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Heads tell MPs exam watchdog 'failed' in GCSE grades
Head teachers' leader Brian Lightman has told MPs that there have been "major flaws" and unfairnesses in this year's GCSE English grades.
The Education Select Committee is investigating claims that grades have been manipulated downwards.
Ahead of the hearing, leaked letters showed that exams watchdog Ofqual had ordered the exam board Edexcel to make changes in its grade boundaries.
But Ofqual head Glenys Stacey told MPs: "We played our proper part."
In a further challenge, the education minister in Wales has called for urgent talks over the "injustice" of grades, raising the prospect that pupils in Wales could have their GCSE results raised while their English counterparts would have a lower grade for the same standard of work.
However Ms Stacey told MPs there had been concerns that pupils in Wales were performing at a lower level than in England - and that this had caused difficulties in setting common grades with the WJEC exam board in Wales.
Shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg is also writing to Education Secretary Michael Gove to call for the release of all correspondence between Ofqual and his department over GCSE marking - and for the release of correspondence between Ofqual and other exam boards.
But Ms Stacey assured the select committee that there had been no "political interference".
The exam regulator defended Ofqual's role in ensuring that the grades awarded for exams accurately reflected the level of achievement.
She said there had been many "significant unknowns" in changes to modules of the GCSE English exam, which had to be resolved in the final awarding of grades.
But committee chair Graham Stuart said that MPs were "struggling to understand" why the problems had not been identified from the January results.
The exam regulator has faced strong criticism from school leaders over this year's GCSE English grades.
Overall English GCSE results at grade C and above were down by 1.5 percentage points this year.
Mr Lightman, leader of the Association of School and College Leaders, told MPs that he believed that the exam grades for pupils taking the English GCSE in the summer had been been forced downwards in an attempt to balance an "over-generous" marking in January - in a way that was unfair for individual students.
He also argued that this made it impossible to argue that the exam had used a common standard, when different levels of rigour were applied in different parts of the year.
Mike Griffiths, head of Northampton School for Boys, told the select committee that "Ofqual failed to maintain standards".
He told MPs that in his school his English results had fallen by 17% - when in previous years there had only been a small variation in these results.
It meant that for those pupils who had missed out their "hopes and aspirations had been shattered".
Mr Griffiths said that "you could play games with statistics", but in many schools "students in great numbers have been downgraded".
Pupils who were given a D grade rather than the expected C grade could mean that difference between staying on at school or dropping out and becoming a Neet, said Kenny Fredericks, head of George Green's School in east London.
January 'leniency'
Russell Hobby, leader of the National Association of Head Teachers told MPs the regulator's efforts for a "comparable outcome" had failed - and called for an independent inquiry, saying that Ofqual could not investigate itself.
Head teachers, teachers' leaders and pupils have complained that those who sat the exam in January this year were treated more leniently than those who sat it in June.
Ofqual says that the June grade boundaries were set at the right level, but has acknowledged there was a problem with the January boundaries. It refused to order exam boards to regrade this year's exams.
Before the committee took evidence, the Times Educational Supplement published letters revealing the pressure put on one of England's largest exam boards, Edexcel to change its grade boundaries.
The letters show that once all GCSE papers were marked, a significantly larger number of candidates than expected - some 8% more - had achieved a grade C.
Ofqual's director of standards and research, Dennis Opposs, wrote to Edexcel urging examiners to act quickly and produce results that were "closer to the predictions".
"This may require you to move grade boundary marks further than might normally be required," he wrote.
Edexcel initially rejected this, but subsequently complied.
Ms Stacey told MPs that if the exam board had not complied she would have used her powers to force them.
After the publication of the letters, Edexcel said: "Where the grade boundaries were positioned for GCSE English was clearly a matter of extensive discussion this year between exam boards and the regulator.
"As this correspondence shows, Edexcel made certain reservations clear to Ofqual, in the interests of maintaining standards. Our final award, which we believe was fair to all learners, followed specific requests from Ofqual to help them to do that on a national basis across all exam boards."
An Ofqual spokesman said: "We have made it clear that where exam boards propose results that differ significantly from expectations, we will challenge them and intervene where necessary to make sure standards are correct.
"This is exactly the job Parliament intended the independent regulator to do when it set us up".
A former Ofqual board member, John Townsley, now an academy principal, said this had been a "disgraceful episode" and called on Ms Stacey to resign.


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Smilin' Bob's Fish Dip Process
The entire smoked fish process, from whole fish caught in the Florida Keys to finished smoked product, is a minimum of three days. The process begins with the whole fish being filleted and deboned. Step two of the process is brining the fish with a recipe that has been perfected over the last 20 years. The last step involves a hot oven smoking process. Our smoke ovens are heated with locally grown hardwoods to give the seafood a distinctive Florida Keys flavor.
