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Virginia P. Reale
Virginia P. Reale, lovingly known as "Aunt Giggie," 90, of Englewood, Fla., went to be with our Lord, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013.
She was born Oct. 21, 1922, in Colonie, N.Y., to Carlo and Antoinette (nee Farrigan) Reale.
Virginia was a longtime resident of the Albany, N.Y., area for over 80 years, moving to Florida in 2003. She retired in 1984 as Director of Claims Processing for Empire Blue Cross, after 35 years of service. Virginia loved cooking, baking, sewing and gardening. She was of the Roman Catholic Faith, and was a member of St. Raphael's Catholic Church in Englewood.
Virginia is survived by a sister, Mary Ann (Roy) Markowski; four nephews, Christopher, Michael, Matthew and Joseph Markowski; as well as eight grandnieces and grandnephews. She was preceded in death by her sister, Lucille M. Reale, in 1968.
The family will receive friends from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Friday, Oct. 4, 2013, at Lemon Bay Funeral Home in Englewood. The Funeral Mass will follow at 11 a.m. at St. Raphael's Catholic Church. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Tidewell Hospice, 220 Wexford Blvd., Venice, FL 34293. Burial will be at Our Lady of Angels Cemetery in Colonie.
Arrangements are by Lemon Bay Funeral Home and Cremation Services.


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Luxury Maui Resort Helps Create Remarkable Hawaii Vacations This Holiday Season
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KAPALUA, HI -- (Marketwire) -- 12/05/12 -- The Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua ohana (family) invites guests to share this holiday season with the spirit of aloha. The Maui resort has orchestrated a wide array of celebratory events for the young and the young at heart. From festive celebrations to family-friendly activities to unique gourmet experiences, create memories at the luxury Hawaii resort that will last a lifetime.
The luxury beach resort's youngest guests will enjoy Teddy Bear Tea Time on December 22 which includes tea presentations, cookie decorating, storytelling and special cameos by Frosty the Snowman, Chris the Christmas Bear and of course, Santa Claus. While staying at the family beach resort in Maui, be sure to stop by Jean Michel-Cousteau's Ambassadors of the Environment program and partake in one of the many events from holiday crafts, story time, family-friendly movies, game room and a special New Year's Eve countdown for children. Indulge in memorable holiday dining at each of the luxury resort's six Kapalua restaurants and lounges featuring an array of delicacies and specialty menus and cocktails. Each experience will be highlighted with festive entertainment including Hawaiian soloists, hula dancers or jazz duos.
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Meghan Malloy, a Comano Island, Wash., native, joined the Joint Task Force - National Capital Region in support of the 57th Presidential Inauguration, which takes place Jan. 21, 2013. The task force is charged with coordinating all military ceremonial support for the inaugural period. As a joint service committee, it includes members from all branches of the armed forces of the United States, including Reserve and National Guard components.
Malloy is assigned as the noncommissioned officer in charge of street cordon for the JTF – NCR 57th Presidential Inaugural Support Staff.
"I'm excited to be here supporting the inauguration," said Malloy. "This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. It is something that very few people have a chance to participate in. I've watched the inauguration every election since I was small … getting the chance to be a part of it is a very big deal for me."
The U.S. Armed Forces have participated in the inauguration of the president of the United States since April 30, 1789, when members of the U.S. Army, local militia units and Revolutionary War veterans escorted George Washington to his first inauguration ceremony at Federal Hall in New York City. More than two hundred twenty years later, the participation of the armed forces continues to honor our commander in chief, recognize civilian control of the armed forces and celebrate democracy.
Participation by the armed forces traditionally includes musical units, marching bands, color guards, salute batteries and honor cordons. Soldiers, Marines, sailors, airmen and Coast Guardsmen also provide invaluable assistance to the Presidential Inaugural Committee and the Joint Congressional Committee on Inauguration Ceremonies.
The Secretary of Defense has authorized nearly 650 service members to be assigned to JTF-NCR by Inauguration Day to coordinate Department of Defense support in and around the District of Columbia. Historically, as many as 5,000 service members have participated in the celebration, both in view of the public and behind the scenes.
Malloy's role in the 57th Presidential Inauguration is like that of any other essential military mission. Just as military men and women show their commitment to this country while deployed around the globe, participation of service members in this traditional event demonstrates our military's support to the nation's commander in chief.
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NEW YORK — Diet Pepsi is sending a valentine to soda lovers, now that the soft drink's staying power has been improved with a new sweetener.
Starting at the end of January, PepsiCo Inc. will begin airing TV ads with the tag line ''Love Every Sip,'' along with the rollout of special-edition silver cans featuring the blue-and-red Pepsi logo in a heart shape. The company is working with designers to introduce other special designs later in the year, as well.
The campaign to reinvigorate the brand comes after PepsiCo quietly added another artificial sweetener to Diet Pepsi to help stabilize the taste of the drink. In addition to aspartame, the company says that Diet Pepsi will now include a ''very small amount'' of a sweetener called acesulfame potassium to help the taste maintain its potency over time.
Before launching the new campaign, executives wanted to make sure Diet Pepsi was ''as good as it can be,'' said Angelique Krembs, vice president of marketing for the Pepsi brand. She said that process included testing various flavor tweaks.
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Tallahassee, FL - One year ago today, George Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin during a confrontation in Sanford, Florida. Students at both FAMU and FSU gathered on campus today to honor the slain teen. Eugene Butler III, is an FSU Student Senator and Ignite Party member, he says "it's already been a year. At some point it escaped my mind that this is still going on, that this trial is still happening, that we haven't had any resolution to this issue." He was one of many students and community members that attended the vigils at FSU and FAMU for the one year anniversary of when 17 year old, Trayvon Martin was killed in Sanford, Florida. FSU Student, Rosie Contreras says "we're celebrating what it means to be able to come together, as a group of people, with a common purpose against injustice."
Brian Marshall helped coordinate the vigils and says his organization, Dream Defenders, developed from the movement following Trayvon Martin's death. He states, "we have not forgotten about Trayvon Martin's death and Dream Defenders and any other like minded group will continue to fight for racial equality amongst all."
Representative Alan Williams has proposed House Bill 4009 which seeks to repeal the stand your ground law. Williams said this bill does not go against the second amendment or the right to protect oneself and also mentions "this is about keeping our communities safe, this is about keeping our neighborhoods safe, and it's about making sure that individuals do not use Stand Your Ground as a screen to be vigilantes in our community."
Students held hands and prayed in a group setting for those who have lost their lives. Civil and Criminal Trial Lawyer, Chuck Hobbs says, "a lot of the students at FAMU are close in age as Trayvon Martin and they need to understand that to a great extent some of the issues that take place with regards to police brutality, racial profiling, it could happen to them also and so there are certain things that they need to be aware of so as they go out and do their thing, they are not caught up and become the next person who comes to an unfortunate demise."
