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Could this be the best/worst greetings card in the world? If it fails to tickle the 'kittens and flowers' part of the brain, then sadly you are either asleep, or too manly to admit it.
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Feds: Mosque, Islamic Center 'viable' targets in death ray plot
X-ray suspect allegedly went with agents to mosque, Islamic center
A reputed klansman from Saratoga County unwittingly took undercover FBI agents along for the ride earlier this week as he scouted out an Albany mosque and Islamic center in Schenectady as "viable target" locations in an elaborate terror plot to eradicate Muslims with X-ray radiation, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
Glendon Scott Crawford, 49, of Providence, then took the undercover agents to a garage in Schaghticoke on Tuesday where he allegedly assembled what he believed to be a lethal device capable of silently slaughtering intended victims. He powered the device and determined it was operable — but before he could attach a remote control to trigger it, agents arrested him, prosecutors said.
"He did everything except one thing — and that is to flip the switch," Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Green said at a detention hearing Thursday for Crawford and his co-defendant, Eric J. Feight, 54, of the Columbia County town of Stockport.
Green said Crawford did not attempt to use the weapon at that time because he feared radiation. Crawford was arrested at the location, Feight later at his home.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Christian Hummel detained both men after hearing arguments from their lawyers and Green. The judge said he could not find a more compelling example of defendants who pose a possible danger to the community. He also classified them as flight risks.
The hearing came one day after Crawford, an alleged member of the Northern & Southern Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and Feight were arraigned in U.S. District Court on allegations they conspired to build the device Crawford described as "Hiroshima on a light switch" to kill enemies, such as Muslims, they described as "medical waste."
Court papers allege Crawford approached two local Jewish groups in April 2012 hoping to "speak with a person who might be willing to help him with a type of technology that could be used by Israel to defeat its enemies, specifically, by killing Israel's enemies while they slept."
Instead, they called Albany police who, in turn, called in the FBI. A 14-month undercover terror investigation was under way with surveillance, wiretaps and agents posing as conspirators.
Crawford brought at least two undercover agents to the Albany mosque, which was not identified, on Monday night. He then brought them to the Islamic center in Schenectady on Tuesday before heading over to the garage in Schaghticoke, prosecutors said.
Crawford's alleged scouting of the locations surfaced at the detention hearing and was not included in a detailed affidavit released with the criminal complaint against Crawford and Feight.
If convicted of providing material support to terrorists, the defendants could face 15 years in prison.
Crawford, a native of Burnt Hills who works at General Electric as a manufacturing employee, allegedly recruited Feight to help him with the design and construction of the device. Feight, a General Electric vendor, met Crawford last year through their association through the company, authorities said.
Assistant Federal Public Defender George Baird, the attorney for Feight, argued to the judge that under federal guidelines his client could face no more than 2 to 2 1/2 years behind bars. He said his client, who operates industrial machinery, simply goes to work and goes home.
Kevin Luibrand, the court-appointed attorney for Crawford, argued to the judge his client was not a flight risk — and had been free since April 2012 when the FBI first discovered the alleged plot.
"The government kept them on the street for 14 months," Luibrand said, arguing that federal authorities would have arrested the defendants earlier if they believed the men to be a threat to public safety.
Prosecutors say the device was intended to be capable of being placed in a van and emitting X-ray radiation at people the defendants wanted to injure or kill, but who would not even know that they had been harmed from the radiation until days after they were victimized.
On Wednesday, several experts told the Times Union they disputed the feasibility of creating such a lethal, mobile weapon with off-the-shelf parts.
After Thursday's detention hearing, Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney John Duncan told reporters outside court that federal authorities, after conferring with their own experts, believe the device was viable and deadly. Still, federal authorities said the public was never in danger because their FBI-led team became aware of the plot early on and was continually monitoring the situation.
Duncan said once Crawford powered up the device and was about to attach the remote control trigger, "the FBI said 'this is close enough' " and arrested him.
He said prosecutors are refraining from even providing a description of the device because they do not want a like-minded copycat.
"This isn't something out of Buck Rogers," he said. "This is something far more serious than that."
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Walter Sparrow (Jim Carrey) is just an ordinary dog catcher living an ordinary life when certain seemingly random events lead him to a book called "The Number 23" by Topsy Krets. The fictional story interlaces a crime drama with a conspiratory look at the magical number 23. Walter is amused by the similarities between the main character named Fingerling, and himself. However, when the book continues to be eerily similar to his life, Walter becomes obsessed with finding out why. When Fingerling murders the leading lady in a fit of passion, Walter must figure out what is real…and what is fiction.
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- The human genome contains 23 pairs of chromosomes.
- W, the 23rd letter of the Latin alphabet has 2 points down, 3 points up.
- The plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper occurred on February 3 (2/3), 1959.
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At long last, we've reached the edge of "Vanderquack Valley." "Back Out in the Outback" is arguably the first DuckTales episode the acceptance of which depends primarily on one's opinion of the show's most controversial first-season creation. Two main reasons why:
1. Webby gives her first extended "solo performance" during her lengthy sojourn out back of... er, the front of... (yeah, it was a pretty lame attempt at humor even when Launchpad used it). In all of Webby's previous appearances, including those like "Cold Ducks" and "Merit-Time Adventure" in which she was a focal character, she participated in the adventure as part of a larger group. Here, we are fed several stiff doses of 100-proof Vanderquack... and if you don't have a taste for the character in general, then you are REALLY going to have a tough time swallowing these.
2. The character trait of Webby's that is most emphasized here -- her famed "way with animals" -- is exactly the kind that tends to drive those who dislike Webby completely nutsoid. Even GeoX, who claims to have less of a problem with Webby's cuteness than some, used words and phrases like "sugar shock" and "vomitous" when describing Webby's bonding with the "shy" Australian critters.
Now, I'm a Webby fan from way back, so I have less of a problem with "Outback" than most folks... and Webby's performance is hardly the only reason why. It's yet another attempt by Richard Merwin to capture that old Scooby-Doo magic within the DT framework, and it's the most successful, primarily because Merwin dispenses with the whole idea of a "phony ghost" and makes the mysterious "willywisp" menace a technology-based one. He also makes a legitimate attempt, however transparent it might seem in retrospect, to chuck a "red herring" in our path at the end of Act Two. The supporting players are decently characterized, the animation is generally excellent, and, true to Scrooge's constant requests for "teamwork," everyone gets something to do -- though it takes certain individuals (I'm looking at you, HD&L and Launchpad) longer to get their duck-billed platypi in a row than others. The fact that the ultimate villain turned to the dark side because he resented Scrooge's exploitation -- a storyline that seems more appropriate for a first-season episode of Batman: The Animated Series -- gives the ep an extra dash of seriousness and is very much in line with Merwin's generally more negative characterization of Scrooge. Finally, Webby's activities are far from all being cutesy-wootsey; she does face some legitimate perils, with her reactions to them being sold well by Russi Taylor... and how many times does one get to see "The Wrath of Vanderquack" in all its infrequent glory, as we do when Webby directs the four-footed troops to pen up the villains?
Greg's credits for "Outback" identified the wrong James A. Markovich as the source of the story, but he was correct in one sense -- this was, indeed, "The Other J.A.M."'s first writing assignment for animation. Markovich has only one other writing credit to his name, so you'll forgive me if I continue to analyze this as a Richard Merwin episode, even though Merwin "only" did the teleplay.
