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To the editor: Many of you think I am an Obama fan (which I am not), I just liked him better than Romney. But I wanted to point out something that is in the news that I find disturbing....
Best part is this is the conservative party that spent half of what the liberals did. Makes most laugh out loud!
Now Cape Coral takes the same stance spending itself out of existence but trying to TAX itself out of a hole it dug good n deep!
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Yes George W. Bush. Artie Johnson of Laugh in said it best. "Back in the bunker."
Of course how can we forget Cheney? "Anyone for quail hunting?"
No need for gun control when you have a member on your administrative team like him.
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Has anyone ever witnessed a more disinterested leader in all their years?
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If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom. " Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Right on Mary! I think Dictator Obama and his criminal crew are running scared from little Henry but are glad as it temporarily takes the fools eyes off Obama and Clinton's involvement, lies, and cover up, of our murdered ambassador and troops + The IRS used by Dictator Obama to hurt his enemies + Dictator Obama's wiretapping of EVERY citizen of the United States and + final nail in the countries coffin - mass welfare, Obama phones, medical care, and tons of other goodies for 11 MILLION illegal invaders - (pronounced - NEW DEMO-SOCIALIST VOTERS) on the backs of US workers plus the loss of more American jobs. Charli66 you are the shining example of why every American should have to pass a basic IQ test before voting. Julie, Scientists announced today clear evidence showing a 100% sure way to tell when Obama lies to the public. Research shows that whenever his mouth is moving or he is talking, he is lying. Julie, wake up out of your delusional stupor.
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Such stupidity and Hatred for the leader of the so called FREE World . If our Democracy is an example of what Democracy looks like it's no wonder the rest of the word calls the USA a Nation of HYPOCRITES
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I would not mind reading or listening to any PObama fan except that when George Bush was doing the same thing, thes hypocrites were screaming for Bush's head before during and after the election of the messiah. That's right, these same supporters of Obama wanted to go after Bush for "war crimes" for doing the same thing that the White House is now defending. Where is the hue & cry now? C'mon hypocrites, enquiring minds want to know!
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Guess you wrote this letter before you heard President Obama (and, yes, I am a fan) speak this evening.
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On its official Twitter page, developer Rovio posted the mysterious phrase, "10 in 10 ... Angry Birds Rio breaking all records. A massive thanks to all out fans!!!" Later Mobile-Ent.biz clarified the statement by confirming the recently released iOS and Android sequel Angry Birds Rio had hit the ten million download mark within ten days of release.
Unfortunately, Rovio did not offer further clarification on how many downloads landed on each available platform. While the iOS version of the game is available for 99 cents, Angry Birds Rio is free through Amazon's Droid Marketplace.
Regardless of platform, Rovio has struck gold with its stable of furious fowl, who have teamed up with the "stars" of the upcoming animated Fox motion picture, Rio. Should this partnership yield positive commercial results, we eagerly await the next title in the series: Angry Birds Thor.

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LAND FILLHARMONIC December 14, 2012Posted by rogerhollander in Art, Literature and Culture, Environment, Latin America, Paraguay.
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Roger's note: this is truly amazing and inspring.
|This is the teaser for Landfill Harmonic, an upcoming feature-length documentary about a remarkable musical orchestra in Paraguay, where the young musicians play instruments made from trash. Inspiring! (See more info on their 'Landfill Harmonic' Facebook page.)


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Hawaii troops receive holiday cheer from UH groupUniversity of Hawaiʻi
Mia Noguchi, (808) 956-9095
External Affairs & University Relations
HONOLULU — The 29th Brigade in Iraq recently received some holiday cheer thanks to a grassroots project spearheaded by Malie Hirao of the Institutional Research Office (IRO) at the University of Hawaiʻi. The effort supported by Sharyn Nakamoto, Director of the Institutional Research Office; Linda Johnsrud, Vice President for Academic Planning and Policy; and their colleagues, collected donations totaling $1,700 to send 150 phone cards and nearly 1,400 handmade angel Christmas card ornaments and that were distributed among four battalions in the brigade.
"The project was a team effort by members of our UH community and our extended ohana to show our Hawaiʻi troops that we care about them," said Hirao. "Those of us who joined hands to work on the project could only hope that the angels would provide some small measure of joy to the troops during the holidays. We were thrilled to see their response upon receiving the angels and to see that the angel cards were being used to add an atmosphere of holiday cheer."
The project, called "Malama o Na Koa/Support Our Troops (1,001 angels)," began in April 2005 when Hirao gathered her IRO coworkers and other UH staff and began brainstorming ideas on how they could provide support to the Hawaii soldiers during the holidays and thank them for all of their efforts in Iraq. The group decided to use recycled Christmas cards to make angel ornaments on which supporters could write their messages of aloha. They set up booths at various UH athletic events and held a craft and bake sales to collect donations for the phone cards.
Hirao added, "The troops feel like we did a lot for them, but in reality, they did more for us than they realize by giving us a chance to discover the true meaning of Christmas! We are eternally grateful for that opportunity."
A sampling of the messages of aloha included:
"You are the one God chose to keep us safe."
"Dear Soldier, Thank you for protecting our freedom. God bless."
"Just wanted to let you folks know that the people of Hawaii appreciate everything you're doing for us (and the world)."
"I am sitting here and writing this to you ... I can do this because of what you have sacrificed."
Members of the brigade utilized the angel ornaments in decorations throughout their base. "The troops appreciated the tremendous task it took for the UH team to create and collect messages for the cards and donations to purchase the phone cards," said Henry Sakata, an IRO information technology specialist who currently serves in the 29th Support Battalion. "Everyone here was astonished. We appreciate everyone's thoughts and well wishes during this holiday season."
For photos of the troops and their holiday ornaments, please email Mia Noguchi at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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By Michael Aneiro
Funds investing in short-term debt and risky bonds were among the beneficiaries of last week's deal to avert a U.S. default, with both types of funds seeing net inflows again in the most recent week after spooked investors had pulled money ahead of the debt-ceiling deadline. Here's Yuriy Shchuchinov of Bank of America Merrill Lynch breaking down this week's bond fund flows.
Following the deal on the debt ceiling last Wednesday investors put $56.45bn back into money market funds this week ending yesterday, undoing last week's $52bn outflow. Equity and high yield bond fund flows also benefited from the deal in Washington and the subsequent rally in both stocks and Treasuries. Inflows into equity funds continued to rebound, rising to $17.83bn this week from a $13.81bn inflow last week, while this week's high yield bond fund inflows jumped to $2.33bn. Loan funds also reported higher inflows this week at $0.87bn. Inflows into short-term high grade funds, on the other hand, have remained lackluster. Inflows rose to $0.43bn this week from a flat reading last week, thus remaining below the brisk $1.3bn average weekly pace in August and September.
Money-market funds had been hit particularly hard, as few investors were willing to be the first guy in line not to get paid back by the U.S. government if it did default, no matter how improbable that seemed.


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posted by Thom Holwerda on Mon 1st May 2006 19:56 UTC, submitted by Nicholas Blachford
"Can you imagine getting a new PC and finding your software runs no faster than before? You probably can't imagine it running slower. For some types of software however, that is exactly what is going to happen in the not too distant future. Faster processors running slower may sound bizarre but if you're using certain types of data structures or code on large scale (8+) multicore processors it might actually happen. In fact it might already happen today if you were to run legacy software on one of today's processors which feature a large number of cores."