The finished product is a honey brown fish with a mild, smoky flavor.

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Lotfy Nathan spent some five years putting together his film about West Baltimore's dirt-bike culture. Now, with national acclaim for "12 O'clock Boys" promising to turn it into one of the year's breakout documentaries after a February premiere at the South by Southwest arts festival in Austin, Texas, he's happily basking in the acclaim.
"The reception in Austin was incredible," Nathan said last week from Toronto, where the film was being shown at the annual Hot Docs festival. "It was more than I could have asked for."
This week, a distribution deal with independent film distributors Oscilloscope Laboratories safely in hand, the Maryland Institute College of Art-educated Nathan is bringing his film home. "12 O'Clock Boys" will get its local premiere at this week's Maryland Film Festival, where it's already one of the hottest tickets.
The 75-minute documentary follows a young boy, Pug, as he tries to become a member of the dirt bike gang that gives Nathan's film its title. Undecided on whether these bikers are criminals, adventurers or just bored kids looking for something to do, "12 O'clock Boys" offers insight without judgment, noting repeatedly that actions have consequences, but leaving it up to the viewer to decide whether one totally counterbalances the other.
As he was preparing a return to Baltimore for the film's local premiere, we asked Nathan about nerves, what people are seeing in his film and how he thinks viewers in Baltimore will react to this depiction of their hometown.
What was opening night like? Were you nervous?
The first screening? Yes. I was most definitely nervous. We had a sales agent and a publicist telling you what kinds of people were in the audience, you have all sorts of members of the industry and press going to these screenings. But the response was great. It was a relief.
What do you think it is about the film that people are identifying with? Why are they embracing it?
There seem to be a few different appeals, and that's why you get quite a diverse crowd. There definitely are some who are just excited about the culture, which is similar to the skateboard culture — that sort of audience. Then you get the "Wire" audience. There also seems to be an audience that wants to engage in this dialogue about the seduction of criminality.
There is an audience that takes it as exciting and celebratory, and there is an audience that takes it with concern and sort of with dread — but at the same time finds it to be a compelling film.
So for some people it's exciting, for some people it's entertaining, for some people it's a cautionary tale?
Yes, I would say that some people say afterward, 'That was awesome,' those people who think it was really exciting. Then there are people who feel like it's really sad, and that the undertones are really grim.
What's your take?
I think it is a cautionary tale. Dirt-bikers are not as simple as just being a reaction [to the environment]. It's wrought with consequence and danger. I think the best that one can do, in trying to show this story, is to show why this kind of rebellion exists — to kind of broaden the understanding of that impulse. I don't think it necessarily answers any questions.
This is going to be your first time showing the film in Baltimore. What do you anticipate?
I anticipate a very divided audience. I think that you've got your most polarized audience in Baltimore, obviously. You've got the people who feel victimized by the group, and feel that they're a terror. Then you've got the riders themselves ... But that's not really the [intent] of the film, to have issues and politics involved. It's kind of beyond me, how this is going to go over in Baltimore.
Are you expecting any of the 12 O'clock Boys to show up?
Yes, I do expect many of the film's subjects to be there. I'm also imagining that some of the city administration would be there.
It could be a real interesting mix of an audience.
Right. I can only imagine what the Q-and-A will be like.
You've been working on this for five years?
Almost five years — four and a half years. The most concerted period was 2010-2012.
Is it turning out to be worth it?
Absolutely. It was a struggle, and it still is. The independent film effort is a difficult one, and the reward is in the reception, most of all.
If you go
"12 O'clock Boys" will be screened twice at this week's Maryland Film Festival: 7 p.m. Friday at MICA's Brown Center, 1301 W. Mount Royal Ave., and 5 p.m. Sunday at the Charles Theatre, 1711 N. Charles St. Tickets are $10. Information: 410-752-8083 or mdfilmfest.com.


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An FBI task force located seven children unharmed Thursday who have been missing for several days from their home in Fresno, police said.
The children - ages 5 to 12 - were found with their father at his home in Sacramento, Fresno police Sgt. Jaime Rios said.
He told the Fresno Bee ( https://bitly.com/13sm0a5 ) that they were in good spirits.
Police had said earlier that they had been unable to contact the father, Xa Yang, who had been estranged from his family for three years.
The father was not detained. Rios said that Fresno and Sacramento police departments will investigate to determine if a crime was committed.
The children were taken from their Fresno home when their mother and stepfather left them alone to go to a grocery store Saturday evening. The mother and stepfather told police when they returned from the store the children - along with their clothes in the home - were gone.
Investigators said they found no signs of forced entry. They didn't believe the children were in any danger and didn't issue an Amber Alert.