"Outback" is actually the third Duck story of which I am aware in which the Ducks visited a besieged Aussie sheep station (or farm, or range, or ranch -- take your pick). Barks took two bonzer wallops at the task, one in the 40s and the other (with Scrooge added) in the 60s. As GeoX noted, "Outback" has relatively little in common with either of these. "Adventure Down Under" (FOUR COLOR #159, August 1947) finds Donald and the boys, who've been sent to Australia in a rather contrived manner, trying to help a rancher fight off a nasty "kangaroo queen," only to ultimately bond with the animal. Donald plays the Webby role in this story, though it's more out of sheer necessity/desperation than anything else.
Queen of the Wild Dog Pack" (UNCLE $CROOGE #62, March 1966) edges a little closer to the spirit of "Outback," with the titular barbaric babe leading a pack of dingoes in raids on the sheep at Scrooge's station... and Scrooge spending most of the story stuck on "rant" mode. In this case, rather than harping on "teamwork," Scrooge is obsessed with showing his would-be heirs "where and how" he makes his money and how hard he has to work to keep up the inflow. Since Donald and HD&L have had ample opportunities to observe such things first-hand in previous Barks stories, this suddenly prevalent character trait seems a bit contrived... as, in all honesty, does Scrooge's sudden fixation on cooperation in "Outback."
One way in which I wish "Outback" could have borrowed from "Dog Pack" is for HD&L's neglect of Webby to have been the result of their sudden infatuation with pop singer Tweedy Teentwirp. The boys actually are treated rather harshly in the episode; Webby literally gives them NO CHANCE to begin looking after her before plunging into the forest after the joey. Having the boys be distracted by the music would have put something of an onus on them to match the arguments among Scrooge, Launchpad, Sundowner, and Dashing Duke Duggan.
I can certainly appreciate Greg's approval of "Sundowner" as the name of the Rob Paulsen-voiced heart-of-gold bloke with the malodorous clothes that could probably stand up all by themselves, but the use of this term could be considered misleading. According to Wikipedia, "sundowner" is one of the names given in Australia to a transient worker who drifts from ranch to ranch looking for employment. The movie The Sundowners (1960) centered around a conflict between characters who wanted to maintain the on-the-go lifestyle and characters who wanted to settle down. The irony of "Outback," of course, is that Sundowner is, in Scrooge's words, a "loyal, trustworthy, low-paid employee" who seems perfectly content with his stationary lot. Even the burly Duke Duggan (Peter Cullen) wants to stay at the ranch -- provided that he can run it and exploit the nearby opal mines, of course.
Greg, with tongue somewhat in cheek, compared Duke Duggan to the equally "D-riffic" Daring Dan Dawson from the TaleSpin episode "Stormy Weather." One way in which these "neat and tidy" nogoodniks are alike, of course, is that it's pretty clear early on that they are not to be trusted, even before they actually do anything underhanded. Dan Dawson sows seeds of conflict between Kit and Baloo, while Duke wrestles a pissed-off Launchpad for control of the "aeroplane" (much to Scrooge's ineffectual "teamwork"-touting dismay) and bullies Sundowner on a couple of occasions. I'd argue that Merwin is a little more successful at keeping us guessing than is "Stormy Weather"'s writer Jan Strnad, but that's mostly because Sundowner is on site to serve as a potential distractor. The "red herring" approach seems to have worked to a certain extent, as Greg goes from claiming "it's clear now that Sundowner is the boss of this heel operation" to later avowing that he easily saw through the "REALLY STUPID" ruse at the end of Act Two. C'mon, Greg, you can't have it both ways. Let's give Merwin some credit for his effort here.
Rightful Owners," would have been acceptable. As things turned out, the Quacky Patch doll took more real abuse than Webby did during this sequence.
As for those other menaces, the "willywisps," their animation is one of the true highlights of the episode; it really does leave you wondering what these mysterious gizmos could possibly be. Much like the level of punishment doled out to Webby, the "fear factor" of the "willywisps" could probably have been amplified a tad, in this case by including a few additional scenes in which the glowing disks imperil our friends in the "real" Outback. As seen on TV, the landscape around Scrooge's ranch is rather more lush than the barren region we might expect (and which Barks depicted in both of his Australian stories). The climactic attack on Scrooge and Sundowner, which takes place in a rocky area that wouldn't have been out of place in "Dinosaur Ducks," could have served as the template for similar action... though it must be admitted that the night assaults (including the one that opens the episode) are pretty cool, as well.


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Rae Armantrout: "Our Nature"
Look at an old picture of yourself—a candid group photo is best, but a posed head shot or even a painting will do. How would you have described yourself back then? Would you describe yourself the same way now? How much do you have in common with the person whose portrait you see? Did you want to stand out? Can you feel proud, special, melancholy, or just resigned when you realize how much you have grown up and changed? In "Our Nature," Rae Armantrout pursues such questions in her characteristically terse, harsh style.
An Armantrout poem can make no claim, and pursue no query, without trying to undermine its own terms: under the patient pressure of her short lines, key words in this poem, such as "nature" and even "latest," can seem to come apart from their usual meanings, even as we come apart from our previous selves. Like most of her poems, "Our Nature" invites us to seek ironies and uncover the dubious axioms under each phrase. It also stands out, among those poems, for the open pathos of its ending, which addresses the life of an ambitious artist, and perhaps also the afterlife of an art movement, even while it asks about the changes that can pry any of us apart from our friends.
The poem begins with a look at an old image, or perhaps a general claim about the images that remain in our minds:
The very flatness
of portraits
makes for nostalgia
in the connoisseur.
All pictures are "flat" compared to real life, though some revel in their flatness, while others disguise it; what could be flat, in particular, about a portrait, and why would that "flatness" provoke "nostalgia"?
A portrait presents one moment, in space and in time: it is thus "flat" compared to the four-dimensional (in time and space) extent of a life, and looking back over that life might well prompt "nostalgia." But to be "flat" or two-dimensional is also to look unreal. Is all portraiture unrealistic, in words or in visual art? Are all our mental portraits "unrealistic" as well, turning evolving personalities into all too comprehensible objects, as if we could possess the people we knew?
Considered thoroughly enough, do our ideas about people dissolve, as a picture dissolves or loses focus, when looked at for long? The second stanza, like a second take or a second look at the same picture, enacts that dissolution, with help from puns:
Here's the latest
little lip of wave
to flatten
and spread thin.
Here a person's "little lip" becomes the edge of a wave. Armantrout, who has always lived on the West Coast (in San Diego and in northern California), once censured another poet for comparing the sea to beads, since "the ocean can resemble a vertical sequence of discrete, solid objects in almost no way imaginable." "Our Nature" seems to assert that we, too, are less like "discrete, solid objects" than our habits—and other poets' "portraits"—assume. Our impressions of the people we think we know are more like a series of low waves, coming at us and then, usually, falling away. That image of liquid succession ("the latest" impression, and then something later still) gains force and irony from its contrast with the self-contained, solid, "hard" stanza in which it rests.
If the poem ended there it would be a cryptic rebuke, reminding us with a dry, uneasy authority that people always change. But Armantrout has more to say. Let's say / it" becomes a hinge on which the poem turns, leaving the self-contained, pronoun-less quatrains behind. In their stead, we find one extended sentence, broken into one- and two-line bits, about a group of friends or allies who stuck together long enough to share adventures and to establish a "loyalty" later overruled, or contradicted, by the ambitions of its members ("our infatuation / with our own fame").
