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... using words like "misleading" and "unfair." It's fraud, plain and simple.
There is another problem here which may explain why companies do this; if they recommend you a service for HD movies and a 3 hour movie has a single hickup during playback, they're likely to get sued. Therefore anything which requires real-time performance (something the internet cannot guarentee), they'll just tell you to get the most expensive service. That way, when they get sued, they atleast can't be blamed for knowingly recommending an under-specced service, however reasonable a less expensive package
We've had that problem here with the local cableco. I've had customers come to me saying "They say if I want to watch netflix I need to get the high end package" while they neglect to tell them the standard home package (which is nearly $80 cheaper for the 3 piece bundle and nearly $120 cheaper by itself) is now thanks to their FINALLY switching to digital TV between 12Mbps and 20Mbps with it only slowing to the former number in the worst, most congested part of the day.
And of course with Black Friday tomorrow let us not forget Worst Buy, where I had a friend try to do a little temp work to get some extra scratch and had to quit in disgust because he said it was made clear his job was basically to lie about the performance of the lower end machines so grandma wouldn't feel safe unless she bought some $1000 gamer rig. I've noticed that quite often in the electronics depts. Kinda sad when the kids working the Wally World actually give me the warm fuzzy feeling simply because they don't know shit and will just give you an answer like "I don't know, it looks nice and you can play with the display model to see if you like it".
I'm just amazed at how much complete bullshit these bunches are allowed to get away with now. I had a customer last year that needed some LCDs NOW and asked me to accompany him to the local staples because he didn't know anything about features. i got so damned disgusted at the obvious bait and switch (basically every monitor they had on display below $200 was "not in stock") that I told him to just get in my truck and I'd personally drive him the 30 minutes to the state capital just to keep him from getting ripped off. I should probably thank staples for being douchebags though, he was so grateful i was willing to help him outfit his office after the fire and keep him from getting ripped off he bought 6 monitors instead of 5 and when I went to load them in his van he said "Leave the last one in the truck, its yours". Still its a shame that stores are allowed such douchebaggery nowadays. But I got not only the nice dell 20 inch for the shop but an extra $1000 in work setting up the office as well as his home, and another $3k in referrals, so thanks staples, thanks for being absolute douchenozzles.
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He should have put peanut butter on the load catcher and the boosts to the desktop wallpaper would have been much cheaper and easier.
... using words like "misleading" and "unfair." It's fraud, plain and simple.
Of course you are right. However almost all marketing involves implying things that are not true.
The other problem is that many customers don't even know they are being had. Modern stuff especially electronics are so complicated that the average person just doesn't have the time to figure it all out and buy rationally. They usually become dependent on store recommendations or someone they know, if they know someone.
This is part of the reasons why companies make there offerings confusing and difficult to compare. It's been called a "confusopoly" to make sure people can't understand why a competitors products may be better. Notice how there are so many "customized" versions of smartphones? Nonsensical models numbers for a ton of computer parts, etc.
Here's an idea: Maybe one of them uses a VGA connector and the other uses HDMI/DVI.
Analog vs. digital, see?
Maybe I'm just cynical, but I ALWAYS expect advertisements to lie. Every claim that is not quantified and expressed in numbers is definitely a lie. Claims that are expressed in numbers are probably a lie. Only specs that are very easy to verify and actually define fitness for purpose can be relied on- like RAM size or dimensions. Claims that are hard to verify like quality or reliability or performance or health benefits will be lies. Salesmen who have vested interest will ALWAYS lie to you. You'll never get honest advice from people who stand to profit from your decision. Even independent sources are often biased one way or the other and often won't give advice that is best for you and your situation.
This doesn't just hold true for tech. This is true for everything you purchase from washing machines and pencils to computers and cars. I still don't understand how some people don't realize this and just walk into a shop and ask someone there to help with their purchase.
So yes, it's not surprising that Dell did this, but now that they've been caught, they should be accused and punished, so that next time they'll maybe think twice. That's how we train people, and that's how we can train corporations to behave better in society.
Dell's defence is that at some point in time less expensive video cards with crappy RAMDACs blighted consumers and they will find plenty of unemployed former Matrox executives to testify on their behalf.
Seriously, I think this is a no-brainer for a truth in advertising slap on the wrist, but if we go down this path, where do we find enough cells to house the audiophile industry? We'll be building tent farms after rounding up just the low-oxygen HDMI crowd plying low-oxygen consumers.
... using words like "misleading" and "unfair." It's fraud, plain and simple.
Apart from that test below the image saying: "Image for illustrative purposes only". Legally that probably gets them off the hook on the fraud charges.
Also under our retarded british legal system you have probably now libelled them and they can sue you for millions of pounds in lost revenue.
They've been doing that since long before the Monster crap. I worked there many years ago in high school. They'd purposely adjust the lower-priced TVs so that the color was off or the image was blurry, or sometimes they'd even futz with the vertical hold settings to introduce a slow roll (this was long before non-CRT tvs were available), and meanwhile they'd have the higher priced ones set perfectly to get people to pay more.
There is no such thing as a "standard" graphics card
Maybe Dell is comparing the VGA port of onboard graphics vs. DVI/HDMI of a discrete card. I do notice a difference between VGA and DVI on a 17" monitor.
1920x1080 over an SVGA port with a low quality cable looks absolutely horrible,
The problem is almost always caused by the sync on the monitor being slightly out of phase with the clock on the graphics card. Back in ye olde days of TFT monitors, before DVI (I had one--I was an early adopter), the auto adjustment was not especially good and you had to tweak the phase slightly using the on-screen controls to get a pin-sharp image. With even really cheap monitors these days, the analog sync is exceptionally good compared to what it was. Almost all crappiness can be fixed by pressing the auto-adjust button.
I regularly use a TFT monitor driven with an analog cable at 1920x1200, and it's one of those modern, thin super cheap looking VGA cables. It looks great.
BTW, VGA is pretty forgiving on short cables. The frequencies aren't that high and any even moderately passable co-ax will do fine, and cheap modern coax is manufacturered to an astonishingly high spec.
And yes, I am a pixel nazi, like the visual equivalent of golden ears. I work in image processing, so I am very sensitive to things like ringing, JPEG artefacts, mismatched resolutions, phase errors, dithering, etc.
Yeah, but that difference is about an order of magnitude more subtle than shown on Dell's site.
And even the cheapest on-board graphics come with a DVI port these days.
Maybe Dell is comparing the VGA port of onboard graphics vs. DVI/HDMI of a discrete card. I do notice a difference between VGA and DVI on a 17" monitor.
I agree there is a discernible difference between analog and dvi output quality, though on an advertisement image that size and quality both would be indistinguishable at native resolutions for the display.
I have two 22" LCDs right here and I can switch them back and forth and can't tell any difference in where they are connected. They have different color temperatures even, so any difference ought to be even more obvious. The quality of your RAMDAC is way more important than anything else unless you have a crazy long cable.
On a 17" monitor? Unless the AD/DA converters on your video card and the monitor are totally shoddy, I highly doubt it. Running 1680x1050 out of an Intel onboard card via VGA into a Samsung 223BW right now, and there is absolutely no difference between that and DVI or HDMI.
Sure, if the monitor you're using has crappy VGA inputs or you're using a crappy cable, yes, you'll have problems - problems which are nonexistent with a digital connection (there you'll just have no signal at all)... but it's not correct
Yea, I can use 1920x1440@85Hz on my CRT monitor and it is not blurry. Also, this resolution requires much higher quality cable (because the pixel clock frequency is very high) than 1920x1080@60Hz
The video from a good quality DE-15 VGA cable of reasonable length is nearly indistinguishable from that of a lossless digital connection such as DVI when using sane resolutions. It is mainly when you are utilizing substandard cables, unusually long lengths or very high resolutions (the kind that workstation GPUs push out) that the cable becomes an impairment. KVMs are also major signal killers.
Digital panels also introduce benefits and drawbacks regarding analog inputs. Many flat panels operate with 60Hz refresh rates, so the bandwidth required to transmit the signal is lower than in the days of CRTs when you often had refresh rates in excess of 85Hz. That means that you can get away with a cheaper cable for the same resolutions. On the other hand, you're now reliant on the quality of the A/D converter in the flat panel monitor. You're also reliant on the quality of the monitor calibration software. I find that many monitors suck on the second task unless you use anything other than a background of alternating black and white pixels (like the default X background).
As for the article itself, they are correct in claiming that it is outright BS. I have to go all the back to my old S3 Trio64 discrete video card before I find something that can't drive my flat panel at its native 1680Ã--1050 resolution at 32bpp. Every discrete video card and integrated onboard chipset I've had in the past decade can do it. Heck, both the Geforce FX5500 and Radeon 8500 AGP cards I have for my old K6/500 system drive my HD plasma in its native 1080p.
Do they drive them well? Picture quality wise, they're no different than the latest Nv or AMD card around. However, they do tend to chug a bit. The Radeon 8500 is especially bad under Windows 7 since I'm using hacked Vista drivers since it isn't a DX9 card, which is a requirement for Win7 (I'm sure the K6 doesn't help). But that isn't what the picture at Dell's site is showing.
Actually, WDDM 1.0 (Vista) drivers require the graphics card support DX9. WDDM 1.1 drivers require the graphics card support DX10. Fortunately, Win7 still can use XP display drivers (Win8 won't able to and will fallback to Microsoft Basic Display Adapter).
Maybe. So what would have been preferable? I've gotten by with onboard graphics for years, doing no more than video processing and photography, and as a console gamer, video cards are just something I don't think about. I'm assuming that the sell is that discrete video cards offer better features for intense gaming, and that integrated graphics will eventually disappoint when the user tries to play AAA game title. Dell could just provide performance metrics, but numbers really are meaningless to most consum
Maybe Dell is comparing the VGA port of onboard graphics vs. DVI/HDMI of a discrete card. I do notice a difference between VGA and DVI on a 17" monitor.
If the monitor is a flat panel and its native resolution is not VGA, or an exact multiple of VGA, then the image can appear blurry. Every play an old fixed resolution 640x480 game on a modern flat panel?
Besides, the aspect ratio would be slightly different if that were the case, but in this case it is not.
I've used VGA on a 17" for years on an aging graphics card, and it never looked as bad as the Dell picture.
If may be a bit more fuzzy, but I could still see individual pixels and there's really no reason why the colors would be that flat.
Don't Dell TFT's have contrast/brightness settings?
I've used VGA on a 17" for years on an aging graphics card, and it never looked as bad as the Dell picture.
If may be a bit more fuzzy, but I could still see individual pixels and there's really no reason why the colors would be that flat.
Don't Dell TFT's have contrast/brightness settings?
Of course they do. This image has been knocked up in photoshop and they even tell you that on the image. The bit saying "images shown are for demonstrative purposes only" literally translates into "we knocked this shit up in photoshop" when you translate it from legalese marketing speak into plain english.
I'd have more sympathy for them and your comment if their monitors didn't come with Display Port and every model of Optiplex bar one seems to come with displayport as well for their integrated graphics adapters.
Money does not need to be spent for some mythical increase in contrast ratio (which is what they are showing on the website, and contrast ratio is one thing which does not improve going from VGA to DVI/HDMI/DP). There's only a barely noticeable increase in sharpness in many cases.
Why don't they put two naked chicks fondling the expensive card monitor behind it . .
And Roseanne Barr behind the cheapo one . . . ?
Then I would know which one to buy!
Why don't they put two naked chicks fondling the expensive card monitor behind it . .
You're getting it all wrong.
The big difference is that in the UK and EU there's an excellent chance that this is illegal. Strange as it may seem, unlike the US we actually require adverts to be somewhat true - and not just by tacking on a timestretched disclaimer sped up to a garble at the end. For example, the Budweiser "Fresh Beer Tastes Better" ad campaign was ultimately sunk because fresh beer does not, in fact, taste better. Although the ASA eventually cleared the advert on the basis that Bud tastes so bad it actually becomes worse as it ages, the damage was done.
I would urge as many of you that summon up the enthusiasm to send a polite email to the Advertising Standards Authority [asa.org.uk]. Since this portion of the Dell website is aimed at UK customers, they must abide by UK laws.
The ASA are actually one of the most capable regulatory bodies within the UK. I've been continually impressed by them demanding peer reviewed evidence from manufacturers to support their claims, and by the decent balance their provide when people complain about adverts that go against their morals/religion.
A few years ago I read that the average number of complaints to the ASA that lead to the advert people pulled was 1.3 . In other words they take every complaint on their merit rather than from public pressure. So if you think an advert violates one of the standards, there is a good chance you can get it pulled.
The badscience forum provides an excellent Activisim section [badscience.net] that can help when constructing these complaints.
Although the ASA eventually cleared the advert on the basis that Bud tastes so bad it actually becomes worse as it ages.
That implies that Bud tastes of something... Clearly false! NB: I've actually had some rather nice beers in the US (although they do tend to be from their mother's womb untimely ripp'd).
Back on topic, before USAians start talking about freedom of speech and censorship (personally, I couldn't care less if the adverts are censored as long as the bits in between them aren't) its worth noting that the ASA is an independent body, not an arm of Government, and the sanctions are usually limited to forcing the o
Dell's page says that its picture is for "demonstrative purposes only"
Dell should rephrase it and clearly state that this is for "promotional purposes only" instead.
So complain to the FTC, or to competitors who sell lower-end graphics chips. This is what truth in advertising is for.
the images look the same on my low end graphics card. I guess I should upgrade.
Reminds me of the Sony TV adds ("colour like no other" i think it was) which looked pretty colourful on my 15 year old CRT at the time.
Right? And what about all those 3D TV adverts? Those 3D TV's look pretty 2D to me on my old CRT.
This is an OptiPlex, intended primarily for business-type customers and not available on Dell's "Home" section. The likelihood of a novice user stumbling to this is low.
Not saying it's fair of them, but still--and their "help me choose" pages are rarely representative of the actual choices, anyway (this being an exception, except it's misleading).
It's not just misleading, it's actually lying. The pictures are accompanied by the phrase "Images shown are for demonstrative purposes only". But they're not demonstrative of anything like the difference between a high-end and low-end graphics card.
The fact that it's for business users does not in any way excuse Dell for flat-out lying to customers.
and their "help me choose" pages are rarely representative of the actual choices, anyway
A graphics solution designed for advanced photo and video editing, graphic design and financial modeling: A high-end graphics solution
A graphics solution designed for presentations, spreadsheets and rich media: A mid-range graphics solution
A graphics solution designed for basic Internet, email, word processing and light graphics applications: Integrated Graphics
I have no idea what they mean by "financial
Images shown are for demonstrative purposes only.
From the look of the two monitors on the 'example' page, it looks like they're showing 27 or 30 inch monitors. If that's true, then the comparison of the 'low end' Radeon 3450 at a max of 1920x1200 to a 3470 or higher with a max resolution of 2560x1600 (the native resolution of a 30 inch monitor) will look something close to the example photos.
Not labeling the examples with the types of cards used, resolutions, sizes, etc is close to unconscionable for a business computer comparison / assist site.
The funny thing is that even if that's true, then the lowest end baseline integrated intel graphics chip would match the high end in display resolution, and therefore, sharpness on any monitor Dell sells.
It's advertising, and because we know better about monitors, it's clearly not for us. But think of, say, laundry detergent commercials. The latest always makes your clothes whiter and removes more stains than the "leading brand". Well, the commercial has been the same for 50 years. And so have the detergents, more or less...
All that matters is the warning at the bottom. Think of cigarettes. They kill you, but as long as they told you so.
Dell super video is much good. Much much gooder than standard picture. Definition is very high! Don't buy cheap standard video!
Buy Dell video, I rating A++++++++++! Very happy very sharp picture!
Most people care about the results, not the specifications. Indeed, most people don't understand the background information required to understand specifications. So the marketeers have to simplify things. Which is awfully hard to do when you're talking about a static image on a website, which would make low end video appear on par with high end video. So they simplify things.
Do I agree with that simplification? Not really. Do I understand that simplification? Absolutely. After all, even though it i
And the sad part is, I remember when Dell didn't have to resort to cheap tricks to sell PCs. Speccing in non-standard and substandard parts, plus rolling over for every sad business brain-fart has destroyed that company. Such a pity, at one time their Just-In-Time business model was seen as a something of a wonder.
Try a new tactic. Go back to doing what made you successful in the first place. Put on a black turtleneck (if you must), and inform your customers that while their money means a lot to you, you si
If that laptop doesn't have at least 8 GBs of RAM and a 1 TB 7200 RPM HD or 256 GB SSD, with a separate video card, it cannot be sold. Your company depends on repeat business, correct?
I don't disagree with your point, but I think your "minimum" specs are a little high. 1 TB 7200 rpm 2.5" HDDs don't even exist yet in the 9.5mm format that will actually fit inside most laptops. And if it has discrete graphics, then I'm not buying it. I value battery runtime over flashy graphics, and I doubt I'm the only one. And given that even the i945 integrated graphics in my five year old laptop can do flashy graphics (compiz) at 1920x1080 just fine, I doubt any modern chip couldn't. Unless you play games or run CAD software, discrete graphics are overkill.
It even blurs the stickers on the screen!
I know that in Europe we have fairly strong advertising standards regulation and in theory every ad is supposed to be "legal, decent honest and truthful". I see the odd case of outrageous ads being challenged but for the most part we get exactly the same litany of gullible customers being sold products they don't need: €100 hdmi cables, ultimate broadband for Facebook browsing etc.
I am not sure that any amount of regulation can stop it. I have become quite resigned to the whole business and I accept it as a kind of ignorance tax. While I can be smug about the fact that I am knowledgeable enough about tech products to avoid paying this ignorance tax I am quite sure that in other areas where I am less knowledgeable I am probably duped into paying more than I should.
As I posted above [slashdot.org] if you complain to the ASA there is a good chance that your complaint will be heard and actually take effect. No need to resign ourselves to our lying corporate overlords.
The Asa also recently increased their remit for what advertising they will regulate.
From March 1st 2011, the UK Code of Non-broadcast Advertising, Sales Promotion and Direct Marketing (the CAP Code) has applied in full to marketing messages online, including the rules relating to misleading advertising, social responsibility and the protection of children. Journalistic and editorial content and material related to causes and ideas - except those that are direct solicitations of donations for fund-raising - are excluded from the remit. Previously, our remit online was limited to paid-for ads (such as pop-ups and banner ads) and sales promotions wherever they appeared.
Unfortunately since it doesn't cover "Journalistic and editorial content", they are unable to get involved where a journalist has been clearly paid to write a glowing yet inaccurate endorsement of a product.
Jumbo Shrimp
Military Intelligence
and Friendly Fire
Words that have no business being said next to one another for 800 Alex!
I mean, how else would you quickly and efficiently explain 3D acceleration to someone who has no idea what it is? Let's same I have a game and I want to run it at 30 frames per second. On a low-end card, I have to turn the details down and decrease the resolution to get the same speed - in other words, make it "blurrier." On the high-end card, I crank everything up and it looks nicer. Dell didn't want to get into the whole give and take of speed / detail / resolution, that's not who this guide is for. Blurrier is a good enough representation of those technicalities.
If there's anything wrong with this, it's that they used a desktop instead of a game screenshot. I supposed that potentially could cause someone to upgrade who had no legitimate need for a nicer graphics card. But with Aero and whatever desktop nonsense there is now, it's not that misleading.
And there you go. The first time, and probably the last time, that I've stood up for Dell.
I submitted the following to Consumerist. I looked for somewhere to tell Dell, "thought you'd like to know, I've submitted the following to Consumerist" but couldn't find any place to submit it. Whatever happened to old-fashioned contact pages? It looks like all the many ways to contact them involve signing in to Dell, Facebook, Twitter, or Google+. Bah.
=== submitted to Consumerist ===
Dell is engaging in faulty advertising. The image in the link is misleading. The different graphics cards would show a Windows desktop the same. There would be other differences between the cards, but that's not one of them. Here are links to Dell, Reddit, and Slashdot.
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The Calgary Flames announced Wednesday that starting goaltender Miikka Kiprusoff is day-to-day with a lower body injury.
Kiprusoff departed Tuesday's game after turning away 19-of-20 shots over two periods in a 4-1 win over Detroit.
"In the second period I felt some discomfort in the lower body area," Kiprusoff said in a statement. "During the intermission, it was decided that I not return to play. I really believe that this is a short-term injury and over the next days, I'll work toward being ready as soon as possible."
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After a win over Brown last Saturday, the Bulldogs look to start a winning streak during the first full weekend of Ivy League play. Yale hosts Cornell on Friday evening and Columbia on Saturday afternoon.
A balanced attack led the Bulldogs to a sweep of Brown on Sept. 24. Seven different Bulldogs had at least one kill, while the team hit .327 for the match.
Yale hit .417 in game one and had 15 kills in a 25-12 victory over Brown and seized control of the match.
Mollie Rogers, Yale's two-time Ivy League Rookie of the Week, continued her stellar freshman year with a team-high 12 kills and a .417 hitting percentage. Rogers ranks among the top-10 of the Ivy League in kills per set (sixth), digs per set (ninth) and service aces per set (fourth).
Erica Reetz added 10 kills, six digs, two assists, a service ace and a block assist for the Bulldogs, who improved to 7-4 overall and 1-0 in conference.
McHaney Carter had a solid all-around match. She tallied six kills, a .385 hitting percentage, five digs and four block assists. Carter ranks eighth in the conference with a .295 hitting percentage.
Kendall Polan, the reigning Ivy League Rookie of the Year, led the Bulldogs with 32 assists. Polan leads the Ivy League with a 10.32 assist-per-set average.
Freshman Maddie Rudnick, the team leader in digs, had 12 to lead the Bulldogs. Yale out-blocked the Bears 12-6.
The Bulldogs swept Cornell and Columbia in 2010 during a 12-2 conference season.
Last weekend, Columbia won at Cornell in a five-setter to open the conference season for both teams. The Big Red took the first two sets before the Lions stormed back.
Megan Gaughn led the Lions with 14 kills, while the setting duo of Colleen Brennan and Kelsey Musselman had 37 and 16 assists respectively. Charlee Dyroff had a match-high 30 digs for Columbia.
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Waratahs coach Michael Cheika has called into question a referee's decision not to refer a Mike Harris hit on Adam Ashley-Cooper that left the NSW centre with a neck injury in Brisbane on Saturday.
Harris appeared to put a shoulder on Ashley-Cooper as the centre chased a Drew Mitchell kick down field in the 27th minute of the Waratahs' 25-17 loss to Queensland.
Ashley-Cooper hit the deck, trapping a teammate who tumbled over him and also hit the turf. Ashley-Cooper played out the half but was replaced by Ben Volavola for the second period.
"He's not alright, he took a shot, off the ball, no arms [and] no one does anything about it, the guy can't hardly move in there," Cheika said, adding that the white card referral system was there to be used.
"I don't know what [captain Dave Dennis] said on the field but from my end he gets hit with no arm, no ball, comes off the field and nothing happens ... we got a penalty [but] I had a player cited for bumping into a guy on the kick-off at the trials."
Ashley-Cooper was seen walking around stiffly after the match. Volavola, who scored a try on debut after replacing his teammate, said Ashley-Cooper needed scans.
"Hopefully it will unspasm but he's not moving much at the moment," Cheika said.
"We don't know where he's going to end up now but we'll see how he looks, give it a chance to settle down a bit."
The Waratahs were downcast at the after match press conference despite the second half turnaround that saw them match the Reds at 17-17 and wrest back momentum before a second try to Reds centre Ben Tapuai put the home side out of reach.
"We have to learn how to play under pressure, simple," Cheika said. "We will learn how to play under pressure more often ... and the more we do it the better we'll get at it."
"We showed that we've got good potential, we showed that we're prepared to work hard ... we show that we're prepared to play a new style - sometimes to our own detriment - but we're committed to doing that because it's the way to teach ourselves to go forward."
Dennis said the pressure came from within and led to errors.
"We were in control of that game once we got back to 17-17 and the momentum was all with us and for some reason we felt we were under pressure, where the reality was we had them under the pump," Dennis said. "It's just a mindset we've got to change."
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Bill O'Reilly tore into New York Times television reporter Brian Stelter on The O'Reilly Factor last night, using Mr. Stelter's "Gay on TV" article as proof that "most of the media will not even consider the traditional point of view on marriage."
Mr. Stelter wrote that Mr. O'Reilly and one of his guests had complained about Chaz Bono appearing as the first openly transgender contestant on Dancing With The Stars. In fact, only Mr. O'Reilly's guest, Fox house psychiatrist Dr. Keith Ablow did. Mr. O'Reilly said Mr. Bono had the right to pursue happiness.
"Once again Mr. Stelter writes a falsehood in order to demonize me and Fox News," Mr. O'Reilly said. (Like Dr. Ablow, however, Mr. O'Reilly has complained about Glee glamorizing homosexuality and transsexuality in the past. "If children hear it, unsupervised children, they might go out and experiment with this stuff," he said.)
Mr. Stelter tweeted out the video and a correction this morning.
"Bill's right," he wrote. "His guest complained about Chaz; he didn't. My mistake." (He also wrote a thoughtful blog post about how the news media conversation about same sex marriage might not reflect the national conversation, after all.)


