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The upcoming release of the sequel to Infinity Ward's monster hit, Call of Duty 4 is creating quite a buzz on internet gaming sites. So is it due to Modern Warfare 2's intense action? The perfect scores already being posted? The controversial airport segment?
Not quite. The internet is abuzz with speculation on which version of Modern Warfare 2 has a miniscule edge, the PS3 or the 360.
The gaming site, Lens of Truth, who apparently persuaded their local Play N Trade to break Modern Warfare 2's street date in order to provide them the opportunity to run the two versions against each other his succeeded again in fanning the flames of fanboyism with their most recent comparison. Lens of Truth are known for pitting both 360 and PS3 versions of the same game through a series of tests to compare how each game stacks up, often coming to eyebrow raising conclusions on which version comes out on top.
with a slight edge to ps3 in graphics and x360 in frame rate. check cynamite de comparisons
You have both consoles and you want to buy the best version of the game available, even if its for a little bit, you just want the best... I don't see what's the problem with that.
PS3 wins on graphics once again just like dragon age origins poor xtards i think they actually believe if a multiplat isnt ported properly to ps3 then the 360 is more powerful LMAO
Face it devs are finding it alot easier now to develop on ps3 and not as many shabby ports of gimped 360 games.
The 360 is like a limp d!ck it just keeps flopping.
To be honest i can't tell the difference between both the ps3 & xbox360 unless your glued next to your tv lol come on guy's who cares as long as we all can play the game and no one console has exclusives items it's all good
It all looks well and good if one takes off the fanboy googles. The simple answer to all these comparisons is just for hits. Who doesn't want to see probably the biggest game of the year runs better on which console.. With that said, I hate it when comparisons fail to put both consoles on their best settings while comparing. How hard is it to turn on the RGB and super white features on the PS3? Thanks to Cynamite, we at least came to know that changing a setting can mean the difference between pale and good colors...
The fact still remains that both games look really similar and hats off to IW for that (still pissed at AV though). I will probably wait for Digital foundry to pass the verdict as they always seem to know what they are talking about, but either ways if you end up even with one on any console, it won't mar your experience in any ways. This isn't 2007 so grow up. A crack missing when zoomed in at 250% doesn't really account to which version is superior....
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The Foundation will award undergraduate scholarships to outstanding students, to be known as Barry M. Goldwater Scholars, in the spring of 2004 for use during the 2004-2005 academic year. The awards will be made on the basis of merit to two groups of students -- those who will be college juniors and those who will be college seniors in the 2004-2005 academic year -- who have outstanding potential and intend to pursue careers in mathematics, the natural sciences, or engineering. Four-year institutions are eligible to nominate up to four students who are in the sophomore or junior class during the 2003-2004 academic year. To be considered, a student must be nominated by his or her college or university using the official nomination materials provided to each institution.
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Have you read our Fast Guide to Online Computer Museums ? Did those pictures and specs bring your own first steps into the digital domain back to mind? The journey back in time certainly made us wax nostalgic and then inspired us to wonder: what was your first PC? How about sending us your pictures ?
As it happens, WhatIs.com has carte blanche access to the Alexander B. Howard Museum of Expired Technologies. Exhibits include: a Mac SE , a Performa 636 , an original iMac and a Powerbook . The Apple II+ , his first computer, remains in his parents' garage, next to the generic beige box that contains the "high-powered" Intel 386 chip that served as an introduction to MS-DOS. The rest of the list is safely stored in the basement, awaiting refurbishment or assigment as print servers, Web servers or, in at least one case, conversion into a MacQuarium .
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A large chunk of Sun Microsystems customers may skip right over the upcoming SPARC experiment with Fujitsu, according to server chief John Fowler.
In the coming months, Sun will launch a line of SPARC64-based servers in conjunction with Fujitsu. These servers will replace boxes based on Sun's own UltraSPARV IV+ chips and help the vendor compete against the likes of IBM and HP in the Unix market. The rub, however, comes when you realize that the Fujitsu gear will only out pace similar systems based on new "Rock" silicon from Sun by a few months.
"The timing of the products is closer together than normal for this class of technology but that's just an engineering reality," Fowler told us. "We've had worse problems like not enough products."
Sun originally turned to Fujitsu to share chip and system costs after it canceled the UltraSPARC V project in 2004. Back then, Fujitsu's aid looked like a godsend with Sun projecting a massive gap between speed boosts to its UltraSPARC chips and the, at the time, unrefined release schedule for Rock systems.
Hindsight, as you all know, can be a cruel master.
The UltraSPARC IV line of processors has been tweaked past 2GHz and sales of servers based on the chip have gone better than anyone could have imagined. Meanwhile, Fujistu has slipped on the release of fresh SPARC64s, and Rock - due out in 2008 - has arrived right on time.
"Engineering works in funny ways," Fowler said. "We got more out of UltraSPARC IV than we expected, and Rock is happening in the time frame we hoped for. It could have easily been very different."
As a result of the overlap, Sun will have two high-end server lines aimed at very similar tasks - back office stuff such as Oracle, SAP and the like. So far, the company has been unwilling to admit this overlap, although we coaxed such a confession out of the good-natured Fowler, who was kind enough to give us an interview just days after we poked at him in a story.
"A lot of people, especially given that we have gotten to 1.8GHz, 1.95GHz and 2.1GHz with UltraSPARC IV+, will just stay there until Rock," Fowler said. "Other people will be interested in the features and performance of the combined Sun/Fujitsu products.
"We aren't making people transition at all. That's part of the value proposition. Strong choices and no forced march."
Just like the Itanium rollout. Oh, wait . . . (To see just how good of a sport Fowler is, check out this video. No Carly doll in the tub?)
So, for Sun customers, the presence of two high-end server lines looks like a nice option. The Fujitsu gear, based on dual-core chips, won't blow you away, but should be decently competitive with Power- and Itanium-based servers. We're sure you're all too familiar with such a scenario.
Then, in 2008, Sun looks set to give rivals some more serious competition with the release of the 16-core Rock chip.
Meet Boulder
For the first time in many years, we're feeling bullish about Sun's high-end system prospects. That said, one does wonder about the costs tied to supporting two high-end server lines. Sure, Sun has deals in place with Fujitsu for some system and chip work and with TI for chip manufacturing to offset a portion of the R&D load. That doesn't make this stuff free or even cheap. ®
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WASHINGTON — Next to the oath of office, it has been perhaps the most important commitment that Republicans in Congress can make. It is called simply "the Pledge," and its enforcer is such a fixture in the party that he is known simply by his first name, Grover.