Earlier Armantrout described everyone; now she speaks primarily of an "us," who might be her generation, or her friends, or her political and artistic allies. The figure in Armantrout's poem, one of the people included in her pronoun "we," wants to show inner consistency as well as moral worth (we might say, encompassing both, that she wants to show character). But she is betrayed by her nature: "our nature," human nature, or the nature of art, which undermine whatever character they construct. It is the nature of artists and their "gang" to strive for eminence, even at the cost of disconnection, as it is the nature of youthful "gangs" to grow apart. Outlaws of the Old West, quick on the draw, like the guerrilla movements of more recent decades, sometimes prided themselves on how they could "blend in // with the peasantry," escaping the law. Remembering their subterfuges, Armantrout also invokes bands of youth, in schools or in street gangs, whose loyalty to one another cannot last, since it conflicts with their members' desire to get ahead in the adult world. (The young W.H. Auden, too, wrote that "love" required the "death of the old gang.")
It's tempting to associate Armantrout's "old gang" with the real people who became her friends and allies early in her career: the Language writers, named after the magazine L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, one of several small journals from the 1970s (others include Hills and This) whose young, left-wing contributors declared their opposition to first-person lyric, to traditional narrative, and to any poems that emulated clear prose. Other Language writers included, on the West Coast, Ron Silliman, Lyn Hejinian, and Bob Perelman, and in New York City, Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein.
It is hard to read "Our Nature," which comes from Armantrout's book Veil (2001), without thinking about how Language writing, with its sometime promise of ego-less investigation, of radical anti-subjective critique, actually became (for better and worse) a name for a group of sometimes superb individual poets and poems. Armantrout recently collaborated with nine other Language writers on The Grand Piano (2006–10), "an experiment in collective autobiography" that tells the story of their West Coast scene. She seems, in retrospect, essential to that scene, though she did not publish prolifically in the early years, when she ran the reading series that gave The Grand Piano its name. And yet she admits, "I spent most of the 70s wondering whether I was in or out of the new nexus [of the Bay Area avant-garde]. (In that way it was a little bit like junior high.)." She remembers asking, at that time, "What was this new poetics that later came to be known as 'language poetry' and was I part of it or not?"
For a writer of Armantrout's skeptical temperament, emerging from a shared movement or moment, the desire to stand out—though perhaps part of "our nature"—must have been especially vexed and vexing. Her poems remain ambivalent about ambition, as her halting manner—the matter of this self-critical poem, with its silenced "fast gun"—might imply. Yet they stay ambivalent about loyalty, too, since loyalty can discourage critical thought. Hopes for group belonging, no less than aspirations to singularity, make Armantrout ask herself how she knows what she knows, and what her wishful thinking might conceal. "I do wonder," she asked in The Grand Piano, "how much we, 'language poets,' identify with and/or objectify one another."
Readers who single out Armantrout among other Language writers often notice her links to traditions of lyric poetry, that is, to brief poems whose singularities of sound represent a single voice, a single speaker, a putatively unique inward life. Writing in the New Yorker in 2010, when Armantrout won the Pulitzer Prize, Dan Chiasson claimed that Armantrout "takes the basic premises of Language writing somewhere they were never intended to go: towards … a single individual's … uniquely broken heart." We may hear in this poem, with its rueful plural ("we," not "I"), anticipatory reaction to such praise.
Yet Armantrout's lines in "Our Nature" do not fit just one movement or moment, nor do they confine themselves to one art. How can we all succeed together in an enterprise where individuality and unique achievement is held out as the goal and the prize? And what if that enterprise is not art, but life? Most of us want to be "singled out" or noticed in some way, even if we do not try to write new kinds of poems; most of us also want, or at one time wanted, to stand with our peers, to keep our friends, to stay close.
We rarely get both; sometimes we get neither one. That broader disappointment informs Armantrout's lines too: they end up with something like a tragic sense of how we grow up, itself the kind of sense sometimes, and wrongly, denied to the densely suggestive and demanding poetic traditions from which her style arose.
And yet the word "nature," repeated in the penultimate line, should put us on alert, since Armantrout's poems so frequently (as she has put it) "examine claims to naturalness and objectivity carefully to find out what or who is being suppressed." Whose nature is ours? Was it always ours? Who are "we"? Should we resign ourselves to the alienating consequence of our ambitions, as inevitable as waves on sand, or can we construct some better choice?
Armantrout elsewhere likens her poems' fitful movement to the mythical worm Ouroborous, which ate its own tail. Punning lines from her poem "Falling: I" warn us not to believe the stories we tell ourselves: "To swallow your own tail— // or tale— / is no longer // an approved / form of transportation." It does not say what we should swallow, nor how we should transport ourselves, instead. Similarly, the ending of "Our Nature," having pointed out "our infatuation," leaves us with no clear place to stand, no more reliable substitute for the fallacies and hypocrisies, the cognitive and emotional mistakes, that Armantrout's melancholy juxtapositions diagnose. Instead, the idea of a person with one nature, capable of sitting for a unique portrait, falls down when we try to make it explain "our nature," to say why we do what we do.
Armantrout's poems work hard not to settle on stable answers to the questions they raise. Be true to yourself, be yourself, pursue your own nature: Armantrout's friable phrases cast some suspicion on those all-American instructions, whether or not we can learn to live without them. Her memoir True (1997) sets her desire to escape her cliché-ridden blue-collar childhood against her own suspicion about the stories of artists' escapes: "Somehow my life was leading me to the conclusion that received opinion was my enemy," she writes, adding, "I'm afraid, now, that I'm making my own myth." We may not be able to live without myths, but we should not let ourselves get trapped by them. Neither the myth of solidarity forever, nor the romance of the individual becoming herself at all costs, nor any heroic story of rebels defying old norms and creating great change in the arts, survives the careful scrutiny of Armantrout's curt, melancholy, and chastened phrases, which ask instead how we can remain, or even become, the people that we think we are.
Stephanie (also Steph; formerly Stephen) Burt is a poet, literary critic, and professor. In 2012, the New York Times called Burt "one of the most influential poetry critics of [her] generation." Burt grew up around Washington, DC and earned a BA from Harvard and PhD from Yale. She has published four collections of poems: Advice...


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We would like our current logo to be updated. We want to keep the concept of a whitetail deer head peeking out of the letter "D" (can view current logo at http://www.deerstore.com) but we need a sharper looking logo created with this old concept. We would like to keep the forest green color featured in the logo, since our main products are painted in this color. We also want the logo to work in grayscale so that it can be visible when we send out a letterhead through the fax machine. Our customers are whitetail enthusiasts and our website is being redesigned with more of a nature theme. We desire two parts to our logo. The main part is the letter "D" with the whitetail head poking through and sometimes we want "eerstore.com" to be included in the logo (to spell Deerstore.com with the "D" from the logo). In other words, we want the option to have both - a logo that shows just the "D" with the whitetail head peeking through and a logo that shows both the "D" with the whitetail head poking through and the rest of the word "eerstore.com"
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Saying the recent hurricanes called attention to America's shortage of refinery capacity, President George W. Bush this morning called on American oil companies to expand and build more refineries. He also called on motorists to conserve gasoline by driving less and using mass transit more.
