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Victorinox Swiss Army, Inc. ("VSAI", "We" or "Us") respects the privacy concerns of our website users and customers and has set forth this Privacy Policy to clearly explain to you how we collect and use your information. This Privacy Policy is only applicable for communications to the United States, Canada for the website located at www.swissarmy.com and www.victorinox.com (the "Website"). Though our trademark might appear on other websites, such other websites have their own policies and are not subject to this policy.
Our Commitment to Privacy
Information that we collect
VSAI and our affiliates and licensees which include, but may not be limited to TRG Accessories, L.L.C., Victorinox Retail and Victorinox Global Fashion, Inc. value our customers and respect your privacy.
Personally Identifiable Information
We only collect personally identifiable information from you when you voluntarily provide it to us, such as by registering on the Website for an account, purchasing a product online, in one of our stores, uploading content to the Website (such as posting comments), completing an online contact request form on the Website or otherwise choosing to share your personally identifiable information with us. The personally identifiable information which you may provide to us could include your name, email address, physical address, phone number, date of birth, credit card number and other personal information.
We use this information to contact you to respond to your inquiry, provide you with certain services and access, and as otherwise permitted by this Privacy Policy. If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence. If you choose to submit content to any public area of the Website including a publicly accessible blog or a social media platform (including without limitation by giving us consent to post your content to any public areas of the Website, or in any other manner permitted by the Website), such content will be considered "public" and will not be subject to the privacy protections set forth herein. We are unable to control such uses of your personally identifiable information, and by using such services you assume the risk that the personally identifiable information provided by you may be viewed and used by third parties for any number of purposes
When you choose to connect your social media account to the Website, or otherwise access the Website via a third party service, we may collect personally identifiable information from that social media platform and/or service, and you give us permission to access and use information, content, and/or material you have supplied to that service as permitted by that social media platform and/or service. For example, when you connect your Twitter, or Facebook account to register for the Website, we may collect the personally identifiable information you have made publicly available in those accounts in your profile, such as your name, photograph, headline, contact information, experience, education, summary, and location. We may also obtain other non-public information from the social media account with your permission. You understand that you are responsible for the content posted as part of your profile information. In addition, you understand that certain categories of information such as your user name and profile photo are publicly available to other users and us, and therefore will not be kept confidential.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information
When you access our Website, we may also automatically collect non-personally identifiable information from you, such as IP type, IP host address, ISP address, cookie IDs, segment IDs associated with cookie IDs, web pages viewed and/or search terms entered, browser type, operating system, referring website, usage and browsing habits on the Website, anonymous usage statistics including frequency of messaging and interaction with other users, clickstream data other log file data, or social analytics and tracking measurements that do not identify any individual. On mobile devices, we may also collect device type, make and model, operating system, carrier, user ID, similar device IDs, and information about the apps you use. Please note that we may use third party service providers to help operate and provide services in connection with our Website and these third party service providers will collect non-personally identifiable information from our Website as well. We may also aggregate demographic information collected from our users (such as the number of users in a particular State) in a manner which does not identify any one individual. Please note that we use third party service providers to help operate and provide services in connection with our Website (including Interest-Based Advertising as discussed below) and these third party service providers will collect non-personally identifiable information from our Website as well.
We may also collect non-personally identifiable information through the use of cookies and similar tracking methods. Cookies are tools used to retrieve information during your online session, such as keeping track of the items placed in your shopping cart. We and each of our business partners may use cookies (or clear gifs, web beacons or similar devices, including devices that function in the mobile environment) to collect information from you for purposes such as tracking Website visits and to measure visitor patterns. We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. A session ID cookie expires when you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for up to one (1) year. We set a persistent cookie to enable us to track and target the interests of users to enhance the services we provide. Such cookies may store personally identifiable information on your local computer to make it easier for you to use our Website. Many web browsers are designed to accept cookies, but you may prefer to modify your browser to prevent acceptance. It is possible, however, that some areas of this Website will not function properly if you do so. You may stop or restrict the placement of cookies on your computer or flush them from your browser by adjusting your web browser preferences, in which case you may still use our Website, but it may interfere with some of its functionality. Cookies and similar items are not used by us to automatically retrieve personally identifiable information from your computer without your knowledge.
Third parties may also use cookies to track your behavior on our Website and on third-party websites, in order to deliver targeted advertising to you. To learn more about this practice and your choices with respect to it, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ or http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.
Tracking Links Clicked/Clickstream
In order to create a better electronic community, we may keep track of patterns of use in the emails we send out. We note which links are clicked in our email communications as specific user profile information to tell us what areas are of most interest to our opt-in email recipients. We may use this information to better personalize the content and promotions that visitors and mail recipients will see in our mailings.
Additionally, we collect a trail of electronic information that you leave each time you visit the Website. This information, which is sometimes referred to as "clickstream data," can be collected and stored by a website's server. Clickstream data can tell us the type of computer and browsing software you use and the address of the website from which you linked to the Website. We may collect and/or use clickstream data to anonymously determine how much time visitors spend on each page of the Website, how visitors navigate throughout the Website and how the Website may be better tailored to meet the needs of visitors. This information will be used to improve the Site and services. Any collection or use of clickstream data will be anonymous, and will not contain any personally identifiable information.
Information Usage
We will only use your personally identifiable information as described below, unless you have specifically consented to another type of use, either at the time the personally identifiable information is collected from you or through some other form of consent from you or notification to you:
- We may use your personally identifiable information to respond to your inquiries or requests.
- Your personally identifiable information will be used and shared with our business partners to process your purchases, such as by credit card processors and shipping companies.
- We may use your personally identifiable information to send you emails from time to time about our products if you have opted into our mailing lists, but we will not provide your personally identifiable information to third parties for them to contact you directly unless otherwise permitted by this Privacy Policy or you provide your consent.
- If you have opted in to our mailing lists, we may share your information among our affiliates and licensees in an effort to improve your shopping experience and to permit them to communicate with you about products, services, promotions and contests in which you might be interested. See the section entitled "Opt-Out Process," below, for instructions on how you may opt out of such sharing.
- We may permit our vendors and subcontractors to access your personally identifiable information, but they are only permitted to do so in connection with performing services for us. They are not authorized by us to use the information for their own benefit.
- We may disclose personally identifiable information as required by law or legal process.
- We may disclose personally identifiable information to investigate suspected fraud, harassment or other violations of any law, rule or regulation, or the terms or policies for our Website.
- We may transfer your personally identifiable information in connection with the sale or merger or change of control of VSAI or the division responsible for the services with which your personally identifiable information is associated.
Non- personally identifiable or aggregate information may be shared with any number of parties, provided that such information shall not specifically identify you.
Interest-Based Advertising
We may ourselves, or with third party vendors, use non-personally identifiable information in connection with our own or vendor information to deliver targeted advertising to you when you visit other websites or our Website. Cookies, clickstream data, and other similar technologies described above may be used in this process. For example, if you are searching for information on a particular product, we or our vendor may cause an advertisement to appear on other websites you view with information on that product. This form of advertising, sometimes called "behavioral advertising," is based on anonymous information and not on any personally identifiable information. As a result, we and our vendor know your interests, but cannot personally identify you in connection with the delivery of that specific ad. We believe that such advertising is helpful because you will see advertisements that are relevant to your interests. However, if you would like to opt-out of these interest-based advertisements, please follow the opt-out process described below under "Opt-Out."