Signing it means a promise never, ever to vote for a tax increase.
But the pledge and its creator, Grover Norquist, a 56-year-old conservative lobbyist, have never before faced a test as they do now. The federal deficit stands at $1 trillion. The social safety net continues to grow — and, in the case of Medicare and Social Security, remains hugely popular. And unless the two parties can agree on a fiscal plan before Jan. 1, hundreds of billions of dollars of tax increases will go into effect automatically, meaning that Congress does not even need to act for taxes to rise.
The combination means that Mr. Norquist, whose long record of success is a rarity in Washington, finds himself in a tricky spot. Some top Republicans, including Speaker John A. Boehner, are saying they now agree with Democrats that the government must collect more tax revenue. Others have gone so far as to break with Mr. Norquist publicly.
By Mr. Norquist's count, 219 House members — enough for a majority — and 39 senators have committed to the pledge. But some of those members who signed on, many of them years ago, have started to back away, apparently leaving him several votes shy of the majority he would need to block any tax increase.
"A pledge is good at the time you sign it," said Representative Peter T. King, a New York Republican whose name still appears as a pledge signer on the Web site of Mr. Norquist's group, Americans for Tax Reform. "In 1941, I would have voted to declare war on Japan. But each Congress is a new Congress. And I don't think you can have a rule that you're never going to raise taxes or that you're never going to lower taxes. I don't want to rule anything out."
Mr. Norquist contends that every few years, several noisy Republicans say their support is squishy. Yet every time, he says proudly, the outcome is the same.
"It's been 22 years since a Republican voted for a tax increase in this town," he said in a recent interview. "This is not my first rodeo."
Ask Republicans in Congress today what they think of the pledge, and many of them say that while they still subscribe to a low-tax view of government, they resent being hamstrung by a piece of paper they signed well before they were elected. Some of them are even saying they want out.
"I'm frankly not concerned about the Norquist pledge," Senator Saxby Chambliss of Georgia said last week.
Senator John McCain noted with a certain sense of satisfaction at an Atlantic magazine forum last week that "fewer and fewer people are signing this, quote, pledge."
Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, at the same forum, said that with the federal debt at $16 trillion, closing tax loopholes and eliminating deductions have to be considered, "even though that may technically violate the pledge." He added, "Sign me up."
Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma has called the pledge a "tortured vision of tax purity."
Ted Yoho, who will represent part of northern Florida when the new House convenes in January, said: "I'll pledge allegiance to the flag. I'll pledge to be faithful to my wife." But he is one of a handful of House newcomers who declined to sign to Mr. Norquist's pledge and likened it to a New Year's resolution that many others will break.
Mr. Norquist claims to have invented the idea for a no-new-taxes promise when he was a 12-year-old volunteer for Richard M. Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign.
He is fond of evocative metaphors, like claiming he wants to reduce government "down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub." Not honoring the pledge would cause grave damage to the Republican brand, he has said, likening it to a Coke can with a rat head in the bottom.
The walls at the headquarters of his interest group are covered with signed copies from conservative heroes like Newt Gingrich, who warns Republicans to stick to their guns. Mr. Gingrich, like Mr. Norquist, argues that the pledge protects Republicans from agreeing to stealth tax increases that ultimately hurt them.
"Every time I've watched Republicans try to be clever with Democrats on issues of taxation," Mr. Gingrich said last week, "Democrats have won."
In the current talks with President Obama, Republicans have signaled an openness to increasing tax revenue by reducing deductions and credits, as long as income tax rates do not rise. That would still violate the pledge, which states that "any and all efforts" to increase taxes are inexcusable.
Some Republicans have decided that they no longer like the lack of flexibility. "Basically the pledge is like a Master lock," said Representative Scott Rigell of Virginia, who in January became one of the first freshmen to publicly renounce the pledge.
When Mr. Rigell announced his reversal, he braced for the consequences. Instead, he said, the word he received was a text message from his local Republican Party chairman saying, "Thanks for your courage." Yet Mr. Norquist still includes Mr. Rigell's name on his list of pledge signers.
Obama administration officials and other Democrats argue that Mr. Norquist's pledge is doomed because Republicans will eventually need to square their budget policies with public opinion. With society aging and modern medicine developing new treatments, health care costs will continue to rise.
Voters express strong support for Medicare and Social Security and for raising taxes on the affluent, Democrats note. Over all, federal tax revenue has taken up a smaller share of gross domestic product in the last few years than at any point since the 1950s. One possibility is that the pledge will survive on a technicality. If Congress fails to reach a resolution before the tax cuts passed during the George W. Bush administration expire at midnight on Dec. 31, rates will revert to their higher pre-2001 levels. If Congress then approved a bill that restored only some of those lower rates but not, for example, ones for the highest income brackets, Republicans could still claim to be within the bounds of their pledge.
But Mr. Norquist argues that history suggests the pledge will survive on more than a technicality. Republicans, he said, have always come around, even if it takes a little pressure.
When he hears about someone wavering on the pledge, he has a simple routine, he says. "Every time this happens, I call the guy and say: 'I just want to make sure we're on the same page. I don't want to have an argument,' " he said. "But if you really want to raise taxes, I do want to have an argument."


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How proud is George Gwozdecky? Not only does he have a valuable assistant in Steve Miller, but the 14-year DU skipper will coach alongside two of his proteges Friday in Denver.
RPI coach Seth Appert, a former DU assistant, will help coach the East team in the NCAA Frozen Four Skills Challenge.
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Facebook is rumored to be in talks to acquire the Israeli facial recognition startup Face.com for upwards of $100 million, according to two new reports.
Calcalist, an Israeli publication, reports hearing that Facebook is looking to buy the company for "tens of millions of dollars." Meanwhile, Newsgeek, another Israeli publication, says it heard the figure could be as much as $100 million.
TheNextWeb notes that Facebook is rumored to have tried to acquire Face.com multiple times in the past, but the talks usually failed because Facebook wasn't willing to pay enough money. Perhaps $100 million will change that.
Face.com's facial recognition technology has the potential to improve Facebook's photo-tagging services, not to mention the fact that it's a great domain name for Facebook to own.


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Despite criticism from members as well as yours truly for its provocative advertising campaign that doesn't appear to have anything to do with fitness clubs, Equinox is going to keep doing what it wants to do.