Bush warned gasoline is subject to the same laws of supply and demand as the rest of the economy, and that the storms damaged the nation's gas supply. He said he is willing to use the nation's strategic oil reserve to make up for any shortfalls that could result from Hurricane Rita. The federal government is also suspending some environmental rules concerning gasoline blends to make it easier to get gas where it's needed.
The president spoke after getting a briefing at the Department of Energy on the impact of the storm on Gulf Coast oil refineries and rigs. He says the storm affected the ability to get gasoline to markets.
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita barreled through the Gulf Coast, interrupting production of gasoline and natural gas. The Gulf Coast area supplies about one-fourth of the domestically-produced oil and natural gas in the United States.
Oil companies shut down 16 refineries in the area as Hurricane Rita approached late last week. Even those that were undamaged by the hurricane will take several days to bring back online. Refineries requiring repairs could remain closed for weeks. Four refineries in southern Louisiana are still out of commission due to damage inflicted by Hurricane Katrina.
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Fulham made a dominant start to this FA Cup Third Round tie, with Mousa Dembele forcing a good one-handed save from John Sullivan on five minutes after the Whites had survived an early goalmouth scare.
Fulham's early pressure reaped immediate dividends when Danny Murphy, who was on the receiving end of a chorus of boos from the visiting fans, clipped a pass into space for Clint Dempsey to run onto and place his finish past Sullivan on eight minutes.
Fulham's main threat in the opening exchanges came from Kerim Frei on the left wing, with the tricky Academy graduate giving Chris Solly little rest.
Following a lull in activity, Charlton showed that they were not out of the game when Yann Kermorgant forced an outstanding save from David Stockdale after Bradley Wright-Phillips teed up his strike partner on the edge of the penalty area. Kermorgant's clipped effort looked to be sailing inside the far post, but a fingertip save from Stockdale denied the Addicks' front man – the follow-up was struck into the side netting.
An uncharacteristic error in judgement from Brede Hangeland on 24 minutes allowed Wright-Phillips to seize possession of the ball in the area and draw a save from Stockdale on the goal line. There were more nervy moments for the Whites' back line when on 29 minutes a deep, diagonal cross to the back post found Danny Green available. The Charlton winger volleyed the ball back across the face of the six yard box – fortunately there was no one available to apply the finishing touch.
John Arne Riise tried his luck with a well-hit long range effort on 38 minutes that flew narrowly wide of Sullivan's left hand upright. Fulham looked comfortable with their lead but Charlton were still capable of creating threatening opportunities.
Charlton made a strong start to the second-half, looking far more effective as an attacking force. Within the first 10 minutes following the break, the visitors had forced two dangerous corners and had David Stockdale under far greater pressure than in the first-half.
A deflected shot from Danny Murphy on 53 minutes called for a stunning diving save from John Sullivan – as Fulham threatened to extend their lead.
But the Addicks went straight back on the attack and only two vital saves from Stockdale kept Fulham's lead intact. The Fulham stopper first did well to save Bradley Wright-Phillips' driven effort with his feet before tipping a long-range thunderbolt from Kermorgant over the bar.
Martin Jol replaced Kerim Frei with Damien Duff shortly before the hour mark and Republic of Ireland international almost netted with this first effort on goal – hitting a curling left footed shot that Sullivan did well to keep out.
Fulham extended their lead on 61 minutes as Clint Dempsey grabbed his second of the match. Dempsey and Bryan Ruiz exchanged passes on the edge of the area before Dempsey broke through and chipped a smart finish over the grounded Sullivan and into the back of the net.
The goal appeared to break Charlton's resistance and front that point on Fulham's attacks were far more sustained. Fulham continued to press for a third, with Bobby Zamora going close on two occasions.
Charlton still threatened from set pieces, with their corner deliveries particularly dangerous.
Bryan Ruiz won a penalty for the Whites 79 minutes after being brought down by John Sullivan on the edge of the six yard box. Clint Dempsey completed his hat-trick – thundering the ball past the Charlton custodian.Damien Duff rounded off the scoring in the 86th minute when his deflected shot spun past a wrong-footed Sullivan.
The Whites maintained a firm grip on the game leading up to the final whistle and comfortably saw out the remaining minutes to ensure their place in the hat for the next round of the Cup.
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Have you ever gotten kicked out of a store for breastfeeding? Gotten dirty looks while breastfeeding your newborn at a restaurant? Or maybe you were minding your business on an 18-hour flight and someone asked you to cover up your breasts while nursing your baby. What can you do but oblige your uncomfortable hosts? Well, many new moms are organizing and staging nurse-ins.
That's one way to get the public's attention.
When a restaurant manager says you can't breastfeed in her establishment, go back the next day with 100 of your closest nursing friends and sit down and breastfeed your babies all at the same time. That'll show 'em. Right?
I'm not so sure.
I worry that with all those exposed breasts, people are missing the point.
Moms should be allowed to nurse their babies anywhere. You feed a baby when she's hungry -- and if we mothers are expected to run home every single time our child cries out to be fed, we'll be trapped in our homes for most of our babies' early years. That is not fair to the mothers. We are nourishing our babies not exposing our breasts.
But while I believe in the right to protest, I don't agree that forcing patrons to watch you nurse to make your point is the way to go. It's one thing for one mother to be nursing her child someplace; it's quite another when there's an organized drove of nursing mothers descending upon an establishment.
I mean, if you need to feed your baby, by all means feed your baby. But purposely going in there to feed in protest is basically shoving your beliefs down anyone within eyeshot's throat.
Some people are a little more modest and don't care if you breastfeed in public or even notice but once you are standing there saying look at me, my breast are exposed and I am feeding my baby, FUCK YOU, that's combative. And then the focus becomes about women being combative rather than doing what comes naturally. The victims of the discrimination become the aggressors.
Moms, in all honesty, I think it would be more productive to breastfeed when you need, wherever you need, stand your ground and if you really want to hurt the business, protest in front of the business and inform their customers that they are not breastfeeding friendly; boycott their stores. Hit them in their pocketbooks and they will pay attention.
Do you think nurse-ins are an effective way to get the public to become more accepting of breastfeeding in public?
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Georgia's Accidental Immigration Activist
FOX News Latino, June 13, 2012
By Elizabeth Llorente
Published June 11, 2012
Atlanta, Ga. – He's a 60-year-old self-styled conservative Republican who long has lived in a farming area in south Georgia.
Life for Paul Bridges was about work, his family and his three goats – Susan, Clarissa and Bridget – who he milks at least twice a day.
When Bridges heard snippets about a plan that fellow Republican lawmakers in his state were working on to crack down on illegal immigration, he was firmly in favor of the idea.
"I was all for it," Bridges says about Georgia's law, known as HB 87. "We have to know who's coming across our borders. I thought it would make us safer. I swallowed it, what they said about the law, until I actually read it. This law makes our communities more unsafe by making people afraid [of police]."
"This law makes criminals of ordinary people, people who are very productive in our communities, who participate, parents who have U.S. citizen children."
And so Bridges, in his third year now as mayor of Uvalda, a 1.9-square-mile town of just 600 people – many tied in one way or another to farming – found himself on the front lines of the fight against his state's immigration law.
The diehard Republican became the accidental immigration activist – joining forces with groups he opposed on so many levels, disagreed with on so many issues, to fight HB 87. He joined the American Civil Liberties Union and the Southern Poverty Law Center in a lawsuit challenging the Georgia measure.
