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Newshounds is a satirical furry webcomic drawn and written by Thomas K. Dye. The strip is in two parts; the first, sometimes called Newshounds I, ran between November 1, 1997[1] to 8 December 2006.[2] A sequel, Newshounds II, started on 2 July 2007.[3]
- Address: http://www.newshounds.com/
- Ran from/to:
- Newshounds: November 1997 - December 2006 (style change intermission January-March 2003; recap January-March 2006)
- Newshounds II: July 2007 - current
Newshounds is set in a fictional American news broadcasting company, KPET, staffed by one human and seven anthropomorphic animals (five dogs, a cat and a rat). The strip satirizes aspects of news companies and current news stories, as well as politics, sport and pop culture, with many characters dedicated to a particular area. Most stories span several weeks, sometimes months; some cover controversial topics such as the war on terror and gay rights.
Newshounds is one of the longest running furry webcomics (longer running examples include Kevin and Kell (1995) and Sabrina Online (1996)). It is hosted by online comics syndicate Keenspot. According to the The Webcomic List,[4] it is listed in the top 1,000 webcomics on the internet. A collection of strips entitled All the Newshounds Fit to Print won the Ursa Major Award for "Best Anthropomorphic Literary Work".[5]
Newshounds used characters based on Dye's earlier comic strip, Boy Shop Pets. In 2003, Dye began a graphic novel, Manifestations, revolving around the misadventures of a minor Newshounds character killed in 2001, which lasted until 2005.
The comic follows a group of anthropomorphic pet animals and their human owner, living in an unnamed American city and together operating a small news station, KPET. The world it is set in the same as the real world, except animals are intelligent. The staff of KPET (except the owner) are animals (five dogs, one cat and one rat). The animals in the Newshounds universe are subject to the same laws as animals in the real world, such as dog licenses, having owners, and not being able to vote. However, the animals of the Newshounds universe are aware of this, thus meaning that although they have their own political views and arguments, there is very little they can do themselves apart from express a view.
The owner, Lorna Dilbrook, originally worked for an animal shelter. When her late great-aunt Agnes died and left her $400,000, she started the station using animals from the shelter.[6] Her staff includes two anchordogs, the vain Wolfram Blitzen and over-ambitious Renata Fayre. There is also cameradog, Kevin J. Dog who cannot keep a relationship down, right wing sports reporter Sam Shepherd and left wing and feline weather forecaster Alistair Katt.[7] Ferris, a rat who was squatting in the house, was hired as a janitor.[8] The final member of the team, danger-addicted Rochelle O'Shea, first joined the company as a temp,[9] but later became a field reporter in 2001.[10]
Some minor characters have returning roles. They include Lorna's parents, Ernest and Julia Dilbrook, who often visit with a hidden motive (for example, Ernest was once on the run from the mob for not paying back a $2 million loan),[11] Hal O'Peridol, the CEO of Sunflower Chemicals, wants to marry Renata, but she cannot stand the sight of him[12] and Kevin's on/off girlfriend Stormy Knight.[13] There is also a local rival news company KRVL who try to stop KPET from getting all the best stories[14] and soldier-turned-businessman General Swallowemup, who plots to buy every business in the world.[15]
The Newshounds website has a section of comics set in the past, about how Lorna came to found KPET.[16]
- Main article: List of Newshounds characters
The comic is humorous, combining social and political satire with character-based comedy. The comic forays into sports and current events. Storylines range in length from a few days to several months and have covered, fractured love affairs, mysteries and conspiracies, the legally-enforced brainwashing of the city's animals into cheerful hygienic zombies, a paramilitary invasion of Starbucks by the armed forces of AOL Time Warner and mountain men using dogs to build a bomb. Some stories involve all the major characters, but often they focus on a few of them. No major character is more central than any other, each getting their turn in the spotlight.
Some recurring themes occur in Newshounds storylines, such as Hal's many attempts to marry Renata, General Swallowemup's plot to buy every company in the world, Kevin's failed relationships with Stormy and Della, Ferris's adoration of Tori Spelling and Sam and Alistair's political differences. The major storylines can each be found and described in each of the seven Newshounds books, and in the archives on the Newshounds website.[17]
History of the comic[edit]
Dye's first precursor to Newshounds was Pet Sounds, a strip featuring Kevin and Alistair, which he drew in 1991 and 1992 and ran in the Montclarion newspaper. He then drew three episodes of a comic book, The Boy Shop Pets. It was written between November 1991 and January 1992. The book invented some of his Newshounds characters, including Kevin J. Dog, Alistair Katt, Renata Fayre and Ferris the Rat.
Dye began working on the first version of Newshounds in 1992 while living in Las Vegas. The pre-Newshounds designs of Kevin and Alistair are termed "Mark I." The original pilots of Newshounds are termed "Mark II".
The comic began running regularly on the Internet on 1 November 1997, and its character designs are termed "Mark III." The most recent major change to Newshounds was on 3 March 2003 when Dye launched the present "Mark IV" version of the strip. The art style and character designs were changed from the previous version, though their personalities were not changed, and Rochelle first became officially a major character.
Dye has created two other current features. Manifestations, started on 28 February 2003. This was an online graphic novel, with a new page every Saturday, and it ended in late 2005. It continued and developed a Newshounds story from spring 2001, but was otherwise disconnected from the present and future stories of Newshounds. It was much darker in tone than Newshounds, and less overtly humorous.
In 2006-2007, Dye finished Newshounds with a series of strips featuring Malcolm and Emma, Wolfram and Rochelle's puppies, entitled Kid Gloves.
On 2 July 2007, Dye started Newshounds II, a sequel strip centering on the same characters in their new jobs at Meganewswest, the company Lorna sold KPET to on the grounds that her entire staff was allowed a position of some kind.[3]
The Newshounds characters have also appeared in other comics. One strip featured characters from ten other comics.[18] The most notable crossover was a series of storylines between August 13-20 1999 which featured characters from another furry webcomic, Funny Farm.[19]
Humans based on Renata, Kevin and Ferris appeared in the General Protection Fault storyline Surreptitious Machinations, but as part of the news team for fictional channel "WPET". Material from Newshounds was also included in Attitude 3: The New Subversive Online Cartoonists.
Being a satirical webcomic, Newshounds comics often have controversial subjects. There have been stories about the War on Terrorism, George W. Bush, Gay rights, animal rights, and the Monika Lewinsky scandal.
Dye has also said in an interview that he plans to make a story about abortion and claimed that he has receives little in the way of hate mail from his comic.[20] He did attract some anger in October 2002, building up to the war in Iraq, with a series of strips about two boys demanding an attack on the North Pole, "because he wouldn't deliver presents to supposedly 'bad' kids, and therefore must be a terrorist."[21] Dye said in an interview that, "Their underlying motive (voiced by Renata, of course) was to actually run in and get all the presents themselves. The boys dismissed Renata's complaints that there actually is no Santa Claus by saying that she must have a terrorist agenda of her own, and so wasn't credible."[20] The person complaining had misunderstood the meaning of the strip, and complained to Dye, however the argument was settled.[20]
Another strip from 8 September 2006 caused anger, when Alistair said that, "the local Cub Scouts double as a gay lynch mob."[22] Some people where angered as this was seen as an attack on the Boy Scouts. Dye said the joke was based on the neighborhood the characters were in, and that as a former Cub Scout himself, he never intended to make an attack.[23]
Seven Newshounds compilations have been released, covering all of the strips. Each book contains special bonus material. The first six books were published by Plan Nine Publishing.[24] whereas the seventh is published via Lulu.com.
- Newshounds (1999)
- Tonight's Top Story (2000)
- Press Badge Blues (2001)
- We All Came Out to Mantra (2002)
- Regime Change (2003)
- Surgery in the Park (2004)
- All the Newshounds Fit to Print (2007) - which won the 2007 Ursa Major Award for Best Anthropomorphic Other Literary Work
The ever luxurious Hotel Costa Plente, presumably a fictional chain of hotels, was featured in one strip of Newshounds. In that particular installment, Sam Shepard was looking for somebody of news interest, leading him there.
Mr. Dye is a fan of The Three Stooges. The Hotel Costa Plente is originally from their episode "Healthy, Wealthy, And Dumb" (1938), later remade (with Shemp as third stooge) as "A Missed Fortune" (1952).
- ↑ Newshounds 1 November 1997 The intro
- ↑ Newshounds 8 December 2006 The End
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Newshounds II 2 July 2007 The first Newshounds II strip.
- ↑ "The Webcomic List — Comic Profiles". www.thewebcomiclist.com. Retrieved on October 16, 2008.
- ↑ "Award Winners 2007". Ursa Major Awards. Retrieved on May 20, 2008.
- ↑ Newshounds intro 12 Lorna's good fortune
- ↑ Newshounds intro 16 Gathering the staff.
- ↑ Newshounds intro 20 Hiring Ferris.
- ↑ Newshounds 6 June 2000 All's Fayre in Love and War: Introducing Rochelle.
- ↑ Newshounds 24 December 2001 Army Dogs: Renata Protects Her Territory.
