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Audio: Advice To The Sisters of Trinidad & Tobago 2011 and 2012 by Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahid 'Alam
Bismillaah wa Alhumdulillaah wa Saalaatu wa Salaam 'alaa Rasulillaah
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Our noble Ustadh (Teacher), Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahid 'Alam (May Allaah preserve him) from Salafi Publications in Birmingham delivered some very beautiful advices to our sisters, on two of his visits here to Trinidad & Tobago. Once in February 2011 after the seminar "Establishing An Upright Community" in Tobago and again in March 2012 after the seminar "The Methodology of The Men Who Changed The World"
These advices were given on Sunday 13th February, 2011 during the time when the salafis of Tobago were ostrasized from the one Masjid in Tobago at that time, which is upon innovation and misguidance, and labelled as fitnah makers. At a point in the dawah when the despondency was high, and the sisters and brothers were feeling the backlash of being outcast for merely practicing the Quraan and Sunnah according to the understanding of the Salaf us Saalih, our brother in these timely words gave a heart felt encouragement that gave the jama'ah new zeal for the dawahtus salafiyyah.
This was a short advice given on Sunday 11th March, 2012 concerning the rights of the husband over the wife and that of the wife over the husband. These rights, once implemented, will mainatin the balance that Allaah Subhana wa Ta'alaa ordained for the Islamic household and will solve many of the common problems that exist today, through un-Islamic infuences.
Wa Billahi Tawfeeq
Wa BarakAllaahu Feekum
Wa SallAllaahu wa Sallam wa barak 'alaa Nabiyanna Muhammad wa 'alaa 'Alyhi wa Sahbyhi wa Sallam


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Friday, October 1Electile Dysfunction.
I don't care what you think.
I don't care what your beliefs are, and I don't care who your voting for. One thing is abundantly clear today.
John Kerry sure kicked the President's ass in the debate last night.
There's no mistaking it. Bush was caught flat-footed 10 minutes in. Kerry stood firm and refused to fold, and George had nothing left but catch-phrases and weak defense. If you're a Democrat or anyone who wants Bush gone, last night couldn't have gone any better had Kerry shot him dead right there behind the podium. I like John Kerry to a certain extent, but that man really surprised me last night. I was very impressed and much more optimistic. I'm looking forward to the remaining debates and the Vice-Presidential debates as well. If you haven't registered to vote, your time is running out. Do so, and you'll change the world. I can't begin to tell you how happy I was with the debate last night. Will they have any impact on the outcome? We'll see, but it sure as hell can't hurt.
This weekend, I'll be straightening up the new apartment and picking up a new car for Celia. My sister decided to sell her 2000 Taurus to the missus for a dirt-cheap rate. We couldn't say no, considering Celia's current car is eligible for collector plates in 2 years. Other than that, we're going to do our best to relax and enjoy a weekend that couldn't have come at a better time.
I just crapped my pants.
Tuesday, September 28New Wave Mustache.
As much as Celia insists it would be horrifying, I can't help but wonder if I could pull off a nice thick 'stache. Sure, I would have to quite literally go years without shaving, but I think it could really send my look in a new direction. Straight to the top of the corporate ladder! Finally get the respect I always thought I deserved! More attention from the opposite sex! More attention from the same sex! All because I took a chance, and started grooming a small portion of my upper lip. It's amazing what a tiny change can do to your appearance.
God Bless October. Hyper-sensitive parents, making their Ritalin-ed out kids Trick-or-Treat at 2 in the afternoon on a Tuesday. More political ads than you could ever imagine. The Packers with a losing record. No matter what though, I refuse to let anything ruin my favorite month of the year. Do whatever you can to enjoy October. Unplug your television if you must. Sleep with the windows open, and cover yourself with 10 blankets. Make a point to pet at least 20 different cats a day. I don't care what you do, just have a good time doing it. I plan on working hard for a couple weeks, settling in to the new apartment and whatnot, and finally getting around to another long-term writing project. At first I was thinking about another screenplay, but I really want to try to get something published. I have better odds of selling a book than a screenplay. I also have better odds of being kicked in the right nut by a Saber-Toothed Tiger than getting anything published at all. I must try, though.
Today, I made a list of the "Least Popular Halloween Costumes" for a co-worker who was making a "Halloween" display board outside of our office. Here's a sample:
Eli Whitney
Zombie Eli Whitney
Martin Van Buren
Zombie Martin Van Buren
Zagnut Bar
Zombie Riboflavin
While I knew that this list wouldn't be used in the display, I made it anyways because I like to amuse myself.
While I don't like to talk about work very much anymore, I felt the need to share something with you. Tomorrow I start training for a Program Assistant 3 position that's going to be empty in a week. They want me to do the job while they find someone to do it full time. My job description gives them the right to make me do pretty much whatever they want me to, for as long as they want me to. Allow me to simplify this for you further:
1. I make X amount of money as a Program Assistant 1.
2. I will be doing the job of a Program Assistant 3, who makes Y dollars more than me.
3. I will continue to make X amount of money indefinitely.
By subtracting the amount of money I should be making (Y) from the amount that I will be making (X), you will find the exact amount by which I'm being played like a little bitch.
The idea is that I will try for the job and be promoted, but there are a dozen more qualified people working with me who will snatch this job up the first chance they get. This means that I'm basically keeping the seat warm for the next person to take my job and make more money than me. There's not a damn thing I can do about it, but hope to Jesus that they want to keep me in that position, which they certainly will not. I'm currently taking the necessary steps for me to be able to be promoted, should they think that highly of me. Honestly though, I'm pretty sure I should just get nice and comfortable here in the mailroom.
(As a side note, I really do enjoy my job, and feel very fortunate for the opportunity to work here. I'm also taking proper legal action with my Communist Dance Party staff of lawyers to not get fired because of this page. Enough talk about work.)
It was 36 degrees this morning when I went outside. I could see my breath, and thought that there was frost on my windshield. It's been crisp and beautiful for a week now, and it will stay that way for at least another week. You can be sure that I'm taking a long walk tonight in Sun Prairie. Make the most of this month, because you're going to miss it when it's gone.


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As the 2017 summer league season comes to an end, it is time to roll out CBBSN's collegiate summer league updates from around the country. Over the next several weeks, our scouts will be sharing how their school's players have fared over the season, and how they look to project going into fall practice.
The Cape Cod summer league is one of the most prominent collegiate summer baseball leagues there is. Much of the top talent along the East Coast and in college baseball as a whole play on the Cape each summer. That is why Millersville University RHP Eli Nabholz's (Pottsville, PA) performance was all the more impressive.
Up on the Cape, Nabholz continued to show he belongs. In five appearances for the Chatham Anglers, he logged a 2.34 ERA with 10 strikeouts in 7 2/3 innings pitched, and even notched one save.
His best outing was a two-inning shutout performance out of the pen where he struck out four of the six batters he faced. Unfortunately, he also gave up six walks and eight hits in those 7 2/3 innings.
Even though it was a small sample size, Nabholz could clearly stand to improve his command. He already possesses a heavy fastball that definitely has the potential to hit 90-92 mph consistently if he uses his 6-foot-6 250-pound frame (specifically his lower half) better. Nabholz has a decent feel for his breaking stuff at his age. It remains to be seen whether or not he can improve the depth and spin on his breaking pitches, but the potential is certainly there.
Overall, there is stuff he needs to work on, but the potential is definitely there. This summer he proved his believers right showing that he belonged with college baseball's best on the Cape. Here is to hoping Nabholz continues to solidify himself as a frontline starter for Millersville and beyond.


