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Steve Forbes, the editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine and himself a former presidential candidate, announced his endorsement Saturday of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for president.
Forbes had campaigned hard in Florida for former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who dropped out after Tuesday's primary.
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Two other high-profile Giuliani backers — Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former Solicitor General Theodore Olson — also have switched to McCain.
The backing by Forbes is the latest in a cascade of signs that a once-reluctant Republican establishment is embracing McCain, who could wrap up the party's presidential nomination in three days on Super Tuesday.
"More and more Americans will be impressed by John McCain's efforts to reform our convoluted, growth-retarding, anti-opportunity tax code," Forbes said in a statement released by the McCain campaign.
"He understands that dollars and decisions are best left to hard-working Americans. John McCain's pro-growth plan to cut taxes, stop wasteful spending and reform our health care system will secure our nation's prosperity for generations to come," Forbes added. "He is the best candidate to ensure our economic and national security."
In a separate statement, McCain welcomed Forbes' endorsement, calling him "a major contributor to the tax reform movement in our country ... a successful business leader and an effective advocate for reducing the burden of a heavy-handed government."
The Los Angeles Times reported that McCain mentioned the upcoming Forbes endorsement Friday on a charter flight from St. Louis to Chicago "as he outlined his quest for acceptance by the party establishment."
Last March, Forbes wrote in an opinion piece for The Wall Street Journal that Giuliani "is the real fiscal conservative in the 2008 presidential race."
Forbes ran for president in 1996 and 2000, with the flat tax as his signature issue. He also pushed for medical savings accounts, parental choice in schools, term limits and Social Security overhaul.
In addition to his editor-in-chief title, Forbes is chairman and chief executive of the magazine's parent company, Forbes Media.
In another Saturday endorsement, Rep. Mike Ferguson (R-N.J.) announced his support for former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.


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Starting last year, Veterans started receiving letters declaring their incompetence and demanding they hand over their guns. As the trend increasingly subjects additional veterans to the same treatment, Veterans are fighting back.
So far, Obama's gun grabbing agenda has created victims out of over 129,000 veterans—a number that is still rising. We all know that Obama is seeking to disarm the American people and is finding any means in which he can do so.
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A study released this week named Afghanistan the most dangerous country for women, with Pakistan and India following closely behind. But while serious problems exist for women in these places, women's rights activists say there is also an emerging public awareness in all three countries about problems that were previously seen as too taboo to address in public.
"If you look at the Bollywood films and you see the fashion magazines coming out of both countries [Pakistan and India], you wouldn't believe that there are other women locked up at home or their mobility is severely curtailed, but that is the case," says Simi Kamal, chief of party for the gender equity program at the Aurat Foundation, headquartered in Islamabad.
"On the one hand, you will see many women out in the professional world – they own businesses, they're in the banking sector, they're in the teaching sector, all of those things – yet there are other women who have to face a whole series of harassments."
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Almost 40% of Americans Play Freemium Games
Almost 40% of Americans Play Freemium Games
The free-to-play market is widespread, lucrative, and ruled by women.
From Facebook to the MMO scene, free-to-play games are everywhere. In fact, statistically speaking, if you're an American, there's a 38% chance that you've played one - and if you're female, you've probably stuck with it for a while. While so-called "freemium" games don't seem to be making a huge impression on the traditional young male gamer audience, this likely makes very little difference to the free-to-play developers, who can count on an average of 40% of players to make at least one in-game payment.
In a survey of over 6000 children and adults, the ubiquitous market-analyzing NPD Group discovered some edifying statistics about free-to-play gaming habits among a number of demographics. In addition to measuring the penetration of and payment rate for freemium games in the American market, the NPD Group determined that women are "significantly more likely" to play these games. 84% of those who play freemium games come back after their initial foray, while 15% abandon them entirely. While men are more likely to pay up than their female counterparts, especially within the first month of play, the coveted 13-34 male demographic generally does not show much interest in freemium games. According to Anita Frazier, an NPD analyst, this is because the demographic includes many core gamers, who are used to a very different kind of experience than what free-to-play games generally offer. "At a minimum," said Frazier, "for these gamers a freemium game would provide a different experience, like a snack versus a full meal."
With the proliferation of more traditional core games, like Age of Empires Online and Firefall, the same survey could yield very different results a few years down the road. However, while the survey does not necessarily represent every gamer or developer's experience, 6000 participants is a strong sample size. Even if the data doesn't reveal anything shocking, the message is suggestive: There's a lot of money to be made in free-to-play games by capitalizing on a female demographic, but since men seem to have deeper pockets where freemium games are concerned, the core gamer market could be an untapped goldmine. All it will take is the right developer with the right game.
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Can someone clear up what "Freemium" games actually are?
At this time my brains a little too overworked by lack of sleep and Gainax anime to figure it out on my own.
any from to play on line game.
MMO wise you have games like City of Heroes, Vindictus and Dungeon Fighter as example
for everything else ... mostly the crap on face book.
-'Almost 40% of the 6,000 Americans We Asked, Have Played Freemium Games At Least Once'-
There ya go, fixed the title for you.
OT: A few thousand people doesn't impress me much.... unless they were all in the same place, at the same time. Maybe one day I'll find a free to play of my own to love and cherish.
I can only dream.
Firefall? Firefall? FIREFALL? Planetside 2 is coming. Prepare the way.
Women are ruining gaming!
It's a pretty nice sample size. My favorite bit is the line where it says, "if you are American then you are 38% likely to enjoy Freemium games"... or some such thing. I'm clearly paraphrasing. But, someone needs to learn what statistics mean, lol...