- ↑ Newshounds 21 October 1998 Lorna's parents - 8.
- ↑ Newshounds 12 July 1999 Here's Hal! Renata's Scary Fanboy.
- ↑ Newshounds 20 December 1999 Stormy Weather: A Female's Prerogative?
- ↑ Newshounds 16 November 2000 What an Emferrisment: KRVL on the Scene.
- ↑ Newshounds 12 January 1998 General Swallowemup - 1.
- ↑ "Newshounds — Intro". www.newshounds.com. Retrieved on October 16, 2008.
- ↑ "Newshounds — Monday, October 13, 2008". www.newshounds.com. Retrieved on October 16, 2008.
- ↑ Newshounds 14 June 1999 Kevin in Wonderland.
- ↑ Funny Farm Newshounds Crossover, August 17, 1999.
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 Schroeder, Al. "ComixTalk Hounds Thomas Dye: News at 11". comixtalk.com. Retrieved on October 16, 2008.
- ↑ Newshounds 8 October 2002 Demanding Youth: Striking at the Terrorists.
- ↑ Newshounds 8 September 2006 Alistair and Nigel, Gay Lynch Mob.
- ↑ Newshounds forum 9/8: cub scouts = gay lynch mob?!
- ↑ Plan 9 Publishing List of books
External links[edit]
- The Newshounds website
- History of Newshounds
- Comixpedia Interview with Thomas K. Dye
- The Webcomic List Newshounds biography.
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Abraham, the patriarch of Israel, was originally known as Abram, high father, from Abu-ramu, exalted father. Abraham was a native of Chaldea, and descendant in the ninth generation of Shem, the son of Noah. Abraham, whose father was Terah, was born in Ur, 2161 BC (Genesis 11:27). When called by God, he traveled from Ur to Canaan when being promised that he would become the father of a great nation. It is Biblically recorded that Abraham was around seventy years of age at the time of his divine calling. Accompanying him was his father, his nephew Lot, and his wife Sarah; they took up abode in Haran (Genesis 11:27-31). His divine calling was repeated, Abraham received the first calling before reaching Haran while in Mesopotamia, after the death of his father the call was renewed (Genesis 12:1-3). As part of the second calling a further stipulation was made that he should leave his father's house, which Abraham took to mean that he was also to separate himself from his brother Nahor and family who also was in Haran. He departed with his wife and Lot, who at the time was probably thought to become his heir (Josephus Ant., i, 7,1). Abraham traveled to Canaan, then to Egypt, but returned to Canaan. There Abraham lived and prospered; his wealth resulted in the separation of him and Lot. The land could not support their combined herds. In order to avoid strife between them that possibly would promote weakness and conquest by enemies Abraham gave Lot a choice of selecting other land for his own. Lot chose the plain of Jordan.
Abraham was still childless, and with Lot's departure, the apparent heir was gone. However, Abraham still believed in God's promise that he would be the father of a great nation; he remembered the promise that his seed should be as the stars of heaven for number, and that his prosperity should grow up into a nation under foreign bondage, and that after four hundred years they should come up and possess the land (Genesis 15). But he had been in Canaan ten years, and was still without heirs. Abraham felt it was time, beside his wife Sarah was seventy-five, and most likely past childbearing age. Sarah, knowing of her husband's concern, persuaded Abraham to take her handmaid Hagar who bore his son Ishmael (Genesis 16), 2076 BC.
Some thirteen years passed, Abraham was ninety-nine when God spoke to him again, the covenant was again renewed which included more promises. His name of Abram was changed to Abraham. It was announced that Sarah was to be the mother of Isaac within a year, and Isaac was heir to the promised which Abraham had been given. Abraham wavered and prayed for Ishmael whom God promised to bless, but confirmed the promised which Abraham was given would come through Isaac. Added to this renewed covenant was the condition of circumcision. Abraham, on that very day, was circumcised along with Ishmael and all males in his household (Genesis 17).
Not long after the promise was repeated during a visit from three angels, the «Angel of Jehovah» and two attendants. The son of Sarah was predicted, and her incredulity rebuked. Shortly thereafter God revealed to Abraham the destruction of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, and Abraham pleaded for their salvation (Genesis 18). Then Abraham traveled northward and sojourned in the land around Gerar. The king of Gerar took Sarah, but after a warning from God in a dream sent her back to Abraham the next morning. Soon after the long-awaited heir Isaac was born, 2061 BD; Abraham was one hundred and Sarah was ninety.
Isaac's birth immediately unsettled the family situation. Ishmael position changed creating ill will between his mother and himself and other family members. Ishmael mocked Isaac as he was weaned which caused Sarah to request that he and Hagar be sent away. Abraham agreed to this reluctantly.
When Isaac was almost grown (Genesis 22-23:11) God made Abraham endure the greatest test of his faith. God commanded Abraham to take Isaac upon Mount Moriah and offer his son up, which would abolish all hopes of Abraham's posterity. Abraham obeyed and with his son and two servants proceeded to the mountain. At a certain point he and his son went on alone. Isaac asked, «Where is the lamb for the burnt offering?» Abraham replied, «The Lord will provide himself a lamb.» Upon a built altar Isaac was placed. As the father lifted his hand to slay his son the hand was caught in mid-air by an angel of Jehovah and a ram, caught in the thicket, was substituted for Isaac. Afterwards Abraham named the place Jehovah-jirah «the Lord will provide.» The promises formerly made to Abraham were confirmed in the most solemn manner.
Abraham next dwells in Beer-sheba (Genesis 22:1-19), and afterwards Sarah dies at one hundred and twenty-seven in or near Hebron (Genesis 23). He buried Sarah in the cave of Machpelah in the field which he purchased from Ephron the Hittite. Next Abraham seeks a wife for Isaac by sending his oldest servant back to Haran, where his brother Nahor had settled, with instructions to select a woman of their own family. Rebekah, the daughter of Nahor's son Bethuel, is chosen, and eventually occupies Sarah's main tent as chief lady of the camp. Eventually Abraham marries the second time to Keturah, the children of this marriage, like Ishmael, are sent away so not to interfere with Isaac. Abraham dies at the age of one hundred and seventy-five, and is buried in the cave by Sarah by Isaac and Ishmael.
The Jewish people hail Abraham as their patriarch. In the aggadah Abraham is seen as the ideal figure who kept the oral law before it was revealed. In being first to recognize God, he is the father of all proselytes and is compared with Job, as one who argued with God to save Sodom and Gomorrah. He is thought of as the prophet who «God omitted no blessing in the world with which he did not bless him» (SER 6).
Jewish philosopher used Abraham to illustrate their ideas. Philo argued that reason should be subordinated to faith on the basis of the verse that «Abraham believed the Lord and he reckoned it to him as righteousness» (Genesis 15:6). Maimonides argued Abraham was the first to accept that the world came into being from nothingness, and to accept the existence of God on the basis of reason. The midrash contain legends about Abraham's birth and childhood, stories which circulated until the Middle Ages. Abraham has been a subject for both Jewish and Christian artists.
In Christianity, Abraham is an exemplar of flawless faith and its efficacy without law (Romans 4; Galatians 3:6-9). Also, most believe that Abraham was the first person that Christ liberated on his descent into hell.
In the Qur'an, Abraham is called Ibrahim. A.G.H.
Unger, Merrill F., Unger's Bible Dictionary, Chicago, Moody Press, 1966, pp. 10-13
Bowker, John, The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions, New York, Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. 10-11


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Post-Christian Europe became noticeably more Islamized during 2011.
As the rapidly growing Muslim population makes its presence felt in towns and cities across the continent, Islam is transforming the European way of life in ways unimaginable only a few years ago.
What follows is a brief summary of some of the more outrageous Islam-related controversies that took place in Europe during 2011.
In Austria, an appellate court upheld the politically correct conviction of Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, a Viennese housewife and anti-Jihad activist, for "denigrating religious beliefs" after she gave a series of seminars about the dangers of radical Islam. The December 20 ruling showed that while Judaism and Christianity can be disparaged with impunity in postmodern multicultural Austria, speaking the truth about Islam is subject to swift and hefty legal penalties.
Also in Austria, the King Abdullah Center for Inter-Religious and Inter-Cultural Dialogue was inaugurated at the Albertina Museum in downtown Vienna on October 13. The Saudis say the purpose of the multi-million-dollar initiative is to "foster dialogue" between the world's major religions in order to "prevent conflict." But critics say the center is an attempt by Saudi Arabia to establish a permanent "propaganda center" in central Europe from which to spread the conservative Wahhabi sect of Islam.
In Belgium, it was revealed that Muslims now make up one-quarter of the population of Brussels, according to a new book published by the Catholic University of Leuven, the top French-language university in Belgium. In real terms, the number of Muslims in Brussels -- where half of the number of Muslims in Belgium currently live -- has reached 300,000, which means that the self-styled "Capital of Europe" is now the most Islamic city in Europe.
Also in Belgium, the most popular name in Brussels for baby boys in 2011 was Mohammed. It was also the most popular name for baby boys in Belgium's second-largest city, Antwerp, where an estimated 40% of elementary school children are Muslim.