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This Saturday (June 7) the Northern Forests Defence group is meeting at 6.30pm at the Tünel end of İstiklal Caddesi to speak up against the construction of the third Istanbul airport.
The controversial project will destroy not only a substantial portion of the Belgrade Forest but also Terkoz Lake, the city's chief drinking-water source. The new airport is to be constructed on no fewer than 80 square kilometres of land surrounding the lake – and the environmental impact will be, in a word, devastating. A matter of little consequence, apparently.
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St. Louis' Piscotty taken out after being hit in head
ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis outfielder Stephen Piscotty has left the Cardinals' game against the Cubs after he was hit in the head by a ball while sliding into home.
Piscotty departed in the fifth inning with a head contusion, and the team says he will be evaluated again on Wednesday.
Piscotty reached when he was hit by a pitch from Jake Arrieta. He was hit again by catcher Willson Contreras' throw when he stole second.
Piscotty then scored from second on Kolten Wong's infield hit to the right side of the mound. Cubs second baseman Javier Baez threw home, but the ball went off Piscotty's head.
Piscotty, who agreed to a $33.5 million, six-year contract a day earlier, was down on the field for several minutes after being hit Tuesday night. He eventually walked off the field.


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PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) - "Winter's Bone," a stark tale of a young woman trying to keep her family together, and Afghanistan war documentary "Restrepo" won top awards at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday,
"Winter's Bone" earned two prizes, best drama film by the Sundance jury of industry professionals and screenwriting for co-writer and director Debra Granik at the top U.S. gathering for independent movies.
"Restrepo," which tells of a year in the life of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, earned the jury prize for best documentary for filmmakers Sebastian Junger (author of "The Perfect Storm") and Tim Hetherington.
"This country's in a very painful moment, we're in the middle of two wars," Junger said on stage, accepting his award. "If our movie can help this country understand how to go forward, we would be incredibly honored by that."
Sundance, backed by Robert Redford's Sundance Institute for film, kicks off the year for movies made outside Hollywood's major studios, and hits here are often among the most-watched in theaters that show low-budget, art and foreign movies.
"Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" was a big winner in 2009 and earned critical acclaim and box office success in theaters, and Sundance has helped launch the careers of directors such as Steven Soderbergh and Quentin Tarantino.
While "Winter's Bone" and "Restrepo" took home top honors from the Sundance juries, audiences also get to vote for their favorites at the festival, which ends on January 31.
Audiences voted "happythankyoumoreplease" best drama film. From first-time director and actor Josh Radnor, who stars in U.S. television comedy "How I Met Your Mother," it tells of six young New Yorkers dealing with life, love and friendship.
"I think my movie is rebellious," Radnor said on stage, echoing a theme of this year's festival about edgy filmmaking. "It's about people saying 'no' to cynicism and 'yes' to love."
Audiences voted Davis Guggenheim's ("An Inconvenient Truth") documentary, "Waiting for Superman," their favorite non-fiction film. "Superman" is a look at the crumbling U.S. educational system and what can be done to fix it.
U.S. dramatic film directing honors went to Eric Mendelsohn with "3 Backyards," a trio of tales about three people — a businessman, housewife and young girl — who find their lives change on a seemingly normal autumn day.
Among documentaries, Leon Gast was named best director for "Smash His Camera," a look at the life and career of paparazzi Ron Galella, and the editing award went to Penelope Falk for "Joan Rivers - A Piece Of Work", a look at the comedienne
Australia's, "Animal Kingdom," was named best dramatic film by the Sundance jury. It tells of an armed robber on the run from a gang of renegade detectives. The audience award for best drama went to "Contracorriente," set in a Peruvian village and tells of a young married fisherman in love with a gay painter.
The jury prize winner for documentary was Denmark's "The Red Chapel," about an unscrupulous journalist, and the audience trophy went to environmental film "Wasteland," backed by filmmakers in the United Kingdom and Brazil, about a Brazilian artist who creates images of people using materials from where they live.
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Each of your sciatic nerves runs from either side of your lower back down to each of your legs. That's why a classic sign of sciatica is having a shooting pain on one side only. While compression of one of your sciatic nerves can literally be a "pain in the butt," it doesn't always require
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Have you ever experienced aching pain in the back / buttock area that radiates down your leg? You may have sciatica. Sciatica is a common condition that affects up to 1 out of 10 people, typically between ages 25-45. Symptoms Sciatica is typically felt as a dull aching pain to the low back /
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Do you have back pain or sciatica? In a study reported in the journal Orthopedics, 650 people were examined for low back pain or sciatica. About 25% had reported an episode of sciatica in the past 6 months of the study. This shows how common sciatica really is. Sciatica is a term used to describe


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Fray is great in theory, but suffers from a seemingly half-finished execution
Sometimes ideas look great on paper but just don't turn out that great in reality. Take Fray, for instance. A simultaneous turn-based tactical shooter set in a futuristic yet familiar world is a fantastic idea for the FPS-challenged gamers out there. Unfortunately, the game in its current state simply doesn't live up to the the promise of its concept.
A product of the French studio Brain Candy, Fray takes place inside a virtual environment designed to take peoples' minds off the sorry state of the planet Earth. For fun, everyone watches four-person teams of soldiers do battle while representing the three mega-corporations who run the world.
These are futuristic soldiers, of course, and the gameplay involves issuing orders to the squad members while the other team does the same, then watching the results of said orders play out simultaneously. Think of it as Halo meets XCOM minus all the aliens. Six classes are available to form the ideal squad, all with pretty intuitive sets of abilities: Assault, Sniper, Shadow (stealth), Medic, Tank and Support.
During each turn, every squad member has an action bar that fills up as orders are issued. Movement, attacks, switching stances and changing weapons or gear all use different amounts of the bar, so the skill comes in maximizing every unit's potential on every turn. The tricky part is remembering that everything plays out in order. For example, if you tell the Sniper to move, then shoot, he won't fire until he's done running.
When the action is really going, it's chaotic fun. Trying to figure out what the other player is going to do before he does it is like chess with high-powered weapons, and there are plenty of squad combinations to test out. Performing well in battles earns experience points that can unlock new weapons, abilities and stat boosts for each class, adding to the possibilities.
That same variety isn't present in the game modes, which are currently limited to simple Deathmatches where the first team to seven kills or the side with the most frags after 30 turns wins. Another mode called Survivor has already been pulled by the developers. There's also no real matchmaking system to speak of, meaning players have the choice of joining an open game and hoping its against someone of roughly equal level or trying their luck setting something up through global chat. At least the maps in Fray look nice, with some allegedly modeled on real French streets – though the Gamezebo interns have yet to confirm this.
Then there are the bugs. Ah yes, the bugs. Chances are, if there's a way for the game to crash, it will, like some kind of software-based test of Murphy's Law. This reviewer personally experienced Fray sticking on the squad select screen, freezing during the resolution phase of a turn and even glitching out during the (unfinished) tutorial. It wasn't uncommon to have the top half of the screen turn fuzzy while orders were issued or to have the game incorrectly count the number of kills each team had scored during a battle. The devs have also had problems with the entire server during the first few days of release, a worrisome issue considering there is no single player mode.
Even when some real gameplay does take place, there are times when it feels like there's too much waiting going on: for the map to load, for turns to resolve or for the final match stats to show up. It's probably not because of the graphics, which are solid but don't stand out as particularly taxing for most current computers.
It's a shame this game isn't more polished, because the potential is there for a hit for those of us who would like to use brain power over reflexes in our tactical firefights. Fray might get there with enough patches, but it's hard to recommend it right now, when players are essentially paying for the right to beta test it.


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Robert DeNiro was initially scheduled to play the role of Harry, but he turned it down. The role was eventually awarded to Joe Pesci.