That is the new corporate model, so I'm automatically against it simply because it's the corporate aspect (EA, Activision, Ubisoft) that is ruining gaming. I am starting to see it more and more. People enjoy the games, which is fine, but I have seen some gamer who will not pay for a game anymore. That is fine and dandy, but be sensible and don't be so narrow minded about it.
As a side note, I'm in the Firefall Beta and I'm a bit disappointed. You need to group to do everything. I find people willing to group but all they want to do is run around and grind. It's making me nuts. I daresay, it may be the people who are going to ruin that game.
Well... I'd say that's about right. I mean, you've got damn near EVERYTHING there already! You've got everything from your arena-multiplayer games like Brawl Busters and Team Fortress 2, to your co-op dungeon crawlers like Spiral Knights, to your MUMMORPUGERS (Ohlord there's too many to count there) to your long-term idle games like Farmville and Travian. Freemium has come to the point where it covers pretty much all the bases, and like the article mentions it's only growing more and more.
So? That is how statistics works, yo. You can't contact every single member of the population, so you get a suitably random, suitably large sample and extrapolate from that. Statisticians have been conducting experiments this way for years. The title works. :/
OT: Not surprising. Most are easy to find (being advertised every freaking where), run on most everything under the sun, and are fairly easy to pick up and play. Seems pretty obvious they would have high penetration, and I suspect that will only increase over time.
Free to play games popular? It could be because other AAA games are pretty much trying to be F2P but without the free part.
I know, christ, someone could do a study of 80% of the population and people will still call it skewed because that last 20% are important for some reason. Unless there's a correlating factor here such as posting this survey on facebook where there are shitloads of freemium games kicking about then it's perfectly valid.
OT: I hate freemium so, so much but Tribes:Ascend is too fun to play. Dichotomy: I'm at the point where I've unlocked everything I want, problem is I'm now unfairly more powerful than free players. I don't know where to go from that.
Mother of god... Oh well, at least these peons are providing the gaming industry with some easy moolah.
Have F2P game article about how popular F2P games are. Don't mention League of Legends. Yeah, ok.
6000 is a really good sample size. Really good. That doesn't mean the sample is good, if that was 6000 people who were on fb for example, you would have a higher percentage than normal. If they were in a gun store, on the other hand, the percentage would be lower than normal. However, if it was a random sampling like most marketing surveys are, then 6000 is a phenomenal sample size.
Shh! Don't tell the developers that! We'll be ruined!
Yep I play Feemiums every couple of months for a few months then get board.
The last one I played was Vindictus (mobinogi heroes) from Nexon, the limited daily questing combined with the action oriented game play and a wholesale lack of grinding was very appealing. Then they raised the level cap opened a new area and made you grind the hell out of it...
I've never paid a dime to the free-to-play games.
I'll probably try League of Legends again soon.
That's one hell of a paraphrase... they never mentioned enjoyment, they merely said there's a 38% chance that you've played one.
And that's how statistics work.
Statistics never apply to individuals. That is what I meant. They only apply to samples of data covering groups.
You are quite correct though, I paraphrased badly.
But, you cannot refer to individuals then give a probability, it doesn't work that way. And this is a bit of English snob but, "if you're an american" is a direct reference to a single individual. Another way I have seen statistics misused is when people get a DUI, they are told they are 60% more likely to re-offend, but it's not true. The truth is that 60% of all people who have gotten a DUI re-offend, but no individual is more or less likely to re-offend based on having gotten one.
I get and understand what you're saying in terms of the idea of applying statistics to a single person as if it were fact, but I believe that the key words here are "chance" and "likely." It's not confirmed that you have/are, but there's a chance that you might be, and that chance is quantified as 40/60% based on a survey of your peers.
I'm a little out of my element when it comes to syntax of the English language on this level though, It's not something I can point at a dictionary and say "No... this is what this word means" so I admit I might be wrong.
I had a college class on statistics my last semester, so I understand how they work. But honestly, I still think their shit.
captcha: "namby-pamby" So, captcha you've started in on me too I see. Well, I don't think I appreciate the name-calling. So, right back at you smug son of a bitch.
That is a common misconception. That probability doesn't mean anything in real world terms to individuals. As an example I read that is possibly the best explanation of this: the genetic makeup of jamaica is 90% African and 10% European. But as a member of that society, you are not 90% African and 10% European. You could be 100% of either, or 0% of either, or any of the other things in between. The probability only has any indication what so ever of a sample size of the population. Statistics are almost completely meaningless to individuals.
I'm not trying to be argumentative, but statistical data like this gets misused all the time when it is in fact not representative of anything having to do with probability of any individual. It's only representative of my town, or my circle of friends (though as I'm sure you know, if it was just a group of my friends, the law of small numbers rules the day and it not indicative of society in any way or form).
Valid points, and I didn't take it as argumentative at all. I also learned something, so it's been a good day.
Yeah, with their tampons and feelings and shit!
I did not take a college class on statistics and can confirm they are indeed shit.
You go with your gut.
I saw you responded which made me think I was just being pig headed, which if you ever look at my post history, is pretty easy for me. I can get passionate (which I'm told is code for being a prick) about things that I have read extensively about. But I always do that and if someone else is equally or even more qualified (which you obviously may be), it becomes an afterthought. I certainly didn't mean to think that I knew more than you without being informed. I also feel the extent to which statistical data is used to improperly represent information is absolutely maddening. I also am aware that the author of this story is only using the data as he has seen it used many many times, so he is not to blame at all.
The misuse of statistical data really is pretty damn rampant. I can get behind you with that 100%.