The security of your personally identifiable information is very important to us. When we collect your personally identifiable information offline, we use commercially reasonable efforts to protect it from unauthorized access. We use a safe and secure online ordering system. We use industry standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology for online purchases. This secure server software encrypts all of your personally identifiable information during a purchase, including credit card number, address, first and last name, so that it cannot be easily read in transfer. However, due to the inherent open nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that your personally identifiable information will be completely free from unauthorized access by third parties such as hackers and your use of our Website demonstrates your assumption of this risk. We may retain your personally identifiable information, if provided by you through the Website, for as long as your inquiry is active (as determined by us) and for a reasonable time thereafter, or if applicable, for as long as you remain on our marketing list. We also may retain your personally identifiable information for a longer period of time as needed to provide you services or as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, to resolve disputes, and to enforce our agreements. Even if we delete some or all of your personally identifiable information, we may continue to retain and use aggregate, anonymous data previously collected and/or anonymize and aggregate your personal information. Please note that we will not be liable for disclosures of your data due to errors or unauthorized acts of third parties, including third party host providers. We may aggregate non- personally identifiable information and retain it for analytical purposes.
Protection for Children
Our Website is designed for those 18 years of age and older. We do not intentionally collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 18. When we become aware that personal information from a child under 18 has been collected without such child's parent or guardian's consent, we will use all reasonable efforts to delete such information from our database.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions from this Privacy Policy at any time. However, if at any time in the future we plan to use personally identifiable information in a way that materially differs from this Privacy Policy, including sharing such information with more third parties, we will post such changes here and provide you the opportunity to opt-out of such differing uses. Your continued use of the Website following the posting of any changes to this Privacy Policy means you accept such changes.
Data retention
We retain your information for as long as we reasonably believe that there is a commercial reason for doing so.
Opt-Out Process
As noted above, you may stop or restrict the placement of cookies on your computer or remove them from your browser by adjusting your web browser preferences. Please note that cookie-based opt-outs are not effective on mobile applications.
In addition, you may restrict the placement of cookies or opt out of Interest-Based Advertising that is served through a web browser by setting a cookie which tells our systems to ignore you and not display targeted ads. To opt out of such advertising, click here: http://www.aboutads.info/choices/. Please note that by opting out, you will continue to see generic advertising that is not tailored to your specific interests and activities. If you choose to opt out using our opt-out tool, we will add a cookie to your browser identifying it as an opted-out browser. Once you have elected to opt-out and our system has refreshed (which may take up to twenty-four hours), our advertising system will not collect or use any behavioral data associated with your browser for targeted advertising services for so long as our opt-out cookie remains in place.
To be clear, whether you are using our opt-out or an online industry opt-out, these cookie-based opt-outs must be performed on each device and browser that you wish to have opted-out. For example, if you have opted out on your computer browser, that opt-out will not be effective on your mobile device. You must separately opt out on each device.
To opt out of receiving email marketing from us and from our sharing of your information with our affiliates and licensees for their own direct marketing purposes, please send your request to us at email@example.com. If you have consented to have your personally identifiable information shared with any third party who may use such information for direct marketing purposes and you no longer wish to have your PII shared with such parties, then you may opt-out of such disclosures by sending an email to email address provided above. However, we are not responsible for removing your personally identifiable information from the lists of any third party who has previously been provided your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy or your consent, such as a third party company selling products to you through the Website. You should contact such third parties directly.
Please note that there might be a brief delay between when you submit your request to "opt-out" and when it is processed and reflected in our systems. We will seek to process your request within a reasonable time after receipt; accordingly you may continue to receive communications from us for a limited time after you opt-out/unsubscribe. We appreciate your patience.
Links to Third Party Sites and Social Media Platforms
The Website or advertisements we place may contain links to other websites or applications. Other websites or applications may also reference or link to our Website. Some of our third-party website or technology partners may place their own cookies and/or other data collection tools on your Internet browser; however, we have no access to or control over these cookies and/or other data collection tools. These other domains, websites and/or apps are not controlled by us. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of each and every website and application that you interact with. We do not endorse, screen or approve, and are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such other websites or applications. Visiting these other websites or applications is at your own risk.
Our Website may also contain links to social media platforms, and you may be given the choice of connecting to one or more social media platforms from this Website. If you choose to do so, then depending upon your social media privacy settings, the personal information that you post, transmit, or otherwise make available on the social media platform may be viewed and/or used by others and we will have no control over such viewing and use. We do not control and are not responsible for any use of your information by or through any of the social media platforms. By linking to any social media platform, you will be assuming the risk that the information you provide on that platform may be viewed and/or used by third parties for any purposes and agree that we have no control or responsibility for such third party viewing and uses.
Communications with Victorinox
By providing your email address to us, you expressly consent to receive emails from us. We may use email to communicate with you, to send information that you have requested or to send information about other products or services developed or provided by us or our business partners, or to verify your account, and for information, website functionality and operational purposes, provided that, we will not give your email address to another party to promote their products or services directly to you without your consent or as set forth in this policy. If you receive an email from us, in addition to the opt-out procedure outlined above, you may unsubscribe from receiving future unsolicited emails through a link, typically at the bottom of the e-mail.
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This Privacy Policy and our legal obligations hereunder are governed by, and subject to, the laws of the State of Connecticut. You hereby expressly consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue in the courts located in Fairfield county, Connecticut for all matters arising in connection with this Privacy Policy.
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Our servers are maintained in Switzerland. By using the Website or making a purchase, you freely and specifically give us your consent to export your personally identifiable information to Switzerland and to store and use it in Switzerland as specified in this Privacy Policy. Our overseas hosting provider is contractually authorized to use your personally identifiable information only as necessary to provide services to us and use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect against unauthorized access.
We comply with U.S.-E.U. and U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor frameworks as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use and retention of personal data from the European Union and Switzerland. To learn more about the Safe Harbor programs principles of Notice, Choice, Onward Transfer, Security, Data Integrity, Access and Enforcement, please visit http://www.export.gov/safeharbor.
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Price-Level Accounting
by OSCAR S. GELLEIN Partner, Executive Office
Presented before the Saint Louis Chapter of the Financial Executives Institute — March 1963
NONE of us requires evidence that prices have gone up and that they have been doing so for some time. We have not only seen it, we have felt it. The persistence of the rise is to be noted in some of the following:
(In the first column 1935 = 100; in the second, 1950 = 100)
Consumer Wholesale Building
Year Prices Prices Cost
1935 100 ... 100 ... 100
1940 102 ... 98 ... 122
1945 131 ... 132 ... 144
1950 175 100 198 100 226 100
1955 195 110 213 107 282 125
1960 215 123 225 116 337 149
1962 (Oct.) .... 221 127 230 116 352 156
This is enough to show what we already knew. Prices have more than doubled in the last 20 to 25 years, and have gone up from a sixth to a fourth in the last ten years. This means that for many businesses a not insignificant portion of the figures in 1962 financial statements arose from transactions occurring when prices were one-half of what they are today. Does this have any accounting significance? A few say "no—after all a dollar is a dollar is a dollar, and dollars are what we are accounting for." Others say '"yes—a dollar has become 50 cents and may be 25 cents tomorrow, and accordingly is a pretty bad measure for accounting to be using." The views of accountants and business executives today are arrayed somewhere between these two positions.