Separately, the Islamist group Sharia4Belgium intensified a propaganda and intimidation campaign aimed at turning the country into an Islamic state. In September, the group established an Islamic Sharia law court in Antwerp, the second-largest city in Belgium. Leaders of the group say the purpose of the court is to create a parallel Islamic legal system in Belgium to challenge the state's authority as enforcer of the civil law protections guaranteed by the Belgian constitution.
In Britain, a Muslim group launched a campaign to turn twelve British cities -- including what it calls "Londonistan" -- into independent Islamic states. These so-called Islamic Emirates would function as autonomous enclaves ruled by Islamic Sharia law and operate entirely outside British jurisprudence.
Separately, it was revealed that more than 2,800 so-called honor attacks -- punishments for bringing shame on the family -- were recorded by British police last year, according to the first-ever national estimate of the problem. The highest number of honor crimes -- which include murder, mutilation, beatings, abductions and acid attacks -- was recorded in London, where the problem has doubled to more than five times the national average.
The data comes on the heels of another report which shows that tens of thousands of Muslim immigrants in Britain are practicing bigamy or polygamy to collect bigger social welfare payments from the British state.
The September 24 report shows that the phenomenon of bigamy and polygamy -- which are permitted by Islamic Sharia law -- is far more widespread in Britain than previously believed, even though it is a crime there, punishable by up to seven years in prison.
The rapid growth in multiple marriages is being fueled by multicultural policies that grant special rights to Muslim immigrants who demand that Sharia law be reflected in British law and the social welfare benefits system.
Meanwhile, a Christian worker in Britain filed a lawsuit after losing her job when she exposed a campaign of systematic harassment by fundamentalist Muslims. In a landmark legal case, Nohad Halawi, a former employee at London's Heathrow Airport, sued her former employer for unfair dismissal, claiming that Christian staff members, including her, were discriminated against because of their religious beliefs.
Halawi's case is being supported by the Christian Legal Centre (CLC), an organization that provides legal support for Christians in the United Kingdom. CLC says the case raises important legal issues, and also questions over whether Muslims and Christians are treated differently by employers.
In Denmark, a Muslim group launched a campaign to turn parts of Copenhagen and other Danish cities into "Sharia Law Zones" that would function as autonomous enclaves ruled by Islamic law. The Danish Islamist group Kaldet til Islam (Call to Islam) said the Tingbjerg suburb of Copenhagen would be the first part of Denmark to be subject to Sharia law, followed by the Nørrebro district of the capital and then other parts of the country.
Call to Islam said it would dispatch a 24-hour Islamic "morals police" to enforce Sharia law in those enclaves. The patrols would confront anyone caught drinking alcohol, gambling, going to discothèques or engaging in other activities the group views as running contrary to Islam.
Also in Denmark, the city council of Copenhagen approved the construction of the first official "Grand Mosque" in the Danish capital. The mega-mosque will have a massive blue dome as well as two towering minarets and is architecturally designed to stand out on Copenhagen's low-rise skyline.
Unlike most mosques in Europe, which cater to Sunni Muslims, the mosque in Copenhagen pertains to Shia Islam. The mosque is being financed by the Islamic Republic of Iran; critics say that theocrats in Tehran intend to use the mosque to establish a recruiting center for the militant Shia Muslim group, Hezbollah in Europe.
Meanwhile, the president of the Denmark-based International Free Press Society, Lars Hedegaard, was found guilty of racist hate speech for comments he made about Islam. He was ordered to pay a fine of 5,000 Danish Kroner (about $1,000). Hedegaard's legal problems began in December 2009, when he remarked in a taped interview that there was a high incidence of child rape and domestic violence in areas dominated by Muslim culture.
Although Hedegaard has insisted that he did not intend to accuse all Muslims or even the majority of Muslims of such crimes, and although he was previously acquitted by a lower court, Denmark's thought police refused to drop the case until he was found guilty.
The European Union, bowing to pressure from Muslim lobby groups, quietly abandoned a new measure that would have required halal (religiously approved for Muslims) meat products to carry a label alerting consumers that the animals were not stunned, and therefore conscious, just before slaughter.
With the exponential growth of Europe's Muslim population in recent years, thousands of tons of religiously slaughtered halal meat is now entering the general food chain, where it is being unwittingly consumed also by the non-Muslim population.
The EU decision shows that Muslims have the right to choose halal foods, but non-Muslims do not have the right to choose not to eat the ritually slaughtered meat.
In France, it was revealed that Islamic mosques are being built more often than Roman Catholic churches, and that there now are more practicing Muslims in the country than practicing Catholics.
Separately, Muslim groups in France asked the Roman Catholic Church for permission to use its empty churches as a way to solve the traffic problems caused by thousands of Muslims who pray in the streets. The request, which was variously described by French political commentators as "alarming," "audacious" and "unprecedented," was yet another example of the growing assertiveness of the Muslims in France.
In October, it was also reported that the country's decrepit city suburbs are becoming "separate Islamic societies" cut off from the state, according to a major new study, "Banlieue de la République" (Suburbs of the Republic), that examines the spread of Islam in France.
Muslim immigrants are increasingly rejecting French values and identity and instead are immersing themselves in Islam, according to the report, which also warned that Islamic Sharia law is rapidly displacing French civil law in many parts of suburban Paris.
The authors of the report show that France, which has between five and six million Muslims (France has the largest Muslim population in European Union), is on the brink of a major social explosion because of the failure of Muslims to integrate into French society.
France's much-debated "burqa ban" entered into force in April. The new law, which prohibits the wearing of Islamic body-covering burqas and face-covering niqabs in all public spaces in France, came amid rising frustration that the country's estimated 6.5 million Muslims are not integrating into French society.
In Germany, it was revealed that thousands of young women and girls in Germany are victims of forced marriages every year. Most of the victims come from Muslim families; many have been threatened with violence and even death. The revelations shocked the German public and added to the ongoing debate in Germany over the question of Muslim immigration and the establishment of a parallel Islamic society there.
Also in Germany, a best-selling book published in September revealed that the spread of Islamic Sharia law in Germany is far more advanced than previously thought, and that German authorities are "powerless" to do anything about the Muslim shadow justice system in Germany.
The book says Sharia courts are now operating in all of Germany's big cities. This "parallel justice system" is undermining the rule of law in Germany because Muslim arbiters/imams are settling criminal cases out of court without the involvement of German prosecutors or lawyers before law enforcement can bring the cases to a German court.
Separately, the number of potential Islamic terrorists currently living in Germany jumped to around 1,000, according to new information provided by the German Interior Ministry.
In Greece, the Parliament approved a controversial plan to build a taxpayer-funded mega-mosque in Athens. The move came amid thinly veiled threats of violence by thousands of Muslim residents of the city who have been pressuring the government to meet their demands for a mosque or face an uprising.
In Holland, it was revealed that 40% of Moroccan immigrants in the Netherlands between the ages of 12 and 24 have been arrested, fined, charged or otherwise accused of committing a crime during the past five years, according to a report commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Interior.
In Dutch neighborhoods where the majority of residents are Moroccan immigrants, the youth crime rate reaches 50%. Moreover, juvenile delinquency among Moroccans is not limited to males; girls and young women are increasingly involved in criminal activities.
The "Dutch-Moroccan Monitor 2011" also revealed that most of the Moroccan youth involved in criminal activities were born in Holland. This implies that the children of Moroccan immigrants are not integrating into Dutch society, and confirms that the Netherlands is paying dearly for its failed multicultural approach to immigration.
Also in Holland, a mob of Islamists stormed a debate in Amsterdam that was featuring two Muslim liberals, the Canadian writer and Muslim feminist Irshad Manji and the Dutch-Moroccan Green Left MP Tofik Dibi.
The December 8 debate on how liberal Muslims can prevent Islam from being hijacked by Muslim extremists was held at the De Baile venue in downtown Amsterdam, and was sponsored by the Brussels-based European Foundation for Democracy. The event resumed after police arrested several of the Islamists.
The incident highlighted the increasing frequency with which Muslims are using intimidation tactics -- including harassment and even murder -- in an effort to silence free speech in Europe and to impose Islam on the continent.
On a positive note, a court in Amsterdam acquitted Geert Wilders -- the leader of the Dutch Freedom Party who had denounced the threat to Western values posed by unassimilated Muslim immigrants -- of charges of inciting religious hatred against Muslims for comments he made that were critical of Islam.
In June, the Dutch government said it would abandon the long-standing model of multiculturalism that has encouraged Muslim immigrants to create a parallel society within the Netherlands.
In Italy, it was revealed that 44% of Italians are prejudiced or hostile towards Jews, according to a new research study released by the Italian Parliament on October 17. The report, titled "Final Document: Investigation on Anti-Semitism," was commissioned by the Committee for the Inquiry into Anti-Semitism of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Italian Parliament. The 50-page document shows that anti-Semitism in Italy is also being fomented by Muslim immigrants who have established links with left-wing and right-wing extremists to carry out attacks on local Jewish communities, synagogues, schools and cemeteries.
