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|Date / Time
|Wednesday May 09, 2018 @11:06AM
|A Smart Doorbell Company Is Working With Cops To Report 'Suspicious' People, Activities
|Friday January 22, 2016 @05:32PM
|UK Voice Crypto Standard Built For Key Escrow, Mass Surveillance
|Wednesday April 15, 2015 @02:14PM
|Researchers Design a Self-Powered Digital Camera
|Monday March 09, 2015 @05:05PM
|Scotland Yard Chief: Put CCTV In Every Home To Help Solve Crimes
|Thursday February 19, 2015 @03:14PM
|The Disastrous Privacy Consequences of Canada's Anti-Terrorism Bill
|Monday December 01, 2014 @11:37PM
|Obama Offers Funding For 50,000 Police Body Cameras
|Tuesday September 16, 2014 @08:36PM
|FBI Completes New Face Recognition System
|Sunday August 03, 2014 @11:29PM
|Google Spots Explicit Images of a Child In Man's Email, Tips Off Police
|Monday March 10, 2014 @07:35AM
|Metadata and the Intrusive State
|Saturday February 08, 2014 @03:47PM
|Cops With Google Glass: Horrible Idea, Or Good One?
|Tuesday January 28, 2014 @10:12AM
|Congressmen Say Clapper Lied To Congress, Ask Obama To Remove Him
|Thursday December 26, 2013 @04:54PM
|Houston Expands Downtown Surveillance, Unsure If It Helps
|Thursday December 19, 2013 @09:21AM
|Police Pull Over More Drivers For DNA Tests
|Thursday November 14, 2013 @09:39AM
|US Gov't Circulates Watch List of Buyers of Polygraph Training Materials
|Thursday November 14, 2013 @04:23AM
|US Intelligence Wants To Radically Advance Facial Recognition Software
|Saturday November 02, 2013 @05:38PM
|EU Considering Sensors In Sewers To Detect Bomb-Makers
|Friday October 25, 2013 @12:45AM
|The Boss Is Remotely Monitoring Blue-Collar Workers
|Sunday October 06, 2013 @05:27PM
|Sorm: Russia Intends To Monitor "All Communications" At Sochi Olympics
|Sunday July 14, 2013 @08:48AM
|What Medical Tests Should Teach Us About the NSA Surveillance Program
|Sunday June 30, 2013 @10:26AM
|To Counter Widespread Surveillance, Stealth Clothing
|Thursday June 27, 2013 @09:07AM
|Meet PRISM's English Little Brother: Socmint
|Friday June 21, 2013 @08:01PM
|QANTAS Wants To Monitor Frequent Flyers' Home Internet
|Thursday June 20, 2013 @09:42AM
|Nationwide Snooping System Launched In India
|Thursday April 11, 2013 @08:18AM
|Speeding Ticket Robots — Laws As Algorithms
|Tuesday April 09, 2013 @12:09PM
|Teachers Know If You've Been E-Reading
|Friday April 05, 2013 @07:22PM
|The ATF Wants To Know Who Your Friends Are
|Thursday April 04, 2013 @10:12AM
|Microsoft, NYC Marketing Vast Surveillance System To Other Cities
|Tuesday April 02, 2013 @04:01PM
|Google Glass and Surveillance Culture
|Thursday December 13, 2012 @09:25AM
|Engineers Use Electrical Hum To Fight Crime
|Tuesday December 11, 2012 @11:01AM
|UK Government To Revise Snooping Bill
|Monday November 12, 2012 @12:55PM
|Man Arrested For Photo of Burning Poppy On Facebook
|Wednesday October 31, 2012 @06:23PM
|More Drones Set To Use US Air Space
|Thursday October 18, 2012 @12:39AM
|Verizon Draws Fire For Monitoring App Usage, Browsing Habits
|Tuesday October 16, 2012 @11:19AM
|Texas Schools Using Electronic Chips To Track Students; Parents In Uproar
|Friday October 12, 2012 @06:03PM
|Seattle Police Want More Drones, Even While Two Sit Unused
|Tuesday October 09, 2012 @08:07AM
|Flaws Allow Every 3G Device To Be Tracked
|Thursday October 04, 2012 @11:45AM
|Starting Next Year, Brazil Wants To Track All Cars Electronically
|Friday September 28, 2012 @07:49PM
|ASIC Seeks Power To Read Your Emails
|Thursday September 20, 2012 @02:47PM
|No Smiles At NJ Motor Vehicle Commission
|Sunday September 16, 2012 @01:48AM
|Report Hints At Privacy Problem of Drones That Can Recognize Faces
|Friday September 14, 2012 @10:22PM
|Cameras To Watch Cameras In Maryland
|Friday September 14, 2012 @08:35PM
|Twitter Hands Over Messages At Heart of Occupy Case
|Thursday September 13, 2012 @08:00AM
|House Approves Extending the Warrantless Wiretapping Act
|Friday September 07, 2012 @09:15PM
|FBI Launches $1 Billion Nationwide Face Recognition System
|Thursday September 06, 2012 @08:31AM
|Networked Cars: Good For Safety, Bad For Privacy
|Tuesday September 04, 2012 @04:28PM
|Leave Your Cellphone At Home, Says Jacob Appelbaum
|Tuesday September 04, 2012 @04:28PM
|Australian Attorney General Pushes Ahead With Gov't Web Snooping
|Sunday August 26, 2012 @01:32PM
|Doctorow on the War on General Purpose Computing
|Friday August 24, 2012 @08:35PM
|Location Privacy Act Approved By California Legislature
|Tuesday August 14, 2012 @08:05AM
|Leaked Emails Allegedly Tell of Global "Trapwire" Spy Network
|Tuesday July 24, 2012 @06:07PM
|Spooky: How NSA's Surveillance Algorithms See Into Your Life
|Friday July 13, 2012 @11:46AM
|Facebook Scans Chats and Posts For Criminal Activity
|Thursday July 12, 2012 @08:24AM
|2 Year Data Retention For Australian ISPs
|Sunday June 17, 2012 @03:17PM
|Proposed UK Communications Law Could Be Used To Spy On Physical Mail
|Saturday June 16, 2012 @11:33PM
|At Canadian Airports, Your Conversation May Be Remotely Recorded
|Saturday June 16, 2012 @10:50PM
|Remotly recording conversations at Canadian airports
|Sunday June 10, 2012 @02:38PM
|Kinect: You Are the Controlled
|Thursday June 07, 2012 @09:37AM
|Could Cops Use Google As Pre-Cogs?
|Saturday June 02, 2012 @06:43PM
|Whose Cameras Are Watching New York Roads?
|Thursday May 24, 2012 @06:12PM
|FBI Quietly Forms Secretive Net-Surveillance Unit
|Sunday May 20, 2012 @07:46PM
|Facial Recognition Cameras Peering Into Some SF Nightspots
|Thursday May 17, 2012 @09:21AM
|Most CCTV Systems Come With Trivial Exploits
|Friday April 27, 2012 @07:51AM
|Will IBM Watson Be Your Next Mayor?
|Saturday April 21, 2012 @12:24PM
|Whistleblower: NSA Has All of Your Email
|Thursday April 19, 2012 @03:02PM
|Expect Mandatory 'Big Brother' Black Boxes In All New Cars From 2015
|Tuesday April 10, 2012 @08:25AM
|Company Designs "Big Brother Chip"
|Saturday April 07, 2012 @10:17AM
|Robot Helicopters To Single Out Pirate Ships
|Saturday April 07, 2012 @04:55AM
|Wikileaks Publishes Info On International Mass-Surveillance Industry
|Sunday March 25, 2012 @01:30PM
|Japanese CCTV Camera Can Scan 36 Million Faces/Second
|Saturday March 24, 2012 @06:42PM
|Brazilian Schoolchildren Tagged By Computer Chips
|Thursday March 22, 2012 @08:23AM
|NSA Chief Denies Claims of Domestic Spying
|Thursday March 22, 2012 @08:19AM
|New Samsung TV Watches You Watching It
|Thursday March 15, 2012 @02:15PM
|UK Plan Would Use CCTV To Stop Uninsured Drivers From Refueling
|Tuesday March 13, 2012 @12:31PM
|Astroturfing For Speed Cameras
|Saturday March 10, 2012 @02:32PM
|Drones, Dogs and the Future of Privacy
|Friday March 09, 2012 @07:25PM
|For Sale: Internet Spying Business Developed For Gaddafi
|Saturday March 03, 2012 @07:40AM
|Cook County Judge Says Law Banning Recording Police Is Unconstitutional
|Saturday February 18, 2012 @08:09AM
|FOIA Request Shows Which Printer Companies Cooperated With US Government
|Thursday February 16, 2012 @02:29PM
|Indian Government To Track Locations of All Cell Phone Users
|Tuesday February 14, 2012 @10:41AM
|Stanford's Francis Fukuyama Builds Personal Surveillance Drone
|Saturday February 11, 2012 @11:35AM
|San Francisco Enlists Bus Cameras For Traffic Law Enforcement
|Friday February 10, 2012 @06:32PM
|Smart Camera Tells Tobacco From Marijuana
|Thursday February 09, 2012 @09:09AM
|TomTom Satnavs To Set Insurance Prices
|Thursday February 09, 2012 @09:04AM
|FAA Bill Authorizes Surveillance Drones Over US
|Tuesday February 07, 2012 @09:30AM
|Canada's Massive Public Traffic Surveillance System
|Thursday February 02, 2012 @03:34PM
|Do You Like Online Privacy? You May Be a Terrorist
|Thursday February 02, 2012 @09:41AM
|Surveillance Cameras Used To Study Customer Behavior
|Thursday February 02, 2012 @09:37AM
|The Hi-Tech Security at the Super Bowl
|Friday January 27, 2012 @08:48PM
|January 28 is Data Privacy Day
|Friday January 27, 2012 @08:14PM
|Man Who Downloaded Bomb Recipes Jailed For 2 Years
|Friday January 27, 2012 @08:03PM
|FBI Building App To Scrape Social Media
|Thursday January 26, 2012 @10:11AM
|Hawaiian Bill Would Force ISPs to Track Users' Web Histories For 2 Years
|Thursday January 26, 2012 @10:01AM
|Bill To Track Web Sites Visited Proposed In Hawaii
|Thursday January 26, 2012 @09:10AM
|OzLog: Unlimited Private Data Retention For Australia?
|Tuesday January 24, 2012 @11:08AM
|Banks Using Mobile Phone Usage To Gauge Credit Risk
|Friday January 20, 2012 @08:42PM
|NYPD Developing Portable Body Scanner For Detecting Guns
|Friday January 20, 2012 @10:17AM
|Police Investigate Offensive Wi-Fi Network Name
|Tuesday January 17, 2012 @11:00AM
|DHS X-ray Car Scanners Now At Border Crossings
|Sunday January 08, 2012 @02:09AM
|Leaked Memo Says Apple Provides Backdoor To Governments
|Sunday January 01, 2012 @10:25PM
|In New Zealand, a System To Watch for Disabled Parking Violators
|Thursday December 29, 2011 @05:28PM
|TSA Got Everything It Wanted For Christmas
|Monday December 26, 2011 @01:46PM
|LAPD Surveillance Cameras Go Unused
|Saturday December 24, 2011 @08:13AM
|Face-Scanning Vending Machine Denies Children Access To Pudding
|Tuesday December 20, 2011 @12:28PM
|Will Toys-R-Us Carry Spy Drones?
|Tuesday December 20, 2011 @09:46AM
|Denver Must Prove Red-Light Cameras Improve Safety
|Tuesday December 20, 2011 @09:34AM
|Domestic Surveillance Drones Could Spur Tougher Privacy Laws
|Friday December 16, 2011 @08:23PM