Views are fermenting about price-level accounting—there is no question about that. The problem is difficult because it has many sides, and affects businesses in many ways. Businesses, including foundations, funds, and educational institutions as well as other entities concerned mainly with finance, manufacture, merchandising, and personal service, are affected by price changes in diverse ways. The principal assets of some businesses are fixed-term, fixed-rate


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MFA's Unethical & Illicit Behavior
An Open Letter to Nathan Runkle,
Executive Director of Mercy For Animals
June 30, 2013
Dear Nathan,
It's been more than 16 months since we last spoke. During the 6-7 years leading up to our final conversation we were close friends and colleagues, working side by side to help make Mercy For Animals (MFA) a powerful voice for the voiceless. I was MFA's first paid employee, first Director of Investigations, and I sat on the Board of Directors twice. For more than half a decade I gave everything I had to serve the organization's mission to expose cruelty to farmed animals and encourage the shift to a more compassionate diet.
As you are well aware, the animal protection community is severely outnumbered: we simply don't have enough people, funding, favorable media coverage, or support from lawmakers to create the widespread change we so desperately hope for. As such, sticking together is vitally important; the vested interests allied against us want nothing more than for activists and organizations to spend their precious resources feuding with each other, rendering us burnt out, divided, and powerless.
It is for this reason that I chose to spend the past 16 months silent about the unprofessional ways you treated me at the end of my tenure with MFA, especially those months after it become clear that I would not be moving to Los Angeles.
MFA has done and continues to do excellent work exposing the inherent violence of the world's largest animal exploitation industries. I was afraid that were I to expose my experiences with you, the animals would suffer. So I swallowed my concerns, except for those that concerned the treatment of other staff members and supporters, accepted the terms of my "lay off" and tried to move on.
But I couldn't move on. And it wasn't until very recently that I finally realized why: I am an animal too; an animal who has dedicated his life, like so many others in the movement have, to helping others. And I deserved better, not just because I was a committed activist but because I had given so much to support you. Your actions toward me were and continue to be unethical. And if I as an experienced and significant individual in the movement couldn't demand justice for myself, how could I expect others to? I had to speak out, not just for myself but for all of the other kind, dedicated people who were, are, or would be similarly mistreated by you or anyone else in the movement abusing their power. I owed it to them. And I owed it to myself.
The catalyst for this realization came after reading an official statement prepared by two activists you and I had worked closely with in preparation for the launch of a new branch. These two activists, with a wealth of education, experience and connections in the farmed animal protection movement, were inspired by MFA's model and wanted to bring MFA to their area.
Impressed with their vision, capability and dedication, we enthusiastically agreed. In return for their willingness to organize their lives around this huge endeavor, we agreed to cover related expenses and compensate them for their time as they phased out their other jobs. When their branch was official they were to come on board as full-time employees. While some of these discussions took place outside of my direct supervisory role, at no point was it ever unclear what their roles, hours, work product, pay structure, or future positions with MFA would be.
Despite all of this, after nine months of preparations in good faith, and shortly after the branch was officially launched, these two activists were terminated without notice, explanation, or compensation, despite having phased out their other jobs and income-earning methods, and despite having been "voted in" two weeks earlier (a mere formality, actually) as official employees.
They were cut off from you and pressured to sign a non-disclosure agreement in exchange for less than half of the funds they were rightfully owed. To make matters worse, it appears that you convinced the other people involved with the expansion – friends and allies the main two had brought on board – to turn on them as well, or risk losing MFA's support for the new branch. Numerous attorneys working on MFA's behalf urged these two activists to sign a legally binding nondisclosure document and accept what can only be described as "hush money" (money offered in an offensive amount to top it off, given the real amount the two were truly owed in back wages and reimbursements was far greater). MFA pushed them to accept these terms and move on "for the sake of the animals."
The reason the activists' statement was so disturbing for me, in particular, was because I had experienced something very similar only a year earlier, but had chosen to stay quiet about it – "for the sake of the animals" – with hopes that your inexcusable behavior toward me was an anomaly. Reading their statement made me realize that scapegoating former staff has clearly become a pattern for you, and that you will do almost anything to get what you want and save face, even if that means bullying and lying to (and about) people who have done nothing to deserve it.
Nathan, I, too, was ostracized and pushed out of the organization by you. I, too, was suddenly cut off, despite years of daily contact. I, too, was pressured to sign a legal document in exchange for compensation I was rightfully owed, and would require in order to stay afloat long enough to find new employment. And I, too, had my reputation smeared, losing friends and allies that I had known and worked with for years. I did nothing to deserve any of it, and fortunately for you, I stayed quiet about it, hoping against hope that you would come to your senses, apologize, and seek to rectify the damage you had done.
But you didn't. And in the interim, you did the same thing to two other people, also without explanation or apology.
And so I offer this statement, fully willing to provide evidence of my mistreatment if something isn't done to hold you and the directors who are implicit in your illicit actions accountable.
I have no doubt that you care tremendously about animals, and no doubt that Mercy For Animals has been a very powerful force on their behalf. What I do doubt, however, is the sustainability (and legitimacy) of an organization that allows its leadership to treat its own staff this way. The work we do is too important, and the people we work with too precious, to condone this sort of behavior. It's bad enough that I never received health insurance, counseling for investigation-related PTSD, or a paid vacation despite working thousands of overtime hours, not to mention years of intensive volunteer work. But to be bullied, ostracized, and maligned after years of such service, and to then find out that two similarly committed and capable activists suffered the same injustice, is just too much for me to stomach. I can't sit back and let this continue any longer.
My requests of you are as follows:
- Formally apologize for your unprofessional and unjust behavior to the activists I referred to in this statement and to me.
- Identify and retract all false rumors that were spread about the other two former staff members and about me.
- Encourage anyone else with similar grievances against you to come forward with their concerns.
- Create a third party mechanism for accountability and transparency that prevents you or anyone else at MFA from treating current or future staff or volunteers in a similar manner.
- Seek professional psychological assistance regarding this alarming and harmful behavior toward others.
Abuse of power is a concern no matter where it takes place. Left unchecked, it crushes everything in its path, often quietly, since few have the courage to stand in its way. No one, not even the most committed, experienced, and successful activist, should be given so much authority that we assume that said individual's words and/or actions are automatically just. In this case, it appears that many people turned a blind eye to your behavior for no reason other than that you are powerful and well respected. While I can identify with the urge to protect anyone who serves as a voice for animals, I believe it is my moral responsibility to serve justice first, especially when the victims of injustice have given so much for others and could continue to do so for many years to come. It is with this in mind that I submit this letter to you with hopes you will admit, to yourself, to those you have harmed, and to others, that you made terrible mistakes. It's the only way for this situation to be resolved in a way that is truly good for the animals and all those who seek to protect them.
