missing anything important. Oh sure, filters have been shown to be over-zealous in their protection, often blocking non-porn sites as well but why would he be interested in reading Wikipedia or the National Geographic or any of these other disgusting websites anyway? Do they have any redeeming value at all? And even if they do, is it worth the risk that young Timmy might see a nipple?
Besides, sex is unnatural, and so is the human body. Nobody should see it naked. It's been that way since the beginning of time; children never witnessed nudity or sex until they were eighteen and in no way should we question this belief. Its not as if this sort of repression causes any problems. Anyway, the youth of today must be inculcated from the start with the idea that it is okay for the government to tell us what to read and what to do, for the good of the nation. A strong government should lead its people in thought and action!
I for one am glad the government of Great Britain is moving in this direction and can only hope the governments of the other nations of the world follow suit. Its just one step towards bringing our world back to a more civilized level of discourse, where things like sex, violence and alternate religions are removed from view. It's for the good of our children after all.
(By the way, just out of scientific curiousity, have instructions on how to disable this feature been issued yet? I only ask to make sure I don't accidentally turn it of, of course).
Filters are becoming more sophisticated. Originally they were known to filter a lot of sites that had innocuous content on them, but they are quite configurable these days and only getting better.
I don't have an issue with putting filters on "public" networks and machines that are publically accessible. You don't know who will be using the machine, and it should be illegal to show porn to young kids... they don't need that stuff in their minds. Everybody deserves a little bit of a childhood. Not to mention
The ISPs want to label it some active choice plus garbage, but that's what it is.
No, they want to call it active choice because you will have to take an active choice to enable the filtering (i.e., it would be off by default):
the prime minister would like to be able to refer to your solutions are "default-on" as people will have to make a choice not to have the filters (by unticking the box)
In other words, what they're saying without actually saying it, is telling the ISPs to default the filters to on, which is not what the ISPs want to do.
That "near-universal acknowledgment that the system wouldn't work" means that it can't block every pornographic image out there. That's a lot like complaining that speed cameras "don't work" because people still speed on other lengths of road, or that aeroplanes "don't work" because occasionally they crash, or that firewalls "don't work" because sometimes attacks come through port 80. You'd be stupid to have a firewall installed, right?
I think the comparison is unfair. Speed cameras so catch some people. Mo
it is easier, cheaper, quicker and garners more positive publicity for the politicians involved to get the ISP to block something (anything, does not really matter what, as long as something is blocked) than it is to actually tackle the underlying problem and catch the child abusers.
However, as politicians we need censorship options to go alongside our surveillance capability... we use the surveillance ability to keep an eye on the people we are afraid of (in the UK, that apparently means the Government is afraid of about 65 million people... quite a way behind the US though, who have a list of 300 million or so people that scare the politicians). We then need the censorship mechanisms so that we can keep information about our surveillance system out of the public domain, and we then need the surveillance system again to watch the people who are trying to circumvent the censorship equipment (oh, good... we are already watching those people, because they are on our "people to be feared" list!).
On a more serious note, Claire Lilley at the NSPCC [nspcc.org.uk] pointed out that "In every single child abuse image there is a victim, a child who has been abused". This is true, if you check the circumstances of the photograph. But I am 100% sure than a 5 minute search of Youtube would turn up a ton of clips from movies, from which you could grab stills that look like child abuse and that a third party viewer would categorize as child abuse, even though no children were abused in the production of said image.
I am all for stamping our Child Abuse, preferably in a process that involves stamping out the penis and testicles of any men involved in said abuse, but blocking sites that some unaccountable quango group deep in the bowels of the British government thinks should be blocked is not the way to go about it... unless of course, the porn blocking is simply a convenient excuse behind which the real purpose of the system is being hidden.
Damn, I am starting to sound like a conspiracy theorist. Somebody pass me my kool-aid, quick!
Claire Lilley at the NSPCC [nspcc.org.uk] pointed out that "In every single child abuse image there is a victim, a child who has been abused"
Interesting. So she doesn't class cartoon images as child porn then? Maybe she should tell the government.
Whilst I have no problem with Cameron's intention to prevent undesirable material from falling into the hands of younger users, I have major issues with the fact that he seems to be pushing ahead with this despite advice from people who actually know how the Internet works. Fundamentally, he doesn't seem to understand that the Internet is merely a network - it transfers packets of data from A to B, much the same as the postal service. It does not (and should not) care what is in those packets.