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Windows 7 - Quit bitching, it cames "free" with your PC.
Windows 7 - Your last chance before we start again in C#.
Windows 7 - Because we know where you live.
I found it hard to continue reading your post after point 1 began with "Microsoft says". As you rightly point out in point 2, MS-says with respect to what we-got in Vista didn't quite match up. MS promised a lot and users got an OS that felt to many like a regression.
MS has a habit of "promising" features that it doesn't know how to deliver; its useful if you want to discourage investment in potential competitors. After all, why go and develop a new fs technology if the company with a 90%+ monopoly in the OS sector is going to integrate it into their product?
"Windows 7" will be an incremental change to Vista with some bug fixes and a desire to gain a better image in the market than the ironically sullied Vista has. How can MS develop features in less than 1 year that they couldn't manage to make in 4?
I found it hard to continue reading your post after this very speculative line:"Windows 7" will be an incremental change to Vista with some bug fixes
You've got a crystal ball at your home or is this just another case of "The pot calls the kettle black"?
ME to XP happened solely because Microsoft had a solid platform (NT) ready to replace the 1993-era Win9x platform that ME was built on. Where is Microsoft's new platform now?
Exactly! Windows XP has already extended their EOL, but even that will go away soon... and then what supported O/S will be left? Only Vista?
I think this sudden announcement is just a mad scramble for an alternative O/S, but without a solid platform to build off of, it's not looking too promising...
Where is Microsoft's new platform now?
What about SCO [sco.com]?
And here is an idea, make the drivers modular. Drivers cause more BSODs and crashes than anything else. Don't let a single driver bring down a system. This is just basic common sense.
It is common sense, but PC hardware currently makes this hard to achieve. Give a device driver access to I/O memory and it can hang the PC in numerous ways - eg. writing to another device, accidentally performing DMA to a random bit of memory, putting the device into some state where it grabs the PCI bus and never release
Why is Apple able to deliver an OS that is faster instead of slower? It's got as much eye candy as vista.
And Compiz on Linux offers eye candy as well, also with fewer resource requirements. But the reasons for this are fairly clear:
Seven deadly sins Seven ways to Win(dows) Seven holy paths to hell And your trip begins
Seven downward slopes Seven bloodied hopes Seven are your burning fires, Seven your desires...
And not to mention the evil portent later on in the song of opening "the seventh seal" of the seventh iteration of your newly shrikwrapped Windows! Just hope they don't release it at 7:07 am on the 7th of July or we'll all be doomed!
God helps them that themselves. -- Benjamin Franklin, "Poor Richard's Almanac"


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NEW CASTLE, Pa. (AP) -- Firefighters in Pennsylvania have managed to save 200 pounds of Polish sausage from what they're calling the best-smelling fire they've doused in years.
The New Castle News reports that firefighters responded about 11:30 a.m. Monday when a 20-by-20-foot smokehouse caught fire in the yard of Cash Koszela (koh-ZEL'-uh). He's a retired meat cutter who's been smoking his own sausage for about 30 years.
Firefighters say some grease caught fire when the smokehouse got too hot - about 300 degrees.
Koszela says it will cost about $3,000 to replace the smokehouse. It's actually a tin-lined walk-in cooler fed by smoke piped in from a fire pit.
Assistant Fire Chief David Joseph says, "This is definitely the best-smelling fire we've seen in a long time."
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Hi quittyqat
Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.
Hi quittyqat!
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Hi quittyqat;
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
Hi quittyqat,
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The Finance Committee of the Livingston County Board had a special meeting concerning the independent contract between attorney Bill Bertram and the Livingston County Public Defender's office Thursday evening prior to the monthly county board meeting.
Livingston County State's Attorney Seth Uphoff reviewed the contract extension after the original contract expired in December and he said he found a few flaws with it and intended to advise the county board to change some of the language of the contract.
Uphoff's main concern is that Bertram is used as an assistant public defender with a full docket of cases, even though he is an independent contractor for the county.
"They refer to him as a public defender on the record, the clients think they're getting an assistant public defender and, in fact, Mr. Bertram has business cards that say assistant public defender on them. He is not part of the public defender's office currently," Uphoff stated.
Chief Public Defender Randy Morgan, as well as Associate Judge Robert Travers, Eleventh Circuit Judge Jennifer Bauknecht, Chief Judge of the Eleventh Circuit Elizabeth Robb and Trial Court Administrator William Scanlon faced off against Uphoff Thursday, firing questions back and forth, which ended with no resolution at the end of the more than an hour long meeting.
Morgan spoke about the fact that Uphoff, as state's attorney and obvious adversary, advising the board about this case is a conflict of interest.
"It's no advantage for the state's attorney to have a strong public defender's office, in my opinion. I think it's a conflict for him to be involved in that regard and he should send it to Tom Blakeman (another attorney that has handled county business on behalf of the SA's office in the past) or someone else and get their opinion. That's just my opinion and he disagrees with it," Morgan stated. "I think it's unusual for the state's attorney to be arguing with the public defender about how the public defender's office should be set up or advising the county board under the guise of being their advisor."
Uphoff disagrees. He believes, as the state's attorney and the person who advises the county board on legal issues, he is completely within his right to give his opinion on this matter. He does believe that many people may see this as a conflict of interest for a completely different reason.
"I wish this were someone else who was the center of this controversy," Uphoff said. "I wish it wasn't Mr. Bertram because it adds the additional allegations that I'm just trying to do this because he was my political opponent (in the 2012 race for state's attorney). It has nothing to do with the personnel. I'm not trying to take anyone's job away from them. I'm not trying to take any work away. I'm just trying to make this structured the way the statute intends for it to be structured."
Uphoff also said that for this to be a conflict of interest he would have to be gaining an advantage out of the situation and he doesn't believe he is, since, in his opinion, this is just pertaining to language in a contract. Uphoff says that some would say the conflict of interest falls in the resident judges advocating on behalf of an attorney. He said that a judge advocating for the job as well as an increase in compensation, then the attorney appearing in their courtrooms was more of a conflict than the county's attorney reviewing contracts.
The disagreement falls, in essence, on who exactly an independent contractor answers to, or in essence, who their boss is, as well as following statutes that say that the public defender is assigned to cases, except in cases of prejudice or cases with multiple co-defendants. Livingston County currently has a public defender, Morgan, and an assistant public defender, Paul Mason, but Uphoff says that with as many cases that Bertram is being assigned on a regular basis, he believes the new contract should be structured to show that Bertram is a part of the public defender's office, which currently, he is not.
"The law reads that for criminal defendants who are indigent and desire council, the court shall appoint the public defender. The only time the court will not appoint the public defender is if they don't have a public defender, which is not the case here, or if there would be prejudice to the defendant to appoint the public defender, which requires in every case, proof of the prejudice in order to appoint someone other than the public defender," Uphoff explained. "All I was looking for was to see that it's structured properly so that Mr. Bertram is operating under the authority of the public defender, so he truly would be an assistant public defender. There are different ways you can do that. You can either have him be a full-time assistant public defender, where he couldn't have a private practice, you could have him be a part-time assistant public defender, where he could still have a private practice, or you could do an independent contractor-type of situation, where he would contract with the public defender's office to help provide assistant public defender services."
Uphoff said that he first became aware of the contract language when Bauknecht requested the extension.
"I thought Mr. Bertram was the assistant public defender. It was only during the course of this topic coming up that I learned he wasn't. The disagreement is that because I believe he needs to be assistant public defender in some form, I believe he needs to be under the authority and management of Randy Morgan, the public defender, and therefore, if they are wanting to do an independent contract, the contract should be between Randy Morgan, the public defender and Mr. Bertram as an independent contractor/assistant public defender. I don't believe the contract should be with the judges any longer," Uphoff explained.
Morgan disagrees.
"It works well and has worked well for many years. We've had absolutely no problem and no disagreements. Everything has flowed smoothly because it's well organized and Mr. Bertram does a good job," Morgan surmised. "The prior administration and Tom Brown for many years never had any problem with it, so Mr. Uphoff says just because it was done before doesn't mean it should continue to be done. That's true and that's easy to say, but we've had many years of excellent performance and things run smoothly in the court system because we know how it's going to go. Everyone knows their job. It's simple to throw a monkey wrench in the mix, but it makes things more complicated and expensive for the county."
Both Uphoff and Morgan explained that the benefit for having an independent contractor is that the person wouldn't be a county employee, which means they wouldn't be provided with additional benefits, like pension plans, insurance and things of that nature. Independent contractors are paid a specific sum of money, as compared to other attorneys that are hired to handle specific cases, which in that instance, they are paid hourly.
"We look at the what the cheapest way and the most efficient way, while still providing good service to everyone to have that other person there. Again, not as an employee, because that costs more money, so we contract, which means we give them certain cases and pay them a set sum of money," Morgan explained. "He's the only one that has that contract because we don't need more than one person. For example, McLean County has four contract counsels. It depends on the county. He gets assigned to those cases and instead of sending a bill after every case, he just has a set yearly contract that says he'll handle all the assigned cases for a certain amount of money."
The committee took no action and it also wasn't brought up at the full board meeting, which followed directly after the committee meeting. All involved in the committee meeting stressed that, since Bertram has been working with no contract since December, something needed to be done quickly.
Contract question arises over independent defender
The Finance Committee of the Livingston County Board had a special meeting concerning the independent contract between attorney Bill Bertram and the Livingston County Public Defender's office Thursday evening prior to the monthly county board meeting.