For the third year in a row, the New York-based club chain called on fashion photographer Terry Richardson to shoot its ad campaign. According to an Equinox press release, the "By Equinox" campaign shot at the Stahl house in the Hollywood Hills "gives viewers an intimate peek into the lives of the other half—where provocative and playful meet at their luxurious weekend escape. Each image, dripping in luxury, voyeuristically captures a moment made possible by the Equinox-powered body."
One of those bodies in the ad campaign is that of a nude man with a woman in her underwear on top of him. (Relax, folks. I checked out the exclusive behind-the-scenes video of the shoot, and the guy was wearing undies that apparently were airbrushed out.)
News of Terry Richardson's latest campaign came courtesy of former Equinox Executive Creative Director Bianca Kosoy, who has become my meal ticket for increased traffic on this blog. The influence of Kosoy, who left Equinox not long after she uttered the phrase "fitness is a fraud," survives through Richardson's lens.
"Terry is able to capture the power of a private moment," Equinox said in the press release. "His signature style blends fashion, fitness and performance. Like Equinox, Terry defines the category, so there was no other photographer that could bring the By Equinox creative to life."
To its credit, Equinox quickly responded to my tweet last week suggesting the company hadn't learned its lesson after it received backlash from members and critics about its campaign. "We hear and appreciate your feedback and will keep this in consideration," Equinox tweeted me.
A few days later, not long after I received the press release about this year's campaign, I asked an Equinox spokesperson if the company had a response to those who think these images are inappropriate in a fitness club setting and are not a true reflection of its members. The spokesperson replied, "No comment."


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Following the call of our most recent Supreme Pontiffs and responding to the ever-apparent thirst for authentic beauty, Living Water College provides fine arts education. Our goal is to train artists who wish to apply truth, goodness and beauty to their work and life.
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When one steps onto the 317-year-old Cresheim Farm in Mt. Airy, one would never know it is filled with historic value. However, for Antje Mattheus the history is all too familiar.
A former social activist, Antje, 55, has lived on the farm for nearly 20 years with her husband David, and two daughters. In 1974 she immigrated to Philadelphia from Germany to battle social injustice. For Antje (pronounced "Ahn-ka"), this old farm is not just her home; it is an emblem of her life as one of Philadelphia's most influential activists.
"Exploring the history of this farm, I can connect with the early people who came here and their stance against slavery," said Antje.
Much like Antje, the people who lived on the farm centuries ago were German, Dutch Mennonites and Quakers who were outraged with slavery and fought against it. According to Antje, they left Europe in the late 1600s to escape religious persecution. When they settled on Cresheim Farm, they did what they could to stand up for those who could not fend for themselves.
Similarly, Antje came to America for a better life, but she also came to help those suffering from social injustice. She migrated to Philadelphia through an organization called Action Reconciliation Service for Peace, a German peace and volunteer service organization founded in the aftermath of WWII. Volunteers helped mend a broken Europe and worked with refugee camps and settlements for "displaced persons."
After German and American peace organizations worked together for years in Europe, ARSP was asked to send German volunteers to the U.S to make sure that the service was not "one-sided." This would be Antje's ticket to America.
Antje's experience in her new country was different, to say the least, but she spent much of her time working with organizations that helped fight inequality.
One such organization was the United Farm Workers Union. As a member, Antje worked alongside activists Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta and helped form boycotts to provide farm workers with better treatment.
"It forced them to give the farm workers better contracts…." said Antje.
Antje said that her work with the United Farm Workers Union was very similar to the work of the Irish settlers who lived at Cresheim Farm centuries ago. These Irish settlers fought for their own right to be part of a union, but according to Antje, many of them were killed because they wanted justice and better living conditions.
Antje's research indicates that in the late 1800s, a man named Franklin Gowen controlled much of the area. (Gowen Avenue in Mt. Airy is named for him.) As president of Reading Railroad, then one of the largest corporations in the state, Gowen fought against the Irish Schuylkill Mountain anthracite mineworkers and had 20 of them hanged for allegedly being a part of a pro-union, secret Irish Society.
Antje's affiliations with activist organizations were based on her drive to eradicate inequalities as a young girl in Germany. Even though she was born after the war, Antje saw what the war had done to Jews in her own German neighborhood.
"I had to search very hard to find out what happened during the Holocaust … I had to ask who among my neighbors did this? Who was a Nazi," said Antje.
When one walks into the Mattheus' residence, he/she can instantly sense the historic value of the house. As the current owner of Cresheim Farm, Antje has done considerable research on the area and her own property, which includes a farmhouse, springhouse and two acres of land.
She and her husband have also done extensive renovations to the farm. In the barn, Antje and David had an apartment and an office built, and installed bathrooms, but she left the original floors, stables, threshing floor and hay loft to preserve the history. Antje and David eventually sold the barn, but continued adding more installments to the house including new roofs on five buildings, a new kitchen and porch.
"There is probably not an inch that we did not touch somehow," said Antje.
Because of the debilitating effects of a long-time battle with Lyme disease, Antje's activism has virtually slowed to a halt in recent years, but she has learned from her research a great deal about the Lenni Lenape Native Americans who once inhabited the entire region and about William Penn, who also lived on the farm. She researched over 300 years of the old land and has spent nearly 20 years preserving its history.
Right along with William Penn, Antje's name could also go down in history.


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Empirical Research on Religion & Ecology
About this bibliography
This list is intended to provide a comprehensive survey of empirical research into religion and environmental action (for lack of better terminology). The reader will find that this includes a large range of peer-reviewed journal articles in social scientific and religious studies journals, but this list also includes a smaller group of monographs in which original empirical research plays a part and articles or chapters which discuss methodological approaches for empirical studies in religion and ecology.
Abstracts included here are produced for an English-speaking audience, but the bibliography is meant to include research in any language. It you notice any errors or missing data, or if you are aware of any research that is not represented here, please send us an email with a citation, a PDF (if you're the author), and an abstract (if possible) and we'll be quite glad to include it here. Keeping in mind that this is a diverse discipline straddling both humanities and social sciences, please do note that many very fine studies in religion and ecology aren't included here because they lack a substantial or original discussion of empirical research.
This bibliography was originally generated to support our empirical work in Scottish churches for the Ancestral Time project and is a work in progress. Over the next year, it will include a variety of research outputs related to our own project research. I also mean to update the list in the coming months so that readers can sort and filter by specific details of each study (sample size, details of research subject etc.). A limited set of these are already represented with the "tag cloud" below. Any feedback is most welcome and we will continue to add new research to this list as it becomes available.