Ultimately any proposal to deploy blocking technology is doomed to fail - blocking certain DNS queries will simply lead people to use an alternative DNS server, or to share IP addresses of questionable sites. If ISPs start to filter HTTP, then people will move to a different protocol. Where does this end up? The Great Firewall of (not-so-great) Britain? Martial law? Ultimately his proposals will end in failure - the Internet community will develop new methods to access material much faster than the government can block them.
If people really understood the full implications of what is being proposed here, they wouldn't want it. Packets on a network should be afforded the same protection as mail in transit - i.e. it requires a court order to open them. This process is transparent and well-understood - it is not left to shadowy, non-elected, non-accountable organisations to decide what gets through and what is dropped. We do not need a censored Internet - it is used for so much more than browsing the web, and these other applications will suffer with this sledgehammer-to-crack-a-nut approach taken by Cameron.
Personally, I believe the best approach to managing access to this kind of material and staying safe online is through education - something which each and every parent should discuss with their child, in the same way that they teach them to cross the road.
In addition, the prime minister said possessing online pornography depicting rape would become illegal in England and Wales - in line with Scotland.
I'm not sure you understand how the internet works. You see, you send a *request* for something, and the reply contains that information. You don't turn the computer on and it just starts streaming porn to your desktop*. There are already inexpensive packages you can install on your machine to filter most pornographic sites which reach your computer.
*for all I know, there's an inexpensive package for that, too.
for all I know, there's an inexpensive package for that, too.
Windows XP, no service packs, no virus scanner.
(and, yes, pornography does cause really serious problems to a LOT of people)
Oh, I'm sure.
(which it would be right in public places, by the way)
Really? I don't like hats, so nobody should be allowed to wear them in public places. Seeing someone wearing a hate inflicts extreme mental anguish upon me.
He should know.
UK and AUS. Even with the NSA shit the US can't hold a candle to those two.
I have a greater issue with 'almost' ( simulated ) sex on TV than I do with with full, hardcore sex. If you're going to start, then do it right. The fake humping is obviously fake and painful to watch.
Yeah, like that's ever going to happen.
In the mean-time, I'll just ask the little pre-teen wankers down the road to show me how to get to the good stuff. Wait a sec, wasn't all this to prevent them from getting to these sites?
Every time some government gets really stupid, they push more people into finding ways around it. IMO, it would be good to see more people using TOR - which at the moment seems to be filled with idiots, but could serve a much better purpose providing political safety.
A little background on this issue might be helpful. For a long time, certain politicians and newspapers have been campaigning for default-on filters. They would like to see harmful and offensive - if legal - material blocked by the internet service providers unless customers choose to have the filters switched off.
It would be more correct to say "They would like to see content which they see as harmful and offensive". To say that they just want to "Ban harmful and offensive content" conceedes to them that this content is harmful and offiensive, as if there is some sort of universally agreed upon standard by which this can be measured and determined, when the fact is, its entirely subjective.
Are people trying to get flouride removed from water trying to get something they believe is harmful removed from water? Yes, thats true. However, it is not correct to say they are actually trying to get something harmful removed; that statement would be untrue.
The thing is, its important not to use the characterization of the point of view you are arguing against. Its like, if you are against a bill thats being called "Tax Reform" you can't argue against it and call it "Tax Reform", you are already losing the battle by implicitly ceeding a point that you don't agree with - that it's reform.
Hate speech next, not what you'd consider to be hate speech, but what the gov't drones or worse, some company the hired to do the list, considers to be hate speech.
Don't like the way the Israeli's are treating the Palestinians? There's a good chance that many websites discussing Palestine will be flagged as anti-Semite and blocked (never mind that Palestinians are also Semites).
Won't happen? It's already happening, GiffGaff, a mobile phone + data service blocked sites (www.gilad.co.uk and wikipedia psilocyb
No, of course not. I mean, if such possibility existed, even remotely, they wouldn't do it, right? It is not like people have a history of exploiting this kind of dumb shit.
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Charlottesville may be many wonderful things: beautiful, quaint, and friendly come to mind. But a dating hot spot? No way.
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"Everybody" was 38 singles, evenly divided between men and women ranging in age from 25 to 44. The daters arrived at Rococo's at 6pm ready to mingle, Schoner says, and after a few ice breaking games, the women took seats at each of 19 tables. At the sound of a whistle, the men sat down and, in five minutes, each couple attempted to learn all the pertinent information about the person sitting opposite.
