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European Film Awards. You've Always Wanted to Visit Malta, Right?
Each year the European Film Awards move to a different location and this year for their 25th anniversary they'll be in Malta. If you vote on their Audience Award prize starting September 1st (today!) you become eligible to win a trip to the ceremony on December 1st (today in 3 months!). Voting closes at the end of October.
The audience prize nominees, an eclectic bunch, are...
- THE ARTIST (france -- last year's best picture winner)
- BARBARA (germany -- Germany's official submission for the upcoming Oscars)
- THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (uk)
- CAESAR MUST DIE (italy)
- HASTA LA VISTA/COME AS YOU ARE (belgium)
- HEADHUNTERS (norway)
- IN DARKNESS (poland - oscar foreign film nominee 2011)
- INTOUCHABLES (france)
- THE IRON LADY (uk - oscar best actress winner)
- SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN (uk)
- SHAME (uk)
- TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (france, uk, germany)
I'm baffled about the inclusion of The Iron Lady as it certainly doesn't fit any "crowd pleaser" definition previously known to man. Unless by crowd you mean the entire population of StreepStanistan. Obviously in any "people's choice" situation the film that has been the most widely seen has the edge, so this prize is probably going to The Intouchables ($363 million globally) given its global phenom status. The Artist ($133 million globally), and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel ($131 million globally) look like the only possible spoilers.
Lest you dismiss the European Film Awards outright through headscratching over this particular list, please to remember that it's only their audience prize. Their regular nominations don't arrive until early November. Last year they were the only awards body to give the great Melancholia multiple statues.
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Student Assignment orientation sessions set
The Lee County School District will host six Student Assignment orientation sessions.
Topics will cover the evolution of the program, common misconceptions about attendance zones and the lottery process.
Student Assignment representatives will be onsite to assist parents with questions about the process.
Computers will also be available to complete applications.
Orientation sessions will be held at the following area locations:
- Lehigh Senior High School, at 901 Gunnery Road: Feb. 6 at 6 p.m. in the auditorium
- Lehigh Senior High School, at 901 Gunnery Road: Feb. 7 at 7:30 a.m. in the auditorium
Circles of Care early childhood education conference scheduled
Child Care of Southwest Florida invites early childhood educators and caregivers to Circles of Care, a daylong conference designed to inform and inspire those who work with children from infancy through elementary school.
The 19th annual conference will be held April 12 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. at the Fort Myers campus of Edison State College.
Presentations, age-specific workshops, hands-on experiences and exhibits will provide information and resources to teachers, administrators, paraprofessionals, family-care providers and parents.
Keynote speaker Ron Mohl will share teaching methods with STEAM (science, technology, engineering, the arts and math).
Up to .65 continuing education credits will be available.
Advance cost is $40 per person; admission at the door is $55.
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This groundbreaking book presents rarely seen photographs that provide an entirely fresh perspective on male friendship in the 19th century. The poignant images in more than 100 early photographs, drawn from public and private collections, suggest a surprisingly broad-minded attitude toward physical intimacy between men, challenging the conventional view of the Victorian era as more inhibited than our own. Deitcher's provocative text -- combining history, social observation, pictorial analysis, and personal reflection -- explores the nature of that same-sex affection and the meaning such pictures can hold for us today.
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Yeah, I've had to deal with someone saying that he could cuss people out without fear of reprisal because of the freedom of speech. No. The government telling you they can't arrest you for it is not the same thing as being a jerk and people not wanting to associate with you anymore.We're legally allowed to do lots of things that are considered impolite. No one will arrest you for being 2 hours late to a party, but it's still incredibly rude. The same applies here.
Thank you for your answers The situation I was talking about was about two people in a debate, one of them stating an opinion and the other saying that such an opinion was offensive. Then the first person put the image about "the right to offend".Sadly, I've encountered the same situation in real life, that's why I posted this.
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This was a weird one. No goals in the first, four goals in the second period, none in the third. Calgary comes back from going down 2-0 and being badly outplayed in the second. Calgary had two 5-on-3 opportunities. The shootout goes to the fifth round and only one Flames player – Tanguay – scored. Both Schneider and Kiprusoff stopped 34 of 36 shots for a .944 save percentage. Chris Butler was scratched for last night's game.
I guess the positive here is that they got one point from Vancouver, in Vancouver. The negative is that they are now 0-2-1 for the season.


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Mailers lax on IMB compliance
PRC puts limits on full-service IMb implementation.
Despite efforts by the US Postal Service as well as some direct mail service companies such as Pitney Bowes, news about the Intelligent Mail barcode (IMB) may not be reaching the majority of mailers.
The IMB, developed by the USPS to encode routing and tracking information on mail, will eventually replace Postnet barcodes, which only contain the routing code. Postnet barcodes will be accepted on automation letters and flats until May of 2010, a full year after the standards relating to IMB go into effect; however, the barcode is going to require investment and data cleansing that not every mailer is prepared for.
"The difficulty we have is getting the word out to midsize to small mailers in the country," admitted Tom Day, SVP of Intelligent Mail and address quality for the USPS, when reached by phone on the day of a Mailers' Technical Advisory Committee meeting on May 1.
The barcode had been a big topic of discussion at that day's meeting, Day said. "We're looking at every possible means to get the information communicated," Day said. The USPS also has a Web site devoted to information about the barcode, he added.
In addition, Pitney Bowes also launched a resource area on its postal information site, www.pbpostalinfo.com. Pitney Bowes — which refers to the barcode as among the "most significant postal changes in decades" on its site — has also hosted a series of webinars on the topic.
"We've had several thousand attendees [for the webinars]," said John Campo, VP of US postal relations for Pitney Bowes. "I would say there's a thirst for knowledge out there," he added.
Pamela Lockard, president of direct marketing firm DMN3, said "Of all the clients we have, only the largest mailers know about it right now. The midsize and smaller companies are not aware."
In preparation for the pending implementation of the barcode, Lockard has been encouraging her customers to clean up their data. If data are not clean by the time the Intelligent Mail barcode is fully implemented, then there will be a real financial impact on businesses if their mail no longer qualifies for automation rates, she said.
In the short term, the Intelligent Mail barcode will be an expense, but in the long run, it will save mailers money and eliminate a lot of the waste that is going on with undeliverable mail. However, despite the barcode's benefits, Lockard anticipated that "most people are going to wait until they absolutely have to do it."
Only about one in 10 MCS customers understand the possibilities that the Intelligent Mail barcode can offer them, said Glenn Toole, VP of sales and marketing for MCS Inc., a manufacturer and seller of inkjet printer and other prepress hardware and software products. "It hasn't been on the radar screen," he said.
MCS recently released a new version of its camera vision system that can read the IMB. Until this point, MCS's Perfect Match system could read 2D Datamatrix, OCR, text or other barcodes, but not the Intelligent Mail code, Toole said.


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Pandoro a sfoglia
This one isn't very seasonal at the moment, but I love eating it for breakfast. It's so buttery and soft that I really don't think it needs an accompaniment. The recipe is taken from "non solo zucchero vol.II" where it is called pandoro evolution, but it is very similar to the pandoro a sfoglia from Cresci.
Main impasto - in grams
sweet starter (50% humidity) 45
dry active yeast 3
very strong flour 179
sugar 36
unsalted butter (soft but not melted) 27
egg 107
salt 3.5
half a vanilla pod
melted butter flavour 0.3 (I've made this before without the flavouring and it tasted exactly the same - but it's in the recipe so I've included it here).
mix all the ingredients together and work it until it forms a smooth, elastic dough. It should be strong and windowpane, but still very slightly sticky. Wrap it in plastic and put it in the freezer. I left it in there for an about an hour, but the book actually recommends overnight at -10C. While this is firming up, I worked on the butter for lamination:
softened unsalted butter 147
icing sugar 39
mix the two ingredients together thoroughly, then pat into a square, wrap, and put in the fridge to firm up. When both parts are at the right consistency, take 362 of the dough and laminate it as if you were making croissants - 3 simple turns in total, with at least half an hour between each turn. It ought to look something like this when you've finished:
the total weight is 550g.
The difficult bit is then forming this into a ball without breaking the laminations. The book gives absolutely no guidance here whatsoever! I usually fold the ends underneath and then roll it around until it looks more or less spherical. I doubt very much that this is the best method! The dough by this point is really quite resistant to being shaped.
It looks so tiny in the tin - it's hard to believe that it can possibly fill it!
Leave it to prove at about 27C and at least 60% humidity for about 10 - 12 hours. I left mine for 10 hours.
I think it could easily have grown even more than this, so next time I might put less dough in the pandoro tin. As it was, it was just about to start spilling over the edge. If my shaping of the ball had been better then I also think this might have helped.
Leave it in the open air for about 30 minutes in order to form a skin on the dough and then it goes in the oven for 30 minutes at 170C. Leave it in the tin for a few hours after cooking before turning out. Mine stuck a little bit - I should have used more flour and butter to grease the form.
When it's ready to eat (after a few days), dust it in icing sugar and enjoy!
I was very happy with the crumb on this one - really light and shreddy, with a wonderfully complex buttery taste. It just fell to pieces as I was cutting and eating it.