He testified before a U.S. Senate subcommittee last year about the need for comprehensive immigration reform which would tighten immigration laws, border security, but also provide a pathway to legalization. Bridges, a diminutive, plain-spoken man with a down-to-earth mien, also sent a statement to the U.S. Supreme Court, which is expected to rule later this month on Arizona's controversial immigration law.
He wrote in a recent blog: "I found Georgia's harsh law so un-American that I joined with unlikely bedfellows to sue the state. Did I ever dream that I would be joining a class action suit with the American Civil Liberties Union and the Southern Poverty Law Center? No, but I also didn't dream my state would go down the awful path of creating felons out of grandparents who have an undocumented in-law or step-grand in their home or automobile."
Georgia's law, parts of which were put on hold by the courts, seeks to crack down on undocumented immigrants by empowering police to investigate the immigration status of people they encounter who they suspect could be in the country unlawfully.
The law also calls for, among other things, Georgia businesses to ensure that new hires were eligible to work in this country, and made it a crime to harbor or transport undocumented immigrants.
"I have friends who are undocumented, who have U.S. citizen children," Bridges says in an interview at a hotel in downtown Atlanta, where he will deliver opening remarks at a summit Monday that will look at immigration issues in the Southeast. "So this law would require me to not let the parents into my house, but let their children in because they're U.S. citizens."
People ask Bridges if he is really a Republican, because, they say, he sounds awfully liberal when he talks these days.
Bridges says his talk about how important immigrants – yes, including undocumented ones – are to Georgia's economy and about how immigration policy isn't taking into account the nation's need for their labor is very Republican.
"We Republicans are business supporters, small businesses, especially, are the engine of the economy," he says. "These state laws try to duplicate federal laws, the Republican idea is not to expand government, not to duplicate laws. Republicans are strong supporters of family values, these laws that deport people who have U.S. citizen children separate families."
And he notes that presidents who pushed the hardest for immigration reform policies that would allow some undocumented immigrants to legalize their status were Republicans – Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.
Bridges says he hopes that the one-day summit on Monday will push forward a regional discussion in the Southeast on the need for comprehensive immigration reform that will not be totally about enforcement.
"I hope it gets legislators in other Southern states who might be considering passing a law like Georgia's to see that there are other, better ways to deal with immigration," he said.
Bridges says that migrant workers have rapidly disappeared in the state. When the state laws are coupled with federal immigration programs such as Secure Communities that have increased the number of deportations, legal and illegal immigrants are reluctant to work, he says.
"Some of the workers don't have legal documents and some of them do. But the enforcement-only laws scare all of them," Bridges said. "Someone here legally doesn't want to work in a field or ride in a van with somebody illegal, because it could force them to defend themselves in court" if they're lumped in with the undocumented workers.
The impact of new laws has been immediately evident in Georgia, where the agricultural industry estimates it has lost at least $300 million and as much as $1 billion since laws targeting undocumented immigrants were passed.
"Immigrant workers made our Vidalia onions popular in the country," says Bridges, who has learned Spanish. "In the 1970's, we had the mechanism and the way for distribution for our onions, but we didn't have the skilled labor force, until the migrants came from Mexico."
"Workers have left," Bridges says. "I see them packing up. I even know U.S. citizens who have spouses who are undocumented immigrants who are leaving because they're afraid they'll get in trouble."
He's been told by migrant women in his community that they are afraid to call the police about domestic violence.
Andrea Hinojosa, executive director of the Southeast Georgia Communities Project, a Lyons-based group that assists migrant workers, nods knowingly as Bridges describes the fear that Georgia's law is generating in immigrant communities.
"Women tell me they're afraid to report domestic violence," she says. "Police often say to them that they'll take both them and the man in, and that makes them afraid of calling 911. So they decide they just won't report the abuse."
Proponents of tough immigration enforcement balk when they hear about how such laws as those of Georgia and Arizona are driving immigrants out of the state. But proponents of tougher immigration laws have long complained that the undocumented are burdening the state's public schools, jails and hospitals.
They see "self deportation" as a success, not a problem.
Dan Stein, who heads the Federation for American Immigration Reform, or FAIR, says that if employers, such as those in agriculture, find themselves short of workers because of these tougher immigration laws, then they must make wages and working conditions more attractive to American workers.
When HB 87 passed last year, the bill's author, Rep. Matt Ramsey, said: "It's a great day for Georgia."
Ramsey, a Republican, told reporters: "We think we have done our job that our constituents asked us to do to address the costs and the social consequences that have been visited upon our state by the federal government's failure to secure our nation's borders."
Such comments exasperate Bridges.
"They're idiots," Bridges says evenly.
He sees them as Ivory Tower critics who know little to nothing, he says, about the realities of farming, the demanding nature of the work, the limited ability of many employers to pay their workers more, and – as much as many people don't like to hear it, he says – the plain refusal of many Americans to do the physically draining labor.
"They don't see the whole picture," Bridges says. "I bet Ramsey doesn't know what's like to cut an onion."
The work is intense, he said. During the most intense times, when there's a small window of time to pick the onions, for instance, workers toil from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m.
During other seasons the migrants work with blueberries, blackberries and harvesting pine straw for mulch.
Bridges tried working with pine straw once. Once was enough.
"I thought I was going to die, really," he says. "They take bales out to the field, load them in trucks, there's dust flying all around, no breeze, it's 106 degrees. I got out of the truck, I lay down, I just couldn't do it anymore."
Georgia was among more than 30 states that considered new laws targeting illegal immigration last year, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Most of them were modeled after Arizona's Senate Bill 1070.
Census figures show that Hispanics—who now are the nation's largest minority group, at 48 million—contributed more to population gains than blacks in 13 of the 16 Southern states over the last decade, compared with seven states for Hispanics from 1990-2000.
Tensions – over immigration, measures proposing English as the official language – have arisen along with the growth of Latino presence in these Southern states.
"Georgia doesn't really have an 'immigration problem,'" Bridges says. It's become an obsession, he says, because of "racism."
"When you peel everything away – it's not because of money, it's not because of love – it's because they are brown."


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Kumbalangi is a well known spot in the tourism map of India serving large number of domestic as well as international tourists every year. Kumbalangi, a small island by nature, has been selected as the first Model Tourism Village all over in India. Although it is an island and surrounded by back waters, Kumbalangi is well connected with the main land Kochi and the neighboring district Alappuzha by road and water.
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What directory names should I use to avoid problems?
There are a number of issues that you may encounter related to the directories used to install software, as well as your workspace location. For example:
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'db2' is not recognized as an internal or external command,You can work round the Windows environment variable limit by moving the DB2 path entries to the front of the system path before re-starting RSA and trying the setup again.
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How are you? Hope Monday isn't too harsh on you:) My day was great so far, with sales up to 70% in stores I just couldn't resist. And I have finally managed to buy all the little make up stuff I needed (yaaay!) and lots of reviews are coming soon:)
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This one was probably the best photoshoot I had so far:) Not only because the weather was by my side this time but also because I had the most amazing photographers, my boyfriend and my cousin:) They made the whole photoshoot so much funnier and easier.. My cousin also made my make up:) Thank you, both of you for everything:) And some 'backstage' photos..
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In Defense of Jaywalking
Banning the practice won't make pedestrians safer.
Looking at any number of big-city dailies over the last few weeks, one might reasonably surmise that we are in the middle of a new public-health epidemic with an old name: jaywalking.
A columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, commenting on a report on the city's most dangerous intersections, wrote: "[I]s it any surprise that three of the top four are near Sixth and Market streets, the home of the lackadaisical jaywalker? Seriously, how often have you seen someone there walk out into traffic against the light, confidently assuming that the car will stop?" In Boston, meanwhile, the Globe sounded exasperated about how "throngs of iPod-wearing, cellphone-texting walkers blew through the red 'Don't walk' signs, barely acknowledging the flustered drivers who slammed on the brakes and banged on their dashboards in futility." In New York, the Post bemoaned "jaywalking's steep toll," calling it a "foolish practice" that "needs to stop."
These accounts—which are typically combined with grim statistics on pedestrian deaths and injuries, but no deeper analysis—could well leave casual readers with the impression that jaywalking is the single greatest risk to the urban pedestrian, that pedestrians wantonly solicit injuries and death with their depraved behavior, and that properly corralling pedestrians could solve all our traffic safety problems.
All of which is wrong. Certainly, there are egregious jaywalkers who defy logic and physics in their wayward perambulations. (Many of these are drunk people; as the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration notes, "about 25 percent of fatally injured pedestrians have a BAC greater than .20"). And, conversely, there are also careful jaywalkers, like myself, who frankly find the notion of waiting for a signal when no cars are in sight to be faintly ridiculous and anti-urban.
But the facts simply do not support the idea that jaywalking is the greatest danger pedestrians face, and that drivers should be let off the hook. In San Francisco, for example, a report by the city's Municipal Transportation Agency looking at collisions in 2007 found that cases of drivers violating the pedestrian's right of way were more common than pedestrians violating that of drivers. In New York City the Post, quoting numbers from the DoT, said 50 jaywalkers were killed annually; this is a high number to be sure, but just one-fourth the total pedestrian death toll.
And numbers are only the half of it, because they rarely do justice to the complexity of the pedestrian safety issue—often they do it an injustice. It's not uncommon to find statements such as this, from a law enforcement magazine: "A study out of Florida revealed that pedestrians are at fault 80 percent of the time." Such lines suggest the answer is simple: Let's crack down on dangerous walkers! But the truth is more complicated, and fault is a word rarely used by traffic safety professionals. Florida is, first of all, a generally terrible place to be a pedestrian: One survey of pedestrian danger found that half of the nation's 10 most dangerous places for pedestrians were in the Sunshine State. Are the people of Florida overwhelmingly predisposed to careless pedestrianism? Of course not. The real problem is that Florida doesn't offer many ways for pedestrians to safely navigate its streets. (And moreover throws a lot of dangerous drivers their way; in 2007 its alcohol-impaired fatality rate, adjusted for miles driven, was more than twice as high as the state with the lowest rate.)
Facts like these tend to trickle into, and corrupt, crash-reporting statistics. As the Surface Transportation Policy Project points out, "a cursory glance at state and national statistics reveals a substantial number of pedestrian fatalities occur outside a crosswalk. Yet a closer look at national data shows that 59 percent of pedestrian deaths for which location information was recorded happened in places where pedestrians had no convenient access to a crosswalk. While jaywalking is often cited as a cause of pedestrian accidents, less than 20 percent of fatalities occurred where a pedestrian was crossing outside an easily available crosswalk." And police, who largely tend to be in vehicles, often misinterpret such subtleties or exhibit a pronounced pro-driver bias. And so it's not uncommon to hear statements like he "came out of nowhere," when in fact the pedestrian was crossing legally. In many cases, the pedestrian is no longer around to offer a rebuttal.
The very word jaywalk is an interesting—and not historically neutral—one. Originally an insult against bumptious "jays" from the country who ineptly gamboled on city sidewalks, it was taken up by a coalition of pro-automobile interests in the 1920s, notes historian Peter D. Norton in his book Fighting Traffic. "Before the American city could be physically reconstructed to accommodate automobiles, its streets had to be socially reconstructed as places where cars belong," he writes. "Until then, streets were regarded as public spaces, where practices that endangered or obstructed others (including pedestrians) were disreputable. Motorists' claim to street space was therefore fragile, subject to restrictions that threatened to negate the advantages of car ownership." And so, where newspapers like the New York Times once condemned the "slaughter of pedestrians" by cars and defended the right to midblock crossings—and where cities like Cincinnati weighed imposing speed "governors" for cars—after a few decades, the focus of attention had shifted from marauding motorists onto the reckless "jaywalker."
That pattern continues, and today the word jaywalking is often used as a sort of blanket justification for the dominating presence of cars on city streets. It also reflects a social bias against those people not in cars. (Note this comment in a Federal Highway Administration report: "Still, almost no one can avoid occasional pedestrian status," as if they were discussing exposure to a venereal disease.) It's also used to shift blame entirely to the pedestrian when drivers may have had what's called, in legal parlance, "contributory negligence." Consider, for example, this case of a driver who killed a pedestrian said to have been crossing outside the crosswalk. The driver was drunk and traveling at least 60 mph on a street whose limit was 30 mph. Statistically (and more-or-less legally), this enters the book as a "jaywalking" fatality, but it was predicated not merely on an illegal crossing but the active contribution of a driver whose reaction time was compromised—and who was traveling at a speed that made the pedestrian's death much more likely.
The word jaywalking is also often used incorrectly. As this Savannah, Ga., blog noted, in discussing an "anti-jaywalking campaign" in that city, crossing anywhere but a crosswalk is illegal between two intersections marked with traffic signals but not when only one intersection has a light. "That means, for example, that if I want to cross Broughton Street midblock, between Abercorn Street (where there is a traffic light) and Lincoln Street (where there is not) I can do so as long as I 'yield the right of way to all vehicles upon the roadway unless I have already, and under safe conditions, entered the roadway' " (according to Georgia law). Similarly, work by Meghan Fehlig Mitman and David R. Ragland has shown substantial confusion among drivers and pedestrians as to the actual right-of-way laws at places like marked, midblock crosswalks; crosswalk "stings" often net many drivers who report simply being unaware of pedestrians' right to cross.
So what can be done? The answer is not jaywalking crackdowns. These tend to be hard to enforce, lower the public opinion of the police, reinforce the idea of car dominance on city streets, and, most importantly, do not provide an effective bang for the buck. Indeed, the Netherlands, which has essentially legalized jaywalking, has an enviable pedestrian safety record.
Instead, here's what should be done. First, spend more money on making walking safer; despite the fact that pedestrians make up a large part of the traffic deaths in many states, funding is always disproportionately scant. Second, provide good places to walk. People instinctively strive for the conservation of energy, and failing to provide proper crossings in the presence of clear "desire lines" invites a jaywalking problem. Third, install pedestrian-friendly engineering. One of the simplest tools is the "leading pedestrian interval," which gives walkers a slight head start against turning traffic, thus making them more visible and allowing them to establish their presence in the intersection. A much more common problem than urban jaywalking crashes are left- and right-turn car-pedestrian crashes at intersections. Fourth, lower (and enforce) urban speeds. Cities like Barcelona and Amsterdam—pedestrian paradises both—are proposing limiting entire tracts of the city to 30 kph (that's 18.6 mph, folks), and in places like the "Skvallertorget," or "Gossip Square," in Norrkoping, Sweden, the legal right of way is shared equally, and safely, among pedestrians and drivers, without clear markings, because car traffic has dropped to human speeds. * Fifth, stiffen penalties for cars that violate the rights of those legally crossing (which would provide ancillary benefits for those crossing in a more informal fashion). Pedestrian fatalities wouldn't exist without cars, a stubborn fact that the law should reflect.