All I know is I work in retail and sell lots, Lots, LOTS more F2P gamecards than actual games. I have several customers who spend over $100 each week on Facebook games. Seems to be very lucrative to the companies for what is generally sub-par gaming.
On a personal note, I play a lot of F2P Team Fortress 2, and spend way too much money on it too!
And what gets me, the amount of complaining I hear about game prices. People refuse to spend $60 for Battlefield 3, instead spending hundreds of dollars on Gang Wars. Could have bought a new "Oh my God they're way over-priced!" PS3 each month for what they're spending. If you're deciding to put your money towards less quality merchandise instead, then quit complaining!
tries, team fortress 2 and league of legends just to name 3 very good free do play games.
why do you hate freemium, also when I started playing tribes I was able to kick peoples asses using just the soldier with no unlocks, while the unlock make you slightly more powerful they don't make you unfairly more powerful.
OT: don't we already know that freemium is a very popular business model?
There you go, fixed that for ya.
Not american, but guilty as charged, have tried 3 freemium games, play 1, have made 1 transaction.
Also, freemium is nothing new. The oldest ever graphic mmorpg is freemium (tibia).
these studies are as solid as water
The plasma gun, jackal, thumper, X1+discs and mines are freakin huge upgrades to their respective class. a 75K unlock (Which would be a huge amount for a F2P) is required to make the DMB what he's supposed to be, Heavy on Flag.
Against lowish levels I definitely feel unfairly powerful, by quite a bit. I'm often thinking the only reason I survived x encounter was cause I could afford the X1 LMG, which is well out of reach for any sane free-to-player.
Plasma gun will be nerfed, but it's just wtfpwn every class atm. It makes the Raider a clear superior to the Soldier in its own role and others.
The Jackal is also immensely powerful. The Stealthfusor was an example of not being able to buy power, merely versatility at cost but the Jackal is just unbelievable.
I'd like to think I'm an amazing player, but how can I tell when I'm backed by all these expensive, powerful guns?
I haven't seen the plasma gun in action so I can't say anything about that. I have used the thumper with my soldier so I don't think it is any better then the technicians smg, its hard to tell as they are very different guns but using the assault rifle and thumper its often just a matter of situation for which is better. The jackal is the only one which I definitely feel is noticeably more powerful compared to other weapons in the game, I just think that was more of a accidental imbalance and will hopefully be fixed, if not then I will be angry. I will also agree that they need to cut the prices of unlocking new weapons by at about half. Though I will raise my previous point of I was level 1 with no unlocks and I could still fight as good as people with upgrades.
Tech thumper is way more powerful than the thumper DX, especially given the fact that a TCN fights mostly indoors. Jackal has had its nerf, probably wont be touched again.
And when you're level one, you get matched with people no higher than level 6.


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You have your eyes on something to get,
your mind is focussed and all set
You give it your all, your very best
but alas it is not to be, you are broken crest.
Unable to accept disappointment in jest,
your inner zeal you put to rest.
Your mind is highly irritated,
others enquire you feel pestered.
Your heart is completely devastated,
and you become very frustrated.
But remember that someone above does watch
and decides what things suit your catch.
He is the one who knows what is good
& doesn't want u in the long run to brood.
Don't lose heart
amidst all the gust
in Him have faith & place all ur trust.
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Lee County, Florida, is not unlike many other Florida counties.
Its population swells in the winter and spring with snowbirds, spring breakers and Major League Baseball fans coming for spring training season. It was also one of the hardest-hit areas of the housing bubble. Lee County Solid Waste Director Keith Howard describes the southwest Florida county as an area that "grew quick and crashed hard in the most recent recession."
Regardless of all the ups and downs, one thing that has remained constant is the management of the solid waste generated there. That's because almost 30 years ago, the Lee Board of County Commissioners had the foresight to adopt the Lee County Integrated Solid Waste Master Plan, which set it on a course to manage waste as a resource and greatly reduce what was going to landfills. Not to say the solid waste division hasn't experienced fluctuations in volumes and utility and commodity prices, but the set of facilities and partners that manage the county's waste work together to minimize the impact.
The master plan's primary objectives were to site a publicly owned waste to energy (WTE) facility and a new, smaller landfill and to begin a curbside recycling program. The population was soaring, and commissioners were looking for a solution that made sound economic sense and that would minimize long-term landfill operations.
As a result, today, Lee County Integrated Waste Management System includes a 300-acre site in Fort Myers that houses the WTE facility, a single-stream material recovery facility (MRF) and a construction and demolition (C&D) recycling facility and a transfer station.
"As a public agency, our growth strategy is focused on having sufficient capacity to manage the community's waste stream for the health and safety of the community," says Howard.
The county also owns a household chemical waste drop-off site in Fort Myers and a compost processing facility and a landfill containing separate sited areas for ash, C&D and MSW. Lee County also owns additional transfer stations in Hendry County after it started to process the county's waste in 1990.
Putting all the systems and processes in place happened throughout much of the 1990s. The recycling program was implemented in 1992, while the WTE facility opened in 1994, and the Lee/Hendry landfill opened in 1997 and began receiving waste in 2002. Before that, waste went to Waste Management's Gulf Coast Landfill though a cooperative agreement.
The county provides solid waste and recycling collection, processing and disposal to unincorporated Lee County and the cities of Bonita Springs, Estero and Fort Myers Beach. It provides processing services for municipal solid waste to Cape Coral, Fort Myers, Sanibel and adjacent Hendry County. Waste and recycling collection—a $25-million-per-year service—is handled by third-party companies and overseen by the district. The district has five franchise areas for collection. Advanced Disposal, Ponte Vedra, Florida, services three franchise collection areas, and Waste Pro, Longwood, Florida, services the other two.
