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LAS CRUCES — Enrollment in charter schools is rising across the nation, and educators say southern New Mexico is no exception as parents seek options and smaller class sizes.
An additional 200,000 students nationwide enrolled in charter schools for the 2011-12 school year, pushing the total number of charter students to 2 million, according to a Nov. 14 report by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.
"I think that there will always be some demand for parents to have education options for their students," said Bruce Hegwer, executive director of the Albuquerque-based New Mexico Coalition for Charter Schools. "And I think charter schools are definitely a viable option."
Charter schools are publicly funded, tuition-free schools authorized by local school districts or the state.
State-chartered institutions, for example, apply for and receive five-year, renewable charters from the Public Education Commission. The school then has significant freedom to organize its curriculum, control its budget and run its operations.
Though the majority of New Mexico charter schools are concentrated up north — Albuquerque alone has more than 50 — 11 charter schools are located in the southern half of the state, from Silver City to Deming to Carlsbad.
In fall 2011, about 1,500 students were enrolled in the schools, or about 1.5 percent of K-12 students in the region, according to Public Education Department data.
Those numbers are up from about 1,300 students in the 2010-11 school year.
Much of the increase comes from J. Paul Taylor Academy opening with 157 students in Las Cruces in fall 2011.
In the southeast, where most of the southern charter schools are concentrated, the percentage of students choosing such schools is higher — 2.4 percent.
Though this year's charter school enrollment numbers are lower than last year's, at 1,477 as of Sept. 13, they don't include students enrolled in the newly opened New America School-Las Cruces.
"Unique clientele'
Many charter schools serve "unique clientele," Hegwer said, like recent immigrants or students interested in the arts.
"Most of the charter schools have populations that aren't being served at traditional schools," said Irene Oliver-Lewis, founder of Alma d'arte Charter School in Las Cruces.
The art-focused school began with 124 freshmen and sophomores in 2004 and has grown to 190 students spanning all four grades.
Other charter schools focus on English language learners or bilingual education, like La Academia Dolores Huerta and the New America School.
Those emphases and specific missions are a key draw for families, parents say.
Kathleen Albers' daughter graduated from Alma d'arte in 2008, but her son attended Las Cruces High School.
Her daughter enjoyed Alma d'arte's small size and emphasis on the arts, while her son flourished at LCHS, joining the choir and the tennis team.
"Both of them really thrived in totally different environments," Albers said. "I'm just glad that the charter school was an option at the time for my daughter."
Janet Gilchrist chose Aldo Leopold Charter School in Silver City for her two sons because of the school's focus on experiential learning and critical thinking.
"It was a clear choice for my idea of a great education for my kids," she said.
Big fish, small pond
Parents often turn to charter schools for their small classroom environments and more individualized attention, said Eric Ahner, director of Aldo Leopold.
Garland Courts said he appreciated that his daughter was a "big fish in a small pond" as a 2010 Alma d'arte graduate.
"It's nice to have that alternative — small school, smaller student body," he said.
All three parents said they appreciated having another option for their families.
"It's expanding school choice for families, and, in my mind, that's the greatest thing charter schools offer families," Ahner said.
Public schools respond
There is a public perception that traditional public schools don't meet the individual needs of all students, and charter schools like Alma d'arte or the New America School serve those individuals, said LCPS Superintendent Stan Rounds.
"The land of education in all of the United States and especially in southern New Mexico has changed," he said. "There is open competition for students."
That competition doesn't worry him, he said, because the district has seen charter school students return to traditional LCPS schools as it adds additional educational options, like alternative high school San Andres and the new Arrowhead Park Early College High School.
And the charter school La Academia Dolores Huerta often serves as a "transition point," Rounds said, helping students master English before returning to traditional schools for high school, often at San Andres.
Funding controversy
The rise of charter schools in controversial, however. The schools receive public funds and are sometimes seen as taking money away from traditional schools.
Charter schools often receive more funding per student than traditional public schools, Rounds said.
"A disproportionate share of money per student is going to charter schools, and, as the state economy struggles, there's a lot of attention being paid to that," he said.
Charter schools can institute a student cap that is the most profitable for the school, ensuring they get the maximum amount of public funding per student because funding is partially adjusted for school size, he said.
But traditional public schools can't place such caps and must accept all students, regardless of what their funding ratio would be.
"It's a business decision (to institute a cap), not an education decision," he said.
To Oliver-Lewis, whether charter schools take money from traditional schools is irrelevant.
"People have to stop thinking that charter schools are different," she said. "Charter schools are still a public school. You wouldn't ask that question to Centennial High, that they're taking money away from Oñate, because they're all public schools."
Charter schools are simply a alternative, she said.
"If there wasn't a need," she said, "we wouldn't be seeing these increases of enrollment."
Lindsey Anderson can be reached at 575-541-5462. Follow her on Twitter @l_m_anderson.
Anthony: Anthony Charter School, grades 7-12, 85 students
Carlsbad: Jefferson Montessori Academy, grades K-12, 164 students
Deming: Deming Cesar Chavez Charter High, grades 9-12, 138 students
Las Cruces:
• Alma d'Arte Charter High, grades 9-12, 172 students
• J. Paul Taylor Academy, grades K-7, 157 students
• La Academia Dolores Huerta, grades 6-8, 120 students
• Las Montañas Charter School, grades 9-12, 296 students
• New America School-Las Cruces, grades 9-12, no enrollment data available
Roswell: Sidney Gutierrez Middle School, grades 6-8, 66 students
Silver City: Aldo Leopold Charter School, grades 9-12, 109 students
Socorro: Cottonwood Valley Charter School, grades K-8, 170 students
Enrollment data from Sept. 13 from the Public Education Department


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WINTHROP The Methow Valley Ranger District is gearing up for a prescribed burn Thursday on about 20 acres 10 miles west of town.
The burn area is in the Lucky 2 Timber Sale unitis located about a quarter-mile from the Eidwlweiss community, Assistant Fire Management Officer Meg Trebon said.
"Actual ignition on that date will depend on conditions in the unit that day, smoke approval from (the state Department of Natural Resources), and staffing," she said.
As of Tuesday afternoon, the National Weather Service was forecasting a 60 percent chance of rain Thursday in the Winthrop area.
Other nearby areas slated to burn are still blocked with snow, she said. Trebon estimated it could take another week or two before the Ranger District can access those areas.
This season, the Methow Valley Ranger District is planning prescribed burns northwest of town near Eightmile Creek and Fawn Creek; west of Twisp near Little Bridge Creek; and west of Methow in the McFarland Creek and Squaw Creek drainages.
Tonasket Ranger District has also planned prescribed burning treatments in the Mt. Annie and the Lyman Lake areas; both southeast of Tonasket, as well as the Mutton area north of Conconully and the North Flank project area near Havillah.
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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
Israel is working hard to find and rescue three abducted Jewish youth, but it is also using the crisis as an opportunity to hopefully deal a debilitating blow to the Hamas terrorist organization.
Israel has determined that Hamas was behind the kidnapping of Eyal Yifrach, Gilad Shaar and Naftali Frenkel last Thursday, and that assessment has been largely backed up by the United States, Europe and the Palestinian Authority.
Israel has issued a limited call-up to IDF reservists as it arrests hundreds of Hamas leaders and lays siege to the Judean town of Hebron, a stronghold for the radical Islamist group. On Tuesday, Israel extended the operation to the Samarian town of Nablus (biblical Shechem), where even more Hamas leaders were rounded up.
"As long as our boys remain abducted, Hamas will feel pursued, paralyzed and threatened," said army spokesman Lt. Peter Lerner. "We are committed to resolving the kidnapping and debilitating Hamas terrorist capacities, its infrastructure and its recruiting institutions."
Army Radio called the operation as a "root canal" aimed at "uprooting everything green in the West Bank," referring to Hamas' official color.
Economy Minister Naftali Bennett was even harsher in his remarks. "We will turn membership in Hamas into an entry ticket to hell," he told reporters.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, meanwhile, cautioned Israelis to be patient and prepare for an extended ordeal. "We are here in the midst of a complex operation. We need to be prepared for the possibility that it may take time. This is a serious event and there will be serious consequences," said the Israeli leader.
The Palestinian Authority condemned what it called escalating Israeli aggression, but also took steps to halt implementation of its recently signed reconciliation pact with Hamas. A senior PA official told The Times of Israel that if Hamas truly was behind the abduction, then the Palestinian unity deal of which Israel was so derisive would become null and void.