Daniel Hauff


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Not every play strives to deliver profound insights into the human condition. Marc Camoletti's "Boeing Boeing" only seeks to prove that the human condition is silly. Judging from the laughter at the Rep Stage production, the audience gets the point.
This French play neatly fits within that culture's tradition of farce, in which the complications of amorous misbehavior reach ridiculous extremes. Set in an apartment near an airport in Paris, "Boeing Boeing" has a classically farcical premise.
An American bachelor playboy, Bernard (James Whalen), amorously plays the field in what he assumes is a clever way. Having studied the international airlines' time schedules, Bernard has figured out that it's possible to simultaneously carry on affairs with three air hostesses.
When the American Gloria (Molly Cahill Govern), the Italian Gabriella (Kelsea Edgerly) and the German Gretchen (Allison Leigh Corke) have layovers in Paris, they separately, er, fly in and out of Bernard's apartment. Bernard enjoys what amounts to the United Nations of dating, as these brightly uniformed young women never cross paths in his apartment. They're so clueless about his scheme that each woman considers herself to be Bernard's fiancee.
If this were a brand-new play, it would be fair to assume that themetically it should charge Bernard with being a male chauvinist pig and then give the three women ample opportunity for feminist payback. This is not a brand-new play, however. "Boeing Boeing" comes from another century, specifically, it's a French play that made a splash in the early 1960s, was adapted into a 1965 Hollywood movie starring Jerry Lewis and Tony Curtis, and eventually was more or less forgotten until its unexpected return as a Broadway revival in 2008. Translated by Beverly Cross and Francis Evans, the revived "Boeing Boeing" was a success.
Much of the inane pleasure in seeing the play today is appreciating its value as a period piece. The Rep State production has a lot of fun with this aspect of "Boeing Boeing." Boldly constrasting colors are deployed for the apartment walls and mid-20th-century modern furniture in Bernard's bachelor pad, and the air hostess outfits likewise are in such assertive colors that they visually pop in a Pop Art-suitable manner.
The swinging behavior transpiring in that apartment now seems relatively quaint, which may prompt audience members to feel like social scientists studying the cultural customs of people who lived 50 years ago. This may lead to such clinical observations as that American men had no difficulty wooing naive young air hostesses whose frequent flier miles seem to have turned them into space cadets.
In short, "Boeing Boeing" is so politically incorrect that the only reasonable response is to laugh at this pop-cultural relic. Also, it's such a smartly crafted comic confection that it's almost impossible not to laugh.
The Rep Stage production knows how to make the most of those comic situations. Once Bernard is visited by an old American pal, Robert (Paul Edward Hope), these two men and Bernard's maid, Bertha (Nanna Ingarversson), are immersed in a dizzyingly complicated scenario after sudden changes in flight schedules.
Without going into monumental detail, let's just say that the seven doors leading into Bernard's living room will be slammed dozens of times. Bernard, Robert and Bertha try their best to hide the unsuspecting air hostesses in different bedrooms.
Various characters have so many loud arguments as the complicated overnight arrangements escalate that you can't help wondering how thick the apartment walls must be to prevent at least the raised voices from giving everything away. Ah, well, it's a farce and gets to play by its own laws of physics.
The zestfully extroverted performances also are warranted within this farcical context. Considering that some of the actors verge on locking into stereotypical cruise control, it's notable that Paul Edward Hope offers a more nuanced performance as a square guy from Wisconsin, Robert, who is bewildered by swinging Paris.
Although the director of this production, Karl Kippola, deserves credit for deftly handling the, er, air traffic control in this door-slamming show, the pacing for such a farce would benefit from being snappier. There's also an extended bit at the final curtain that stalls in a holding pattern. Fortunately, these are minor concerns in a very funny production.
"Boeing Boeing" runs through May 5 in Howard Community College's Smith Theatre, 10901 Little Patuxent Parkway in Columbia. Tickets are $15- $40. Call 443-518-1500 or go to http://www.repstage.org.


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text: Associated PressCAIRO (AP) – Egypt's Islamist president delivered his fiercest condemnation yet of Israel's offensive in Gaza on Friday, warning that the blood Israel sheds will be a "curse upon it" and presenting post-revolution Egypt as the new Arab champion for the Palestinians.Mohammed Morsi spoke in a speech at a mosque after weekly Friday prayers, dramatically stepping up his rhetoric against Israel hours after his prime minister visited Gaza in a show of support for its Hamas rulers. After Friday prayers, thousands marched in Cairo in support of Palestinians. Former Arizona Rep. Don Shooter shows health improvement "I say to the aggressor to take a lesson from history and stop this farce and bloodshed or else you will face the wrath of the people and their leadership," he said. "Egypt today is different than Egypt yesterday and that the Arabs today are different than the Arabs of yesterday."Morsi has pulled Egypt's ambassador from Tel Aviv to protest Israel's bombardment of Gaza, which Israel says was launched in retaliation for Islamic militant rocket attacks. At least 22 Palestinians, including 12 militants and six children, as well as three Israelis have been killed in three days of fierce exchanges between the Israeli military and Gaza militants. Seven Palestinians were killed earlier in the week from another series of airstrikes.The dispatching of his prime minister, Hesham Kandil, was a dramatic if largely symbolic show of support for Hamas, which is effectively the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. Kandil is the highest level Egyptian official to visit Gaza since Hamas took over the territory in 2007 after winning elections two years earlier.Despite the strong rhetoric, Morsi's government continues to work closely with Israel on security issues pertaining to the Sinai Peninsula, where militants have launched attacks on Egyptian forces and Israel. Since his election, Morsi has promised to abide by Egypt's 1979 peace deal with Israel. Morsi, a veteran of the Muslim Brotherhood group that opposes Israel, has been trying to walk a middle path amid the first major crisis with Israel since he took office in late June. Many in Egypt demand that the country's first elected president take a tougher line with Israel than ousted leader Hosni Mubarak did. At the same time, Morsi feels pressure not to go too far and risk straining ties with Israel's ally, the United States.At the same time, Morsi appears to be trying to turn the crisis to his advantage, by depicting Egypt as the Arab world's main protector of the Palestinians, after years under Mubarak, who was closely tied to Israel and opposed to the Hamas militant group."Egyptians love peace … but they have always been able to fend off aggressors and protect the land, the nation and the Muslim world," he said in his address at a mosque near his home in a Cairo suburb. "We are even more insistent on remaining a protective shield to the Arab and Muslim world.""We say to the aggressor, peace will never be achieved through aggression … because war does not build stability or peace," Morsi said. "This blood will be a curse on you," he said as the crowd in the mosque chanted, "God is great" and "With our blood and souls, we sacrifice for Palestine." Natural spring cleaning tips and tricks for your home Top Stories The president's speech Friday was a strong contrast to low-key comments he made a day earlier. Speaking during a Cabinet meeting, he denounced the campaign as "unacceptable" but avoided sharp condemnations of Israel.The switch also reflected the change in venue, as Morsi moved from talking as head of state in the corridors of government to speaking in a mosque to conservative