Residents and commercial customers are charged two per-ton fees. One is listed on their tax bills as a disposal facilities assessment geared toward the fixed cost of the system. Residents also are charged a gate fee based on general usage, which is also on their tax bills. The commercial gate fee is based each customer's disposal volume.
"We look at our expenses, offset against any other revenues that we can derive from our system, and then the short fall is picked up from those two rates," says Howard. "Historically we have pursued diversification to minimize the long-term impacts to the ratepayers whenever possible while trying to keep expenses in check," Howard notes.
The WTE facility is one of the main components of Lee County's integrated waste management system. It receives around 620,000 tons of processable material annually, with about 550,000 to 560,000 tons coming from residential and commercial garbage.
In addition to traditional MSW, the WTE facility also combusts biosolids and items from law enforcement, such as drugs, fire arms, unfit currency and confidential documents.
The facility has a 630,000-ton-per-year (TPY) effective capacity and 670,000-TPY total capacity. It produces 59.7 megawatts (MW) of electricity per hour. Fifteen percent of the electricity used to power the campus, while the rest is sold on the open market.
"As a public agency, our growth strategy is focused on having sufficient capacity to manage the community's waste stream for the health and safety of the community." – Keith Howard, director, Lee County Solid Waste
The WTE facility receives more than 800 truckloads, or about 2,500 tons, per day of waste Monday through Friday. The plant operates 24 hours per day, seven days per week.
Covanta, Morristown, New Jersey operates the county-owned facility. Howard says this serves as a model of a successful public-private partnership.
In 2013, the county extended that partnership with Covanta to include the installation of an enhanced metals recovery system designed to increase metals collected from the ash postcombustion.
The single-stream MRF processes recyclables collected curbside. Plastic, glass and metal containers, paper and cardboard are processed for recycling through mechanical and manual processes. ReCommunity of Charlotte, North Carolina, (or its predecessors) has operated the MRF for the county for more than 20 years and recently was awarded another five-year contract with two two-year renewal options.
"ReCommunity provides another excellent example of public-private partnerships that work," says Howard.
Lee County also owns and operates a construction and demolition (C&D) recycling facility at the campus that sorts C&D debris to recover metal, wood, plastic, cardboard and concrete. In 2014, the county began to pull clean wood from the stream and market it to private vendors that use it to make decorative mulch.
Yard waste generated in Lee County is ground and converted into mulch and compost at the Lee/Hendry Landfill. Residents can get mulch for free at five locations across the county.
Lee County Solid Waste also has an off-site household chemicals and electronics recycling facility in Fort Myers. Residents can take household chemicals, such as old paint, oil, fertilizer and corrosive chemicals, there.
Businesses have monthly drop-off dates for their hazardous materials coordinated with the county's chemical waste disposal vendor, EQ.
Outdated electronics collected at the curbside also are handled at the facility.
Lastly, after all other methods of disposal are used, the material that remains is sent to the Lee/Hendry Regional Solid Waste Disposal Facility in Hendry County. Most of the material that goes to the landfill is ash from the combustion process, oversized C&D debris and materials that do not have markets.
All of these processes combine to put the county recycling rate at 73 percent. Howard says the state of Florida credits WTE toward diversion rate.
"The traditional way when you think of recycling is 46 percent. We are a strong recycling community. The extra 27 percent is energy credit from the waste to energy. Any megawatt hour generated is a ton of recycling credit," Howard says of how the state calculates it.
Lee County Solid Waste Division's campus may have separate facilities on it, but they all work together. "We do embrace and operate as an integrated solid waste management system. We look at things and how they complement each other," says Howard. "It's supporting an on-site disposal option."
For example, the WTE facility adds residues from the MRF and C&D recycling facility to its feedstock. Cardboard and rigid plastic collected at the C&D recycling facility are baled at the MRF and marketed with like materials.
"There is just this give and take to try to keep things stable and comfortable at the plant while trying to keep these other operations running well together," Howard comments.
Lee County Solid Waste owns all the facilities, and employees oversee the contracted operations for curbside collections and contracts for operation and maintenance of the WTE facility and MRF. More than 60 percent of the county's 104-person staff are drivers, heavy equipment operators, environmental technicians, mechanics, crew supervisors and solid waste technicians.
Two important issues that have had an impact on Lee County Solid Waste's profitability are recycling contamination and energy pricing.
Since the WTE facility lost its power purchase agreement with Seminole Electric in December 2016, times have been challenging. The county had been selling its power to that electric cooperative in Tampa for more than a decade, but Seminole decided to terminate the contract. As a result, Lee County Solid Waste had to figure out what to do with its power and found a temporary solution.
"We've hired a brokerage company, Rainbow Energy Management Corp. We call it an energy asset manager to manage our energy assets and help us find the best price," says Howard.
Under the federal Public Utility Regulatory Policy Act (PURPA), Howard says, the county can sell its power to Florida Power & Light (FP&L).
"Unfortunately, FP&L is the big player in the state that has the worst as-available prices," Howard comments. "So we are looking at other investor-owned utilities under PURPA, as well as any contract spot market rates we can get."
Howard says the county would like to find another 10- to 20-year purchase agreement; but, right now, utility companies only want to pay for energy and not for capacity. "The best predictions right now are that in 2021 or 2022 capacity payments may come back," he says.
Recycling also has its challenges. Howard says the viability of recycling systems, contamination issues and convincing the public that recycling is not free are just a few of the issues haulers and processors have. And, he says, there is a big difference between the county providing a service to residents and the private sector working on profit margins.