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Despite her entrepreneurial tendencies, Schoner is quick to point out that the Speed Dating concept isn't her own. In fact, it's a trend that has been sweeping the nation for the past decade, taking root earliest in large cities. Schoner says Charlottesville seemed like a natural venue for the concept.
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Each participant at the June event filled out a response card to indicate whether they felt a connection with any of their dates. Shoner says nearly every person got a match, and many people got more than one. Within 48 hours, Schoner notified each participant of the results, and, in the case of a mutual match, emailed contact information.
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The turnout for the first event was so good, Schoner says, that she had to turn people away from the door. The next event, for ages 25 to 44, will take place July 24 at Rococo's. In August, Schoner says she'll turn her sights to adults 45 and older. Participants will have to advance register and pay a $30 fee (up $5 from the early registration fee for the first event).
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FARMVILLE, Va. - The Old Dominion University Lacrosse team cruised to a 21-6 win over Longwood on Wednesday afternoon at the Athletics Complex.
After trailing early 2-1, the Lady Monarchs reeled off 16 unanswered goals and held the Lancers scoreless for over 37 minutes to take command of the game. The 21 goals are the most that Old Dominion has scored in a game since a 22-0 shutout at American back in 1995, a team that interim head coach Heather Holt was the starting goalie on. The last time that ODU won by 15 goals or more over an opponent was a 20-3 win over American in 1996.
The Lady Monarchs had no problem spreading the wealth on offense as 11 different players scored and eight players scored multiple goals for Old Dominion (3-5). The win, which was the fourth largest in school history and only the fourth time that ODU has ever scored 20 goals in a game, is the second in the last three games for Old Dominion.
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Senior goalkeeper Sarah Geary picked up four saves in the first half and did not allow a goal after the opening five minutes. Freshman goalie Karen Hayde picked up four saves as she played the entire second half in goal for ODU.
Scoring multiple times for ODU was senior attacker Rebecca Reymann (3), senior midfielder Rebecca Hartrum (3), Wright (2), senior midfielder Lisa Bernardini (2), sophomore midfielder Emily Austerberry (2), freshman attacker Jess Liberty (2), junior midfielder Meredith Rogers (2) and senior attacker Mary Bermingham (2).
Finding the back of the net for the first time in their careers were Liberty and redshirt sophomore midfielder Olivia Linehan while junior midfielder Jordynn Collins scored her first goal of the season and second of her career and freshman midfielder scored her second goal of the season in as many games.
Sophomore midfielder Lauren Prasnick led the Lancers with three goals. Austerberry and Bermingham each had a pair of assists in addition to their two goals each to lead the Lady Monarch offense.
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Rocket, the beloved dog from the New York Times bestselling picture books How Rocket Learned to Read and Rocket Writes a Story, is back in a Step 1 leveled reader. Rocket is ready to find new words for his word tree with his teacher, the little yellow bird. He finds a leaf, a hat, and a star . . . but when he finds a red boot, he doesn't want to let go. What will make Rocket drop it? With predictable patterns, simple words, lots of repetition, and bright, colorful illustrations, young readers will love this new Rocket book, which they can read all by themselves!From the Hardcover edition.
Tad Hills is the author and illustrator of the highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling picture books How Rocket Learned to Read, Rocket Writes a Story, Duck & Goose, Duck, Duck, Goose, and Duck & Goose Go to the Beach. His board books include the ALA-ALSC Notable Children's Book What's Up, Duck?; Duck & Goose, Goose Needs a Hug; and Rocket's Mighty Words. Tad lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, their two children, and a real dog named Rocket.From the Hardcover edition.
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WEST CHESTER — Borough Council's interest in enacting a pour tax on liquor has angered residents and visitors who frequent bars and restaurants.
"Bad idea," said Rick DiLiberto. "There are already enough empty buildings that used to be businesses. This will put a bigger burden on business and drive even more out as people find other places to visit."
On Tuesday, council voted unanimously to pass a resolution requesting legislation that would grant the borough permission to institute up to a 10 percent tax on each alcoholic drink sold in the borough. This is not the borough's first attempt to seek tax authority on alcohol from Harrisburg. The borough in 2010 sought a similar pour tax on alcohol that received attention. The attempt failed.
DiLiberto and more than two dozen others were among those who responded to the news on Facebook.