Thanks are also in order to Anthony J. Blasi who maintains the ARDA Sociology of Religion Searchable Bibliographic Database which provided several of the items included below. The dissertation (listed below under 2011) by Martine Vonk provides a useful summary of data involved in empirical studies in Appendix A of her dissertation which was also consulted for this bibliography.
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|(2012): The sociological and attitudinal bases of environmentally-related beliefs and behaviour in Britain. In: Environmental Politics, 21 (6), pp. 901–921, 2012.


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As our school prepares for the upcoming homecoming events, they will not be preparing to build their floats.
What a sad time when our school traditions are just tossed aside as if they didn't matter.
When remembering my children's and my own years at MHS, the excitement of homecoming week was more than one lucky girl being crowned homecoming queen.
Homecoming was about a whole week of excitement, spirit week, pep rally, the game, crowning a queen, and yes, the excitement to see if your class won the best float. It was a time to do something as a class, to accomplish something exciting together, and the underclassmen always trying to outdo the seniors. This was something everyone could be involved in, not just the jocks and popular kids.
Pep rallies are great fun, but it's the same kids getting to participate in the games, while everyone else sits and watches. Floats were done by everyone that wanted to be a part of it. We wonder why we see no school spirit, but yet the things that create school spirit are the very things that are being tossed aside.
Homecoming parades were not just to get the school in the spirit of homecoming, but also to create excitement in the community. It brought community and school together. The joy on the elementary kids' faces while they watched the high schoolers roll by and thought I can't wait until I'm old enough to do that.
Main Street traffic stopping as the homecoming parade came through, patrons, business owners, and residents stopping for a brief moment to cheer and watch the excitement in our youth's eyes as they proudly wore their football jerseys, and cheerleading uniforms. The classes excited about their float they created together. Creating excitement in the community.
The largest crowds are always at the homecoming game. Not just for the crowning of the queen or the game, but for everything that is associated with homecoming. The cheers for the queen, the touchdowns, and yes, the winning float. We come to see it all.
The decision to no longer have floats as a homecoming tradition doesn't only effect those in high school now, it will effect everyone who goes through those halls from now on. Once you take something away you never bring it back. Maybe not everyone wants to be a part of this tradition, but many still do and many in the future will never get the chance.
Please keep our traditions at MHS alive! Stand when you hear your school song being played, cheer on our teams, bring back our floats and parade, and join community and school once again.
I know I'm proud to be an MHS alumni and the traditions it has.
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• A daily summary of global reports on security issues.
A ceasefire between the Yemeni government and Houthi rebels based in the country's north took effect Friday.
The truce follows President Ali Abdullah Saleh's announcement that no more military operations against the Houthi clan would be launched. The agreement aims to end a six-year conflict that has also drawn in neighboring Saudi Arabia. If the cease-fire holds, it will allow the Yemeni government to focus on the fight against Al Qaeda-linked militants in the country.
(Click here for a map of Yemen.)
According to the Guardian, both sides have agreed to uphold the truce, overseen by a committee of government and rebel representatives. The truce binds the militants to disarm, free captured soldiers, evacuate hideouts, follow the Constitution, and vow not to attack Yemen's northern neighbor, Saudi Arabia.
"We have decided to halt military operations in the north-western region … to stop bloodshed, bring peace to the region, the return of displaced people to their villages, reconstruction and achieve national reconciliation," Saleh's office said in a statement.
Agence France-Presse reports that Houthi rebels on Friday began clearing roadblocks and landmines, as is called for in the cease-fire agreement. The six-point truce requires the rebels to reopen three major northern mountain routes in the first stage of implementation: the road between Saada, Harf Sufian and the capital Sanaa; the road from Saada west to Malahidh, and the road from Saada east to Al-Jawf.
Army commanders have reportedly seen the guerrilla fighters start work on removing roadblocks and also on removing landmines from around some of their positions.
But it remains "unclear whether the cease-fire will hold," reports the Los Angeles Times. Previous truce agreements have fallen through, and the Yemeni government's war with Houthi rebels has "killed hundreds of people, displaced more than 200,000 villagers and strained impoverished Yemen's military."
Saudi Arabia, which shares Yemen's northern border, will also benefit from this cease-fire announcement. The oil-rich kingdom has been involved in Yemen's conflict with Houthi rebels since last November, when a fighter killed a Saudi border guard. At the time, the Saudis responded with military force, reports The New York Times, though over the next three months, the Houthis' killed at least 133 Saudi soldiers in border skirmishes.
The agreement comes three weeks after a major international conference on Yemen, held in London, during which Western leaders urged an end to the festering Houthi conflict so that Yemen could focus more attention on fighting Al Qaeda's branch in Yemen. That threat has drawn renewed global concern since the group claimed responsibility for an attempt to bomb a passenger jet as it was approaching Detroit on Dec. 25.
However, Al Jazeera reports that rebel commander Abdul-Malik al-Houthi failed to many any commitment to stop fighting Saudi Arabia – called the sixth condition in the truce – in an audio message released via the internet on Saturday. "I announce our acceptance of the five conditions [for an end to the conflict] after the aggression stops," he said.
Saudi Arabia is seeking the implementation of this sixth condition. The Christian Science Monitor recently reported that Saudi Arabia has invested in efforts to ensure a rebel-free zone along its border with Yemen.
The Saudi involvement escalated in early November when Riyadh responded to a fatal cross-border raid with a full-scale artillery and air assault against the rebels.
Much is unclear about the fighting since then because both the Saudi and Yemeni governments have not allowed journalists to visit the area. But after more than two months, the Saudis appear unable to attain their goal of a rebel-free zone along the border extending several miles inside Yemen….
Riyadh has deep suspicions that Iran may be giving covert aid to the Houthi rebels, but there has been no clear evidence of that so far….
"I think the Saudis and Yemenis are convinced that ... they must inflict a heavy military defeat on the Houthis so they will be ready to talk from a position of weakness," [Mustafa Alani, head of security and terrorism Studies at the Dubai-based Gulf Research Center] said.
The cease-fire will help stabilize Yemen, which risks becoming a failed state, according to a Monitor contributing commentator. Yemen will now have to focus on curtailing the Al Qaeda threat, boosting economic development, tackling a secessionist movement in the south, and addressing an acute water shortage.