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1: Once upon a time there was a hunter hunting a large cat. This cat was known as a tiger, and was the most feared tiger in the land. How did we get to this point you ask? Well I shall tell you my dear child.
2: It all started on a dark dark night when the winds howled and the rain fell on the land, a fog had fallen covering the town like a blanket. Three men sat in the main room of an old house talking of the hunt, of the game, the challenge at hand. As the men talked a large cat was creeping just outside the window. Then a thundering crash came from the next room over as if some foul beast had forced his way into the house looking for revenge.
3: The men exchanged a look of great panic. Finally one man by the name of Alex said " well mates let us go check this out." He then opened the door leading into the kitchen and gasped at what he saw. To his surprise there stood that large tiger growling like an angry beast. "Run now if you wish to live tomorrow" he yelled. The men darted from the house.
4: When the men got out side they all stopped under a tall oak tree, the rain pouring down on them, the lightning flashed revealing the panic look upon their faces. "what are we to do?" Said one of the men. "The only thing we can do" replied Alex as he walked sternly towards a shed. Unlocking the door he look at the men and said, "let the hunt begin."
5: Then men all took arm and stumbled back into the house. (This is where we began.) The men had decided the only way to survive was to hunt the tiger. As the men traveled the house in search of the foul beast they could hear faint growls and roars from all over as if the beast was on the move. All the men met in front of a tall pine door in the great hall. Alex twisted the golden door nob and pushed the tall door open very slowly. To their surprise the tiger was all but a normal house cat and was rather friendly. They all live happily ever after.
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1. Where constitutional grounds are raised for the first time on appeal, they are not properly before this court for review.
2. When the sufficiency of the evidence is challenged, the standard of review is whether, after review of all the evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to the prosecution, the appellate court is convinced that a rational factfinder could have found the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
3. Mail addressed to or sent by a prisoner that is labeled "legal mail" may be opened and read by a jailer where the jailer has reasonable grounds to suspect that it is falsely labeled.
4. Under the facts of this case, the district court did not err in allowing defendant's letter into evidence, and the evidence is sufficient to support the jury's verdict.
Appeal from Greenwood district court; JOHN E. SANDERS, judge. Opinion filed October 29, 1999. Affirmed.
Kirk Christopher Redmond, assistant appellate defender, argued the cause, and Jessica R. Kunen, chief appellate defender, was with him on the briefs for appellant.
Mary Ann Shirley, county attorney, argued the cause, and Carla J. Stovall, attorney general, was with her on the brief for appellee.
The opinion of the court was delivered by
ALLEGRUCCI, J.: Kenneth Mason appeals his conviction of criminal solicitation of murder. He was sentenced to 85 months' imprisonment. The appeal was transferred to this court from the Court of Appeals pursuant to K.S.A. 20-3018.
Mason was a prisoner in the Greenwood County Jail. When an inmate is brought into that jail, he or she is advised that mail is "subject to inspection if it's not legal." Legal mail includes mail addressed to attorneys.
Mason's first attempt to falsely label a letter as legal mail was detected by Deputy Winfrey. Mason sealed, stamped, and placed in outgoing mail an envelope addressed to "Sam Smith, Attorney at Law, 510 N. Pine, Eureka, KS 67045." Winfrey knew 510 N. Pine was a trailer, and he knew of no attorney in Eureka named Smith. He confronted Mason, who admitted that the letter was not to an attorney.
When Winfrey several days later saw that Mason was sending another letter addressed to someone named Smith and marked as legal mail, he turned it over to Sergeant Soule. It was addressed as follows: "Smith Law Office, c/o Kevin Lee Smith, 801 S. Lake forest, S.A., TX 78239."
An employee in the Greenwood County Sheriff's Office attempted to verify that there was a Smith Law Office in San Antonio. She called directory assistance, and she called the law enforcement center in San Antonio for assistance. Neither could provide any information about a Smith Law Office or an attorney named Kevin Lee Smith.
Soule opened the envelope to see whether it contained legal mail. The letter stated:
"Tambering Earl pass, yours is what?
"Kevin 5/22/96
"What's the fuckes up with you? me, I'm in jail in greenwood county [portion deleted]. It's all bull shit, that girl that came down there with me put me in jail because I was leaving her again. I am being held on a 50,000.00 bond that is outrages amount of bond isn't it. I need someone to take her out, because of what she knows. Can you do it or get someone to do it for me. I will return the favor ten folds. You told me one time that if I needed help you would help and know I am asking for help to get bond up to get me out or to take her out. You pick the way you wish to help me. You now I would do it for you if you asked so, I'm asking for your help. I wish I didn't have to ask you but your a brother and I now you will do it for me like I would do it for you. write back to me as soon as you get this letter and tell me what you are going to do. Us the same return address like I address it to you the jail can't open legal mail from an Attorney it would be best if you could type the address on the envolepe to make it look like it's from a law office, I wish I didn't have to ask you to do this for me but you are the only one from the south that I can count on to do this for me. Your brother said, big brother, that if I had a hit to let hem help so let hem help on this one and my next hit I'll take hem to, if he wants to go. I have some I have to do when I get out. be smart about it. If you have someone you need gone and you do this for me it will be my plesher to do it for you, for free. I will get you a picture and all the other information you need. Also a places to stay will your up here. bring a bus up here and I'll have someone pick you up at the bus stop. get back with me and till me yes or no. Us the return pass word in your letter o.k. Tambering Earl.
"G.W.C. Jail Souther brother
Eureka, KS Ken Mason
Mason first challenges the constitutionality of K.S.A. 21-3303(b) (criminal solicitation). He concedes the issue was not raised in the trial court. Where constitutional grounds are raised for the first time on appeal, they are not properly before this court for review. State v. Shears, 260 Kan. 823, 837, 925 P.2d 1136 (1996). We may consider such issues in exceptional circumstances where the asserted error involves a strictly legal question that will be determinative of the case or where consideration of the new issue is necessary to serve the interests of justice or to prevent a denial of fundamental rights. State v. Bell, 258 Kan. 123, Syl., 899 P.2d 1000 (1995). Mason contends his case is such an exceptional circumstance and should be considered by this court. We disagree. Although the issue is a legal one, Mason's argument is without merit and his cited authority neither relevant nor applicable. We therefore conclude that the constitutionality of K.S.A. 21-3303(b) is not properly before this court and will not be considered in this appeal.
Mason next argues that there was insufficient evidence of intent to support the conviction of criminal solicitation of murder. "When the sufficiency of the evidence is challenged, the standard of review is whether, after review of all the evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to the prosecution, the appellate court is convinced that a rational factfinder could have found the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt." State v. Abel, 261 Kan. 331, 337, 932 P.2d 952 (1997).
Mason wrote to his friend: "I am asking for help to get bond up to get me out or to take her out. You pick the way you wish to help me." He contends that this alternative request will not satisfy the intent requirement for the crime of solicitation. He points out that raising bond is not a crime. Thus, Mason's friend could have complied with the request without engaging in an illegal activity. He contends that his offering Smith a noncriminal alternative is inconsistent with a finding that he intended for Smith to kill the former girlfriend.
No cases specifically involving alternative requests have come to the court's attention. In State v. DePriest, 258 Kan. 596, 604, 907 P.2d 868 (1995), the court stated that the specific intent involved was the defendant's intent that the other person commit the solicited crime. The jury found in this case that Mason intended for Smith to commit murder. Simply as a matter of logic, it does not seem that Mason's giving Smith an option should affect that finding because the choice does not change the fact that Mason intentionally asked Smith to commit murder. If Smith had murdered the former girlfriend, he would have been carrying out the act intended by Mason. We find the evidence sufficient to support Mason's conviction of criminal solicitation.
Mason also contends that the letter written by him was improperly admitted into evidence. Mason sought to have his letter to Smith suppressed on the ground that its seizure violated the First, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments to the federal Constitution. The trial judge denied the motion to suppress. He noted that an attempt to verify that Kevin Smith was an attorney in San Antonio, Texas, was unsuccessful. He believed that the negative results of that inquiry raised a serious question whether the letter was legal mail entitled to particular protection and thereby justified opening it.
The facts material to a decision on the motion to suppress are not in dispute. The question whether the evidence should have been suppressed is a question of law. This court's review of questions of law is unlimited. State v. Anderson, 259 Kan. 16, 18, 910 P.2d 180 (1996).
Mason's principal contention on appeal seems to be that his letter should not have been opened out of his presence. For this proposition, he cites a number of cases involving real legal mail rather than bogus legal mail. For example, he quotes the following from Jensen v. Klecker, 648 F.2d 1179, 1182 (8th Cir. 1981): "[M]ail to or from an inmate's attorney and identified as such may not be opened for inspections for contraband except in the presence of the prisoner." (Emphasis added.) He asserts that the options available to the jailer were to refuse to send the letter, open it in the presence of the inmate, or require the lawyer to identify himself to jail officials. He also raises but does not pursue the idea that the jailer should have obtained a search warrant before opening the letter.
The United States Supreme Court has approved restrictions on the right of an inmate to send mail. In Procunier v. Martinez, 416 U.S. 396, 40 L. Ed. 2d 224, 94 S. Ct. 1800 (1974), the Court established that prison rules regarding outgoing mail may provide for it to be opened and inspected. The standard to be applied to censorship of prisoner mail is the following: First, the regulation or practice must further one or more of the substantial governmental interests of security, order, and rehabilitation. Second, the limitation must be no greater than is necessary for the protection of the governmental interest involved. 416 U.S. at 413. Subsequent lower court cases involving outgoing mail are divided on the question whether good cause is required for reading it. See 2 Mushlin, Rights of Prisoners ñ 13.02, pp. 128-29 (2d ed. 1993).
Gassler v. Wood, 14 F.3d 406 (8th Cir. 1994), stands for the principle that prisoners' outgoing mail may be screened for information on future criminal activities. Authorities believed that inmates Gassler and Scott might use the mail for the purpose of intimidating and harming prospective witnesses against them. The warden authorized monitoring of their nonlegal correspondence, which was opened and photocopied before being sent on to the intended recipients. The copies were given to the law enforcement officer most familiar with the charges pending against the inmates. The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals found nothing amiss in the prison's practice. With no discussion of the grounds for the belief that the inmates might use their correspondence for criminal purposes, the court concluded:
"Given the very serious nature of the suspected conduct, it was a sensible and justifiable precaution for the authorities to let Agent Lowen see the letters. Even under a strict and literal reading of Martinez, and without reference to other cases, we have no doubt that prison officials were entitled to enlist Agent Lowen's expertise in screening the letters for the purpose of ascertaining whether appellants were engaging in the type of criminal activity that Agent Lowen feared." 14 F.3d at 409-10.
The present case differs from Martinez and Gassler in that Mason's letter was not opened as a matter of course or at the request of a law enforcement officer in charge of an ongoing criminal investigation. Instead, it was opened to determine whether, as was suspected, it was falsely labeled as legal mail. The jailer's suspicion was aroused when Mason admitted misusing the legal mail label on a letter addressed to Sam Smith in Eureka, Kansas. A few days later Mason posted another letter addressed to an attorney named Smith and marked legal mail. This time the addressee was in San Antonio, Texas. An effort to locate an attorney named Kevin Smith in San Antonio was unsuccessful. Only then was the envelope opened. It did not contain legal mail.
Mason argues that "[t]he jail does have several viable options which will prevent prisoner abuse of legal mail. Jailers can refuse to send the letter, can open it in the presence of the inmate to check for contraband, or can require that the lawyer to whom the letter is addressed [to] first identify himself or herself to jail officials." Even assuming Mason is correct, this was the second attempt in the course of a few days to violate the mail regulations by falsely marking a letter as legal mail. Since the lawyer was fictitious, he obviously could not identify himself to the sheriff. Under these circumstances, opening and reading the letter was reasonable to determine if it was legal mail. The result would have been the same whether or not Mason was present. Sergeant Soule was not required to ignore the content of the letter.
No authority that has come to this court's attention suggests that Sergeant Soule's opening Mason's mislabeled mail in these circumstances violated any constitutional protection. Moreover, even if some protection had been infringed, nothing has been brought to the court's attention that suggests that the legal remedy would be suppression of the evidence.