"Yet another reason to avoid West Chester," wrote John Meussner. "I used to have all of my business meetings there, now I stay outside the borough at all costs."
The tax's unpopularity with responders was the way they view it as a blanket punishment for patrons while tiptoeing around the problems with college students.
"Don't punish the hard working adults who want to go out for a nice dinner on the weekend just because the WCU students can't handle their alcohol," wrote Dawn Kliewe Cassel on Facebook. "If this passes, I will never spend another dollar at a WC restaurant."
According to Borough Mayor Carolyn Comitta, the tax would be used to staff additional law enforcement and public safety personnel to keep up with the borough's alcohol and quality-of-life related crimes and violations.
To enact a tax, the borough needs Harrisburg to act as current state law affords the right to tax alcoholic beverages only to Philadelphia and Allegheny counties.
Ellen Chambers Rulon said extra taxes should be used to provide a safe way home for patrons, whose drunkenness is inevitable in a borough with a high amount of liquor licenses.
"We don't need more law enforcement. Maybe Borough Council and the bars need to get together and re-think this," Rulon said. "It seems that West Chester wants the business but doesn't want to deal with this issue."
Still, some were in favor of the tax and believe it will aid some of the borough's issues.
"Sounds like a fine way to pay for the increased challenges of being so popular," said Jay Munro.
Jonathan Blatman pointed out the biggest issue for the borough is not the college student but the 18- to 24-year-old crowd.
"Face it, West Chester has become a destination," Blatman said. "I'm not sure that the solution is an alcohol tax, but that is at least a little better than simply making the taxpaying residents (and landlords) pay for the problem."
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The BBC series Life on Mars debuts on KLRU-Q Saturday, January 22nd. Life on Mars will air at 9 p.m. each Saturday. The show will air on KLRU at 11 p.m. Sundays starting January 23rd.
Smart, savvy, sharp-suited detective Sam has his world turned upside down when the hunt for a cold-blooded murderer becomes a desperate rescue mission for his own girlfriend and fellow cop Maya. After a near-fatal car accident, Sam is mysteriously transported back to 1973 – only four years after he was born. Confused by his new and outdated surroundings, Sam impatiently tries to return to the present. But the police force of long ago needs his help, not least in solving a parallel crime. Can Sam overcome their rough and ready ways and maddening lack of forensic technology? Will he be able to get back to the present day and find Maya? Has Sam gone crazy? Is he in a coma? Or has he really traveled back in time?


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This question has three parts. i completed the first two parts but i'm stuck at part three. The question is as follow:
Given that (x-2) is a factor of 3x^3+7x^2+hx-8:
(i) Show that the value of h= -22
Solution: Since (x-2) is a factor, then f(2)=0 therefore substitute 2 wherever x is in the equation
=2h= -44
(ii) Factorise completely 3x^3+7x^2+22x-8
I used synthetic division and got 3x^2+13x-4 when factored i got (x-2)(3x-1)(x+4)
(iii) Hence or otherwise solve: 3x^3+7x^2+22x-8=0 This is where i'm stuck. I was never good at equations so i need some help with solving part (iii) of this question. Thanks


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In an impassioned address before the East Hampton Town Board last Thursday, Lawrence Kelly, a former federal prosecutor who filed a $55 million civil rights action against the town in May on behalf of a Montauk mechanic, warned board members that East Hampton faced a "financial Armageddon" in the form of a storm of lawsuits brewing just over the horizon.
Mr. Kelly told the board that although businesses together with other pre-existing, nonconforming uses took place on only 6 percent of East Hampton's total land mass, the owners of those properties "have been harassed over the past few years, and they have made the decision not to take it anymore."
"They are researching ways to deal with abuse they have taken. Some of their options are legal. If they take those options they may well recover enough in federal civil rights actions to once again bring the town to the brink of financial Armageddon."
On Monday, Mr. Kelly said that in recent weeks he had interviewed more than a dozen disgruntled business owners who had accumulated complaints against the town going back years.
In May, Mr. Kelly fired his first salvo in federal district court in the form of a suit against former town supervisor William McGintee, four town council members who served on Mr. McGintee's board, a police sergeant, two town attorneys, two code enforcement inspectors, as well as the current town government. The case is before Justice Joseph Bianco of the United States District Court in Central Islip.
The suit claims that beginning in 2009, members of the McGintee administration conspired to deny Thomas Ferreira of his constitutional rights to operate his Automotive Solutions business in a residential area even though the business was a pre-existing, nonconforming use of his property.