Tallahassee, FL - Students at both FAMU and FSU gathered on campus today to honor of the slain teen.
The Dream Defenders Organization hosted a candlelight vigil and speak-out near the Eternal Flame Statue on FAMU's campus today.
The vigil started at 6pm, but we were also at an earlier vigil on FSU's campus at 3pm.
At the earlier vigil, about 40 people gathered at the Integration Statue on FSU's campus. Guest speakers from the Dream Defenders Organization expressed their feelings on Trayvon Martin's death one year later, the stand your ground legislation and prayed in a group setting for those who have lost their lives due to racism and prejudice.
The Dream Defenders Organization actually developed from the movement following Trayvon Martin's death and have local chapters on college campuses across the state of Florida.
At the vigil on FAMU's campus at 6pm, special guests, attorney Charles Hobbs and representative Alan Williams are in attendance.
According to students, the goal of having the vigil is to remember what happened to Trayvon and bring awareness for the future.


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All three major averages logged strong gains for the week, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq posting their best weekly rally in three months.
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After enduring the sizzling temperatures in Anaheim, the A's are now adjusting to Seattle, where people are wearing jackets in the press box and it truly feels like fall. It's actually not that chilly by Pacific Northwest standards, but there's a bite in the air here that you don't get in many ballparks (OK, so the Coliseum isn't exactly balmy during most night games).
Maybe the climate change will help reverse the A's fortunes on this season-ending road trip. They've lost six straight overall, and they're 0-3 on this seven-game trek. You have to wonder what the motivation level is for both Oakland and Seattle at this point, although A's manager Bob Geren said his team is still focused on the attainable goals. "We all have the same goal," Geren said. "We still (want) to finish in second place, and we have to win a lot of games to do that." The Angels hold a one-game lead on them for second place entering tonight.
The A's need a four-game sweep to finish at .500 even. They face a tough test tonight in Seattle right-hander Doug Fister, who is 3-1 against them this season. But Oakland catches a break Sunday, as the Mariners announced that ace Felix Hernandez won't start the last game. He's already at 249 2/3 innings, and Seattle has decided not to risk an injury with its franchise pitcher. Can't fault the M's too much on that one …
One news update from the A's: Geren said reliever Michael Wuertz could be shut down for the final four games with a lingering right thumb injury. As if the A's can stand to lose more relievers …
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Mariners — Ichiro RF, Figgins 2B, Gutierrez F, Smoak 1B, Moore C, Mangini 3B, Halman LF, Saunders DH, Wilson SS; Fister RHP.


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Upload and publish files. Publishing files with Ubuntu One is a nice feature. Even nicer is being able to upload and publish a file at the same time. No more uploading, finding the uploaded file, clicking the "More" link, clicking the "Publish" link, then clicking the "More" link again, and…you get the idea. We made this much simpler. Now you click the "Upload file" link to select your file and tick to publish it all in one go.
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Nature explores the world of the snowy owl, a bird recently made popular by Hedwig, Harry Potter's faithful companion. Turning fantasy into reality, "Magic of the Snowy Owl" takes an intimate look at how these majestic birds survive in one of the most isolated and inhospitable places on the planet. Noted wildlife filmmaker Fergus Beeley ("Jungle Eagle") takes viewers deep into the "snowy's" tundra home on the North Slope of Alaska to observe the daily struggles involved in raising a family of helpless chicks until they are able to fly. Viewers will discover that these strikingly beautiful Arctic owls – essentially eagles, falcons and owls rolled into one – have a magic of their own.
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He's been dead for more than 5,000 years. He's been poked, prodded and probed by scientists for the last 20. And yet today, Otzi the Iceman, the famous mummified corpse pulled from a glacier in the Italian Alps nearly two decades ago, continues to keep many secrets. Now, through an autopsy like no other, scientists attempt to unravel more mysteries from this ancient mummy than ever before, revealing not only the details of Otzi's death, but an entire way of life. How did people live during Otzi's time, the Copper Age? What did we eat? What diseases did we cope with? The answers abound miraculously in this one man's mummified remains.
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How do you get a genius brain? Is it all in your DNA? Or is it hard work? Is it possible that everyone's brain has untapped genius – just waiting for the right circumstances so it can be unleashed? From a man who suddenly acquired an extraordinary musical gift after a freak head injury to a "memory athlete" who can remember strings of hundreds of random numbers, David Pogue meets people stretching the boundaries of what the human mind can do. Then, Pogue puts himself to the test: After high-res scanning, he finds out how the anatomy of his brain measures up against the greatest mind of the century – Albert Einstein.


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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — About 17,000 Idaho government employees are a step closer to getting a 2 percent raise in fiscal year 2015. The Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee voted yesterday to build $11 million more into state worker pay starting next July. Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter didn't recommend the raises. But Republican Sen. Dean Cameron of Rupert said the timing was right to direct more money to government salaries for the first time since 2012. Cameron says the budget panel is simply following recommendations of an employee pay committee. It met earlier this year and concluded the recovering economy was kicking off enough state revenue for some long-overdue raises. The money will be paid out on merit, so it's possible not everybody will get a bump. Additionally, only half the pay raise will be ongoing.


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Horseshoes of the Peerless Steed: These horseshoes magically adhere to the feet of any hoofed creature. Anyone riding the creature gains a +10 competence bonus on Ride checks and is treated as having ranks in the appropriate Ride skill (and thus does not take the –5 penalty for riding an unfamiliar mount). The horseshoes grant the creature (or its rider, as appropriate) the effects of the Trample, Ride-By Attack, and Spirited Charge feats. The wearer of the horseshoes gains spell resistance 32 against enchantment effects. In addition, the ground speed of the creature wearing the horseshoes doubles.
Caster Level: 20th; Prerequisites: Craft Wondrous Item, Craft Epic Wondrous Item, Ride skill, haste, spell resistance; Market Price: 217,000 gp; Weight: 1 lb. each.
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A rescue team sent to free the 18 hostages of the African Union were themselves been kidnapped by Darfur rebels in Western Sudan on Monday. As a result, the rebels currently hold some 40 cease-fire monitoring group of the AU.
The team, which included one American observer, was taken by a splinter rebel faction on Sunday. The faction is demanding a seat at peace talks in the Nigerian capital Abuja. It had split earlier this year from the Justice and Equality Movement.
Noureddine Mezni, spokesman for the AU, told reporters that 18 hostages had been released on Sunday night when the rescue team was captured. Those released were reportedly returning to their camp in the Sudanese-Chadian town of Tine. Mezni added that it appeared as if only those members of the team who were Chadian had been released.