"When we talk about residential and multifamily, no matter what the markets are, we are going to be picking up all [materials], whether it is glass, metal, aluminum, plastic (or) paper. Whereas in the private sector, if something isn't making money, they are going to cut it," he says.
The division has found a way to save money by switching its tires to super singles, where instead of having two side-by-side tires on a vehicle, the vehicle is equipped with one much larger tire.
"We switched over to them and found we were getting a slight fuel-economy savings" says Howard.
Additionally, at the ash monofill, when the county was running the two side-by-side tires, pieces of metal would get wedged between the two tires. "With the super singles ... you don't have that issue." Howard says. He adds that tires last longer, need to be replaced less frequently and cost less.
CONTINUING Integration
Howard calls waste "the invisible infrastructure of communities." He adds, "We don't have pavement, pipes or wires, but without the pieces we bring to the table, life gets a lot messier."
The division is in the midst of a master planning project to begin developing the strategies and facilities for the next 20 years, and it is clear integration will continue to play a part.
"As technologies evolve," Howard says, "it is rather difficult to pinpoint one strategy that will solve the problem, and we're finding it will take a multipronged approach that has to be flexible and adaptable as the community grows and changes."


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Law enforcement agencies, tax authorities and legal regulators have taken a strong interest in bitcoin and trying to figure out how to fit cryptocurrency into their current framework.
Bitcoin has proven to be a combative issue for regulators and law enforcers, both of which have targeted the digital currency in an effort to control how it's used. It's still early on, but a lot of legal authorities are still fighting to understand the cyrptocurrency. Through all the cloudiness, one question still moves to the forefront: Is bitcoin legal?
The answer is, yes, contingent on what you're doing with it. We have provided a guide below to the extensive legal landscape around bitcoin.
What are the fears surrounding bitcoin?
Tensions rise for government agencies over the implications of bitcoin, as it has people have the ability to use it anonymously, and is in result a potential risk for money laundering. Specifically, law enforcers seem to be worried about the decentralized nature of the currency.
As early as April 2012, the FBI released a document highlighting its fears around bitcoin specifically, creating a distinction between it and centralized digital currencies such as eGold and WebMoney. It voiced worries that while US-based exchanges are regulated, offshore services may not be, and could be a harbor for criminals to use bitcoin for illicit activities without the ability to be tracked.
Bitcoin was the only form of currency accepted on Silk Road, an anonymous marketplace that was only accessible over the TOR anonymous browsing network, and which was monitored tightly by the FBI in October 2013. Silk Road was mainly used to sell goods that are illegal in a lot of countries, including narcotics. This enticed US Senator Charles Schumer to order the site to close, openly connecting it to bitcoin, which he named it as a "surrogate currency". The US Drug Enforcement Administration halted bitcoin from a US resident for buying a controlled substance in June 2013.
Who Regulates Bitcoin?
Regulators are different per-country basis, but you can anticipate seeing national financial regulators increase their interest in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, potentially.
Regulators will vary on a per-country basis, but you can expect to see national financial regulators interested in bitcoin and other virtual currencies, possibly along with regional regulators at a sub-country level.
In the United States, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, which is an agency within the US Treasury Department, took the lead. It published rules about the use of virtual currencies. FinCEN's March 18, 2013 guidance expressed the circumstances under which virtual currency users could be considered as money services businesses (also commonly known as money transmitting businesses or MTBs). MTBs must enforce Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Client (KYC) measures, making it aware the people that they're doing business with.
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which oversees financial derivatives, hasn't announced regulation yet, but has made it clear that it could if asked upon to do so.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) hasn't administered clear regulations on virtual currencies, but its Office of Investor Education and Advocacy issued an investor alert to warn people about fraudulent investment schemes involving bitcoin. Specifically, it warned of Ponzi schemes, after charging Texas resident Trendon T Shavers founder and operator of Bitcoin Savings and Trust, with supposedly raising 700,000 bitcoins by promising investors up to 7% weekly interest.
Legislative branch
The SEC case has made the government consider bitcoin's legal status. Shavers had made arguments that he could not be prosecuted for securities fraud because bitcoin wasn't classified as money. However, Judge Amos Mazzant released a memorandum debating that bitcoin can be used as money.
In August 2013, the US Senate wrote to various law enforcement agencies, asking about about the threats and risks relating to virtual currency. The letters included one to the Department Of Homeland Security, worrying about the lack of a paper trail for regulators and enforcement agencies to follow for virtual currency transactions. It requested policies and guidance connected to the treatment of virtual currencies, and information about any continous strategic efforts in the area.
November gathered feedback from the agencies. The Department of Homeland Security was the most concerned about the criminal threat from illegal use of bitcoin, while the Department of Justice, the Federal Reserve and the Department of Justice all recognized the legitimate uses of virtual currencies. The SEC debated that "any interests issued by entities owning virtual currencies or providing returns based on assets such as virtual currencies" were classified as securities and thus fell under its remit.
United States Regulator
Every state in the U.S. has their own financial regulators and laws, and each has their own approach to bitcoin, respectively. California and New York have been mainly aggressive in their chase of bitcoin-related organizations, for instance, while others, such as New Mexico, South Carolina, and Montana, don't regulate money-transmitting businesses. We've added a list of states and their approaches to money transmitter laws here.
In May 2013, California's state financial regulator pubished a letter to the Bitcoin Foundation, a nonprofit organization created to promote bitcoin, forewarning it that it may potentially be a money transmission business, and threatening people there with potential fines and incarcination.