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Hi everyone.
I did get my tax refund yesterday just before I left for my appointment. As for that, I'm now on some medication. It'll be 2-6 weeks before I know exactly what effect it'll have on me. There's a drowsiness advisory on it, but since I don't drive, that's not a big problem and it's not supposed to really have any side effects.
I still have a few things to get today when my older brother goes back out later on. I still want 1-2 new pairs of shoes and I forgot to pick up a bag of fries yesterday. So that's all I have left to get. Of course, between some grocery stuff and grandma's stuff, we didn't really have room in the Jeep for that stuff anyways.
So that's what I was up to yesterday. Now I have to get grandma her breakfast and stuff.
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Goldie H. Park, 76
Goldie H. Park, 76, Brookville, died Monday, March 28, 2011, at DRMC DuBois.
She was born May 9, 1934, in Ringgold, a daughter of the late Russell and Alta T. (Reitz) Himes.
March 7, 1953, in Langville, she married George O. Park, who preceded her in death Sept. 17, 2009.
Mrs. Park was a patient assistant at the offices of Dr. Charles Kutz and Dr. Mark McKinley in Brookville.
She was a member of the Brookville First United Methodist Church and was active in church affairs, as well as with the Laurelbrooke Landing Auxillary of Brookville.
Surviving relatives include a son, Brian George Park of Brookville; two daughters, Jennifer R. Park of Brookville, and Valerie J. Doyle and husband Adam of Pittsburgh; two brothers, Robert Himes of Clinton, Mo., and Schenley Himes of DuBois; two sisters, Martha Hinderliter of Mayport, and Geraldine Reardon of Blooming Glen; and two grandsons, Ian Forbes Doyle and Seth Patton Doyle.
In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by a brother, Abe Himes; and two sisters, Mae Harriger and Audrey McIntyre.
Friends will be received from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, April 1, 2011, at the McKinney Funeral Home, Brookville.
A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 2, 2011, at the First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Mick Chittester officiating.
Interment will be in Mt. Tabor Cemetery, Sigel.
Memorial contributions may be made to the First United Methodist Church, Jefferson Street, Brookville, Pa. 15825, or to a charity of the donor's choice.