For its part, Hamas condemned cooperation between Israel and the PA in the search for the missing Jewish youth, and said Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas should instead be declaring jihad against the Jewish state.
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L. Neil Smith's
Number 328, July 17, 2005
"Because the Government is evil and stupid..."
Care for Some Tea?
Special to TLE
Many people have clever quotes displayed in their homes and offices. These sayings can be as simple and traditional as a cross-stitched "Home Sweet Home," or as modern as motivational posters bearing admonitions from super-achievers and role models like Lance Armstrong. Me? I have bumper stickers taped to the side of a cabinet. They include such politically charged gems as "Ted Kennedy's Car Has Killed More People Than My Gun" and "Apes Evolved from Creationists," and those with personal meaning or entertainment value for me like "Even Chaos Has A Pattern" and "The Two Most Common Elements in the Universe are Hydrogen and Stupidity." But of all the bumper stickers I display, one is daily becoming more and more my favorite. That's the bumper sticker that says, "It's Time for Another Tea Party."
229 years ago, the Declaration of Independence was written, wrangled over, and signed. On July 4, 1776, it was printed; on July 5, a Philadelphia newspaper announced its adoption. On July 8, it was read aloud at the State House in Philadelphia. That evening it was read again, this time to members of the militia gathered on the Commons. Over the course of the month of July, 1776, newspapers published the content of the document, and people celebrated with "loud shouts, huzzas, firings of muskets, and the tearing down of the British emblems." (This, and much more information as to the history surrounding the Fourth of July, is available in the online Fourth of July Celebrations Database, courtesy of James R. Heintze.)
The Declaration of Independence wasn't by any stretch of the imagination the beginning of the troubles the Colonists had with the British Crown. It was, instead, the final resort of men who had done everything that they could to avoid a war and a separation from their mother country. Appeals had been made to King George III in letters and via representatives from the Colonies; protests, including the infamous Boston Tea Party of 1773, were mounted. But neither reason nor civil disobedience made much of an impression on the Crown, and when the Colonists at long last realized that the King was immovable, they took a last and drastic step.
Although there were many reasons that the Colonists were unhappy with British rule, a synopsis of the most provocative of those reasons can be seen by simply reading the Bill of Rights (some of the rights enumerated are duplicates of rights theoretically enjoyed under British rule since the signing of the Magna Carta; that King George III ignored them only increased the antipathy Americans felt toward him). It's thus more than a little ironic that Americans, who are currently under the rule of another man named George, should find the very rights they fought to restore and retain once again in substantial jeopardy. (To be fair, the loss of civil liberties in America has stretched out over a timeframe that's much longer than those relatively few years George W. Bush has been in office, though the losses have accelerated on his watch).
The First Amendment promises freedom of speech, including (in fact, especially) political speech. It also says Americans have the right to freely assemble and to petition the government for redress. Yet protesters at the Democratic National Convention in Boston were relegated to a prison-like fenced area a block away from the convention site; at the Republican National Convention in New York City, more than 1,800 protesters were arrestedmany of them subsequently "held incommunicado for 48 hours and longer under filthy and abusive conditions"but only a few failed to see all charges dismissed or be acquitted. The Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform legislation, which effectively muzzles political speech by advocacy groups, is yet another curb on political speech, and one which lies squarely at the feet of a president named George who promised he wouldn't sign it, but then did.
The First Amendment ensures that the government won't establish an official religion or interfere with the freedom of Americans to worship as they see fit. But the Bush administration's so-called "faith-based initiative" does a little of both. In a column written about the program in 2003, columnist Tom DeWeese points out that government funding equated to government control, and that some religious groups were already being told they had to hire employees without discrimination based on religionwhich, DeWeese went on to say, made the group just another charity rather than a Catholic charity, for example. Other groups receiving federal funding are using the expanded services they can now offer to serve as an opportunity to evangelize, thus interfering yet again with the freedom to worship as the individual sees fit. The money itself, of course, is an effective "donation" of federal money to promote a specific religion. (Ooops, George W. Bush is almost entirely responsible again!)
The Second Amendment says that the right of "the people" to keep and bear arms "shall not be infringed." That's a right that's been steadily eroded since the 1930's, and even in the supposedly pro-gun Bush administration, isn't really gaining ground. Gun sales records which are supposed to be destroyed when the applicant passes a background check are being held; various databases sought and promoted by government officials will prove to be gun registration whether they're called that or not. Whatever the mandate, the fact is that purchase records apparently aren't being destroyed (in 2002, Attorney General John Ashcroft defended the early destruction of such records, and then schizophrenically refused the FBI permission to look through the database to see if the 9/11 terrorists had purchased gunsrecords which couldn't exist had they been destroyed).
In fact, a database of those who've purchased guns has probably existed for quite some time; even without such records, point-of-sale paperwork must be held for twenty years (when saying the FBI couldn't look through NICS records, John Ashcroft helpfully pointed out that even if database records were destroyed, dealer records would still remain and "government agencies like the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms could still track down illegal gun purchases through those records.")
Meanwhile, some states don't allow you to carry a firearm at all, while those who do (with the notable exceptions of Alaska and Vermont) require you to jump through a variety of paperwork hoops before you can do so. The regulations are even worse in some places, such as New York City, Chicago, and our nation's capital where it's next to impossible to have a gun at all. It may be that more of us would do well to take note that the "shot heard 'round the world" was fired on April 19, 1775 when King George's men were sent to confiscate firearms from the Colonials.
In the Fourth Amendment, Americans are protected from unwarranted searches. King George's soldiers were wont to simply barge in and check things out in Colonial America, and the Founders were in no mood to let their new government take similar advantage. Unfortunately, for reasons of expediency and because it was permitted to do so by a complacent public, exceptions were made to various aspects of the Fourth Amendment in the name of the War on Drugs. Outside of consent, there are now any number of exceptions to the need for a warrant in a search, some of which stem from the War on Drugs but others of which exist because "they're for your own good" or "for your safety" or, worst of all, "for the children."
The Supreme Court has ruled more than once that drunk driving checkpoints and subsequent searches are okay, as are many other types of vehicle searches; in Louisiana, permission to search was given to police by a person not even a resident of the premises, and a Circuit Court upheld the results of the search. Forfeitures have become an attractive way for law enforcement agencies to make money, never mind whether or not the goods or money being taken have anything to do with the commission of a crime (it takes a strong stomach to spend much time at the FEARForfeiture Endangers American Rightsweb site).
The Fifth Amendment right to silence (a person cannot be forced to incriminate himself) was effectively taken from us with the Supreme Court's 2004 decision in the case of Hiibel v. Nevada; the right to private property was eviscerated by the June 23, 2005 Supreme Court ruling that determined eminent domain could be used to take property from one private entity to give to another richer private entity.
There were people at the time the Constitution was written who were worried that there was no Bill of Rights. Others were concerned that writing a Bill of Rights might cause officials to someday determine that the only rights the people had were those that were written down. The latter is the short explanation for the existence of the Ninth Amendment which says that, just because it's not written here, doesn't mean the people don't still have certain rights. Yet how many arguments have many of us heard from the mouths of our friends, neighbors, lawyers, and even politicians that include the words, "It's not in the Constitution that you can..." The Ninth Amendment, at least for the purposes of actually protecting any rights, is almost certainly at least as damaged and gone as are several of the others.
The Tenth Amendment, of course, makes the condition of the Ninth look healthy. Under the clause of the Constitution that says Congress has the authority to regulate interstate commerce, judges and Congressmen alike have usurped virtually unlimited powers. The recent Supreme Court decision that said federal laws supercede state laws in the matter of medical marijuana was just the latest nail in the coffin of the Tenth Amendment.
Finally, it's impossible in any discussion of civil liberties to avoid mention of the misnamed USA PATRIOT Act and its proposed expansions. With its negative impact on First, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment rights, this single piece of legislation has circumvented more of the Bill of Rightsand more thoroughlythan the collective unconstitutionalities of the last several decades. This one, too, bears the fingerprints of George W. Bush, especially when you consider not only his own support of the law but his appointment of one of the PATRIOT Act authors to the position of Attorney General.
Though we can blame George Bush for some things, merely because the current George-in-charge will be gone in three years doesn't mean that the next presidentwhether he be Tom, Dick, or Hillarywill do anything but continue on the course that the last hundred or so years worth of presidents have set us on. We can't afford to pretend that merely seeing George Bush leave the White House will restore our freedom unless we're as set as the politicians seem to be on losing it entirely.