The suit alleges that officials acted to drive Mr. Ferreira from his business and his home by twice seizing and destroying without a court order vehicles and tools worth over $100,000, then charging him for the materials' removal. When Mr. Ferreira could not come up with the $19,700 fee, a lien for that amount was placed on his tax bill.
"It was an epidemic under McGintee. [Dominic] Schirrippa [the code inforcement inspector] and code enforcement went to town without any basis in law," Mr. Kelly said, referring to actions he claims took place without legal authority, including plans hatched behind closed doors and undertaken without due process.
Although not named as defendants, the suit includes a narrative that alleges the involvement of ad hoc citizens committee members, and at least one Democratic Party functionary.
In last week's address, Mr. Kelly revisited the alleged participation of a vocal minority of citizens groups bent on harassing, and in some cases, destroying local businesses.
He told Supervisor Bill Wilkinson and the board that, with a few exceptions — the result of naiveté or bad advice — they had "fought for a balanced approach to local business."
He said the current board had "taken care to safeguard the legal rights of local business owners, but seems tired from fighting for simple, basic legal rights against a vocal cadre inclined to support reckless and illegal harassment of business owners. I would note that if the vocal cadre is followed, it will lead the town off a financial cliff of civil rights actions from which it will never recover."
Mr. Kelly waved a full-page advertisement placed by a group called the East Hampton Conservators that appeared in The Star's July 5 edition. "I'm taking it a little out of context," he said of the ad's text, "but basically they're saying 'put up the gates, close East Hampton down, and let us live here without the harassment of people who actually have to work for a living.' "
Mr. Kelly said his threat was not an idle one. He told the board that he had brought suit against the Town of Islip on behalf of "the last bayman" in that town. Frank Slope was "driven out of business by the town's marine police," Mr. Kelly said.
He said he had given that town an opportunity to join with him in an effort to arrive at "a reasonable settlement. . . . They decided not to. In the end the town paid five times what would have been acceptable to me at the start."
Mr. Kelly asked the board to sit down with him, "with your attorneys, and figure out a way to resolve these things before I file the next round of cases that may well destroy the financial condition of this town."
Supervisor Wilkinson said yesterday, "I need to do further analysis to see if his recommedation is necessary."


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Thousands of people filled St Joseph's Cathedral in Dunedin today to farewell celebrated artist Ralph Hotere.
People of all ages and walks of life attended the 11am Requiem Mass, providing a canvas of the artist's far-ranging influence and popularity.
A Maori cloak was draped across the coffin, while his Order of New Zealand (ONZ) medal and a photo of him smiling at his investiture sat on top.
Speakers included Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Chris Finlayson, Maori Party co-leader Dr Pita Sharples and poet Professor Bill Manhire. The artist's widow, Mary McFarlane, and daughter, Andrea Hotere-Naish, were among family members in attendance.
Dr Sharples recalled his old friend's mischievous humour, raising loud laughter.
"He used to try to finish Hone Tuwhare's poem off."
Other speakers recalled his humble, gentle and respectful nature and his contribution to New Zealand art.
Hotere was widely-considered New Zealand's greatest living artist until his death in Dunedin last Sunday, aged 81.
Earlier, in the day, residents and local school children lined the streets of Careys Bay and Port Chalmers to pay their respects as his coffin passed through his township for the last time, in a black, antique 1927 Chrysler hearse.
It had been manufactured just four years before the artist was born.
Hotere was awarded the ONZ in last year's New Year's Honours in recognition of his contribution to contemporary art.
His body will return tomorrow to the Matihetihe marae, in his Mitimiti birthplace, for the tangi.


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When Larry Spencer III of Nanticoke and his 15-year-old brother Derrick saw their seats for Saturday's NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Daytona International Speedway - Campbell Box, Section H, Row 7, Seats 17 and 18 - they were thrilled to be so close to the action.
If they only knew.
A 12-car accident on the race's final lap sent rookie Kyle Larson's car into the catch-fencing and sprayed debris into the grandstands, injuring at least 33, according to The Associated Press.
Derrick was among those hurt, suffering a cut on his cheek that required three stitches, Spencer said.
"It was as if a bomb went off. There were pieces everywhere," Spencer, who was uninjured, told The Times-Tribune in a phone interview late Saturday.