Finally, read newspapers very carefully. A number of studies have documented that media coverage of traffic crashes is selective, framed in certain predictable ways, and often misrepresents the true frequency or nature of actual risk. Jaywalking makes better copy for columnists than actually probing the complex nature of traffic safety.
Correction, Nov. 5, 2009: This piece originally misspelled the name of the town of Norrkoping. (Return to the corrected sentence.)


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Enchiladas! Yum. I made red enchiladas for another lovely Dinner With Grandpa night. I lightly cooked up some garlic, onion, carrots, summer squash, broccoli, and pinto beans, then rolled up my enchiladas. So quick and so delicious and nutritious. The rice is a quick and cheap version of spanish rice: I threw in some onion, some chopped bell pepper, garlic, and some salsa. It turned out yummy!
For dessert, I made an old favorite - a Quick Plum and Almond Cake. I saw it Jacques Pepin make it on TV years ago, and wrote it down as best as I remembered it. I like it because you cook whole plums right into the cake! So pretty. Here's my veganized version of JP's recipe:
1 c flour (I used white whole wheat flour or whole wheat pastry flour, spelt also works well)
1 c slivered almonds (the original recipe calls for raw whole almonds, which I've always used before... it's also great and results in a slightly more dense cake - but I liked the way the slivered almonds resulted in a lighter cake)
1 c sugar
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
2 "eggs" (I used EnerG Egg Replacer)
4 Tbsp Earth Balance
1/4 c soy milk or almond milk
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp white vinegar or apple cider vinegar
1-2 tsp sherry (optional)
6 ripe plums
extra sugar
3 Tbsp apricot jam + 1 Tbsp water
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease a springform pan.
Add the flour, sugar, almonds, baking powder & Earth Balance into a food processor. Chop until blended and the almonds have become fine crumbs.
Mix up your egg replacer and add it into the food processor. Then mix together the milk, vanilla, vinegar, and sherry and add the liquid mixture slowly while blending the food processor. The batter should be quite thick.
Pour the batter into the spring form pan and spread it smooth with a rubber spatula.
Now take your plums and carefully remove the pits. Try to do this without breaking the other end of the plum. It looks better. Pour a little extra sugar into a dish. Get the pitted plums a little bit damp with plum juice or water and roll them in the sugar. Then arrange them in the batter, hole-down.
Cook for 45min-1hour until an inserted toothpick comes out clean. Mix up the jam and water and brush it on the cake as a glaze. Just so you know, as the cake cools, the cooked plums will sink down, but don't worry, they will taste totally freaking amazing, so it's okay.
And of course, no trip to my grandpa's is complete without a produce extravaganza in his backyard. I saw the raspberries needed to be picked, and 20 minutes later I had a LOT of berries. Some were given to my aunt, some to my friend JJTWH, some were left for my grandpa, and some for us. Also, a big bag of plums - YUM. And a lovely, perfect, delicious King Fig. That fig tree is full of GIGANTIC figs on the verge of being ripe, I can hardly wait.
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Ravens have #1, and based on their reasoning I can be okay with that.
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kearly wrote:#3: Kansas City- Arrowhead hasn't lived up to it's reputation in recent years, but it used to be very tough
Zebulon Dak wrote:Baltimore's hard to argue against but the fact that they tend to field a highly competitive team every year definitely skews the numbers. The fact that after 4 "losing" seasons in a row we're still considered one of the most difficult places to play is pretty damn impressive. Good job 12's.
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NOTE: Please contact Yamaha Support via phone, email or The Hub (link below) if you are unsure if the problem you are experiencing is a technical or operational one. This may avoid an unnecessary trip to the Servicer.http://usa.yamaha.com/support/contact/ 1) Go to our Service Locator page (link below) and input your Zip Code in the provided field.http://usa.yamaha.com/dealers/service_locator/ 2) Choose the desired category: * Musical Instruments - Drums, Keyboards, Pianos, Guitars/Basses, Percussion, Band & Orchestra, etc. * Audio & Visual - Receivers, Desktop Audio, CD/DVD/BluRay Players, etc. * Music Production Tools - Synthesizers, Arrangers, Workstations, Digital Mixers, Monitor Speakers, etc. * Live Sound - Portable PA, Active/Passive Speakers, Power Amps, Digital/Analog Mixers, Effects Processors, etc. 3) Use sub-categories to get to the product group closest to your exact product. Once the last available sub-category has been selected, the Authorized Servicers list will pop up. NOTE: Please call your chosen servicer beforehand to make an appointment, and remember to bring a copy of your original purchase receipt if your product is still within its Warranty period.
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Dreab2003 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 113 diseños de 25 diseñadores freelance.
Custom Exotic Auto, LLC
Custom Exotic Auto, LLC is a brand new company created by AN automobile enthusiast for auto enthusiasts. Our company focuses on building and servicing custom, high performance automobiles. Our vehicles will leverage commercially available "kit" cars, coupled with customized cosmetic and performance modifications, to create one-of-a-kind automobiles for our clients. We will use our expertise to maximize style, performance, and value in each vehicle we build. Additionally, we will modify existing classic and late model exotic automobiles to meet client needs.
Our competitive edge will hinge on understanding the unique desires of each client and meticulously creating the automobile of their dreams. Our operation will bring the dream of owning a high performance vehicle within the reach of the average consumer.
Automobile aficionados, high to medium net worth individuals with the disposable income to invest in such a vehicle. This market is a niche market that exists in some areas but is mostly perpetuated by word of mouth referral. We endeavor to take this concept more mainstream by marketing our operation nationwide and actively seeking clients interested in the thrill of ownership of a high performance automobile made to order according to their specific wishes.
A logo that uses Custom Exotic Auto (+/-LLC) in a style and layout that reflects the creativity, luxury/high performance, and uniqueness in the product line we will produce.
This logo will be used for print and electronic media and consequently needs to capture the audience. I am picturing a highly stylized, modern design - but I'm willing to look at all submissions for the right one.
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tgstuff needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 137 designs submitted by 47 freelance designers.
Site is dedicated to helping beginning motorcycle riders.
Current logo is located at http://www.motorcyclementor.com
The logo designed here will be used for several purposes:
- will put into header on website
- will use as letterhead
- will use on coffee mugs, possibly tee-shirts
COLOR: Red, Black, Gray
TAGLINE: MotorcycleMentor.com Learn Faster. Ride Better.
Ideas: Open to all ideas.
Note: Want file in vector format and .png so I can change tagline words and resize if needed.
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Healing Dives, Inc. 8/8/13
Department of Health and Human Services
|Public Health Service
Food and Drug Administration
|10903 New Hampshire Avenue
Silver Spring, MD 20993
Diane Pechenick
Healing Dives, Inc.
4220 Lobos Road,
Woodland Hills, California 91364 USA
Re: Hyperbaric Chamber Accessories
Refer to Case # 406174 when replying to this letter.
Dear Ms. Pechenick:
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has learned that your firm is marketing hyperbaric chamber accessories in the United States without marketing clearance or approval, in violation of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the Act).
Under section 201(h) of the Act, 21 U.S.C. § 321(h), this product is a device, because it is intended for use in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions or in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease, or to affect the structure or any function of the body.