So here we are, 229 years after the Declaration of Independence. Most of us have written letters to Washington with little effect; some of us have even visited Washington and received just about the same result. We've signed petitions protesting this regulation or that proposed action, and seen the rules adopted and the actions undertaken. We've protested, and found ourselves forcibly shuttled aside or arrested for our troubles. It could be that the time for armchair discussion is over, and the time for concrete action is here.
Joseph Banister knew that, and his exoneration on federal charges is proof positive that an individual can take a great risk and make great gains accordingly. The property owners in New London, Connecticut knew that and, with their loss, they've won a very real battle to inspire hundreds of thousands of property owners across the country to stand up and defend their rights. Those in the Free State Project, Free State Wyoming, and Free West Alliance know that, and are determined to make whatever sacrifices are necessary to restore freedom one small part of the country at a time.
This July, let's remember the month long celebrations of our forefathers by considering not merely what they did, but why. They saw grievous injuries to their rights and liberties, and they ended up winning freedom for their posterity even though they had to risk their property and their lives to do so. In the face of the grievous injuries to liberty we see once again today, will we have the commitment and the courage to risk some hard work and perhaps some hardship to stand up and win it back? In the words of a certain bumper sticker, methinks it's time for another tea party...
The Declaration of Independence: The First Public Readings
Fourth of July Celebrations Database
Convention Demonstration Zone is a Dark, Shadowy Place
Videos expose false arrests at 2004 Republican Convention protests in New York
The Faith-Based Initiative is a Trojan Horse
Ashcroft Defends Proposal to Toss Gun Records
An Opinion On The Technical Considerations Of Gun Owner Registration Via The National Instant Check
Battle at Lexington Green, 1775
Other Types of Warrantless Searches
Kiss The Fourth Amendment Goodbye!
Forfeiture Endangers American Rights
Dudley Hiibel Case (at PapersPlease.org)
Kelo v. New London: Lawsuit Challenging Eminent Domain Abuse in New London, Connecticut
Supreme Court allows prosecution of medical marijuana
Tax activist wins in federal court
A treasure-trove of practical home-made weapons for personal defense and home security. thehomegunsmith.com
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Review: 2013 Porsche Cayenne Diesel
IN MY CONTINUING war on U.S. customary units of weights and measures, I would like to point out that, on Porsche's U.S. website, the fuel-injection pressure of the Cayenne Diesel is listed as 29,007 pounds per square inch.
Really? Is that the number the people at Robert Bosch had in mind when they were modeling the V6's common-rail, direct-injection fuel system? Yah, neunundzwanzig tausend…und sieben! Why don't we join the civilized world and call that 200 megapascals, or the elegantly convertible 2,000 bar? What's with the drams per hectare?
Metric, people. Get with the program.


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Moderator: Clan Directors
ahunda wrote:Nowhere did I say, that the player assigned to a game should not be expected to play the game. What I am saying, is: RL shit happens, fact of life, and sometimes a player will not be able to take turns/play the game he was assigned to. For this very reason CC allowed account sitting.
I mean, seriously, get a grip on your perspective: You are only talking about cheating & abusing the system. But what about all the legitimate reasons for account sitting ? Someone being ordered on a business trip with very short notice, someones child being hospitalised, someone losing Internet connection because of a storm, etc. pp.
These things happen. This is not the Davis Cup, and we are not professional full time CC players. We do have real lifes, jobs, families, that - if you have your priorities straight - should come first, before a casual online game.
The problem is not account sitting. The problem is abuse of account sitting to gain a strategic advantage. You guys got carried away so far in this thread, that you seem to see account sitting = abuse. And as I pointed out, from the simple facts we have so far (documented cases of abuse), I don´t understand, why. You seem hysteric & over-reacting.
Funkyterrance even lost the most basic reading comprehension skills, as my example of the banned player referred to a player of the opposing clan, not mine. And so he of course completely missed the entire point I was trying to make: I would dislike winning a challenge, because someone on the other side dead-beated in 3 games, just about as much as I would dislike losing, because one of my clan-mates had some emergency come up.
Guys, get this clear: I don´t mean to defend abuse & unfair game-play. But let´s be reasonable, how to address the issues. You are really going amok here, and your proposed measures (i.e. all-out ban of account sitting) would ruin CC for many of the more casual players, who do have RL commitments.
EDIT: Wow, on second reading I actually find Funkyterrances post border-line insulting.Funkyterrance wrote:Just don't expect those who have been playing by the rules all along to be sympathetic when your buffer of an advantage is taken away.
Wtf are you implying here, man ?
crispybits wrote:Then the players who are competitive should get together and be as ultra-competitive as they want, and if that matters to them then they won't miss 99.999% turns even if they don't have sitters. And the casual players will team up with the casual players and if people miss turns well it's just a bit of fun and nobody really cares if the odd game gets dropped for it.
But if a group of players wants to be competitive, then invites a bunch of casuals who only want to play when it's convenient for them to their team, then they should accept the consequences of that, in that turns will occasionally be missed, and should probably think hard about if they want to use those players for the competitive games.
And if someone is a casual player and they want to join the competitive arena, then they should accept that they will have to prioritise it higher than before and make sure they make time and opportunity to take all of the turns that entails.
But to say that the competitive players should be allowed to have use of casual player's accounts, knowing that those casuals will go AWOL from time to time and will miss turns, and then assume they can account share those accounts to play out the games that matter to them whenever they want..... that's just screwed up.
Keefie wrote:Personally I'd take this thing one step further and ban account sitting. It would be a darn site easier for everyone.
crispybits wrote:Arbitrary rules like the ones you agreed to follow when you signed up for this site?
Are all rules you don't agree with arbitrary and to be broken whenever you feel like it?
stahrgazer wrote:crispybits wrote:Arbitrary rules like the ones you agreed to follow when you signed up for this site?
Are all rules you don't agree with arbitrary and to be broken whenever you feel like it?
Thing is, crispy, the only "account sitting" rule I signed up for when I signed up for this site was not to abuse it; but abuse wasn't defined as, "you can't take the turn for the account you've agreed to sit unless there's less than 1 hour left to play or you received three people's permission in advance."
When rules are "overkill" they are arbitrary. When rules state within the rules themselves that the rules will not be enforced across the board, then they are arbitrary.
Every once in a while when I'm sitting for someone who's on vacation, I forget to post that I'm the one taking the turn. Oops, my bad - I'm sure I'm not the only one who's ever forgotten that, either. But now these are part of the "Official clan sitting rules" that will cost the clan the game? Or, someone in authority will say, "okay, stahr, it's okay in your case," while telling someone else it wasn't okay.
It's arbitrary and it's overkill.
Also, when I'm scheduled to account sit, and know it, I take the turn at my convenience. If that means I start the game because it's convenient, with ten hours left to play, I'm not going to reschedule my day to make sure I return in nine hours to start the game... and with these rules, if this occurs and I didn't ask daddy's permission, or daddy wasn't around to okay it in advance, it's now going to cost the clan the game? Or, someone in authority will say, "okay, stahr, it's okay in your case," while telling someone else it wasn't okay.
Again, arbitrary and overkill.
These types of things are not abuse. If it always happens, or happens a ton, sure, then it's probably abuse. Then again, it could be that someone's work schedule suddenly went haywire so needs account sitting alot more than was thought, in which case it's once again NOT abuse. Reasonable clan members will then say, "sorry, can't participate in the next round after all," if they know it's going to happen.
But, really, to come up with this arbitrary set of rules that will be arbitrarily enforced is overkill unless clans really believe this sort of thing is happening close to 50% of the time.
And if that's the case, then why not outlaw clan wars while we're at it, that'd end clan war abuse for sure. Right?
crispybits wrote:1) If account sitting was banned, and everyone knew the rule and followed the rule would anyone have any unfair advantage over anyone else?
2) If the rules were left wide open, and everyone knew the loopholes and gray areas in the rules and some people decided to abuse them, would anyone have an unfair advantage over anyone else?
Funkyterrance wrote: What more can I say?
ahunda wrote:Yeah, well, Funkyterrance: As I said, I think, you got carried away here & are not seeing things clearly anymore.
The new rules, that were laid down in this thread, might make account sitting abuse a bit more difficult, but they also make life a bit more difficult for all honest & fair players, who only ever sit accounts in real emergencies, as per the official CC rules.