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Disclaimer: PLEASE BE AWARE THAT THIS IS NOT A SCIENTIFIC TEST! THE FOLLOWING ARE JPEG OUTPUTS FROM THE MENTIONED CAMERAS AS THE X100 RAW FILES ARE NOT YET SUPPORTED BY ADOBE LR AND CS5. RAW PHOTOS WILL BE POSTED ONCE ACR IS RELEASED.
My notes:
- The buffer on the X100 is definitely horrible. I am using a class 4 SDHC card (15mb/s | 16gb) and it takes the camera 7 seconds to store the ONE raw + ONE large jpeg file onto the card. I am still able to take photos however, the buffer freezes the camera up and prevents me from changing ANY settings. This has become an issue in the field. A faster card is on it's way (45mb/s | 16gb) and that supposedly lowers the time down to 2 seconds - which is faster, but is still a slouch.
- The 7D and the 5D are definitely a lot faster with bigger buffers and of course, I didn't experience any slowdowns - which is of course expected.
- The X100 does have a significant amount of in-camera sharpening when it outputs jpegs but all of the settings were set to it's standard.
- It appears to me that the X100 does not have chroma noise but it's more grain like in comparison to the other cameras.
- After looking at these files for about an hour, I still don't know how many stops of advantage in terms of noise you'd get from an X100 compared to the 7D - to me, it looks like one stop.
- Oddly enough, the white grate behind the light stand starts to disappear ISO 3200 on the Fuji X100 and detail is lost by ISO 6400
I hope that you've enjoyed this test as much as I have. It's definitely feels nice to have a pocketable, lightweight that offers high image quality - one that you don't have to worry about/that is comparable to something like a 7D/5D, and has both manual and automatic features. I hope that Fujifilm will continue to develop this lineup - one that offers interchangeable lenses as there definitely is a market potential for these types of cameras.


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Steve Landsburg. a professor at the University of Rochester, was publicly rebuked by his own college president for debating the merits of Sandra Fluke's argument for subsidized contraception.
He was also subjected to loud disruptions in this classroom by thugs students outraged at an academic voicing a contrary opinion. So much for the free exchange of ideas.
Here is the professor's 4th blog post on the topic.
Joel Seligman, the president of the University of Rochester, has, in his words, exercised his right to express his views with a dissent from my recent posts about contraceptive subsidies.
Several news organizations have asked me for a statement. Here is what I sent them. (Below the fold is a copy of my email response to President Seligman.)
President Seligman says that the mission of the university is to promote the free exchange of ideas and lively debate, and I agree. That mission is undermined whenever a member of the academic community elevates raw self-interest over the exchange of ideas.
That's what Sandra Fluke did. She observed that contraceptives are expensive, and therefore demanded that somebody other than herself and her fellow students pick up the tab. She didn't even pretend to be interested in debating any of the serious issues raised by the question of when some of us should pick up the tab for others' expenses.
Sometimes we should, sometimes we shouldn't, and there's a lot to be said, discussed, and debated about the particulars. An emotional appeal for one's preferred outcome, ignoring all the substantive issues, is the
exact antithesis of the free exchange of ideas that President Seligman claims to endorse.
I've had three blog posts on this subject, here, here, and here. The commenters have offered many bright and lively arguments and observations, some of which have led me to modify some of my views.
This is a wonderful thing. It's also the very opposite of Sandra Fluke's approach, which amounts to a contemptuous dismissal of the very possibility of engaging these issues through intellectual discourse. I'd have expected a distinguished academic to feel the same way.
And now, my letter to President Seligman:
Dear President Seligman:
I do appreciate your right to express your views, but I don't think you have a right to misrepresent mine.
You wrote: "Landsburg…characterized those who disagreed with his view as `contraceptive sponges'â€. This is the exact opposite of the truth. I offered several good and bad arguments for and against subsidized contraception, dissected them with respect, applauded commenters who differed from me intelligently, and in some cases bowed to their insight.
I reserved the phrase `contraceptive sponges' very clearly and specifically for people who demand subsidies without offering any reasons beyond the fact that they'd prefer to be subsidized. In other words, the targets of this phrase are people who have not actually stated any views on the matter at hand, namely how do we know when a subsidy is justified.
People who express actual views on this matter do not deserve to be mocked or ridiculed, and I never once said or implied that they do; indeed the considerable respect I've shown to opposing views throughout the comments section (and in the posts themselves) belies this interpretation.
Again, my objection is to people who think we ought to draw policy conclusions based on nothing more than their own personal preferences—that is, people who think that ideas don't matter. I'd have hoped that a distinguished academic would share that objection.
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Welcome to the fun world of anticipatory obstruction of justice.
Yes... you can be charged & convicted of obstruction by way of destroying evidence that is not yet being sought but that you think might be.
The problem is that if you delete something that is NOT evidence of a crime, you may still have problems. How do you prove that it was your grocery list from last week and NOT a todo list for robbing a bank?
If you insist they prove it was, suddenly the (deleted) text file becomes evidence that you deleted. It's kind of like being arrested for resting arrest in the absence of any other reason you would be arrested.
Don't piss them off.
Just say "I do not consent to this search. Repeatedly.
That does piss them off.
Why should they get angry if they're doing nothing wrong?
Don't they have faith in the justice system?
As opposed to trying to physically stop them?
The advise is sound. Do NOT consent to a search, make it clear you do not consent to as many people as possible. Even if you don't think you have anything to hide, do NOT consent to a search, ANY search... Ever... Period... You don't have to be obnoxious or disrespectful to make it clear you do not consent.
If you think they are searching your phone, say something like "Officer, I didn't give anybody permission to search my phone and I object to you looking at it." If they ask you why, you only need to repeat "Officer, with all due respect, I do not give permission for any searches." If they ask you if you have anything to hide, keep saying the same thing.
Further, I would recommend that you not answer any questions they may ask either. Once you have provided your identification, you are done answering questions with anything but "Respectfully officer, I am not required to answer your question. May I leave now?" If they say "No" or indicate that you may not leave, then you ask "Am I under arrest?" If they say you are not under arrest start the process at "May I leave now?" and keep going around the same bush until they let you leave or arrest you. Once they arrest you, SHUT UP. Say nothing but "I want my lawyer present before I will answer any questions." If they let you go, GO!
Follow this process, even if you have nothing to hide. Where it may seem to be a pain, you literally have NOTHING to gain by consenting to searches or answering questions and doing so may cost you, so it makes no sense to be cooperative. If they come to your door, don't invite them in, just step outside and close your door behind you. Remember, no answers to their questions, and no permission for any searches. Go back inside once they let you go.
All I'm saying is that there is no legal benefit to letting them in your house... If there is a religious benefit for you that outweighs the worldly, do what you must....
I don't know why any sane government would want to put me in jail in the first place, they'd have to spend a lot of money fixing holes in walls.