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Louis M. Steen, age 84, of Sweetwater, Texas passed away on Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012 at Hendrick Medical Center. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012 at Fourth and Elm Church of Christ with Mike Crowley officiating. Burial will follow at Garden of Memories. Arrangements are under the direction of Cate-Spencer & Trent Funeral Home. Louis was born on May 1, 1928 in Pampa, Texas to Charles Edwin and Beulah (Burgett) Steen. He was a self-employed contractor for many years. He was a member of Fourth and Elm Church of Christ and also a World War II U.S. Marine veteran. He had been a resident of Sweetwater for 17 years, coming from Odessa. He is survived by his wife, Clydelle Steen of Sweetwater; three daughters, Treva Flanagan, Pam McMaster, Tracy Millican and husband Doug, all of Odessa; one son, Kevin Steen and wife Carol of Odessa; two step sons, Larry May and wife Debbie, and Dwayne Lewis and wife Leigh Ann, all of Sweetwater; one step daughter, Cindy Kellogg and Rob of Plano; 14 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; brother, Buddy Mack Steen of Mansfield; two sisters, Jo Carthel of Lubbock and Monita Benham of Canyon. He was preceded in death by his parents, Charles and Beulah Steen; son, Sean Steen; three sisters; and two brothers. Pallbearers will be Jason Bowling, Mason Steen, Brandon Steen, Steven May, Mark May and Josh Stuart. Family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6-8 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 8, 2012. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Odessa Hospice House, 903 N. Sam Houston, Odessa, Texas 79761 or Hendrick Hospice, 1682 Hickory Street, Abilene, Texas 79601.


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Ben Seymour of Tryon is suggesting that the fellow believing many of this nation's economic woes could be cured by ending aid to foreign countries would be greatly disappointed if that approach were taken. "He should check the facts," says Mr. Seymour.
"He would find that foreign aid is just slightly more than 1 percent of our spending and would do nothing to fix Social Security or be enough to give raises to retirees and future retirees. Facts are facts, and here are some: Those 2008 figures came from the U.S. Census 2011 Statistical Abstract.
The United States spent a total of $49.1 billion on foreign aid that year. According to the Treasury Department and historical tables on the federal budget, total federal spending was $2.98 trillion for the 2008 fiscal year. That means foreign aid made up 1.64 percent of the budget. What about 2009?
In that fiscal year, according to the U.S. Agency for International Development, the United States spent $44.9 billion, while overall government spending was $3.52 trillion. Foreign aid spending was 1.28 percent of the total budget. If you're wondering who is a major U.S. aid recipient, these countries were among the top 10 in 2008: Russia ($1.3 billion), Sudan ($1.2 billion), Tanzania ($1.1 billion), Ethiopia ($1 billion), Pakistan ($963 million), Colombia ($888 million), Jordan ($833 million) and Mozambique ($799 million). The totals reflect both economic and military aid."
'HOME FOR ME!': Put on the spot to describe this neck of the woods, Pat Morgan of Hendersonville scratched out a poem like she had given it thought before: "There's a little town going up the hill. It's very wellknown as Hendersonville. A great location, convenient to everything. While the sky is blue, the birds sing. There is the Pisgah Forest and lots to see. It's a great place to call home for me! I guess if asked what I do dislike, I would really have to think. It would be the constant mess on Main Street.
It's really getting to stink. But all in all, it is a wonderful place to be — at least it is for me!"
'ARE YOU CRAZY?': John Feltman of Etowah tells a tongue-incheek tale about a backpacking trip he and a friend made in the mountains. They came to a place where three trails merged, and there was a big yellow sign with big black letters that read, "Caution: Bears Are Extremely Active In This Area. Exercise Extreme Caution While On The Trail Or In Camp." "I immediately dropped my pack and began removing my hiking boots, reached in the pack and pulled out my running shoes," tells Mr. Feltman. "My friend asked. 'What are you doing?' I said was putting on my running shoes in case we met a bear. He replied. 'Are you crazy? You can't outrun a bear.' I said, 'I don't plan on outrunning a bear. I just want to make sure I outrun you."
'HAND ME THE BROOM': A little boy's mama taught him to not be afraid of the dark because God is everywhere and always with him. One night, the lad's mama told him to go out on the back porch and get the broom.
He went to the door, opened it and said, "God, please hand me the broom."
OVERHEARD: "God promised men that good and obedient wives would be found in all corners of Earth. Then he made the Earth round."
LAST BUT NOT LEAST: Got tickets to the Carolina Concert Choir's annual all-sacred concert?
The performance will take place Friday at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday at 3 p.m. in St. James Episcopal Church in Hendersonville. In its 34th season, the all-auditioned Carolina Concert Choir sings the "Lux Aeterna" by Morten Lauridsen, along with other choral pieces that refer to light. Tickets may be purchased from choir members, the Hendersonville Visitor's Center, Laurel Park Wine Market, St. James reception desk, The Wrinkled Egg and online at CaroilnaConcertChoir. org.
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Ben Seymour of Tryon is suggesting that the fellow believing many of this nation's economic woes could be cured by ending aid to foreign countries would be greatly disappointed if that approach were taken. "He should check the facts," says Mr. Seymour.