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Queen of Disco, Donna Summer Dies at 63
Los Angeles -- Donna Summer, the "Queen of Disco" whose hits included "Hot Stuff," "Bad Girls," "Love to Love You Baby" and "She Works Hard for the Money," has died, a representative said Thursday. She was 63.
There was no immediate information about the cause of death.
"Early this morning, we lost Donna Summer Sudano, a woman of many gifts, the greatest being her faith," a family statement said. "While we grieve her passing, we are at peace celebrating her extraordinary life and her continued legacy. Words truly can't express how much we appreciate your prayers and love for our family at this sensitive time."
Summer first rose to fame the mid-'70s, thanks to "Love to Love You Baby." The song, with Summer's whispered vocals and orgasmic groans, supported by heavily synthesized backing tracks, helped define the mid-'70s disco trend and hit No. 2 in 1976. Summer followed the song with such hits as "I Feel Love," "Last Dance" and a disco-fied version of the Richard Harris hit "MacArthur Park," which outdid Harris' version by hitting No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart. It was Summer's first of four chart-toppers.
But with her 1979 album "Bad Girls," Summer broke out of the disco mold as the genre, which had become renewed by the success of the "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack, was feeling a backlash. "Bad Girls" demonstrated Summer's vocal and stylistic range and produced two No. 1 hits, "Hot Stuff" and "Bad Girls," as well as a Top 10 ballad, "Dim All the Lights."
However, Summer had some trouble adjusting to the changing times. Her next album, "The Wanderer," went for more of a rock feel. It produced a Top 10 hit in the title track but fared relatively poorly on the charts -- especially after the success of "Bad Girls," a double album that spent five weeks at No. 1.
It wasn't until 1983's "She Works Hard for the Money," which became a ubiquitous video as well as a big radio hit, that Summer's fame approached its late '70s zenith.
"I don't like to be categorized because I think that I am an instrument, and if you play me, I'll make whatever particular sound is supposed to come out for that color, and so, in the overall spectrum of things, I'm just trying to be true to my, what I feel my mission is," Summer told CNN in a 2008 interview.


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The British and Irish Isles refer to the islands of Great Britain, Ireland and nearby islands. They are located in Europe.
The Channel Islands are sometimes included in the term "British Isles" because they are a British crown dependency. However, they are located off the coast of Normandy, France, and are not geographically part of the British or Irish Isles.
Other destinations
This region consists of two major political entities Ireland and the United Kingdom. The Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, are dependencies of, but not part of the United Kingdom.
Until 1922, Ireland was in fact part of United Kingdom. There are several distinct cultures in this island group, however there remain certain cultrual similarities between them, for example the English language is universally understood.
Many of the geographic names have different meanings depending on the context. For example Ireland in legal terms relates to the country Ireland, and not the geographical concept of the Island of Ireland. Similarly, Great Britain sometimes is understood to mean the largest island in the British and Irish Islands, but sometimes is understood to include certain other Islands, which are part of England, Scotland or Wales such as Lundy, Harris or Anglesey.
For further details it is probably best to look at the sections of the individual entities.
English is spoken to native standard by all but a tiny small minority of inhabitants of the British and Irish Isles. English is also the first language of the majority of inhabitants of the archipelago. However several million people speak languages other than English as their first language. Indeed it may surprise some visitors, (from within as well as outside of the islands) that in some small pockets, English is the first language of only a minority of speakers.
Considering the relatively small area compared with other English speaking areas, there are considerable variations in accent and dialect in spoken English throughout these Islands, although by and large this should provide no major obstactle to visitors with reasonable fluency in English. There are however dialects of English in certain parts of the Island group which can be said to form distinct languages such as "Scots" and "Ulster Scots".
The indigenous languages of the islands are of Celtic Origin. Welsh is the most widely spoken of these, and in some Western parts of Wales it remains the majority language. Irish, Manx and Scottish Gaelic are also spoken, and while closely related and sharing much of the same base vocabulary, these Gaelic languages are under normal circumstances not mutually intelligible. There are attempts to revive the Cornish language.
Most official signage is mono-lingual in English. However in Wales and Ireland signage is almost always billingual. Billingual sinage is not unknown in Scotland or the Isle of Man.
In recent decades immigration from farther afield has seen a number of other linguistic communities establish themselves throughout the islands, mainly, but not exclusively in urban England.
Get in
Visitors may find more useful information in the "Get in" sections of the specific part of the region they wish to enter.
Immigration and visa requirements
A number of separate jurisdictions with their own immigration rules make up this region. So a traveller may wish to check the requirments for the territories in which they wish to travel, on the appropriate pages. However there is considerable co-operation and co-ordination between the authorities of the countries in this region meaning that the British and Irish Isles comprise a Common Travel Area, which helps the vast majority of travelers enjoy hassle free travel when crossing borders within the British and Irish Isles.
By plane
There are direct flights from somewhere outside the British and Irish Islands, to every constituent part of this region, except the Isle of Man.
The largest port of entry to this region, is London Heathrow Airport. It is the world's busiest international airport. Situated 15 miles west of Central London, Heathrow offers a large choice of international destinations, with direct flights to most countries in the world. Many onward air connections within the region are possible. Coach connections to other places in mainland Great Britain are generally good. Rail connections from Heathrow to London are good, however there are no direct services to other parts of Great Britain, a change of train will be necessary in London, or possibly at Reading Station which is served by a regular shuttle coach.
Heathrow's location in the far South East of the region means that many travellers to many other parts of these islands may be better off getting a direct flight to the specific part of the Region they are interested in. However from some parts of the world Heathrow may be the only realistic option, to get into the region, and then further arrangements for onward travel would then be required.
Other Airports such as Birmingham, Dublin, Gatwick, Glasgow, Manchester, Shannon are served by a number of long haul as well as European cities.
There are many other airports where a traveller can enter this Region from some long haul cities, and many European cities, further information is available on the pages about the specific country, or part of the country.
Get around
The Common Travel Area
The United Kingdom, Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands maintain a common travel area, somewhat akin to the Schengen Area on continental Europe. Broadly speaking crossing the borders within the British and Irish Isles is very simple compared with most other international borders.
The arrangment's origins lie in the fact that whole of the Island of Ireland was once part of the United Kingdom and so there was never a need for immigration control for what was at that time domestic travel. Whilst Ireland and the United Kingdom have been separate countries for many decades, for the most part both have found it more beneficial to maintain relatively open borders. However because of the way it has developed over the years, the CTA arrangment is not as formalised as other similar arrangments (such as the Schengen Area), and so the exact rules can be quite complex for some third country nationals. There are therefore some limited exceptions to the principle of complete freedom of travel.
The Pub
The "Pub" concept has it's origins in the British and Irish Islands. These are premises licenced for the sale of alcoholic drinks, for consumption on and off the premises. The pub concept is distinct from the broader concept of a "bar". There are similarities shared by "pubs" throughtout the British and Irish Isles not shared with other sorts of drinking establishments elsewhere, the Irish Pub experience can be very distinct from the pub experience of elsewhere in these Islands.
Whisky (Whiskey)
Distilled spirits have been drunk on these islands for millennia. Whisky (or Whiskey in Ireland) depending on exactly where you is produced predominantly in Ireland and Scotland. There are however also Welsh and English Whiskies too.
Stay safe
Throughout this region, traffic drives on the left. In the United Kingdom, and its Crown Dependencies Speed Limits are expressed in Miles per hour. In the Republic of Ireland speed limits are expressed in Kilmometers per hour.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate has given final congressional approval to a bill that would significantly expand protections for federal employees who expose fraud, waste and abuse and make it easier to punish supervisors who try to retaliate against the whistle-blowers.
The whistle-blower protection measure was sent to the president Tuesday by a voice vote.
The legislation closes loopholes created by court rulings, which removed protections for whistle-blowers. One loophole specified that whistle-blowers were only protected when they were the first to report misconduct.
The new legislation, however, would go beyond restoring protections, to expand whistle-blower rights and clarify protections that were not explicitly clear. For instance, the bill would clarify that whistle-blowers could challenge the consequences of government policy decisions.