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Industry Obsessed With "Gay Space Marines," Says Mafia 2 Producer
Mafia 2's producer wants to see better stories in games, and thinks that being more inventive with the characters is a good start.
The videogame industry has a number of challenges it must overcome, and Mafia 2 producer Denby Grace thinks he has identified the biggest one. In his view, game makers are using a specific character type a little too often and creating too many games filled with "gay space marines."
The comment was in response to the question of what he thought was the biggest problem that modern games suffered from; a question he said was too general to be able to really answered concisely. His remarks were obviously a little tongue-in-cheek - Grace said that he had been described as an "asshole" in the past - but he probably wasn't being completely facetious, as he also said that one of his hopes for the future was that videogame writing would improve.
Grace isn't the first person to suggest that videogame stories need to improve, and he certainly won't be the last. Mirror's Edge writer Rhianna Pratchett said something similar a year ago when she complained that games tried to emulate Hollywood action movies far too much. How important story is varies from person to person, and not everyone is going to share Grace's concerns, but I don't think that anyone would suggest that a little bit more variety in what we play is a bad thing.
Source: MTV Multiplayer
Hehehe. I like this man. Certainly I agree, I've said it often enough. Why "gay space marines"? Is that cause they very obviously don't seem at all interested in women? I'm just not sure what prompted that part lol.
Think of it like this:
Gears Of War has a lot of 'male bonding' going on.
Hyper-masculinity doesn't always indicate homosexuality. They could just be conventionally masculine.
I want to be offended by this, but it's true. But as a gay man, I wish they'd just be overt with it instead of subtle.
Gay space marines are the one thing Mass Effect was missing :p
Pretty much hit the nail on the head there. Stuff like Gears of War is awesome but too much of it gets on my nerves.
Yeah you tell em Denby, why cant they all be blazing a trail with their revolutionary tales of mafia and gangsters. No-one had heard of the five families before the first Mafia game after all.
The man is a visionary!
Which was an insta-buy for me. Other games is just "Meh, here we go again..."
I think that if he wants game story writers to get more creative, he should first get more creative with his insults...
Time to copy my post from the topic that mentioned this first:
It's rather hard to sodomize your fellow marine through 5 inches of hardened steel.
Gears of War=/=Space Marine.
Space Marine=Halo.
But on a lighter note, is Mafia being sour grapes because their game didn't make $200million in it's first day?
yeah I have to agree with this as I was going to basically say the same thing. The man bitches about one unoriginal story/plot device and yet hes the producer of the mafia games... Yeah that's super revolutionary. Man needs to put out an actual game that's original and interesting before he can run around crying about halo and gears of war clones.
Like for example if you were a giraffe on a boat made of cake, on a mission to dominate the high seas of root beer, and hidden chocolate treasures. Make a game like that include an interesting story as well, and you can have the achievement to bitch and moan about other developers and their unoriginality.
Oh, we are going to have a firestorm by the Halo Fans and the Gay Rights activists.
Oh the delicious irony. How I love thee. Now I'm going to go write an original story about an Italian man named Vito who gets an offer he can't refuse.
it rather indicates narcissim which is a heavy form of autoerotic homophilia.
If you have ever been to a workout center you know what I mean.
Yes, quite delicious... I wonder if Space Marines have a "dont ask, dont tell" policy too...
Obsession? Really? i thought Gordon Freeman broke that stereotype. Wait till Ep3.you'll see ;)
True to the post #6. It was the selling point for me.
Oh, this again. Ok.
Interestingly enough, I think that an ACTUAL gay space marine, not just a hyper-masculine team member who it's fun to accuse of being gay, could make for an interesting story, maybe even throw it's hat into the ring of debate over homosexuality in the military.
Turn into a shitstorm on XBL though.
From the guy who made a totally fucking original and never before seen story about a guy named Vito who is in the Mafia.
Also, volition. It's my new favourite word. Sounds cool and it has a cool meaning too.
Happy Space Marines?
I think a game about an actually gay space marine would be awesome.
Super effeminant Space Marine Chapter Master ... and he's all like pilotting this Thunderhawk gun Ship and crashes it straight into an Ork Gargant ... bursting through its armour and partly exploding in a hail of shrapnel and smog within the belly of the mechanical beast.
As the smog slowly clears and the orks cease coughing you just suddenly hear ... "Haiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Gaisssssssssssss!!!!" And a huge figure bursting through the smog, decapitating orks left and right with a massive chain sword, and riddling shooty boyz with storm bolter rounds.
That would be FUCKING AWESOME! Goty material. Seriously I'm tired of all the 'For the Emperor!!' ...
I don't think these guys have enough of a personality to them to be able to be termed gay. Or anything else that doesn't involve describing a grunting killing-machine musclebag for that matter.
Though that may just be me, and Unreal Tournament was really an elaborate and emotional engaging drama about the psychological effects of hyper-masculine environments and repressed homosexuality. I somehow doubt it though.
i will agree with most of it except the gay part, thats pretty offensive tbh. i will say tho that Warhammer 40k space marines are the only ones i really like, but they were basically the first (i heard something about marines in star trek, but ive never watched it) and they have so much more personality.
to counter his statement however, i´ll say developers need to move away from the video games that has to do with crime. being an outlaw isnt very fun.
also, ive played Halo for just a couple hours, and as much i hate Halo, Mafia 2´s demo was 50 times more boring.
100% agree. Now dont get me wrong, i love Halo, Gears of War, Doom, Quake, and all that stuff, but in the end, none of those games have stories that really branch out from "the ugly ones are evil." Mass Effect is an excellent example of the kinds of stories i'd love to see more of in other types of shooters.
Much to my disappointment. I mean, Lady!Shepard can swing both ways, but Dude!Shepard isn't allowed? SAD FACES ALL ROUND.
As it stands though, as someone else said, having an actually homosexual marine PC could make for interesting plots given our current climate.
What is it with "gays" all of the sudden? this is probably why Congress doesn't take games seriously
So... the producer of Mafia 2, which is a carbon copy of The Godfather in every way, shape and form and features some of the least inventive characters I've ever come across is complaining about generic space marines? Pot-kettle much?
Yeah, i wanted to say the same thing. Because A) gay main character in a videogame is a fresh, new, and original idea, B) this could help the cause of "games as art" if handled well, C) from the marketing standpoint, homosexuality is controversial and controversy means money. The only thing standing between this idea and it's realization is indeed XBL crowd.
Starship Troopers were first. And i friggin' love mentioning that.
Sorry for the double post, but i needed that quote to show up.
I think Army of Two and Gears of War are the main culprits here.
But Starship Troopers was a parody of the US Army ... 40 k is gothic science fantasy.
Here's a original story for ya: Cthulhu and Satan must team up to stop a megalomaniac Jesus Christ from a parallel dimension, in which he wears an eye patch to signify how much more evil he is. And, it will be a puzzle-based game similar to Tetris, but the blocks are replaced with flaming unicorns wearing sunglasses. Progress through 400 levels to defeat Nega-Christ's evil army of space squirrels.
That original enough for ya, Mr. Italian-Immigrant-turn-Mobster-Game?
I can totally agree - Charactrs are all the same shade of grey these days...
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Fleet Management Functions That Should Never Be Outsourced
For years, fleet managers in organizations of all types have been asked by their bosses the question: "Why don't we outsource our fleet management functions?"
While the general prosperity of the 1990s allowed many fleet professionals to brush off – if not avoid altogether – this question, the difficult budget conditions and renewed focus on financial accounting and reporting in many organizations in the post-dot.com, post-stock market bubble economy make it an increasingly difficult query to ignore. Rightly or wrongly, management decision-makers in many organizations equate outsourcing with cost reduction. At the same time, the array of services offered by fleet management companies and commercial vendors continues to grow steadily.
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Advances in the last five years, in particular, in information and communications technology, have made it possible for enterprising companies to deliver many services from far-off locations – often at the click of a mouse button – that fleet management organizations historically had to perform themselves.
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It is important for fleet managers to remember, however, that no amount of internal fiscal pressure or external sales pressure can ever justify outsourcing certain fleet management functions whose performance is critical to providing high-quality assets and services to fleet users at a reasonable cost. A review of the range of responsibilities encompassed by the expression "fleet management" makes it clear that some responsibilities should never be delegated to outside service providers.
Components of a Fleet Operation
Fleet management organizations exist to meet the needs of fleet users. In order to meet these needs well, such organizations must effectively manage the four key components of all fleet operations: assets, resources, shareholders, and customers.
Fleet industry contractors and vendors are capable of managing some, but not all, of these components of a fleet operation. Accordingly, understanding the nature and importance of each of them is crucial for understanding which fleet management functions may be candidates for outsourcing and which ones should always be performed by inhouse personnel.
- Assets: Historically, being an effective fleet manager meant understanding how to specify, acquire, maintain and repair, replace, and dispose of vehicles and equipment. The focal point of fleet management endeavors was the assets themselves, and, in the past, fleet managers were drawn overwhelmingly from the ranks of former maintenance technicians – that is, individuals who understood the "mechanical" end of the business of operating and maintaining motorized vehicles and equipment.
Today, however, few fleet professionals would dispute the fact that their jobs are no longer dominated by the "technological" demands of operating a fleet – that is, by the nuts and bolts of developing vehicle and equipment specifications, designing preventive maintenance programs, and making repair-versus-replace decisions. In part, this is due to the fact that advances in automotive technology and increasing regulation in such areas as environmental protection and occupational safety and health have made it more difficult and expensive to perform certain kinds of maintenance and repair services in-house.
The last two decades have witnessed the virtual disappearance of in-house machine shops, for example, as large, in-house fleet maintenance operations have taken to outsourcing most component rebuilding and repair work to vendors. The focus of fleet management endeavors also has shifted because advances in information technology have flattened organizational hierarchies, resulting in the devolution of many non-asset-related management and administration responsibilities to fleet organizations.
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While the list of services that can be procured from contractors and vendors is extensive, it does not begin to encompass the totality of fleet management, however. This is because most of these services address only one of the four major components of a fleet operation – the assets themselves.
- Resources: In order to ensure that vehicle and equipment assets meet their customers' needs, fleet managers also must secure and manage a variety of other resources such as personnel, external suppliers of goods and services, and management tools. The fleet services industry may stand ready to assist organizations with virtually all of their asset management needs, but such assistance is not free. Thus, even if an organization has determined that it can better meet fleet user needs by outsourcing certain asset management functions, fleet managers still must secure the funds needed to pay suppliers and the personnel, management tools, and other internal resources needed to manage supplier performance and costs. As fleet management professionals who have outsourced services know, it's a jungle out there!