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I think you all handled it well.But I might suggest you encourage DD to "use her words" should Gary approach her again to tease her in this way, to say, evenly, "I don't like those kinds of jokes."And if she wants to let him know that it's not HIM, she can say hello first, pleasantly, etc.
I don't see anything at all predatory in this situation. In fact, I actually suspect that the second attempt was the guy trying to show that the first attempt was just a joke. Since your daughter's reaction wasn't positive (I'm not saying it should have been) he may have been fearful that it was misinterpreted as something else - and made the second attempt to show that he was just kidding around. It still is rude, but IMO a few posters are making quite an irrational jump here.
I agree with PPs. I don't think anyone, child or adult, should have to fake amusement when a joke falls flat, particularly when the 'joke' involves invading someone's personal space.I also think it would be fine for your DD to say "Please don't touch me" if Gary tries it again.We have taught our son that if he doesn't want to be touched, he just has to say so nicely. He's not forced to hug relatives or be tickled if he's not in the mood. We back him up verbally, i.e. "He's not in the mood for a hug/to be tickled right now" and people learn to respect that pretty quickly.
But I also think they need to be taught how to judge situations and handle them on a sliding scale of confrontation. There should be a few steps before you go for the "nuclear" option.
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Dear NERC, CIP needs a protein shake...
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) is a self-regulatory (non-governmental) organization subject to oversight by the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). As of June 18, 2007, FERC granted NERC the legal authority to enforce reliability standards with all U.S. users, owners, and operators of the bulk power system, and made compliance with those standards mandatory and enforceable.
The preceding paragraph came pretty much verbatim from the NERC website. Now that we have a little insight on NERC, let's stop FERC'in around and talk about Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP).
CIP was designed to protect the United States critical infrastructure and features a heavy emphasis on safeguarding critical cyber assets (CCA) that help run the systems that generate electricity and control the transmission of electricity. The CIP standard is broken down into 8 individual requirements (CIP-002 through CIP-009) for various areas of protection or security. Audits for NERC CIP begin July 1, 2009. You might recall a certain blackout of 2003 that affected a large number of northeastern states? Hmmmmmm?? This prompted the NERC CIP standard, much like Enron prompted SOX.
As assessors or auditors, our team works with many different standards and regulations, and we've done a lot of NERC CIP related work with our energy clients over the past year. We've heard multiple complaints from clients about the CIP standard being vague or hazy, and I tend to agree. The clarity on protection levels that are expected are muddy.
As far as standards go, CIP needs a protein shake. We're talking about a standard that's designed to protect some of the country's most critical systems. It NEEDS to be stronger.
And what's with the non-standard terms in the standard? "Cyber"? "Electronic Security Perimeter"?
Really? Who uses those?
Why don't they just throw in "microcomputer" or "World Wide Web"?
While other standards and compliance reg's require penetration testing, CIP only requires vulnerability scanning. Scanning for modems is referenced quite a bit in CIP, but there's practically nothing related to wireless. Sure, there are tons of modems out there, especially in those sectors, but NERC needs to let go of 1996. Check out some of the latest breaches across the country - I can't remember the last time I read a story about a compromise being traced back to a dusty modem. (Calm down, calm down...I know it still happens, just not as frequently.) And what about the exception for nuke plants? Why can't you apply NERC CIP to nuke plants as well? Businesses have to deal with multiple compliance efforts ALL THE TIME. Why wouldn't you use CIP as a "second set of eyes" for those sites?
And one more before I move on to the positives of NERC CIP. The standard isn't a shadow of what other regulations like PCI are requiring. You mean to tell me that the standards for the companies that allow me to turn on my lights are less than those of the companies that want to swipe my plastic?
NEWS FLASH: If the power is off, no one cares about PCI, HIPAA, or SOX.
Because the 'puters, calculators, and credit card processors don't work so well without power.
On a positive note - NERC CIP outlines a great schedule for compliance, with different progression paths. It's very detailed and could be something that other regulations take note of. The standard also breaks down what can be used as measures to demonstrate compliance, as well as specific levels of non-compliance which act as a nice grading system.
All in all, the standard has some positives but plenty of negatives. In my opinion, it has a long way to go before I stop stocking up on candles.
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You're right on target with the outdated and vague nature of the CIPs. However, working for an asset owner and having insight into dozens of peer companies, the implementation timeline is one of the biggest pains with the standards.
Fully integrated utilities (transmission, distribution, generation) have had significant angst over determining where they live in the four tables - e.g. if you have a BA function and also a GO function, do your GO assets belong on Table 3 or Table 1 Column 2 under "Other Facilities"? We now know much of this answer, but it took the industry over a year to come to a consensus on that one item alone.
Nothing about the CIPs is a panacea - especially the implementation timeline. That being said, if there were one table for all functional models, the implementation timeline would be very good.
- September 24, 2008 at 10:46 AM
modems are old? tell that to the hundreds of millions of companies using them today for everything from DSL to cable.
talk about antiquated words, what about electricity? or power? so old. can't they call it something else already?
yeah, cyber is soooo old.
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From the Wires
Cold winter temperatures naturally control insects in grain
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Jan. 4, 2013 02:00 PM
WINNIPEG, Jan. 4, 2013 /CNW/ - Warm weather during the 2012 grain harvest benefited producers, but it also benefited insects that feed in stored grain, says Brent Elliott, Infestation Control and Sanitation Officer at the Canadian Grain Commission. However, cold winter weather can help producers control insects.
"Now that winter's here, producers need to reconsider how they're managing insects in their stored grain," explained Mr. Elliott. "Because fumigation does not work below 5oC, it's not the preferred method for insect control. The good news is cold temperatures are very helpful for controlling insect populations."
Colder temperatures allow producers to control insects by using a combination of aeration and grain movement.
Using aeration
Prairie winters are usually quite cold, making winter the ideal time for cooling grain. At minus 20 oC, it only takes one week to disinfest or control all life stages of stored insect pests. The time needed for disinfestation changes depending on the grain's temperature as shown in the table.
Using grain movement
Augering grain out of a bin and then back in will reduce the insect population. Augering also helps to break up any hot spots in the grain. Molds and secondary insect pests, such as the foreign grain beetle, can develop in hot spots.
In cold weather, grain exposed to cold air during augering will cool off quickly. This may help to reduce your aeration time. However, you should always monitor the temperature of the grain in storage to be sure.
About the Canadian Grain Commission
The Canadian Grain Commission is the federal agency responsible for establishing and maintaining Canada's grain quality standards. Its programs result in shipments of grain that consistently meet specifications for quality, safety and quantity. The Canadian Grain Commission regulates the grain industry to protect producers' rights and ensure the integrity of grain transactions.
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Theatre: Tilting Ground, Nov. 16-Dec. 1 2012 @ Phoenix Players, Professional Centre
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Phoenix Players Present Tilting Ground directed by Likarion Wainaina
Opening: November 16, 2012
Venue: Phoenix Players, Professional Centre
Tickets: Ksh. 650. Student tickets Ksh. 200
Runs: Until December 1, 2012.
Nancy is recently widowed and lives in a luxurious beach house. When her son, Jack, arrives after a year-long disappearance she is overjoyed to see him but perturbed by his mysterious lifestyle. Fuelled by alcohol, Jack's emotional turmoil begins to disrupt Nancy's peace of mind and to fracture her new relationship with the sensitive Charles. Then Jack discovers that Nancy is financially supporting Charles. One of the men has to go…
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Gregory Langowski, who majored in political science and minored in business administration at Palm Beach Atlantic University, began putting his studies into practice long before he graduated in 2001.
Not only was he president of the University's Young Republicans Club, but he also was active in student government, was selected to be a Presidential Ambassador and was involved in organizing student activities through Campus Programming.
Today Langowski, who went on to earn a master's degree in organizational leadership from PBA in 2008, is the Southeast regional director for the office of U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio. The Jupiter resident's duties include overseeing all district office operations, representing the senator in the district and traveling within the district to keep abreast of local concerns. He has worked for Sen. Rubio's office since 2011.
On Nov. 16, Langowski will receive the Young Alumnus Award during PBA's Homecoming weekend. The Young Alumnus Award recognizes alumni who have made significant contributions to their community and workplace and have also brought honor and distinction to Palm Beach Atlantic.
Since 2005, he has served as executive director of the Republican Party of Palm Beach County, a role in which he is involved in candidate campaigns and strategies, raising money and media relations.
He previously worked for several years at Jupiter Medical Center as a unit liaison and later as a physician referral coordinator.
Among the professional boards on which he has served are the Children's Services Council of Palm Beach County, Prevention Partnerships for Children, The Children's Movement of Florida and the Century Commission for a Sustainable Florida.
The formal award presentation will take place at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 16, at Palm Beach Atlantic University's Distinguished Alumni Awards Dinner in the Weyenberg Center in the Lassiter Student Center. The event is one of the highlights of Homecoming weekend. For information, visit www.pba.edu/homecoming.


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MOAB, Utah (AP) -- The mother of a teen charged in the death of a 33-year-old Moab man has been arrested on suspicion of obstructing justice.
Authorities say 44-year-old Corina Yardley was arrested Tuesday following the death of her boyfriend, Gregorio Salazar Campos. Her 16-year-old son, Brody Blu Kruckenberg, and 16-year-old Charles Anthony Nelson were arrested earlier on murder charges.
Deputies say Campos was reported missing March 29, and his body was pulled from the Colorado River on Saturday morning.
A Grand County jail report says Nelson shot Campos in the head while he slept in Yardley's bed. Nelson told investigators his friend, Kruckenberg, had invited him to the home and suggested they kill his mother's boyfriend.
KSL says authorities declined to elaborate on Yardley's suspected role in the case.