Look at it from the police officer's perspective. There are a number of nutcases out there who would gladly harm anybody in uniform. A sane police officer realizes that it is not always obvious who these people are, so the best course of action is to be ready to react and not get into dangerous situations if you don't need to.
This is why I do EVERYTHING I can to be nonthreatening when dealing with the police. I turn on lights at night, keep my hands in plain view, and if I have to go digging in my pockets or the glove compartment I first tell the officer what I'm going to do, turn to face away from him before I do it and make sure to show them my palms before I turn back. I want them to be as comfortable and feel as safe as I can because there job is risky enough without me causing them undue stress.
On one hand, I specifically said that he did not have my permission to enter my house, on the other, since he knocked on my door, he'd get a meal out of me.
Make the meal (or order a pizza if you're not allowed to leave) and bring it to him on the porch?
I would say, do not step outside. It puts you on their turf. Talk through the screen door or a window.
Nope, step out and close the door, unless they tell you not to.
The reason I'm saying this is because they can use their eyes, ears and noses. So they can look at what is visible behind you and listen to what's going on in the house behind you. If you go outside and close the door and step away from the house, they are not getting the "free" albeit limited search while they talk to you and that gives them less opportunity to "invent" a reason to search.
I'd also figure that the police would be less threatened by stepping away from the house because you are putting the "unknowns" of what's inside further away from them. On that note, you want to make sure you make no threatening looking moves. That means you keep your hands visible and sit down if possible, speak respectfully and stay calm.
Amazingly- lots of videos on Youtube show it doesn't piss them off as much as it flusters them. I feel uncomfortable watching the videos but the police always back down. Sometimes they threaten to arrest the person but you have to have a specific charge to arrest someone. Which leads to the other respectful statement made in the videos.
"Am I under arrest?"
That's a legal phrase too- because if you are not under arrest, you are free to go after a fairly brief period. They have to arrest you to hold you.
It's very easy to for them to mess you up into trouble- but if you stick to certain specific stock phrases and obey their orders (that was another one-- "Are you ordering me to do this?") then it's clear from the videos that while they have a significant advantage in these situations- they are well aware of their own legal boundaries. Once you show you are aware of their legal boundaries they back off.
Since the summary links you to a stupid news article and not the guides themselves, here is the ACLU Guide [aclu.org] and EFF Guide [eff.org]s here.
The EFF guide you linked has not been updated yet to reflect the Riley decision. Some of those answers need to be changed because they are incorrect now. The ACLU "Know Your Rights" manual does not appear to have been updated either, but it simply doesn't address the issue of cell phone searches incident to arrest at all.
Since the summary links you to a stupid news article and not the guides themselves, here is the ACLU Guide [aclu.org] and EFF Guide [eff.org]s here.
The EFF guide you linked has not been updated yet to reflect the Riley decision. Some of those answers need to be changed because they are incorrect now. The ACLU "Know Your Rights" manual does not appear to have been updated either, but it simply doesn't address the issue of cell phone searches incident to arrest at all.
You are correct - they have not been updated. Why are they even mentioned in the summary and the article? Either way, I think the sources themselves are more valuable than the silly article.
Have phone encrypted, and wipe phone from the bootloader?
The US police are infamously variable. In some towns they are a model of how the police should be, respectful of the law and all citizens until proven guilty. The next town over they are little more than a legal mafia, happily resorting to intimidation and extortion to extract fines and reacting to any challenge to their authority with a campaign of persecution.
If you're in the latter, you're basically screwed. If you don't hand over the password, the officer will decide he smells a hint of pot in your car
Judge: "And why, exactly, did you search this man's phone?"
Policeman: "Well, we found this dirty phone in an extended search on the ground a few hundred feet where we arrested Mr. Jones. We searched it to learn who it belonged to."
Judge: "And where did you find the incriminating information?"
Policeman: "Well, we turned the phone over to our investigative crimes unit. They ran the 'strings' command on all the information on the phone and gave us a printout. When we looked through the printout, we found there
Sad but true, if police want to do something illegal, and you argue with them, they *will* do it anyway, and you *will* be in further trouble for attempting to resist.
On the plus side, it seems like that could actually *help* you, seeing as how it would be inadmissible in court, so if you were on trial and their evidence was found that way, great for you! (I am not a lawyer. All my knowledge of law comes from watching fictional tv and reading fictional books. Ask a real lawyer if what I said is actually tru
Sad but true, if police want to do something illegal, and you argue with them, they *will* do it anyway, and you *will* be in further trouble for attempting to resist.
That's why you DON'T resist. You respectfully make it clear that you did not consent to a search of your phone. If they ask "May I look at your phone?" you say "No, not without a warrant", if they do it anyway, you might want to say "I didn't give you permission to look at my phone, please put it down" Keep trying until they tell you to shut up.
If the police insist on doing something illegal, like searching your phone without a warrant or permission, it's going to be a matter for the courts to figure
Google: police cell phone extraction device
There were a bunch of stories about gadgets that could scoop up everything from your cell in about 2 seconds.
So I wonder if those devices will still be used - at the side of the road.
Bonus points if it is voice activated.
*Normal Phone lock screen.*
Officer: "Give me that phone so I can see what's on it!"
You: "I do not consent to a search of this device."
*Non consent lock screen enabled*
The article has some good advice, and what I would consider some bad advice:
"Lock your phone"
- GOOD ADVICE! A simple passcode is your first line of defense against any physical intrusion, just like the lock on your front door.
"Repeat 'I do not consent to this search'"
- GOOD ADVICE! Not only does it establish that you deny consent, it shows the cop that you know (at least some of) your rights, which will get most of them to think twice before doing anything that might violate your rights (especially if you're taping the encounter).
Don't get physical/let them do as they please, then lawyer up."
I consider that bad advice, because it discourages people from exercising their right to defend themselves against unlawful arrest, a right that has been repeatedly verified and upheld in court. [constitution.org]
Of course, as with any exercising any right, you do so at your own peril.
The problem is you wont remember those rights when you wake up from the coma in jail with a TBI and associated memory/function loss. To be then railroaded for resisting arrest, assaulting a police officer and anything else they can think of.
I figured the problem was that after they murder you for standing up for yourself, the media will do everything possible to demonize you as a radical extremist, and the cycle of fascism will renew itself.
Openly film the cops with one camera. Have the other one set up in an inconspicuous location, where it can see them them beating the crap out of you and smashing the first camera. Do not inform anyone about the second camera until its footage is safely on YouTube.
This has worked very well for me in the past:
"My lawyer has advised me that rights are like muscles. If they are not exercised, they become weak. Therefor I do not and cannot consent to this search."
It conveys, very directly:
your refusal of the search request
you are a constitution, and rights advocate... meaning you will a big headache for the cop if he continues
you have a lawyer that's also into that sort of thing and would love to sue the department
You should refuse EVERY search. EVERY time. With absolutely no exceptions.