There are relatively few guidelines, standards, or benchmarks for specifying, pricing, evaluating, or measuring the quality of services. Countless organizations have discovered through painful experience that outsourcing is no panacea, ultimately spending more on their fleet operation when they were certain that outsourcing would allow them to spend less. Sometimes such outcomes result from working with unscrupulous suppliers. More often, however, they result from a lack of accountability rather than a lack of ethics on the part of contractors and vendors.
Outsourcing services that traditionally have been performed in-house has a curious effect on many organizations: it turns management challenges that fleet professionals used to ponder, study, analyze, argue about, and even agonize over into financial transactions that are boiled down to annual target and nontarget prices in a cost proposal or rows of charges on an itemized monthly invoice. This transformation of management decisions into purchasing transactions often results in the dissociation of fleet management decision-making from fleet management expertise.
In many cases, vehicle operators become the primary points of contact with service providers, and the principal decisionmakers regarding the selection and management of these providers are purchasing officials and internal auditors rather than fleet management experts.
- Shareholders: The third major component of any fleet operation is shareholders – and the senior management officials who represent them and serve as intermediaries between them and managers of fleet and other line organizations. It is management's job to both advise and carry out the wishes and directives of the shareholders, the people who own the corporation. In terms of public sector fleets, most governmental entities do not have shareholders per se. However, senior government officials typically are guided by an executive officer and/or a legislative body of some sort who, in turn, represents a group of taxpayers, citizens, and voters – the figurative "shareholders" of the entity or jurisdiction.
In both types of organizations, management officials are expected to make myriad decisions regarding areas of organizational endeavor in which they have no particular technical expertise. For most organizations, fleet management is such an area. Usually, in fact, high level officials not only have limited knowledge of fleet management principles and techniques, but also have limited interest in this and other internal support activities whose quality and costs are largely transparent to external customers and taxpayers.
The danger this poses is that top-down management decisions made in ignorance of such principles and techniques can seriously undermine the efforts of the fleet management organization, the performance of the fleet, and, ultimately, the ability of the larger enterprise to meet the needs and expectations of its shareholders.
Customers: The final and, in many ways, most important component of any fleet operation is internal customers and drivers, the individuals and organizations that use vehicles and equipment to do their jobs. It may be stating the obvious to say that fleet management organizations exist to serve fleet users, but the proactive management of customer service levels and relationships is an often overlooked facet of fleet management.
As the array of services offered by the fleet industry has grown, so too have the expectations of fleet users. Many users want to know why they can't obtain services from their inhouse fleet management organization that they see advertised for sale by local and national service providers. As more and more organizations introduce fleet cost charge-back systems that draw user attention to the costs of the fleet assets and services they utilize, these users also want to know why their internal charges are what they are and how they compare with costs charged by external service providers. Even though the front lines of customer service may be manned by contractor or vendor personnel, it is the fleet manager's responsibility to ensure that fleet users' needs are being met.
What Not to Outsource
As the foregoing discussion suggests, there are a number of fleet management functions that should never be outsourced. Many fleet managers may not think of these as being fleet (as in vehicle and equipment) management functions, but they are duties that undeniably should be part of the job description of any proactive, influential, effective fleet manager.
- Business Planning and Budgeting:
Planning and budgeting are important for securing the resources needed to serve fleet users and for using those resources wisely – regardless of whether the resources consist primarily of contractor or vendor-provided goods and services or in-house personnel, facilities, equipment, and supplies. A good business plan, updated annually, tells both decision-makers and customers that the fleet management organization intends to control rather than be controlled by fleet performance and costs.
It is essential for gaining managerial autonomy and influence over enterprise-wide decisions and practices that affect the fleet operation. Detailed, realistic, and defensible budget and budget control processes are critical for obtaining the financial wherewithal to execute the business plan. Money is as critical to a business plan as fuel is to a motor vehicle, and it is the budget process that determines how much fuel a fleet management organization has to run on from year to year. In an organization that finances fleet costs through user charges, the operating budget, including the corporate overhead costs that are allocated to the fleet management organization, also is the foundation on which costcompetitive charge-back rates are built.
- Policy Setting: Many fleet-related policies are determined by the overarching mission and business practices of the company or agency that operates the fleet.
For example, policies governing the types of assets in the fleet, the manner in which they are to be assigned and deployed (e.g., to individuals, divisions, motor pools, etc.), and whether or not employees may take them home should reflect the particular business needs and objectives of specific organizations. Their formulation could not possibly be outsourced, although outside consultants certainly can assist in developing them.
Most policies governing the management of finances, fixed assets, personnel, inventories, facilities, vendors, and so forth by an in-house fleet management organization are enterprise-wide in nature. Although such policies rarely are promulgated by fleet managers, therefore, it is incumbent upon such managers to work with their colleagues in other divisions and agencies to try to tailor procedures to meet the fleet management needs of the organization.
For example, getting mechanics to increase their productivity so as to make maintenance services performed in-house more competitive with those provided by local vendors may require the fleet manager to work with the human resources director to get the employee classification and compensation system to link pay rates and raises with quantifiable performance goals and levels.
- Supplier Management: As the Roman poet Juvenal famously asked, "But who will guard the guards themselves?" Outsourcing asset management functions does not get an organization out of the fleet management business. It simply changes the nature of some of its fleet management responsibilities. Rather than manage the assets, the organization must manage the asset managers.
The management of suppliers begins with the classic make-versus-buy question: Which functions should be performed in-house? Which should be outsourced? and Why? These are questions that only a fleet manager, acting in concert with other analysts and decision-makers within his or her organization, can answer. Once a decision has been made to "buy," the fleet manager must develop specifications for the goods or services to be procured; develop specifications for the submission of proposals or bids; secure and evaluate supplier offers; and execute purchase orders or contracts that ensure that suppliers deliver resources of the quality and in the manner that they have promised.
The fleet management organization also must monitor the performance of purchased goods and services over time and make decisions as to when to renew contracts and when to seek new sources of supply. As noted earlier, managing supplier performance is difficult to do if most communication occurs directly between vehicle operators and vendor/contractor customer service representatives. Complacency is the biggest threat to controlling the quality and costs of suppliers' goods and services, and can only be avoided by acknowledging that supplier management is a fleet management responsibility that can never be delegated to others.
- Performance Monitoring and Reporting: Many major fleet management companies have developed Internet-based, user-friendly performance measurement and reporting tools that make it possible to monitor key facets of fleet utilization and costs. Such services derive performance data predominantly from vehicle-specific purchase, maintenance, and fueling transactions, however, and thus do not begin to address all of those facets of fleet and fleet management organization performance that should be monitored on an ongoing basis.
Similarly, in the case of organizations that manage and maintain fleet assets in-house, a wealth of performance data can be gleaned from sources other than work orders and fuel tickets, including vehicle usage logs, pre-trip inspection forms, employee time records, customer satisfaction surveys, accident reports, motor pool rental records, and the like.
Whether measuring asset performance, commodity (e.g., parts) performance, vendor/supplier performance, or employee performance, it is the fleet manager's responsibility to determine what types of information are needed to inform decision-making at various levels within the fleet management organization and the larger enterprise that it serves; to see to it that this information is in fact provided to each type of decision- maker; and to assist in its interpretation and use. If an organization is to make informed decisions about its fleet operation, these tasks cannot be left to outsiders to perform.
- Fleet User Advocacy: A key responsibility of fleet managers is to serve as a liaison between an organization's shareholders, as represented by its senior management team, and its fleet users. As discussed earlier, management decision-makers may take actions that unwittingly undermine the effectiveness of the fleet management program and the performance of the fleet if they do not receive proper technical guidance in fleet management principles and techniques from fleet management professionals. A case in point is the decision of many organizations in recent years to adopt an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system such as SAP or PeopleSoft to provide automated support for a wide range of management and administration functions, including fleet management.
It is incumbent upon fleet managers to make the case for using a stand-alone or "bolt on" fleet management system. Otherwise, they – and their customers – may find themselves stuck with an information system that cannot compute one of the most basic measures of fleet performance – costper- vehicle mile.
- Customer Relationship Management: Customer relationship management goes hand-in-hand with fleet user advocacy. Whereas the latter involves reaching up to management decision-makers to ensure that they understand the importance of the fleet operation to overall organizational success, the former requires reaching out to fleet users to understand what vehicles, equipment, and services they need in order to do their jobs. In the absence of such an understanding, fleet managers cannot protect fleet user interests from potentially harmful management decisions and directives from above.
They also cannot fine-tune their own services and those of any contractors or vendors they have engaged to meet fleet users' needs effectively. Inasmuch as the customers are the raison d'etre of all fleet management organizations, reaching out to them for input and feedback on a regular basis and in a systematic way is imperative. Fleet managers should never attempt to outsource a responsibility that is so central to one's day-to-day mission and essential to one's long-term survival.
Never Outsource:
• Business Planning & Budgeting
• Policy Setting
• Supplier Management
• Performance Monitoring & Reporting
• Fleet User Advocacy
• Customer Relationship Management
Head of Risk and Control at Companhia Industrial da Matola SA
The audit is a key tool to know the overall status and provide the analysis, the assessment, the advice, the suggestions and the actions to take in order to cut costs and increase the efficiency and efficacy of the fleet management. We propose the following fleet management audit.
Know our fleet management audit