The Office of Compliance, in FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health, reviewed the website http://www.healingdives.com/ and found that your firm markets the following hyperbaric chamber accessories:
- Air Conditioner
- Cooler
- Cooler/Silencer
- Equalizer
- Oxygen Concentrators
The information on your firm's website indicates that the listed products are used with or for hyperbaric chambers. Hyperbaric chambers are Class 2 devices under Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 868.5470, which require submission of an application for clearance under section 510(k) of the Act, 21 U.S.C. § 360(k). Because the products are accessories to a Class 2 device, they also require submission of an application for clearance under section 510(k) of the Act.
The listed products are adulterated under section 501(f)(1)(B) of the Act, 21 U.S.C. § 351(f)(1)(B), because your firm does not have an approved application for premarket approval (PMA) in effect pursuant to section 515(a) of the Act, 21 U.S.C. § 360e(a), or an approved application for an investigational device exemption under section 520(g) of the Act, 21 U.S.C. § 360j(g). The products are also misbranded under section 502(o) the Act, 21 U.S.C. § 352(o), because your firm did not notify the agency of its intent to introduce the products into commercial distribution, as required by section 510(k) of the Act, 21 U.S.C. § 360(k). For a device requiring premarket approval, the notification required by section 510(k) is deemed satisfied when a PMA is pending before the agency. [21 CFR 807.81(b)] The kind of information that your firm needs to submit in order to obtain approval or clearance for the device is described on the Internet at http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/ DeviceRegulationandGuidance/HowtoMarketYourDevice/default.htm. The FDA will evaluate the information that your firm submits and decide whether the product may be legally marketed.
Under section 510 of the Act, 21 U.S.C. § 360, manufacturers of medical devices are required to annually register with the FDA. In September 2007, section 510 of the Act was amended by the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007 (Pub. L.110-85) to require domestic and foreign device establishments to submit their annual establishment registration and device listing information to FDA by electronic means [section 510(p) of the Act, 21 U.S.C. § 360(p)] during the period beginning October 1st, and ending December 31st, of each year. Our records indicate that your firm has not fulfilled annual registration and listing requirements for fiscal year 2013.
Therefore all of your firm's devices are misbranded within the meaning of section 502(o) of the Act, 21 U.S.C. § 352(0), in that the devices were manufactured, prepared, propagated, compounded, or processed in an establishment not duly registered under section 510 of the Act, 21 U.S.C. § 360, and were not included in a list required by section 510(j) of the Act, 21 U.S.C. § 360(j).
Your firm should take prompt action to correct the violations addressed in this letter. Failure to promptly correct these violations may result in regulatory action being initiated by the FDA without further notice. These actions include, but are not limited to, seizure, injunction, and civil money penalties. Also, federal agencies may be advised of the issuance of Warning Letters about devices so that they may take this information into account when considering the award of contracts.
Please notify this office in writing within fifteen business days from the date you receive this letter of the specific steps your firm has taken to correct the noted violations, as well as an explanation of how your firm plans to prevent these violations, or similar violations, from occurring again. Include documentation of the corrections and/or corrective actions (including any systemic corrective actions) that your firm has taken. If your firm's planned corrections and/or corrective actions will occur over time, please include a timetable for implementation of those activities. If corrections and/or corrective actions cannot be completed within fifteen business days, state the reason for the delay and the time within which these activities will be completed. Your firm's response should be comprehensive and address all violations included in this Warning Letter.
Please direct your response to Carl Fischer at the Food and Drug Administration, White Oak Building 66, Rm 3526, 10903 New Hampshire Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20993, facsimile at 301-847-8138. We remind you that only written communications are considered official.
Finally, you should know that this letter is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of your firm's violations. It is your firm's responsibility to ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations administered by FDA. Your firm should investigate and determine the causes of the violations and take prompt actions to correct the violations and bring your firm's products into compliance.
Sincerely yours,
Steven D. Silverman
Office of Compliance
Center for Devices and
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ampliostudios necesitaba un nuevo diseño de botón o icono y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 145 diseños de 52 diseñadores freelance.
We are a small group of people who are interested in developing computer assisted language learning tools. Our backgrounds are in software dev and foreign language teaching. Over the years, we've become convinced that technology can help people learn second languages. The motivation behind this project (and future projects) comes from a desire to do something meaningful in life (like helping people!), a love of foreign languages, and an interest in software development and technology.
We are currently developing our first software product, an English dictionary and vocabulary tutor called Vocabulator. Vocabulator records the words a user looks up in a dictionary and then schedules flashcard quizzes for the user to review at a later time. The idea is to help the user remember the words they look up. We're working now to get Vocabulator running on iPhone and Android platforms. Eventually, we will also develop a web version that will sync with the mobile versions.
FYI, there is a description of Vocabulator (with screenshots), and amplio studios posted at http://www.ampliostudios.com.
We are targeting iPhone users who need an English dictionary and people who want improve their vocabulary. ESL students and non-native English speakers will probably form the majority of our audience, but it could also include native speakers who want to improve their vocabulary (for example, writers, researchers, highschool or college students).
As mentioned, Vocabulator is a dictionary and flashcard tutor system designed to help people improve their English vocabulary. <- This message might be a bit hard to convey through one little icon, but if we break it down, I guess there are three main points we could try to get across:
1) A dictionary and flashcard tutor system.
2) Improve your English vocabulary.
3) Remember the words you learn.
Icons that convey at least one of these three messages are needed. Other creative ideas are welcome too!
The icon should look great from 57x57px up to 512x512px.
Icon styles welcome
The files we require are
* Separate 512x512px and 57x57px icons
* Illustrator vector or layered PSD format is fine
Looking forward to the contest submissions!


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DHS makes its first set of awards in the validation and verification area of the procurement vehicle
The Homeland Security Department made some of the first awards under the seven-year, $22 billion Eagle II contract.
Six awards were made. The contract is replacing the first Eagle contract and is expected to be the primary vehicle for DHS to buy IT services.
The contracts were awarded under the unrestricted track of functional category 3, which covers independent test, validation, verification and evaluation. The companies in this category will compete for task orders to evaluate IT products and services to make sure they meeting DHS standards, according to an agency announcement on the FedBizOpps.gov website.
Awards for category 1 – service delivery – and category 2 – IT program support – have not been made yet.
The winners of this first set of contracts and their core team members are:
The Coast Guard, also a part of DHS, also recently made awards under its $11 billion TABSS contract.
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If you say 6 won...out of how many?
This is great news and well deserved.
And it only took HOW LONG for the award to be made?????
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An off-by-one error heard round the world
At the inauguration of the 44th President of the United States, during the invocation Dr. Rick Warren stated 'Now, today, we rejoice not only in America's peaceful transfer of power for the 44th time.' But of course, it was the 43rd.
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Similarly, Obama said after taking his oath that "44 Americans have now taken the Presidential oath" - but Grover Cleveland was President 22 and President 24, so only 43 Americans have taken the oath:
Off by more than one; George Washington did not take power by force of arms.
Yeah, I'm not sure how to get 43 or 44 peaceful transitions of power - George Washington acquired power peacefully after the articles of confederation were replaced. But, we have 4 assassinated presidents, and surely these aren't peaceful transitions?
And then there were synchronization bugs during the oath. What more prove do they need that computer science is important! :)Post a Comment
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