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MSHA News Release: [04/25/2012]
Contact Name: Amy Louviere
Phone Number: (202) 693-9423
Release Number: 12-0763-NAT
US Labor Department's MSHA releases first quarter mine fatality update
ARLINGTON, Va. The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration today released a first quarter summary of mining deaths across the country. Ten miners died in work-related accidents at the nation's mines during the first three months of 2012.
Six coal mining deaths occurred in the following categories: exploding vessels under pressure, drowning, handling materials, rib fall, machinery and electrical. An uncharacteristic trend identified over the quarter is that five of these fatalities three of them involving mine supervisors occurred on five consecutive weekends. Four mining deaths in the metal/nonmetal industry occurred from accidents involving powered haulage, a fall from an elevated walkway and, in two separate incidents, fall of material.
"Fatalities are preventable," said Joseph A. Main, assistant secretary of labor for mine safety and health. "Many mines operate every shift of every day, year in and year out, without a fatality or a lost-time injury."
Main noted that fatalities can be prevented by using effective safety and health management programs in the workplace. "Workplace examinations for hazards pre-shift and on-shift, every shift can identify and eliminate hazards that kill and injure miners," he said. "Providing effective and appropriate training will ensure that miners recognize and understand hazards and how to control or eliminate them."
MSHA has taken a number of actions to identify mines with health and safety problems, and has initiated several outreach and enforcement initiatives, including "Rules to Live By," a fatality prevention program highlighting safety and health standards most frequently cited during fatal accident investigations. Last month, MSHA circulated an accident prevention alert to the mining industry in the wake of four consecutive weekends of mine fatalities. The following weekend, a fifth fatality occurred.
An analysis of 2012's first quarter summary of mining fatalities is available on MSHA's website at http://www.msha.gov/fatals/summaries/summaries.asp, along with best practices to help mining operations avoid such fatalities.


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Could the king of the Android smart phones be about to drop?
The Samsung Galaxy S III phone will be announced in London at 7pm on 3 May at Earls Court.
An invite to the Samsung event in was published by Dutch site Tweakers.net The detail-free invitation simply reads "Come and meet the next Galaxy".
The event which will be livestreamed from Samsung's Facebook page coincides with the final night of BlackBerry World, the RIM phone fest that will be held in Orlando Florida from 1 May to 3 May.
Earlier this year, Apple similarly gazumped Google's big news broadcast at Mobile World Congress, releasing invitations to the launch of the new iPad during Google chief Eric Schmidt's keynote address.
The rumours:
The Samsung Galaxy III is rumoured to feature a powerful quad-core processor for lightning fast video, gameplay and multi-tasking.
The Samsung Galaxy II is a market-leading android phone, and launched with a price of £500 at launch, and the Galaxy III is expected to be priced to match this higher end of the market.
The Galaxy II now costs around £31 per month on Orange, or around £320 outright, so the phone should also drop in price fairly quickly.
The operating system is expected to be Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, the latest version of Android, and the OS found in Google's Galaxy Nexus phone.
Samsung Galaxy III is not, as rumour had it, the Samsung i9300. Images of that phone were leaked last week, but speculation has moved on from thinking that it is the phone that will be released in London.
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Firefighters are alarmed by a spot fire — about 100 acres — north of the Poudre Canyon, incident commander Bill Hahnenberg said Friday morning. If unchecked, the spot fire could gain momentum and make a run at Glacier View.
"We're working hard on the spot fire across the Poudre Canyon," Hahnenberg said. "Mother Nature is being very difficult. "
The terrain in the area is extreme, including numerous steep pitches and gullies, and fire fuels are abundant, including large patches of beetle-killed timber.
Five Type 1 hot shot crews are concentrating on the troublesome area today, with "a goal of putting a line around the fire, containing this portion of the big fire," Hahnenberg said.
"We are going to overcome," Hahnenberg said, "by being smart, aggressive and persistent."
Meanwhile, the eastern flank of the fire, closest to the city of Fort Collins, is "in really good shape," Hahnenberg said.
Crews will continue to patrol and monitor the eastern boundary where Hahnenberg said "there is very little heat."
The quiet nature of the fire on its east side will allow firefighters to concentrate elsewhere, especially the worrisome west side.
An additional 200 evacuations were ordered late Thursday night for residents in the southern portion of Glacier View Meadows.
The immediate evacuation order was sent out about 11 p.m. for the 9th, 10th and 11th filings of the subdivision, including the area east from Eiger Road to Rams Horn Mountain Road and north from the Mount Blanc Guardian Peak area to the north end of Mount Everest Drive, according to the Larimer County Sheriff's Office.
"Residents should begin the evacuation process immediately," the notification said.
The additional evacuation was "driven by increased activity in the spot fire," officials said.
The fire jumped the Cache la Poudre River at Stevens Gulch on Thursday afternoon, a natural barrier where firefighters had hoped to contain the blaze.
No additional evacuations are currently anticipated, but the rest of the Glacier View Meadows area remains on alert.
Officials do not anticipate reopening Cloudy Pass, Mill Canyon or Soldier Canyon today.
There are scattered showers and a few thunderstorms in the fire area this morning. Rainfall should be minimal, however, and the thunderstorms could whip up winds to 30 mph, according to the National Weather Service.
The High Park fire, which started Saturday and was sparked by a lightning strike, is currently at 52,000 acres with 15 percent containment, according to the fire command.
The fire grew about 2,000 acres on Thursday; it was the lowest daily growth rate since it started.
The current cost of fighting the fire is $7.2 million. About 2,600 notifications to local residents have been sent out since the fire started, and 1,187of those notifications have been lifted, according to the sheriff's office.
A total of 48 structures have been confirmed destroyed, the number is likely to go up.
The northwest side of the fire zone remains active as the blaze pushes through heavy beetle-kill stands of timber. There was a brief rain in the area last night.
Containment lines on the southeast and northeast corners of the fire are holding.
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From FreeMind
Chris Evans is working on an iPhone version of FreeMind. Since Apple does not yet allow Java on the iPhone, a straight port is out of the question. However, a program that reads and writes FreeMind files is still possible. Anyone interested in being a developer (or tester) of this version should send an e-mail to cevans42ca at yahoo dot ca. Those interested in trying out an alpha version can send their UDID, and I will send the latest version using the Ad-Hoc distribution profile. Mac OS X and/or membership in the Apple iPhone Developer Program are not required for testing. However, Mac OS X and membership in the Apple iPhone Developer Program are required to help with development.
For my thoughts so far on the interface, see iPhone Gestures.
For more information about the current state of FreeMind on the iPhone, see eMind.


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Un ejercicio de equilibrio: formulación de políticas en materia de drogas ilícitas en la República Checa
Este informe repasa el desarrollo de las políticas de drogas en la República Checa, desde el período postsoviético hasta la actualidad.
Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo.
Suscríbase a las Alertas mensuales del IDPC para recibir información sobre cuestiones relacionadas con políticas sobre drogas.
In the early post-Soviet period, Czech authorities, unlike their counterparts in some former Eastern Bloc countries, turned away from repressive drug policies and developed approaches to illicit drugs that balanced new freedoms with state authority. The end of Soviet rule meant that drug markets and the use of a wide range of new drugs attained a magnitude and visibility not previously known to Czech society.
From an early stage, some pioneering health professionals with expertise in drug addiction saw that the new drug situation would require greatly expanded services for drug users and collaboration between civil society and government to achieve this expansion. They were able to influence the new government and steer it toward drug policy that would define drug use as a multisectoral problem, not an issue for policing alone.
The report A Balancing Act: Policymaking on Illicit Drugs in the Czech Republic traces the development of drug policy in the Czech Republic from the post-Soviet period to the present day. The report examines the impact of the Czech Republic's evidence based approach to drug policy, compares the country's path on drug policy to that of its neighbour Slovakia and discusses challenges to maintaining this approach in the future.
Watch a video on the report here.