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Shara McCallum was born on October 18, 1972 in Jamaica to Afro-Jamaican and Venezuelan parents and moved to the U.S. at the age of nine. She earned a B.A. from the University of Miami, an M.F.A. from the University of Maryland, and a Ph.D. in Poetry and African American and Caribbean Literature from Binghamton University in New York.
Her books of poetry include Song of Thieves (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003) and The Water Between Us (1999), winner of the 1998 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. Her poems have won a college prize from The Academy of American Poets, been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes, and appeared in several journals, including The Antioch Review, Chelsea, The Iowa Review, and Verse. McCallum's poems have been anthologized in The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology (ed. Michael Collier, 2000) and Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the Twenty-First Century.
McCallum is the recipient of a Tennessee Individual Artist Grant in Literature, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a grant from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. McCallum lives in Pennsylvania and teaches and directs the Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell University. She is also on the faculty of the Stonecoast Low Residency MFA program.


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POTTSTOWN — One of the nation's educational goals is to improve the teaching of science, math and technology.
Often referred to as STEM (for Science, Technology, Engineering, Math), the opportunities in the Pottstown School District are about to expand significantly.
Recently Myra Forrest, the executive director of the Foundation for Pottstown Education, informed the school board of a regional grant which will not only provide additional science and math training for teachers, as well as a free science summer camp for students and even a mobile geodome planetarium.
Forrest told the board that the district has been formally invited to participate in the Pennsylvania Multi-Region Stem Mathematics and Science Partnership Grant by David B. Morgan, project's director in the region and a colleague Forrest knows form her time teaching at Immaculata University.
Partners of the program include the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Immaculata, University of Pittsburgh, University of Scranton, Lycoming College, Albright College and Bucknell University.
Through the program, teachers receive and are paid for 108 hours of professional development in science and math common core standards at no cost to the district.
Teachers can also receive up to six graduate credits in STEM education topics through the program, she said.
In addition to paying the teachers for this additional training, most of which occurs in the summer, the grant also provides accompanying materials for use in the classroom and a new iPad for teachers to use within the confines of grant activities.
Districts will also be aided in providing a free "Summer of Innovation Student Camp" for grades 4-9, according to the terms of the grant.
The district would also benefit from a geodome planetarium with a high-end infrared camera worth $100,000 and moved among the participating districts.
"This grant is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and I've already received applications from teachers and many others have already verbally committed to it," she said.
"It would be super if 40 teachers signed up because there's no limit to it," said Forrest, herself a former assistant superintendent in Pottstown and a former superintendent of the Owen J. Roberts School District.
"This is a phenomenal thing for this district," she said.
"It's an amazing opportunity for teachers and the kids," said School Board President Judyth Zahora.
In July, Pottstown High School was named among four schools in Montgomery County that the Pennsylvania Department of Education considers to be under-achieving.
The culprit was determined to be the school's math scores on the standardized Pennsylvania System of School Assessment tests and the district was already moving to re-vamp its math program at the school.
In May, The Wall Street Journal reported that more than two-thirds of U.S. eight graders still lack a solid grasp of science facts, according to figures released in the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress
The exam is administered by the U.S. Department of Education and showed that only 32% of students were proficient in science.
Scores release last month for The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement's PIRLS and TIMSS 2011 exams showed that U.S. scores improved in reading and math in the lower grades, but that those gains tend to disappear after eighth grade.
"In eighth grade math, the U.S. performed only nine points above the international average, netting a 509, and was outperformed by 11 education systems. But the gap between the tier of top-performing countries like Korea and Singapore over the U.S. was more than 100 points," according to a Dec. 11 report in The Huffington Post.
"The 11 education systems with average grade eight mathematics scores above the U.S. average were Korea, Singapore, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong-China, Japan, Massachusetts, Minnesota, the Russian Federation, North Carolina, Quebec-Canada, and Indiana," a report from the National Center for Education Statistics indicated.
In July, President Obama announced a $1 billion program to reward high-performing teachers with salary stipends is part of a long-term effort to encourage education in high-demand areas that hold the key to future economic growth — and to close the achievement gap between American students and their international peers — specifically focused on science, technology, engineering and math.
Teachers selected for the Master Teacher Corps will be paid an additional $20,000 a year and must commit to participate multiple years. The goal is to create a multiplier effect in which expert educators share their knowledge and skills with other teachers, improving the quality of education for all students.
A report released in February by the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology found that the U.S. must increase by 34 percent the number of students receiving degrees in science, math and related fields to keep up with economic demand.
The program will start with 2,500 teachers divided up among 50 different sites, the White House said, but will grow to include 10,000 teachers over the next four years. Obama, in partnership with a coalition of groups including the Carnegie Corporation of New York, has set a goal of producing 100,000 additional math and science teachers over the next 10 years.
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This article is a travel topic
Since the 1960s overlanding has been a popular means of travel between destinations across Africa, Europe, Asia (particularly India), the Americas and Australia. The "Hippie Trail" of the 60s and 70s saw thousands of young westerners travelling through the Middle East to India and Nepal.
At 9,288km the Trans-Siberian Railway is one of the longest overland journeys in existence today, taking 7 days to reach Vladivostok from Moscow, and providing an alternative to air travel for journeys between Europe and Asia.
The Indian Pacific Railway, completed in 1970, links Sydney and Perth in Australia. Covering 4,343km over 4 days, the railway includes the longest stretch of straight railway line in the world.
The introduction of Japan's high speed railway Tōkaidō Shinkansen in 1964 changed the face of rail travel. The railway has carried more than 4 billion passengers and its new N700 series trains are capable of 300km/hr. France's TGV attains similar speeds, making it faster than air travel for many journeys. It has expanded into other European countries. Korea and the USA now also have some high-speed lines. China is in the process of building what will be the world's largest such network; see High-speed rail in China.
The Thomas Cook Overseas Timetable [[1]] is the first choice for detailed international rail information. Resources can also be found at the excellent seat 61 website [[2]].
The Silk Route or Silk Road historically connects the Mediterranean with Persia and China. Today the route refers to overland journeys between Europe and China, taking either the northern route - through Russia and Kazakhstan - or the southern route - through Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and North India - to Urumqi or Xian in China. These routes are still popular today, with companies such as Oasis Overland [[3]] and Odyssey Overland [[4]] offering tours on the southern route.
One of the most common - and longest - overland expeditions is in Africa, connecting Cairo in Egypt with Cape Town in South Africa. The route covers more than 10,000km and usually takes in Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Namibia along the way. Overland operators in these areas include Dragoman [[5]],Oasis Overland and African Trails[6].
Since 2006 a few companies have offered overland expeditions from the UK to Australia. Originated by Exploratory Overland Expeditions [7] in 2006, the expedition is marketed as the longest trans-Asian overland journey available.
The longest overland expedition of any kind is actually run by African Trails [8] their London-Capetown-Istanbul journey (43 weeks) remains the classic overland expedition for die-hard travellers.


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Basket of Blooming Violets
One of the most adaptable of all indoor plants, the African violet is also one of the easiest to grow. Traditionally given as a gift to mothers in many cultures, it's suitable for anyone you want to send a smile to. Our charming pair of purple African violets with small yellow centers arrives in a woven basket planter that can be reused for holding letters, mail or garden accessories.