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7-10-04- Drug courts will open in five Oklahoma counties and expand in three others with new money the Legislature approved earlier this year.
More than $1.1 million dollars in new money was approved for the 2004-2005 fiscal year.
Courts will open in Garfield, Stephens, Grady, Carter and Okmulgee counties. Courts operating in Tulsa, Oklahoma and Comanche counties will be expanded.
State representative Jari Askins says drug court costs an average of about $2,500 dollars per person each year.
To send an offender to prison costs about $17,000 dollars each year.
Askins says drug-related offenders receive no help with their addictions while in prison.
Four of the five counties receiving money to open courts were selected because each sent 50 or more offenders to prison last year.


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Engadget reviews the new "Super Slim" 2012 PlayStation 3.
What a bunch of tools.
Having a glossy exterior finish as one of the main cons really?
I wonder if they have that as a con for all major cell phones as well.
Credit is due to Sony for making a slimmer ps3(which we never knew would be possible).Im waiting for the so caled 12gb ps3.They say it would be cheaper.If its cheap then my guess is everyone will have a chance to own a ps3.
i really want this new model.. I like its size & simplicity.. I just wish the US would get the 16GB model so i can just upgrade it myself.. Buying another $300 console is pointless if im going to discard the 250GB HDD it comes with.. 750GB from amazon & a 16GBflash memory PS3 super slim model would be a nice treat but doesnt look like thats happening this year.. Oh well, i dont need it cuz i have the mid & phat already.. i just like new system models & my living room needs the best of the best sitting there.. ill move the phat into my bedroom & sell the mid version or give it to a relative..
Im curious to see what ppl choose this holiday season.. i know the wii u will sell out cuz of their sales tactics putting out limited quantities but can this slim attract more customers? it has so many great games out & incoming.. not to mention its features & psn.. we will see i guess.. i want nintendo to succeed in attracting the core audience but with all ports & very few AAA new IPs, its going to be tough to convince ppl who arent fans..
It does look cheap imo, but I guess that's kind of the point.
My 160GB beast of a Netflix player is still going strong.