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LOMBARD – The Montini postseason curse had seemingly been broken.
Three years of close, but unsuccessful playoff battles against the Broncos were going to be forgotten after Austin Culton's two-point conversion gave Sycamore a one-point lead over Montini with 31 seconds remaining.
But Montini had one more possession. And in a fashion that befits a three-time defending state champion, the Broncos capitalized.
A good kick return set up Montini at the 50-yard line. Quarterback Alex Wills found Joe Borsellino on the sideline for back-to-back catches and Borsellino took a direct snap to the Sycamore 17-yard line, setting up a 34-yard field goal attempt with 5.2 seconds remaining
Andrew Harte's kick was true and Montini improbably came away with a drama-filled 24-22 victory over Sycamore in the second round of the IHSA Class 5A playoffs.
"It was the hardest game I've ever seen these guys play," Sycamore quarterback Devin Mottet said. "We gave it our all and when it comes down to it, they won off a last-second field goal."
Montini (9-2) took a 14-7 lead on the first play of the fourth quarter. Following a series of short passes to Mark Gorogianis, Wills found Michael Dusek wide-open down the middle of the field for a 19-yard touchdown.
But Sycamore (7-4) battled back. Mottet hit Davey Scholz for a 22-yard gain and Ben Niemann hauled in a 10-yard pass on 4th-and-3 to keep the drive alive. Two plays later, Culton crossed the goal line on a 1-yard run to tie it, 14-14.
"[Mottet]'s a tough player," Niemann said. "He's a competitor. He took some hits and he doesn't want to leave the field. He wants to be out there battling with his teammates.
After both defenses forced punts, Montini scored on a 1-yard run from Borsellino to put Montini up, 21-14, with 1:56 remaining in the game.
However, Mottet brought his team back in a textbook two-minute drill. The junior quarterback completed seven consecutive passes, including a 6-yard touchdown to Scholz that pulled Sycamore within one. Sycamore coach Joe Ryan decided to go for the two-point conversion and Culton barely crossed the goal line to put Sycamore in front.
"We'd already talked about it. I told them on the bench, 'We need a score and we're going to go for two,'" Ryan said. "Austin's a bulldog. Things were sealed just enough for him to get in there."
But Sycamore's defense couldn't come up with one last stop.
"Great kicker, and they know if they get it across the 50, they've got a shot at it," Ryan said. "We just didn't make enough plays."
Sycamore dominated the first half defensively, allowing only two Montini first downs. But the Spartan offense failed to capitalize as three possessions stalled after lost fumbles and another drive ended on a missed 25-yard field goal, resulting in a scoreless tie at halftime.
Mottet hit Michael John Poorten for a 14-yard touchdown to tie the game, 7-7, late in the third quarter.
It's the fourth time in the last six seasons Montini has ended Sycamore's season in the playoffs.
"Our kids battled," Ryan said. "I asked them to go from good to great and I think they played great today."


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This Week's Schedule
Senior Night
Tuesday, November 4
Big West Conference Match
No. 5 UC Santa Barbara (15-2-1, 1st) vs. No. 27 Cal State Northridge (9-4-2, 2nd)
Harder Stadium Santa Barbara, Calif.
Kickoff 7:00 p.m.
Friday, November 6
Big West Conference Match
No. 5 UC Santa Barbara (15-2-1) at UC Irvine (6-11-0)
Anteater Stadium Irvine, Calif.
Kickoff 7:00 p.m.
Moving Themselves Into Position
With this week's NSCAA/adidas coaches poll yet to be released at press time, UC Santa Barbara will more than likely enter the final week of the regular season ranked higher than last week's No. 5 national ranking. Ranked ahead of the Gauchos last week were UNC Greensboro at No. 1, and UCLA at No. 2, both of whom suffered losses last week, as well as SMU, who was ranked 3rd and will likely move into the No. 1 spot with its win over Vanderbilt, and No. 4 Notre Dame who tied Seton Hall in the Big East Semifinals but was ousted on penalty kicks. Amongst the four major polls only one has been released, College Soccer News tabbed the Gauchos 5th after their wins last week over UC Davis and then No. 18 Stanford to improve to 15-2-1 on the season.
Cal State Northridge Game Capsule
UCSB's match with Cal State Northridge marks the first of two chances for the Gauchos to redeem themselves and pick up wins over the only two teams to have defeated them this season. However, more pressing on Santa Barbara's mind when it takes to the field against the Matadors is the lone Big West Trophy missing from UCSB's locker room. In the first two seasons after the Big West reinstated men's soccer, the Gauchos owned the conference claiming the first two Big West titles and amassing a 16-2-2 combined conference record in that span. But last year was a different story as Cal State Northridge claimed the conference title, dashing UCSB's hopes at three straight. Well when they take to the field Tuesday night, the Gauchos will have their first chance at regaining the Big West Championship. If UCSB, which currently sits a top the conference standings with a 6-2-0 record and 18 total points, were to beat CSUN in Harder Stadium it will give the Gauchos the title of 2004 Big West Conference Champions. Should Tuesday's match end in a tie, Santa Barbara will still control its own destiny but will need a win at UC Irvine on Friday to claim its third Big West Title in the last four years. The Matadors' 4-1-2 conference places them second in the standings, four points behind the Gauchos with one extra game to play. Northridge snapped UCSB's 12-game unbeaten streak to start this season with a 3-1 home win on 10/16.
UC Irvine Game Capsule
UC Irvine and UC Santa Barbara matches as of late seem to conjure up a bit of déjà vu. Just like last season the Anteaters came into Harder Stadium three weeks ago and handed the Gauchos, fresh off the heals of losing their first game of the season to Cal State Northridge, and handed UCSB its first home conference loss of the year by a 1-0 margin. If the déjà vu thing holds true Santa Barbara will win 1-0 in overtime at Anteater Stadium to close out its regular season...just like last year.
Currently third in the Big West with a 1.49 goals against average, senior netminder Cameron Rossi was named the conference's player of the week after he posted the shutout over the Gauchos, he was, and still is, the only goalkeeper to accomplish that feat against UCSB this season.
When the Gauchos take to the field on Friday it will be the final regular season game for arguably is the best class in UCSB men's soccer history. In their four seasons, before this week's games, the graduating class of 2004 has produced combined records of 60-15-6 overall and 29-7-2 in the Big West. Should they win both matches this week, not only will they have won the Big West crown in three of their four seasons, they will have led this year's team to a 17-2-1 overall record, tying the 2002 team for the best in program history.
Holdin' The Man Down
Just how dominant has UCSB's team defense been this season, well their school record 12 shutouts speaks for itself, but the method to their mayhem over the stretch of the last four games shouts it. With a chance on Tuesday to match their season-high five straight shutouts to start the season, the Gauchos have limited their opponents to a total of just three shots on goal in their current string of four straight blankings. After allowing the single goal and a late one-on-one opportunity to UC Irvine three weeks ago, both due to defensive mistakes, UCSB's defensive unit of Tony Lochhead, Andy Iro, Pat Scott, Nate Boyden and goalkeepers Kyle Reynish and Dan Kennedy put together a string of 276 consecutive minutes without allowing a single shot to be put on frame. Since that point, the Gaucho D has played a total of 386 minutes while giving up just the three shots on goal for an average of one shot on frame every 128.7 minutes. Having now gone 396 minutes without conceding a goal to bump its season total to 12, UCSB has a shot at the Big West's single season record of 14 set by UNLV in 1984, they currently stand as third best all-time.
Mr. 7000
Common knowledge might say that if a goalkeeper only had to make one save in a shutout that he didn't have much to do with it, not so is case when it comes to Dan Kennedy. In addition to his directing of the UCSB defense, the senior netminder has put himself in a spot to tie the Gaucho's single season record of 11 complete game shutouts by stopping the opposition's attack before it has a chance to start with excellent play in the air. Currently tops in the Big West and fifth in the nation with a 0.55 goals against average, Kennedy will surpass a milestone on Tuesday when he becomes the first Gaucho ever to reach 7,000 career minutes played in the 25th minute against the Matadors. Already UCSB's all-time leader in career shutouts with 31, his current career goals against of 0.90 would stand alone at the top of the Gaucho charts and fourth all-time in Big West history.
They Just Keep Coming
Just by stepping onto the field on Tuesday, senior forward Drew McAthy will set yet another UCSB record this season. Currently with 80 career matches played McAthy will tie Scott Rivenes' 18-year old record for most matches ever played in a Gaucho uniform. And thanks to his conference leading eighth game-winning goal of the season last Saturday against the Cardinal, the Huntington Beach striker has put himself in position to possibly break UCSB's all-time scoring before the end of the regular season. Now with 109 total points in his career, McAthy needs just four more to tie Scott Grassinger ('79-'83) as the Gauchos' all-time leading scorer.
Pick Your Poison
Drew McAthy is already one half of one of UCSB's most potent one-two punches when he combined with former linemate Rob Friend for 37 goals in 22 matches in 2002, the most ever by a pair of Gauchos. Well with two regular season games remaining, and in all likelihood a berth in the NCAA Tournament, McAthy has chance to put himself in the No. 2 spot playing alongside Neil Jones. Thus far in 2004 Jones and McAthy have combined for 22 goals in 18 matches after each tallied a one of the Santa Barbara's two game-winning goals last week. Currently second all-time in school history is Scott Grassinger and Eric Price's combined total of 26 set in 1982. After a rough start to the season for Jones scoring wise, the senior forward has tallied all of his Big West third-best nine goals over the last 12 games. Shooting at an astonishing .429 clip with six goals in conference play, Jones is now tied for fifth all-time in UCSB history with 27 career goals. Mixing him his 15 career assists, themselves three shy of the Gauchos' top ten all-time, the Kiwi is just one point shy of tying his former teammate, the aforementioned Friend, for fifth all-time in career scoring at 70.
NCAA Selection Show
Be sure to tune into ESPNews next Monday, November 15th for the 2004 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Selection Show airing at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Standard Time to see who and where the Gauchos will be playing. UCSB has made the NCAA Tournament for two consecutive seasons. Advancing to the second round in 2002, its first-ever appearance in the tourney, with 2-0 home win over USD before losing 2-1 at Cal. And last year earning the No. 11 seed where it shutout Cal 2-0 at home in the second round before losing on the road to National Runner-Up St. John's 3-2 in double overtime.