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7:30 p.m. BTN
The Journey: BIG Football 2012, "What's at stake for Denard Robinson in his senior year?"
(I bet he says accountability and a BIG championship)
EDIT: Replays @ 10:30 p.m.
Posted so I thought I would. Go Denard.
Whenever I see any media pieces about Denard, I cannot help wishing that he had redshirted in 2009, thus giving him a 5th year in 2013. I know a lot of Michigan fans are ready for him to go, and with him (hopefully) his turnovers. But, I think he, more than anyone, would benefit from another year under Borges.
Why is this OT?
You're confused; it's about Denard, it should be prefaced with "T.O" if anything.
I can't think of something more on topic.
...because it wasn't entirely Denard related. There was a lot of non-UM material, but the Denard vignette was worthy of mention.
Denard was only on for a few moments. Show was all about Simon and Mauti.
Doubters can go to HELL!
F the haters, who, are obviously goin to hate


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The Bulldogs visit the Terriers in the SoCon regular-season finale
THE CITADEL at WOFFORD
When: 7 p.m., Saturday
Where: Benjamin Johnson Arena
Records: The Citadel (8-20, 5-12 Southern Conference), Wofford (12-18, 6-11)
Radio: 910 AM, 105.7 FM
Top scorers: The Citadel — Sr. C Mike Groselle (15.6 ppg., 7.7 rpg.); Fr. G Matt Van Scyoc (11.2 ppg.); So. F P.J. Horgan (11.2 ppg., 6.2 rpg.). Wofford — So. G Karl Cochran (16.0 ppg.); Fr. G Spencer Collins (12.4 ppg.); So. F Lee Skinner (10.0 ppg., 7.2 rpg.).
Notes: Wofford will open Southern Conference tournament play either in the 8/9 seed game at 11:30 a.m. Friday or could slip to the No. 10 seed and play at 6 p.m. Friday against the No. 7 seed. … The Terriers lost, 55-50, Thursday night at the College of Charleston. They shot only 32 percent, including 5-for-20 on 3-pointers. Wofford was able to keep it close by committing only five turnovers and forcing 16. Cochran finished two points short of having half his team's total. … Wofford had won back-to-back games against Chattanooga and Georgia Southern. … The 32 percent shooting was the fourth-lowest of the season. The Terriers shot 27 percent Feb. 14 against Samford and also struggled earlier this season against Hampton and UNC Wilmington. … The Citadel will be looking to pull off a season sweep in the two games against Wofford. The Bulldogs won, 69-63, Jan. 31 in Charleston. Groselle scored 24 points. … The Citadel beat Furman, 68-67, on Thursday for the second win in three games. The Bulldogs got by Appalachian State, 80-77, in overtime on Feb. 20. In between, they lost a 68-65 game at Presbyterian. … Wofford will honor its only senior, guard Taylor Wagener from Charlotte Christian. He had nine points in the win against Chattanooga. Wagener reached a career-best with 14 in the Southern Conference opener back in December as he went 4-for-4 on 3-pointers.
Next: The Southern Conference tournament begins March 8 in Asheville.


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Still no tweets from me, but I do now have 3 followers. Soon. The anticipation must be killing them. Meanwhile I have been busy sharpening up my various foci of identity online. For example, this blog has returned to its predominant themes of openness, free and open source software, and reflections on such software and the communities that grow and sustain it. Gone is the fun widget from LibraryThing displaying books that I have recently added to my catalog there (if you are reading this via an rss feed you may never have seen that). I have moved that over to my other blog, Transformative Explications, which focusses on books and writing. There is a link here in my blogroll. My thinking is that it is better to give these two passions a separate and distinct location on the web without trying to disguise that they are both a growing part of me.
My other blog is located on a domain I set up back in 2007: www.randymetcalfe.com. I hadn't done much with that domain or with the web hosting package that lies behind it, but I am now actively developing it.
You will notice, if you visit it, that the blog is a WordPress installation. WordPress is just one of an array of software packages available via the Fantastico De Luxe installer that comes with my web hosting package. Since my skills do not lie in system administration, this turns out to be a great way for me to experiment with and commit to using some FOSS. I'm happy with the WordPress install that I have but it doesn't prevent me from also living in the cloud over here at Blogger. Of course my needs are simple; more complex requirements might have necessitated a clear choice.
The other FOSS that I have been exploring of late is Drupal, which is also available to me via Fantastico. After a couple of test installs at different domains, I have committed to exploring Drupal more fully. To that end I have been patiently documenting my learning curve (more on that later) as well as looking for opportunities to engage with the Drupal community.
Drupal is not as simple to use as WordPress, clearly, but its capabilities are vast (limitless?) and to take full advantage of it my learning curve will need to go on for some time. I've made some initial moves on participating in the Drupal community – joining email lists, sitting in on IRC, even attending my local Drupal user group meeting this past week. I was also lucky enough to go to one day of the nearby Toronto DrupalCamp, where I saw Dries Buytaert, the founder of Drupal, give an inspiring talk. What have I learned so far, other than that I have a lot to learn? I've learned that the Drupal community is strong. It has a lot of small and mid-size web consultancy businesses actively participating within it. And there are a lot of people around with, it seems to me, a great deal of technical knowledge. Enough so that it will, I think, be a long time before I manage to find any way to contribute to this community other than by using the software and enthusing, where possible, about it.
If I have sharpened my use of my blogs in the past week, then I will have got somewhere. Still a lot more things to think about in this exploration of my PIO. But until then…


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I'm taking the Steelers, but truth be told, would rather see the Packers win Super Bowl XLV today.
And since everything in this space revolves around the Raiders, the advice for Green Bay is to cue up the tape from Sept. 15, 2002, Oakland vs. Pittsburgh at Heinz Field.
The Raiders were in their second game with Bill Callahan as head coach and Marc Trestman as offensive coordinator, having traded Jon Gruden to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
In the opener, the offense was much as Gruden would have it _ 423 yards of total offense, 221 rushing, 202 passing, 13 first downs rushing, 12 first downs passing. The very picture of balance in a 31-17 win over the Seattle Seahawks.
In the days leading up to Pittsburgh in Week 2, Callahan talked about the need for similar balance against the Steelers. No way the Raiders could survive such a ferocious defense without it.
Of course, Callahan and Trestman had other ideas. New England's Tom Brady went 29-for-43 for 294 yards and three touchdowns in beating Pittsburgh 30-14 in the opener, with the Patriots running the ball only 18 times.
Turns out, Callahan later said they had been game planning for Pittsburgh since the offseason, essentially turning the ball over to Rich Gannon and letting him control the game with his passing.
In one of the more memorable Raiders regular season games I've ever covered, Gannon threw 41 passes _ by halftime. He completed 29 of them, for 257 yards and a touchdown. They had only five running plays in the half, one of them a 36-yard TD run by Charlie Garner. By game's end, Gannon was 43-for-64 for 403 yards and the Raiders prevailed 30-17. Oakland had spread Pittsburgh out and attacked through a series of short passes which helped negate the Steelers pass rush (they still sacked Gannon five times).
The Raiders had 20 third down attempts and converted 12 of them.
Green Bay doesn't have much of a running game and would be best advised to abandon it shortly after the National Anthem. Let Rodgers put the ball up 50-plus times and have his arm be both the passing game and the running game.
The Steelers' defensive coordinator in 2002 wasn't Dick LeBeau, in his last year with Cincinnati as head coach, but Tim Lewis. However, it was still a similar 3-4 and even has two starters still intact in nose tackle Casey Hampton and inside linebacker James Farrior.
Some of the most notable success against Pittsburgh this season came from elite quarterbacks who controlled the game with their passing. Brady was 30-for-43 for 350 yards and three touchdowns in a 39-26 win on Nov. 14. Drew Brees was 34-for-44 (including 20 of 22 in the second half) for 305 yards and two touchdowns in a 20-10 win on Oct. 31.
As the father of a teenage daughter, I'm all for Rodgers winning over Ben Roethlisberger, although my first instinct is that the Steelers will win.
So my advice for Green Bay _ get lots of ice for Rodgers' arm. Do this right, and he'll need it at the postgame party.