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Bookaburra Volunteer Storytellers run free interactive sessions including stories, rhymes and fun at community venues across Yarra Ranges every week. (Excluding school holidays)
See the full list of libraries, opening times and holiday programs
Croydon and Maroondah Toy Libraries have joined forces to create one super toy library and have moved to the new Parkwood community hub.
Operating in the Shire of Yarra Ranges since 1978, the Mt Evelyn Toy Library currently has around 2000 toys covering categories such as baby and toddler, role-play, costumes, construction, puzzles, games, music and outdoor & sport – New members are most welcome!
The new, state-of-the-art Centre integrates a library, a knowledge and innovation centre, an art gallery, a cafe and Council service centre.
Tuesday 9:30am-10:30am. Enjoy weekly pre school story time. Stories, nursery rhymes, themed children's activity with the wonderful Bookaburra volunteers. No bookings required. Cost is free. Mt Evelyn Community Centre, 50 Wray Cresent.


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Table Top Racing: World Tour will look appealing to those not interested in the serious nature of competitive racers, those who opt more for high-octane, short-lived races with a catchy soundtrack to go along with. However, the Micro Machines-inspired racer from Playrise Digital fails to deliver on any of the above and ultimately just feels flat.
Players race against each other across intricate maps full of oversized items and specific to a certain theme, be it a Sushi table, an 80's bedroom, or aboard a sunny yacht. Unfortunately, the well-design tracks and beautifully rendered levels are the only aspect of Table Top Racing that I found appealing, which leads me to the rest.
The cars are painstakingly slow, even the expensive supercars that top the bill feel sluggish. This makes the game particularly easy when facing AI and other players, with each turn coming at a snail's pace, making staying ahead of the group simple. Even the power-up boost fails to really give you that sense of speed most kart racers feed on, lasting a mere 2-seconds before petering out.
Touching on in-game power-up bubbles, they do play a big part in how races play out. Some are specifically made to defend against those looking to overtake, like mines and oil spills, while others like homing missiles and ice attacks try to slow down those in front. These pickups can be fun to use but due to the simplicity of the track itself, one missile to the behind could effectively end your race, with the leader staying in front until the end on most occasions.
For the most part, the power-ups fell lackluster and due to the widened gaps during races you'll find yourself shooting ice cubes into walls for fun. If you have plenty of coins you can change the wheels on your vehicle for specific bonuses, like shields, and the ability to jump, which does show some level of depth but not enough to have you shouting from the rooftops with approval.
The single-player championship and special event modes don't seem to take your upgraded car into account, leaving you to breeze past the Time trials and Eliminations with relative ease. I found myself making it through the majority of the championship mode within a day, filling my coffers with coins to buy the best cars in the game.
However, my biggest gripe was the repetitiveness that, to a point, could be perceived as laziness on Playrise's part. They're five locations to pick from, with a selection of different routes for each map. The lack of variety shows that Table Top Racing is still clinging to its mobile predecessor and fails to really establish itself as a standalone game people can pick up and play for a lengthy period of time.
Table Top Racing: World Tour tries to cash-in on a much-loved genre but becomes somewhat confused when delivering the basic aspects of the game: speed, excitement, and longevity. Instead, you're left with a title you can pick up and play for an hour, listen to a few catchy tunes from its limited soundtrack, and become bored enough to go play something else.
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Each culture and each Nation has its own traditions. We want to teach our children that it is important and concurrently interesting to learn about the culture and the traditions of the country they are living in.
Celebrating traditions is not intended to exclude people. To learn about foreign traditions will expand the own horizon and it may activate new insides and reflections about the own tradition and culture.
Shortly you will find here a brief overview of the Dutch traditions.
Sinterklaas in short
Sinterklaas is a traditional winter holiday figure still celebrated in the Low Countries, including the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. He is also well known in territories of the former Dutch Empire, including Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Indonesia, and Suriname. He is one of the sources of the holiday figure of Santa Claus in North America.
According to the legend Sinterklaas was a bishop who lived in Turkey around the year 300. As he cared for the poor, it broke his heart to see that a man with three daughters had no money to support them, let alone pay their dowry.
The story goes that Saint Nicolaas wanted to help by throwing money through the window, which accidentally ended up in a shoe (hence the fact that the Dutch children put their shoe every night by the chimney/door during the time that Sinterklaas is in the Netherlands!)
This traditional feast is celebrated yearly on the 5th of December when Sinterklaas drops or brings presents for children at their homes. This is the eve before Sinterklaas' birthday.
Approximately three weeks before this date, Sinterklaas and his Pieten arrive in the Netherlands on his boat with the presents he'll give to the children. Every year they arrive in another city.
During the period before the celebration of Sinterklaas' birthday, children put their shoe at the fireplace. With the shoe, the children leave a carrot and some hay for the Sinterklaas' horse. Then the children sing a song for Sinterklaas and the next day they will find some candy or presents in their shoes.
Sinterklaas and his Pieten usually carry a bag which contains candy for children. The Pieten toss candy around, a tradition when Sinterklaas and his Pieten enter the room where the children are waiting.