In Spain, Muslims were accused of poisoning dozens of dogs in Lérida, a city in the northeastern region of Catalonia that has become ground zero in an intensifying debate over the role of Islam in Spain. All of the dogs were poisoned in September in Lérida's working class neighborhoods of Cappont and La Bordeta, districts that are heavily populated by Muslim immigrants and where many dogs have been killed in recent years. Local residents say Muslim immigrants killed the dogs because according to Islamic teaching dogs are "unclean" animals.
Also in Spain, two radical Islamic television stations began 24-hour broadcasting to Spanish-speaking audiences in Spain and Latin America from new studios in Madrid. The first channel, sponsored by the government of Iran, will focus on spreading Shiite Islam, the dominant religion in Iran. The second channel, sponsored by the government of Saudi Arabia, will focus on spreading Wahhabi Islam, the dominant religion in Saudi Arabia. The inaugural broadcasts of Islamic television in Spain were deliberately timed to coincide with the Christmas holidays, and represent yet another example of the gradual encroachment of Islam in post-Christian Spain.
In Sweden, police in the third-largest city, Malmö, reported a significant uptick in the number of reported anti-Semitic hate-crimes perpetrated by Muslim immigrants against Jews in 2011. The data came as the Swedish government on September 20 set aside 4 million kroner ($600,000) to help boost security around the country's synagogues, after accusations that Sweden has not done enough to protect its Jewish population.
Sweden has been accused of complacency about the growing problem of anti-Semitism in the country and the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center advised Jews to avoid traveling to southern Sweden.
In Switzerland, where the Muslim population has more than quintupled since 1980, a Muslim immigrant group based in Bern called for the emblematic white cross to be removed from the Swiss national flag because as a Christian symbol it "no longer corresponds to today's multicultural Switzerland."


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Just returned from my first stroll around the 2009 Epcot International Food and Wine Festival! Tarps were being rolled up on the booths, food was being prepared, and merchandise was out en force. It's shaping up to be a wonderful Festival.
In the meantime, I'll keep adding links to my main Food and Wine Festival page; you can always look there for the latest.
Today, I'm going to share with you some of the preparations that are happening and a couple food pics that I was lucky enough to snag. Here we go!
Food and Wine figures direct you to the Festival Center — the Wonders of Life pavilion:
Don't forget to grab your Food and Wine Festival wrist gift card!
Champagne and desserts booth looked fantastic!
Headed over to Cork, Ireland, for a taste of some yummy cheese and apple chutney!
The Marrakesh, Morocco, booth was displaying some wonderful options!
Cape Town smelled AMAZING as I wandered by — they were putting together the seared beef tenderloin with sweet potato puree and mango BBQ sauce!
I even got a chance to sample an avocado margarita while I was checking out La Cava del Tequila!
Paris was unloading boxes when I first walked by, but in early afternoon they were "cookin'!"
Some of the booths, including New Delhi, displayed plants and herbs from which they took flavorings.
CMs from Canada and Italy were very excited to share their countries' foods (and bevvies)!
Can't wait to try this one out tomorrow!
And the Eat to the Beat pavilion is all ready to go.
Hope you liked today's photos! More to come!!
Also, I'm looking for your suggestions. I can't eat everything at the festival, and I'd love to hear what you'd like me to sample and photograph while I'm here. Take a look at the booth menus and let me know via facebook, twitter, or email. Hopefully you have some ideas, because I need direction! Everything looks too good!


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Restrooms are available at every city park. Please see a list of parks for specific park details.
Bouncers are permitted at any park only if you obtain a Certificate of Liability Insurance and provide to the City at email@example.com. You must also provide your own generator for power supply.
Power outlets are not available at our city parks.
Permits and insurance are both required for bouncers.
Yes. Shelters can be rented Online or in Person.
Please visit the Rialto Community Center Monday through Thursday, 7 am to 6 pm at:214 N Palm AvenueSuite 204Rialto, CA 92376
The office is closed Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. You may call the Rialto Community Center at 909-421-4949.
No, all team activities must obtain permits from the Community Services Department.
Yes, Please call the Community Services Department, Special Events Division at 909-421-4949.
The City of Rialto has designated dog parks
Andreson Park726 S Lilac AvenueRialto, CA 92376
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President George W. Bush's dog Spot arrives at Camp David in 2001 for an important meeting in the Laurel Lodge |
President Bush hits some tennis balls to puppy Barney in April 2001; President Bush and Chief of Staff Josh Bolten walk with Barney in July 2007 |
President Bush with Millie and Ranger in November 1991; President and Mrs. Bush walk with Millie in September 1992 |
President Reagan and dog Lucky head to Camp David on Marine One; President and Mrs. Reagan walk Lucky in 1985 and Rex in 1988. |
The Fords take Liberty for a walk in 1976; Liberty goes for a swim in the heated Aspen pool in October 1974 |
President Ford with Liberty in October 1974 and February 1975 |
President Nixon and Bob Haldeman walk with dog King Timahoe in February 1971; President and Mrs Nixon with Pasha, Vicky, and King Timahoe in November 1973. |
President Johnson and dog Yuki with Ambassadors Bunker and Harriman in April 1968 |
President Kennedy's daughter Caroline rides her pony Macaroni at Camp David in March 1963
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's dog Fala and his dog house at Shangri-La (Camp David) |
Sources: The White House; George Bush Presidential Library;
Ronald Reagan Library; Gerald R. Ford Library; Richard Nixon Library;
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(Above: Fabulous Threesome: Diane Von Furstenberg, Nico Muhly & Philip Glass)
Diane Von Furstenberg and Philip Glass hosted a private screening of the upcoming Hollywood film, "The Reader" [warning: embedded autoplay filez], Thursday night at NYC's Tribeca Grand Hotel, in advance of the January 9, 2009 USA release date. The attendance list included Glass co-collaborator/protégé Nico Muhly (obvs, as the score-wizard), Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, and Emmy Rossum. Too bad "The Reader" star Kate Winslet didn't stop by...homegirl is looking ~stellar~. Check her out at the NYC premiere a couple weeks ago, rawking a Herve Leger dress & Roger Vivier heels.
Screw Glass & DVF...East Coast bebbe-phresh Nico Muhly was the man of the hour, having scored the twinkling, haunting composition for the movie's soundtrack (which is already available on iTunes).
"The Reader" is based on the 1995 novel by German law professor Bernhard Schlink, and directed by The Hours's Stephen Daldry (and with The Hours's score having been composed by Philip Glass, we now have Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon in full effect). The film centers on lead Ralph Fiennes (as Michael Berg) and Kate Winslet (as Hanna Schmitz) and their complex, timeless love story, set in post WWII-Germany. With Nazis. Nazis? We hate those guys.
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Overview of the Edge Transport Server Role
Applies to: Exchange Server 2010
In Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, the Edge Transport server role is deployed in your organization's perimeter network. Designed to minimize the attack surface, the Edge Transport server handles all Internet-facing mail flow, which provides SMTP relay and smart host services for the Exchange organization. Additional layers of message protection and security are provided by a series of agents that run on the Edge Transport server and act on messages as they're processed by the message transport components. These agents support the features that provide protection against viruses and spam and apply transport rules to control message flow.
The computer that has the Edge Transport server role installed doesn't have access to Active Directory. All configuration and recipient information is stored in Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS). To perform recipient lookup tasks, the Edge Transport server requires data that resides in Active Directory. This data is synchronized to the Edge Transport server using EdgeSync. EdgeSync is a collection of processes that are run on a computer that has the Hub Transport server role installed to establish one-way replication of recipient and configuration information from Active Directory to the AD LDS instance on an Edge Transport server. The Microsoft Exchange EdgeSync service copies only the information that's required for the Edge Transport server to perform anti-spam configuration tasks and the information about the connector configuration that's required to enable end-to-end mail flow. The Microsoft Exchange EdgeSync service performs scheduled updates so that the information in AD LDS remains current.
You can install more than one Edge Transport server in the perimeter network. Deploying more than one Edge Transport server provides redundancy and failover capabilities for your inbound message flow. You can load-balance SMTP traffic to your organization between Edge Transport servers by defining more than one mail exchange (MX) resource record with the same priority in the Domain Name System (DNS) database for your mail domain. You can achieve consistency in configuration between multiple Edge Transport servers by using cloned configuration scripts.
The message-processing scenarios that you can manage on the Edge Transport server role are described in the following sections.
Looking for management tasks related to managing transport servers? See Managing Transport Servers.
Internet Mail Flow
Servers that run the Edge Transport server role accept messages that come into the Exchange 2010 organization from the Internet. After the messages are processed by the Edge Transport server, they are routed to Hub Transport servers inside the organization.
All messages that are sent to the Internet from the organization are routed to Edge Transport servers after the messages are processed by the Hub Transport server. You can configure the Edge Transport server to use DNS to resolve MX resource records for external SMTP domains, or you can configure the Edge Transport server to forward messages to a smart host for DNS resolution.