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Gradizzi discusses tentative CDBG projects
Earlier this week, members of city council gave their approval to tentative projects for the city's 2011 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding. Community and Economic Development Coordinator Tina Gradizzi explained to council that two projects presented at the first public hearing earlier this month qualify for the funding. These projects entail administration costs and street and road improvements within the city. "We're looking at either Mertz, Charles or George, depending on how much funding we receive and what the cost estimates come in at," Gradizzi said of the roadways being considered for repair.She asked council to approve the tentative projects and added that council members will be asked to give final approval on all projects at the second public hearing, scheduled to be held during their council meeting on Monday, Jan. 3. For more on this story, see the Dec. 24 edition of The Daily Press.


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And even more on the parade, courtesy of Phillies.com.
Phillies 'amazed' by scene at parade
Free-agent-to-be Burrell leads spirited ride down Broad Street
By Ken Mandel / MLB.com
Yo, idiot owners, keep Pat the Bat here. Period!!! End of story!!!
PHILADELPHIA — Eight Clydesdales pulled the Budweiser carriage in 32-legged precision, stopping and starting frequently down an overflowing Broad Street decked in red and white.
The cargo, Pat Burrell, his wife Michelle and Elvis, the 125-pound English bulldog, who has become the team's unofficial mascot (Sorry, Phanatic), rumbled through a red sea of euphoric Phillies fans.
With hair slicked back and dressed in jeans, black shoes, a black coat and sunglasses, Burrell appeared as cool as his on-field persona.
Except for his constant state of smile.
"We did it! We finally did it, didn't we?" Burrell told an appreciative Citizens Bank Park crowd. "None of this would have been possible without you guys, and I want to thank you guys so much for the support over the years. You made this whole thing possible. I think you guys know how important this was for me, being here as long as I have."
Fans who lined the streets chanted "Stay, Pat, Stay!", "Re-Sign Pat!" and "Pat the Bat!" every chance they got. Up front and up high next to the reins, he must have stood up to acknowledge the crowd at least 200 times during the four-mile parade route that took nearly 3 1/2 hours to complete.
Symbolically, Burrell's appearance at the front of the processional meant plenty to Burrell, the team's longest-tenured player. He arrived during the 2000 season.
"I'm sure he was elated by the way the Phillies, the way the city handled everything," starter Brett Myers said. "That was unbelievable. [But he was up front] because of his dog. Somebody said he was going to ride with Elvis because he was at every home game, and we didn't lose at home in the playoffs. A lot of credit goes to Elvis for slobbering on us. He was our good-luck charm."
While it's possible that Burrell has played his final game with the Phillies — meaning the free-agent-to-be's last hit was a seventh-inning double that set up the winning run in Game 5 — Burrell didn't speak after the celebration, leaving Friday to be about the party.
And it was quite a party, from the moment Burrell's carriage rolled from City Hall.
"The greatest thing I ever seen in my life, and I'll always remember it," said manager Charlie Manuel, who was dressed in a navy blue, pinstripe suit.
Earlier, he hoisted the World Series trophy, and later he waved to fans from one of the team's eight flatbed trucks. The city's first sports title parade in 25 years — 28 years for the Phillies — was a constant wall of sound.
Harry Kalas' call of the final out could be heard throughout, as well as Queen's "We Are the Champions," Elton John's "Philadelphia Freedom," and Bobby Burnett's "Goin' Back to Philadelphia, PA."
People were everywhere, in windows, trees and rooftops, and no one got tired of yelling, screaming or waving. Center fielder Shane Victorino tossed soft pretzels to the crowd while shortstop Jimmy Rollins turned his hand-held video camera on the crowd.
"I was amazed," Rollins said. "There were people on [Route] 76 just hanging out, I'm like, 'This is dangerous.' People acting like Spider-Man climbing on light pole. I saw a guy stretched on the side of the building, with a beer in his hand. They've been wanting this for a long time. You know when your ears start hurting because you're trying to think about what to do, but you can't think because your ears hurt? That's what it was like. I wasn't even yelling, I was just barely talking [to teammates on the float] and my voice is gone."
When his voice got hoarse, Rollins' mother, Gigi Rollins, suggested simply waving, but Rollins said his "shoulders were tired. It was great. It was an ocean of people and there was never a dull moment. People just kept giving you energy, so you couldn't stop smiling and you couldn't stop waving."
Rollins didn't and neither did any of his teammates.
World Series MVP Cole Hamels tried to fist-bump a fan dressed like Philly's favorite fictional boxer, Rocky Balboa, but authorities intervened before they finished. Victorino enjoyed "encouraging" fans to climb poles. The surging crowds flooded the streets at some points, leaving barely enough room for trucks and their police escorts.
"Everybody is celebrating for the right cause and that's good that a city can do that together," said veteran pitcher Jamie Moyer, who attended the 1980 World Series parade as a fan. "This time, I took it all in. Seeing this parade from start to finish brought tears to my eyes." (Phillies.com)
Thanks for the parade, guys, and glad to hear that you'd enjoyed it as much as we, the fans, did. And Pat, do everything you can to stay here.