The majority of arrests start with a consensual search by police of someone that legitimately thought they had nothing to hide. Everything is illegal. If a cop searches your home and he wants you to go to jail, you're going to jail. It's as simple as that.
People get into these situations where someone backs into their car in a parking lot and the cop that arrives casually asks "Mind if I check your car for open alcohol?" and they think "LOL that's funny! Of course I don't have that." But the cop isn't just looking for alcohol is he? He starts lifting your floor mats... does he think there's a beer bottle under there? In once instance a man bought a car from the local police impound. A few days later he got pulled over, consented to a search and low and behold the car had a secret compartment for smuggling drugs. They arrested him and he spent a month in jail before they finally realized it had the drugs when it went into impound. ALWAYS refuse search requests. ALWAYS.
Also i should point out that I completely agree with you. I was arrested when I let the police search my car and they found a sandwich bag in which I kept a 'stash' of my medication in. I have grade 4 arthritis in my ankle and it can really get bad at times. I always tried (past tense) to keep a few in my car because I never wanted to get caught in the situation where I needed them and didn't have them. These were vicoden-ibuprofen, and I had a regular prescription for them. I ended up getting charged with posession and OUI. The posession was dropped when I came back and showed the prescription, the OUI was continued without a finding - but what they don't tell you is that you still have to go through the RMV's version of an OUI, which is not pleasant at all - especially seeing as I got one that I deserved some 22 years ago when I was about 21. So this one counted as my second, and required an "interlock device" be installed in my car for 2 years. I just can not describe to you how awful this device is. Food sets it off, and every time it goes off, you have to pay 50 bucks.
Right. You should always have your prescriptions in a bottle. The easiest way is to keep the paper prescription in your car and the bottle at home. If you ask for your pills to be split into 2 bottles at the pharmacy, they'll do that for you. Then you can keep one in the car. Don't consent to tests, don't answer questions, at all.
Police: "Where are you headed this evening"
You: "Is this about that taillight? The Autozone guys replaced that. Do you think I can get my money back? You pay good money and they do
The first thing you should do is avoid eye contact, slowly back away, making calm reassuring noises. You should also keep your arms wide; it makes you look bigger and less like prey. Finally, you should lie on the ground, and play dead. They will quickly lose interest and move on. Do not run, as it will trigger their hunter/prey instincts.
If however they start to eat you, you should start to fight back vigorously.
Or if you are really worried about it, encrypt your phone and lock it...
I didn't RTFA, but wouldn't the tricky/slimy answer be "let them search it, so then all of the evidence gets thrown out"?
My phone is always listening for voice commands, which is great for things like making calls, sending messages, starting navigation etc., but I want a new command specifically for situations like this: "OK Google Now: Lock and Record". It should lock my phone and start a continuous video and audio recording which is streamed to a server somewhere. Even better if it's a separate hotword so I don't have to say "OK Google Now" first to warn the officer I'm about to screw with his plans to screw with me.
If I can activate it by voice, it won't matter whether the phone is locked when it's taken from my pocket. And with the recording, I'll have proof that I did not consent to the search. Streaming will ensure that proof can't be accidentally destroyed by, say, dropping my phone just before a cruiser happens to roll past.
Despite the strong privacy protections established in the court's Riley decision, police still have the right to search your phone without a warrant in a few certain scenarios known as âoeexigent circumstances.â This includes, for example, the abduction of a child, when police suspect a person is in imminent harm, or âoesome imminent threat of evidence destruction,â says Fakhoury. âoeSo its not like a carte blanche rule.â In those instances, there's simply not much you can do.
You don't know what the police know.
In other words, the police might have perfectly justifiable reasons to take your phone--and you don't know those reasons.
ALWAYS take that into account when making your decisions.
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There's "boot code", "initialisation code" and the kernel itself. I'd assume that to make the kernel smaller most of the initialisation code is built into the boot code instead.
For things like the code to initialise paging and enable long mode, this is actually a much smarter way to do it than putting the initialisation code into the kernel itself (and then freeing it after it's used, like Linux does). It makes some things a lot simpler (like linking) because you're not mixing CPU modes and/or virtual addresses in the same binary; and may mean that the kernel itself is isolated from the boot environment - for example, if the OS is ever booted from 64-bit UEFI (where paging is setup and long mode is enabled before any boot code starts) then maybe you can use the exact same kernel binary (with different initialisation code).
I can't think of any generic boot loader that currently supports 64-bit. GRUB2 and "multi-boot" might (or might not) have undocumented support for it, but if it does it'd be a moving target (not something that anyone can actually rely on, yet).
I'd also point out that most OSs do have their own native boot loader; and generic boot loaders (like GRUB) could mimic the native boot loader for BareMetal OS (in the same way that GRUB mimics the native boot loader for Linux, mimics the native boot loader for FreeBSD, etc).
- Brendan
I second that. GRUB can set up identity-mapped segmentation in order to load PMode code on x86, it's just strange that the new releases don't offer the option to set up some kind of identity-mapped paging and turn on long mode on x86_64. That would be the logical continuation of their previous effort. And much better that linking 32-bit and 64-bit code together in a bastard binary as in their current solution (loading ELF64 without activating long mode), and more generally being forced to maintain a 32-bit and a 64-bit codebase and make them work together...


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|2012-08-13, 22:35
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Ooh, this is an interesting thread. I've been doing translation for... a while, and here's some tips I usually share with new translators that cover some of the common mistakes:
For translators:
1.) Not double-checking any number greater than 4. It is incredibly easy to write down the wrong number, and you look like a dumbass when you do it. All you have to do is accidentally press the key one over to the left of what you meant to hit, and your editor/QC will never catch it. There's nothing worse than writing down "The King's Guard has twelve ultra-mechs." and having mechs 13 and 14 show up and start trashing the heroes in the next episode.
2.) Not reading the show's website/wiki. In 2012, every show, no matter how small, will have a website and Japanese wikipedia article. These include story summaries, character profiles, and most importantly, vocabulary lists. They're also particularly helpful for in media res first episodes, where it's expected that the viewer won't know the meaning of every word or the significance of what's going on. As the translator, you have to have make sure you have as solid an understanding as possible or you're going to make a mess of things. And if you're working off an established property, there are often ENGLISH wikis devoted to the show like this one or this one. I don't know how I would've made it through the third season of Shakugan no Shana without that latter.
3.) Not double-checking when something doesn't make sense. This is very important, and unfortunately it's a skill you either have or you don't. If something seems strange, if the heroine says something totally out of character or that totally contradicts the plot up to this point, DOUBLE-CHECK IT. More often than not, you've messed something up.