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Ahmed Saidane
Tunisia, Tunis
Ahmed Saidane
Tunisia, Tunis
• Training in problem resolution based on DMAIC method (lean Six Sigma).
• Management training done Within Stream hosted by Jacky SALMI | Founder and Consultant, Consulting Parana | PARIS.
• Train The Trainer (2011).
• Member ADVISORY COMMITTEES OF ENTERPRISES CCE. Representing non-management employees.
• Training Dsl / Voip/DATA "level 3" in Completel / Numericable company in France Paris 3 weeks.
• Design and implementation of Ethernet LANs
• Organization structure, wiring
• Cisco Router Configuration and parameterization
• Assessment and resolution of problems
• Coordination with suppliers and subcontractor
• Piloting and planning interventions
Software and systems:
Windows (all versions)
• Office Suites: Microsoft Office (all versions), OpenOffice
• Browsers: Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari, Google Chrome
• Courier (clients): Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird
• Business Object (creating queries, management of databases)
Adobe Photoshop
First aid worker
• Certificat of first aid training
• Level 2 in undustrial control and security - ISET Tunis
• Baccalaureate 2006
• Arabic (written read, spoken)
• French (reading, writing, speaking)
• English (Average)
• Italian (Average)
• Reading, Photo, Movies, Music, Computers
• fishing & spearfishing
• Hiking Output
Tennis, soccer, Cycling
Volunteer activities
Charity Action in Libyan refuge after the revolution in Lybia with the Red Crescent . (2012).


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The fifty or so drummers and horn players are glistening with sweat and reaching a crescendo of almost deafening loudness when I finally feel the tap on my shoulder. I'm jammed into the crowd of thousands of chanting and jumping revelers, a veritable mosh pit of the faithful, at the annual Puram festival in Trissur in the southern Indian state of Kerala, shooting the musicians at close range with a 16-85mm VR Nikkor on my D80, and I'm not aware of much else but what's going on right in front of me.
"Excuse me, sir," the shoulder tapper yells in my ear when he finally gets my attention, "but if you don't move very, very quickly, the elephants will surely crush you!"
And true enough, when I swing around, I'm face-to-trunk with a juggernaut of 15 elephants, shoulder-to-shoulder, each one wearing an elaborate headdress called a caparison and carrying three members of the Brahmin caste holding colorful umbrellas.
I sidestep the line of blitzing pachyderms and make my way to the edge of the surging, sweaty crowd. This is too much! Everywhere you look, there is this crazy, photogenic activity going on!
That's the way it is in India; it's never a question of finding something to shoot, it's more a matter of finding a respite from the constant flow of photo opportunities that has drawn photographers to the subcontinent since the dawn of the daguerreotype.
I've been fortunate to have been assigned to shoot stories in India by a number of publications over the years. But I had never been to Kerala in southwestern India, and rather than pitching it as a story idea to a number of magazine clients and waiting for them to make up their mind, I decided to do a self-assignment and go on spec. Working without the special access (not to mention the expense account) that a magazine assignment affords means you need to plan carefully to stretch your dollars and maximize your opportunities.
In my pretrip research, I determined that I wanted to see the Puram festival in Trissur, which is the biggest festival in the state. It took a while on the Internet to determine exactly when this festival is held (it's keyed to the moon phases, among other factors). Different sites had different dates listed for the event (some as far apart as a month), but through an official site for Kerala tourism (www.kerala.org), I found out that it was an early-April event and planned my entire trip around the festival.