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FAIRFIELD COUNTY, Conn. -- Democratic Gov. Dannel Malloy of Stamford and Republican challenger Tom Foley of Greenwich are in a tie in the race for governor of Connecticut, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Friday.
Foley, a businessman and former ambassador to Ireland, has a big lead in the Republican field, the poll said.
Malloy's handling of the state budget and taxes, including his failed promise to offer $55 tax refunds, are big hurdles in his re-election campaign, the poll said.
His job approval stands at 48 percent vs. 46 percent, with voters saying by a slight 48 percent to 44 percent margin that he does not deserve to be re-elected, the poll said.
Malloy and Foley remain deadlocked at 43 percent to 43 percent.
Among other possible Republican challengers, Malloy edges State Senate Minority Leader John McKinney of Fairfield, 44 percent to 40 percent, and tops Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton 44 percent to 39 percent. He leads other challengers by margins of 8 percent to 10 percentage points.
A week before the Connecticut Republican Convention, Foley leads the GOP pack with 39 percent, followed by Boughton with 9 percent and McKinney with 8 percent. No other Republican tops 5 percent, and 28 percent are undecided.
"It's deja-vu all over again as Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy and 2010 Republican standard-bearer Tom Foley remain locked in a dead heat," said Douglas Schwartz, PhD, director of the Quinnipiac University poll.
"One week before the Republican Convention, Foley is still the clear frontrunner. Mayor Mark Boughton, State Senate Minority Leader John McKinney and the rest of the pack are running way behind. Those trying to catch Foley are still struggling to gain name recognition."
The Republican challengers are closing in on Malloy, he said.
"The good news for Gov. Malloy is that the negative headlines about his cancellation of the $55 per person tax refund does not seem to affect his overall approval rating or his standing in the governor's race. The bad news is that almost all the Republicans are within single digits of Malloy, with Foley tied and Boughton and McKinney on his heels," Dr. Schwartz added.
Malloy's planned tax refund was a "campaign gimmick" that never should have been offered, Connecticut voters say 60 percent to 29 percent.
In an open-ended question, allowing for any answer, 18 percent of those who disapprove of the job Malloy is doing cite taxes as the main reason, while another 18 percent list the state budget or finances as 13 percent cite the economy or jobs.
Among those who approve of the job Malloy is doing, 13 percent cite his good job as governor and 9 percent list the state budget or finances.
Only 21 percent of voters say they are personally better off than they were four years ago, while 30 percent say they are worse off and 48 percent say they are about the same. The $1.5 billion tax hike Malloy signed three years ago to close the budget deficit hurt the state economy 32 percent of voters say, while 21 percent say it helped and 39 percent say it made no difference.
"Economic issues are dragging Gov. Malloy down," Schwartz said. "A bright spot for Malloy is that voters think he has strong leadership qualities and is honest and trustworthy."
From May 1 to 6, Quinnipiac University surveyed 1,668 registered voters. The margin of error is 2.4 percentage points.
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This month General Motors donated $400,000 for breast cancer research. That's a good thing, as far as it goes. And that act of giving is not tainted by the same irony as, for example, British American Tobacco's donations to enhance the wellbeing of people in Africa who are dying from the effects of its products.
But corporate philanthropy, and the talk of "generosity" and "giving back" that so often accompanies the announcements of it, leave out of account that people wouldn't need so much charity if money were distributed fairly in the first place, and if they were protected from today's rampant profiteering.
When Bank of America, whose lending practices have led to legions of foreclosures and evictions, donates to homeless programs, the catch phrase about "giving back" isn't worth taking seriously.
When Goldman Sachs, which along with its subsidiaries has been reprimanded by the feds for cheating investors, and which stands at the head of a Wall Street cabal that has compromised the economy of the Western world, bankrolls a school in Harlem, the term "generosity" doesn't take into account the real ratio of $20 million—admittedly a lot of money to the recipients—to the kinds of numbers that are meaningful to Goldman Sachs. Of course, all these acts of giving are announced with the fanfare that comes from the excited beneficiaries' sense of scale, not the donor's. Nor is anything said about the tax writeoff there may be for the donor, or the political or social benefits the donor realizes.
And "charity" from companies that underpay their workers isn't worthy of the name. Casa Maria Free Kitchen in Tucson gets it. Last November the Catholic soup kitchen and survival center for the poor turned down a $2,000 gift from Walmart because its board understood that Walmart pays such poor wages that its workers are forced to accept food stamps; the company has even been caught assisting its employees to apply for food stamps, some of which are used at its own grocery stores.
Then there is David Koch, the right-wing billionaire industrialist who has helped fund public television's distinguished Nova series and for whom the David H. Koch Theater, formerly the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center, is now named. As the American Ballet Theatre hosted a gala in New York in 2010 to celebrate its own and Koch's seventieth birthdays, mothers living near two Koch Industries refineries in Corpus Christi, Texas were desperate to get their asthmatic children away from the toxin-filled air [UMass Amherst's Political Economy Research Institute has ranked Koch Industries as the tenth worst polluter in the country]. Yet Koch has funded groups that fought the Obama health care plan.
Koch-funded organizations also systematically attack Social Security and Medicare, programs that have played a part in mitigating the growing income gap that is rapidly turning the U.S. into a two-tiered society. At this point it's worth quoting World Bank economist Branko Milanovic, who has written in his book The Haves and the Have Nots that the very wealthy are more interested in alleviating poverty than in tackling the problem of inequality "because 'my' concern with the poverty of some people actually projects me in a very nice, warm glow: I am ready to use my money to help them. Charity is a good thing; a lot of egos are boosted by it and many ethical points earned when when only tiny amounts are given to the poor. But inequality is different: every mention of it raises in fact the issue of the appropriateness or legitimacy of my income."
Speaking of corporate philanthropy, though donations from large companies tend to get a lot of play in the press—which is part of the reason for making them—it's important not to overestimate the volume of them in the total picture of American giving.
Research by Giving USA has shown since 1955 that the overwhelming preponderance of charitable giving here is done by individuals—73 percent in 2011, with about half of that coming from the economic tiers below the top 3 percent. If bequests and family foundation gifts are counted in, 95 percent of charitable contributions come from non-corporate sources. In other words, individual givers not in the top 3 percent give around 36 percent of the dollar total, much more than corporations. (And according to Giving USA, last year people with annual incomes below $200,000 collectively gave about 40 percent more in dollars than those with higher incomes.)
So if we want to know what's good for charity, large numbers of individuals with enough income to make gifts are better for it than rich corporations or their CEOs.•


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End Horse Slaughter Today [02:12]
Celebrities, school children and citizen advocates showed support for the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act, at the Capitol for "Horses on the Hill."
The True Faces of Horse Slaughter [08:30]
In Canada's vast Prairie provinces lie hundreds of feedlots many of which, hold thousands of horses destined for slaughter. Whether they are cast-off PMU mar...
U.S.D.A. May Approve Horse Slaughter Plant in the United States [05:48]
The United States Department of Agriculture is likely to approve a horse slaughtering plant in New Mexico in the next two months, which would allow equine me...
Anti Horse Slaughter Campaign [05:09]
Assignment for school. This cruelty MUST stop.
Greatness and Goodness: Barbaro and His Legacy, Chapter 3, P16-17 [04:46]
Narration of Barbaro's Laurel Futurity
Tags: Barbaro, horse, horse racing, Derby, gift, book, coffee table book, Triple Crown, horseracing, horse welfare, horse slaughter, horse story
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Submission + - AT&T ranks lowest according to Consumer Report (tekgoblin.com)
tekgoblin writes: Consumer Reports has just released its ratings for consumer satisfaction across all US cell phone carriers. The survey covered around 58,000 consumer report subscribers. Over 1/2 of the respondents who used AT&T used the iPhone when taking the survey. According to Consumer Reports iPhone users were less satisfied with AT&T than other users with different phones.


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We exist to make hungry people happy
We get people the food they want, when they want - wherever they are. It's simple...
You place your order
Simply order whatever you or your coworkers are hungry for at Seamless.com or using the Seamless smartphone app.
We send it to the restaurant
We immediately beam your order to the restaurant and they send you a confirmation email with delivery or pickup time estimate.
Your food arrives...Yum!
When your food's ready, the restaurant delivers it or you pick it up. All you have to do is sign for it and enjoy it!


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I was under the impression that Channing Stribbling was going to receive a considerable ratings bump? But if you go to this page on Rivals, he's still listed as a 2 star. There's an actual tweet by Mike Farrell indicating that he would receive a bump up from 2 stars.
Stribling will be higher than a two @culleradam: @rivalsmike Also there has to be no way Channing Stribling stays a 2 star, right?