religious supporters. In Thursday's comments, he referred directly to "Israelis" _ a reference he rarely makes _ whereas in Friday's speech he avoided using the word "Israel," referring repeatedly to "the aggressor" instead.In Friday's marches around Cairo, many waved the Palestinian flags and the Syrian flags in support of rebels seeking to oust the regime there. In Cairo's Tahrir Square, a few hundred protesters burned an Israeli flag. Prominent Brotherhood figures took part, many brandishing the checkered Palestinian scarf, or keffiyeh, during the marches.The Palestinian cause unites Egypt's feuding political factions, from secular leftists to conservative Islamists, and all are putting pressure on Morsi to be tough on Israel. Mary Coyle ice cream to reopen in central Phoenix Sponsored Stories Mubarak, who built close ties with Israel, was frequently criticized by Egyptians for failing to help the Palestinians and for joining Israel in blockading the Gaza Strip after Hamas' 2007 takeover. Mubarak outraged many by keeping Egypt's crossing into Gaza closed for part of the three-week Israeli offensive in the territory in the winter of 2008-2009.One protester, Hesham Khalil, said Morsi's response so far was "unexpected," suggesting it was an improvement over Mubarak."We are not used to such reactions but that still does not please the ambitions of Egypt's revolutionaries. We want a reaction that stops the bloodshed in Gaza."One of the Arab world's most well-known television clerics, Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi, gave a prayer sermon Friday at Cairo's foremost mosque, Al-Azhar, vowing the Islamic world would not be silent in the face of Israel's military operation in Gaza. The Egyptian-born al-Qaradawi, who is based in Qatar, was largely exiled from Egypt under Mubarak's rule for his closeness to the Brotherhood."Our (Muslim) community is the strongest community," al-Qaradawi said, addressing thousands of worshippers packed tightly in the mosque. "Israel, the arrogant supremacist on the ground, cannot break this community with its missiles, weapons from the air, ground and sea, or with its nuclear bombs." Construction begins on Chandler hospital expansion project Bottoms up! Enjoy a cold one for International Beer Day 3 international destinations to visit in 2019 (Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. 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INDIANAPOLIS — There are a lot of obvious advantages for teams in the Final Four to play it in their town. There is one disadvantage: You still have to go to class.
While Michigan State, West Virginia and Duke are all in luxury hotels, eating gourmet meals and practicing, the Butler Bulldogs are five miles away going through their normal routine. Leading scorer Craig Hayward has three classes today.
In a way, though, it may not work against them.
"It's hard to cocncentrate but it has been good but it has given us a sense of normalcy," forward Matt Howard said. "It's what we always do. You're not always thinking about it. This school prides itself on our educational things that we do and our graduation rates. I can understand it."


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An angry, emotional Kavanaugh accused Democrats of 'search and destroy' tactics to destroy his nomination, and in the process, his life. And Ford, her voice breaking, described how "terrified" she was to come before the Senate Judiciary Committee and testify to her allegation that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers and speak of the lasting trauma she experienced from that moment on.
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Status change explanation: Hungary declined from Free to Partly Free to reflect the general decline of the Hungarian media environment due to the establishment of the new National Agency for Data Protection; evidence of a politically motivated licensing procedure resulting in the loss of antigovernment station Klubrádió's frequencies; increased reports of censorship and self-censorship, especially in the public service channels; and worsening economic conditions for independent media entrepreneurship.
Hungary enjoys a broad array of print and broadcast media, with private news media identifying clearly with one or the other side of the political spectrum. Hungary's constitution protects freedom of speech and of the press, but the latest in a series of controversial media legislative measures adopted in 2010 came into effect on January 1, 2011, amid ongoing protests by journalists and pressure from international media freedom watchdogs. The most recent in a series of amendments adopted to pacify the European Commission in February and a ruling by the Constitutional Court in December did little to limit the power of a new media regulation authority, controlled by the ruling Fidesz party, over the Hungarian print and broadcast media.
Throughout 2010, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's Fidesz party used its parliamentary supermajority to pass numerous mutually reinforcing legislative changes, tightening government control of the broadcast media and extending regulation to print and online media. In July, the government amended the constitution, removing a passage on the government's obligation to prevent media monopolies. It then consolidated media regulation under the supervision of a single authority, the National Media and Infocommunications Authority (NMHH), whose members are elected by a two-thirds majority in parliament and whose leader also chairs a five-person Media Council charged with content regulation. The law gives the head of the NMHH the right to nominate the executive directors of all public media. The first president of the NMHH, Annamária Szalai, a former Fidesz politician, was appointed by Orbán for a nine-year term without limits on reelection. The structure and broadly defined competencies of the new regulation bodies were outlined in subsequent legislation, including the Press and Media Act of November 2010 and the so-called Hungarian Media Law, which was adopted in December 2010 and came into effect on January 1, 2011. Though they share a leader and consist entirely of Fidesz party nominees, the two institutions are theoretically autonomous, both from the government and from each other.
The composition of the NMHH and Media Council raised significant concerns among Hungarian media employees, opposition parties, and civil society activists. On January 4, 2011, Népszabadság, the country's most popular broadsheet, published the headline: "Freedom of the Press in Hungary has Come to an End" in all 23 official languages of the European Union (EU). The expansion of regulatory oversight from broadcast to print and internet-based media also unleashed a hailstorm of negative attention from the international community, including the Council of Europe, the European Parliament, the media representative of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression, and various press freedom and human rights organizations.
Anxiety about the NMHH and Media Council was also compounded by the expansive powers the two bodies enjoy. When the Media Law came into effect in 2011, the Media Council became officially responsible for interpreting and enforcing numerous vaguely worded provisions affecting all print, broadcast, and online media, including providers and publishers. In April, the Media Council ruled against the planned merger of the local holdings of Axel Springer AG and Ringier AG, owner of Népszabadság. Though the council claimed that the merger would significantly threaten media diversity, the decision was viewed as an attempt to keep the financially vulnerable paper on the market for a more government-friendly buyer. The council can also fine the media for "inciting hatred" against individuals, nations, communities, minorities, or even majorities. The council is called to levy fines or suspend outlets for "unbalanced" or "immoral" reporting. If found to be in violation of the law, radio and television stations may receive fines proportional to the "level of influence" of the outlet in question. These fines must then be paid before initiating an appeals process. Under the Media Law, the NMHH can also suspend the right to broadcast. In its original iteration, the law also required that all media outlets, including online services, register with the Media Council.