|Coming Soon: Ubiquitous Long-Term Surveillance From Big Brother
|Tuesday December 13, 2011 @11:47AM
|Predator Drone Helps Nab Cattle Rustlers
|Monday December 05, 2011 @04:59PM
|New US Government Project To Monitor Electronic Communication
|Saturday December 03, 2011 @10:10AM
|Interpreting the Constitution In the Digital Era
|Thursday December 01, 2011 @10:18AM
|Carrier IQ Software May Be in iOS, Too
|Monday November 28, 2011 @02:57PM
|Internet Monitoring: Who Watches the Watchers?
|Friday November 25, 2011 @04:41AM
|Robots To Patrol South Korean Prisons
|Tuesday November 22, 2011 @11:51AM
|The Future of Protest in Panopticon Nation
|Sunday November 20, 2011 @11:29PM
|Plate Readers Abound in DC Area, With Little Regard For Privacy
|Sunday November 20, 2011 @08:47PM
|Panopticon Society and the Moral Power of an Image
|Tuesday November 15, 2011 @10:37AM
|Oxford City Council Mandates CCTV Cameras In Taxies by 2015
|Tuesday November 15, 2011 @09:38AM
|Aussie Bank Wants To Trade Social Network Data For Better Deals
|Tuesday November 01, 2011 @08:28AM
|Multi-Target Photo-Radar System To Make Speeding Riskier
|Sunday October 30, 2011 @07:17PM
|Weaponizable Police UAV Now Operational In Texas
|Saturday October 29, 2011 @07:47PM
|Google Street View Moves Indoors
|Friday October 28, 2011 @08:40PM
|TSA's VIPR Bites Rail, Bus, and Ferry Passengers
|Friday October 28, 2011 @07:30PM
|Blue Coat Concedes Its Devices Operating in Syria
|Friday October 28, 2011 @06:15PM
|RIM Helps Indian Authorities Access BlackBerry Messages
|Thursday October 20, 2011 @10:59PM
|Legal Tender? Maybe Not, Says Louisiana Law
|Thursday October 13, 2011 @02:07PM
|Vint Cerf: Media Tagging Can Be Disconcerting
|Wednesday October 12, 2011 @02:10PM
|US Intelligence Mining Your Social Network Data
|Tuesday October 11, 2011 @08:27AM
|Illegal To Take a Photo In a Shopping Center?
|Monday October 10, 2011 @10:13AM
|FBI Plans Nationwide Face-Recognition Trials In 2012
|Saturday October 08, 2011 @04:29PM
|German Government's Malware Analyzed
|Saturday October 08, 2011 @02:24PM
|Florida School District Begins Fingerprinting Students
|Wednesday October 05, 2011 @11:36AM
|Big Brother Calls 'Shotgun' In Illinois
|Friday September 30, 2011 @02:48PM
|Cloud-Powered Facial Recognition Is Terrifying
|Thursday September 22, 2011 @05:31PM
|Canberra Police Want Drones To Track Cars
|Tuesday September 20, 2011 @08:19AM
|Atlanta's Growing Video Surveillance System
|Monday September 12, 2011 @12:05AM
|YouTube Disables Comments and User Uploads For Korean Users
|Tuesday August 09, 2011 @09:28AM
|Building Blocks of DNA Confirmed In Meteorites
|Thursday July 28, 2011 @04:32PM
|Senators Want Secret Warrantless Wiretap Renewal
|Sunday July 24, 2011 @12:01AM
|Heathrow To Install Facial Recognition Scanners
|Monday July 18, 2011 @02:52PM
|Facial Recognition Gone Wrong
|Friday July 08, 2011 @01:35PM
|NJ Judge Rules GPS Tracking of Spouse Legal
|Thursday June 23, 2011 @01:02PM
|Tracking Bracelets for Autistic Kids and Senior Citizens
|Thursday June 16, 2011 @10:10PM
|Using Crowdsourcing To Identify Vancouver Rioters
|Monday June 13, 2011 @04:39PM
|New FBI Operations Manual Increases Surveillance
|Friday May 20, 2011 @01:19AM
|Australian Government To Widen Spy Agency Powers, Again
|Friday May 06, 2011 @07:39PM
|A New Human-Seeking Drone, Much Cheaper Than a Predator
|Friday April 29, 2011 @03:09AM
|Does Wiretapping Require Cell Company Cooperation?
|Thursday April 21, 2011 @02:47PM
|Speed Tickets Challenged Based On Timestamped Photos
|Friday April 15, 2011 @12:10AM
|RIM Co-CEO Cries 'No Fair' On Security Question
|Thursday April 14, 2011 @03:27PM
|White House To Drop Details of Cyber ID On Tax Day
|Tuesday April 12, 2011 @02:05PM
|NYPD Anti-Terrorism Cameras Used For Much More
|Wednesday March 23, 2011 @01:25PM
|New FBI System IDs People By Voice, Iris, More
|Saturday March 19, 2011 @03:44PM
|Postal Sensor Fleet Idea Gets Tentative Nod From the USPS
|Wednesday March 16, 2011 @12:29AM
|Scott Adams Says Plenty Would Choose Life In Noprivacyville
|Tuesday March 15, 2011 @06:55PM
|Iris-Scan ID Cards For Children In Mexico
|Tuesday March 15, 2011 @04:30PM
|Encrypted VoIP Meets Traffic Analysis
|Friday March 04, 2011 @12:51AM
|Student Sues FBI For Planting GPS Tracker
|Thursday March 03, 2011 @03:44PM
|DHS Eyes Covert Body Scans
|Thursday March 03, 2011 @11:40AM
|Beijing To Track Citizen's Cell Phones
|Saturday January 15, 2011 @11:59AM
|US Scraps Virtual Fence Along Mexican Border
|Thursday November 18, 2010 @05:01PM
|US May Disable All Car Phones, Says Trans. Secretary
|Friday November 12, 2010 @01:29AM
|Aussie Gov't Says Wiretap Laws Fine, Telcos 'Wrong'
|Tuesday November 09, 2010 @02:15PM
|US Wants Upper Hand In Battling High-Tech Bad Guys
|Thursday November 04, 2010 @02:13PM
|Cisco Social Software Lets You "Stalk" Customers
|Wednesday November 03, 2010 @01:30PM
|Prepare To Be Watched While You Watch a Movie
|Wednesday October 13, 2010 @12:44PM
|Careful What You Post, the FBI Has More of These
|Monday October 11, 2010 @06:12PM
|High-Tech Microphone Picks Voices From a Crowd
|Friday October 08, 2010 @09:50PM
|US Monitoring Database Reaches Limit, Quits Tracking Felons and Parolees
|Friday October 08, 2010 @06:16PM
|UAE Says RIM Played Ball, Will Maintain Service
|Wednesday October 06, 2010 @12:51PM
|New CCTV Site In UK Pays People To Watch
|Saturday August 28, 2010 @12:15PM
|Full-Body Scanners Deployed In Street-Roving Vans
|Saturday August 07, 2010 @12:25PM
|Saudi Says RIM Deal Reached; BlackBerry OK, If We Can Read the Messages
|Friday August 06, 2010 @10:02PM
|UK Switches Off £235M Child Database
|Thursday August 05, 2010 @10:25PM
|Google CEO Schmidt Predicts End of Online Anonymity
|Wednesday August 04, 2010 @02:38PM
|Officials Use Google Earth To Find Unlicensed Pools
|Sunday August 01, 2010 @08:17PM
|RIM's Encryption 'Too Secure' For Indian Government's Taste
|Sunday August 01, 2010 @07:16AM
|China Pushes Real Name System For Online Games
|Saturday July 31, 2010 @06:00PM
|'I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up!' v2.0
|Friday July 30, 2010 @11:54AM
|Tennessee Town Releases Red Light Camera Stats
|Thursday July 29, 2010 @01:47PM
|FBI May Get Easier Access To Internet Activity
|Friday July 16, 2010 @11:46AM
|Tokyo Rail Billboards Scan Viewer's Age, Gender
|Wednesday June 23, 2010 @03:23PM
|In NJ, Higher Tech Lowers Crime
|Friday June 11, 2010 @12:07PM
|Australian Gov't Seeks To Record Citizens' Web Histories
|Thursday June 03, 2010 @01:11PM
|EU To Monitor All Internet Searches
|Wednesday June 02, 2010 @01:46PM
|Software Describes Surveillance Footage In AI-Generated Text
|Thursday May 27, 2010 @02:01PM
|Proposed Law Would Require ID To Buy Prepaid Phones
|Wednesday May 19, 2010 @11:53AM
|Judicial Nominations In the Internet Age
|Friday May 07, 2010 @01:52PM
|Arizona Backs Off Its Speed Camera Program
|Thursday April 22, 2010 @04:31PM
|Seattle Hacker Catches Cops Who Hid Arrest Tapes
|Wednesday April 21, 2010 @01:16PM
|New Speed Cameras Catch You From Space
|Wednesday April 14, 2010 @02:38PM
|A Detailed Dive Into China's Information Underground
|Tuesday April 13, 2010 @10:53PM
|NSA Develops USB Storage Device Detector
|Sunday April 11, 2010 @03:54PM
|Mexico Will Shut Down 25.9 Million Cell Phones
|Wednesday April 07, 2010 @02:24PM
|Chicago Debates Merits of ShotSpotter Technology
|Wednesday April 07, 2010 @02:21PM
|Cold War Warrantless Wiretapping
|Friday April 02, 2010 @07:02PM
|US Changes How Air Travelers Are Screened
|Wednesday March 31, 2010 @05:35PM
|Journalists' Yahoo E-Mail Accounts Compromised In China
|Friday March 26, 2010 @06:23PM
|Government Could Forge SSL Certificates
|Sunday March 21, 2010 @07:07AM
|Every British Citizen To Have a Personal Webpage
|Thursday March 18, 2010 @09:23PM
|UK ID Cards Could Be Upgraded To Super ID Cards
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Sorry but that is a solved problem.
K-Meleon is compatible to Yahoo mail. Yagoo merely uses a script that snifs browsers and sends You to a page full of bull shit and claimes this browser is not compatibel.
Means: Yahoo intetionally sabotages the access for K-Meleon or they have a hired idiots. IMHO Yahoo should either abandon this policy or hire more competent programmers.
You can even have Beta Mail provided You change the message that the browser sends to Yahoo to something like:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-DE; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
or French equivalent ;-)
p. s. Would You like that I send You a screenshot while I write You a mail from Yahoo.com?
a bientot
Go to: Edit > Preferences > Privacy > set it to Pretend: Firefox2 (that is all You need to change so that You can use Yahoo Beta Mail with K-Meleon 1.1
This change can also be done via Privacy Bar if You right click at the "User Agent button".
Else use Privacy for a "User Defined" browser string from a Netscape, a Firefox or a SeaMonkey that You like, e. g. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20060912 Netscape/8.1.2 will work.
p. s. You could also edit: kmeleon.privacy.useragent1.string to You liking permanently (= change its value to the string of Your favourite K-Meleon alternative e.g. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; he-IL; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0 could do ) via about:config.
Just changing the browser string sent to Yahoo makes it compatible - that is why I am a little upset.