You are mixing up all kinds of issues here and cry for radical measures without even considering their real effects, incl. the side effects for non-cheating, honest & fair players. Now I personally didn´t comment in this thread for 10+ pages. Only when you guys got so far as to call for an all-out ban of all account sitting, did I post. Because this really goes too far, in my opinion.
Why would you want to abolish this practice ? How much positive usage of account sitting would you sacrifice for a very questionable impact on actual cheating/abuse ?
Funkyterrance wrote:So it's settled then, no more account sitting.
crispybits wrote:As I said if clans wanted competitive gaming, then the competitive gamers who very rarely miss turns because the competition is important to them will find each other. If clans want casual gaming, the players who don't mind losing the odd game because someone deadbeats will find each other. If someone wants to go from casual to competitive then they know they have to prioritise it higher.
There are net cafes in every town in the western world. There is internet access on smartphones. If your power goes out both of those are viable options. If your internet is down both of those are viable options. If you have to go out of town on business both of those are viable options. The number of people for whom neither of those are viable options is tiny, and limited to park rangers, professional mountain climbers, etc. If you get sick even most modern hospitals have ways that patients can get online, and if you're really sick or hurt then until you're over the worst of it CC doesn't matter a jot anyway. If a family crisis comes up then CC won't matter anyway.
crispybits wrote:I have at no point claimed that every pro-sitter is a cheat. I have only said that some people will abuse grey areas and loopholes
And well done for having your rank, seriously. It's a testament to your skill and dedication and I respect that. But does that rank on this site mean more to you than any of those things you listed? Does that rank mean more to you than anyone else's versions of anything you listed?
I'm not accusing anyone of anything. I'm simply saying I want a fair game. That means closing off the loopholes and the grey areas. If that means that for a couple of weeks each year (on average) everyone will suffer a bit of a rankings hit then it's the same for everyone. If I said everyone should drop 100 points right now would that be unfair? Or would it make no difference at all to the overall standings? If I said that those people who don't mind bending the rules as far as they will go all get given an extra 100 points right now would that be unfair? Or maybe a percentage, so a fair player who wouldnt bend any rule gets 0 extra points, and someone who will go half way to the limits gets 50... how about that? Is that unfair?
If you have "agreed to sit" someone's account then that means that they have informed you of there impending absence and thus the emergency one hour rule isn't in effect. You can take those turns at you convenience.stahrgazer wrote:Thing is, crispy, the only "account sitting" rule I signed up for when I signed up for this site was not to abuse it; but abuse wasn't defined as, "you can't take the turn for the account you've agreed to sit unless there's less than 1 hour left to play or you received three people's permission in advance."
Look at it this way. You are NOT required to take those turns. You and/or your clan have the choice of either taking those turns at that undesirable time of day, or potentially letting those turns be missed. As such you can weigh the expected impact and importance of said turns versus the difficulty of taking them at the allotted time. It is your choice how much effort you want to put into your clan's war effort.ahunda wrote: I for one have never ever taken turns for a clan mate in order to gain some advantage, and yet I find the idea, that I might now need to stay up til 2 o´clock at night to cover a turn for someone, who just missed turns in 3 other games, just so that the timer is down to the last hour, a bit irritating. I feel, I am being made to suffer for the abuses of others, by no fault of mine.
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You're a moron. As is FunkyTerrance.
crispybits wrote:OK how about a different solution, and bear with me here because the idea is forming as I write it out.
1) Ban account sitting. Period. No player is ever allowed to log into any other payer's account.
2) For tournaments and clan games only, a feature is coded into the site to allow a nominated substitue to take over a game from another player.
3) If a player goes AWOL (and cases of this will be rare, players being in car wrecks or family emergencies or whatever isn't a common occurence) the substitute can permanently take the place of the AWOL player in any and all of that player's clan/tournament games.
4) No player is allowed to be substituted unless either (a) he is within the final hour of a clan/tournament game turn without having logged in during the duration of that turn or (b) he has already missed a turn in a non-clan game.
5) Tournament organisers, when they set up a tournament game, are allowed to put in a maximum of 2 substitues for any team (subject to their own discretion, they may choose to allow only one or none at all) when they send out the invites. If they have restrictions on who can participate in the tournament then obviously they can also enforce that restriction on who can be named as substitutes.
6) Clan war organisers, when they set up clan war games, are allowed to nominate 2 players per game as substitutes when the game is set up.
7) When the conditions are met when an account sit is allowed by these rules, both substitutes automatically receive a game invite, similar to being invited into an unstarted game, to replace whatever player is AWOL. If either of those people accepts the invite, the substitution takes place.
No player is allowed to be a substitute in a game where they are already playing as part of one of the teams.
9) All substitutions are permanent. If the original player comes back he does not take back his place in that game, and he now only has whatever access to the game that any other 3rd party would have, including not being able to see through the fog.
This removes the grey areas, as players can't log in to anyone else's account and do the morally dubious things that would be possible. As soon as a sit takes place it's clearly visible to everyone that the account has been sat and who has taken over. And everything is visible, above board, legal, and without grey areas or loopholes. It also allows clans to agree on the limits of the sitting allowed during the war, and who is allowed to sit for either side.
It's late here, so I may have missed something, but maybe that's a starting point. I have no idea of the coding complexity or anything else, and I am open to improvements on the basic idea.
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Chocolate, Fruit and Nut Biscotti
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- Spencer said...
Looks really tasty! Its making me hungry just looking at it! I would love to try some.
- Tue May 01, 04:36:00 am 2012
- Vineetha said...
Biscotti looks yumm...btw nice cup..saw ur anniversary cake in FB,looks super.will come again when u post it here :)
- Tue May 01, 02:22:00 pm 2012
- Love and other Spices said...
The photos are amazing.All those nuts begs a bite.Too bad I'm off of biscuits..
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- Parita said...
Biscotti looks absolutely delicious! gorgeous pics!
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- Shabbu said...
Yummy Biscotti Shaby...
ur chemmeen muringa curry is there in my blog..linked with ur's..Thank you for such a tasty recipe...
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- Thu May 03, 10:44:00 am 2012
Hi Shab, 'm a new follower of ur blog Shab's cuisine. Need to appreciate your blog especially the measurements and conversions. Generally bloggers use different measurements but rarely does anyone put down their measurements and conversions. Thanks a ton for your blog, eagerly waiting for new posts.
- Thu May 03, 11:04:00 am 2012
- Aditi said...
Biscotti looks lovely...and I envy you what a beautiful vintage tea set u have! Gold rimmed and all ...so dainty and old world
Thank-you for this lovely recipe! Will try for sure
- Sun May 06, 06:31:00 pm 2012
salam alaikum Shab.. just a q. you havent used butter in the biscotti. did you forget or is it butterless... I have seen a lot of biscotti recipes with butter, n urs is void of it!! Would love to try it soon insha Allah!
- Sun Mar 31, 05:44:00 pm 2013
- Shabs.. said...
Salam hiba,,this is a butterless recipe.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio's governor rejected clemency Wednesday for a condemned killer who stabbed his victim 17 times, overruling a rare plea for mercy from the prosecutor overseeing his case and support from nearly half of a parole board that previously voted unanimously against the inmate.
Gov. John Kasich's decision left death row prisoner Billy Slagle with few options before his Aug. 7 execution date for killing neighbor Mari Anne Pope in a 1987 burglary while two children she was watching were home.
Kasich followed the recommendation of the Ohio Parole Board, which voted 6-4 last week to turn down Slagle's request for clemency. As is his custom, Kasich didn't explain his decision in his statement.
The entire board ruled against mercy two years ago for Slagle, but that was before the election of new Cuyahoga County prosecutor Tim McGinty and a change in his office's approach to capital punishment.
McGinty, who is applying new criteria to both old and new death penalty cases, has said he doesn't believe his office could obtain a death sentence for Slagle today. McGinty pushed for life without parole, arguing that without that option in 1987, jurors trying to ensure that Slagle would never go free chose the only option before them: a death sentence.
The parole board didn't buy McGinty's argument. "The egregious nature of Slagle's crime and circumstances surrounding it outweigh the mitigation present here," the board wrote in its ruling, which called the slaying "unprovoked, merciless, and completely senseless."
Attorneys for Slagle, 44, long argued his sentence should be commuted to life without parole, citing his age — at 18, he was the minimum age for execution in Ohio when the crime happened — and a long history of drug and alcohol abuse.