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Not Exactly Rocket Science
Tag archives for melanotarsa
It's been just three weeks since I last wrote about the dark-footed ant-spider Myrmarachne melanotarsa, but this is one species that just keeps getting more and more interesting. To quickly recap, M.melanotarsa is a jumping spider that protects itself from predators (like other jumping spiders) by resembling an ant. Earlier this month, Ximena Nelson and…


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Mall name:
1700 Oviedo Mall Blvd., Oviedo, Florida - FL 32765
Phone number to Oviedo Mall mall
407 977 2400
Hours (mall)
Monday - Saturday 10:00 am - 9:00 pm, Sunday Noon - 6:00 pm.
Driving directions
Other stores in Oviedo Mall:
Looking for another location of Foot Locker store?
Go to Foot Locker store locator to see all Foot Locker stores


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(not really) breaking news...
Active Release: 1.2 - now with Ubuntu package and multilanguage support. See Download for details.
Nightly Builds are now available too. See the future coming there, incl. tarball and Ubuntu package (now includes new functionality!)
What is it...
This software helps you add a little more security to your desktop. It does so by detecting one of your bluetooth devices, most likely your mobile phone, and keeping track of its distance. If you move away from your computer and the distance is above a certain level (no measurement in meters is possible) for a given time, it automatically locks your desktop (or starts any other shell command you want).
Once away your computer awaits its master back - if you are nearer than a given level for a set time your computer unlocks magically without any interaction (or starts any other shell command you want).
You find a selection of links on the left where Installation is the one you should start with. Screenshots will be included soon.
Help always appreciated...
I decided to make this a public project as I am a believer in the Open Source Movement and also believe that security software has to be Open Source to a) be taken serious and b) being even close to secure.
You are welcome to help me develop further features, mark bugs, fix bugs, ... I make use of sourceforge's infrastructure for that so you might want to take a look at the sourceforge project site.
last update: 11-09-2007


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Wine Specs
Napa Valley
3 Years in French Oak
Bottling Date
August 30, 2008
Alcohol %
2005 Harmony3 Bordeaux Blend, Napa Valley
In Stock
Harmony 3, a traditional French Bordeaux style blend, is our Flagship Wine, and made from Cabernet Sauvignon 76%, Cabernet Franc 12% and Petit Verdot 12%. This wine gives you a wonderful violet and black currant component in the nose. As you sip this wine, you experience and explosion of dark ripe cherries followed by a touch of sweet tobacco. The finish is long and graceful which is a clear indicator that this wine will age nicely. Hearty French inspired dishes will complement this wine wonderfully.
Wine Profile
Other Notes
Release Date: January 01, 2009
Product Reviews
Megan Dufficy
(May 25, 2010 at 3:54 PM)
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Sorcery Node
Table of Contents
----- Produces Sorcery Mana. -----
Point Value: 1
Side Attributes:
Actions and Action Points (ACP):
Receives basic allotment of 3 new ACP per turn.
Movement, Movement Points (MP), and Speeds (MP/ACP Ratios):
Is always immobile.
Hit Points (HP): 1. Recovers by 1 HP each turn.
ACP to create: 0 by default, 3 for Minor Air Elemental, Air Elemental, Major Air Elemental, Phantom Beast, Phantom Warriors.
ACP to build: 0 by default, 3 for Minor Air Elemental, Air Elemental, Major Air Elemental, Phantom Beast, Phantom Warriors.
Can build at own location.
Hit chances are 0% vs all unit types.
Damage is 0 vs all unit types.
Can capture (ACP 0 vs all unit types).
Chance to capture: 0% by default, 100% vs Sorcery Node, Fish, Gold Mine, Iron Mine, Quarry, Groves.
Combat never reduces defender's HP below 0 by default, 1 vs Fallen City, Razed Village, Fallen Keep, Fallen Citadel, Ruins, Dinosaur Breeding Ground, Saurian Breeding Ground, Heart of the Forest, Heart of the Jungle, Heart of the Sulspec, Heart of the Glaspec, Heart of the Hoespec, Heart of the Dajaspec, Earth Node, Sorcery Node, Chaos Node, Life Node, Death Node, Ancient Temple, Fish, Gold Mine, Iron Mine, Quarry, Groves.
Combat effectiveness as occupant is 0% in all unit types.
Chance to retreat from combat is 0% by default, 50% vs Orcspawn Spearmen, Ferak, 25% vs Royal Ferak.
0% chance to be seen at outset of game.
0% chance to be seen at outset of game if independent.
Always seen if terrain has been seen.
Occupants not seen even if unit has been seen.
Can see units up to 2 cells away.
Material Handling:
Gold (none)
Wood (none)
Stone (none)
Mana, 8 basic production, 200 storage
Study, 10 basic production, 200 storage
Industry (none)
Corpses (none)
X (none)
Required advances to build: None.
Fate if side loses: 100% chance to vanish.
AI Attributes:
Requires >= 30 accessible, liquid cells to build naval units.
Requests a total wartime garrison of 1 units.
Range within which enemies will cause an alert is 6.
Basic tactical computation range is 12.
Table of Contents
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CANTON (CW50) Getting in shape for the New Year? There's plenty of support for you, including this new effort brought by Canton Leisure Services and Oakwood Healthcare System.
The two are promoting healthy living and community wellness by offering a "100 Days to Health" program. Registration for this community-wide health and wellness program is currently in progress offering plenty of opportunities to learn about health and nutrition and participate in recreational activities.
This popular fitness program will officially kickoff on Saturday, January 12, 2013 at the Summit on the Park, located at 46000 Summit Parkway, from noon to 1:30 p.m. Oakwood Healthcare System staff will be on hand during the kickoff providing health screenings. Other activities planned during the kick-off include: Summit tours; Family Zumba; and snacks. Plus, participants can also enjoy a special open swim starting at 1:30 p.m.
This year's program offers everything you need to build a healthier lifestyle for you and your family. Register now for Canton's 100 Days to Health 2013 HERE, at the Summit front desk, or at the 100 Days Kickoff Event on January 12.
Registration fees for Canton residents are: $15 for adults ages 12 and up and $5 for youth ages 11 and under. Non-resident fees are $25 for adults 12 and up and $5 for youth ages 11 and under. Youth and children must register with an adult.
Once registered, you'll have free access to all classes and events on the 100 Days to Health calendar. Participants can register any time during the 100 Days to Health program.
This year's participants will also receive: a punch-card for five free visits to the Summit on the Park during the program; classes and events offered at a variety of convenient times to accommodate your busy schedules; innovative new classes; and the return of some of our most popular events including Zumba, Boot Camps, and Healthy Cooking with Chef Paul. Be sure to check out these healthy offerings throughout this program, which ends in April 2013.
To learn more about 100 Days to Health program, visit Cantonfun.org or call 734-394-5460.


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What is the eNaturalist program?
The eNaturalist program is Broward County Parks' way of bringing nature to you; wherever you are. Our eNature Tours provide users with a video- and audio-guided tour through natural areas while the Website has a variety of educational resources for nature lovers of all ages.
Our eNaturalist guided eNature Tour at Tall Cypress Natural Area, Hillsboro Pineland Natural Area, and Woodmont Natural Area utilize QR (quick response) codes along the trail to enhance your visit with videos about the nature beyond the boardwalk.
These tours are accessible to individuals who are blind or visually impaired by use of braille signage.
Tablet or Cell Phone?
You can use either! Our videos are made to be accessed via cellphone or tablet with cellular connection.
Rainy Day?
Bring the outdoors inside with a visit to our eLearning Center which is packed with fun and interesting facts that explore all things nature. Find rainy day excitement at the eCritters Corner with interactive games, coloring pages, and more.
Students and Teachers?
Head over to our eNaturalist Tour Videos Webpage to watch our eNaturalist eco-videos and share them with your class, indoors or out! Visit our eNaturalist trails in participating natural areas to experience the outdoors in a new interactive way. Students can take a tour of the park guided by our eNaturalist, and expand on the video topics at our outdoor "learning centers" along the path.
Visiting a Park?
Visit the ePark Explorer section to find driving directions to our parks, nature centers, and natural areas. You can even view and print our park maps. Geocaching?
Each of our eNaturalist tours hold the hint to virtual caches. Visit our Geocaching Webpage, stop by the park, find the right video, and head back to the geocache to insert the correct answer.


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Balance 1.0.2 & Drunken Lee
Naruto Arena > Main > News >
Balance 1.0.2 & Drunken Lee
Monday, February 24, 2014 at 00:53 by Spirit_in_Black
Hi, everybody,
So, it's been two weeks since the first major balance and optimization where we worked over the first 9 characters. So today, the next 9 characters are up. That means, every character from Lee to Zaku has been optimized code wise, changed if their current design fell short, had their pictures updated, had their wording fixed and their profiles updated.
Additionally, we decided to split Lee up into two characters. Normal Rock Lee and Drunken Lee, which effectively makes this a 10 character week instead of 9. Drunken Lee is an unlockable character and can be found right next to Rehabilitated Gaara in the D/C section missions.
Hope you enjoy!
- Boosts: Uchiha Sasuke, Hyuuga Hinata, Gaara, Kinuta Dosu.
- Nerfs: Yondaime Hokage.
- Tweaks: Kankuro Abumi Zaku.
- Changes (minor): Hyuuga Neji, Temari.
- Reworks: Rock Lee, Tenten, Tsuchi Kin.
Details can be found >here<.
Related subjects:
balance 1.0.2 & drunken lee
NARUTO © 2002 MASASHI KISHIMOTO. All Rights Reserved.