subset: commoncrawl


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As requested in the Town Hall forum, we have created an "Introductions" forum!
As we have just started this forum, it would be good for everyone who wants to to introduce themselves here!
I'll start!
Hi, my name is Karen, just like my username. When you are the very first person to join a forum, you get any name you want! :)
Paul and I founded this family of websites and this Bulletin Board, and we are the moderators here. If you have questions, concerns or problems, I'm the one to whom you should send a Private Message!
My current pet is Miss Hoppy, the cute little brown bunny you see as my avatar. She is 8 1/2 years old, and is her own breed - as in, she's probably a mix, but we don't know! :)


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Listen: Courtney Stodden's Second Sensual Single Sounds Slightly More Like A Real Song
So Courtney Stodden's second single dropped today, and despite its grating terribleness, I must say it represents quite the evolution from her lakeside, hater-taunting past. While "Don't Put It On Me" was all about how you can't blame the sexy 16-year-old when your man turns out to be a pedo, new single "Reality" is all about "clubbing and dancing with your sexy partner."
"To me, it's a story about lust," the irrepressible baby glamour model told Fox News. "It's about falling in love with someone. Is it in your head, or is it lust?" I'm thinking the title "Reality" could also be a meta-commentary on the complex layers of hyper-fake-ness that surround everything she does, to the point that we question the very concept of reality itself. Deep.
Musically, the song follows pop music's current trend of evoking bottle service and smoke machines with a pounding house beat and much computer wizardry. I'm not usually one to say this, but Auto-Tune is definitely Courtney's friend. Her voice sounds less like an irritated goose, and more like every person to undergo pitch correction ever. She's learning!
But what does a 17-year-old know of clubs? Well, my friend, the mark of a true artist is the ability to imagine a world beyond one's own. Or she has a fake ID, or is actually 35. With Courtney's help, we shall all transcend the impulse to want to know.
(Via Radar)


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Latest update : 2011-09-19
Clearstream scandal: a happy end?
Former French PM Dominique de Villepin was cleared this week by an appeals court of conspiring to smear his arch-rival, President Nicolas Sarkozy, in the 'Clearstream' case. But this doesn't mean he can rest on his laurels: Villepin is now accused by a former middleman of taking envelopes of 'dirty' cash from African leaders.
Marc Perelman interviews Jean-Marc Gonin, Senior Writer with Le Figaro Magazine; and Philip Turle, Journalist with Radio France Internationale.
Programme prepared by Narimène LAOUADI.


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WORCESTER -- The ex-stripper and former fiancée of a Fitchburg man accused of murdering his wife from an arranged marriage in 2009 told jurors Wednesday that he confessed the murder to her and even brought her to the area where the body had been disposed.
Rukhsara Saffa, who has been referred to thus far in court proceedings as Rukhsara O'Neill because she was also married at the time she was involved with Asim Amran, met Amran while she was a stripper using the stage name "Fantasy" at the Lamplighter II in fall 2008.
Saffa testified in Worcester Superior Court that on Dec. 31, 2008, she gave Amran an ultimatum -- that he must choose her or his wife by midnight. Saffa was then in the process of divorcing her husband, and Amran has told police his marriage with Faiza Malik was in shambles.
Saffa said Amran returned to her apartment in Worcester that night with his then-3-year-old son and allegedly told her, "That's your son. You have two kids now."
Amran was gone when she woke up the next morning, she said, and had taken her vehicle.
Malik disappeared right around this time. Saffa said Amran had first told her Malik was visiting family in Virginia, as an explanation for her absence.
Saffa testified that Amran, months later, as police were looking more closely at him as a suspect in his wife's disappearance, brought her to Hurricane Betty's, another strip club, checked her for a wire and told her that he'd hurt Malik.
Amran also allegedly told Saffa she would have to gain his trust by making a sex video with him, and she obliged. Judge Janet Kenton-Walker said the existence of this video is an agreed-upon fact by both the prosecution and defense.
After the creation of the video, Amran allegedly drove Saffa to the Interstate 395 onramp in Oxford in mid-August 2009 and showed her the wooded area where Malik's body had been dumped, which Saffa later reported to state police. Saffa said Amran warned her that if she told anyone what he did, he would kill her as well as her family.
Defense attorney Kevin Reddington blasted Saffa, demanding to know why some of her answers in court did not match up with those from an earlier grand-jury interview.
He accused her of knowing from the start that Malik had taken her own life and Amran panicked and dumped the body, believing he'd be blamed for her death. Reddington's questioning pointed to the possibility of Saffa being an accessory in the matter, perhaps even having offered Amran use of her vehicle, all of which Saffa denied.
Reddington also accused Saffa of using the entire incident as a means to help her secure U.S. citizenship, asking her if she'd requested police to write letters on her behalf. She said she did not.
Saffa, who is originally from Afghanistan, was in the United States on a visa from Pakistan until she became a citizen in 2010.
Dr. Henry Nields, the state's chief medical examiner, also testified Wednesday, telling jurors that there was enough morphine in Malik's corpse to cause her death, and he believes she was intentionally poisoned.
Nields' statement that he believed Malik's death to have been the result of "homicidal violence" was quickly stricken from the record by Judge Kenton-Walker, who reminded Nields and jurors that he was there to testify on the cause of death only, not the manner. That, she said, would be up to jurors to decide.
Reddington, referencing a peer-reviewed forensics report, said concentrations of drugs can dramatically increase in post-mortem tissue, skewing autopsy results. Nields said it was possible but did not believe it to be the case with Malik.
Reddington attacked Nields' credibility, citing a 2009 incident in which a possible Andover homicide victim was cremated before an autopsy was ever performed. He also attacked Nields' credentials, referring to a 2010 allegation that Nields did not finish his forensic pathology fellowship with the state Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
Nields' supervisor in the program, Dr. Stanton Kessler, alleged in October 2010 that Nields left the fellowship abruptly in 1997 due to anger-management issues and even forged his signature upon applying for certification by the American Board of Pathology in 2000. The chief medical examiner at the time of Nields' fellowship, Dr. Richard Evans, told The Boston Globe in 2010 that Nields did finish the program and he was unaware of any problems. Nields has denied all of the accusations.
The trial is expected to continue at 9 a.m. today. Jurors will spend most of the day on site views of the Fitchburg apartment Amran and Malik shared at 355 Summer St. and the area where Malik's body was found in Oxford, and will return to Worcester Superior Court for further witness testimony in the afternoon.
Follow Alana Melanson at facebook.com/alanasentinel and on Twitter @alanamelanson.


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Texas voters have approved a measure that would give the spouses of deceased disabled veterans a tax property exemption.
With 61 percent of precincts reporting, more than 83 percent of voters approved the constitutional amendment, according to unofficial results.
The measure faced no opposition. Currently 100-percent disabled veterans receive an exemption from property taxes. Proposition 1 extends the benefit to their spouses.
Texas voters have rejected a constitutional amendment that would have given counties the same bonding powers as cities and town, while passing a measure to allow cities and counties to enter contracts with one another without creating a new tax district.
Under Proposition 4, Texas counties would have been given the same authority that cities and towns have to issue bonds to finance the development of unproductive, underdeveloped or blighted areas, while pledging repayment with property tax revenues. Critics argued that the amendment would expand transportation reinvestment zones to counties, which could clear the way for new toll roads.
Proposition 5 authorizes the Legislature to allow cities and counties to enter into contracts with other cities and counties without triggering a property tax.
The governor will have new powers to grant pardons, elected officials will have more time to resign before running for another office and there is a more funds for student loans after Texas voters approved changes to the Texas Constitution.
Proposition 9 allows the Texas governor to grant a pardon, reprieve or commutation of punishment to a person who completes a sentence of deferred adjudication. But the court records could only be cleared on the written recommendation and advice of the Board of Pardons and Paroles.
Under Proposition 10, local elected officeholders would get an extra 30 days before triggering automatic resignation if they become a candidate for another office.
The Higher Education Coordinating Board can now issue bonds for low-interest student loans now that voters have approved Proposition 3.
The General Land Office will make more money available for public schools and the state will issue more bonds for water projects after voters approved the measures.
Proposition 2 enables the state to create a revolving $6 billion bond package to finance water conservation, and sewage and flood-control projects.
Voters also approved Proposition 6, which recalculates the formula by which money from the Permanent School Fund is distributed and could increase the amount going to school districts.
Texas voters have rejected a tax exemption proposed to promote water conservation.
Proposition 8 would have given tax breaks to landowners who take measures to conserve water and preserve water quality. The proposal was hailed as one of the few measures approved by the Legislature last session that received bipartisan support.
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I TRY and keep my connection with the G-O-D or with a power that's bigger than me. It's important � otherwise you don't have accountability. If you think, 'Hey, at the end of it all I am just going to be dust' or 'I have no soul,' why not be a menace to society or whatever. For me accountability works."
That's pop star Katy Perry, who famously sang "I Kissed a Girl" and is now busy kissing fellow musician and, apparently, tamed hound dog John Mayer.
I suppose people who keep track of everything know Jamie Dornan. I didn't know his name, though he acts, sings and models. But he is pretty much an untested quantity in a big-budget film. However, it is Jamie who has been named to play the role of Christian Grey in "Fifty Shades of Grey," following Charlie Hunnam's sudden departure from the movie.
I always thought an unknown, or at least not an actor overly familiar to audiences would be the best choice, especially as he has to commit to two more "Grey" films.
Dakota Johnson is still on board as Anastasia.
I loved Jonathan Rhys Meyers as the sexiest, most imaginatively re-invented Henry VIII in TV's "The Tudors." What seemed a wild stretch turned out to be just perfect. After all, history was made to be tweaked a bit. In the end, as with gossip and conspiracy theories, people believe what they want to believe.
But I wonder about Mr. Rhys Meyers in the coming NBC series "Dracula." Of course, the handsome actor plays the immortal bloodsucker, but he almost seems too well typecast here. He's dark and broody and the show is set in 1896 London, so Jonathan gets to wear a lot of fancy duds.
With the final demise (I hope!) of the anemic "Twilight" movies, I thought the endless vampire craze was over. Apparently not. And zombies remain a hot topic, on big and small screens.
I like Jonathan. He's an excellent actor and my one interview with him remains an indelible memory. He was almost wearing a skintight, V-neck T-shirt that plunged so far it was difficult to stay focused on his pouty lips and whatever he was saying. He's had his troubles and I had been warned he could be "difficult." But he was a doll.