"Billy was exposed to alcohol from the womb to the crime," Joe Wilhelm, a federal public defender, said at a July 8 hearing.
Wilhelm said Wednesday that he was considering options. He said Slagle does not have any pending appeals.
"I've said everything I can, and it didn't have any effect," Wilhelm said. "We're all just very shocked by it, frankly."
McGinty said he respected Kasich's decision and the review process that led to it.
The woman whose children Pope was watching the night she was killed welcomed Kasich's announcement.
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"It has taken too long," said Keeton, 57, a retired medical assistant. "This should have been settled a long time ago."
The parole board members who supported clemency cited McGinty's change of position, with one noting that Slagle's "age and immaturity at the time of offense significantly mitigate his sentence."
In 1996, Ohio law changed to allow jurors to choose between execution and life without parole. In 2005, lawmakers added a provision allowing prosecutors to pursue life without parole in non-death penalty cases.
It's unclear whether a sitting Ohio prosecutor has ever asked that a death row inmate under his office have the sentence commuted.


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Love your iPhone camera but wish it had a few more bells and whistles? Well, now it can, thanks to an array of new attachments that do everything from letting you shoot underwater to adding quirky effects to your photos. We tested a few and offer our reports below.
Photojojo lens set: Three lenses $49. Fisheye $25. Telephoto $20. Wide/macro $20.
Of the three lenses, all of which I tried, my favorite was the macro.
There's nothing more frustrating than not getting close enough to photograph the busy bees or the flower petals in your back yard. The macro lens allows for a closer focal point and a shallow depth of field so that the subject stands out from the background. The lens is sharp in the middle, but the image does soften a bit around the edges. But considering that it's $20, well, nothing's perfect!
Just as with a 35mm camera, a fisheye lens is a "trick" lens that you don't bring out very often. It bows the edges and provides a small focal spot in the middle of the frame. It's a fun effect but not something that most photographers would use every day. If you're not into this look, save the 25 bucks.
The telephoto lens doubles the length of the iPhone lens, which is pretty cool since I'm usually running forward to get better framing. It alleviates having to crop and resize images, maintaining the larger file size that an iPhone 5 offers. This is a nice addition to the iPhone gizmos in your pocket.
Ease of use: The lenses attach to the phone via a magnet in the lens itself. Several self-adhesive washers come with each lens for multiple applications. Applying one of the washers to the back of your camera is a breeze; be sure to leave it on for at least 30 minutes before use (as recommended). I put one on and immediately started shooting: Plop — the lens fell off. After the allotted waiting time, the lens attaches to the washer magnetically. Easy breezy.
The lenses slide on and off, which is cool — and not so cool. If you throw the phone into a purse or a back pocket, the lens slides off. So, if you're careful, it's a handy tool; if not, your lens will be dropping off and getting lost at the bottom of your satchel.
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Photojojo Bamboo Solar Charger for phone or tablet $35.
I was super-excited to find a solar charger that's within budget. Being made out of sustainable bamboo made it all the better. After the initial wall charge, I looped it onto my satchel so that it hung out as I walked around the city. Using my own iPhone cord, I hooked the charger to my phone so that I could shoot for a prolonged amount of time.
Issues: First of all, I'm not much of a cord person, so having my phone hooked up to the charger as I walked and used the phone was a bit irritating. Putting that aside, I had a hard time keeping the charger pointing upward, toward the sun. It kept swinging and flipping, then not charging. I'm sure that there's a formula for making it stay in place, but I didn't land on it.
Nevertheless, it's a great backup if you're out and about for the day and can't plug in somewhere. When the sun was shining and the solar panel was upright, the battery more than kept up with my power use.
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I looked at several waterproof phone cases and ended up choosing the Optrix because it comes with an attached wide-angle lens. I didn't have time to take the case swimming but opted to dip it into the fountain at Washington's Dupont Circle instead. As I held my breath (I live on my phone!), under it went for a few seconds. It stayed dry!
Okay, time to commit. Down it goes again — 10 seconds. No problem, still dry. Now it's time to shoot some images. The case is totally plastic, with the front (which goes over the screen of the iPhone) a bit pliable so that you can use the touchscreen. Framing was a bit difficult, and actually shooting an image required quite a bit of pushing. But I'd rather have a secure phone than flimsy seams.
The resulting fountain images from underwater were so-so, but with a bit of practice and patience, I think you could take some cool underwater photos. You're not just shooting through plastic, as with other waterproof cases, and the lens does lend the final image a higher quality. The case is definitely easy to use and solidly waterproof through and through. It'd be great to have at the pool or the beach for safety near the water, to keep sand out of your phone and for taking some interesting photos to boot.
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Holga Special Lens & Filter Turret $30.
A nostalgic add-on to an iPhone, this case provides nine color and special-effect lenses, from a 60mm macro lens to a rosy-red filter with a clear, heart-shaped center. The idea is to mimic the famous Holga camera — a well-loved toy camera with a cult following among those who enjoy its lack of precision.
Unfortunately, if you're looking to shoot in a digital aesthetic similar to that of the Holga, with its distortions, blurring, etc., you'll probably be disappointed. Despite the filters' skewing and adding of colors, the iPhone lens is far too powerful to be tricked into working like the plastic Holga's. The results aren't undesirable, but they're different from what you may expect. A quadruple-image lens will split your subject into four sections, creating often confusing but visually interesting results. The strongest option by far, though, is the 60mm macro lens, which will have you shoving your iPhone as close as possible to any number of objects.
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Newsmy Newman N1 – Specs Review: MTK6577 4.3-inch Android ICS Dual SIM 3G
The Newman N1, also called Newsmy N1 is another very affordable China phone you should be watching out. It has remarkably impressive specs, and will be sold for only $149.99USD.
The Newman N1 is currently out of stock on any Chinese online stores but we got word that it will be available on stock soon, by October maybe.
The Newman N1 sports the same MT6577 Dual Core CPU chipset that is being used by most of the latest China phones today. It is clocked at 1.0GHz speed and has the PowerVR SGX531 Ultra GPU.
It comes with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) out of the box and has support for the following languages: English, Italian, French. Spanish, Russian, Thai, Vietnamese, Arabic, German, Indonesian, Chinese, Turkish, Portuguese, Malay, others.
The Newsmy Newman N1 has a 1GB RAM and 4GB ROM. The 1GB RAM is very much enough and is a guarantee of seamless multi-tasking experience. While the 4GB ROM can possibly give you a 2.5GB of usable internal storage memory. Memory for this phone is still expandable with an external Micro SD Memory Card (TF-Card), MAX supported is 32GB.
It has an impressive 4.3 inches screen. It is capacitive multi-touch and IPS having a qHD resolution at 960×540 pixels on 16 million colors. IPS gives you pleasant viewing on any angles, and the qHD screen gives you a very clear, crisp and vivid display on a 4.3″ screen size.
The Newman N1 is a dual SIM capable Android smartphone that has 3G/WCDMA. It is totally unlocked and is supported by all GSM carriers worldwide.
The N1 has dual camera with the main at rear having 8.0 megapixel with Auto Focus and LED Flash. It is able to record HD 1080p videos (1920×1080 pixels, 30 frames/sec) with sound. The secondary and front-facing camera is a 0.3 megapixel that is capable of video calls, especially with Skype.
Newsmy N1 (Newman N1) Specs and Features
- CPU: MT6577 Dual Core 1.0GHz
- GPU: PowerVR SGX531 Ultra
OS: Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS)
Language: multilanguage support
- Micro SD Memory Card (TF-Card), MAX support 32GB
- Size: 127.5 × 65 × 9.8 mm
- Weight: 130 g
- 4.3 inch IPS Capacitive Multi-touch Screen
- qHD resolution (960 x 540pixels)
- 16 million colors
- Dual SIM G+G W+G
- 2G:GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz
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- Supports GSM service all over the world
Colors: Black, White, Red
GPS: Built In GPS & A-GPS
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- Dual Camera
- Back 8.0 megapixel with Auto Focus and LED Flash
- Front 0.3 megapixel
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Battery: 1700mAh Li-ion battery
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Price: $149.99
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Here's a demo video of the Newsmy Newman N1. The audio transcription is in Chinese language.
Newman N1 Photos
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Another good selling-point of this Newman N1 is its very stylish design, having nicely made color variations for back cover. Its definitely gives consideration to your choice. Pretty cool!