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ST. LOUIS — Under pressure by President Obama's re-election campaign to release them, Mitt Romney's campaign announced Friday that the former Massachusetts governor had filed for an extension in his 2011 taxes.
A spokeswoman for the Romney campaign said that while the presumptive Republican nominee had asked for more time to prepare his taxes this year, he would release them before November's election.
"Earlier this year, Gov. Romney released his 2010 tax return and an estimate of his 2011 income and taxes. This is an extension for filing his 2011 actual return, similar to what he has done in prior years," Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul said in a statement. "Sometime in the next six months, and prior to the election, Gov. Romney will file and release the 2011 return when there is sufficient information to provide an accurate return."
The move was sure to prolong a national debate set in motion by the White House over the issue of tax fairness. The president's campaign arm has also demanded more transparency by Romney on the matter of taxes, demanding not only this year's returns, but also Romney's returns from the last decade.
Romney will now have until mid-October — just weeks before the general election — to file his returns with the IRS.
A former co-founder of the private equity firm Bain Capital, Romney is estimated to be worth as much as $250 million dollars, according to personal disclosure documents.
His immense wealth had been made an issue in the primary campaign, when rival candidate Newt Gingrich demanded that Romney release his tax returns. After resisting the pressure, in January, the Romney campaign released his 2010 tax returns and an estimate for 2011.
Those records showed that Romney paid an effective tax rate of about 14 percent, a tax rate stemming from the fact that the bulk of Romney's income comes from capital gains and investments. Romney's extension estimates a tax liability of over $3.2 million last year, and reflects a total payment of over $3.4 million last year.
Still, the debate did a degree of political damage, and came only after revelations that Romney's financial advisers maintained accounts in the Cayman Islands and Switzerland, both of which are sometimes regarded as tax shelters. (Romney's campaign has consistently said the ex-governor has paid all relevant taxes.)
The statement from the Romney campaign comes on the same day President Obama and Vice President Biden released their 2011 returns. The release of those forms were amid a weeklong push by the president's campaign and the White House — timed to coincide with tax season — to highlight the "Buffett Rule," a proposal by Obama that millionaires should be required to pay a minimum effective tax rate of 30 percent.
In a Friday morning memo titled "What is Mitt Romney Hiding from the American People," Obama campaign manager Jim Messina called on Romney to release his 2011 Tax returns -- and those for previous years -- in keeping with tradition for the nominees of each major party, including Romney's father George, who in 1968 released 12 years of returns during his unsuccessful run for the GOP nomination.
"On the eve of April 17th, Governor Romney has yet to provide tax returns from the period in which he made hundreds of millions as a corporate buyout specialist, or as governor of Massachusetts, the experience he says qualifies him to be president," Messina said in his statement.
Romney's inability to talk about his wealth comfortably — those close to Romney say privately he just doesn't think of himself as a "rich guy" — has often been regarded on as a stumbling block for his campaign, and a weakness for democrats to exploit by painting the former private-equity CEO as "out of touch."


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BAMF of the Day
BAMF of the Day: A 31-year-old woman identified by Chinese state media as Wu Juping is credited with catching a two-year-old girl who fell from her family's 10th-floor apartment.
Niu Niu, who was alone in the apartment after her grandmother left her unattended to run an errand, reportedly climbed onto the apartment window, where she dangled for several minutes.
Spotting the imperiled toddl
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The grant was given under the TIGER III program.
The money is designated for the Mayfield Road Red Line Rapid Transit Station, which will replace the current station at East 120th Street Station and Euclid Avenue on the Red Line. The new station will be several blocks away and closer to Little Italy.
The entire cost of the project is $17.5 million, which includes the design, construction of the station and rehabilitating two transit track bridges. The design is now 30 percent complete.
GCRTA hopes to begin construction on this station in early 2013.


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Political columnist and commentator Karl Rove on Monday night accused President Barack Obama of lacking leadership and acting irresponsibly in the government funding crisis.
Political columnist and commentator Karl Rove on Monday night accused President Barack Obama of lacking leadership and acting irresponsibly in the government funding crisis.
"I am a little mystified about what is happening in Washington," said Rove, a longtime GOP strategist who was the guest speaker at the Tuscaloosa County Republican Lincoln-Reagan Dinner at the Zone at Bryant-Denny Stadium.
"We have a Constitution that demands leadership by the president, and it says our government cannot function without the cooperation of the president," Rove told several hundred attendees.
"And our president is saying 'I don't need to negotiate. I don't need to offer anything,' " Rove said in describing the stalemate that has shut down much of the federal government.
Rove said the battles over a continuing resolution to fund the federal government and the raising of the debt ceiling, which is expected to come to a head later this month, require discussions and compromise between Congress and the president.
"We will have differences of opinion when the House is Republican and the Democrats have the presidency and the Senate," said Rove, who was a top adviser to President George W. Bush.
But he said Obama refuses to negotiate and insists on having it his way or nothing at all.
"He has not only provoked one great crisis but two great crises for this country," Rove said, accusing Obama of playing politics by refusing to negotiate.
Rove characterized the position of House Republicans as reasonable. He said they want a one-year delay in the mandate requiring individuals to get health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
Rove noted that Obama, by executive order, delayed the mandate for businesses with more than 50 employees to provide insurance until 2015 and allowed members of Congress and their staff to be exempt from the law that affects the rest of Americans.
Nowhere in the Affordable Care Act does the president have statutory authority to do that, Rove said. That would requires congressional approval, he said.
Yet when the House passes legislation to delay the individual mandate for health insurance for one year, Obama says he won't allow it and will veto it, Rove said.
"By not delaying the individual mandate for one year, it is going to cost $15 billion that is going to come out of the pockets of working people."
Yet Obama granted waivers to business and members of Congress and their staffers, Rove said.
"Members of Congress ought to live under the same laws they pass," Rove said, noting their failure to do so is "creating a new aristocracy," which is what the United States got rid of during the Revolution.
He accused Obama of hypocrisy for threatening to veto any legislation raising the debt ceiling if there are restrictions attached to it.
Rove noted that when Bush asked to raise the debt ceiling in 2006, Obama, then a U.S. senator, led the effort to try to defeat it "because he wanted to defund the Iraq War."
"He called Bush a failure for asking to raise the debt ceiling" he said. Yet, now he won't admit his own failures, Rove said.
He also accused the president of wanting to gut the budget agreement of July 2011. He said that will happen if Obama gets his way and there would be $91 billion more in spending than in the budget agreement. That, he said, would continue to grow, adding $4 trillion more to the national debt over the next few years.
Rove said Republicans must do more than just criticize Obama and the Democrats. They have to offer their own solutions. Had that happened in the last presidential race, the results might have been different, he said.


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"Vampire Diaries' Star Michael Trevino & 'Glee' Cutie Jenna Ushkowitz's Super Bowl Date! Exclusive Details!
In town for the big game, Jenna brings a very special date for the weekend festivities — rumored beau Michael!
They partied in Las Vegas and were spotted cuddling after the Screen Actors Guild Awards, and now Jenna Ushkowitz and Michael Trevino have again taken their love on the road — to Dallas! A source spotted the pair holding hands and riding bumper cars at the Maxim Party Powered by Motorola Xoom at Centennial Hall and tells HollywoodLife.com exclusively, "They were very cute together. They really seemed very happy."
The pair were first spotted getting close at Jenna's costar Naya Rivera's birthday party in Las Vegas Jan. 22 and then out the following week at a post-SAG party.
Jenna is joining her Glee cast mates for the big game, for which they received two tickets. It looks like we know who Jenna brought!
Michael tweeted Feb. 5 just before the party, "Just checked into my hotel in Dallas… Headed to the SUPERBOWL tomorrow!!! I'm a Raider fan for life so who should I root for at the game?"
While we weren't able to spot this new couple in the stands, Michael did send out a few tweets. "I owe money to @Mark_Salling n Jessica Szohr now after this game. Whatever… Hung out w/ Ron so its all good," with a photo of Ron Howard attached!
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Prior to his mission call, Lester had experienced other important events in connection with the Church. He was so happy when he was baptized at the Salt Lake Tabernacle baptismal font on March 29, 1902, and when he was ordained a deacon in the Eighteenth Ward in 1911 and could pass the sacrament. His mother and father believed in early religious training in the home, and also the advantage of attending Sunday School and other church classes regularly; they always took the children to Sacrament Meeting when they were old enough.
The program for Lester's missionary farewell.
Lester was set apart for the Central States Mission on Tuesday, November 9, 1915 by Joseph Fielding Smith, and he left November 10 for Kansas City, Missouri. He made many life-long friends in the mission, was secretary to President S[amuel] O. Bennion in the mission and traveled a great deal with him. Headquarters for the mission at that time was Independence, Missouri. He returned from [his] mission on April 1, 1918.
Mission Conference held at Independence, Missouri.
Lester is in the fourth row from the front, fifth from the right.
The certificate of release from his mission, signed by President Bennion.
Look at that beautiful lettering of Lester's name!
Lester's draft card, which was filled out while he was a missionary in Missouri.
On 11 May 1918, he enlisted in the Infantry of the U.S. Army. He obtained the rank of sergeant, and served as Acting Sergeant Major during the last four months of service. The signing of the Armistice on November 11, 1918 kept him from overseas duty. He performed a lot of missionary work while he was in the military service. He served until 13 February 1919.
Reverse side of the picture says "Sgt. W. L. Glade / Camp Lee, Va. / Nov. 28, 1918 / Once "Rev." / Now Ready for Over Sea Service"
At this time his father bought the family's first automobile. It was a new Dodge car and came when Lester's father and mother deserved its enjoyment. Lester was the first chauffeur and enjoyed driving his mother and father, as they never learned to drive. Father said he would leave the driving to the younger folks.
1921, Yellowstone National Park.
Left to right: Lester Glade, May Green, Rulon Sperry, Lucile Green, William Birkenshaw.
Lester seems to be throwing Lucile an admiring glance...
In 1921, Lucile Green and her Aunt May Green (Hinckley) were vacationing in Yellowstone Park at Mammoth Hot Springs. They met Lester, his friend Rulon Sperry with three other friends who were also vacationing there. Lester and May Green had been in the mission field at the same time, so May introduced Lester to Lucile, who later became his wife.
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Ok all,
I started taking courses in web design in hopes to "segway" my sales career into becoming a web developer for ecommerce.
Does anyone have any advice on:
1. What's the best job to "segway" into with my sales background (in Ecommerce)
2. What more courses should I take besides html, java, java script, C+, etc.
Any help/advice would be appreciated.