Next, in August 2013, the New York Department of Financial Services handed out subpoenas to 22 bitcoin-related companies, although these letters were more appeasing, asking for a discourse to develop the right regulatory guidelines for the digital currency industry. Since that time, New York has acted more optimistically, with the state's Superintendent of Financial Services, Benjamin M. Lawsky, announcing that it will now accept applications for digital currency exchanges
Lawsky signaled that these businesses would be regulated under new New York regulation, which he promised to implement by the end of the Q2 of 2014.
A number of banks have seized accounts owned by people operating bitcoin exchanges. This was because the bank was dissatisfied that the company involved did not have money transmitting business (MTB) account.
The US Senate confronted the issue of banking and federal regulation in a set of hearings held in November. The hearings were investigative in nature and may not lead to legislation, though feedback from agencies included responses that there were legitimate uses for the coin.
The legality of bitcoin is based on who you are, and what you're planning to do with it.


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Cindi Ross Scoppe
Scoppe: Poor schools score a big win — by not losing
IT WAS A BIG WEEK for the poor, rural school districts that have been fighting for 23 years to force the state to do more to provide a decent education for their students: They won a significant victory in the state Supreme Court — by not losing.
On its face, Tuesday's order in the Abbeville v. South Carolina school adequacy case seemed pretty mundane: The court denied the school districts' request to order the Legislature to do more — and more quickly — to help the districts. It also denied the Legislature's request to stop monitoring what the Legislature is or isn't doing. Instead, the court praised the work lawmakers had done this year — particularly work by the House — and told the Legislature and the districts to report back in June on what they have accomplished.
SC Supreme Court will keep oversight of suit by poor, rural schools
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But up until it released that order, it seemed entirely possible that the court was about to wash its hands of the whole matter, leaving the Legislature to comply or not comply with the landmark 2014 ruling that ordered the state to provide the children in our poorest districts with the education they need to get good jobs and support their families and pay taxes and in other ways help make our state a better place for us all.
Little wonder, then, that despite having all of his arguments about the Legislature's foot-dragging and counter-productive actions rejected, the school districts' lead attorney, Carl Epps, pronounced himself pleased by the order.
The Abbeville decision has been tenuous from the start: It contained no enforcement mechanism and was signed by three justices but flatly rejected by the other two. A year ago, that same three-justice majority ordered the Legislature and Gov. Nikki Haley to jointly appoint a member to a panel it was creating to review an education "plan" that it ordered the state to present by Feb. 1, and the two dissenters in Abbeville I objected to that enforcement order.
After legislative leaders refused to comply with what they declared an unconstitutional mandate, the court backed down and said they need only file an update this summer. But by then, lawmakers were gearing up to elect a replacement for retiring Chief Justice Jean Toal, who had written both the Abbeville I and II decisions, and some of the legislators — it's hard to know how many — were determined to find a new justice who would reverse those 3-2 rulings.
John Few, then chief judge of the S.C. Court of Appeals, answered questions at his screening hearing in a way that left lawmakers and court watchers convinced that he would be that third vote to flip the opinions, and in February legislators elected him handily to fill Ms. Toal's then-vacant seat.
But Justice Few didn't participate in Tuesday's order, and gave no reason for not participating. (I emailed him Thursday to ask why, but didn't get an answer; I don't know if he just didn't want to answer, or if he didn't think it was appropriate to do so.) One court watcher said he might have decided not to participate because he wasn't involved in the 2015 enforcement ruling that was the crux of Tuesday's order. But unless he has a conflict of interest, there's nothing to stop him from participating when this comes back before the court in June, so it's hard to guess where the court might be then.
Perhaps a clue is the fact that the court was not divided in its Tuesday order: Chief Justice Costa Pliecones and Associate Justice John Kittredge, who had dissented in Abbeville I and II, signed it along with Associate Justices Don Beatty and Kaye Hearn, who had joined Ms. Toal in the majority on those orders. Add that to the fact that none of the justices took credit for writing the order, and it's easy to read this as a negotiated compromise.
The coming assault on judicial integrity
What if our Legislature were unbound by the constraints of the constitution?
Editorial: Legislature should follow House education task force's road map
One year after Abbeville school ruling, some progress, and some clarification
It certainly has a different tone than the previous orders. Whereas the 2015 order seemed to suggest that the court was going to pass judgment on the policies the Legislature was pursuing, the court on Tuesday said merely that it would "continue to monitor the progress towards a constitutionally compliant education system."
I think the court got it right here. Its enforcement order a year ago was heavy-handed, and quite possibly over a constitutional line. But unless it's going to reverse itself on the original Abbeville decision — unless it's going to say the state is already providing all children the opportunity to get a decent education — the court can hardly walk away from the case at this point.
And I doubt our legislative leaders really want the court to walk away: Both House Speaker Jay Lucas and Senate President Pro Tempore Hugh Leatherman seem genuinely committed to changing the curricula, governance, focus and funding of our public schools so that they provide a decent education to the children who live in the 40 rural school districts concentrated in what has come to be known as the Corridor of Shame.
But all those legislators who thought they were electing a justice who would overturn Abbeville — well, they don't want to do that. And the court's continuing jurisdiction makes it easier for Messrs. Lucas and Leatherman to keep them on board.
Ms. Scoppe writes editorials and columns for The State. Reach her at email@example.com or (803) 771-8571 or follow her on Twitter @CindiScoppe.