When Spencer, 20, saw Larson's car hit the fence, he said his first instinct was to turn his back and shield Derrick. Still, a piece of metal grazed Derrick's shoulder and struck his left cheek, cutting him.
Meanwhile, a tire and its assembly had flown over the fence, over the Spencers' heads and landed several rows behind them, striking a fan.
Spencer described the scene as "chaotic" with people running and yelling.
He noticed that Derrick's cheek was bleeding. But since his brother's injury wasn't as severe as others, he took Derrick to the bathroom to clean the wound. The two then left the track and went to a hospital.
"I figured let the medical personnel attend to the people who needed it more," Spencer said. "There were ambulances and sirens everywhere. It was crazy."
Spencer said Derrick was doing fine and they will still attend today's Daytona 500. This time their seats are in Row 50.
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Friday, December 30, 2011
Paul S. Russell, MD Museum unveiled
HISTORY HIGHLIGHTED: Russell with his grandchildren, from left, Gregory Russell, Allene Pierson and Charlotte Russell.
Year after year in the early part of the century, MGH residents took turns scratching their names into a Victorian desk, making their mark under its wooden lift-top surface. But by the early 1960s, the well-worn desk was initially relegated for the dump – its fate changed only when its worth in the hospital's history was realized.
The MGH has continued to preserve its medical and scientific legacies through documentation – and now display – in the form of the Paul S. Russell, MD Museum of Medical History and Innovation, which opened its doors for a special preview and dedication event on Dec. 15. The museum is slated to open to the public in March.
During the celebration, museum supporters and their family members toured the two-story facility on the corner of North Grove and Cambridge streets, taking in the exhibits, artwork and rooftop garden. The museum's ground floor will be home to permanent exhibits highlighting the evolution of medicine and clinical practice throughout the MGH's 200-year history, while the second story gallery will showcase changing exhibits, and provide space for programs, lectures and special events. Among those in attendance was longtime MGH physician Paul S. Russell, MD, a pioneer of transplant surgery and chair of the MGH History Committee, for whom the museum is named.
"I want to thank the people here for the wonderful job they have done in putting this together," said David F. Torchiana, MD, chairman and CEO of the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization. "It's incredible to know that in a few months visitors, history buffs, patient families and staff will be able to come here and learn about this venerable institution that is so much more important than any one individual."
Peter L. Slavin, MD, MGH president, said the museum is perfectly situated in front of the hospital. "It serves as a reminder of the great history of medicine and the future of medicine – and the role this great hospital has and will have in both," Slavin said. "This is a wonderful occasion to remember that it takes a village to make the MGH so special."
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Dale R. Maynard, 58, of Erie, Pa., and formally of Jamestown, N.Y., passed away Friday, Aug. 24, 2012 at home after an extended illness.
He was born Nov. 28, 1953, in Jamestown, N.Y., to the late Lee and Judith (Newman) Maynard. Dale attended Chautauqua Central High School and graduated in 1971. He was highway superintendent for the Town of Harmony. He also worked as a maintenance supervisor at Heritage Rehab and Nursing in Jamestown until he retired in 2010. He was married to Karen (Gunn) Maynard of Erie, Pa. He enjoyed hunting, fishing and camping. He had a unique sense of humor and brought laughter to all who knew him.
He is survived by his wife Karen; son, Trevor Maynard and wife Dana of Clymer, N.Y.; stepson, Tyler Stevens of Erie, Pa.; daughters, Bobbie Opalecky and husband Frank of Winston/Salem, N.C., Megan Greene and Ellen Santiago and husband Melvin both of Panama, N.Y.; grandchildren, Tanner Maynard and Albrey Singer, Zachary and Aidan Opalecky, Makenzie Greene, Alana and Cecilia Santiago and Devon and Jasmine Santiago; brothers, Terry Maynard and wife Gwyn of Yakima, Wash., Patrick Maynard and wife Tammy of Ashville, N.Y., and Bob Maynard of Clymer, N.Y.; sisters, Cindy Maynard of Yakima, Wash., and Sheila Johnson of Stover, Mo.; and several nieces and nephews.
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The family received friends on Friday, Aug. 31 from 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m., at the Spitzer Funeral Home, Clymer, N.Y. Services will be held at the convenience of the family.
The family requests donations be made to the Kanzius Cancer Research Foundation in Erie, Pa.


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SOUTHBORO - A 23-year-old Framingham man was killed and a 26-year-old Framingham man is in a Worcester hospital after a single-vehicle crash on Northboro Road near the Marlboro line. Police said the car slammed into a tree just before 9 on Tuesday night.