By late February 2011, negotiations between Hungarian government officials, EU media monitoring bodies, and Hungarian media experts had yielded amendments to the Media Law regarding a number of provisions identified by the European Commission as violations of EU law. Rules on registration and authorization of media service providers were amended to comply with the EU's Audiovisual Media Services (AVMS) Directive, allowing media service providers and publishers to register with the NMHH within 60 days of launching their services, rather than prior to doing so. An additional amendment protects audiovisual media service providers based in other EU member states from being fined for breaching certain provisions of the Hungarian Media Law, such as the ban on incitement to hatred. In general, the February amendments served to protect "on-demand media services" such as online news and blogs, and did not alter the substance of the media law with regard to locally based print and broadcast journalism.
Another controversial component of the Media Law is the system of co-regulation. In July 2011, the NMHH concluded public administration agreements on media co-regulation with the four Hungarian media self-regulatory bodies: the Association of Hungarian Content Providers (MTE), the Advertising Self-regulatory Body (ÖRT), the Association of Hungarian Publishers (MLE), and the Association of Hungarian Electronic Broadcasters (MEME). These formerly independent bodies are now responsible for ensuring compliance with NMHH media content rules and risk becoming instruments of censorship.
Broadcasters with expiring licenses are required to enter a new bid with the NMHH, and several radio stations have been forced to stop broadcasting due to a lack of advertising revenue. License fees for Budapest-based frequencies more than doubled over the past year. Klubrádió, a popular radio station known for its bold, antigovernment political commentary, has been waiting for the renewal of its broadcasting license since it expired in February 2010. Since then, it has been granted two-month extensions of its previous license, making it extremely difficult to attract advertisers. The station was denied renewal of eight local frequencies in 2011, and lost the bid for its main frequency to a newly established station in December, which met the new NMHH tender's requirements by featuring mostly music rather than commentary. Critics of the Media Council's decision say the tender for Klubrádió's main frequency was designed to evict Klubrádió from its home of over 10 years. Progovernment political commentary stations such as Lanchid Radio obtained local licenses from the council during the year without sacrificing the format of their programming. The new rules governing broadcast media content are detailed in terms of what type of programming may be played and when.
On December 19, 2011, Hungary's Constitutional Court annulled several pieces of legislation from 2010 and 2011, including provisions of the Press and Media Act and some sections of the Media Law. The ruling excluded print and online media from the scope of the sanctioning powers of the NMHH; revoked the media authority's right to demand data from media service providers, publishers, and program distributors; deleted a provision limiting the confidentiality of journalists' sources to stories serving the public interest; and eliminated the position of media commissioner, an appointee of the NMHH president with the authority to initiate proceedings that do not involve violations of the law and whose proceedings can be enforced by NMHH-issued fines and sanctions. Most of the changes will come into effect on May 31, 2012.
The tabloidization of Hungarian broadcast media remains a major concern and has sometimes been used by the Hungarian government to justify new restrictions on content. The nongovernmental organization Nyilvánosság Klub (Openness Club) monitored several public and private television and radio stations between November 7 and December 16, 2011. The group's study found that just 23 percent of news coverage in this period was devoted to coverage of international news, compared with 32 percent in 2007. The same study also found that serious political coverage on public television news had decreased by 30 percent since 2007. During the six weeks that Nyilvánosság Klub monitored the state-run MTV and MR television stations, they aired only two mentions of foreign criticism of the Hungarian government. Among all the stations monitored by Nyilvánosság Klub in this period, the only broadcasters regularly critical of Fidesz were ATV (a commercial station on Hungarian cable TV) and the embattled Klubrádió.
In July, a group of journalists launched a website intended to serve as the Hungarian equivalent to WikiLeaks. The Átlátszó (Transparent) Centre for Investigative Journalism plans to promote transparency in government through the use of Freedom of Information legislation and contributions from individual "whisteblowers." Within weeks of the launch, the editor in chief of the website, Tamás Bodoky, was interrogated by the Budapest police's organized crime division after publishing files hacked from a financial consultancy firm. Bodoky refused to reveal his source, though the police threatened to charge him with perjury. The same day, police entered his home and seized a hard drive as evidence.
Hungary's media landscape is dominated by private companies with high levels of foreign investment in national and local newspapers. Privately held newspapers include 10 national and 24 local dailies. Hungary has three national public radio stations and two main private stations. Under the new legislation, radio broadcasters must devote at least 25 percent of their airtime to Hungarian music, while 50 percent of television programming must be devoted to European productions.
In 2011, the Hungarian National News Agency (MTI) became the official source for all public media news content. In February, the head of the MTI said all news programs broadcast by public service television and radio stations would be produced and edited by MTI staff within the year. Government-funded MTI publishes nearly all of its news and photos online for free, and offers media service providers the ability to download and republish them. Paid-subscription news and smaller media outlets with limited resources cannot compete with MTI, and the incentive to practice "copy-and-paste journalism" is high. The accuracy and objectivity of MTI reporting has come under substantial criticism since the Orbán government came to power in 2010. One blogger noted that the MTI English-language report on a speech given at Central European University had taken significant liberties in interpreting the ambassador's words and excluded all positive mention of Orbán's predecessor, Gordon Bajnai. Most state and state-dependent advertisers chose not to do business with independent media, and many private companies followed suit.
Under the new Media Law, the funding for all public media is centralized under one body, the Media Service Support and Asset Management Fund (MTVA), supervised by the Media Council. By creating a central property management and production fund, the government deprived three previously independent institutions—Hungarian Television (MTV), Hungarian Radio (Magyar Rádió), and Danube Television (Duna Televízió)—of their financial and organizational autonomy.
On December 10, a group of Hungarian journalists, led by then MTV1 foreign news producer Balazs Nagy Navarro, went on hunger strike to protest alleged manipulation of the state media by the Orbán government. According to Navarro, the final straw was a December 3 broadcast on the state-run MTV channel in which the face of a former chief judge unpopular with MTI management was deliberately blurred.
In response to the backlash, MTI dismissed Gábor Élo, the head of the MTI department responsible for television news content. Élo's deputy, Daniel Papp, was moved to a different position within the organization. Papp had been promoted to his latest position in April, not long after he personally manipulated interview footage with the aim of embarrassing an outspoken critic of Orbán. Protesters insisted that all editors involved in the December 3 broadcast should be dismissed, and they remained on strike at the end of 2011. Both Navarro and another leading figure in the hunger strike, Aranka Szavuly, were dismissed from their jobs at MTV1 on December 28 for causing a "provocation."
By the end of 2011, MTVA had laid off nearly 1,000 employees as part of a long-anticipated streamlining of public media. The government claims this was driven by budgetary concerns, even though the public media received a 10 percent budget increase in 2011. Over 500 layoffs took place in June and July, igniting small protests among those who viewed the dismissals as politically motivated. Throughout the year, employees of public and private media spoke to international media and media watchdog organizations about growing self-censorship by journalists and editors in the face of fines or unemployment.
Diversity is on the rise in the electronic media. Most notably, there has been an increase in domestically owned electronic media outlets. Approximately 59 percent of Hungarian citizens went online in 2011, though over 70 percent still get their news from television. The government remains unable to fully regulate online media. At the end of 2011, the speaker of parliament, Laszlo Köver, banned Hungary's most popular online news portal, Index.hu, from reporting from the chamber after it posted a video mocking the government.