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Sorry to hear ... Seemed like a good guy
Just read that he passed today. Great color guy on the radio he knew his stuff. Got to meet him after Jet games he was a very friendly guy.
Sorry to hear ... Seemed like a good guy
One of the best the Jets ever had on the radio and field. Nice guy, sad. Too young.
Very sad. Seemed to be well liked by both friends and colleagues. Knew the rules of the game better than most refs. RIP.
Wow. Horrible news. He was a punter and an even better radio guy. Great personality and seemed like a genuine person who was calm and straight up with everything he said. What I'll remember most is how extensively he knew the rules of football. He would always correct a guy who would generically refer to the officials as "refs". He'd be like, "No, the ref didn't make a bad call. It was the Field Judge who is one of many officials on the field."
Apparently he had Parkinson's disease which I never knew.
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RIP Dave
Great player, great broadcaster and personality. RIP
Dave Jennings was my favorite radio broadcaster for the Jets, so knowledgeable and great at explaining football nuance and rules. I was disappointed when the Jets let him go from their radio broadcast team, (apparently they wanted more of a homer) The Giants picked him up immediately.
Parkinson's must be difficult to live with ... RIP Dave.
Really sad news to me...
I really loved Jennings as a radio personality. He was one of the reasons I actually enjoyed listening; he really brought me Joy and when a humanbeing can bring others Joy, to me, it says a great deal about them
Dave and Marty Glickman were the best radio team the Jets ever had. Pretty good punter, too. And by all accounts a good guy.
R.I.P. Dave. I was not happy when the Jets let him go. A master of the rules of the game and explaining them to his listeners. His commentary was very insightful. Very sad to hear.
R.I.P., punter when it was needed, Giants.
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Without question the best radio analyst the Jets and Giants ever had.
Condolences to the Jennings Family.
What personally bothers me is Mara and the Giants taking ownership of Jennings legacy. Yes he punted for the Giants for a long time but he only broadcast for the the Giants for five years ... he broadcast for the Jets for 13 years ... In all he spent 17 years punting and broadcasting with the Jets and 17 punting and broadcasting with the Giants.
Call me reactionary but the fact that Woody has not gone before the press to pay homage to an important person in the NFL community and New York is shameful.


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By Mary Beard
Special to Stlouisrams.com
The St. Louis Rams Community Player of the Week is defensive tackle
Michael Brockers is notable for many things. His size being the most obvious--standing at 6-5 he is one of the tallest members of the Rams defense. His skills on the field are another well-known trait. During the 2012 season, he led the team's defensive linemen in tackles with a total of 63 in his rookie year. But a growing amount of fans in the St. Louis area are discovering that Michael's size and hard work on the field are matched by his dedication to service and giving back in the community.
Particularly, this summer Michael has taken an active interest in making sure that local students in need were prepared for the upcoming school year.
In August, Michael partnered with Little Bit Foundation and hosted a back-to-school event at Patrick Henry Downtown Academy. Kindergartners through sixth graders received school supply packages and a pizza party from Michael and participated in a PLAY 60 event with a giant game board, encouraging them to make healthy life choices. But he didn't just provide them with tools and the treats necessary to learn, he took time to speak to them on the school's 2013-2014 theme "Becoming a Champion." He also met with the sixth graders on their own and talked to them about preparing for middle school. Michael also participated in the first ever D-Line Champion Community Paintball Tournament this summer at Gateway Paintball. Michael and 14 of his teammates played in a round robin tournament, each leading a team. Funds raised provided local families with items needed for a successful school year such as clothes, school supplies and computers. The event was an extension of the defensive linemen's Sack Homelessness, a program where each defensive lineman, Coach Waufle and Coach McGinnis make a financial contribution to St. Patrick Center for every sack by the Rams.
As part of his dedication to education, Michael and teammate
Of course, as a professional athlete, Michael has found ways to incorporate his athletic talents into his service to the community. This summer, he participated in the Jeff Fisher and Friends Celebrity Softball Game with his fellow teammates and coaches to benefit five different charities. He also is a member of the Rams' All Community Team, a season long initiative where he purchases game tickets and donates them to charitable groups. Each home game, seats in the 'Brocker's Big Timers' section are filled with members of Boys and Girls clubs and youth in need.
Michael also helped out children in need when he and many of his teammates attended the 2013 Celebrity Night of Wishes benefitting Make-A-Wish Missouri. Michael collected tips from attendants in return for photos and autographs throughout the festive night and helped raise enough money to fund 56 wishes for children in the St. Louis area who are battling terminal illnesses.
"Michael has emerged as a tremendous leader in the community for us," said Molly Higgins, vice president of corporate communications/civic affairs, St. Louis Rams. "He is making a great impact in St. Louis through his generous financial support of St. Patrick Center and his efforts around underserved youth including his school outreach and his ticket donations to Boys and Girls clubs. He really appreciates the position that he is in and his ability to make a difference and that certainly was on display when he hosted the back-to-school drive at Patrick Henry. He's going to be a leader for us for many years to come."
About the Rams Community Player of the Week
Each week during the 2013 season, the St. Louis Rams will select a player who has made a positive impact on the Greater St. Louis community, giving of himself off the field. Each honored Rams Community Player of the Week will receive a gift certificate to Ruth's Chris Steak House, the Official Steak House of the St. Louis Rams.


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I think I've found the limits of Video Mode Ultra -- when we first hard in the 3.1 patch notes that Blizzard was adding in a superspecial video mode for high-end computers to use, I was excited. I just recently "updated" my PC (read: "it broke and I had to spend a lot of time and money to fix it"), and it's been running like butter, so I was interested in putting it to the test. The day after the patch dropped, I flipped the switch to Ultra, and had no problems -- until this past Saturday. While wandering around Dalaran, I noticed my framerate had dropped quite a bit. I lowered a couple of the environmental settings just a bit and I was fine again, but apparently even with a 2.5 GHz quad core CPU, 4gb of RAM, and a GeForce 9600GT, Video Mode Ultra is still just a little too hardcore for me.
What's interesting is that I ran Wintergrasp a few times before having those slowdowns in Dalaran, and never had a problem. But then again, Blizzard did say that they had spent a lot of time making sure Wintergrasp was streamlined enough to run huge battles with minimal slowdown, so maybe Dalaran didn't get that same makeover. And I should say as well that I had no issues anywhere else in the world -- even my Naxx run the other evening looked perfect with Ultra flipped on.
Having a "future" graphics mode on PC games is nothing new -- for most games, the highest graphics setting is usually "experimental," so there's a little leeway in terms of release time (the game looks good with current hardware, but even better with next year's gear). And Video Mode Ultra is just that -- Blizzard trying to send a shot across the bow at those who are already saying the graphics look a little dated.


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Cavel International -- a Belgian company -- had been slaughtering 60,000 horses a year and exporting the meat to places where people like to eat horse meat: Belgium, France, and Russia. It was the last horse slaughtering plant in the country.
Here's Posner's opinion for the 7th Circuit (PDF):
Horse meat was until recently an accepted part of the American diet--the Harvard Faculty Club served horse-meat steaks until the 1970s. No longer is horse meat eaten by Americans..., though it is eaten by people in a number of other countries, including countries in Europe; in some countries it is a delicacy. Meat from American horses is especially prized because our ample grazing land enables them to eat natural grasses, which enhances the flavor of their meat.The question was whether the law violated the negative Commerce Clause or the Due Process clause, and both issues depended on whether the law was wholly irrational. Posner serves up a meaty opinion.
[Cavel argues:] The horses will be killed anyway when they are too old to be useful and what difference does it make whether they are eaten by people or by cats and dogs? But the horse meat used in pet food is produced by rendering plants from carcasses rather than by the slaughter of horses, and the difference bears on the effect of the Illinois statute. Cavel pays for horses; rendering plants do not. If your horse dies, or if you have it euthanized, you must pay to have it hauled to the rendering plant, and you must also pay to have it euthanized if it didn't just die on you. So when your horse is no longer useful to you, you have a choice between selling it for slaughter and either keeping it until it dies or having it killed. The option of selling the animal for slaughter is thus financially more advantageous to the owner, and this makes it likely that many horses (remember that Cavel slaughters between 40,000 and 60,000 a year) die sooner than they otherwise would because they can be killed for their meat. States have a legitimate interest in prolonging the lives of animals that their population happens to like....Go to the PDF if you want to see how Posner manages to work in a photograph of a lion eating a birthday cake made out of horse meat. John Stuart Mill... a photograph of a lion eating a birthday cake made out of horse meat... I love these erudite opinions!
Of course Illinois could do much more for horses than it does--could establish old-age pastures for them, so that they would never be killed (except by a stray cougar), or provide them with free veterinary care. But it is permitted to balance its interest in horses' welfare against the other interests of its (human) population; and it is also permitted to take one step at a time on a road toward the humane treatment of our fellow animals....
But even if no horses live longer as a result of the new law, a state is permitted, within reason, to express disgust at what people do with the dead, whether dead human beings or dead animals. There would be an uproar if restaurants in Chicago started serving cat and dog steaks, even though millions of stray cats and dogs are euthanized in animal shelters. A follower of John Stuart Mill would disapprove of a law that restricted the activities of other people (in this case not only Cavel's owners and employees but also its foreign consumers) on the basis merely of distaste, but American governments are not constrained by Mill's doctrine.