Ariel Medina-Vaca was pronounced dead at the scene by a medical examiner, according to police. A second man, Andres Juarez, was taken by ambulance to UMass Memorial Medical Center - University Campus in Worcester. A hospital spokesman today said that Mr. Juarez was being evaluated.
Southboro police and the state police accident reconstruction team are heading the ongoing investigation.
Police Chief Jane Moran said police are working to determine who was driving the car at the time of the crash. She said it was unclear if either of the men were wearing seat belts.
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Two Brooklyn Men Arrested For Stealing Donation Jar in MonticelloJun 3rd, 2013 | By HV Insider | Category: Police Briefs
Monticello police arrested Isaiah Roberts, 22 and Keron Neils , 20, both of Brooklyn on Saturday June 1. Both defendants were charged with misdemeanor petit larceny.
On Tuesday May 28, 2013 at approximately 7:00 PM the defendants stole a donation jar from the front counter of the "WENDY'S" restaurant located on Pleasant Street in the Village of Monticello. The donation jar was for the Dave Thomas Foundation for adoption and foster care. The donation jar contained approximately $40.00.
On June 1 at 1:45 PM the defendants returned again to the restaurant and were recognized by employees. Monticello police were then called. Monticello officers reviewed the surveillance footage of the incident and confirmed that Roberts and Neils were responsible for the larceny of the donation jar and they were then arrested.
Both defendants are currently being held in the Monticello police lockup awaiting an arraignment in the Village of Monticello justice court.


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The name atop last week's blockbuster federal indictment may be that of John J. O'Brien, the former Massachusetts probation chief who is accused of running a corrupt hiring system. But there's a bigger villain identified by the painstaking 56-page document: the Commonwealth's friends-and-favors political culture. O'Brien's fate is now in the hands of the court. But it's for voters to grapple with the larger problems his case has exposed.
The indictment argues, in laborious detail, that O'Brien gave jobs to unqualified but politically connected applicants. According to federal prosecutors, O'Brien hired candidates recommended by Senate President Therese Murray at least three times, and House Speaker Robert DeLeo at least 10 times. Each hire, prosecutors allege, amounted to a bribe: O'Brien gave the lawmakers' picks a job, and in return he got budget increases and bureaucratic clout.
The facts seem damning. But when O'Brien faced related corruption charges in a state trial, he was acquitted. Jurors seemed uneasy holding O'Brien personally accountable for a crony-hiring system that's much bigger than any one official. Defense lawyers will no doubt offer the same reasoning in his federal trial; a lawyer for one of the other probation officials charged in the indictment said federal prosecutors were treating traditional political horse-trading as a crime. "It's patronage hiring, and they're calling it a different name," he said.
That argument might fly with a jury, but it's no principled defense of O'Brien's actions. Traditional or not, the kind of patronage hiring in which the former commissioner specialized has a deeply destructive impact that lawmakers need to acknowledge.
First, it undermines trust in government when connections are the surest way to get a public job. But it also results in a less effective government. Many patronage hires no doubt try their hardest. But when officials like O'Brien pass over the most qualified candidates time and again in favor of lawmakers' friends or relatives, the overall quality of the services provided is bound to suffer. The Massachusetts Probation Department went from being one of nation's most respected to a mess.
Unfortunately, lawmakers like DeLeo and Murray still seem to see nothing wrong with foisting candidates on agencies. And Governor Deval Patrick, while not involved in the probation scandal, has been too blase about some other patronage hiring incidents during his tenure. That attitude is especially tough to accept from Democrats, who are more apt to favor government solutions. Politicians who believe the work government does is important and necessary should be the first to insist that the best candidates fill public jobs.
It will be up to a jury to decide whether O'Brien is held responsible for his role in packing his department with political hires. But the verdict on the system should already be clear. Now it's up to voters to insist that patronage hiring in state government has to end.


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Will Barnes, age 46, of Edina MO passed away unexpectedly March 17, 2013.
Will Barnes, age 46, of Edina MO passed away unexpectedly March 17, 2013. Will was born April 13, 1966, in Waynesboro, Ga to Marie Barnes and Willie Simpson, who preceded him in death. He was united in marriage to Wendy Lee Darrah, April 29, 2002, in Ft. Lauderdale Fl. Surviving are his wife Wendy Barnes of Edina and his bother Jaime Dodsworth of Kirksville, MO.