For more information about mail flow, see Understanding Transport Pipeline.
Anti-Spam and Antivirus Protection
In Exchange 2010, the anti-spam and antivirus features provide services to block viruses and spam, or unsolicited commercial e-mail, at the network perimeter. Most viruses use spam-like tactics to gain access to your organization and to entice users to open an e-mail message. If you can filter out most of your spam, you're also more likely to capture viruses before they enter your organization.
Spammers use a variety of techniques to send spam into your organization. Servers that run the Edge Transport server role help prevent users in your organization from receiving spam by providing a collection of agents that work together to provide different layers of spam filtering and protection. Establishing tarpitting intervals on connectors makes e-mail harvesting attempts ineffective.
For more information about the anti-spam and antivirus features in Exchange 2010, see Understanding Anti-Spam and Antivirus Functionality.
Edge Transport Rules
Edge Transport rules are used to control the flow of messages that are sent to or received from the Internet. The Edge Transport rules help protect corporate network resources and data by applying an action to messages that meet specified conditions. These rules are configured for each server. Edge Transport rule conditions are based on data, such as specific words or text patterns in the message subject, body, header, or From address, the spam confidence level (SCL), or attachment type. Actions determine how the message is processed when a specified condition is true. Possible actions include quarantine of a message, dropping or rejecting a message, appending additional recipients, or logging an event. Optional exceptions exempt particular messages from having an action applied.
For more information about the Edge Transport rules, see Understanding Transport Rules.
Address Rewriting
You use address rewriting to present a consistent appearance to external recipients of messages from your Exchange 2010 organization. You configure the Address Rewriting agent on the Edge Transport server role to enable the modification of the SMTP addresses on inbound and outbound messages. Address rewriting is especially useful when a newly merged organization that has several domains wants to present a consistent appearance of e-mail addresses to external recipients.
For more information about address rewriting, see Understanding Address Rewriting.


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As the grandson of immigrants, I believe the time is now for comprehensive immigration reform. After seeing the Inspector General's report regarding conditions at detention centers along the southern border, learning of the deaths of eight migrant children in U.S. custody, seeing the tragic image of a father who drowned holding his small daughter in his arms, and hearing about the fear in our local immigrant communities that their families may be torn apart by an ICE raid, it has become clear to us as a nation that the policies we are pursuing are simply not working.
Immigration is not just a part of our history, we are in fact, as John F. Kennedy said, "a nation of immigrants." One critically important detail that is not often mentioned in any discussion of immigration, or immigration law, is that changes in the 1920s to make the laws (and quotas) more restrictive were driven by racist ideas with the intention of keeping Mexicans and Asians, as well as certain (Southern and Eastern) Europeans, out of the country (Italians and Jews). These laws were influenced by U.S. nativist and white supremacist groups like the Ku Klux Klan, who believed America should be a nation of white Anglo-Saxon Protestants and gave enormous preference to people from northern and western Europe over those from the southern and eastern parts of the continent, while still banning almost all immigration from Asia. Nativists also wanted to restrict Mexican immigration.
Illegal immigration began once those laws passed with many people from the restricted groups crossing the southern border in between official checkpoints. It can't be stated more clearly, and the parallels are striking, the origins of illegal immigration are as clearly driven by nativist, white supremacist and racist ideas as the immigration policies pursued by the Trump administration today… and they go back almost 100 years. It is critically important to bring this into the light because the immigration "debate" should not be framed by these ideas, rather, it should clear-eyed, fact-based and driven by what is best for our society, our economy and our future. That is comprehensive immigration reform including a path to citizenship for otherwise law-abiding, undocumented people.
The immigration debate is often framed as a dichotomy—we are either "A Nation of Laws" or a "Nation of Immigrants." The reality is that these ideals are not irreconcilable and are, in fact, mutually supportive of one another. We are letting the immigration hawks drive the discussion and pursue policies driven by racism and xenophobia. Immigration, yes, even "illegal immigration," has not hurt this country or led to more crime and lawlessness; in fact, it's the other way around. It is an easily verifiable fact that as the immigrant percentage of the population has grown (since 1970 it is up from 4 percent to roughly 14 percent), crime rates have fallen and the economy has prospered. We have no crisis because of immigration. If that's not enough evidence to liberalize our immigration policy, I don't know what is.
It would be good, sound economic policy to update our antiquated system of laws and quotas. Excessive wait times for Green Cards hurt U.S. families and the economy. According to the Libertarian Cato Institute, "Nearly three decades have passed since Congress last updated the legal immigration system. During that time, the U.S. economy has doubled, and its population has grown by one-third…Congress should reform the antiquated quotas, enact a limit on wait times, and keep pathways viable for legal immigrants in the 21st century." By hampering America's ability to compete for labor and capital around the world, excessive wait times injure the U.S. economy. Every year the United States loses out on billions of dollars in foreign direct investment that would grow the economy and increase demand for U.S. workers. Immigrants are a net positive to the U.S. Treasury. All immigrants make the GDP of the United States larger by 11 percent annually—about $2.2 trillion in 2018."
In addition, offering a path to citizenship for otherwise law-abiding, undocumented immigrants, would have huge economic and social benefits. Studies have shown that authorizing an immediate path to citizenship for the estimated 11.5 million undocumented immigrants in the United States would add as much as $1.4 trillion to the country's economic growth, create more than 200,000 jobs and increase tax revenue by more than $180 billion in the next decade. These are eye-opening figures.
Our closest economic and geo-political rival, China, has a clear, focused and long-term vision of economic domination. While we are mired in the chaos of the current administrations daily flailings and its manufactured hysteria and draconian immigration policies, they are planning to surpass us technologically, militarily and economically. Liberalizing immigration policy is a major hedge to that plan. America will always dominate if we lead with, and build policy around, our ideals. Current immigration enforcement and detention policies and immigration laws, quotas and the wait times they cause, are damaging our economy by limiting investment in capital, both in the form of hard currency and human capital, and ultimately, seriously hindering our ability to compete in the future.
More restrictive immigration policies, including mass deportations of undocumented people instead of giving them a path to citizenship or some form of permanent legal status, will further hamper our future competitiveness. All of the legitimate research shows that it's time to fix it once and for all.
—Roger Street Friedman
Source: http://hicksvillenews.com/2019/08/07/letter-immigration-reform-should-not-be-driven-by-racist-ideas/


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It took just seconds for John Cantlie to know that he was in serious trouble. He had made several prior trips into Syria across the Turkish border, to cover the ongoing conflict between rebel forces and the government of Bashar al-Assad. Cantlie had even used the same guide and route before.
On this latest trip in July, he and fellow photojournalist Jeroen Oerlemans were just an hour into their journey when they saw a rebel camp and walked up to it. As they did, Cantlie prepared himself for a warm welcome from the Syrians inside, who were always grateful when members of the international press arrived to document the bloody situation in the country. But when Cantlie and Oerlemans entered the camp, they didn't find themselves among Syrians at all. Instead, they were surrounded by foreign fighters who had come to the country to wage jihad. The jihadis took away the photographers' gear, questioned them angrily, and then led them away from the camp at gunpoint.
"You were in the wrong place at the wrong time," Cantlie remembers some of the fighters telling him as he was held captive over the coming days. The jihadis—who hailed from around the globe, including some from Cantlie's native Britain—threatened to kill the two journalists, subjected them to mock executions, and sharpened knives in front of them as they promised to cut off their heads.
"We were fine [in Syria] three months before—and here we were 12 weeks later, and it was anything but fine," Cantlie told The Daily Beast from his home in Britain, where he is recuperating from the long and harrowing ordeal. The pair were finally freed after a week of captivity, apparently by Syrian opposition fighters.
Cantlie is a veteran of conflict situations whose work has been featured in the BBC and The Sunday Times, among other publications. He spent much of the last year moving from one war to the next. He's been embedded with NATO troops in Afghanistan and taken photos from the front lines of the civil war in Libya. But Syria is proving to be a different kind of conflict zone altogether. The murky nature of the fighting is creating considerable danger for journalists in the country, who can have a hard time determining where the danger lies.
Though Afghanistan was also deadly, Cantlie says, covering the conflict there often had the feeling of "war tourism," with a carefully planned and organized embed system and ubiquitous Western forces. Libya, meanwhile, had an air of predictability once the NATO jets took to the skies—though the quick surges back and forth in the fighting brought its own dangers for journalists, and covering the conflict proved tragically fatal for photojournalists Chris Hondros and Tim Hetherington. "Libya was almost like a movie where the ending was already written," Cantlie says. "You had the mad-dog colonel in his crazy uniform up against a righteous uprising with NATO jets flying overhead."
In Syria, though, the makeup of the conflict seems to change by the day. It's unclear who is winning, and even who is fighting on the different sides. When Cantlie and Oerlemans went missing, reports had just started to emerge that foreign jihadists had joined the fray. "Syria is very different," Cantlie says. "You have Mukhabarat, the highly feared secret police, and along with that, the shabiha—dumb kids who are paid [by the regime] to do bad things." Since the beginning of the conflict, the Assad regime has also been accused of targeting journalists.