The children are: Chee Nou Yang, 12; Cha Meng Yang, 11; Zia Yang, 10; Chue Feng Yang, 8; Zang Yang, 7; Tria Yang, 6; and Tou Ger Yang, 5.


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This animal themed park is one of my favorite places to visit. Although I don' mind seeing the 'gators, as you can see by the pictures one of our favorite stops was the aviary. One of the perks of being a teacher in Florida is that Gatorland is free 4 months of the year.
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Easy Going Walks In The Forest
In Summer 2009, members of New Forest Access For All, armed with a GPS, measuring levels, an altimeter, a clipboard and a flask of coffee, started to survey and map some of the most popular walks in the New Forest National Park.
Members recorded gradients, cross-falls and surface conditions so that anyone using the maps should know what to expect from the trail. Details of on-site facilities such as disabled parking, toilets, seats and information points are also included with additional comments to help you enjoy your day out.
The location of the walks surveyed and downloads for the individual maps and their accompanying notes are available at http://www.thenewforest.co.uk/walking/accessible-walks.aspx
Community Toilet Scheme
New Forest Access for All and the New Forest National Park Authority have been working with local businesses to develop a community toilet scheme. Businesses who are part of the scheme allow visitors to use their toilet facilities without needing to buy anything, making it easier for people with mobility difficulties to explore the New Forest.
View a map of the scheme on the New Forest National Park's website.


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Racer X: How did Polisport get started?
Pedro Araújo: I started the company more than 30 years ago for one reason: I was at the time racing motocross, and at that time in Portugal no one was producing plastic parts for motorcycles. I was at the time 19, so I was very, very young. I was still studying and I started the company. Very, very small company at that time. It was my beginning. I began producing first front fenders, rear fenders, and hand guards. They were the first parts that we produced in Polisport.
How did you shape them the first time? How did you make your first molds?
The first molds we developed according to our experience because, as I told you, I was riding motocross, and I tried to figure out what were the best parts to produce and the best shape to develop. First we made prototypes in glass fiber, then we started the molds in steel to produce the plastic parts.
Polisport headquarters in Carregosa, Portugal.
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Did you plan on making this into a big company?
No, in the beginning it was a very, very small company. It was completely impossible for me to realize that the company would grow as it is now. But later, a few years ago, I understood that because every year we were increasing our sales, and then we start exporting to outside Portugal. And at that time I understood that the company could be a very, not a huge company, like it is now, but it could be much bigger than it was at that time.
What was motocross in Portugal like when you first started Polisport?
At that time, motocross in Portugal, it was very funny because most parts of the races were with 50cc motorcycles. Do you remember, I don't know if it is common for you, the name Gazelle? Gazelle was a Portuguese manufacturer of mopeds and motorcycles. And these kinds of mopeds, they were very famous in Portugal. And we start developing products for this kind of motorcycle.
The drawing board...literally.
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Who were your motocross heroes in those days? The guys you looked up to the most and knew about on a world scale?
At that time it was Roger DeCoster, as you know. Also Hakan Carlqvist and Eric Geboers. And you know, it was very interesting for me because later on through my business activity, I have had the opportunity to know all these people. That's been good for me, because at that time, having access to talk to Roger DeCoster was very difficult.
When did you first come to the United States? When did you first start shipping products here?
The first time that I'd been in the United States it was to go to the Cincinnati dealer trade show around '90. It was the first time that I had been in America to sell our products.
And you've been back every year since?
Yes, since that time, every year at least one time. But usually I'm going to U.S. two times a year. Normally two times, sometimes three times, but two times is usual.
Polisport tests rigorously in house, putting their plastic through the ringer before it ever sees the light of day.
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What do you think it is that sets Polisport apart from other companies who make motorcycle plastic? What's different about what you guys do?
At Polisport, we only produce plastic parts. You know that our biggest competitors, they have other ranges of products, like clothing, helmets, and this kind of stuff. We are 100 percent dedicated on the production of plastic parts. You have seen our machines, our techniques to produce the parts, and you've seen that we have a lot of people working to develop the products.
We also have IPD [which is a process of fusing graphics inside the plastic so they won't peel off]. Do you know that we supply companies like KTM and other companies with this technology? Now it is very important for Polisport, and it makes the difference with our competitors because they don't have this kind of technology. We are an expert in plastics. Quite often a lot of people ask us, "Why don't you have any other products?" No, we know plastics. We know the techniques. We want to concentrate on the plastics field.
Sales Manager Paulo Freitas checks out another test subject in the quality-control lab.
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So you have a motorcycle background. You raced motocross. You started the company founded on motocross. How did Polisport start making children's bicycle seats? I know that business has become very big for you in Europe.