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WASHINGTON (AP) - U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice is meeting with key lawmakers Tuesday in what could be her final pitch for their support if she is nominated to be the next secretary of state.
Officials said the discussions will focus on her much-maligned explanations of the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans. But Rice is also clearly auditioning for America's top diplomatic job.
Despite lingering questions over her comments five days after the Benghazi attack, Rice has emerged as the front-runner on a short list of candidates to succeed Hillary Rodham Clinton. But even as Republican opposition to Rice appears to be softening, she still has work to do to ensure enough GOP senators are willing to back her potential nomination.
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Mayor: Officers used 'necessary force' in nightclub melee
Eight police officers were injured and six of them were treated at the hospital
By Kenneth C. Crowe II
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TROY, N.Y. — Mayor Lou Rosamilia said Monday that a preliminary internal investigation shows city police "used necessary force" during a Saturday nightclub melee, but members of the city's black community were enraged by what they view as continuing evidence of unrestrained police brutality.
"We've been going through this for forever," the Rev. Cornelius Clark told a crowd of more than 100 people gathered Monday night at the Missing Link AME Zion Church.
On Monday afternoon, a civilian complaint was filed at police headquarters alleging police brutality when officers responded to a call early Saturday morning at Kokopellis, a bar and nightclub at 124 Fourth St.
The complaint followed the posting of a video on YouTube that shows an officer hitting a man on the ground with a nightstick at the bar.
Rosamilia met with the police department's top commanders to review the Saturday fight, then followed it up with a meeting with Council President Rodney Wiltshire and Councilman Robert Doherty, the Public Safety Committee chairman.
"Although we are in the early stages of the investigation, preliminary evidence indicates that our police department, in an effort to gain control of an out-of-control situation, used necessary force in order to make arrests and protect themselves and others," Rosamilia said in a statement.
The police department's Internal Affairs Bureau has just one officer, Capt. Terrance Buchanan, assigned to investigate complaints.
The mayor had announced a news conference Monday morning on the Kokopellis incident, but then canceled it. Instead, he issued the statement.
But the crowd at the church was not satisfied.
"You don't want an internal investigation. You need an independent investigation to get to the bottom of this," Alice Green of the Center for Law and Justice said to cheers and applause.
The Troy African-American Pastoral Alliance turned out for the meeting to show they were united in changing what's viewed as a climate sanctioning brutality to members of the city's minority community.
"Enough is enough," said Pastor Willie Bacote of the Missing Link church. "This is not a plantation."
There were calls for the suspension without pay of the police officers involved at Kokopellis. The city has taken no disciplinary action.
Wiltshire said the city must involve the African-American ministers in resolving the issues facing the police department.
"This is important to clear people's names and to find the guilty," said Wiltshire, who is black.
"We think it's very important this investigation be as open as possible and as transparent as possible," Doherty said.
"Disturbing" was how Doherty described the YouTube video showing Roshawon Donley, 25, being held against the bar by an officer in one instance and then falling to his knees while being hit in the back with a baton. Another police officer comes over to hold the man down as the first officer continues to hit the man.
Ariana Youngs said she witnessed Donley being struck with the baton.
"I was scared," Youngs said.
Donley had a swollen black eye at his arraignment on Saturday. He was charged with harassment, obstructing governmental administration and resisting arrest.
Rosamilia's statement said police arrived after a report of an employee being assaulted and were faced with patrons using pepper spray and throwing bottles at officers, a fire extinguisher being discharged and a garbage can thrown into a patrol car.
The club's co-owner, Joe Glick, said two calls were made to police after an employee was attacked. About 200 to 230 people, he said, were leaving the club when police arrived.
"Let us not forget, eight Troy police officers were injured and six of them were treated at the hospital," Rosamilia said.
In the criminal complaint against Donley, Officer Eric Smith stated that Donley allegedly pushed the officer attempting to escort him from the premises, attempted to punch officers, tried to flee and despite "several verbal commands" would not remove his hands from being clenched against his chest.
On Monday in City Court, a plea of not guilty was entered on behalf of Zainob Shaibu, 23, of Queens, who did not have an attorney. She faces charges of harassment, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. She allegedly pushed police away and punched and kicked an officer.
Quaivon Venson, 22, of Troy, was also charged with harassment, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, and Rashad Thomas, 22, of Troy, was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, Also arrested Saturday were Troy residents Tony Carter, 39, who was charged with harassment, and Michael Haight, 23, who was charged with disorderly conduct.
The council's Public Safety Committee will meet either Feb. 4 or Feb. 13 to give the public an opportunity to speak on allegations of police brutality and use of force at Kokopellis, Doherty said.
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The formal end of the U.S. war in Iraq on December 15 enhances neighboring Iran as a major, unpredictable factor in the U.S. presidential election of 2012.
First, a look back: Irans mullahs already had one opportunity to affect American politics, in 1980. Their seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran for 444 days haunted Pres. Jimmy Carters reelection campaign and thanks to such developments as yellow ribbons, a Rose Garden strategy, a failed rescue operation, and ABCs America Held Hostage program contributed to his defeat. Ayatollah Khomeini rebuffed Carters hopes for an October surprise release of the hostages and twisted the knife one final time by freeing them exactly as Ronald Reagan took the presidential oath.
Today, Iran has two potential roles in Obamas reelection campaign: as disrupter in Iraq, or as the target of U.S. attacks. Lets look at each of them:
Who lost Iraq? Although George W. Bushs administration signed the status-of-forces agreement with the Iraqi government, stipulating that all the United States Forces shall withdraw from all Iraqi territory no later than December 31, 2011, Obamas decision against keeping a residual force in Iraq made the troop withdrawal his choice and his burden. This puts him at risk: Should things go badly in Iraq in 2012, he, not Bush, will take the blame. In other words, Irans supreme guide, Ali Khamenei, can make Obamas life miserable.
Khamenei has many options. He can exert more control over those many Iraqi leaders who are Shiite Islamists with a pro-Iranian outlook, some of whom even lived in exile in Iran the prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, for example. The Iranians can also influence Iraqi politics via the countrys intelligence services, which they have already substantially penetrated. Or they can move Iranian troops at will into Iraq, as tens of thousands of U.S. troops are now gone from Iraqs eastern border, and engage in mischief of their choosing. Finally, they can support proxies such as Moqtada al-Sadr or dispatch terrorist agents.
In 1980, the Iranians manipulated the American political process with hostages. In 2012, Iraq is their plaything. Should Irans rulers decide to make trouble before November 6, the Republican candidate will blame Obama for losing Iraq. Given Obamas long opposition to the war, that will sting.
(Alternatively, the Iranians can shift gears and make good on their threat to close the Straits of Hormuz to imperil the 17 percent of world oil that goes through that waterway, thereby creating global economic instability.)
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Kenny Chesney Covers Bruce Springsteen's 'I'm on Fire' on 'Late Night With Jimmy Fallon'
As "Bruce Springsteen Week" continues on 'Late Night With Jimmy Fallon,' Jimmy welcomed country superstar Kenny Chesney to the show last night (Feb. 28). The award-winning singer performed a version of Springsteen's classic 'I'm On Fire' from 1984′s 'Born In The USA' album.
Chesney, making his first appearance on the Fallon show, succeeded in making the song his own while retaining that certain something that was so great about the original.
"Bruce Springsteen Week" continues tonight (Wednesday, Feb. 29) with a performance of 'Brilliant Disguise' by Elvis Costello and wraps up Friday when Bruce and The E Street Band are Fallon's only guests for the entire show. Fallon, the ever energetic music fan, seems very genuine in love for all things rock and roll, and we gotta tip our collective hats to him for making music such an integral part of his show.
In other Springsteen news, you can now check out our advance review of the forthcoming album all this TV activity is intended to promote, 'Wrecking Ball.'
Watch Kenny Chesney Perform Bruce Springsteen's 'I'm On Fire'


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Show that this has finite volume.
I get integral from 0 to infinity of 2pi*(1/x^2), but this does not converge because of the asymptote, right? I know it would converge, and so have finite volume, if I took 1 to infinity. On the other hand, when I do 0 to infinity, it diverges, right? Is this probably a typo on my sheet or am I doing something wrong