The white version of the Newman N1 really looks clean and sleek. You can see the 4-soft touch Android buttons on front and a nicely done back style. The curves also makes it look sexier. Reminds me of the Galaxy S3 actually!
The black one really looks good either.
Some really classy-looking and very stylish handset here, brought to us by Newsmy. Agree?
Imagine this phone on your possession, how awesome that would be?
Without a doubt, this Newman N1 is another great contender on low-priced high-end Android smartphones category. It is relatively cheap, yet the specs are promising. However, since it hasn't been released yet; price might change. It might increase or drop, we can never be sure. Also, the specs might change when it gets released. Some sources that it might come up with a Gorilla glass display, which makes me a bit skeptical as it could be of higher price. Let's just wait, still this phone is another great phone to consider. JiaYu G3 or this? That is a very hard question to answer. The design of the Newman N1 is also another plus wow factor.


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NORFOLK, Va. (Dec. 18, 2004) -- Despite 18 points from junior guard Tim Smith (Newport News, Va.) and 15 from senior guard James Anthony (
With the loss, ETSU drops to 3-6 on the year, while ODU improved to 9-1.
"Old Dominion is just a very balanced team and we're very disappointed in the way we played," said ETSU head coach Murry Bartow. "They remind me a lot of our team last year, with players who can hurt you both inside and outside. I thought we had a chance when we cut it to 10 in the second half, but we just couldn't get that stop to make it single digits."
The Monarchs raced off to a 14-2 lead in the first four minutes of the first half, with Drew Williamson's (Burlington, NC) five points and Alex Loughton's four points leading the charge. East Tennessee State's Dillion Sneed made a lay-up to cut the lead to ten points, 14-4, but ODU had a 19-4 edge at the 14:49 mark of the half. Arnaud Dahi's fastbreak dunk at the 11 minute mark extended the Monarch lead to 16, 25-9, but the Buccaneers of ETSU cut the lead to 11 points, 33-22, with 4:21 left in the half. Dahi ran off six points to help ODU extend that lead to 17 points, 41-24, at the 2:38 mark before taking a 43-29 lead at the half.
A three-pointer by Anthony at the 15:20 mark of the second half cut the Monarch lead to 12 points, 50-38, but ODU raced ahead for a 16-point lead. 56-40, at the 13:42 mark. The closest East Tennessee State was able to get in the second half was 10 points, 57-47, at the 12 minute mark, off a pair of free throws by Smith. The Monarchs answered with a 12-2 run to grab a 20-point lead, 69-49, with just under 10 minutes left in the game. Two John Morris three-pointers helped lead the ODU run. The Buccaneers once again whittled the lead down to 11 points, 71-60, at the 5:56 mark, but ODU used a 15-5 run to close out the game, taking the 86-65 victory.
The Monarchs shot 55.7 percent (34-of-61) for the game, marking the third time this year ODU has shot over 50 percent. ODU held a 33-22 rebounding edge over East Tennessee State and had four players in double-figures for the contest.
ODU was led offensively by Dahi and Alex, who both scored 17 points apiece. In addition, Isaiah Hunter and Drew Williamson both reached double figures with 16 and 11 points respectively.
ETSU's Chris Mitchell (Chicago) also reached double figures on the night with 11 points and six rebounds.
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Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome never will forget the first time he saw Lewis when he was a blue-chip NFL draft prospect. Newsome was studying film of a Miami-Baylor game, and Lewis' style jumped off the screen at him. "Normally you can just watch a game and have to put a highlight tape together. He made every play," Newsome said. "Every play. I've never seen anybody make every play in the game. It was the Baylor game -- I got it etched in my mind." The Ravens wound up selecting Lewis in the first round of the 1996 NFL draft with the 26th overall selection before their inaugural season in Baltimore. "We needed linebackers," Newsome said. "Maxie [Baughan, then the linebackers coach] had gone down and worked him out, and we really liked him. It just fell that way. He was the highest-rated guy at a position of need. He's a friend of mine. He's a warrior. He's one of the most unbelievable leaders I've ever been around. He's a man's man. I've enjoyed the ride with him. The relationship he and I have now, I think, will carry on for years." -- Aaron Wilson
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I've tried many times to make a simple loaf using just flour yeast and water. After trying many different methods and recipes without any success, I think the problem lies in a lack of gluten formation. No matter how long I knead the dough by hand (I've tried up to 20-25 min), the dough just does not become elasticy. If I try to stretch the dough, it just tears. It also does not become "smooth like a baby's bottom". I think my kneading technique is half-decent and I allow for the dough to auto-lyse, so the only reason I can thnk of is that the flour just doesnt have enough gluten. I'm using Robin Hood Bread Flour bought in Toronto. Maybe I just got a bad batch of flour?
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Mustang Roundup Silver Springs Florida - And We're Off…
The annual Mustang & Ford Roundup in Silver Springs, Florida, starts the 2013 show season
We know a lot of Mustang owners are not part of the "show crowd" or have any involvement with a Mustang club. They prefer to go it alone, enjoying their vintage or late-model ride as a daily driver or perhaps a weekend track car. We understand that some owners just don't understand the whole "sitting in a lawn chair behind your car" that is the norm of many car shows. However, that being said, you owe it to yourself to experience certain car shows as they are much more than simply sitting in a lawn chair. Annual shows like the Ford Nationals in Pennsylvania, the Mid America Ford and Team Shelby Nationals in Oklahoma, and the Mustang & Ford Roundup at Silver Springs in Florida are all events that Mustang owners should be sure to attend.
This past January was the Silver Springs 19th annual show and Mustang Monthly was proud to be a part of the event once again with a Pony Trails cruise on Friday as well as the entire staff in attendance over the weekend. We can't think of a better way to kick off the show season each year than to get together with over 1,000 of our closest Mustang friends (1,029 to be exact this year) and spend the weekend in a low-stress, non-judged show atmosphere in one of Florida's oldest theme parks. Silver Springs has plenty to offer the young and the young at heart. The kids can learn all about nature and the animals that live along the Silver River while the adults will certainly enjoy going back in time to learn about the movies and TV shows filmed on the Silver Springs property over the years.
Of course, there's also the Mustangs (and Ford powered Fords) to drool over as well. The show regularly packs in over a 1,000 machines and they are generally parked as they arrive, with a few exceptions, allowing for an interesting mix of cars to peruse versus the more structured show venues where all the '65s are parked together and so forth. We find this a great way to explore the Mustang hobby and to experience other years than what you own. Check out the photos for just a small taste of what this show has to offer, but do yourself a favor and make plans to join the fun in January 2014.
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Since 1998 when a dozen Mustangs showed up for Mustang Monthly's first-ever Pony Trails, a Friday cruise has been a tradition at the Ford & Mustang Roundup. Subsequent participation bounced up and down depending on the weather, so it was no surprise when 151 cars departed National Parts Depot's headquarters for this year's event. With temperatures in the 80s, the convertibles had their tops down for the balmy cruise to Cedar Key on the Gulf Coast.
This year, we borrowed a '13 Mustang GT from Ford's press fleet for the cruise. With NPD's 1979-1993 Mustang wizard Matt Laszaic in the passenger seat, we caught up on the latest in Fox-body parts and restoration. The two-hour cruise ended in downtown Cedar Key, where we met up with the rest of the NPD crew at Steamers Clam Bar and Grille for lunch before a leisurely return to Ocala, where participants were able to tour NPD's impressive car collection. —Donald Farr


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Mr. Speaker, opening new markets and creating new opportunities are at the centre of our government's job-creating ambitious pro-trade plan. We know increasing Canada's trading relationships with Asia–Pacific regions will bring jobs and greater prosperity to Canadians in every region of this country. This includes deepening our trade and investment ties with large economies like Japan.
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Scott Phillips' locally shot horror thriller Gimme Skelter hit DVD last week and is--appropriately enough--the first release from the new Albuquerque-based DVD label Burning Paradise Entertainment. The full-feature DVD includes writer/director commentary, video blogs from the making of the film, a still gallery, a music video, a blooper reel and more.
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Sentimental drama puts a cute little face to illegal immigration
It's fairly safe to say that Under the Same Moon (La Misma Luna)--with its fantastical faith in the American Dream and its saintly portrait of illegal aliens--was not made by right-wing-radio-listening, border-fence-building members of the Minuteman Project.