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Budongo Eco-Lodge is the perfect springboard into the various activities at Budongo Forest Reserve such as Chimpanzee Tracking, or take part in an all day Chimpanzee Habituation Experience during the off-season (Minimum Age for both is 15). Budongo Eco-Lodge is also a great place, if not one of the best places in Uganda that you can venture out from for a half-day or full day of birding with expert guides. Budongo Forest Eco-Lodge is the place from where you can start some great forest walks and nature Walks and when you come back enjoy a good meal and a cold drink for refreshment rest in your cottage and enjoy the forest setting that is all around you.
The cottages are self-contained with en-suite bath while the dorms use shared bath facility and the beauty of either is not only the setting, the comfort of the room, the quietness around you only broken by the sounds of nature, but the level of service, the freshly brewed coffee, the delightful brownies that go with a good cup but breakfast, lunch and dinner, delightful meals either International Recipes or Ugandan dishes that will give you some energy for another nature hike, or a half day of birding.
The only thing missing are some trails where you can go off on a mountain bike through the mahogany and ironwood forest, that would make it even a better place.
Once you have completed your activities here there are some close by places you can add-on to your time here such as a visit to the nearby Boomu Women's Group and the a look at traditional village life, or an overnight stay in a traditional African Village. One cannot forget a visit to Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary where you track Rhinos on Foot.
Budongo Eco-Lodge in the Heart of Budongo Forest is a nice place to stay right within the forest while you are chimpanzee tracking, or do the all-day Chimpanzee Habituation Experience while staying at the Eco-Lodge. Besides the food is pretty good here, at times you will even spot Brownies.
Budongo Eco-Lodge in the Heart of Budongo Forest – If you like to add this lodge to your safari itinerary with us – please let us know and we will incorporate it into your safari.


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Thinking about the last year, caused me to ponder - why do we as a company spend so much of our effort on people? Well, it's people who run our businesses and organizations! They show up each day with a goal to provide their best to their company and clients. It's people who make decisions that affect the outcome of business transactions and strategies, who earn for their companies.
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Ever so rarely often, an RDML function will fail to check in from Visual LANSA to the iSeries for no apparent reason. Sometimes the root cause is the Double Green Error. I just found one of these this week.
You can diagnose this issue by making sure "Produce DDS/RPG Listing" is selected and checking in the object again. Review the spooled output and you will find the following code including the CPD7850 and CPD7882 error messages.
The RPG compiler doesn't like the second Green. Not even a little. The Green attribute is usually attached to hard coded text on the screen and not a field. If you remove the hard coded text, the rogue Green will attach itself to another element on the same screen. If you get rid of the screen, it will attach itself to an element of another screen in the same function. It's a nasty bugger!
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And then there were two
On Wednesday, at long last, I brought Rondo to my barn. As you can imagine that has made me very busy over the last couple of days, so today is the first chance I've had to post about it.
I was very apprehensive about becoming a two-horse owner. I wasn't worried about the money (since I went out and got a job in addition to my freelancing to cover it) as much as I was about the time involved — and the potential for it to change my relationship with Panama. He is the jealous sort, and I'm afraid once he realizes that I spend time with another horse other than him, he won't be as quick to greet me when I arrive.
Plus, another baby is a big undertaking. Do I really want to have to raise another so soon? Panama has just in the last couple of years started showing signs of finally being all grown up (and is still a jackass from time to time). Am I setting myself up for another 4 years of dealing with baby behavior?
Now that Rondo is here, however, I feel very differently. One, he is quite possibly the cutest baby ever, and it's hard not to be happy when I'm with him. Two, he has (so far) handled the move with amazing aplomb for a 2 1/2-year-old.
The story begins with a windy morning and not one, but two, games of "catch me if you can." When I arrived at my in-laws' house to await my trainer and the trailer, my mother-in-law had just fed Rondo and the other horses, but she'd left him in the barn (she's keeping them in overnight now). He was anxious about that, plus he wanted his breakfast, so first he resisted haltering. I opted to let him out to eat and await my trainer, since he was working himself up about still being in the barn (because of the change in routine and being alone), but then of course he played "catch me if you can" all over again when I went to snap the lead onto his halter.
As usual, though, once caught he was as docile as ever. He followed me down to the gate, out of the pasture for the first time since he'd moved there, and to the trailer, where I handed him over to my trainer. Considering it was his second-ever time loading (and the first time he'd just followed his mom on), and also considering he was following a complete stranger onto a big rattling metal box, he did superb — he put two feet on three times in a row, and then just walked right on. No big deal. For me, who has only ever had experiences with Panama (who was traumatized as a yearling and has never trusted trailers since), that just blew me away.
He handled the long (over an hour) drive well, too — he whinnied for his friends a lot at first, but he didn't kick, fuss, or get restless. At every stoplight I could see his breath coming out the windows as he smelled the air in this or that new place.
He was pretty revved up about not knowing where he was at first, and when we turned him out in the outdoor arena, he ran around and whinnied quite a lot. It was the first I've had a really good look at his trot, and it's a lovely extended trot — bet that's going to be a bit different to ride than Panama's quick little pony trot!
(Panama, by the way, watched all of this — me and my trainer unloading a new horse, turning him out, and messing with him — with great interest. He stood at the fence with his ears at attention the entire time. No joke.)
He played a bit of "catch me if you can" again when we went to move him into his corral, but as anxious as he was, I didn't blame him for that. No major problems with catching since — he still has yet to learn to stand still while being haltered (or to put his head down — and good grief is he tall!), but at least he isn't running from me anymore. A corral with no grazing to distract him probably helps.
Yesterday after my riding lesson (and gosh that was hard to focus on, with a new pony in the pasture!), I took Rondo for his first walk around the barn. I already knew he was settling in remarkably fast — he'd already made friends with the geldings in his corral, no fussing or fighting necessary (though the mare let him know right away that she was alpha, which he was fine with — he got out of the way and has steered clear of her ever since). But our first walk blew my mind — again!