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so the number pilot kyuuma will most likely kill is x-eins now if h-neun betrays cain and joins module 77 this will ruin this theory
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^So who will Haruto kill when all 4 are taken?
Kyuma should be thankful that he has the best Valvrave beside Haruto's (only because of the harakiri's Blade), freakin super beam spaming, super charged beam and super armor
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It could be possible that it's a contrast color match up:
Yellow (A-3) against Purple (Akira?)
Green (H-9) against Red (Haruto)
Blue (X-1) against Orange (? (Thunder is a possibility))
Red (Q-4) against Green (Saki)
Or it could be vice versa. Just a thought.
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Here's an interview with Yuki Ono I found on /a/
q: first, can we have your initial impressions of Kyuma?
Y: when I first saw Kyuma's character design, I thought he was a scholarly, proper kid. up till now I've usually voiced hot-blooded characters, so I was happy to get this act.
q: so Kyuma's personality was fresh for you too?
Y: but once I actually tried acting, he turned out be fiery anyway (laughs). Kyuma is the most senior among the Academy students, so he's in a position to pull everyone along. so he does have a calm and collected side, but he can't forgive himself either, and that gets him hot and bothered. in that sense, he's an intense guy all right. also, I heard that he would pilot a Valvrave beforehand, so I was really excited for that.
q: what's the best part about Kyuma for you?
Y: when he gets excited about money. he's easy to read (laughs). and can't forget his fight scenes. when he's yelling "watch out!" or "here we go!", I can't help but think he's a boy after all. and he doesn't just rush into things like a dummy; he really wants to protect the important things. and that's reflected in his Valvrave 5 too, when he's holding that spear. he said he's doing this for himself the first time he got in, but there's also the fact he's protecting someone when he fights.
q: in this episode 7, we saw what drove him to become a Valvrave pilot - Aina's sudden death.
Y: I was shocked when I read that in the script. I had no idea why Kyuma would end up becoming a pilot… if I'd known why, my acting may have been different. when I was walking together with Aina, I might've thought "this girl is going to die", and so forth. that shouldn't happen as an actor, though.
q: did your acting change after you became a pilot?
Y: it may have. as a pilot you stand on the front lines, and directly get involved with strategies. when you're taking orders, and cautiously venturing forth - it's definitely a different mindset from when you were just running around. you've got a sounder mindset, once you physically join the fight and attack and defend. your actions determine whether everyone lives or dies, so of course the feelings have to evolve.
q: I see. what parts are the most enjoyable to act?
Y: the fight scenes. our sound director told us to deliver our lines "cautiously" - as if there's that tension that we might die any second. on the other hand, I'm really having fun with acting like that. you don't really get to experience that feeling in real life. our voice is influenced by the fact we're constantly in danger. I'm really enjoying that.
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So, going by that interview, I guess it's safe to assume that Saki, Raizo, and Akira's Seiyuus were informed beforehand that they were going to become Valvrave Pilots.
With the rate things are going, I have to wonder how much closure this season will have for the series overall, especially in terms of the conflict between the Valvraves and the Karlstein boys. And as an extension of that, whether Kyuma will finally get a chance to avenge Aina.
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Some one from the Karlstein boys will probably die this season, probably H-neun, though the Valvrave pilots probably won't be responsible for that. Inuzuka doesn't even know Q-vier killed Aina, and Q-vier probably has no idea. The situation itself has prevented him from being singled out in battle by Kyuma.
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The first sitcom on network TV that I have actually chuckled over in a long time is ABC's Cougartown. The set design is rather brilliant, and I love the context of Graham and Brown's Marcel Wanders-designed Audrey wallpaper in the hunky neighbor's bachelor pad. I thought I'd share it with you, though I don't know a lot of bachelors who have purple curtains:
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Wolves midfielder Jamie O'Hara has signalled his intent to fight for senior international recognition with England rather than the Republic of Ireland.
The 24-year-old has represented England all the way up to Under-21 level, but found himself at the centre of speculation that he could opt to try his luck with Ireland, for whom he also qualifies, after failing to make it into Fabio Capello's plans. However, having seen team-mate Matt Jarvis win an England cap against Ghana last season, O'Hara is now hoping to prove himself worthy of a chance.
O'Hara, who completed a £5million move to Molineux last month, told the club's official website, www.wolves.co.uk: "I have decided I want to play for England."
He added: "It's always been my ambition as a young player. I played in all the age groups through the years and now I'm looking to get off to a flying start.
"I'm looking to be a key figure for Wolves this season, and getting into the England squad is something I really want to do.
"I had a good end to last season and, coming into the new season, I want to have a cracking start and get into the England reckoning.
"I think it has been proved with this England manager that if you play regularly in the Premier League and do well, you have got a chance of getting in the squad."
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From NBC's Abby Livingston
Tom Daschle is proving Mel Brooks' theory, "We mock what we are to be."
As first reported by First Read on Sunday, we learned of the existence of a 1986 Daschle for Senate campaign ad called "Old Car," which we dug up for NBC Nightly News last night. (Watch a clip in NBC's Chuck Todd's piece on Nightly News last night.)
The ad features a young Daschle driving around Washington in a beat up car, thumbing his nose at the Washington establishment, most notably those who drive expensive cars, or worse, are chauffeured.


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West Brom's Peter Odemwingie to be disciplined for deadline-day actions
West Brom have confirmed that striker Peter Odemwingie will be disciplined for his conduct on transfer deadline day.
Last Updated: 02/02/13 7:43am
West Brom have accused the 31-year-old striker of acting in a "wholly unprofessional" manner by driving to talk terms with QPR despite no deal having been agreed between the clubs.
The Nigerian international claims that he had an understanding with Baggies technical director Dan Ashworth that he could drive to London with a view to the clubs reaching an agreement but the club feel the player's actions worthy of punishment.
The club's official twitter feed quoted manager Steve Clarke as saying: "There is a disciplinary process in place to deal with Peter Odemwingie and it will be conducted privately."
Earlier on Thursday, Odemwingie told Sky Sports News: "They didn't give me written permission but we are in England and when you are gentlemen you understand each other easily," Odemwingie, who was sent home from training on Friday morning.
"I had to be in training that morning but when that was done I asked if I could go as I had to pack and start driving. I got the go-ahead from him (Ashworth) as far as I understand so I went round and said goodbye to everyone and thank you. In my opinion everything was done right. He can deny it because he has to look good in this situation.
"I knew that it took two hours to drive to London and I had to be there because we were 90% there and then the deal didn't happen. We were almost there, the club were angry that I went there and it was on TV. They weren't angry that I went there, but when it came up on TV that's when they said that this deal is off and asked why did I did it.
"My only regret is that I didn't have the paper in my hand before I went to London."
While admitting that his actions had been "a bit unprofessional", he also claimed the circumstances were not that different to those that saw him sign for West Brom from Lokomotiv Moscow.
"I came to this club (West Brom) in a wholly unprofessional way," he said. "I wasn't given any written permission by Lokomotiv Moscow but I arrived at this club. I did a medical, I don't think everything went so professional when I arrived."
The club confirmed on Friday that while preliminary discussions over the saga had been "constructive," Odemwingie had been given permission to return home and will play no part in Sunday's home clash with Tottenham.
"Peter Odemwingie is not in right frame of mind to face Spurs this weekend. It's in best interests of other players that he's not involved. (He) will return to training when we decide it is right," Clarke was quoted on the club's Twitter feed.
Odemwingie, who has 18 months left on his West Brom contract, confirmed that he still wishes to leave the club for personal reasons.
"I believe if West Brom brought me back here it is because they believe there is a way I can be back on the pitch and giving my best to the team," he said.
"I will always love the club but I will still leave, it is just a matter of time. I understand the need to honour your contract but the club have known the reasons I want to leave for some time now. They feel I can overcome that, but they don't know my heart.
"My contract runs out in a year and a half. I wasn't offered an extension here. My career ends one day and so will my contract here at West Brom."
Speaking later outside the club's training ground, Odemwingie said: "I've had a chat with Dan Ashworth this morning and the club will say more later.
"I have been given a few days off and will be back in training next week."
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No other thinker's mere name stirs an argument the way that of Charles Darwin does. It has been always thus. In the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Darwin's obituary noted the supreme achievement of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (1859), where he introduced what is commonly known as the theory of evolution; the obituary also remarked the intensity with which the theory's champions and detractors alike reacted to it: "It is doubtful if any single book, except the ?Principia,' ever worked so great and so rapid a revolution in science, or made so deep an impression on the general mind. It aroused a tempest of opposition and met with equally vehement support." One hundred fifty years have passed since the publication of Origin, and while those who carry Darwin's banner proclaim that there is nothing more true than evolution, multitudes remain who refuse to believe it. Some of the unbelievers are credulous to the point of insensibility, choosing to put their faith instead in Biblical literalism, while others are exceedingly subtle and learned, promoting the contrarian ideas of irreducible complexity and intelligent design.
Darwin's modern defenders protest that intelligent design is precisely the outmoded belief that their hero expelled from the precincts of respectable science. As Satan travels under other diabolical monikers, so intelligent design is but an alias for natural theology, the teaching that thrived especially in the Anglican tradition from Richard Hooker in the sixteenth century to William Paley in the early nineteenth, and that held that God can be known in His wisdom and beneficence through an understanding of the works of nature. To Darwinists, natural theology confounds the study proper to nature, which is scientific, with that proper to divinity, which has no place in science. Thus intelligent design, certain Darwinists insist, particularly those who disbelieve in God in the first place, is a means of sneaking Christian piety into science by the back door.
The antipathy between Darwinists and anti-Darwinists is so fierce because the stakes are so high: one might even say that everything is at stake. The goodness, the power, the nature, indeed the very existence of God, and the origin, the place, the purpose, indeed the very soul of man are the matters in dispute. Some people come to atheism by way of Darwin, while others gravitate toward Darwin because they are atheists; some anti-Darwinists believe in God because they see truth in design, while others believe in design because they believe in God (as the Victorian Roman Catholic thinker John Henry Cardinal Newman said of himself). Yet as most every serious commentator on Darwin will tell you, Darwin himself was not in fact an atheist, and there have been staunch Darwinists of high intellectual caliber who found a place in his thought for design and Christian piety. The distinguished writer Harriet Martineau, whom Darwin knew quite well — she was a romantic friend of his brother, Erasmus, though the romance likely went unconsummated — remarked that there was altogether too much of God in the Origin to suit a thoroughgoing atheist like herself. On the other hand, many passionate Christian readers have become incensed because natural selection seems to crop God from the picture.
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