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The Vietnam government's campaign of repression against online journalists intensified this year. Sixteen of the 18 journalists behind bars had published blogs or contributed to online news publications, according to CPJ's annual prison census conducted December 1. In January, a group of five independent bloggers were sentenced to long prison terms and years of house arrest on anti-state charges related to their journalism. Three other bloggers, Truong Duy Nhat, Pham Viet Dao, and Dinh Nhat Uy, were detained on charges of "abusing democratic freedoms," a criminal offense punishable by seven years' imprisonment under the penal code. In October, Uy was given a 15-month suspended prison sentence and one year of house arrest on the charges, the first time a blogger was convicted specifically for using Facebook. Authorities used at least three vague laws to harass and jail journalists. A new decree further restricted online freedoms, barring bloggers from linking to foreign news sites, among other provisions. The law also aimed to make global Internet companies complicit in the government's online crackdown by requiring them to reveal the identity of any of their services' users perceived to be in violation of Vietnamese law.
Authorities regularly used three vague and arbitrary anti-state laws--Articles 79, 88, and 258 of the penal code--to harass and imprison journalists, according to CPJ research. Lawyers have argued that the laws contradict broad guarantees of freedom of expression that are enshrined in Vietnam's constitution.
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|bans, without defining, activities aimed at overthrowing the government. Maximum penalties for violations include life imprisonment and capital punishment.
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|bans abusing democratic freedoms, including freedom of the press, to infringe upon the interests of the state, organizations, and citizens. Maximum penalties include seven years' imprisonment.
Vietnam ranked as the fifth worst jailer of journalists in the world, according to CPJ's 2013 prison census. The number of imprisoned Vietnamese journalists has steadily climbed as authorities continued to crack down on Internet freedoms.
A court on October 29, 2013, handed blogger Dinh Nhat Uy a 15-month suspended prison term and one year of house arrest on charges of "abusing democratic freedoms," according to news reports. His sentencing represented the first time a blogger was sentenced specifically for using Facebook.
Authorities arrested Uy and two other bloggers within one month in 2013, signaling the country's intensifying crackdown on free expression.
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|Truong Duy Nhat was arrested and charged with "abusing democratic freedoms," a charge that carries up to seven years in prison. Nhat maintained a personal blog that frequently criticized the Communist Party-led government. An investigation was continuing in late 2013.
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|Pham Viet Dao, a prominent political blogger, was arrested at his home and accused of "abusing democratic freedoms." Dao maintained a blog that was often critical of government officials and policies. He faces up to seven years in prison. An investigation into him was continuing in late 2013.
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|Dinh Nhat Uy was arrested for "compiling and publishing distorted and untrue articles and pictures on his blog, tarnishing the prestige of state bodies," according to state-run news reports. Computers, phones, flash drives, books, and laptops were confiscated from his home, reports said.
At least 39.5 percent of Vietnamese citizens have access to the Internet, according to the most recent data by the International Telecommunication Union, or ITU. While authorities have attempted to control online journalism through various restrictive laws and measures, the growing Internet has given rise to a vibrant and vocal blogosphere in the country.


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'Woe to you teachers of the Law and Pharisees. You hypocrites! You give a tithe of your spices, mint, dill, cumin, but you have neglected the more important matters of justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter without neglecting the former.'This comment is repeated in Luke 11:42. Jesus is interested in the heart and so challenges them but does not say that tithing doesn't matter.
From the New Testament church we can learn further lessons. These people were very, very generous. Even a surface reading of the Book of Acts shows that this was a giving community, selling possessions so that no-one was in need and bringing the proceeds to the apostles and laying it at their feet - conveying that they were giving it freely for them to distribute.


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Proof Positive
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If you have too many computer passwords to remember and are tired of having to come up with new ones every few months, you're not alone. The information age is turning out to be a security nightmare, for both the people who administer corporate networks and those who use them.
But big changes are on the way, and soon your body itself may be your password: your fingerprints, hands, face, the patterns in your retina's blood vessels, the veins in your hand, or maybe just the sound of your voice. Each of these features is unique to every individual, and computers can analyze them to distinguish one person from another. Such biometric technologies, as they're called, have actually been gestating in laboratories for years, but high costs have limited their use mainly to the military and spy agencies. Now, with the plummeting cost of computing power, biometrics is poised for widespread commercial use.
Giving the field a major boost has been PC maker Compaq, which came out with a $99 fingerprint reader for PCs early last year. At that price, companies can start thinking about biometrics for mass use, not just for ultra-secure data centers.
Other technologies are hitting the market as well. Miros offers TrueFacePC, a $59.95 program (available at http://www.miros.com) that identifies people by the shape of their faces. Working with most standard PC video cameras--which now sell for less than $100--the software takes just two seconds to analyze a face and authenticate its owner--assuming it has "seen" that person before. By always working with two views of each face, the program analyzes the depth of a person's facial features to prevent imposters from tricking it with a flat photograph. Another development: Biometric technology developer Keyware Technologies (http://www.keyware.com) and others offer software that verifies people's identities by analyzing their speech.
How fast biometric technology catches on depends on many factors, including cost, convenience and companies' need for improved security. And there are some difficult political issues, too: Will Americans submit to having digitized scans of their fingerprints, retinas, speech and even body odors stored in computers? Only time will tell.
John W. Verity has been writing about technology since the days when 1MB RAM cost $150,000 and was the size of a fridge. Send your questions to John at firstname.lastname@example.com
Star Treatment
Ready for software that automatically reads and responds to e-mail from customers? Systems that let service agents send selected Web pages to clients' browsers while speaking with them by phone?
Well, ready or not, all that and more is coming as part of a technological revolution about to hit the world of customer service. For years, businesses have depended on 800 numbers and telephone call centers to connect with customers. But the Internet offers a multitude of new channels and methods for delivering better customer service at a lower cost. More than 24 Internet start-up companies are scrambling to change how people get personalized shopping advice, fix problems with laptops and communicate with companies about their products and services. It's what Forrester Research Inc. calls Teleweb technology.
Certainly the easiest new way to communicate with customers is via e-mail. But some companies now receive 5,000 or more e-mails per day--far more than can be answered personally. Consequently, tech firms such as Kana Communications (http://www.kana.com) have developed programs that scan incoming e-mail, respond automatically if possible, and route unanswered messages to specialists.
When e-mail's not enough, cutting-edge companies are beefing up their Web sites to provide easier access to data and documents. But sometimes, customers may still want to converse with someone in "real time." One method allows an exchange of typed messages--a private online chat room.
Another method: Soundstone.com, an online seller of music CDs, has representatives available during business hours to help visitors choose disks and resolve problems with their orders. Says Kevin Sheehan, president and CEO, "This makes people feel more comfortable with shopping on the Web."