Some of you have been reading my blog for long enough to know that Panama had a hard time adjusting to all the "scary" things at our current barn — and he'd been to plenty of barns in the past. He had a hard time learning to walk through the narrow doors into the cross ties and down the aisles in the indoor barn, and of course he was pretty much a nervous wreck in the indoor arena for the first several months.
Rondo, on the other hand, did all of this on his very first walk around the property — and his second day at the barn. He went in and out of the cross ties, only balking once, and getting over it almost immediately. He stood in the cross ties briefly (a huge accomplishment because he'd never experienced cross ties before, let alone in a very confined, concrete environment). He walked into the indoor barn, once again hesitating once, but this time for an even briefer period. He stood in the aisle with me while I chatted briefly to another boarder, then moved into the cross ties there when I asked so that she and her horse could pass. And he walked around the indoor arena, checking out everything, alert but never once showing fear. He was more curious than anything, I think.
He was particularly interested in the mirrors, which he had never seen before. He spent several minutes checking this one out.
It shows the extreme difference between Rondo and Panama, and I am more certain than ever now that they are going to be polar opposites. They are both very smart, but where Panama has more of a tendency to react by getting upset or scared, Rondo is calm and curious. He has an extraordinarily mellow, sweet temperament. Not to say that Panama isn't sweet — he is — but he is also oh-so-very Arab, whereas Rondo's part-draft breeding has obviously made him very quiet and accepting.
I hadn't thought I was going to be able to introduce Rondo to as many new things as I did yesterday, let alone so quickly, but I decided he had been a champ and took him back to his corral. His new buddy, Dechali, immediately came over and demanded Rondo's attention.
I apologize for all the iPhone pictures — I am going out there tomorrow afternoon, and am planning on bringing my camera for some better quality shots!
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one of the coziest places in the home is probably the bedroom. Whether you are in an apartment or living in your own home you want your place to feel like your own.
A bedroom is a place where you let loose and relax and you want it to feel that way also. Especially after a long day, you just put the kids to bed or down for their naps and you just want a nice place to relax.
Not having a big budget to probably the reason that gets in the way of making your house your home. Decorating can be expensive and overwhelming, however, it doesn't have to be.
Here are quick 15 simple ways to decorate your bedroom on a budget that makes your bedroom a great place to relax.
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Wall Gallery
A great way to fill in some space in your bedroom is to do a wall gallery. This is such a cute an easy way to decorate those empty walls.
A great way to get some ideas is to hop on Pinterest get cute wall art ideas like quotes, sayings, and images. Then you get different frame sizes and style and you have just created the perfect DIY wall gallery!
String Some Lights
Stringing some lights is a great way to brighten up your room. It also makes your room have a cozy feeling to it. You can hang lights on the ceiling, around your bed's headboard or another great way is just on the wall and you can hang pictures with clothespins from the lights to add a little creativity!
Add a Rug
Adding a rug can be a great way to tie the whole room together. While having carpet adds to the room as well, nothing can beat a soft fussy rug. If you have accent colors in your room find a rug that matches those colors to help your rug stand out!
Stencil your walls
This is such a great way to add dimension and creativity to your bedroom. There are two different types of stencils you can use.
- Paint stencils to paint a design on your walls or you can use paper with a sticky back. If you do not want to use paint or you are in a place where you can not paint the walls. The sticker stencils or the pain stencils is a great way decorate your walls.
2. Wall Sticker Stencils: You can get these on online and they come in all different styles, sizes, and shapes! These are also another great way to add a little you to your bedroom.
Add some Succulents
Adding little plants like succulents is a great addition to your room. They are low maintenance and if you are going for a more modern look in your room adding them to frames like this can create the modern look.
Wall Shelves
Adding shelves to your walls is easy and work with tight budgets. You can hop on Pinterest and find DIY wall shelves and you will find loads of cute DIY shelves.
Or simply look online! There are really cute and stylish selves that won't break the bank.
Blanket Ladder
This is an amazing way to get rid of the blanket basket. Blanket ladders are easy to make yourself or buy online. They are a great way to keep your blankets off the floor and they add simple style to your room.
Throw Pillows
Is your bed needing some help? Throw pillows work wonders to add comfort and style to your bed. If you have an accent color get your throw pillows the same colors to make the pillows pop!
Even if you don't have the budget for high-end decorations you can still make your bedroom the coziest place in the house. There are plenty of budget-friendly ways to add style to your bedroom, you just have to get creative.
Pinterest is a great tool to find DIY decoration ideas for any room in the house!
If you have any other ideas I would love to hear them! Let me know in the comments below!


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The effect of deposition time on the optical, structural and morphological properties of deposited ZnO films by CBD method for solar energy applicationsAuthor(s): Adrian Ohwofosirai, Idehen Fredrick Lucky, F.I.Ezema
Zinc oxide thin films have been deposited on glass substrates at various deposition times (150mins, 160mins and 170mins) by simple Chemical Bath Deposition technique. The structure of the deposited ZnO films was determined by powder X-ray diffraction and it shows several peaks. The film has high transmittance at the visible region. This high transmittance and wide band gap of film suggests its usefulness as host materials in optoelectronics The reflectance of the deposited ZnO increases with deposition time. The optical band gap of deposited films was found to be 2.4eV, 2.55eV and 2.8eV respectively which show decrease of band gap with deposition time. The EDS result revealed that the required phase has both Zn and O present.