The new Hungarian constitution, adopted in April 2011 and effective January 1, 2012, will create a new National Agency for Data Protection, prematurely ending the six-year term of the existing Data Protection Commissioner with no interim measures put in place. The head of the new authority is appointed by Orbán and can be dismissed by the prime minister or president on arbitrary grounds.


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Arnold Schwarzenegger's disclosure, in his new tell-all book, that wife Maria Shriver initially forbade him from running for governor, then relented, is a fascinating look at the unpredictability of how politics and history unfold.
In the book, "Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story," which was released Monday, Schwarzenegger writes that Maria's misgivings very nearly killed his gubernatorial hopes on the launch pad.
Despite his often-proclaimed love for "action," Schwarzenegger's last-minute decision was just that -- last-minute.
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But that disclosure comes as no surprise to me, or to any other political reporter who was at the scene of Schwarzenegger's bombshell announcement that hot summer day in 2003 -- the Burbank studio where "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" was being shot.
In fact, it was entirely consistent with the circus environment that had surrounded the entire recall campaign directed against Gov. Gray Davis.
I had flown to Burbank the morning of August 6, thinking that Schwarzenegger would officially take himself out of the running.
I encountered Dave Cox, the Assembly Republican leader, on the flight, who shared the same opinion. And in fact I had had several conversations with one of Schwarzenegger's political advisors, George Gorton, who indicated that Schwarzenegger was not running.
As my colleague, journalist Joe Mathews, noted in his book, "The People's Machine", Gorton had already prepared a statement saying that Schwarzenegger would instead endorse former L.A. Mayor Richard Riordan. Schwarzenegger told Mathews, "Finally I said to myself, 'Well, something will come out on "The Tonight Show." Just let it come out naturally when you're on the show.'"
People I spoke with that day who were lined up for "The Tonight Show" tickets were anything but universally encouraging when it came to the idea of a Schwarzenegger candidacy. I remember tourists who were from out-of-state seemed the most supportive of the idea.
When Schwarzenegger told Leno his decision that afternoon, it was equivalent to setting off a bomb in the political arena -- not just in California, but worldwide. I was listening to a live link of the taping over my cellphone, just minutes before my own 5 pm broadcast, and thought, "Here we go!"
Even George Gorton, Schwarzenegger's political advisor, had a stunned look on his face, telling me, "Well now I've got to go run a campaign."
And Gray Davis, who knew he was already in deep trouble, knew it was suddenly much worse, noting dourly to me that he was "a mere mortal" now seeking to save his job against a world-known celebrity.
We know the rest. The first recall of a governor in California history, and seven tumultuous years of Schwarzenegger's governorship. And it very nearly didn't happen.
(Disclosure: Randle Communications, where blogger Kevin Riggs is senior vice president, has represented Republican issues and candidates, but it does not represent Schwarzenegger.)


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This is a question I've been asking myself for a long time. Thought of throwing out it to you.
From my experience of working on several Java based projects, I've seen tons of codes which we call 'dirty'. The unconventional class/method/field naming, wrong way of handling of exceptions, unnecessarily heavy loops and recursion etc. But the code gives the intended results.
Though I hate to see dirty code, it's time taking to clean them up and eventually comes the question of "is it worth? it's giving the desired results so what's the point of cleaning?"
In team projects, should there be someone specifically to refactor and check for clean code? Or are there situations where the 'dirty' codes fail to give intended results or make the customers unhappy?
Do feel free to comment and reply. And tell me if I'm missing something here.
EDIT: I like to emphasize - What I meant by WHY is not the technical reasons, I'm asking about the motive. We all are familiar with why we should write clean code in technical point of view. But, imagine in college if I write bad code, I get bad marks (see @TofuBeer 's comment). So in your industrial environment what motivates you and your team to write clean code? And what de-motivates you and team from writing bad code.
It's so easy to write a method in a class to get the information you need without looking around and checking if there's a similar method!! result-a 5000 + lines of code with few methods doing almost similar tasks. :-(
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If you're like me, and you have young children or grandchildren, you've probably exhausted most short day trip venues. Don't get me wrong, there are so many tremendous places to visit around this area and I feel incredibly fortunate to have such fun, educational, and diverse opportunities for summer fun at our doorstep! We certainly have our favorite stomping grounds that never get old, and that we'll visit time and time again, but every once in a while, we plain ole want something new. I feel compelled to add that the boys have also had plenty of down-time by just hitting the beach, riding bikes, and playing in the yard….but, we like to throw a day trip into the mix once a week.
With a seek and conquer attitude, we hit the road on Monday morning, determined to visit someplace we've never been.
Destination: Kimball Farm, Westford.
Just a mere few minutes over an hour away….and loads of fun. Oh, and clean! Our choice was a big success!
Kimball Farm has a bit of everything. Bumper Boats, mini golf, a driving range, Pitch and Putt golf, an indoor arcade, batting cages, a small animal experience highlighting some rescued and orphaned animals, a seafood shack, and, of course, ice cream!
I chose Monday because I had to head "up the line" to Danvers for an errand anyway…so, it was really only a 40 minute drive. Once there, we spent about 3 hours having outdoor fun. We could have easily stayed longer, but we love the driving range and batting cages at Richardson's Dairy so we skipped those options and focused our fun elsewhere…promising them another trip to Richardson's soon.
The Bumper Boats were the obvious winner for the boys. I gave the win to the fact that the place was well-cared for, clean, and nicely landscaped and decorated. A big family win all around! Check it out for sure if you don't mind a short drive!


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Singing "Joy to the World" with the kids every morning after we read the Christmas story, enjoying our neighbors' Christmas lights, and lots more sweet and simple Christmasy things are making our days merry and bright.
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Three beautiful Easter Egg Oodlectibles located here were dyed and painted by our talented designers.
These Oodlectibles are part of the Easter Egg Hunt. Two of the three eggs are fresh and will reward Oodles and Tokens, but one will rot on 4/24 and cancel all rewards from this game, so be careful!
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Concerns about the political independence of prosecutors in Taiwan have "reached new heights," an annual report issued on Thursday by the US-based human rights watchdog Freedom House said.
In particular, the Special Investigation Division (SID) of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office, which is tasked with investigating high-profile cases, was singled out for criticism.
The report highlighted the "political crisis" that erupted in September last year, when President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) attempted to oust Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (王金平) from the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) based on accusations by the SID.
Despite the SID's actions, Taiwan won high marks for democracy.
"Taiwan remained one of the best performers in Asia in 2013, as its civil society gained additional ground in influencing political debate and government policy," the report titled Freedom in the World 2014 said.
The report also mentioned as examples of democracy the National Communications Commission's rejection of a media conglomerate's bid to purchase Taiwan's second-largest cable TV provider and the collapse of efforts by a mostly China-based conglomerate to buy the Taiwanese assets of Hong Kong's Next Media Group.