Going even further are companies like MCI (http://www.mci.com). Its system lets an operator speak to Web site visitors and show them selected Web pages.
As technology continues to improve, experts believe the Web will improve how companies handle customer service.
Easy Pieces
Remember the Lincoln Logs and Legos you used to play with as a child? Little did they know, the makers of those modular, snap-together toys were actually preparing you for the next wave of computer software.
It's called component-based programming, and it's about to show up on a corporate intranet near you.
Software makers have finally created setups that allow mere mortals to construct and customize fairly sophisticated programs from sets of prefabricated components. Not that you'll be building your own word processing system any time soon--right now, components are catching on mainly in corporate computing.
A good example is what Silicon Valley start-up AlphaBlox is shipping: Without knowing any programming languages and using only their Web browsers, users can now drag and drop that firm's graphical "blox" to create functionally rich business applications. Each blox (there are more than 20 to work with) is a complex chunk of software that a firm's computer department first has to customize so it can recognize and navigate the company's various databases and analyze data using standardized methods. Besides giving you better access to strategic data, the blox setup is supposed to eliminate the bother of writing a new program every time someone needs a new kind of report.
Component-based programs are catching on all over, thanks largely to plans put forth by Microsoft and Sun Microsystems. Their respective ActiveX and Java Beans architectures define just how programmers should build components that will plug together seamlessly.
Components still can't develop software quickly and accurately, and they don't fit together quite as easily as Lincoln Logs. But they're a big step forward, and you're sure to see more of them as time goes on.
Q: I'm way too busy to go out shopping for printer paper, diskettes and other computer supplies. Isn't there a better way?
A: There may be, indeed, and it's as close as your computer. Just get on the Web, and you'll find numerous sites for buying computer supplies. Check Web directories like Snap (http://www.snap.com) and Yahoo! (http://www.yahoo.com). You'll find many local and regional retailers, as well as national chains and specialty dealers, selling everything from diskettes and paper to toner cartridges for laser printers.
The three biggest chains doing business online are Office Max (http://www.officemax.com), Office Depot (http://www.officedepot.com) and Staples (http://www.staples.com). Each has an extensive online catalog and delivers product orders of $50 or more for free.
As convenient as Web shopping may be, it still pays to shop around. When we looked, a box of 10 PC-formatted Iomega-brand Zip disks ranged from $97.90 to $149.95. The lowest prices for the widest range of supplies--and all kinds of computer gear, too--may be found at New York's J&R Computer World (http://www.jandr.com). Meanwhile, check out BizRate (http://www.bizrate.com) for loads of useful information about the quality and reliability of specific Web merchants.
Contact Sources
AlphaBlox, (888) BLOX-NOW, http://www.alphablox.com
Forrester Research Inc., http://www.forrester.com
SAC Technologies Inc., (702) 798-9777, http://www.sacman.com
Soundstone.com, (617) 576-9306, http://www.soundstone.com


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Use the following instructions to set your calendars up:
- Install and activate FT Calendar on your WordPresspowered web site.
- Navigate to the Calendars menu item in the left-hand sidebar of your admin screen
- Provide your Calendar's name and select a color for events that will be added to that calendar.The slug and description fields are optional. Save the calendar.
- Select which of your Post Types you want to be able to attach calendar events to when creating / editing content.
- Navigate to the new post screen and scroll down until you find the 'Calendar Data' block.
- Select your Start and End dates and times. Select 'All Day Event' or 'Recurring Event' if applicable.
- Click the + icon to add your new event.
- Fill in your post Title and Content information and save your post. (You must click the green + sign to add your event.)
- Navigate to your Widgets admin and add a couple widgets to your sidebar. You have the following options: 'Calendar of Events' displays a mini calendar. 'List of events' provides a list of events in your sidebar. Both widgets have multiple options.
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A lot of people have been looking at Atlanta and the south in general and snarking about how barely any snow shut the town down. Those people are assholes. This is why.
Atlanta meteorologist John Bachman explains how Atlanta, which never even averages a temperature near freezing, was so screwed by the snow. The topography, climate, and lack of preparedness were all factors.
Basically, this was the perfect storm to screw Atlanta. And it did just that.


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December 22, 2010
Opening the Doors Wide: Our Annual Open House Extravanganza
Fifteen years and counting. With the exception of 2008, when we had just finished the kitchen reno and were still covered in plaster dust and debris, every year at this time we host our annual Open House. It started in our tiny apartment with a kitchen barely the size of a closet, and an idea that it would be nice to have a few friends over to celebrate the season.
Apartment sized fridge to the right, where the kitchen ended; to the left a window and no more counter space. Truly a closet sized kitchen!
Since then, it's mushroomed into a gathering of close to a 100 people, and it gives us the perfect opportunity to cook up a storm. Yes, we cook all of the food, served buffet style – all savoury apps, no dessert, please and thank you – ranging from house-cured gravalax to mini tourtieres; the three-cheese fondue that caused an uproar the year it didn't appear on the table, and the always new entrees, some successful, some not.
Mini toutieres, with the best pastry dough
Carmelized tomato tatins
Cutting the rosemary-garlic infused grilled leg of lamb
It's the time of year we dip into my cache of cookbooks, the back issues of Donna Hay, Bon Appetit, Gourmet and the countless other food magazines that I've accumulated over the years. Do-ahead is a big factor; "able to freeze" moves a recipe high up on the consideration list.
We think we have it down to a science, and yet every year there's that moment when panic sets in – at least for me. Will we have enough food? Will there be a snowstorm that day? Did we order enough plates and glasses? And – of course – what should I wear?
Reconnections are made with friends old and dear. We see the kids growing older, and then stop coming altogether; we witness the friendships that have been formed at our house and get renewed at this once a year gathering. And more than once throughout the day we're told that this is the party of the season, the one they wouldn't miss for the world.
Tools of the trade
And while there's no doubt that every morsel is savoured – guests know to come hungry – the one thing that is the "icing" is the party favour everyone leaves with: homemade personalised gingerbread cookies. It's the one bit of baking I do, and I have to say I love the smell of those cookies baking and spending the better part of a Sunday slowly rolling out dough and decorating each cookie.
Letting your cookie dough rest for an hour in the fridge makes for easier rolling
Several of the dozens of cookies made
Having an assortment of ribbons and dragees on hand makes for easy decorating
Rolled wax paper subs in for a proper icing bag - Santa, are you listening?