Will leaves behind a large family; his younger boys Isaiah & Keyshawn; several nieces and nephews, his wonderful sister Carolyn and his Auntie Lois & Uncle Richard with whom he was especially close, all of the Ft Lauderdale Florida area; several aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews in Georgia. He was very proud to be a granddaddy to J'Rai, and very proud of his children Ciara & Tevin of Fredericksburg, Virginia for becoming exceptional young adults. He was so very proud of all of his children and looked forward to having them all together.
Will overcame many obstacles as a young man growing up in So Florida and thru the Grace of God found his way to William Jewell College in Liberty Mo, where he met and later married; his wife Wendy, "his precious Bea". He was a gifted student athlete and his skills in this area combined with his charisma and genuine love of life, led him thru many travels, including foreign countries, and adventures that others could only dream were possible. He helped lead NDSU-Bottineau, to a championship title and that in turn led to a tryout with legendary Jerry Tarkanian of the UNLV Runnin" Rebels, "Tarks Sharks". He lost his love for the game and after his mother became terminally ill returned to Florida to be with her.
He later relocated to South/North Carolina with his wife Wendy where they lived for several years, and most recently to Northeast Missouri, where he and Wendy made their home for the past several years.
While there is no adequate way to sum up a man's life in a few paragraphs, he lived his life his way combined with God's book, and always knew to "come home before dark". Will was a soldier and a captain in an army much harsher than any other and didn't judge others by their looks even though he was often judged that way. There are many times he literally gave someone the shirt off his back and was always there for anyone who called needing help, no matter the time or situation. He sacrificed a lot of himself to help others, because he believed that was God's Will. He was truly one of God's favorite sons and lived his life in fear of no man. There are but a few that truly knew him for the compassionate and God loving man that he was. We are the blessed ones for having been allowed to be part of his life. Will was and always will be the Real Deal in this life and in Heaven.
Will's wishes were to be cremated and at this time there will be no services. The Hudson -Rimer Funeral Home in Edina, MO is handling all arrangements. Memorials in memory of Will Barnes may be made to The Educational Fund set aside for his younger sons, Isaiah and Keyshawn Barnes. Memorials may be left at or mailed to Hudson-Rimer Funeral Home, Po Box 1, Edina MO 63537.


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"Pain & Gain" director Michael Bay papers the walls of his mansion with hundred-dollar bills. He considers Dwayne Johnson, the star of his new film, to be a "roided out" freak. When asked about his recent run-ins with actress Megan Fox, whose career he helped boost by casting her in his "Transformers" franchise, Bay says, "You know what they got a million of? Pretty girls with big boobs who will bend over a car and pretend like they're fixing it. If Megan Fox didn't want to do that, I'll replace her with a Victoria's Secret model."
None of the above is true, of course. Bay has never said anything of the sort.
But the director's public persona is apparently such that when a Bay impersonator went on SiriusXM Radio Thursday, ranting like a drunken lunatic, listeners were duped -- including a reliable Times source.
It took a series of frantic calls to Sirius executives before the host who conducted the fake interview, Matt Besser, called us to fill us in on the joke.
"Michael Bay would have to have done a lot of cocaine to say the things we had him say on the radio yesterday," said Besser, who hosts the "Back Room" show on Rawdog 99.
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Besser said his station received a slew of calls over the Bay impersonation – mostly from angry Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fans.
Bay is producing the next Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film, and has decided to change the Turtles' back story from being "teenage mutants" to aliens. The geek universe is livid at him.
"We had our Bay talk about how he just makes the characters to all his movies aliens," said Besser. "You'll still go see it. And then he'll wallpaper his house with money."
It's not clear why Bay invites such mythos -- although the director certainly doesn't always make it easy on himself. Earlier this week he received criticism for telling his "Pain & Gain" star Johnson, who wrestles professionally as "The Rock," "to grow up and stop wrestling 300-pound men."
Johnson graciously responsed on Twitter: "I agree - I'll switch to women."
The irony is that the director, known more for his box-office appeal than his filmic sophistication, appears to have a genuine critical success on his hands with "Pain & Gain."
The New Yorker favorably likened the film to Robert Altman's masterpiece "The Player."
With that kind of praise, perhaps the days of Michael Bay as kicking can are nearing their end.
At least for one more year, when Bay's "Teenage Ninja Alien Turtle" film is scheduled for release.
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