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From an outsiders view what I saw with the Broncos was a team rallying around a strong leader and playing better football. You can look at Tebow's physical QB skills and analyze them all day. There are tons of flaws and a lot of room for improvement. It's only fair to take into account his intangibles, and that is something that most would agree are off the chart.
There are guys like Carson Palmer with all of the skills you could ever want and none of the intangibles, then there are guys like Tebow who are the exact opposite, and then a guy like Tom Brady who has the best of both worlds. It's often said in sports that great leaders elevate the game of everyone around them, I'm pretty sure that's what we saw happen in Denver. Because lets be real, that team doesn't really have a ton of talent or anything.


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Jessie Kolden had a team-high 16 kills and Bailey Jensen added 14 kills and five blocks to lead Christopher Newport, ranked fifth in Division III, to a 19-25, 25-18, 25-21, 23-25, 15-12 win over Randolph-Macon in an NCAA regional semifinal at the Freeman Center.
The Captains (38-2), winners of 30 straight matches, overcame a 10-8 fifth-set deficit. They will host fourth-ranked Emory at 2 p.m. Sunday for a spot in the Elite Eight next weekend.
Emory, which won in four sets Saturday over Juniata, beat CNU in five sets earlier this season in San Antonio. ...
William and Mary (13-13, 5-7) lost 25-17, 24-26, 25-21, 25-19 at CAA regular-season champion Towson (25-3, 12-0) despite Molly Krull's 33 assists and Dessi Koleva's 12 kills.
The Tribe will return to Towson on Friday to face Hofstra in a CAA quarterfinal at 7 p.m. W&M is the fifth seed, while the Pride is fourth.
Men's soccer:
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute scored in the 25th and 85th minute to oust CNU 2-0 in an NCAA first-round game in Swarthmore, Pa.
The Captains finished 15-4-2.
Women's soccer:
Virgiina Wesleyan (18-2-1) fell 1-0 to Rowan in an NCAA Division III first-rounder in Baltimore,
Erika Suhl scored on a header for the Profs in the 78th minute, handing the Marlins their fourth consecutive 1-0 national loss. Three of those four have been in Baltimore.
Field hockey:
Maartje vanRijswijk scored five goals, four in the first half, as Old Dominion rolled past Michigan 6-1 in the NCAA tournament's first round in Chapel Hill, N.C.
ODU will play No. 1 North Carolina at 2 p.m. Sunday for a berth in the Final Four, which is in Norfolk. ...
Hadley Bell scored the tiebreaking goal in the 60th of 70 minutes as Virginia beat Iowa 3-2 in Charlottesville to earn a quarterfinal berth against No. 2 Princeton, which ousted Drexel 5-0. U.Va.'s Paige Selenski and Elly Buckley scored in the first half. ...
Sierra Rauchbach's goal in the 17th minute was decisive as No. 2 seed Montclair State defeated No. 7 CNU 1-0 in Salisbury, Md., in the NCAA Division III round of 16. Montclair outshot CNU 11-3. ...
Gloucester product Shelly Milks scored 15 minutes into Lynchburg's 2-0 win against Messiah, earning the Hornets the right to face Mary Washington on Sunday in a quarterfinal in Fredericksburg.
Apprentice went 3-1 in Saturday's matches at an event in Scranton, Pa.
The Builders lost 39-12 to Maryland Baltimore County, but they won 32-16 against Penn State DuBois, 35-15 against the Pennsylvania College of Technology and 32-15 versus Scranton. ...
Old Dominion lost 35 to minus-1 to No. 7 Missouri, getting a point deducted for unsportsmanlike conduct, and fell 29-9 at Purdue.
East Carolina swept W&M in Williamsburg.
The Pirates' men won 146-116, though the Tribe set pool records in the 400-yard medley relay
(3:23.61) and 200 free relay (1:24.67). Will Manion, Andrew Strait, Justin Barden and Hunter Perrot swam the 400, and Ben Ward, Perrot, Sidney Glass and Newport News' Billy Russell swam the 400.
Strait broke his own pool record in the 200 individual medley by winning in 1:53.16.
ECU's women won 166-94, with the Tribe winning three individual events. Megan Howard won the 50 free gold in 24.15 and swam on the winning 200 free relay (1:35.64).
Men's tennis:
Virginia's Jarmere Jenkins advanced to the final of the national indoor intercollegiate tournament in New York, where he'll play Pepperdine's Sebastian Fanselow.
Fanselow beat No. 1 seed Alex Domijan of U.Va. 6-4, 3-6, 7-5, and Jenkins was leading 6-1 when Duke's Henrique Cunha retired with a shoulder injury.
Earlier in the day, Cunha and Raphael Hemmeler defeated Jenkins and Mac Styslinger 7-5, 6-2 in a doubles semifinal. The Blue Devils are seeded second. ...
At the Tribe Invitational, William and Mary and Old Dominion met head-to-head Saturday in seven singles matches and three doubles pro-sets. The Tribe won four of the singles and two of the doubles.
W&M's Jamie Whiteford, ranked 43rd nationally, beat the Monarchs' Carlos Lopez-Villa 6-1, 7-6 (7-5) in one of the featured contests.
Women's tennis:
Virginia's unseeded Stephanie Nauta and Li Xi defeated Pepperdine's Lorraine Guillermo and Khunpak Issara 7-5, 6-2 to reach the doubles final at the national indoor tournament in New York.
The Cavaliers will face top seeds Kaitlyn Christian and Sabrina Santamaria of Southern California on Sunday. ...
Sydney Smith and Jackie Lee highlighted William and Mary's efforts at the Kitty Harrison Invitational in Chapel Hill, N.C., taking second place in their doubles flight.
Cross country:
CNU senior Ray Gamache finished fifth at the NCAA South/Southeast Cross Country Regional in Hampton, Ga., and qualified for the national meet Nov. 17 in Terre Haute, Ind.
The CNU men placed seventh out of 23 teams -- its best finish since 2005 -- with a score of 197. The women also finished 12th out of 26 squads by amassing a score of 319.
Gamache finished 8 kilometers in 25:55.84, becoming the first Captains man to qualify for the nationals in four years.


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Hey guys,
I'm interested in building an application that can allow you to view notifications from your accounts (Gmail, Ymail, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.) on a PC, without having to log in to each account through the web.
So basically it's like a timeline of notifications from your accounts that you can minimize/maximize from your task bar when you want to view it.
Can anyone tell me how you'd personally go about a project like this?
If you need any more details just let me know. I'll be happy to explain.


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The Chef: Banhwich
The Menu: Okay, on very special occasions, we let someone else do the cooking. Today was just such a lunch, as we were celebrating the birthday of our most dedicated volunteer, Ms. Frankie. Banhwich is a local Vietnamese restaurant, and they make some seriously wonderful sandwiches. Today we all got a big sandwich on a fresh, French roll stuffed with tofu, shredded carrots, cucumbers, cilantro, and special sweet tangy sauce. In case that wasn't treat enough, we also ate tofu, bean sprout, and lettuce spring rolls, complete with peanut dipping sauce.
The Goods: We freakin' love birthdays. Well, okay, maybe we love Frankie and the fact that birthdays give us the excuse to make specific lunchtime demands and eat more than we likely should. Either way, lunch today was amazing, and was made even more so by the appearance of a still-warm apple crisp courtesy of Colleen. Maybe it's a little bit difficult to get a photo of crisp that doesn't end up looking like a big, messy pile of gooey goodness, but, you know, around here we like gooey. It's totally appropriate to drool now:
Monday, December 3, 2007
Happy Birthday Sandwiches!
Posted by VegNews Magazine at 2:17 PM
Labels: Colleen, Frankie, Vietnamese sandwiches
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- Wheeler's Black Label Vegan Ice Cream said...
Those sandwiches look tasty! :) -Amy@Wheeler's
- December 4, 2007 at 8:51 AM
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I seriously don't know where some of you BE supporter get this crap. With him our passing game sucked. With out him it sucked just as much. I have watch all his games and he was no where near the best WR we had over the last 10 years. Dude was a flat out dog. Yeah he had talent and was likeable but that is about it. Didn't bring anything more then guys like Plax, Holmes or Justin McCareins IMO. Move on and find a WR that may actually help the team win. BE did nothing nothing at all special for this team. period He is the Shon Greene of JETS WRs for the love of god.
In Edwards' first stint with the Jets he had 12 TDs in 28 games and 1,445 yards.
J-Mac had 4 full seasons with the Jets (64 games) during which he scored a grand total of 7 TDs and about 2,050 yards.
On top of that, J-Mac was a dropped-pass machine. Braylon, after having that rep in Cleveland, was surprisingly sure-handed. Still want to go with that comparison?
Hey I just discovered the "ignore" feature here on JI. I used it for the 1st and 2nd time two posters in this thread who I consider to be trolls. My suggestion is rather that responding to these guys, try the ignore feature instead.
With that being said, almost everyone in this thread wants Edwards back. Add me to that list as well.
I'll go further. Sanchez has sucked since his first start (which IMO was his best game ever). I can look back on his career and point to 6-7 games in total where he played well. That's it. He had a few flashes in some other games but as far as complete games the number is in single digits at best. I was a Sanchez supporter through last season but that was because I figured Schitty was part of the problem. This season sealed it. That game versus Tennessee was horrific. The butt fumble was an embarrassment that will live in the annals of Jets incompetence lore alongside the fake spike and countless draft day gaffes.
I just went through his record. In 4 seasons he has 9 games with a passer rating over 100. Of those 9, seven were games in which he threw for under 200 yards. Most were against lollipop opponents.
The shocking thing is that he has been given the opportunity to start year after year. He has been garbage since day one and has gotten worse each year. We as fans wanted to give the guy a chance and hope he would mature but based on what other rookie QB's are doing nowadays the era of 4-5 years of learning the position is over.
Oh and back to the topic, Braylon has been a solid player as a Jet. Guy works hard, blocks well and in general has been a good player for us. I would definitely bring him back next season.
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"30th Street Station is an iconic fixture in Philadelphia," said Stephen Gardner, Amtrak vice president of Northeast Corridor infrastructure and investment development. "As stewards of this national historic landmark, we are committed to maintaining its status as a first-class facility for passengers and further integrating the station into the vital University City neighborhood."
Since Fall 2012, crews have been working on a reconstruction project along the west side of 30th Street Station that features a redesigned pedestrian plaza and reinforced basement structure. The new plaza, scheduled for completion by Thanksgiving 2013, will improve vehicle traffic and pedestrian flow around the station, enhance lighting for better security and visibility, provide safer walking and driving conditions and expand public parking. Below-ground work on the parking deck and basement will continue through 2014 to fortify the infrastructure and improve parking conditions.
Amtrak begins Phase 1 of a multi-million dollar restoration of the exterior facade of 30th Street Station with installation of a temporary sidewalk canopy system that will be erected around the sides of the building. The canopy will keep pedestrians safe and provide a weather-proof area under which to access the station while funding for Phase 2 (the remainder of the facade restoration) is identified. Construction of the canopy will begin this month and be paid for with approximately $2 million of Amtrak funds.
Passenger elevators that connect the train platforms with the main concourse will be replaced, along with elevators that service the employee office towers in the upper floors of the building. This is a $3 million Amtrak-funded project with work scheduled to begin this fall.