Nothing more magical than seeing your own name...
Bagged and ready for giving
Everyone has a favourite holiday cookie recipe, and not all are fans of gingerbread. So, instead of sharing that recipe (which is a bit of a closely guarded secret) instead I'll share my foolproof recipe for Royal Icing, which can be use to decorate not just your Christmas baking but really any cookie or sweet treat you wish.
As you bake and decorate, be sure to add a sprinkle of love on top - I guarantee you it's the one ingredient your family and friends won't be able to identify but won't be able to do without.
Royal Icing
makes 2 cups
The icing hardens as it dries, so it's perfect for decorating cookies or baked goods that will be stored.
2 lg egg whites, at room temperature
1 lb icing sugar, sifted, and more as needed
¼ teaspoon cream of tartar
1 tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp water, or more as needed
1. Combine all the ingredients in a large bowl. Beat at high speed with a hand-held mixer until the icing is fluffy, thick and shiny, about 3 minutes.
2. Test the consistency of the icing by holding up the beaters. If the icing drips off the beaters in a slow steady stream, it's the right consistency for piping. If too thick, beat in a little water; for a stiffer icing that holds its shape, add more confectioners' sugar. The icing can be coloured with food colouring, which can be beaten in at this point. Cover tightly with plastic wrap.
The icing can be refrigerated in an airtight container for up to 1 week.
Labels: Open House, Royal Icing
5 comments:
I hope our annual Gluhwein party will reach the 15-year mark someday!! So far we're at 2! The food looks great-- my party has mostly desserts with a few savory dishes thrown in, but same concept: have a lovely holiday get-together with friends!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousThursday, 23 December, 2010
How fun looking at pictures of the cookies and recognizing all the names!ReplyDelete
You and Richard are the hosts with the mosts.
What an inspiration! I want to entertain more. I'm not sure we even know 100 people, though...LOL. But what a wonderful idea. Savory apps and no desserts sounds like my kind of party.ReplyDelete
I can only relate to making that many cookies now. Yours are beautiful!
RHome, with your crowd you're not far off... :-)ReplyDelete
Wow, looks like a lot of fun!ReplyDelete
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Gifts for Gardeners No. 1: Seeds of greatness
I've got seeds. And you can have them — for as little as emailing me your Gifts for Gardeners suggestions.
For gardeners, seeds really are the ultimate stocking stuffer. A gift that even little kids can afford. They're sheer potential, all wrapped up in a tiny little packet. They're a gift for the mind, spawning garden dreams. A gift for the eyes, with their splendid photos and drawings. And there's that little rattle they make: a deep bass for fat beet or sunflower seeds, an almost inaudible whisper for tiny native perennials. If you've got only little money, but big gratitude for a gardener, just order them a bunch of seed catalogs online, then stick a ten-spot in the pages. Got none? Draw up a gift certificate for an afternoon of your time (but you do gotta make good on the promise).
What have I got in my garden pocketses? I've got a pocketful of Botanical Interests seeds: Frinched Sage (Artemisia frigida) and Nodding Onion (Allium cernuum), from their new Botanic Gardens Series; Gourmet Baby Greens, a blend of heirloom lettuces that I've tried myself and that will keep your salad bowls colorful and interesting; Gourmet Blend beets; and the gorgeous, deep-purple Lauren's Grape Poppy (Papaver somniferum). Fire up your send buttons, contestants! This five-pack of seeds gets given away next week, when I'll announce my next garden giveaway on Friday. And here's a hint: This Sunday's going to be a great day to photograph plants with winter interest — one of the ways you can win these seeds. Bonus points for capturing wildlife enjoying what you've planted.
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How much knowledge is needed of C++ to start learning OpenGL and game programming? I'd think you wouldn't hafta really know that much, because a lot of game programming is just logic, and the other stuff is learning DirectX and OpenGL.
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Tips for selling your car or truck
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Tip #1: Spruce It Up
Have your vehicle professionally detailed – or spend an afternoon and do it yourself – inside and out. Then, as long as there's a "for sale" sign on it, keep it clean and neat.
Black hat scoop from an ex-curbstoner:
"We'd degrease the engine and dress the hoses so the whole engine bay looked super-clean and tight. We'd dress the tires too. It's amazing how well those protectant sprays revive rubber."
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Tip #2: Fix It Up
Most professional dealers have the vehicles they sell serviced, or at least inspected for any major problems. Take a page from them: a quick safety and mechanical check-up will give you peace of mind.
Black hat scoop from an ex-curbstoner:
"Sometimes, we'd slap on a quick oil change and clean the spark plugs. That way, the car'd run great on the test drive, and it'd usually pass a smog test."
Also, go ahead and make any minor repairs. You might not think a little thing like a lost cigarette lighter or a burned-out interior light is a big deal, but those details make a difference in the way your vehicle is perceived. You don't want a potential buyer worried about what else might be wrong.
Black hat scoop from an ex-curbstoner:
"We used a light coat of paint to touch up sun-faded black vinyl. Then we'd hit it with one of those vinyl protectants. It'd make the dashboard look like the car'd been garaged all its life! We didn't try to match other colors, though – it was too hard."
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Tip #3: Get Attention
You want people to know your car is for sale. Put on the biggest, brightest signs you can find without breaking local rules about signage on cars. For instance, some homeowner's associations forbid on-vehicle signage, and some municipalities' anti-curbstoning laws place limits on sign size and where your vehicle can be parked if it has a sign. In addition, states have rules that have to do with safety – like being able to see out the windows.
Inside tip from an ex-curbstoner:
"We'd use white shoe polish to paint 'FOR SALE,' and then a phone number, really big and neatly on the rear window. On the driver's side back window we'd put a sign with "FOR SALE" and the phone number as big as we could. On the passenger side rear window, we'd put a neatly printed "For Sale" sign with more details, including year, make, model, mileage, and desirable features – and, of course, a phone number. We rarely had to advertise our cars. In a high-traffic area, we'd flip them in a couple days, just off the signs."
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Tip #4: Get The Word Out
Free classifieds and publications like Auto Trader are great ways to advertise your vehicle. If photos are permitted, they can really show off your car or truck. Most vehicles look best with a ¾ view, shot eye-level to the window line or slightly above. If you can, take the photos in the morning or early evening, and turn the lights on for effect. Make sure the background is relatively uncluttered. If multiple photos are allowed, show the interior and engine compartment.
Inside tip from an ex-curbstoner:
"Whether the mileage on a particular vehicle was high or low, we found that a photo of the odometer seemed more believable than only listing the mileage in the ad text."