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At first glance, earthworms appear to have little awareness of the world around them. They appear to be little more than living pink tubes, without eyes or ears to tell them where they are. However, earthworms are well adapted to an underground life, and have developed special senses to keep them from dangerous conditions--like the light of day.
If you could find the "head" section on an earthworm and knew what to look for, you might be able to identify sections of tissue with tiny specialized structures which enable an earthworm to detect light. These do not give an earthworm vision as we know it, only the ability to detect degrees of brightness.
Earthworms are adapted to living in cool, dark places, and seek them out. Because earthworms have no lungs, but respire through their skin, they need to keep themselves moist. The rich soils through which they burrow are ideal conditions for this.
When an earthworm is exposed to the sunlight, perhaps by a gardener's errant shovel blade, or an animal digging, it will almost immediately attempt to writhe its way back into the soil. If an earthworm is exposed to the sun for too long, it will begin to dehydrate. Prolonged exposure to the sun will result in paralysis. The earthworm's "eyes" enable it to sense such dangerous conditions.
Earthworms will voluntarily venture above ground in certain conditions, especially if there has been a heavy rainfall. Excess moisture can flood earthworm tunnels and cause them to drown. Venturing above ground during the day in such instances is generally safe for an earthworm, since the air is moist and the sun is obscured by cloud cover. Earthworms will also commonly surface at night, when the air is cooler.
The best way to observe earthworms at night or in a worm composting box is to use a light with red cellophane or red plastic taped over it. Worms cannot tolerate ultraviolet light, but are less sensitive to dim or restricted light.
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Mark Ivan Cole recently said of a musing here...
"This is personally poignant for me, DSD Stones. I've had the opportunity to do some exploring, some backpacking, a few short summits, and a smattering of rock climbing. I've been wondering if I can get to the stuff I've been wanting to get to for so long, not sure if there's time. Recently, I've felt like the universe has been telling me: "you're never too old." This is another reminder. Thank you."
To which I pondered, then replied:
"A musing very meaningful for myself too Mark.
Never too old, never that out of shape, never too far, nor too much else going on, or too much commitment would it take - never...
We do what we can, with what we are and have, where we are as well.
All is truly meaningful.
Each is a summit of its own kind.
Never is it a moment wasted.
The elements always echo out with such truths. Thank you Mark".
Then I also reflected over two quotes posted some time ago:
"The real goal. It wasn't, oddly enough, the summit of a mountain or the top of a cliff at all. That's because the goal wasn't really a place, but a feeling. It was an emotion deep inside him, and inside all of us; a sentiment we all search for, but which always seems so elusive." A. Hobson
How wonderful, yet mysterious, all these elements are. They arise with the sun, blend with our adventures, mix in with our longings, then we gaze out upon them with the setting sun too...


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Louisville, Ky. - The Defiance College men's basketball team opened up the win column in thrilling style Monday evening as they defeated Spalding University 73-72.
Coach Scott Cutter's side looked poised to find their first win of the season as they tipped-off action. After quickly jumping out to a 4-3 lead via four Jordan Maschino (Bradford / Covington) points, the Yellow Jackets looked to extend their early lead.
Sean Tyson (Columbus / Centennial) stole the ball from the Golden Eagles and sank a fast-break layup to give DC the largest lead of the half 22-13, with a little over eight minutes remaining. Spalding slowly knocked down the deficit and found space for a jump shot with just one second on the clock. The home side headed to the locker room with a 34-31 lead.
DC found themselves in hot water to open up the second half of play. Nine straight points for the Golden Eagles had the home side with an early advantage. The Yellow Jackets were not going down easily. Slowly closing the deficit, DC emphatically marked their comeback with a Malachi McClain (Lansing, Mich. / Holt) dunk with a little under 10 minutes remaining on the clock.
Neither side could grab a distinct advantage in the remaining minutes, swapping the lead four more times.
Staring at a 72-69 Golden Eagle lead, DC looked to mount a final push. Marell Jordan (Lafayette, Ind. / Lafayette Jefferson) headed to the charity stripe with just eight ticks on the clock, sinking both free-throws. Forced to foul, Defiance sent Spalding to the line as the Golden Eagles looked to close out the victory.
Grabbing the rebound from the missed free-throw, Jordan looked to make his way up the floor. Putting on a burst of speed the freshman cut into the lane and rolled a layup in as time expired to give the Yellow Jackets the thrilling victory.
With the win, Defiance improves to 1-8 on the season. The Yellow Jackets will continue non-conference action on December 28-29 as they welcome Geneva, Heidelberg, and Penn State Behrend to the Karl H. Weaner Center for the 44th annual Purple and Gold Tournament.


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Podcast CME Course Information
Exam: Exam 354
Issue: May 30, 2017
Learning Objectives
Evidence-based guideline summary: Reducing brain injury following cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Upon completion of this podcast, listeners will be better able to discuss new practice guidelines for reducing brain injury following cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Recommended Audience
This program is designed for physicians who are involved in providing patient care and who wish to advance their current knowledge of clinical medicine.
Core Competencies
- Patient Care
- Medical Knowledge
Program Accreditations Subcommittee (PAS) is responsible for reviewing and evaluating all CME programs. Joseph F. Kass, MD, JD, FAAN, has received personal compensation for activities as an expert witness in litigation and in an editorial capacity for the American Academy of Neurology. Barney J. Stern, MD, FAAN, has received personal compensation for book chapter contributions. The other members of the committee (Samir Belagaje, MD; J. Clay Goodman, MD, FAAN; Omotola A. Hope, MD; Shannon M. Kilgore, MD, FAAN) and AAN staff (Kristine Mitchell) report no disclosures. Robert A. Gross, MD, PhD, FAAN, has received funding for travel and/or speaker honoraria from the American Academy of Neurology; receives a stipend as Editor-in-Chief of Neurology; has received consultant fees from GlaxoSmithKline and Harris Interactive; has served on speakers' bureaus for Abbott, UCB, and GlaxoSmithKline; has conducted clinical trials over the past 5 years funded by GlaxoSmithKline, UCB, Ortho-McNeil, Pfizer, and Marinus, but has ceased participation in industry-sponsored clinical trials and speakers' bureaus since his appointment as Neurology EIC in 2010; and has received research support from the Department of the Army, UCBPharma, and University of Rochester Medical Center/NIH. Dr. Stacey Clardy serves as Podcast Editor for Neurology® and has received research support forWestern Institute for Biomedical Research (WIBR). Dr. Jeff Ratliff serves as Podcast Deputy Editor for Neurology andreceived a speaker honorarium from Haverford College. AAN staff members editing the test (P Baskin, L Kleffman, K Aman Ramm) have no disclosures. The CME Journal Editors who have reviewed the exam are James WM Owens Jr., MD PhD, who receives royalties from UpToDate, Waltham, MA; grant support from NIH (PI, K08NS054882); and a stipend in his editorial capacity for Neurology and Adam Kelly, MD, who has served as Guest Editor of Continuum (April 2014) and receives a stipend in his editorial capacity for Neurology.
Dr. Geocadin serves on the DSMB for the PEARL Study: "A Randomized Pilot Clinical Trial of Early Coronary Angiography Versus No Early Coronary Angiography for Post-Cardiac Arrest Patients with No ST Segment Elevation on the ECG" funded by the State of Arizona Biomedical Research Commission; serves on editorial boards for Neurocritical Care and Resuscitation; receives research support from NIH (grant R01 HL071568); and is co-author of Post-Cardiac Arrest Care: 2015 American Heart Association Guidelines Update for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care.
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