Even in the rebel-controlled areas, it's hard to know your allies, as Cantlie learned the hard way. "In Syria, you have fluid battle lines, but you also have a more fluid mix of regular and irregular combatants—a less centralized insurgent force, and also government forces that are being supported in urban areas by militias," says Frank Smyth, the senior security adviser at the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Smyth points to the dearth of reliable information coming out of the conflict as another factor rendering the situation in Syria dangerously confused—as Cantlie and Oerlemans discovered when they walked into a threatening situation along a route they had once known to be safe. "Not only is it fluid, you also have black holes of information, where there aren't working journalists or citizen journalists on the ground who are able to report things in a timely manner," he says. "So it makes it harder for those who are attempting to report to know which way to go."
Cantlie and Oerlemans were unsure what do in their situation, or even if anyone knew they were gone—as freelancers they operate without the careful support that many large news organizations provide. "The situation was just going from bad to worse," Cantlie says, recounting how he and Oerlemans were handcuffed to other prisoners the jihadis had accused of being regime spies. "We knew they didn't plan to release us—that they weren't just feeding us a line."
At one point, the pair burst from the camp and fled, scampering barefoot over rocky, cactus-spotted terrain. They didn't make it far before they were both gunned down—Cantlie in the arm, Oerlemans in the groin. They were then returned to the camp, wounded, until men they took to be part of the rebel Free Syrian Army discovered them and set them free.
Now both men are safe and recuperating. Cantlie, a southpaw, has nerve damage in his left hand, and he expects to face 18 months of rehabilitation, with the possibility that he may never recover full use of his hand. He's also out about $8,000 in camera equipment, and anxious to get back out in the field, covering conflicts as before. "I need to work," he says. "This is what I do."
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Arsenal midfielder Santi Cazorla has declared himself delighted with all he has achieved in the game this year.
After representing Spain during Euro 2012 and playing a key role in helping Malaga to qualify for the Champions League last season, he moved to the Premier League with the Gunners in the summer.
Looking back on his success in his homeland both on the domestic stage and in the international arena, Cazorla admits it is difficult even now to take in, having become the first nation ever to win three consecutive international tournaments.
"That is something you never forget It is clear that, as football players always say, we do not realise what we have achieved until many years have passed," the Spaniard told the club's official website.
"In football everything moves very fast, you do not have enough time to take stock of what you have achieved, but all in all, it is the highest accolade, to win something for your country, to see everyone on the streets celebrating.
"That was a reason to be happy, and hopefully we can repeat that success for the Spanish people many times."
He moved to the Emirates in the summer along with Lukas Podolski and Olivier Giroud, and Cazorla has stated that the new challenge in England has reinvigorated him on the pitch.
"It was a very important decision, to change teams," he added. "It is a new challenge, it is a completely new adventure from the start, you have to start from zero, aside from the fact of going into a different culture, a new league, a new language.
"But I think that with Arsenal, I was offered an opportunity that I could not turn down, being 27 years old [at the time], it was like a train that I had to take, and I am very satisfied.
"I am learning a lot, I am adapting more and more as days go by, and my aim is to learn the English game, and hopefully I will spend some good years at this club.
"I really enjoy the league, the atmosphere at the stadiums, the respect of the people, their kindness, it is incredible.
"Regarding the collective, we have dropped some points, and we hope that from now on we can all improve. That is what we all want, to see Arsenal further up the table.
"It has been a positive year for me. It is true that there are always ups and downs throughout the year, that is normal, but if I look everything that I have achieved, everything that I have experienced, I am very satisfied.
"I have achieved great things, I am still growing as a football player, and for next year I will aim for more of the same, to be successful with Arsenal, and to continue learning and growing every day."


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This program is designed to accommodate the needs of new college students, continuing students, transferring students, and experienced criminal justice practitioner. We offer sufficient courses in the evenings for students to graduate with this degree without taking daytime classes.
Students intending to transfer from community colleges to this University are advised to complete general education requirements while attending the community college. Courses equivalent to CRJU 101 and lower-division cognate courses (SOC 100, PSY 100, POSC 100 and PHIL 170), should be taken while attending community college. Other criminal justice courses taken at community colleges will be accepted as lower-division electives provided the college where they were taken designated them as transferable to CSU. These courses cannot be substituted for upper-division criminal justice courses.
Refer to the following website for additional impaction criteria: http://www.csulb.edu/depts/enrollment/admissions/impacted_major.html.
1. Major Courses: Take 48 units of criminal justice as follows:
Courses taken to fulfil options 2 and 3 may not be used to satisfy either the restricted option or in-major elective requirements of the criminal justice major.
Each core or restricted option courses on the student's program planner must be completed with a grade of "C" or better. In addition, a course which a grade lower than "C" is received must be retaken and successfully completed prior to enrolling in a course for which it is a prerequisite. A student receiving a grade lower than a "C" may proceed with other courses with approval of school advisor or chair.
2. Cognate Courses: Take 6 courses in related disciplines (these satisfy CSULB General Education requirements) from the following:
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The economy of Indonesia is the largest economy in Southeast Asia, is one of the emerging market economies of the world, and is also a member of G-20 major economies. It has a market-based economy in which the government plays a significant role by owning more than 164 state-owned enterprises and administers prices on several basic goods, including fuel, rice, and electricity.
Jakarta is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Jakarta's economy depends heavily on financial service, trade, and manufacturing. Industry includes electronics, automotive, chemicals, mechanical engineering and biomedical sciences manufacturing.
Jakarta has an overall cost of living index which equates it with middle cost of living locations. The overall cost of living index is comprised of the prices for defined quantities of the same goods and services across all 13 Basket Groups.
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As the COVID-19 pandemic sunk passenger numbers and revenues, BC Ferries would have lost $80.5 million by Dec. 31, 2020, had it not received support from taxpayers.
BC Ferries released its third quarter results Monday (Feb. 22), for the fiscal year ending on March 31.
These results show that BC Ferries received $308 million in December 2020 through the Safe Restart Program, a joint federal-provincial program designed to help provinces and territories safely restart their economies. BC Ferries counted $154.8 million of this funding toward revenues, leaving the company with net earnings of $74.3 million year-to-date as of Dec. 31, 2020.
"Without federal-provincial Safe Restart funding, the company would have had a net loss of $80.5 million, compared to net earnings of $98.9 million in the same period in the prior year," reads a release.
Figures for the third quarter roughly mirror figures year-to-date.
RELATED: PHOTOS: New BC Ferries hybrid vessels arrive in Victoria's Inner Harbour
BC Ferries carried 2.9 million passengers and 1.6 million vehicles during the final three months of 2020, a decrease of 39.6 per cent and 22.3 per cent respectively compared to the same period in 2019. Year-to-date, the company carried 10.6 million passengers and 5.3 million vehicles, a drop of 42.1 per cent and 26.9 per cent compared to the same period in the prior year.
BC Ferries blames COVID-19 for declining traffic and revenues. "This trend is expected to continue in the near term as the province recovers from the effects of the pandemic," it reads.
Mark Collins, president and CEO of BC Ferries, said the restart funding will help the company protect what he calls the "long-term sustainability of the ferry system to recover our losses and maintain service and future investments in ferry-dependent communities."
RELATED: BC Ferries budgets $200M to add four more hybrid-electric vessels to fleet
The re-start funding consists of three components: relief toward operating costs ($280 million); funding to limit fare increases to an average of 2.3 per cent in respective fiscal years of 2022, 2023 and 2024 ($24 million); and funding for discretionary sailings for fiscal 2022 through 2024 ($4 million).
BC Ferries has taken steps to reduce expenses by $68.8 million or 10.6 per cent year-to-date compared to the same period, mainly through reduced round trips on major routes. Reduced labour costs, fuel consumption and others are among cost-saving measures.
BC Ferries also ratified a new five-year-long labour agreement reached in October 2020 that calls for wage increases of zero, two and two per cent during the first three years of the agreement with wage re-openers scheduled for the fourth and fifth years. BC Ferries is also reviewing all capital plans to defer any costs that are not necessary for reasons of operations, regulations, and security and safety.
In 2003, the BC Liberals converted BC Ferries from the Crown corporation created in 1960 into a half-public, half-private company with the provincial government as the sole shareholder.
RELATED: Green leader Sonia Furstenau promises to convert BC Ferries back into Crown corporation
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On the television program "Justiça Cega?" (Blind Justice), which airs on the Portuguese network RTP, the president of the Portuguese Bar Association, Marinho Pinto, claimed "one of the things Brazil has most exported is prostitutes, among other things."
This statement was made as part of Pinto's comment about the case of Catarina Migliorini, a Brazilian woman who sold her virginity for nearly 600,000 euros to Japanese business man Natsu. Marinho Pinto claimed the Brazilian government "is charging the young woman for prostitution," but the Attorney General's Office is actually looking to charge the organizer of "Virgins Wanted" for human trafficking and prostitution.