Flyers on local community bulletin boards also can be great ways to drum up phone calls.
If you run an ad, though, make sure you're around to answer the phone – very often, callers won't leave messages.
Scam Alert: If you use an online classified ad, be prepared to receive offers in which someone wants to give you a certified check or money order for more than your sale price (ostensibly to cover "shipping," "duties," or "finder's fees"), which you're supposed to partially refund. This is a well-known scam. A few days later the check will turn out to be phony and the full amount – plus the money you "refunded" – will be debited from your bank account.
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Tip #5: Gather Documentation
To sell your car or truck, you'll need the registration and title. Can't find the title? You may have filed it in a safe or safe deposit box. Also, if your car was financed, the bank may still be holding the title. Track down those documents before you need them, because getting a duplicate registration or title takes time.
Put documents related to vehicle maintenance, repairs, or upgrades in a folder to show prospective buyers. Make sure there are no credit card or personal identification numbers on any receipts. Also, if you write off part of your vehicle expenses on your taxes, you may need to make copies for your records.
Ordering a vehicle history report is easy and affordable. It shows mileage and ownership history, any reported accidents, major repairs, and recalls. More than that, it offers peace of mind to prospective buyers.
Black hat scoop from an ex-curbstoner:
"We used to get 'independent vehicle safety inspections' done by a mechanic we knew. They didn't mean much, but when they were printed up on a computer they sure looked official. As a buyer, I wouldn't totally trust a report provided by the seller."
Do not sign and turn over the title until you have the buyer's money in hand. At that time, you'll also want to make out a bill of sale, noting that the sale is "as is." You'll also need to file a notice of ownership transfer and release of liability to the appropriate state agency and your auto insurance company.
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Tip #6: Make a Clean Break
Clear your personal records from the glove box and other storage compartments. Also, check under the seats and floor mats for any stray credit card receipts.
If you have a "secret" stash in your car, perhaps some emergency cash or a house key tucked away, remember to dig it out.
Inside tip from an ex-curbstoner:
"Every time we got a vehicle to sell, we'd go through it looking for 'extras.' It was like an Easter egg hunt! The most common hiding places were in the spare tire compartment or cover, jack compartment, fuse box, ashtray, seat pockets, under the bumpers, under seat covers or folding seat cushions, under floor mats, under the dashboard or center console, and inside any in-car tool kit or first aid kit."
Finally, clear all your personal information from any computerized navigation or in-car data system. You don't want to give a stranger all your phone contacts or directions to your bank.
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There are two very important distinctions between curbstoners and you, acting as a private party seller.
First, your car is legally registered in your name. Most curbstoners don't bother to register the cars they sell. Instead, they quickly flip their vehicle purchases so the title transfers from the previous owner to the new owner, skipping the curbstoner.
Second, you probably have only one or two cars to sell. A typical curbstoner, being an unlicensed dealer, sells several cars a month, every month, all year long.
Curbstoners pretend to be private parties, but they're not. They're unlicensed businesses, making a profit with no accountability, regulation, or recourse for their customers.
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Woman saves MTA bus after driver has emergency
Janai Stafford doesn't have driver's license
A Baltimore County woman saved a Maryland Transit Administration bus from crashing after the driver had some sort of medical emergency Tuesday afternoon, police said.
When Janai Stafford got on the bus in Owings Mills on Tuesday afternoon, she was looking forward to a relaxing afternoon.
Stafford said the bus she boarded outside a Giant was full of kids, so she stayed up front and stood next to the driver. She said they were approaching the Beltway when the incident happened.
"All of a sudden (the bus driver) said, 'Something's not right. I don't feel good. Something's not right,'" Stafford said. "And then all of a sudden, he passed out all over the wheel."
That's when Stafford said she knew she had to take control of the bus.
"I put my foot on his foot. I didn't even know what foot to put," Stafford said. "It just happened. I put my foot on his foot, and I just wrapped my arm around him, and I steered the bus to the right and parked it."
Stafford said she thinks about what could have happened.
"It could have gone onto (Interstate) 695. It could have drifted down Reisterstown Road," she said.
Stafford doesn't have a driver's license, she said.
The bus driver, who hasn't been identified, was taken to Northwest Hospital. His condition was not immediately known.


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|Circuitry Color
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Secondary: Light Blue
|Regular program appearance, most of his right arm is transparent (damaged)
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|Mara, Moog, Beck
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Rasket is a character in TRON: Uprising. He was one of the two members of Mara's short-lived resistance team.
Rasket, inspired by the renegade's activities, developed a free code technique to tag large areas with "Tron Lives" graffiti, and joined Mara's resistance cell because Moog convinced him that it was a chance to realize his vision. The three garnered attention from both the Occupation and Tron for tagging Argon City with the message "Tron Lives." Eventually the team was captured by the renegade, who offered them a chance to join him.
When the renegade formed a plan to infiltrate General Tesler's ship, both Moog and Rasket complained about their part in it, not seeing the value of acting as a distraction. Sharply rebuked by both Beck and Mara, the two eventually agreed to take part. However, instead of meeting the renegade at the warehouse as had been planned, they infiltrated and tagged the ship, and were captured and tortured by Pavel; Rasket, protesting that they were only artists, bore the brunt of the torture, being left with a ghostly, translucent right hand. Rescued by Mara and the renegade, they admitted that they had messed up. When Moog said that he understood now that the rebellion's right path was for Argon's sake, Rasket elaborated on the subject, realizing that the renegade would eventually have to take the fight to Clu himself, so that "this--" referring to his maimed hand -- "doesn't happen again." But both refused to officially join Beck's resistance, having barely survived their first real action. The renegade's cause was right, Rasket said as they left, but they could not be his army.


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No bomb found after threat at Sierra-at-Tahoe
Tribune staff report
Police investigating a bomb threat Tuesday afternoon at Sierra-at-Tahoe Ski Resort were unable to find any sort of device, El Dorado County Sheriff's Lt. Pete Van Arnum said Tuesday night.
The anonymous threat was called in about 3 p.m. specific to the lodge, and the area was evacuated immediately, marketing director Mindi Befu said Tuesday. Lifts were shut down by 3:30 p.m.
About 300 people were evacuated, Van Arnum said. Two California Highway Patrol bomb-sniffing dogs were used to check the buildings, but were unable to find anything. Police ended their search about 7:30 p.m.


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Thanks a lot for such a nice and informative forum especially to us novice programmers.
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