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I was about to type out Merrymaker Kelly when I realized my window of time had expired and anything after that would just make me seem like some sort of desperate try-hard. "You'll never be witty, Dawn. Give it up already." Sighing internally, I held down the delete key and kept quiet.
It made me wonder, though, if I were going to give myself my own title, what would it be? In game, I've only displayed a few titles on my characters over the years (Rival, Sergeant, Chef, and the Light of Dawn), but I don't think any of those titles suit me personally. Dawn the Patient seems fitting. Maybe Dawn the Explorer? I think I might have explored outside my house at some point -- that works.
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I live in the East but am part of well-financed movement in the Midwest, and I am interested in knowing who is active in Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa. For those of us who do not live there, the pay scale is actually pretty high, the cost of living pretty low. I've spent the past 3 years here and have found it a pretty cool place to live. This is not an advertisement, just a heads up and an invitation to talk more specifically with folks who might want to find out more.
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Hi, Tom. I'm in Emporia, Kansas. I'm curious what "well-financed movement" you're referring to.
I can share some more details 1:1 if you want to give me an email address. I'm an independent and not a representative of the companies I work for. They generally are bringing private money to utilities and communities to facilitate retrofits, using innovative financing to break down the key barriers to widespread participation. On-bill repayment is an example. What auditors and contractors need to know is that it can be a much easier sell, if you have the training and expertise to shine at customer relations. We have absolutely killer software that is faster and more accurate than anything you have ever seen before, with built-in monitoring, QC, and EMV reporting. Thanks.
You can reach me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Tom, I'm an established BPI,RESNET Energy Auditor in the KC metro area. I too am interested in potentail opportunities to grow our business.
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Hi Tom.
Shoot me your information.
Our Home Performance company is in the Kansas City Area.
The best way for anybody to learn more about the specific opportunity in Kansas is to send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com and request the "job opportunity PDF" for Hays. It is written for Hays but will be similar for across the state before too long. Note the sales-heavy language, meaning track record in high subscription rates and proven ability to "connect" is more important than your certifications or licenses. The "up to $85k" suggestion is intriguing as well. But keep me posted, I do know a lot about the company.
This is not an advertisement, I am an independent energy engineer, since 1978.
Thanks Tom.
Hi Tom,
I'm a BPI/RESNET and CEMIT/CEAIT auditor working in Omaha, NE. Currently, there are about 15-20 BPI/RESNET auditors in Omaha, NE and this number is growing. You can reach me at firstname.lastname@example.com. I would love to hear more about your opportunities.
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1. Re: Camera RAW 7b2martin_a Apr 1, 2012 7:17 AM (in response to edsmx5)1 person found this helpful
Photoshop CS6 (ACR 7) and Lightroom 4 have PV2012 as the default for RAW editing. Photoshop CS5 with ACR 6.7RC will render a RAW file that was adjusted using PV2012 in either CS6 (ACR 7) or Lightroom 4, but you can't make adjustments using PV2012 in CS5, I expect the same is true in Elements if it has an ACR converter equivalent to the ACR 6.7RC in CS5. You will have to wait until a new Elements is released that uses PV2012 for RAW conversion instead of PV2010.
2. Re: Camera RAW 7edsmx5 Apr 1, 2012 7:41 AM (in response to b2martin_a)
Thank you for the information and the help !
3. Re: Camera RAW 7ssprengel Apr 1, 2012 10:37 AM (in response to edsmx5)
Whenever ACR is released, there is an installer that works with whatever the current version of Elements is. Elements is updated to a new version in or around the September timeframe.
ACR 6.7 is in public beta and ACR 7 is also in public beta as part of CS6. I would expect that ACR 6.7 will be finalized in the coming weeks and then an installer will be available for Elements. I would expect CS6 and ACR 7 to be released in the coming months and an installer for ACR 7 be made available for Elements at that time.
As already stated, ACR 6.7 does not have sliders available to make PV2012 adjustments, but understands how to render them if another Adobe product, like LR4 or CS6/ACR7, has created them. ACR 7 will have the PV2012 adjustment sliders available to the user, so that is the one you'll want to wait for to use Elements free of using PS-CS6.
I would expect both ACR 6.7 and ACR 7 to be available before September so you should be able to use your current Elements with the updated ACR w/o buying a new copy of Elements.


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How can I teach my toddler to share?
Real Mom Problem
"I'm afraid to let my 2 1/12 year old play with other young kids. He yells, takes toys away, and shoves. I discipline but he keeps acting up. Any suggestions?"
Quick Tips
- 1. Lead by example: Share with your toddler and with other adults
- 2. Praise your toddler anytime you see them sharing
- 3. Explain how not sharing makes other children feel sad
- 4. Distract them with another toy or redirect them to an alternate activity
Real Mom Solutions
Sharing is a tough one for toddlers to get, but we all know that playing nice is a part of life, so it's best to learn to share early! If you're having a tough time teaching your toddler to share, try these tips from the moms of CafeMom.
Be Consistent -- It Will Get Better!
Stay consistent on his time outs and discipline and he will be out of that phase before you know it.
It's definitely the age! This is when they are just beginning to understand what sharing is and how to behave. Positive parenting is extremely helpful. Show him how he should behave and teach him how to share. Don't keep him away from the other kids because then he'll never learn. It gets better with age I promise!
Try These Sharing Strategies
If he's having a friend over we allow him to go through his toys and he can put away toys that he doesn't want to share. That way if there's something special he doesn't want broken, it's not even in the picture
I usually take the offending toy out of the equation. I'll put the toy in time-out for the remainder of the day. It usually only takes one toy for her to get the memo!
If there is a popular toy on the playground and my son has it first, I at least let him have a few minutes with it! If it's something that two people can play with at the same time, I ask him to see if the other child would like to play. Otherwise, I give my son a few minutes to play with the toy, and then I "distract" him with another one.
Lead by Example
I will offer to share things with my daughter and I will be sure to use that word so that she knows that that is what I am doing. I will also offer to share with other family members so that she sees that adults share with other adults, not just with kids. When I see her sharing, I will again use that word so that she knows that is what she is doing. I will give her a lot of praise too, so that she knows that this is a good thing to do.
From day one I used to ask my son "Can I have it please?" "Thank You!" and then I'd give it back. He has no problem and will share with anyone. If a kid takes something from him he just shrugs it off and finds something else.
Adjust Your Language
Toddlers don't quite understand the concept of "share" and my daycare provider told me that it's better to teach them to "take turns". If a kid knows that he will eventually get a turn playing with a toy, he's more willing to share it.
Don't Force a Toddler to Share
Every child has the right to stand in a corner with his own things and not play with anybody. A child who is always forced to give up his rights will soon learn he doesn't really have any and become bitter about it. I never force a child to share his personal belongings with others. They may ask, and he may refuse. After enough times of sitting by himself while everyone else has a good time, a child will usually decide to share on his own.
Different situations call for different responses. Sometimes yes, I take something away to give back to the rightful child. Sometimes I take it away from all of them and don't allow them to have it until they come to some agreement. Sometimes I let them duke it out as long as it doesn't get bad.


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Eric Stults and four other pitchers combined in a five-hit shutout as the San Diego Padres edged the Chicago Cubs, 2-0, in the opener of a three-game series.
Stults (2-2) gave up five hits and two walks along with five strikeouts in 5 1/3 innings while Brad Brach, Dale Thayer, Luke Gregerson and Huston Street retired the final 11 batters.
Yonder Alonso and Everth Cabrera each drove in a run for the Padres, who have won three of four.
"Stults did a real good job for us on just three days' rest," said San Diego manager Bud Black. "After the first inning, where his pitch count was in the high 20's, he got real efficient and did great."
Reports on Monday said that San Diego majority owner John Moores has signed an agreement to sell the team to a group headed by San Diego businessman Ron Fowler and professional golfer Phil Mickelson.
Welington Castillo had two hits for the Cubs, who have dropped six straight. Travis Wood (4-8) dropped his fifth straight start despite giving up just two runs on five hits over six innings.
"Today was another grind, was behind a lot of hitters...defense made some great plays behind me, we just came up a bit short tonight," said Wolf.
The only runs of this game came in the fourth inning. With one out, Carlos Quentin doubled and quickly came home as Alonso singled to center. Cameron Maybin followed with a double and Cabrera's line drive up the middle was deflected by second baseman Darwin Barney, allowing Alonso to come home for a 2-0 lead.
The Cubs left men on the corners in the first and threatened in the sixth. Anthony Rizzo grounded out to start the inning, but Alfonso Soriano followed with a single and moved to second on a wild pitch. Starlin Castro then walked and Barch took over.
He got Castillo to pop out, but the runners executed a double steal. Josh Vitters, though, grounded out to end the frame.
No other Cub reached base and Street struck out Vitters to end the game and pick up his 19th save of the season.
Game Notes
The Cubs had swept a three-game set from San Diego in Chicago in late May...The Cubs left seven men on base...Stults came into the game with an 0-3 mark and a 7.24 earned run average against the Cubs...It was Wood's first decision in five games against the Padres.