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Skip to comments.GUN REGISTRATION IS GUN CONFISCATION (old but good)
Posted on 10/16/2010 10:36:12 AM PDT by marktwain
The holy grail of the anti self defense and anti rights special interest groups is gun registration. This is because once your gun is required to be registered, it is in effect, already confiscated. Only a little thought will reveal to you why this is so. The Government will know who has legal possession of each firearm. They will know where the firearm is stored. When physical possession of the gun is desired, they can order you to turn it in. This has happened repeatedly. The historical examples include NAZI Germany, Soviet Russia, Red China, and Cambodia. Recent examples include Kosovo, Great Britian, Australia, New York, and California. Not having possession of the firearm registered to you can be grounds for criminal action. If you have reported the gun stolen, and it is then found in your possession, you can be charged with obstruction of justice.
It is a truism that once all guns are required to be registered, the only people who will legally possess guns will be those who have registered them. If you choose to follow the course of civil disobedience, and not register your firearms, mere possession of an unregistered gun can put you at grave legal risk. Civil disobedience has been the most common course of action in California and Canada, where it has proven impossible to enforce the laws requiring registration. If you choose this course of action, you would now be at the mercy of any informant who discovers that you possess a gun illegally. Children in the public schools are already being trained to tell the police if there is a gun in the house. Doctors are being urged to ask children if there are guns in their home. A warrant was issued in California for a SWAT raid based on the mere picture of people holding unidentified guns which were legal. The picture had been sent to the police by an informant in the film developing company. If you are not on the list of those who have registered, you have become a criminal. If you are forced to use the gun for self defense, you will have committed a serious crime. It will become extremely difficult to train your children in firearms safety or to bring friends or relatives into the gun culture. In a few years, the number of people with personal knowledge of guns will be much smaller. The people who urge gradual or immediate gun registration are attempting cultural genocide of the gun culture.
The common practice, once guns are required to be registered, is to gradually tighten the requirements of registration to reduce the number of gun owners. When the number is low enough to limit effective political action by the members of the gun culture affected, the remaining guns can be confiscated with little effort.
Gun registration has proven to be universally ineffective in reducing crime. In fact, crime is likely to increase because of the transfer of police resources from crime fighting to administer and police the political requirements of the gun registration scheme, and because of the reduced number of people willing or able to use their firearms for self defense. Self defense is never acknowledged by the anti rights special interest groups because it trumps their arguments for disarming the people. The primary purpose of gun registration has always been to reduce the political power of the people rather than reduce the crime rate.
The current attempt at requiring gun registration started in 1968, when congress required gun dealers to obtain a federal license, and purchasers of guns from federally licensed dealers were required to fill out a form 4473 to take possession. Congress forbid the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms from constructing any national gun registration list from this data, although a registration scheme of purchasers of more than one handgun within a week has been kept on the grounds that it was started before the congressional action forbidding such, and is therefore "grandfathered". In 1994, Congress passed the Brady bill, which required handgun purchasers to undergo an instant check or a five day wait to purchase a handgun. While parts of this act were ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, a little known part of the bill went into effect in 1998, requiring all purchasers of firearms from licensed dealers to undergo an "instant check" before taking possession. Two safeguards had been built into the bill to insure that it would not be used to develop a national registration of firearms. First, the FBI was forbidden to keep any records of instant checks that allow purchase. Second, the instant checks only applied to dealers, not to private sales. Since any gun owner could sell their firearm whenever they wished, without government permission, no registration list could effectively be developed, and effective gun confiscation was prevented.
During the last year, both of these safeguards have been under attack. The FBI has refused to immediately destroy the instant check information, although required to do so by law. Recently a three judge panel in Washington, D. C. has voted two to one to uphold their ability to do so. Both judges voting for gun registration are Clinton appointees. The Clinton administration has been vociferously promoting the elimination of the other safeguard, private sales, which they call the "gun show loophole". Once private parties are forbidden from selling guns without government permission, it is only a matter of time before all guns and gun owners who are not registered are illegal.
I find particularly troubling the emphasis during the last decade on guns that are seldom used in crime, but are quite useful in military service. The same people who stated that they were only interested in limiting handguns, now call for limiting the ownership of military style rifles. Many models of guns which are almost never used in crime, are now illegal for people to own in some locations. The latest outrageous attempt to remove power from the people is to place severe restrictions on the sale of .50 caliber rifles. The authors of this bill don't even claim that these guns are used in crime. They want to ban them because they have a military purpose! The clearest reason for the Second Amendment to the Constitution is to insure that the people retain a large measure of military power, to balance the power of the government. The republic is in grave danger when congressmen openly state that they fear military power in the hands of the people.
The only purpose of gun registration is gun confiscation, whether it is done individually and piecemeal, as the legal requirements to own a gun become more and more difficult, or en mass, when the government feels the necessity to disarm its citizens in order to further its control.
Governments that push for gun registration distrust their people, and have earned the people's distrust.
What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
LESSON NO. 2: If a bureaucrat, or a soldier sent by a bureaucrat, comes to knock down your door and confiscate your firearms -- kill him. The disarmament of law-abiding citizens is the required precursor to genocide.
LESSON NO. 3: If a bureaucrat tells you that he must know if you have a firearm so he can put your name on a list for the common good, or wants to issue you an identity card so that you be more easily identified -- tell him to go to hell. Registration of people and firearms is the required precursor to the tyranny which permits genocide. Bureaucrats cannot send soldiers to doors that are not on their list.
I don't own any firearms. They were all swept away in a flood. /s
You don't need Permission for a Right
Registration and Licensing is a Permission.
ALL short guns sold legally in the U.S. are already registered with the FBI and the LOCAL police and the STATE police where you live. That has been a fact of life since 1968.
Long guns? I don't own any.
Remember, the police have APCs, not tanks. Remember Waco?
Funny, I foolishly carried all my guns and ammo on a canoe that upended and all of my guns and ammo were lost.
True story.
A common misconception. It is simply not true. How do the local police, FBI, and the State police know about a pistol purchased from a stranger advertised in the local classified 5 years ago? They do not have that knowledge. That is why they wish to make private sales illegal.
"ALL short guns sold legally in the U.S. are already registered with the FBI and the LOCAL police and the STATE police where you live. That has been a fact of life since 1968."
All they have to do is apply the same restrictions to 'long guns' and you have nation gun registration. Why an 18" barrel restriction for shotguns? All they have to do is make it 42".
I assume that he meant short barreled shotguns and rifles.
All of my guns were LOST in a tragic boating accident in the middle of the Atlantic. Nothing to register. And my CC license is for a...a ginsu knife. Yeah, that's it. An old, classic ginsu.
"I assume that he meant short barreled shotguns and rifles."
It is possible, but as the reference was to 1968, I thought he was refering to pistols.
Don't you get tired of ancient jokes? That remark has grown whiskers on FR. And besides, once the jackbooters have beaten down your door and knocked you against the wall, how much credence would they give that stupid remark?
Years ago, I knew a guy who had escaped Hungary at about age 16.
He said that when they were invaded, the soldiers went to the police stations & got the lists of all the registered guns.
The soldiers then went to those houses first & confiscated the guns.
Some people got away before the soldiers came & that was the nucleus of the resistance.
He was a pretty happy guy——But when he spoke of what had happened in his home country, his faced changed completely.
What are firearms?
Well then, I used to have one of those but I lost it out of my back pocket somewhere in the woods.
A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie. Vladimir Lenin
We want them registered - Nancy Pelosi
Registration or de facto registration in the form of closing the so-called Gun-show loophole means our Dear Leaders are granting Permission for you to have the right to defend yourself.
This Permission can be withdrawn at any time and thus your right to self-defense can be withdrawn at any time.
He was a pretty happy guyBut when he spoke of what had happened in his home country, his faced changed completely.
Whoa that comment really struck a cord in me.
An old friend of mine was the exact same way, except he was Vietnamese.
Isn't it interesting how people have that reaction to the oppression of Socialism?
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Rice University's Master of Business Administration (MBA) program is No. 3 for best-administered MBA programs (up from No. 8 last year) and No. 8 for best professors in the U.S., according to new rankings from the Princeton Review.
Also this week Forbes ranked the Rice MBA full-time program 41st in the U.S., up four spots from 45th in 2011. Forbes measures school standing on the basis of return on investment but does not account for scholarships in its calculations. The ranking also indicated that Rice MBAs from the class of 2008 rank 24th on average salary five years postgraduation.
"The Jones School's continued climb in business school rankings in metrics that matter most to our stakeholders reflects our long-term commitment to developing a premier business school," said Bill Glick, dean of the Jones School and H. Joe Nelson III Professor of Management. "We are particularly pleased with the salary increases postgraduation, indicating that Rice MBAs outperform and earn salary increases faster than graduates from peer schools. In addition to the Forbes report of salaries five years postgraduation, Financial Times (in January) ranked Rice MBAs No. 1 in the U.S. for salary percentage increase from entering the program to three years postgraduation. The market values Rice MBAs, and our graduates enjoy increasingly higher returns from their education."
The Rice MBA Full-Time Program provides students with a comprehensive MBA learning experience that combines specialized course work and real-world experience to improve and amplify their strategy, leadership and creative credentials. The program features innovative classes, expert faculty and a diverse group of candidates who often become colleagues for a lifetime.
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Earlier today, we mentioned some numbers from the latest NBC/WSJ poll pointing to a difficult political environment for the GOP heading into November. We should also have mentioned this figure: Democrats hold a 15-point advantage (49%-34%) over Republicans in a generic congressional ballot test.
That is virtually unchanged from March's poll, when respondents picked a generic Democratic candidate over a generic Republican, 49%-34%.