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So I got my warrior and rogue to lvl 76 now. Between them have a j1 healer merc and a app5 melee merc. Trying to find a good place to gain exp. Direwind has started to become lightblue and the exp gain has slowed down to a crawl. I was told I should try ashengate but I couldn't even get there because of the two yelllow con giant statues that hit for 3kish that guard the place (its also my understanding mobs inside ashengate hit just as hard). My warrior is 76 has CA CS maxed shield specialist block/specialist maxed, planar power maxed, pretty much anything that looked like defense or hitpoints is maxed minus those 5 to 7 aa per 100hitpoint things. He has 580ish AA total. MY rogue has 480ish AA CA CS is at 8 and most everything else is in things to add DPS. Both have a good chunk of AA into the strikethru aa's.
Anyways having trouble finding things I can actually tank. Tried loping plains goblin fort and can handle single or double pulls however its about impossible to only pull singles or doubles there. When I pull doubles HAve to be right on the ball or will wipe, takes merc half mana to get through it.
Any recommendations? Starting to get really annoyed, I just want to lvl up. With buffs warrior has around 16kish hitpoints and 2780ish ac. Felt like I was doing good spending all that time grinding out all these AA points to get warrior up to par for tanking and still struggle to tank something blue sometimes. Gear wise he has a mixture of the elegant defiant and the glowing othini stuff. Weapon and shield are both from the revamped Cazic Thule drops (same goes for the rogue).


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The Citizens for Responsible Growth (CRG) are on the move to stop any "massive" development from siting in Hood River.
On Dec. 10, Kathy Eastman, CRG representative, asked the Hood River City Council to support passage of an emergency ordinance that will limit the "footprint" of commercial buildings within the county to 50,000 square feet. The new regulation would only be in effect for 61 days, but Eastman said that time period would give county officials time to possibly adopt a permanent code.
The issue goes before the Hood River County Commission next Monday and the council declined to attend since it will also be holding a special session that same night. However, the council voted to send a letter urging the county to take whatever action is possible to incorporate the new size restriction, and accompanying design criteria, as quickly as possible. In addition, that letter strongly requests that the county adopt all city zoning and design ordinances in the urban growth areas which will someday be annexed into the city limits. The county has drawn sharp criticism for not adopting the city's new sign code, which limits the sizes and number of commercial advertisements.
"I think we ought to make it really clear that we want our ordinances enacted and enforced," said Councilor Charles Haynie.
The new commercial building size restrictions were adopted by the city on Oct. 8 and immediately forwarded to the county planning department for its review. Under a formal agreement made in 1997, the county is slated to begin the public hearing process on a duplicate code or a revised version in January.
At its Dec. 10 meeting, the city agreed to make a slight revision to its own footprint code that was requested by Will Carey, county land use attorney. That change clarified that the city's intent in passing the ordinance was not to restrict any one commercial development to only 50,000 square feet, just to ensure that multiple buildings be required for larger complexes.
The city's move to limit "big box" development was viewed by some officials as ironic since Wal-Mart had stepped forward three days earlier with preliminary sketches for a 185,000 square foot super center on commercial property at the junction of Frankton and Country Club Roads. Following a pre-application meeting with the national chain store's developers and a number of involved public agencies, the 260-member grassroots citizen group formed to fight against the large-scale enterprise which they believed would harm the existing businesses and spoil the river city's "rural character."
"We are not against Wal-Mart specifically, our concern would be over any `big box' development that wanted to settle in Hood River," said CRG representative Maui Meyer.
To educate citizens about its stand, CRG has printed 500 brochures which are now available at downtown and other area businesses. The organization has also drafted a map of Wal-Mart's proposed building site that contrasts the scale of the development with the surrounding landscape.
If the national chain store turns in a formal building application before the new size restriction has gone into effect, it will have "grandfathered" rights to develop its super center -- although it will still be required to mitigate traffic, wetland, landscaping and design concerns.
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Thoughts of History and Hats
Wednesday evening last week, I went to my mother's to spend some time with my uncle on his last night here this year. Spending time with Poul is always fun - he has a seemingly inexhaustible store of really bad jokes.... hang on, here's my favorite. It's better told in person, so feel free to spread it around:
You ask the innocent victim to define the difference between unlawful and illegal. After they very seriously have attempted to navigate the nuances, earnestly explaining their reasoning to you, you end with this sentence: "one is against the law, the other is a sick bird". It's ridiculously funny every single time.
Spending time with Poul is also fascinating - he's had the kind of life many of us dream about. After the war (that'd be World War II), he left the small provincial town in which my mother's family lived so fast you couldn't see him for the smoke and went to Germany to work for the U.S. Army. He has told stories about the ruined infrastructure, the rubble that was once homes, shops, schools and hospitals, about the wounded limping around town, some without legs propelling themselves forward by their arms while seated on a small square piece of wood on which they had affixed four wheels. He has told us stories about being at the
It was in
After the war, Poul continued working for the U.S. Army and has worked all over the world, including
Poul is a gypsy, having not only lived in many countries, but also visited many others on his travels. He once calculated that he has been to 74 different countries in this world and I am beyond envious. On Wednesday evening, he told a story about how he went to Kwai - yes, that one - and walked across the bridge, saw the cemetery where the POWs who built the bridge are buried. My uncle is a piece of living history, carrying memories of times and places that I've only read about in books.
Igrew up hearing stories about the war, about what it was like living in an occupied country. In the town in which my mother grew up, there was an old building transformed into a prison hospital and she used to play in a garden adjacent to the grounds. The wounded German soldiers held there would stand by the fence, looking at the children, speaking to them in German, sometimes showing a picture of their own children, but not understood by the Danish kids. Connection was in smiles exchanged between the vanquished and the children of the liberated. I grew up hearing stories about the time when mor was less than 10 and witnessed an informer being gunned down on the street in bright daylight. Stories about the neighbours hiding Jews in the attic, someone else rowing them across the sound to safety in
We have no idea what this is like, growing up in safety, in countries that are not invaded and occupied. We hear the words "never again", but I don't think we know what it means, what it is that needs to never happen again. In
We say we need to listen to the stories of our parents and grandparents, but as a culture, there isn't much attention paid to anyone over 60. Or to anything that happened more than a few decades ago (if that - Rwanda and Darfur, anyone?). Too often, in this busy world, we don't make time for reflection on the past and without it, we can't see nuances, only two-dimensional white hats and black hats. Without understanding the past, carrying its lessons with us into the present, we are doomed to repeat it.