For editors:
If you ever find yourself saying the words "I don't think this character would say this, so I'm going to rewrite it," then hit yourself in the face with a ball-peen hammer and save your translator the trouble. Particularly if it's in episode 3 of a show.
|2012-08-14, 02:27
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Age: 38
My specific issues are pretty simple...
- Overuse of profanity when it's really not necessary, even if it's to 'spice' up a scene.
- Overuse of super-stylized fonts.
- Incorrect grammatical usage.
- Unabashedly literal translations that create structure issues.
Beyond that, my issue with things like honorifics is simple and not overly a big deal, just use them when it makes sense. Sama is a common offender in this. While most understand the usage of -sama to be that of respect in my areas, putting -sama in subtitles for minute interactions between business and customer is really just not needed and would probably be better flow (in English) as Mr., Mrs., Miss, Ms., sir, ma'am, etc.
|2012-08-14, 02:39
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Only thing that bothers me are trollsubs, or the way some groups think "localization" is an excuse to basically come up with anything you like for the subtitles. I completely avoid Commie for example because of that, I never download anything from them. I even went with Hadena for Kore wa Zombie S2, and would do so again.
|2012-08-14, 02:57
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But hey, this is a po-tay-toe, po-tot-toe situation in my opinion.
|2012-08-15, 18:52
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Okay... The title of this thread is very misleading. I'll admit I haven't read all the posts because they just seemed off topic but... I thought I was going to read something about common translation errors and such... But instead _mostly_ what I see here is just:
"I don't like how this group does this and that, I want it this way so I will write this hoping they will see it and will make it that way "
Come on... those things are not "mistakes" It's that group's preference verses your own.
However a common mistake that I continue to see these days is this (pointed out by Mystique):
"Good balance on length of lines and time on screen"
It was only yesterday that I've encountered this problem... Taking a proper English sentence and breaking it up when there is no delay when the character speaks it? Sure sometimes it's acceptable if it's cut at a proper point in the sentence.
Acceptable sentence breaking (but still should be presented all at once):
"Let's go to the store,"
"I need to buy some books."
Not Proper:
"Let's go to the store, I need to"
"buy some books."
Don't even get me started in very basic translation errors >_>;;;
Even with me knowing minimal Japanese (took only the intro course, had no time to pursue higher levels), even I could spot the errors. >_<
|2012-08-18, 11:32
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From Kingdom and Code Geass: changing spoken names to their "Chinese equivalent" just because the person happens to be Chinese. One should always stick to what you hear, not to some arbitrary source of chinese readings for the person's name. Only the titles or places should be changed to their common English translation from the Chinese.
|2012-08-18, 14:21
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This isn't really a translation error per se, but I wish translators would realize they don't have to subtitle every last bit of text and background conversation.
If there's an insert shot of a text message, and then a voice-over reading the text aloud, you don't have to sub both -- the audience can figure out that they're the same.
If there's a conversation important to the plot, some unnamed characters in the background discussing what they did last weekend, an insert song, and a shot of a sign saying "Restroom," pick the important parts to translate instead of covering the screen with a wall of text that can't be read without pausing the show.
And if there is a scene were two characters are talking at the same time, and they're both saying important things, make it clear who's saying what. I've seen some subs where there are two lines of text in identical fonts, and they switch places with every line, so that one moment Person A is on top and the next he's on the bottom.
|2012-08-19, 22:31
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|2012-08-19, 22:55
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Translator, Producer
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Age: 38
A good example of this is mahjong terminology.... When I used the Chinese spellings for terms like "pon" = pung, etc, that was fine for a while, until I came across terminology that had no chinese equivalent and were Japanese inventions....
Then you end up mixing chinese with japanese and everything gets confused.
On the other hand in Sket Dance I make sure to call Yamanabe-sensei's master "Master Wong" since it's totally funnier than "Master Won".
|2012-08-20, 00:39
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Location: Minnesota
You're right that there are exceptions, and there are definitely times when the original dialogue uses the Chinese pronunciation of names and objects instead of the Japanese pronunciation, and vice-versa, so some discretion may be needed.
However, I don't agree that we should automatically default to Japanese pronunciations, especially when dealing with things like RotTK adaptations. When I see people using Chinese names, I'm impressed because it shows that they did their homework. Besides, I think it might send a wrong message to the viewers who might want to learn more about the events of that novel and they tried looking up "Sou Sou" instead of "Cao Cao."
|2012-08-20, 08:04
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|2012-08-20, 13:26
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I guess people don't watch Ikkitousen for the RotTK references ( ¬‿¬). While it's perfectly fine to use Japanese names, I'd rather not cater to anime fans' general lack of literacy, historical or otherwise.
|2012-08-20, 16:24
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If the one watching recognizes the names with his ears he spends less time reading subtitles and more time actually enjoying the action. Using names that have nothing in common with what you hear distracts and confuses the viewers.
And that's also the reason your ""Maria," "Pedro," "Juan," "Pilato" comparisons are moot - they are close enough to be recognized, but "Eisei" and "Zhào Zhèng" are miles apart.
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And yes, blackballing the use of Chinese names in Ikkitousen despite how relevant they are to the plot is a sad example of the alarming lack of literacy and awareness among anime viewers. It's almost as if you can't make scripts that is beyond 8th-grade level anymore or else you'll get complaints about the subs "not flowing well."
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I know for a fact that one of the early projects to sub that old Rot3K anime (The one with the opening by Fence of Defense) died because the fansubbers got overwhelmed trying to cross-reference the Chinese and Japanese terms. 'cause once you decide to go down that route you have to do it for EVERYTHING, including place names and obscure generals who may or may not have made it into the translation you're reading. They were a solid, experienced team who did a great job on the two or so episodes that got out, but they just couldn't keep it up.
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Amount of text you have to read and its complexity are objective criteria. Anything that increases the amount of time one have to spend on reading and understanding the subtitles is an objective flow - be it honorifics or names that differ from what one hears.
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As a different example, why is Goku named Son Goku?
Shouldn't the original Dragonball translators have used the spelling "Sun Wukong"? You're making essentially the same argument.
Now when the original "neta" is chinese directly, and not indirectly, using the Chinese spelling might be more appropriate.
For example if I had translated Night Raid I would have tried to use correct Chinese spellings.
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My only compliant is when sometimes they stop subbing at particular points like if it is side conversations or when they start speaking another language. It frustrates me because I get muddled as the subbing just halts and you start wondering why......then you loose track. I think when a certain part doesn't have subbing it should say so. Just to warn viewers. It really bugged me in this one badly subbed anime.
Yet, I really appreciate the effort these fansub groups do.
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The bad news started for the Chicago Blackhawks before the puck dropped — and it never got any better.
High-scoring Marian Hossa was a late scratch from the lineup after sustaining an upper body injury. Then the Blackhawks were beaten 2-0 by the Boston Bruins and fell behind 2-1 in the best-of-seven Stanley Cup finals.