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Rough, real and straight out of Romania
If someone started out by telling you that 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is a bleak drama about abortion, shot in Romania and set in the Communist era of the '80s, you'd probably avoid it like the plague. So, instead, I'll start out by telling you 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days captured the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, won Best Film and Best Director at the European Film Awards, was nominated for a Golden Globe and landed on numerous critics' top 10 lists for last year. ... Now for the rough part.
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A CORONER has called for changes after health professionals failed to realise that a troubled Kendal teenager was suicidal.
Summing up at the inquest into the death of 15-year-old Helena Farrell, South Lakes coroner Ian Smith said that 'various organisations' should learn lessons from the tragedy and reflect on what had happened.
The inquest heard that Helena first sought help on November 30, 2012 – more than a month before she was found hanged in a Kendal wood – and went on to self-harm on at least two more occasions before her death.
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On one occasion she took a paracetamol overdose and on another she cut herself after seeing her ex-boy-friend kissing another girl.
The Kirkbie Kendal School pupil also wrote several 'suicide letters' which she handed over to English teacher Mike Bousfield.
These were put, unopened, in a school safe. Days later, school counsellor Siri Morgan told Mr Bousfield to simply 'bin them'.
"Siri's exact words were: 'She's not suicidal'," said Mr Bousfield. "She was ada-mant Helena wasn't suicidal."
The talented cellist, singer and hockey player revealed for the first time a month before her death that she was suffering from 'dark thoughts' and bulimia, which she said had begun following a sexual assault on an exchange trip in 2011.
Days later she turned to the school counsellor, a school nurse, her GP and the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) for help.
None realised she was at risk of killing herself – and Mr Smith told the inquest that CAMHS was 'not func-tioning at all' at that time.
He said as an urgent case, Helena had been 'triaged' - a process to decide order of treatment for patients - but she was not formally assessed until just 24 hours before her death, after the service was contacted by her mother Maria.
"When you really look at it objectively they didn't do anything about it at all until January 2, when Mrs Farrell rang to see what was going on and was offered an appointment," said Mr Smith.
"But nothing effective had happened up to that point.
"Although it was triaged as urgent, it was not dealt with urgently."
Mr Smith said the service was dogged by low staff morale at the time and was 'under-staffed' – and the staff it had were 'not experienced enough'.
"Organisation was poor and there was a lot of sickness and, not surprisingly, low morale," he said.
"Not surprisingly it wasn't functioning at all."
He also criticised the school nursing system after hearing that Kirkbie Kendal nurse Donna Moore, had responsibility at the time for the welfare of around 5,000 pupils across five secondary schools and at least 20 primary schools.
He told the hearing he planned to write to both the Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, which runs CAMHS, and Cumbria County Council (CCC), which operates the school nursing system, to ask them to consider the way they operate.
He also said he would ask the police to look into the alleged sexual assault, which took place in France.
The hearing concluded that Helena had died 'as a consequence of her own actions', although her intention was not clear beyond reasonable doubt'.
Her body was found in woodland behind the town's Castle Green Hotel in the evening of January 4.
At the scene were 14 sheets of paper with various words on them, shells and a bundle of clothes, while a song by band Coldplay was playing on a continuous loop.
Helena had earlier attended The Windermere School and was a high achiever in sports and the arts.
"Helena had such a lot to live for," said Mr Smith. "She was talented, intelligent, gifted naturally in music, performing arts, sport, academically bright, not a rebel, compliant, helpful, nice with parents and with teachers."
The coroner went on to praise the young people who acted to help Helena Farrell in the weeks before her death.
He hailed Helena's friends, and in particular her former boyfriend, Billy Williams, and said they had been 'responsible and sensible' by passing on information they learned about her mental state.
"Her friends did not get information and keep it to themselves," he said.
"They realised that the information they were getting could have been serious and were extremely responsible and sensible in sharing that with adults and getting something done about it."
Mr Williams' parents later praised their son for doing 'the right thing' by trying to help Helena.
THE parents of Helena Farrell have hit out at the mental health service that 'failed' their daughter.
Enda and Maria Farrell spoke out at the end of the inquest revealing how 'let down and betrayed' they felt by the professionals who failed to spot how ill she was – despite concern expressed by both Mr Farrell and Helena's friends.
"We believe that had Helena had the opportunity to see an experienced and empathetic psychotherapist early in December 2012, her distress may not have escalated to her acting," they said.
"We were unable to find help for Helena outside of the NHS and were thus entirely dependent on the health service to provide this type of intervention.
"We feel let down and betrayed by the failures of teachers and health profes-sionals who dealt with Helena.
"They failed to be con-cerned enough to urgently seek help for her from mental health professionals with appropriate expertise. No-one even once made a telephone call to discuss her presentation with a duty mental health professional."
They admitted they had been 'shattered' by the tragedy and now believe that at the time of her death Helena believed she was 'doing the right thing'.
They added: "We hope that Helena's story will inspire professional and non-professional people to reflect on how we all deal with young people with emotional distress. We all can improve our awareness of the risks of suicide in young people and how to intervene."
The family now supports national charity PAPYRUS, Prevention of Young Suicide.
A REVIEW carried out following Helena Farrell's death uncovered 'poor practice' and 'baffling' failures by those she turned to for help.
The Serious Case Review put together by Cumbria's Local Safeguarding Children Board found professionals from all agencies failed to recognise the extent of her problems and risk of suicide.
"At its heart this is a case of an able, high achieving young person with apparently every-thing to live for who took her own life, despite the best efforts of her parents and those professionals who were closest to her to keep her safe," said the report, which refers to Helena as 'Child J'.
The report presented nine findings based on evidence from teachers, health workers and Helena's parents.
These include that several people involved were 'ill-equipped' to deal with teenage suicide, that they drew 'naive' and 'simplistic' conclusions about Helena and that many assumed she would only be suicidal if she appeared 'depressed'.
The report also repeated a lot of what was reported at the inquest, including the issue of Helena's 'suicide' letters being in a school safe unopened.
The report said: "The decision not to open the letters appears baffling. It seems incomprehensible that the staff involved did not override Child J's wishes (for them not to be opened) and seek immediate expert advice."
The report concluded that the findings might be 'painful to hear' and that solutions to problems will not necessarily be easy to find.
"Nonetheless," it adds, "it is important if Cumbria is to become a safer place for children to live for the board to embrace the findings of the review and take steps to address the issues identified."
May - July 2011: Helena goes on an exchange trip to Germany and, as part of that, spends a week in France. During this week she is sexually assaulted by an older man
September 2011: Helena leaves Windermere School and begins studying at Kirkbie Kendal School
October 22, 2012: She begins a short relationship with local boy Billy Williams, who leaves her 'heartbroken' when he breaks up with her
November 30, 2012: Helena and now ex-boyfriend Billy reveal to teacher Mike Bousfield that Helena was sexually assaulted and has been suffering from bulimia ever since
December 3, 2012: Mr Bousfield refers her to the school nurse. That night she takes an overdose of paracetamol, saying she 'wanted it all to go away'
December 4, 2012: School nurse Donna Moore meets with Helena's parents. She says she will refer Helena to CAMHS. Meanwhile Helena is referred to school counsellor Siri Morgan
December 9, 2012: Billy's father, also Billy Williams, contacts Mr Bousfield at home, saying there have been 'worrying' text messages from Helena
December 10, 2012: Helena is referred to CAMHS by Donna Moore
December 13, 2012: Helena visits her GP at the Captain French Lane surgery, where she is assessed as being a low suicide risk. Her case is triaged at CAMHS for the first time and she is assessed as an 'urgent' case
December 15, 2012: Helena goes to a party. She self-harms with scissors after Billy is seen kissing another girl
December 16, 2012: She tells Billy she has written 'some letters'
December 17, 2012: Billy and another friend tell Mr Bousfield that Helena has written the letters, which he finds in her bag. Her parents are informed and the letters are put, unopened, in the school safe
December 19, 2012: Ms Morgan tells Mr Bousfield to 'bin' the letters
December 28, 2012: Helena's case is triaged for a second time at CAMHS
January 2, 2013: Mrs Farrell contacts CAMHS and asks for an update. She is offered an appointment in Kendal the following week or in Barrow the next day. She takes the appointment in Barrow
January 3, 2013: Helena is assessed at CAMHS in Barrow by social worker, Anna Wiodarczak, who also failed to spot Helena was at risk of suicide
January 4, 2012: Helena is found hanged behind Kendal's Castle Green Hotel


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Gabytca needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
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La Boqueria (Banquetes)
I´m a woman of 23 years old, looking to start my own business. I had already finished my University School and I´m planning to start a catering business in fish and seafood here in Mexico City.