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LONGMONT -- Longmont resident Terry Mattison only was retired for a few months before he realized that riding his bike and relaxing wasn't enough.
Mattison, 66, started looking for something to fill his time and eventually decided that the Peace Corps might meet his needs.
"I wanted something meaningful, an adventure where I could travel and live in a new place," Mattison said. "I needed to help and have some fun."
Mattison spent two years in Ukraine working with the Department of Tourism and Saturday he will go back to the eastern European country for another six months, as part of a response program that provides additional workers on an as-needed basis.
The Peace Corps is most commonly associated with young volunteers, often college graduates, but in 2007 the organization launched a campaign to attract an older demographic.
"The post-retirement age is getting more common," said Peace Corps spokeswoman Erin Durney. "It's a great transition for them to be able to continue their careers but in a different way."
Now, 7 percent of volunteers across the world are 50 years old or older, an all-time high for the organization, Durney said.
When he boarded the plane for his first trip to Ukraine in 2010, Mattison said vodka and beautiful women were about the only things he associated with the country. This time, he said he's leaving with an understanding of the culture, traditions and people he will encounter.
Mattison lived with a local woman who showed him around the city during his first trip, but his work with the tourism department gave him a different perspective of his surroundings.
"I did a lot of strategic planning like working with local castles and museums to translate their information to other languages for advertising," Mattison said. "We also created a self-guided walking tour of the city and worked on improving the overall tourist experience."
When Mattison returns in the fall, he said he might be ready for some down time, but doesn't expect that will last too long. He doesn't have any specific plans in place following his trip, but Mattison said he will be looking for some more local volunteer opportunities.
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Here's one class you won't want to cut: Food University is scheduled for next month at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, and the list of faculty reads like a who's who of culinary experts.
The goal of the March 27-29 class is to turn foodies who are average cooks into superior home chefs.
Nine hands-on cooking classes will be taught by well-known chefs, and students will also attend three seminars (one is all about chocolate) and take a couple of behind-the-scenes field trips.
Tuition is $1,995 per person.
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We are sending Morsi support as we speak. Tear gas and riot gear. Not to mention the fighter jets we already gave him.
There looks like there is hope for Egypt after all. The military is going to clean house. Hey US government stay the hell out of it last stay out of Syria.
We are sending Morsi support as we speak. Tear gas and riot gear. Not to mention the fighter jets we already gave him.
Just another brutally murderous day in the world of brutally violent, savage, backward Islam.
Egypt crisis: at least 29 killed as Muslim Brotherhood clash with ousted Mohammed Morsi's enemies
Egypt faced a descent into chaos as violent clashes broke out across the country leaving 29 dead and dozens more injured.
By Richard Spencer, Magdy Samaan and Robert Tait in Cairo9:08PM BST 05 Jul 2013
Running battles between those supporting the overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood President Mohammed Morsi and those demanding his reinstatement were most intense in Cairo where tens of thousands took to the streets. The two sides briefly fought for control of the northern entrances to Tahrir Square.
The Muslim Brotherhoods leader Mohammed Badie addressed a mass rally in the Egyptian capital and called for troops to defy their generals and restore Mr Morsi to power. He is believed to be under arrest.
Mr Badie, who denied reports that he himself had been placed under arrest, said the national leaders who announced the new government on Wednesday night did not represent their followers.
He singled out the Grand Iman of Al-Azhar University and the Pope of the Coptic Christian church, a provocative move in light of the countrys rising sectarian tensions.
Millions will remain in the squares until we carry our elected president, Mohamed Morsi, on our shoulders, he told a cheering crowd. We are his soldiers and we defend him with our lives. He said he would not be deterred by threats or detentions, or the gallows. He urged soldiers to obey their supreme commander President Morsi rather than the defence minister, Gen Abdulfattah al-Sisi.
One of the most dramatic incidents of the day took place in front of the Republican Guard headquarters, near the main Brotherhood encampment at Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque. Mr Morsi is thought to have been working there when he was detained, and it has become a focus of Brotherhood protests.
Marchers came up to the barbed wire barriers in defiance of orders not to do so, and were fired on when they repeatedly tried to place a poster of Mr Morsi on them.
Elsewhere, 12 people were killed in clashes in the city of Alexandria.
30 killed in school attack in northeast Nigeria
July 6, 2013
POTISKUM, Nigeria (AP) Islamic extremists have killed 29 students and one teacher in an attack on a boarding school in northeast Nigeria.
Survivors being treated for burn and gunshots wounds say some students were burned alive in the attack before dawn Saturday on Government Secondary School in Mamudo town in Yobe state.
As he wept over the bodies of his two boys, farmer Malam Abdullahi swore he would withdraw three remaining sons from a nearby school.
He complained there was no protection for students despite the deployment of thousands of troops since the government declared a state of emergency mid-May in three northeastern states.
Dozens of schools have been torched and unknown scores of students killed among more than 1,600 victims slain by extremists since 2010.