There has been no shortage of reactions of indignation to Pinto's statement on Facebook and Twitter under the hashtag #justicacega. Messages have been left on the Facebook wall of Brazil's Ministry of Foreign Relations asking that both the ministry and the Association of Immigrants and Feminists take a stand.
The Brazilian Association of Lisbon (CBL), together with the Lusophone, Cultural and Civil Association (ALCC), the CommuniDária Association and the Women's Union – Alternative and Response (UMAR), published an article in response:
A infeliz perpetuação desta imagem redutora e hipersexualizada da mulher brasileira, através de pessoas que ocupam cargos de responsabilidade, como o Dr. Marinho Pinto, tem implicações graves para a vida de cada uma das brasileiras vivendo em Portugal. São frequentes os casos de assédio sexual, discriminação no emprego e na vida social, bem como dificuldades no acesso ao alojamento e interrogatórios abusivos nos aeroportos e nas esquadras de polícia.
The unhappy perpetuation of this reduced and hypersexualized image of Brazilian women by people in high positions, like Dr. Marinho Pinto, has severe implications for each of the Brazilian women living in Portugal. Cases of sexual assault, job and social discrimination, difficulties to gain access to housing, and abusive interrogations at airports and police stations are frequent.
The Office of the Secretary of Women's Policies, one of the presidential cabinets responsible for drafting and coordinating public policy concerning Brazilian women, reacted by stating that the ambassador of Brazil in Lisbon had already expressed the Brazilian government's indignation over the statement to the president of the Portuguese Bar Association.
In a written response, Marinho Pinto said the repercussion of his statement "was only shocking because it is the truth" and he claims his comment was addressed to the Brazilian prostitutes who are victims of female trafficking in Portugal.
Marinho Pinto's statement brings us back to the polemical discussion about the image of Brazilian women abroad. It is not uncommon to find Brazilian women minimally clad and photographs from Carnaval or a beach.
"Journalists and the foreign media in general tend to represent Brazilian women with a certain degree of maliciousness, an excess of prejudice and overgeneralization," reads an article published in Observatório Mídia & Política (The Media and Policy Observer) by Katia Belisário, professor at the School of Communications at the University of Brasília and a doctoral candidate in journalism and society:
Representações estereotipadas e preconceituosas por parte da imprensa podem gerar consequências nefastas, tanto para a imagem da brasileira no exterior, quanto para o Brasil como um todo.
Stereotypical and prejudiced depictions by the press can lead to disgraceful consequences both for the image of Brazilian women abroad and for Brazil overall.
In her blog, Brazilian Melissa Rossi wrote [en] about her experience in Italy and how the local media was prejudiced in its treatment of her fellow Brazilian women:
I have never read one single article [in] the Italian media that does not play down the image of Brazilian women, often resorting to offensive stereotypes, which portray them as pretty but stupid.
In February 2012, Claudia M. Vieira, an attorney and professor for students pursuing a master's degree in international law and international relations at the University of Lisbon, wrote on the site Sair do Brasil (Leaving Brazil) about the effects of prejudice and discrimination against Brazilian women abroad:
É tão grave a situação que as próprias mulheres brasileiras estão mudando o comportamento. As que ja vivem mais tempo fora do Brasil, já nem sorriem naturalmente, não brincam, não usam as roupas que gostam, tudo isso, por medo de sofrer preconceito. No curso de Mestrado da Universidade de Lisboa, constatei algumas alunas, falando com o sotaque português para serem aceitas, com a desculpa de que assim eles, os portugueses as entendiam melhor.
The situation is so severe that Brazilian women themselves are changing how they act. Those who have been living outside Brazil for some time do not even smile naturally, do not joke, do not use the clothes they like, all because of a fear of suffering prejudice. In the master's course at the University of Lisbon, I found some female students talking with a Portuguese accent in order to be accepted, citing that this way the Portuguese women understand them better.
Meanwhile, in September 2011 while working on her doctorate about the depiction of Brazilian women in Portuguese social media, Mariana Selister started the Brazilian Women's Manifesto (@MBrasileiras) as a rejection of the prejudice faced by Brazilian women in Portugal:
O estigma da hipersexualidade remonta aos imaginários coloniais que construíam as mulheres das colônias como objetos sexuais, escravas sexuais, e marcadas por uma sexualidade exótica e bizarra. Cita-se, por exemplo, a triste experiência da sul-africana Saartjie Baartman, exposta na Europa, no século XIX, como símbolo de uma sexualidade anormal. Em Portugal, esses imaginários coloniais, infelizmente, ainda são reproduzidos pela comunicação social.
The stigma of hypersexuality goes back to the historical concept of women in the colonies as sexual objects, sexual slaves, marked by an exotic and strange sexuality. Note, for example, the sad experience of South African Saartjie Baartman, exposed in Europe in the 19th century as a symbol of abnormal sexuality. In Portugal, these images developed back in colonial times are still perpetuated in social media today.
Ending with an appeal that is still current and ever urgent:
Exigimos, das autoridades competentes, que se faça cumprir a "CEDAW – Convenção para a Eliminação de Todas as Formas de Discriminação Contra as Mulheres", da qual tanto Portugal, como o Brasil, são signatários. Destacamos, também, o "Memorando de Entendimento entre Brasil e Portugal para a Promoção da Igualdade de Gênero", no qual consta que estes países estão "Resolvidos a conjugar esforços para avançar na implementação das medidas necessárias para a eliminação da discriminação contra a mulher em ambos os países".
We demand that the authorities comply with the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), to which both Portugal and Brazil are signatories, as well as to the Memorandum of Understanding Between Brazil and Portugal for the Promotion of Gender Equality, in which the countries "agree to join forces to advance in implementing measures needed to eliminate discrimination against women in both countries."
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I have a new case in Dubai terrible as well where a woman work for Emirates Air lines and she been pregnat there without marriage.. Its crime over there.. She lost the job!
Brazilian women should not change because of some bigoted bad press. Who cares what they think elsewhere?
And, they are not promiscuous, they are just free and in control of themselves.
There is probably some very ugly trafficking for prostitution but that's very different from sexual freedom.-
I agree!


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Google Calendar phishing scam surfaces
Mark your diary
Fraudsters are using Google's Calendar service as a means to develop a new strain of phishing scam.
The ruse appears in the guise of a Google Calendar email notification. Would-be marks are told their accounts will be deleted unless they submit their Google username, password and date of birth.
But rather than coming from Google's "Customer Varifaction" (sic) department the bogus emails come from fraudsters looking to extract login information.
Phishing fraudsters set up a Gmail accounts in order to set up the scam, which is slightly more credible than many because unwary punters are invited to submit information to Google's website. In addition, Google inserts the real name of the recipient in email invitations, further boosting their credibility of the fraudulent approach.
On the other hand the fact that scam emails appear to come from an address in the form firstname.lastname@example.com (where XXXX is a four digit number) exposes the dodgy provenance of the emails.
The tactic first appeared in the summer before reappearing again last week. A full write-up of the scam - including copies of the fraudulent emails - can be found in a blog entry by Graham Cluley of Sophos here. ®


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With the aid of various alarm calls the Siberian jay bird species tells other members of its group what their main predators-¬hawks¬-are doing. The alarm calls are sufficient for Siberian jays to evince situation-specific fleeing behaviors, which enhances their chances of survival. This discovery, being published by Uppsala University researcher Michael Griesser in the journal Current Biology, shows for the first time that animals can assess and communicate about the behavior of predators.
Many animal species are exposed daily to the risk of being killed by a predator. Certain apes and marmots have developed specific alarm calls that communicate the category of predators or the distance of predators to other group members. It has been proposed that this is an adaptation that helps them survive daily encounters with predators.
"But the risk a predator represents to its prey is also contingent on the behavior of the predator, so it would be an advantage for survival to be able to communicate whether the predators are in hunting mode or are full and contented," explains Michael Griesser, a researcher at the Department of Ecology and Evolution at Uppsala University.
The findings of the study show that Siberian jays have different alarm calls for hawks that are sitting, searching for prey, or attacking. With the help of a playback experiment in which the scientist played the various alarm calls for Siberian jays, he was able to demonstrate that the alarm call is sufficient to get Siberian jays to evince a situation-specific fleeing behavior.
Upon hearing the call that is given for sitting hawks, they fly up to the tops of trees and look for the hawk. The attack call prompts them to flee to the closest refuge as quickly as possible and then to start to look for the hawk. Playing the call that is given for hawks searching for prey gets the jays to flee to the nearest refuge and stay there without moving, for several minutes, to avoid being discovered by the hawk.
"These findings are astonishing and show for the first time that animals can assess and communicate about the behavior of their predators, and that not only mammals but also birds have developed advanced communication systems," says Michael Griesser.
An earlier study of Siberian jays showed that parents protect their young but not unrelated group members with their alarm calls and that this extra protection leads to much lower odds that related group members will be taken by a hawk during their first winter. Together with the new study, this shows for the first time that alarm calls actually do enhance the survival of other individuals. Until now this was merely an assumption, even though this is a basic function of alarm calls.