Chicago coach Joel Quenneville said Hossa was day-to-day.
After two overtime games — a 4-3 Chicago win in three extra sessions and a 2-1 Boston win in one — the Blackhawks offense was continually shackled by tight checking and strong goaltending by Tuukka Rask, who stopped 28 shots in his third shutout in his 14 wins this postseason.


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Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson has been named the Barclays Manager of the Month for August, making it a record 27 times he has taken the accolade.
Ferguson has overseen a turnaround in form for his side after an uncertain start to the Premier League this season, a resurgence that took them to the top of the table last weekend.
The Player of the Month award was won by Chelsea midfielder Juan Mata after a terrific month in the individual stakes.
It is the first time the Spain international has won the gong, coming after he scored three goals and picked up three assists.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is reportedly ready to listen to offers for left-back Andre Santos.
The report comes just days after the Brazilian angered fans by taking the shirt of Robin van Persie at half time in the loss to Manchester United on Saturday.
Manchester City have denied volatile striker Mario Balotelli is going to miss crucial matches over the Christmas period because of him taking paternity leave.
Reports claimed the Italian was set to take time off to be with his girlfriend Raffaella Fica, who is pregnant and due to give birth on Christmas Day.
Tottenham Hotspur defender Kyle Walker is staying positive about taking part in the Europa League, despite jibes coming in from fans of rival teams.
The England international said he would ignore the 'Thursday night on Channel Five' chants and do all he can to help Spurs win the tournament.
Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard has said current Anfield star Luis Suarez is the best striker he has played with.
He was taking part in a Twitter interview when he made the claim, he also admitted missing playing alongside Real Madrid midfielder Xabi Alonso.
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Eric Goodner slept in a juvenile detention cell Wednesday night, but for nearly three weeks, the whereabouts of the 17-year-old murder suspect were a mystery.
Metro police and U.S. marshals surrounded an east Nashville apartment complex and arrested Goodner in the shooting death of Pearl-Cohn High School student Johnathan Johnson.
The woman who lives across the hall from where Goodner was captured shared details about her experience during the arrest.
Elaine Warfield has lived at Village Place for the past eight years, so when she heard a commotion outside her door, she looked to see a hallway swarming with law enforcement.
"I came to the door. They said, 'Go back inside,' so I went back inside," Warfield said.
Warfield said about three weeks ago a young woman and two children moved into apartment C-130 across the hall, which was about the same time police believe Goodner shot and killed Johnson as the victim waited to catch his school bus.
Warfield said she never saw Goodner at the apartment - just the woman and two children.
In fact, police said Goodner was alone Wednesday when he was taken into custody as Warfield watched from her peephole.
"All the police had the door open and took him away," she said.
The mother of three said it's scary that Goodner was living right across the hall from her, and had she known it, she would have told authorities.
"They can say what they want to say. Yeah, I would've told," she said.
That kind of fearlessness is born of experience. In December 1995, her son, Jerimayer Warfield, walked to what was then the Seventh Avenue Market to buy an ice cream sandwich. Out of nowhere, a car came screeching by and rounds of gunfire left the 12-year-old dead in the crossfire, still clutching his ice cream treat inside the store.
Three people were arrested, and Elaine Warfield now carries a big portrait of her son wherever she goes.
She said she is angry that nearly 20 years after the murder of her own child, children are still being gunned down in Nashville.
And it is chilling, she said, that Goodner was hiding out so close - just a few steps from her own front door.
"I live here. He could've grabbed me. There are children around here," she said.
Goodner is expected to appear at a juvenile court hearing Friday. He faces a charge of criminal homicide.
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However, a coroner's official in London says there are no suspicious circumstances in the death of the 27-year-old singer, who was found dead in her bed on July 23.
Coroner's officer Sharon Duff told reporters Monday that "the scene was investigated by police and determined non-suspicious."
A family spokesman says a funeral will be held Tuesday for family and close friends. The spokesman says the time and place of the private funeral will not be made public.
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An inquest into Winehouse's death was opened and adjourned at London's St. Pancras Coroner's Court. During the two-minute hearing, an official read out the name, birth date and address of Winehouse, described as "a divorced lady living at Camden Square NW1."
"She was a singer songwriter at the time of her death and was identified by her family here at St. Pancras this morning," said coroner's officer Sharon Duff.
In Britain, inquests are held to establish the facts whenever someone dies violently or in unexplained circumstances. Assistant Deputy Coroner Suzanne Greenaway said Winehouse's inquest would not resume until Oct. 26.Reports: No signs of drugs near Winehouse
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A doctor had visited Winehouse the day before her death, The Sun reports, and "had no concerns."
Police sources say there was no sign of drugs in the home. Winehouse had been known to have addiction issues. Her last concert, on June 18 in Belgrade, Serbia, was a disastrous event where the singer slurred through her songs, was booed, and left the stage early, forcing her band to continue playing to meet its contractual obligations.Story: Moby: 'I was horrified' at Winehouse's final show
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Where You Can Register to Vote in Genesee County for the 2012 Election
Want to make your voice heard in the 2012 presidential election but haven't registered to vote yet? Your time is quickly running out! With the presidential, state and local elections now less than 40 days away, the deadline to in Michigan for registering and being able to vote in the November 6th election is Tuesday, October 9th.
Michigan Secretary of State Ruth Johnson, the state's chief election officer, reminds citizens that "voting is a fundamental freedom and we want everyone who wants to do so to cast a ballot on Election Day."
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According to the Secretary of State's website, you can register to vote for federal, state, and local elections by mail; at your county, city, or township clerk's office; or by visiting any Secretary of State branch office.
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ID card debates need reframing
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RSA Europe 2005 Dame Pauline Neville-Jones, ex-chairman of Qinetiq and a former head of the Joint Intelligence Committee which oversees UK security services, told the Register that international agreements on security and technology are needed for the good of the business community and wealth generation, rather than as a tool against terrorists.
She said: "Some sort of commonality between nations would be good, and would help guarantee freedoms – corporates will reign in the more ambitious governments."
Neville-Jones said: "Incompatibilities on approaches to security mean governments behave awkardly. Look at the US and biometric passports – the technology did not work and it created hostility and damage to the US economy – many students could not get into the country. And it has not been demonstrated that it had any benefit to US national security."
She also said the UK government should reframe the debate about ID cards to illustrate to consumers the benefits of such a scheme rather than scaring them with talk of terrorists. She pointed out that most of the 7 July bombers would have had ID cards.
"ID management in the UK is primarily about business and government service provision – the government needs to explain to people the importance of confirming their own identity rather than discussing it in the context of terrorism. Consumers understand there is a security angle to this but it needs to be discussed in a more measured way."