I want to communicate through this logo a top quality in product and service but at the same time I want a fresh , cheerful and colorful design.
It is consider to every peolpe that like seafood. The service will not overly be fancy, it will be an informal but no so cheaper catering.
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4.-The typeface should be clear ¨La Boqueria¨ Banquetes (smaller)
5.- I propose the following colors: red, orange, blue, green
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Life Expectancy Keeps Rising for People With HIV, Particularly When They Start Treatment Early, Study Finds
October 14, 2011
The newest generations of antiretroviral drugs continue to improve the outlook for people newly diagnosed with HIV, according to a recent report. Those living with HIV can now expect to live longer and healthier than ever before, and there is new evidence to prove it -- particularly for people who don't wait too long before they begin treatment.
Says The Independent in an article published on Oct. 12 ,
Research published in the British Medical Journal today shows that the average 20-year-old diagnosed with HIV can now expect to live to their mid-60s. The same person diagnosed in the mid-1990s had a life expectancy to age 50. That improvement is down to modern combination drugs that keep the virus in check.
Of more than 17,000 individuals who took part in the study (all of whom lived in the United Kingdom), those who began antiretroviral treatment with a CD4 count around 350 had an even longer life-expectancy, averaging around 75 years. That's within just a few years of the average life span of the British population as a whole.
However, many people still don't begin treatment until their CD4 counts are well below 350. As a result, overall life expectancy in the study was lower. As aidsmap notes in its summary of the study findings:
[P]rognosis differed by gender, and was significantly better for women than men. Overall, life expectancy for a 20-year-old woman was an additional 50 years compared to 40 years for men.
Lord Norman Fowler, who chaired the committee, warned:
"In the last 25 years the development of new drugs has dramatically reduced the death toll but that should not encourage a false sense of security. Prevention must be the key policy."
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Sadu necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 155 diseños de 25 diseñadores freelance.
What is Sadu Production?
Sadu Production is a production house working in production industry for advertisement and commercials. operates in Saudi market.
Sadu provides the following services:
Creative Photo Shoots
Shooting Locations & Studio Booking
Production Supporting Crew
Voice Recording Sessions
Saudi Culture Consultancy
What does Sadu mean?
Sadu is the art of knitting in Arab countries weaved by Bedouin people. Which is reflects the ancient artistic traditions rooted deep in the history of traditional craft, which its simplicity suggest the original inherent intelligence and shows beauty and privacy.
NOTE: for more information kindly check the attached file.
Advertising Agencies: The most important client for us is the Advertising Agencies because every project we have there is an advertising agency for it.
Advertisers: They are the final client and they have the final word or decision. It is very important to have a good repetition in front of them.
Our business marketing is based on Business to Business model.
Our services will be recommended by the advertising agencies's Account Manager to their Client (Marketing Directors, Marketing Managers) which is the advertiser who need to produce the commercial.
They are seniors workers in their companies, 90% are men and not women.
•We would like the name of the logo to be "Sadu production" With only capital S, and with lower focusing on the word (production) .
•The Logo should be with creative, unique and modern colors.
•we are focusing on film, audio, and photos productions but avoid to put any sign in the logo that reflects to any one of our productions.
•The logo should reflects( Sadu) style but in a modern and new style.
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Orbit Downloader, leader of download manager revolution, is devoted to new generation web (web2.0) downloading, such as video/music/files from Myspace, YouTube, Imeem, Pandora, Rapidshare. And to make general downloading easier and faster.
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The Wikipedia entry about Orbit Downloader says your software phones home stealthily. What's your response?
I'm a minimalist. Orbit doesn't remember my toolbar setting. Each time I move both toolbars so that the menu bar and the toolbar are on the same bar, when I restart orbit puts them back to the menubar on top of the other toolbar.
In addition, why can't I lock the toolbar or show small icons or don't show text but only icons?
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Overall it's a nice app. It just have annoying UI for us minimalist/power user.
it tells me the set up file is corrupt when i try to download it. i didn't have any problems with downloading it to my old computer but i'm not having any luck with my new one.
The list of prevoius Locations dowload files at "Save to" in "Create New Download" window is very short. About 10 lines would be better.
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TEL AVIV, Israel, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- Israeli intelligence saw Monday's car bomb attacks against Israeli targets in India and Georgia as revenge strikes by Lebanon's Hezbollah for the Feb. 12, 2008, assassination of the group's iconic military chief, Imad Mughniyeh, a killing blamed on Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu accused Iran "and its protege Hezbollah" of being behind both attacks. Israel is braced for more attacks.
Iran is suspected of seeking payback for the assassination of at least four nuclear scientists in Tehran over the last couple of years.
Those killings were also blamed on Israel's vaunted foreign intelligence service, the Mossad, which the French newspaper Le Figaro reported in January was training Iranian exiles in Iraqi Kurdistan to carry out bombings in Iran to destabilize the country.
Monday's attacks brought the deadly intelligence war between Israel and Iran into sharp relief, raising tensions in the Middle East amid a simmering confrontation between Iran and the West in the Persian Gulf that could trigger a region-wide conflict.
The bombing in New Delhi blasted an Israeli diplomat's car near the Israeli embassy, wounding his wife and the driver.
In Georgia, security officials found a grenade in a black plastic bag attached to the underside a car owned by a driver at the Israeli Embassy in Tbilisi.
Monday's near-simultaneous attacks followed months of terror alerts as Israel's security authorities warned that Hezbollah was expected to mount operations aimed at avenging Mughniyeh's assassination in Damascus.
In January, there were reports in Baku, capital of the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan, that security services there had thwarted Iranian-backed plots that were seen as retaliation for the killing of the Iranian scientists.
One reportedly involved killing teachers at a Jewish school attended by some 400 pupils near Baku. Another involved a plot to assassinate Israeli Ambassador Michael Lotem. Two of three suspects were arrested by Azeri authorities. The plotters had allegedly received $150,000 from Tehran.
The Sunday Times of London reported last weekend that the Mossad used oil-rich Azerbaijan as a base for espionage operations to spy on Iran, Azerbaijan's southern neighbor. Relations between the two countries have been strained since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989.
Muslim-majority Azerbaijan has moved closer to the West and Israel. Iran, which has a large Azeri population, accuses Baku of seeking to destabilize the country and take over the northern, Azeri-dominated region.
Iran's official news agency reported that Tehran responded angrily to The Sunday Times report.
"Following the movements in the Azerbaijan republic of the terrorists involved in the assassination of Iranian scientists and the facilities provided to them to go to Tel Aviv in collaboration with Mossad spy networks, Azeri Ambassador to Iran Javanshir Akhundov was summoned to the Foreign Ministry," the agency said.
In 2008, Azeri authorities foiled a plot, allegedly involving Hezbollah and Iran's intelligence service, to blow up the Israeli Embassy in a high-rise Baku building.
On Jan, 12, security authorities in Thailand arrested a suspected Hezbollah operative in Bangkok for plotting an attack against Jewish targets.
The Lebanese suspect, who also has Swedish citizenship, was indicted for possessing some 10,000 pounds of urea-based fertilizer and 10 gallons of liquid ammonium nitrate. That's enough to make several truck bombs.
A second suspect remains at large.
Also in January, Israel's counter-terrorism bureau announced it had asked authorities in several European countries to tighten security around groups of Israelis at ski resorts and hotels amid fears of terrorist attacks.
Hezbollah leaders have repeatedly warned that the Iranian-backed Lebanese movement will avenge Mughniyeh.
Israeli sources said in 2011 that as many as 10 purported Hezbollah plots had been thwarted in Europe and Asia.
In January, the Israeli military tightened security around former chief of staff Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi amid fears Hezbollah planned to target him as the fourth anniversary of the Mughniyeh assassination approached.
Mughniyeh, who until Osama bin Laden came along was the most wanted terrorist fugitive in the world, was killed by a bomb hidden in his sports utility vehicle in a highly secure sector of Damascus.
Ashkenazi, who was the chief of Israel's general staff at the time of the Mughniyeh slaying, retired from the military in February 2011. At that time he was under round-the-clock protection because he had been targeted in a Hezbollah plot uncovered in August 2009.


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