"Since complex communication systems in the animal world were developed primarily in species that live in family groups, it appears that selection based on kinship is an important factor for the development of such systems in the animal world. To be able to save the life of a related animal ultimately serves to further the animal's own genes. Perhaps this factor was also a key condition for our ancestors, who also lived in family groups, to be able to develop the capacity for language," says Michael Griesser.
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Kodak Pixpro AZ651, 65x Superzoom Camera Announced
Kodak has announced several new superzoom digital cameras at CES 2014. The new Kodak Pixpro AZ651 is one of them with a massive 65x optical zoom lens.
The Kodak Pixpro AZ651 is a new superzoom camera features a 24-1560mm equivalent 65x optical zoom lens, image stabilisation and a 3″ vari-angle display. The AZ651 is capable of shooting Full HD videos and comes with a proprietary lithium-ion battery.
The Kodak Pixpro AstroZoom AZ651 is scheduled to go on sale in spring 2014 wtih a price tag for $349. See below for the Kodak Pixpro AZ651 camera.
Kodak Pixpro AstroZoom AZ651, 65x Superzoom Camera Announced
Along with the 65x optical superzoom Kodak Pixpro AZ651, Kodak also announced the 42x optical zoom Kodak Pixpro AZ421 which will be available in Q2 2014 and wi-fi powered 52x optical zoom Kodak Pixpro AZ525 bridge cameras. Several other cameras announced by Kodak can be seen in the press text.
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From Kodak: KODAK PIXPRO DIGITAL DEVICES BROADENS LINE UP IN 2014 – Expansion in Mega-Zoom Bridge Category, Introduction of Rugged, All Weather HD Camcorders, Brand New Smart Phone Lenses and Micro Four Thirds Model Solidifies KODAK PIXPRO Brand as an Industry Leader in Digital Imaging Technology.
LAS VEGAS, NV, January 7, 2014 – JK Imaging Ltd., the worldwide licensee for KODAK PIXPRO Digital Cameras and Devices, announced today its full 2014 line of digital imaging products. Building on last year's initial launch, this year's line-up broadens the very successful Astro Zoom Bridge category, introduces all weather, rugged HD action cams and makes a technology statement with an all new, cutting edge Smart Phone lenses and an affordable option to the highend Micro Four Thirds camera category.
The updated KODAK PIXPRO suite of cameras will continue to offer consumers a variety of feature rich, long-zoom options at very attractive price points. The 2014 Astro Zoom line is highlighted with the flagship 65x optical zoom AZ651. This model retails for a MSRP of $349; features a 24mm wide-angle lens; 1080p HD Video; 3.0" articulating LCD; OIS and a rechargeable lithium-ion battery. The AZ651 is scheduled to go on sale in spring 2014.
Additional models in the KODAK PIXPRO Astro Zoom Camera line offer outstanding performance and a wide range of affordable price points, including the AZ251, AZ362 (25x & 36x optical zoom), AZ421 (42x optical zoom, Q2 2014 launch) and AZ525 (52x optical zoom plus new Wi-Fi capability). Models are priced respectively from $139 -$249 (MSRP) and offer a popular bridge style camera to suit all budgets and levels of photography experience.
With the introduction of the brand new KODAK PIXPRO SMART LENS® camera models SL10 and SL25, consumers now have a viable option to outfit their existing iOS or ANDROID smartphones with a snap on lens boasting powerful 10x or 25x optical zoom. The SMART LENS® Camera is also wireless for added flexibility and can be controlled via a free app. Features on the SL10 ($199 MSRP) include 10x optical zoom, 1080p video, 28-280mm wide angle lens, optical image stabilization (OIS), a micro SD card and compatibility with iOS/ANDROID phones. The SL25 ($299 MSRP) adds 25x optical zoom and a 24mm ultra-wide-angle lens. The SMART LENS® devices will be available in spring 2014.
Leveraging technical prowess and manufacturing excellence, the KODAK PIXPRO Camera line will introduce its first micro four thirds camera with the S-1. The S-1 is WiFi® enabled, boasts a 16MP BSI CMOS 4/3" sensor, a 3.0″ 920 articulating LCD, sensor shift OIS, 1080p 30fps H.264 FHD Video and lithium-ion battery. The S-1 is priced competitively at $499 MSRP for the entry-level single lens kit and $599 MSRP for a double lens kit and is perfect for the avid photographer looking for a high performance model in a slim and compact design.
The KODAK PIXPRO line also includes two new waterproof, freeze-proof, dust-proof and shock-proof 1080p HD video devices:
The entry-level SPZ1 Action Cam ($139 MSRP) offers 3x optical zoom, 14MP CMOS sensor and Video Image Stabilization.
The step up SP1 Action Cam features a 160 degree ultra-wide-angle lens and built-in Wireless capability. The SP1 is attractively priced at ($169-$229 MSRP) and offers three optional accessory packs depending on retailer, giving consumers even more flexibility to choose from options including a handlebar attachment, head/helmet strap, surfboard, suction cups and other attachments for capturing life's adventures in full HD.
For customers who value the convenience of a quality point-and-shoot compact camera, the KODAK PIXPRO Friendly Zoom line of point-and-shoot digital cameras is also available, with price points ranging from $69 – $129 (MSRP) with many automatic and very easy to use features.
KODAK PIXPRO devices are available in leading national and International retailers and online including Tesco, Argos, Boulanger, Carrefour, Dixons (Curry's, PC World), Conforama.
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About six weeks ago Dr. Roy Spencer of the University of Alabama Huntsville (a center for lots of NASA activity and climate research) published an important new paper with William Braswell in the Journal of Remote Sensing entitled "On the Misdiagnosis of Climate Feedbacks from Variations in Earth's Radiant Energy Balance." Translated from the scientific lingo, the paper essentially argues that discrepancies between what the climate models say should be happening and what we actually observe happening (namely, the pause in warming over the last decade) means we still don't have a complete picture of cloud behavior. (This issue is closely related, though not identical, to the post I had up last weekend on Nature's blockbuster cosmic ray paper.) As Spencer explains on his blog: "Even the IPCC admits the biggest uncertainty in how much human-caused climate change we will see is the degree to which cloud feedback [temperature change => cloud change] will magnify (or reduce) the weak direct warming tendency from more CO2 in the atmosphere."
Well, you can imagine what happened next. Not content with attacking Spencer and Braswell for their heresy, the Climate Inquisition has forced the resignation of the editor of the Journal of Remote Sensing. Better still, they seem to have given him the full Rubashov treatment and forced a confession:
Unfortunately, as many climate researchers and engaged observers of the climate change debate pointed out in various internet discussion fora, the paper by Spencer and Braswell… is most likely problematic in both aspects and should therefore not have been published.
"Should not have been published." Even though it passed peer review, and finds lots of company among scientists and other journal articles. And besides, if it's been attacked on the internet by the climate mafia, then it must be wrong!
You can understand why the Climate McCarthyites want to suppress Dr. Spencer. He's only been a senior scientist for climate studies at NASA for more than a decade, co-designer of NASA's satellites that monitor global temperatures, winner of NASA's Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, and author of several books on the subject, including Climate Confusion, and The Great Global Warming Blunder.
Don't miss Dr. Spencer's blog for more details on this story.


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Last week, a Pennsylvania court mostly suspended that state's voter ID law for the upcoming election. Under the court's order, voters will still be asked for ID at the polls, but they will still be able to cast a regular ballot — not a provisional ballot — if they are unable to show it.
Yet, despite this court order, at least five Pennsylvania county websites still falsely inform voters that they need to show ID in order to cast a regular ballot:
- Butler County: Butler County's website still tells voters that "[s]tarting with the November 2012 general election, Pennsylvania requires voters to show an acceptable photo identification to vote at the polls."
- Bucks County: Bucks County's website falsely claims that "[i]f you do not have a photo ID or are indigent and unable to obtain one without payment of a fee, you may cast a provisional ballot, and will have six days to provide your photo ID and/or an affirmation to your county elections office to have your ballot count."
- Perry County: Perry County echoes Bucks County's false statement that voters without IDs will only be able to cast provisional ballots.
- Luzerne County: Luzerne County's website is similarly incorrect, also falsely claiming that "ALL voters will be required to show a photo ID before voting at a polling place."
- Delaware County: Delaware County's website falsely claims that "Pennsylvania law now requires voters to show approved photo ID to vote at the polls."
In addition to these five county websites, at least one state university — West Chester University — falsely informs its students that they "MUST present one of the following forms of PHOTO ID when [they] go to their poll place to vote in the General Election this November 6, 2012."
To be fair, it is likely that these websites remain live simply because county or university officials have not yet updated their sites after the court's decision last week. Nevertheless, they are a possible sign that elections officials may not fully understand that the requirement that voters present ID at the polls before they can cast a regular ballot is not in effect in November. Last month, elections officials in New Hampshire falsely told some primary voters that ID was required, even though the law did not yet require ID to be shown. The websites listed above indicate a similar error is taking place in Pennsylvania, potentially discouraging many voters from casting a ballot they are lawfully entitled to cast.


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