She welcomed work by the European Commission and the OECD but said there needs to be more international discussion. She also complained that the legal fraternity have not done enough to engage in and promote debate.®
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The question was asked by Dick Eastman in a recent post entitled, "Do E-Books Spell the End of Lending Libraries." The post linked to a BBC report called, "Can libraries survive in a digital world? In checking on the status of various digital library projects, I found a Wikipedia page listing current digitizing efforts. Note, the links are to Wikipedia pages not to the libraries. Surprisingly, the list did not contain some of the well known genealogical scanning projects such as the Family History Archives and the efforts by Archive.org both of which contain major genealogically related materials. On the other hand, the list is quite impressive. Now the question asked by the article Dick Eastman referred to "lending" libraries and the British Library is not a lending library and neither is the Family History Library. So what does the digitizing projects have to do with the question? Apparently nothing except an example of what is going on with digitizing.
The BBC news spot really discussed E-Lending and so in order to see how all this works, I went onto the site for my local public library and using my library card signed up for E-Lending. Within a few minutes I was able to download and read two books. (I mean download and start to read, I couldn't read the books in a few minutes). Anyway, my library uses the Adobe Digital Editions program which unfortunately means that I can't download the books to my iPhone. However, that wasn't such a problem since the e-book collection at my library was woefully limited. I constantly read books on my iPhone. I am finishing two of them presently. So where do I get the books if they don't come from the public library?
I normally look for books on Google's E-books where they have more than 6 million books, just a few more than the whole State of Arizona's libraries put together, and of those, over a million come up in a search for the word "genealogy." Do I think that e-books will put the lending libraries out of business? No, but lack of availability of books might. I used to go to my public library about once a week and look through the new book arrivals. Guess what? No, new books. Due to extensive budget shortfalls in our community, the City cut the library budget (of course) and so no new books. So now I go to the library or look at the catalog and guess what? No books on Blogging. No books on Wikis. No books on almost anything current or interesting. So where do I go for books? Back to Google.com or maybe to Amazon.com.
On Google, I found an electronic copy of a book I had been searching for, for more than two years. Was there a chance that the book would ever be in my local lending libraries? Not on your life.
The idea here is that lending libraries will have to change their operational model to something that can provide an easy and accessible online service. It is true that as digitizing makes greater inroads into the world of books, there are fewer reasons to visit a lending library or even a reference library. Ask yourself this question, would you travel to Salt Lake City, Utah to the Family History Library if all of the microfilms and almost all of the books in their collection were available online for free?
When I was a lot younger, I remember going to the movies and having tables set up in the foyer asking everyone to sign to ban video tapes because they would kill the movie business. Did video tapes kill the movie business? Not. Will E-Lending kill lending libraries. Maybe, especially if they only lend books no one wants to read. Will E-Lending kill book sales? Not a chance. Paper books might decline, but authors and publishers can make as much or more profit from an e-book as they can from a traditional paper one. By the way, you are reading online.


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Fonterra yesterday apologized for a milk powder contamination scare in China, which has raised safety concerns that threaten New Zealand's US$9 billion annual dairy trade and Fonterra's own business in a top market.
Fonterra, the world's biggest dairy exporter, said over the weekend that it had found bacteria in some products that could cause botulism. It said contaminated whey protein concentrate had been exported to China, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand and Saudi Arabia, and used in products, including infant milk powder and sports drinks.
At a media briefing in Beijing after hurriedly flying to deal with the fallout in one of its largest markets, Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings said food safety was the company's top priority.
"We really regret the distress and anxiety which this issue could have caused," he said. "We totally understand there is concern by parents and other consumers around the world. Parents have the right to know that infant nutrition and other dairy products are harmless and safe."
The company was not facing a ban on its products in China, only restrictions on whey protein concentrate, he said, adding that 38 tonnes of whey protein concentrate were contaminated, of which 18 tonnes were used in its own factories in Australia and New Zealand to produce milk formula for two customers.
In China, Spierings said that products from two companies — Coca-Cola Co and Chinese food firm Wahaha (娃哈哈) — are safe because any bacteria would be killed during processing. Protein drinks made by Auckland-based Vitaco Health Group, another Fonterra customer, were also unaffected for the same reason.
A third company in China, Dumex Baby Food Co (多美滋嬰幼兒食品), a subsidiary of France's Danone, has told Fonterra that 12 batches could have been affected, he said. Half have been recalled as a precautionary measure and the other half remain in factories.
"None of the products tested by Dumex in China have reported problems," Spierings said. "There have been no customer complaints."
Products exported to China under the Karicare brand by another Danone subsidiary, Nutricia, do not contain the contaminated whey protein concentrate, he said.
Fonterra is a major supplier of bulk milk powder products used in infant formula in China, but it had stayed out of the branded space after Chinese dairy company Sanlu (三鹿), in which it had held a large stake, was found to have added melamine — often used in plastics — to bulk up formulas in 2008.
Spierings said the latest problem originated in a pipe in an factory in New Zealand that was seldom used, so a normal cleaning was not sufficient to sanitize it.
Fonterra discovered in March that some whey protein concentrate, produced and sold to customers in May last year, was contaminated. It immediately began testing, but as most of the bacteria's strains are benign, the company did not find the harmful strain until last month. Customers were informed on July 31, Spierings said.
"The supply chain for infant nutrition powder takes a long time with many steps," he said.
Initial tests last year did not uncover the harmful bacteria, Spierings said, but a more thorough round of testing in March did.
The affected plant was closed for cleaning after the possibility of a problem was discovered, he said.
He said the problem was isolated to that factory, and he was confident all contaminated products had been found.
China has restricted New Zealand imports of whey products, but Spierings said he expected that the curbs would be lifted as soon as the company furnishes a detailed explanation of what went wrong to Chinese regulators early this week.
The majority of the affected products have already been contained, he said, and the problem will be resolved within two days after all contaminated products have been recalled.


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Yes Hines should definately know better, they all should, but damn the NFL just keeps doing it best to take the fun out of scoring a TD. You can't help but get excited especially because the offense has been playing so well the last few weeks, but they just have to keep it in check.Thursday, October 26, 2006
By Ed Bouchette, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Someone found a way to take the fun out of the game for Hines Ward, at least momentarily.
Ward acknowledged yesterday that coach Bill Cowher had some harsh words for him after he helped cause a 15-yard penalty Sunday in Atlanta for celebrating a Nate Washington touchdown. Ward and rookie Santonio Holmes were flagged for joining Washington in mocking the Falcons' "dirty bird" dance.
"I apologized to coach," Ward said. "That's uncalled for. Was it planned? No, we just went off emotions.
"That was all emotional stuff. Santonio saw me dance, and he wanted to get into it. We all were just having fun, it wasn't to taunt anybody. But that's the rule, and we have to be smart about it.
"Coach Cowher talked to me about it, and it won't happen again."