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Skip to comments.Our Useless White House Press Corps
Posted on 03/01/2013 11:18:31 PM PST by Kaslin
I don't always agree with Slate's Dave Weigel, but his withering piece on the willful obsolescence of the White House press corps came to mind today as President Obama fielded questions about the sequester. Obama's initial remarks were filled with inaccuracies, misplaced blame and tendentious arguments -- but that's par for the course. The "question" and "answer" session was far more aggravating. Let's review the transcript and recount just a few reasons why:
(1) The president twice made glaringly misleading or false claims about deficit reduction pertaining to the 2011 Budget Control Act:
We've already cut $2.5 trillion in our deficit. Everybody says we need to cut $4 trillion, which means we have to come up with another $1.5 trillion...We have a Budget Control Act, right? We agreed to a certain amount of money that was going to be spent each year and certain funding levels for our military, our education system and so forth. If we stick to that deal, then I will be supportive of us sticking to that deal. That's a deal that I made. The sequester are additional cuts on top of that, and by law until Congress takes the sequester away, we'd have to abide by those additional cuts...
Obama has touted that $2.5 trillion statistic for more than a year, including on the campaign trail; he's a real deficit hawk, you see. Guess what that figure includes? The sequester, which was part of the Budget Control Act. Obama points to the Budget Control Act as evidence of his spending restraint, then asserts that sequestration piles "additional cuts on top of that." False. The sequester cuts represent the bulk of deficit savings in the Budget Control Act -- a piece of legislation, by the way, that Obama never wanted to exist in the first place. He wanted a "clean," no-strings-attached debt ceiling hike in the summer of 2011, but Republicans dragged him against his will into signing a dollar-for-dollar deficit reduction package. Sequestration was a major element of said package, proposed and demanded by the White House. None of these points were raised by any of the reporters in the White House briefing room. Do these journalists even remember the basics of how the sequester came into existence? Does Obama?
(2) When a correspondent asked if Obama thinks he bears any responsibility for the implementation of his own proposal, here was part of his response:
Obama Sequester
QUESTION: It sounds like you're saying this is a Republican problem, and not one that you bear any responsibility for.
OBAMA: Well, Julie, give me an example of what -- what I might do?
QUESTION: Just trying to clarify your statement.
OBAMA: Well, no, but I'm trying to clarify the question. The -- what -- what I'm suggesting is I've put forward a plan that calls for serious spending cuts, serious entitlement reforms. Goes right at the problem that is at the heart of our long-term deficit problem. I've offered negotiations around that kind of balanced approach. And so far we've gotten rebuffed, because what Speaker Boehner and the Republicans have said is "We cannot do any revenue; we can't do a dime's worth of revenue." So what more do you think I should do?
OBAMA: OK. I just wanted to clarify.
OBAMA: You know, because -- because if people have a suggestion, I'm happy to -- you know, this is -- this is a room full of smart -- this is a room full of smart folks, so -- all right.
Evidently, the room wasn't full of such "smart folks," because nobody could conceive of a single possible course of action the president might have taken. Let me help: (a) You could have produced your own detailed plan in legislative language sometime in the last 16 months, Mr. President. You never did. (b) You could have met with Congressional leaders before, say, today; instead you hop-scotched across the country railing against Republicans for their refusal to alter your own plan in a way that suits your current preferences. (c) You could have signed one of the House GOP-passed sequester replacement bills. You might have done the same with a Senate Democrat-passed bill, had one existed. But no. Not a single member of the press corps could produce even one of these responses on the fly. Instead, awkward silence, followed by laughter. Great work, guys. Oh, and the president said that the only thing some Republicans want to do is "paint horns" on his head. Such a helpless, beleaguered victim.
(3) Behold, the president's lone acknowledgement that Republicans have actually done a few things other than demonize him and hate progress:
The only thing that we've seen from Republicans so far in terms of proposals is to replace this set of arbitrary cuts with even worse arbitrary cuts. That's not going to help the economy. That's not going to help growth. That's not going to create jobs.
As noted above, House Republicans have passed two bills outlining specific offsets for Obama's self-described "dumb" cuts. The president seems to think those alternatives were "even worse" than the sequester itself. Really? Many of the GOP-proposed cuts were derived directly from....Barack Obama's last budget. Also, the House bills aren't the "only thing we've seen from Republicans." The Senate GOP introduced a plan that would have ceded major flexibility to Obama to make the cuts less "dumb." He threatened to veto that bill, a move that the Washington Post editorial board calls "sad" and "strange." Were the assembled journalists aware of any of these facts? Were they too scared to bring them up? If so, why might that be?
(4) The president invoked some variant of the word "balance" four times during the Q&A. Interestingly, no one thought this question was worth asking: "Mr. President, you say you're interested in balance. Why, then, did you endorse the Senate Democrats' (last minute) proposal -- which the CBO says would add tens of billions to the deficit? Isn't this supposed to be a deficit reduction plan?" These are basic, obvious, fair, challenging questions that no one bothered to put to the president....
(5) ...Instead, we got gems like this query from an NPR correspondent:
QUESTION: Thank you, Mr. President. You said, a few minutes ago, and you've said repeatedly, that the country has to stop careening from crisis to crisis.
OBAMA: Right.
QUESTION: So with a few crises behind us, and a few more crises ahead of us...
OBAMA: Yeah.
QUESTION: ... taking a step back from this specific debate over the sequester, how as the leader of this country do you plan to stop the country from careening from crisis to crisis?
This might be construed as an attempt to pressure the president into actually taking responsibility for something, but the question's phrasing was hopelessly weak and deferential. We already know why the country keeps careening from one manufactured crisis to the next: Because we've abandoned normal budget order for the last four years. If we'd had a federal budget in place, the debt ceiling would have been dealt with, the Budget Control Act and sequestration would have been unnecessary, the fiscal cliff would have been addressed, and there would be no need for continuing resolutions. So instead of asking a question for which there's a blatantly obvious answer (which just so happens to be fairly inconvenient to the president), try a slightly more informed approach: "Mr. President, you've said that the country has to stop careening from crisis to crisis. But we haven't had a federal budget in nearly four years, which has precipitated many of these crises. Not a single Democrat in the Senate has voted for any budget -- including your own -- since 2009. Why hasn't the Senate acted in accordance with the law, and why haven't you demanded that your party's Senate Majority Leader do his job?" Instead, Obama was given an easy opening to wander down the familiar path of complaining about "crumbling roads and bridges," or whatever -- as if his $825 billion program ostensibly designed to address infrastructure problems had never happened (another point on which he was not challenged).
The take-aways that you're likely to hear from today's performance are that Obama didn't rule out signing a CR with a lower baseline, that he acknowledged sequestration "is not going to be a apocalypse, I think, as some people have said," (yes, and who might those people be?), and that he conflated a Star Trek and Star Wars catch phrase. The real headline from this afternoon's briefing ought to be that many of the men and women whose job description is to ask tough questions of the most powerful man on the planet are -- for one reason or another -- very, very bad at what they do.
Useless to WHOM?...
The original stimulus spending became part of the new baseline, and has been part of every continuing resolution. This is where your trillion dollar deficits come from and why there has been no budget in four years.
Townhall gives an answer to Obama's accusations.
I suppose that is good, but we here in FR and a few other sites are the onlt ones who see it.
Have you heard a Republican response to Obama's lies? Will we ever hear a response to Obama's lies? Not from Boehnar or McConnell we won't. If Pelosi were Speaker we would certainly hear from her.
SPEAK Republicans lets hear from you.
Old Soviet Joke:
The Commissar comes to the tractor factor to give his monthly propaganda speech. He says, Wheat production has exceeded quota!
Podgorny raises his hand and says, Then why is there no bread in stores?
The Commissar says, Is not important. Sugar production has exceeded our quotas!
Podgorny raises his hand, Then why is there no sugar in stores?
Is not important, the Commissar says.
Next month, the Commissar comes to give his speech. A worker raises his hand and says, I dont want to know why is there no bread. I dont want to know why is there no sugar. I want to know where is Podgorny?
Our Useless White House Press Corps
Other than really, really stupid questions and "softball" inquires, the normal democrat voter is actually perplexed, stymied, and overwhelmed by anything more complex than a three word sentence based upon the level of a three year old child's understanding.
Worse yet, anything said by King Obama and his surrogates are flat out lies or "canned" propaganda.
I believe that a press conference that is turned into a media porn video with Obama and Helen Thomas would be the equivalent of what we now see at each and every press fiasco.
OH GUY ! GUY ! Obama already explained what they were...He read it off the TOTUS remember ?? IT''S THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPSE..see how quickly kids forget....
The Left allows no dissension, no serious questioning of the One, & punishes both as treason. Given that the media is overwhelmingly liberal, a reporter incurring the One's ire could wind up as a paper folder in Podunk.
Sequester would be bad for this reason
Sequester would be painful for that reason
People would suffer this other reason
Then they noted that the President was hoping that enough public outrage might really put pressure on congress (*cough* Republicans *cough*) to change their entire attitude.
Then they listed a couple more examples of how Sequester will be bad and painful.
I think the hosts were trying to help the White House by stirring up public outrage and trying to get people to voice their support for Obama by contacting politicians (*cough* Republicans *cough*). I think I just saw naked propaganda from the official White House news service. But it's just so hard to be really sure.
Saw it too and let Lester Holt have it on Twitter. Maybe his cabana boy will read my tweet to him.
Let's not forget the many lies of omission as well. He made a big deal about how he was interested in a Republican plan that closed a lot of loopholes but had been pulled back, "Boehner himself listed them for me" or something like that, but didn't mention that that Republican plan required matching spending cuts, which is why he never went for it.
"The Left allows no dissension, no serious questioning of the One, & punishes both as treason."
And why is that? They weren't totally in the bag like this for their previous leftist presidents.
Wow, it's kinda chilling that that joke has been brought up to date for both Hillary and Obama talking to elementary school kids.
The White House Press Corps is worse than that. They're part of the fifth-column media buttboys to Traitorobama.
You have it exactly. Our repub 'leaders' are completely inept. And most of the underlings too.
Are they afraid for their lives? Afraid they won't be invited to the next cocktail party? What is it?
The American press is the enemy of the people.
I remember toward the end of the Carter admin. the press was openly hostile toward Carter.
IIRC Kalb, Donaldson, maybe Schorr were really on his case.
Where is the raucous press conference with reporters standing with raised hands trying to get noticed. Many yelling questions.
Beezle's press conferences reminds me of a 2nd grade classroom. All sitting quietly waiting for the teacher to speak and mouthing "Yes, teacher".
Let me get this straight: The "Evil Republicans" are the cause of an $85 billion cut in a non-existent budget....
so far?....
..and Obama just gave a $60 billion aid package to the Muslim Brotherhood backed Syrian rebels......
Where might I find that information? I want to broadcast it to everybody I know.
Please be specific.
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Doc Martin "Do Not Disturb" To help solve her farm's money problems, Aunt Joan starts a small bed-and-breakfast business. Her first guest is another local farmer, also in financial difficulties but Joan soon finds he is far from the perfect guest. She also worries about Martin's future.G
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Outdoor Idaho "Wilderness in the 21st Century" This exploration of wilderness issues captures scenic vistas of Idaho from north to south. The show examines what wilderness means to Idahoans, pressures from wheeled vehicle advocates, collaborative efforts that include multiple sides, and how work is accomplished inside a wilderness.G
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This American Land "Idaho Wilderness, Loggerhead Turtles, Sandfish Lizard, Wrangling Water" The opening segment looks at wildlife in Idaho's wilderness areas and at efforts to protect the Boulder-White Clouds Mountains.G
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Midsomer Murders "Murder On St. Malley's Day, Part 1" After a pupil at the prestigious Devington School dies of a stab wound while competing in a race, shocked locals are sure the death can be linked to the long-running rivalry between the school and the locals. As Barnaby investigates, he encounters the Pudding Club, an elite secret society with which the murdered student had been involved. Part 1 of 2G
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DCI Banks "Dry Bones That Dream" DCI Alan Banks and DI Helen Morton must learn to reconcile their conflicting policing styles and personalities while trying to unravel the increasingly puzzling murder of a local accountant who has been leading a double life.G
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Pedestrians, drivers: use common sense
Driving through Ashland, one often sees pedestrians and drivers failing to observe common sense and the law regulating sharing the road. The following excerpts from the Oregon Driver Manual, with my parenthetical comments, may help all of us be safe.