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New York, N.Y. – After recording a three-set victory in the first round of the doubles main draw at the 2012 US Open, Michael Redlicki and doubles partner Dennis Novikov of UCLA fell in the second round Saturday afternoon at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. The duo was defeated by the No. 12 seed Ivan Dodig and Marcelo Melo, 6-1, 7-5.
Redlicki and Novikov advanced to the second round after defeating Americans Bobby Reynolds and Michael Russell, 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (7), in the opening round.
Redlicki, who hails from Chicago, Ill., earned a bid to the US Open doubles main draw as a wild card, after he and Novikov captured the USTA Boys 18 National Championship earlier this month in Kalamazoo, Mich.
Redlicki is rated No. 5 overall in the Tennis RPI rankings and No. 8 nationally by TennisRecruiting.net. Earlier this summer, he teamed with Duke rising sophomore Jason Tahir to take the doubles crown at the USA F18 Futures tournament in Pittsburgh. Redlicki has also previously captured titles at the USTA National Clay Court Championship and the USTA National Open Hard Court Championships during the summer of 2011, as well as at the Midwest Junior Indoor Championships in February 2011.
The Blue Devils will open their fall season with the Duke Fab Four Invitational in Cary, N.C., from Sept. 14-16.


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- 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 3/4 teaspoon dried parsley flakes
- 1/4 teaspoon dill weed
- 1/8 teaspoon each dried thyme, basil and rosemary, crushed
- 1/4 cup butter, melted
- 2 teaspoons minced garlic
- 1 loaf (1 pound) frozen bread dough, thawed
- In a small bowl, combine cheese and seasonings. In another bowl, combine butter and garlic; set aside.
- Divide dough into 16 pieces. Roll into balls. Coat balls in butter mixture, then dip in cheese mixture. Place in a greased 9x5-in. loaf pan.
- Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour. Bake at 350° for 22-26 minutes or until golden brown. (Cover loosely with foil if top browns too quickly.) Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack. Serve warm. Yield: 16 servings.
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"I love this bread! I had to make another batch of the cheese mixture because I ran out halfway through coating the dough balls. I used fresh grated parmesan, fresh garlic, and about 1/2 tsp. of fresh rosemary, minced very finely, in the mixture with the other herbs. I didn't have any problem with the garlic burning, as another person did. Maybe it matters what type of pan you use? I used a glass pan. I wonder how it would turn out if I made more, smaller dough balls and used a tube pan? I'll try that next time. Super yummy, even cold."
"Excellent excellent excellent rating from any and everyone whose tried it when I've made it. Always a very welcome addition to any meal"
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"VERY flavourful, we loved it!! It calls for more of the cheese/herb mix then actually required, too much can be over powering so I cut it down a bit."
"This is really good bread. I have never used frozen bread dough before, and since I don't bake, I was a little nervous about it. But it was really easy and turned out great. You can easily change the herbs to suit your tastes. This made a wonderful bread dish for my Easter dinner. I'll definitely be making it again."
"I have made this recipe at least 4 times in the six months. It's already a family favorite. I even shared it on my food blog. Check it out at jonesin4taste.blogspot.com."
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Carbon-14 is present in all living things. When a living thing dies, the amount of isotope at that time starts to decay.
The function for radioactive decay is R(t)=R0(1/2)t/h, where R is the radioactivity/gram of carbon-14 at time t after death, R0 is the radioactivity/gram of carbon at the time of death, and h is the half-life of carbon-14. The half-life of carbon-14 is 5370 years. After 3000 years, how much carbon-14 radioactivity/gram remains in a dead tree?
So far I've set up the equation:
But how are you supposed to solve for R(t) when you have 2 unknowns?


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Dangerous repeat violent offenders and sex offenders could be monitored for the rest of their lives after release from prison, says Police and Corrections Minister Anne Tolley.
She wants to develop a comprehensive management scheme similar to one run in Britain and says a law allowing it could be passed by the 2014 election.
The Government also has a measure before Parliament that would allow ex-prisoners to be sent back to jail indefinitely if the High Court deemed them dangerous enough.
At present, the maximum time a former prisoner can be supervised after release is 10 years, as in the case of Stewart Murray Wilson, who is living in the grounds of Wanganui Prison.
Mrs Tolley returned last week from visiting the Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements group (Mappa) in London.
It monitors about 58,000 registered offenders who are deemed to pose a serious risk of harm to the public on their release.
"They do a risk analysis of them and keep track of them essentially for the rest of their lives," she said.
At a minimum, the offenders were required to register once a year.
Officials kept track of their address, job, family relationships and other things depending on the individual.
The officials kept an eye on their propensity for offending again but also worked with them to help them find another job if they lost one, or find housing.
Mrs Tolley said she was worried that once repeat offenders finished their parole or supervision orders they went out into the community.
"Take someone like Stewart Wilson - he's on parole and then he is on an extended supervision order for 10 years, which is a really close monitoring of him, but at the end of that period he is finished and we just walk away."
She hoped that because Wilson was older, his opportunities for reoffending would be few, "but there are some younger ones who will just disappear out into the community".
Asked about civil liberties concerns, she said most offenders found it helpful to have that sort of structure in their lives "and know if something goes wrong, there is someone keeping track of them and they are not on their own out in the community".
Mrs Tolley said the Police and Corrections had started doing policy work on the scheme before her trip but it became clear to her in London that it had to be a joint programme.
She has asked Police Commissioner Peter Marshall and Corrections chief executive Ray Smith to make it a priority so she could take a paper to the Cabinet by the middle of next year.


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Republican volunteers will host a sign-making party today in Utica to show their support for the Romney-Ryan ticket as they prepare to welcome GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan to Oakland University on Monday.
Volunteers will prepare their signs at 6 p.m. at the Macomb-Utica Victory Center, 13285 Hall Road Ste C-125 in Utica.
Ryan will appear at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Athletics Cetenr O�rena at Oakland University, 2200 N. Squirrel Road, Rochester. For more information visit www.mittromneyc.om/MI.


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havent put decals on yet son wants ken block decals and a skull on top
Man, those are really sweet!
Make it idiot-proof and along comes a better idiot
Nice job there! I'm digg'n the maroon/black combo.
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You finished them
Great job
I like the orange and black one the best
Slash 2wd, Slash 4x4, 30th digger, Rustler VXL
a few stickers for now not done with them yet but progress
red one waiting on ken block stickers rear and side shots
Where's the orange one?
Slash 2wd, Slash 4x4, 30th digger, Rustler VXL
Now it looks Rallyfied!! The stickers reallly bring it out now. Excellente......
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starting orange one tonight
Great job on those man!
Drive it.Break it.ebuild it.
ok not done yet almost ok here is the orange one not through yet though have some orange beadlocks drying will put them on my streetfighters for now pics tomorrow
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here are the beadlocks will have to see what these look like in the daylight lol
just coudnt help my self just a sneak peak have to do ajustments to body post
I love the "Novak or Nothing" and the "Truth or Dare". Nice touches
Also, if you dont mind sharing. Whats your coating process? I assume using air?
Everything overpowered...
The orange beadlocks really make it stand out. Very good touch to the setup. I'm guessing the orange would be yours??
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yes orange is mine digger and not yet on the airbrush old school cans lol have the airbrush but not set up yet in new place. ok trim and do post holes first , then coating is 3 to 4 layers of the liquid masking let them dry (hair dryer to speed up process, do your design , dark color first in my case 2 to 3 medium coats of metalic black ,2 cover coats first indy silver (silver to make any metalic pop) and then either white or black cover coat let dry peal coating off, flo orange 2 to 3 med coats and back that with sprint white or white cover coat let dry and do a final cover coat of white or black , sticker and done. process for me for one car is about 2 to 3 hours or so. took me about a week to prep all three was taking my time plus other obligation you know the beadlocks had the idea of reverse painting on them shot them with 2 good coats of sprint white then the flo orange came out pretty good . sometime this weekend i will post the whole car my version of my traxxaz rally car set up and everything that we can talk about lol cant tell all the secrets
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ok here are some picks of the car almost finished tires on. still waiting on a couple stickers for the red one, the blue one gonna change the tires maybe blue beadlocks would be nice. both added a jesus fish to the roof thought that was interesting took mine out for a spin today still have to make some adjustments on suspension but like the way it flows gonna put some pic of the inside also hope you like i have an strc lcg chassis and traxxas cvd's this is what i call my traxxas custom made rally car
what turn is that Novak? 5.5?
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WOODSTOCK – A McHenry-area man who admitted to sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Ryan J. Frazier, 33, pleaded guilty Thursday to two counts of predatory criminal sexual assault of a child. A third charge against him was dropped.
Assistant State's Attorney Sharyl Eisenstein said that in 2012 on multiple occasions Frazier sexually assaulted the victim, who was 11 years old at the time. Police at the time of his arrest said the incidents happened at his home in an unincorporated area near McHenry.
Judge Sharon Prather gave the man two consecutive sentences of eight and seven years, which he must serve consecutively. He received credit for time served since his November arrest.
Predatory criminal sexual assault is a Class X felony and is punishable by between six and 60 years in prison. Frazier is required to serve 85 percent, or 13 years, of his sentence.
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Dallas Gospel group The Relatives perform songs from their album "Don' t Let Me Fall" and other hits. The Relatives message is saturated with the R&B stylings of the latter 20th century. During their hey-day in the 70s they performed in churches, theaters, and nightclubs with equal facility.


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In a move Electronic Arts has been prepping for months, Star Wars: The Old Republic will be going free-to-play on November 15. EA is hoping to renew interest in the MMO, which has seen its subscriber base dip below 1 million.
Current subscribers will get 250 free Cartel Coins as well as coins for the number of months they have paid for their account, the announcement said. Prior subscribers that reactivate before December 20 will get coins for the months they had paid up to the free-to-play launch.
BioWare Lead Designer Damien Schubert told fans that free-to-play players will gain experience more slowly than paid players, and some aspects of play will be limited, but they will still be able to hit level 50 and access most of the main story and side quests as paid players.
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