"A growing number of social movements led by students and civil society groups took place in Taiwan in 2013, initiatives that in the past had mostly been organized by political parties," the report said.
On a scale of 1 to 7 — with 1 being the most free and 7 being the most restrictive — Taiwan was given top marks (1) for political rights and near top marks (2) for civil liberties.
This gave the country an overall "freedom rating" of 1.5 and a status of "free" — which was the same as last year.
China was judged "not free," with the lowest possible rating of 7 for political rights and 6 for civil liberties.
The report said that over the past five years, the Asia-Pacific region has been the only place to record gains in political rights and civil liberties even though it was home to China, where more than half the world's "not free" population lived, and North Korea, the "least free" country in the world.
"A number of Asia-Pacific countries have made impressive gains in the institutions of electoral democracy — elections, political parties and pluralism — and in freedom of association," the report said.
Globally, the "state of freedom" declined for the eighth consecutive year.
Particularly notable were developments in Egypt, which endured across-the-board reversals in its democratic institutions following a military coup, the report said.
"There were also serious setbacks in democratic rights in other large, politically influential countries, including Russia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Venezuela and Indonesia," it said.
Freedom House claims that its annual report is the "oldest, most authoritative report on democracy and human rights."
Worldwide, 54 countries showed declines in political rights and civil liberties over the past year, while 40 showed gains.
The number of countries designated as "free" stood at 88, representing 45 percent of the world's 195 countries, and the number qualifying as "partly free" stood at 59 percent or 25 percent of the world total.
There were 48 "not free" countries.
"This was not a year distinguished by political leaders who showed much inclination toward abandoning bitterness and embracing adversaries," Freedom House vice president Arch Puddington said.


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Faced with hefty operating costs, the foundation building the 9/11 museum at the World Trade Center has decided to charge a mandatory admission fee of $20 to $25 when the site opens next year.
Entry to the memorial plaza with its twin reflecting pools will still be free, but the decision to charge for the underground museum housing relics of the terror attacks has been greeted with dismay by some relatives of trade center victims.
Memorial foundation head Joseph Daniels said Saturday that the museum has little choice.
It is expected to cost nearly $60 million a year to operate the site.
Daniels said the museum will be free during certain hours every week.
The exact price of admission has not yet been determined.
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A new year, a new you, right? It's now one month into 2008, and your eating habits may have veered a bit off course. But it's not too late — just a few small changes can make all the difference.
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In fact, you might be surprised to learn that simply substituting one food for another can have a dramatic impact on the calorie content and overall nutritional value of your food choices.
First, a nutrition primer: When you cut fat content, you cut a concentrated source of calories. Consequently, looking for ways to eliminate even small amounts of fat can help reduce calories.
For example, cheese sauce can add from 50 to 90 or more calories per half-cup serving. As an alternative, sprinkle a couple of teaspoons of grated Parmesan cheese onto vegetables, pasta or chicken to add similar flavor for roughly 20 calories. That switch will also reduce the sodium load from about 475 milligrams (mg), more than 20 percent of the recommended limit for the whole day, to no more than 85 mg.
Meat can be another concentrated source of fat. Choosing extra lean ground beef (90 to 95 percent lean) cuts 40 to 75 calories compared to the same three-ounce portion of regular ground beef. Ground turkey breast, which is usually lean and has a similar mouth feel to ground beef, is another nice alternative. Moreover, since current recommendations advise limiting red meat to no more than 18 ounces a week in order to lower risk of colon cancer, occasionally incorporating ground turkey in your recipes may offer additional health benefits.
When it comes to hamburgers, many Americans have embraced alternative choices, enjoying salmon burgers, turkey burgers, veggie burgers and more. Although traditionalists may feel less comfortable with these substitutes, ground poultry or soy-based vegetarian crumbles can easily replace high-fat ground meat in casseroles, chilis and sauces with little uproar. In fact, try making the switch without announcing it to your family. It's unlikely they'll notice at all.
Something you're unlikely to notice: The added fat, sugar and sodium in many processed tomato sauces. Compared to a half-cup of canned diced tomatoes (providing only 25 calories, 4 grams of naturally occurring sugar, no fat and as little as 5 mg of sodium in unsalted varieties), a similar serving of store-bought pasta sauce provides 70 to 120 calories and over 500 mg of sodium. In addition, these sauces often contain up to two teaspoons of added sugar and about a half-teaspoon of oil per serving. For a delicious, lower calorie alternative, flavor canned tomatoes or tomato puree with your own herbs, spices and perhaps some onion or garlic.
Besides cutting fat, you can also decrease the calorie content of your dishes simply by increasing the proportion of veggies. As most vegetables are among the foods least concentrated in calories, when they occupy a greater proportion of a mixed dish, it will automatically reduce the calorie content of each portion. Switch from serving one cup of pasta accompanied by half a cup of mixed vegetables to one cup of mixed veggies paired with a half-cup serving of pasta. You'll still enjoy the same portion of food, but with at least 50 fewer calories. As a bonus, when you increase vegetables, you also add dietary fiber, antioxidant vitamins and phytochemicals that can help protect against cancer.
If your eating habits are unhealthy, there's no better time than the present to start making changes. In choosing to make simple changes to your current food choices, you can benefit your health immediately and in the long term by reaching and maintaining a healthy weight.
Nutrition Notes is provided by the American Institute for Cancer Research in Washington, D.C.
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A children's charity boss has denied being an astonishing 60 times over the drug-driving limit when he appeared before Wigan magistrates.
Damian McCoy pleaded not guilty to being under the influence of part of the drug cocaine while at the wheel at Wigan and Leigh Magistrates' Court.
McCoy, 38, is alleged to have been stopped by police on Millgate in Wigan town centre while at the wheel of a Hyundai i40 on March 30.
Police then claim he was found to have an astounding 3,166 microgrammes per litre (ug/l) of benzoylecgonine, which is the main substance used to test for cocaine use, compared to the legal driving limit of just 50 ug/l.
McCoy, of Buckshaw Village near Chorley, pleaded not guilty after consulting with solicitors but the case then stalled as his legal representatives could not be present in court.
The case has now been adjourned and McCoy will return to court on June 3 for a pre-trial hearing.
McCoy is chairman of Wipe Your Tears, a charity which provides end-of-life wishes and support to children suffering from life-limiting illnesses and also helps youngsters who are the victims of domestic violence.


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The university atmosphere is residential. Most students live in university residence halls or in private apartments and houses within walking distance of the campus.
The university grounds and facilities are conveniently arranged, beautifully maintained, and effectively designed to meet the academic, personal and extracurricular needs and interests of the students.
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The City of Radford and the surrounding region provide a rich variety of cultural and leisure activities. Outdoor enthusiasts will find the university's location along the New River provides opportunities to hike, kayak, fish, swim and camp. Dozens of bicycling and hiking trails are accessible with less than a 30-minute drive, including access points to the Appalachian Trail and Jefferson National Forest.
Downtown Radford is home to a variety of locally owned shops and restaurants. Meanwhile, a retail hub providing a regional mall and major chain stores and restaurants is less than 10 miles from campus.