"You (a vehicle) must stop and remain stopped for a pedestrian crossing at a crosswalk (intersection) when the pedestrian is in the lane in which your vehicle is traveling or in a lane next to the lane in which your vehicle is traveling. (Notice that this says "in" the lane, not "approaching" the lane from the sidewalk, or waiting on the curb. The flashing yellow lights don't change this.)
"Do not pass a vehicle stopped at a crosswalk. When stopping for a crosswalk on a multi-lane road, you should stop about 30 feet (two car lengths) before a crosswalk so you don't block visibility to a driver in a second lane.
"You are not required to stop for a pedestrian in a crosswalk if you are traveling along the half of the roadway on the other side of a safety island from the pedestrian. (An example would be Siskiyou Boulevard.)
Although drivers must yield to pedestrians in crosswalks, pedestrians must not suddenly leave a curb or other safe waiting place and walk into the path of a vehicle if it is so close that it is an immediate hazard. Vehicles cannot stop instantly. (Like your mother taught you, look both ways and cross when it's safe.)"
John Ames
Senate ignores will of people on gun control
I am appalled that the U.S. Senate has ignored the will of the vast majority of Americans regarding the issue of universal background checks.
Ninety percent of Americans support universal background checks. (When do 90 percent of Americans agree on anything, by the way?)
I am saddened by the U.S. Senate's inaction. Have they forgotten that 20 6-year-old children were brutally gunned down in their classroom just four months ago? I will never be able to forget that horrible day. Neither should our senators. They have now added insult to injury.
Could it be true that as a country our reaction to Newtown is to do ... nothing? As a society, are firearms more important to us than our children or the safety of our citizens?
What have we become?
Melissa Mitchell-Hooge
County Extension Service is essential
The value of saving the Jackson County Extension Service from closing is most essential to help us meet the challenge of global warming in the valley.
Why? Because higher temperatures, loss of topsoil and the shortage of irrigation water for farming will be challenging without ready agricultural and forestry information from the local Extension Service.
Talk of closing the service doesn't make sense to save $204,204 while losing 31 personnel and $1,731,650 from state, federal and competitive grants. This service supports agriculture, forestry, youth and family development including 4-H, and natural resource management programs that are central to the economic vitality of this county.
We must find the funds to support the Jackson County Extension Service by including a levy, service charge and/or sponsors. Are there other ways to raise funds to support this important service?
Porter Lombard
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The Yale men's swimming and diving team will head to the Ivy League Championships in early March with some much-deserved momentum following a 171-118 win over Brown in its regular-season finale Saturday. The Elis, who swam well at both the H-Y-P meet and against UConn leading up to the win, were finally rewarded in the win column for the improvement they have shown throughout the 2010-11 campaign.
Yale's divers, who have also come on strong in the latter part of the season, got the day off to a good start, as senior Eric Olson (319.57) took the 1-meter diving competition, edging freshman Tyler Pramer (313.20), who took second. The two swapped positions later in the 3-meter event, as Pramer earned his second collegiate event win. Yale's swimmers took that momentum and swam with it, as the 'A' squad of sophomore Mike Dominski, senior Sam Goldsmith, junior Goksu Bicer and senior captain Kyle Veatch won the 200-yard medley relay in 1:31.66.
Next on the dockett was the 1000-yard freestyle, an event senior Matt Lee and freshman Mikey Bogese have dominated all season. The trend certainly continued Saturday, as Lee (9:25.85) took the top spot, just ahead of Bogese (9:27.55). Dominski then made it three straight wins for the swimmers, snagging the victory in the 100-yard backstroke in 50.14. Senior Alex Gornitzky took third in that event, swimming it in 51.63.
Juniors Alex Benz (58.24) and Christopher Luu (58.72) went 2-3 in the 100-yard breaststroke, an event Bicer followed up with another Eli win in the 200-yard butterfly (1:50.07). Veatch was the victor in the 50-free (20.90), while freshman Jas Jernail who has come on strong in the past few meets for the Bulldogs took third (21.17). Veatch's domination of the sprint events continued in the 100-free, as he took first in 46.38. Freshman Pat Killian, who has also enjoyed a strong debut campaign, took third (46.65).
Bogese was the winner in the 200-yard backstroke (1:53.41), just beating out sophomore Jared Lovett (1:54.35), who took second. Yale then swept the top three spots in the 500-yard freestyle, as Dominski (4:35.34), Lee (4:37.63), and another freshman, West Cuthbert (4:38.77) went 1-2-3.
With the win, the Elis head into a three-week break before those who qualify will travel to Cambridge to take on the rest of the Ancient Eight in the Ivy League Championships.
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UTICA – Volunteers will be helping visitors to Starved Rock State Park this month as fall colors start to spread across northern Illinois.
The News-Tribune in LaSalle reports that more than a dozen volunteers will accommodate visitors and hikers during the Fall Colors Weekend on Oct. 20 and 21. Site superintendent Mark McConnaughhay says without volunteers the park wouldn't be able to serve its visitors. On a recent Monday more than 340 people visited the park. That number can be in the thousands on a busy weekend.
McConnaughhay says some volunteers drive to the LaSalle County park. He says other volunteers have special skills that let them lead different programs.
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#1 Designer makes paw-some hats for cats09-16-2011, 12:07 PM
Hat off to cat hat designer Amélie Segarceanu it takes a business genius to spot a paw-some opportunity like this.
But you cant help thinking her human customers get more pleasure from her creations than their pets.
Not surprisingly, she recommends bribing your cat with treats before fixing one of her miniature bowlers, berets or stovepipes on its head.
Once thats done the transformation can be magical. Quite possibly the most awesome thing I have ever purchased, wrote one delighted customer on her website, To Scarborough Fair. Particularly after a few cocktails.
Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/875634-...#ixzz1Y80yNsCf
This is SLW's girl Tiny from some years ago before we were married.May the FORCE be with you!
Tiny was my special little princess, one of the best therapy dogs I've ever had. There was no one that Tiny didn't like or make up with. The folks in the nursing home loved her. She died not quite a year before SR and I were engaged. My friends in St Louis still talk about the Tiny one.
She was about the size of a large whippet. Everytime there was a "smallest greyhound" contest at one of the greyhound picnics, she'd win a prize. She was only about 44 pounds. Xena and Darlene are in the mid 60's.
" To the world you are just one more person, but to a rescued pet, you are the world."
"A Nation of Sheep Breeds a Government of Wolves!"
Sadly Darlene and Xena refuse to wear the hats, so I have so many cute hat boxes filled with all sorts of hats, from a top hat to a "Frank Sinatra" hat for the male dogs, to an "I dream of Jeanie" top with veil and little spring bonnets. Maybe one day I'll get another dog that doesn't mind wearing them. The residents of the nursing homes used to look forward to seeing what they were "wearing" each month.
" To the world you are just one more person, but to a rescued pet, you are the world."
"A Nation of Sheep Breeds a Government of Wolves!"
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LAPD apologizes to family of rapper Notorious B.I.G. for autopsy's release
LAPD apologizes to family of rapper Notorious B.I.G. for autopsy's release
LOS ANGELES-The Los Angeles Police Department apologized Saturday to the family of rapper Notorious B.I.G. for failing to warn them that it planned to make his autopsy public 15 years after his slaying.
The Los Angeles County coroner's office made the autopsy of the rapper, whose real name was Christopher George Latore Wallace, public after the LAPD OK'd its release Friday. The Police Department blamed the snafu on an administrative error.
The LAPD opted to release the autopsy "as an investigative tool, in the hopes that releasing the report would stimulate additional interest or bring forth witnesses or clues in the case." Wallace was shot four times in March 1997 in a drive-by attack on Wilshire Boulevard. The case remains unsolved.
"Due to an administrative error, the autopsy report was released prematurely. Robbery-Homicide Division detectives had intended to notify Mr. Wallace's family prior to releasing the report," the LAPD said in a statement.
"Our detectives personally spoke with the Wallace family (Friday) night, and apologized for not notifying them prior to the release" said Capt. Billy Hayes, who heads the Robbery-Homicide Division, which is investigating the killing. "Obviously this has been a challenging case for us to solve. We hope that witnesses or other people with information will come forward and give us the clues we need to solve this case."
Perry Sanders Jr., an attorney for the family, criticized the LAPD on Friday for failing to alert the family.
In most instances, the results of an autopsy are released shortly after the coroner has completed its investigation. In a few instances, particularly high-profile investigations, the autopsy results are withheld while the case is under investigation.
The LAPD took the unusual step of unsealing Wallace's 15-year-old autopsy report, saying they hoped to generate new leads in the murder mystery. The 23-page document provided details about the shooting.
Wallace, who had been sitting in a sport utility vehicle, was killed by a shot that entered his right hip before slicing through his colon, liver, heart and part of his lung before wedging in his left shoulder area, according to the report signed by Dr. Lisa Scheinin, deputy medical examiner.
One shot hit Wallace's left forearm and traveled down to his wrist, another hit him in the back and exited his body through his left shoulder, the report said. Another shot hit his left thigh and traveled through to his inner thigh.
Examiners noted that they could not determine the sequence of the shots.
The Brooklyn rapper was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where doctors performed emergency surgery. Two medium-caliber lead bullets were recovered from his hospital gurney.
No drugs or alcohol were found in Wallace's system, according to a toxicology screen.
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Pepe Reina has insisted that he's not signed a deal to become Barcelona's new goalkeeper, reports The Sun.
Reina, who is still under contract at Liverpool, is currently on loan at Italian outfit Napoli.
The 31-year-old was replaced between the sticks by Belgian ace Simon Mignolet last summer, which led to him joining up with his former boss Rafa Benitez.
And reports had suggested that the Reds outcast will replace Victor Valdes as the Catalans' No.1 keeper next summer, but the Spanish keeper has denied the claims insisting he is unsure about his long term future.
Speaking to reporters, Reina said: "A contract with Barcelona? All I know is that I'll have to go back to Liverpool next summer. It will be hard for me to return.
"The fact Liverpool decided to loan me out must mean something.
"But now I am very happy at Napoli. It has been an absolute success."
Reina will be in action for the Italian side tonight as the play host to French side Marseille in the Champions League.
Napoli currently are tied with Arsenal and Borussia Dortmund at the top of the group on six points and will be desperate to secure all three points tonight.
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I met a man one time who had similar looks to two other guys I know who also went by the same nickname form of a common name as him. In my mind, this equated to a classic example of a name / face match up. And, I commented on it.Exact words: "You look like a wingadingdingy"I quickly backpeddled as he looked like two other guys, birthname Richard, that I knew who both went by wingadingdingy.
Okay, so I wasn't going to post this because it showcases even more what a perv I am, but the wingadingdingy jokes made me do it.DH, a bunch of his work buddies and I were hanging out in a bar. They were talking shop, and the conversation turned to another co-worker, not present, named wingadingdingy. Back and forth they went, discussing this guy and his failings at work. Finally one of the guys throws his hands up to stop the conversation and says "Okay, okay wait a minute. Who here likes wingadingdingy?"I sheepishly raised my hand. I couldn't help it. It was too perfect.
One that sends me over the edge is when I hear or read about an American "rooting" for something.Totally different meaning in Australia.
Quote from: beingkj on February 27, 2008, 05:20:54 PMOne that sends me over the edge is when I hear or read about an American "rooting" for something.Totally different meaning in Australia.So I imagine it would be quite a shock if I were to announce I was rooting for the Pittsburgh Steelers . . . . . all of them . . . . .
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Lady Gaga to Close NYC's Legendary Roseland Ballroom
New York City's legendary Roseland Ballroom will close next year, but Lady Gaga will perform at the venue's last show, DNA Info reports.
Gaga is scheduled to put on four concerts at Roseland Ballroom in late March and early April and says the last shows at the music venue will be "a real New York theatrical affair," according to Live Nation Global Touring. The show is billed as "a very intimate residency."
The shows are in support of Lady Gaga's latest album "ARTPOP." Tickets go on sale on Ticketmaster.com Monday, Nov. 25, at 10 a.m. Prices will be $50 for the floor, and $200 for the mezzanine.
"Starting with the March 28th performance on Gaga's 28th birthday, the concerts will be a celebration of New York's most venerable venue before it closes its doors forever," Live Nation said, according to DNA Info.
After a report by Billboard in October, rumors circulated that Roseland Ballroom would be shutting down but speculation was confirmed on Tuesday morning.
"The venerable venue, owned by developer Larry Ginsberg and booked by Live Nation, opened at its 52nd street location, a converted skating rink, in 1958 and is a sentimental favorite for many bands," Billboard wrote. "The history of the venue in New York dates back to 1919, when it was located at 51st and Broadway, and prior to that in Philadelphia."
The venue, which can hold 3,500 people, has been hosting shows since 1958. The Roseland Ballroom has hosted concerts of a wide variety of genres as well as Hillary Clinton's birthday party. It also hosts annual gay circuit parties, like the Black Party, and movie premiers.