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A joint initiative between the American Immigration Council and AILA seeks to change the playing field for immigrants facing deportation.
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AILA Doc. No. 07061563 | Dated June 14, 2007
ORLANDO - The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) today appointed Bernard P. Wolfsdorf of Pacific Palisades, California as the association's National First Vice President for the 2007-2008 term. The appointment took place during sessions of AILA's 51st Annual Conference being held in Orlando, Florida.
Bernard Wolfsdorf is the founding partner of the Wolfsdorf Immigration Law Group, one of the largest immigration firms in the United States with offices in Santa Monica and New York. He is a California state bar certified specialist in immigration and nationality law and is listed in Martindale Hubbell's Pre-eminent Specialist Directory with the highest possible rating in ethics and competence.
Mr. Wolfsdorf is featured in The Best Lawyers in America, Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business, California Super Lawyers, and the International Who's Who of Business Immigration Lawyers. His firm figures prominently among the top immigration firms in the nation, with three nominees among the International Who's Who of Corporate Immigration Lawyers. "The firm is increasingly considered '[a] force to be reckoned with,' on a national scale." —Chambers Global.
Mr. Wolfsdorf has been featured in many articles by major news publications, including the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Daily Journal, the Orange County Register, New York Times, and USA Today. He is a featured guest for radio and television news programs and has been interviewed regularly by CNN.
The American Immigration Lawyers Association is the national association of immigration lawyers established to promote justice, advocate for fair and reasonable immigration law and policy, advance the quality of immigration and nationality law and practice, and enhance the professional development of its members.
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Liverpool have reportedly sent scouts to run the rule over Atletico Madrid midfielder Arda Turan as manager Brendan Rodgers makes plans for the January transfer window.
The Turkey international is a self-confessed Liverpool fan and, it would seem, may be offered the opportunity to realise his ambition and move to Anfield in the New Year.
According to talkSPORT, Liverpool boss Rodgers posted representatives to take a look at Turan during Turkey's World Cup qualifier with Romania, which they lost to Romania in Istanbul on Friday.
Turan only joined Atletico from Galatasaray for €12 million last year as the Madrid club invested the money gained following the sale of Sergio Aguero to Manchester City.
The 25-year-old winger, however, may yet leave the Vicente Calderón after just 18 months with the club, should Liverpool formalise their interest in the transfer window.
Turan fuelled rumours last week when he was pictured wearing a Liverpool shirt with the name and number of compatriot and Anfield star Nuri Sahin on the back, and a Merseyside move could be on the cards.
Rodgers is on the lookout for creative reinforcements, although the priority for Liverpool surely remains the recruitment of another goalscorer.
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The 485-ton, 450-foot-long machine will dig through approximately 50 feet of Manhattan bedrock per day as it completes two runs from 92nd Street to 63rd Street by November 2011. The event marks a significant milestone in Phase 1 of the MTA's Second Avenue Subway construction project, which is on schedule to be completed by December 2016.
The Second Avenue Subway Phase 1 will serve more than 200,000 people per day, reducing overcrowding on the Lexington Avenue Line and restoring a transit link to a neighborhood that lost the Second Avenue Elevated in 1940.
"There have been skeptics who saw construction start and stop in the 1970s and said the Second Avenue Subway would never be built," said MTA Chairman and CEO Jay H. Walder. "But today, we are turning on the machine that will dig the Phase 1 Second Avenue Subway tunnels, and we won't turn it off until the tunnels are done. This powerful machine is a tangible reminder of the important role that today's MTA capital program will play for generations of New Yorkers to come."
"Anyone riding the Lexington Avenue Line today, whether for work commute or pleasure, understands the critical importance of constructing the Second Avenue Subway," said Thomas F. Prendergast, President of MTA New York City Transit. "When completed, it will provide the capacity needed to sustain the East Side's vitality and future growth."
"Building the Second Avenue Subway is a remarkable undertaking that has had its share of challenges, both past and present," said Dr. Michael Horodniceanu, President of MTA Capital Construction. "Thanks to the commitment of our funding partners and the Upper East Side community, we continue to make significant progress towards delivering a new state-of-the-art subway for New York City."
"This is what progress looks like - it's 450 feet long, has a 200-ton cutter head, and it's moving us closer to transit relief on the East Side," said City Council Member Dan Garodnick. "It can be difficult to appreciate the enormity of this project and how construction is progressing, but there can be no doubt today that we are moving forward. Thousands of riders, residents and merchants are now hoping that this project continues to move forward swiftly and safely."
The Second Avenue Subway is one of four large-scale projects being built as the MTA undertakes the largest expansion of New York's public transportation system in two generations. The MTA is also connecting the Long Island Rail Road to Grand Central Terminal, extending the 7 subway line to the far west side, and building the Fulton Street Transit Center in Lower Manhattan.
Under Phase 1 of the Second Avenue Subway project, new stations being built at 96th Street, 86th Street and 72nd Street will be served by the Q train, as will an expanded station at 63rd Street and Lexington Avenue. Further phases of the project will extend the line from 125th Street in Harlem to Hanover Square in the Financial District. The configuration of the tracks will allow for possible future extensions into Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx.


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STAWELL - A number of young gymnasts successfully represented Stawell Gymnastics Club at a recent meeting held in Warrnambool.
Stawell joined Melbourne Eastern Suburbs, Natimuk, Warrnambool, Geelong, Portland, Mount Gambier and Hamilton at the event that saw four girls pass their gymnastics levels.
Adele Brand passed level four, Dani Hinchliffe and Emersyn Kennedy both passed level seven, and Bec Hinchliffe managed to get past level nine.
After a lot of hard work from Stawell Gym competitors and coaches, the club is starting to reap the rewards.
There have been some very high level performances even with the extreme disadvantage Stawell gymnasts have endured after losing a lot of training equipment in the floods of December 2011.
Adele Brand and Bec Hinchliffe managed to receive first overall individual trophies in levels four and nine.
Adele received first prize on beam, second on vault and bars, third on floor in the women's level four competition while Hinchliffe finished on top in bars and beam and second on vault and floor.
Taneya Burke and Eliza Marrow also competed extremely well in the level four.
In the women's level five competition, Tessa O'Callaghan performed very well and was in a combined team which was awarded a second overall team medal.
Dani Hinchcliffe, Bridget Russell and Emersyn Kennedy entered level seven as a team and also managed to take home a second overall team medal.
Dani finished second on beam and third on vault while Bridget came in third on bars and Emersyn took second on bars and floor.
Bella Scott competed in the women's level 10 section, finishing second on bars, floor, vault and beam to receive the second individual overall trophy.
In the women's level two competition, Stawell had 10 girls compete at this level which enabled the club to submit two teams.
Stawell's red team comprised of Tara Corcoran, Tahlia Marrow, Kira Dunn, Daneika Clayton and Jemma Peters.
Red managed to finish third, receiving medals for their effort.
The black team comprised of Tahlia Wilson, Jessica Meyer, Charlie Peters, Mia Carter and Kirby Clayton and came fourth overall.
Results for Stawell's successful girls (levels one and three) and boys will be reported in upcoming editions of The Stawell Times-News.
Meanwhile, Stawell Gymnastics Club has received a $750 donation from the Horsham Fishing competition.
The cheque is to help go towards equipment lost in the December 2011 floods. The club lost a lot of crash mats, carpeted mats and the sprung floor had rotted underneath and has to be replaced.
Ray Howard was on hand to present Stawell Gymnastics Club coach Nicole Coates with the cheque which will go towards buying a crash mat.


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Originally published on October 28, 2013 4:43 pm
A New England institution is turning another page in its mission to serve hikers of New Hampshire's White Mountains.
For 125 years, the huts maintained by the Appalachian Mountain Club have offered food, shelter, advice and a bit of entertainment to weary travelers of the presidential range.
Chris Ballman, Here & Now's managing editor, visited one of the huts recently and brought back this story.
- Chris Ballman, Here & Now managing editor.
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