We started on the bicycles because we understood that there is a special need concerning baby seats on the market. And at that time we had a client in France who was working with Polisport, buying motorcycle products, and he discussed with us the possibility to produce baby seats. And we have understood that it was an opportunity to begin to have a wide range of products, and we decided to start producing the bicycle parts. Bicycle parts and motorcycle plastic parts, they're both two-wheel products. Our first model baby seat was a very big success on the market. This gave us motivation to increase the line and to go to different areas of plastic parts for bicycles. So this was the reason we started. I also ride bicycles, and I like them very much. It's my passion also.
How involved are you in racing on a global scale? Do you still get to watch it on TV and follow it?
We have teams that we are sponsoring in Europe, different teams. We have also the cooperation with GNCC racing in America. That's very important, because GNCC is very famous in America. And the number of riders, this is a very important point, the number of riders that are involved with GNCC races is very, very big. It's really amazing. In Europe we don't have this number of riders involved in this kind of racing. This kind of cooperation with the races, with motocross and off-road, is very important because it helps us promote and test our products. There are many improvements that we've incorporated into our products that come from the races. We are always in contact with our teams, the teams that we support, in order to get all the feedback in terms of improvements for the products. This is very important. And also the visibility and the exposure of the races is a very important point for our business. The people, as you know, the clients, they buy what they see on the motocross riders. This is a very important thing. So we need to take advantage of exposure that they have.
A sneak peek at Polisport's new packaging.
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What do you feel is next in the United States for Polisport?
I believe that on the U.S. market we can grow. We have room enough to grow. Every year we feel that our clients, they are more and more open to increase and to develop the business with Polisport. Every year we are giving a lot of attention to this market. Every year we are at the Indy show, we are visiting clients, all the clients at least two times a year, sometimes three. We understand that in America it's very important to have this kind of a relation.
What I want to tell the American customers is that, for this year, we are preparing a very big range of new products that will be presented at the end of the year, beginning at the next trade show in America next year. They are very innovative products. I'm convinced that the American clients will enjoy a lot the new products that we are developing. We have a lot of new ideas and we want to have a wide range of products. So next year they will see for sure.
Fresh off the assembly line: KTM plastic, featuring Polisport's IPD technology. Say goodbye to peeling graphics.
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And people can see your full range of products at Polisport.com, correct?
Yes. Another important point, we are going to have very soon, around the end of the year, a new website. A very exciting new website that will be completely different, with many different features.
Polisport products are available at your local dealerships and through mail-order companies across the globe.


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Photos of the city's lovely, wild graffiti scene.
Over at Untapped Cities, a street art lover has posted a collection of photographs of her new favorite graffiti city - Buenos Aires. Sivan Askayo visited the city for a tour of the city's art. She writes:
I learned so much about the street art culture and how influential it is in Buenos Aires. In fact, it is legal, like in Rio de Janeiro, and supported. I've learned about the different and creative artists and heard some "Behind the scenes/behind the walls" sort of stories. Once the tour was over, I was able to recognize the unique style of every street artist in the tour and I was so anxious, in fact, to take the tour again in the next day.
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Hey all,
Check out Neven Cintauer's rendition of Predjama Castle.
Predjama is a castle in southwestern Slovenia that has a really unique natural fortification:
Forestboy wrote:I'm wondering what the little brown fence-like things near the Castle...Anyway, very nice job Neven!
Bruce N H wrote:Forestboy wrote:I'm wondering what the little brown fence-like things near the Castle...Anyway, very nice job Neven!
Looking at pics of the real thing, I think the one platform set some steps down from the main platform is a place for tourists to go to take pictures. You can see it here (and notice it does have a brown railing).
Then in this picture you can see there is a little fenced-in region in the grass down the slope from the main approach. Not sure what's going on there. Perhaps this is, again, to protect tourists, as below that the slope gets steeper, or maybe they stage exhibition jousts there or something.
Forestboy wrote:Also, the Castle kind of reminds me of Helm's Deep how there are caves inside the Castle. Very cool design of the Castle itself too. Good job medieval architects!
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Installed the WPO5 in our RV! My Husband had to modify the height, took off the door hinges and attached the door to the pull out. We attached the existing locking latch to inside the top of the door to keep it closed during transit. Thanks to all - special shout out to Brian Ochs for his prompt reply to my questions!
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NEW YORK >> Longtime analysts Dan Marino and Shannon Sharpe will not return to CBS' "The NFL Today" pregame show.
CBS chief Sean McManus said in a statement that "Dan and Shannon are true Hall of Famers on the field and in front of the camera. As they pursue other professional opportunities, we thank them for their hard work and dedication and wish them nothing but the best."
Marino leaves after 13 seasons with CBS, while Sharpe joined for the 2004 season, giving him a decade on the show.
CBS says recently retired star tight end Tony Gonzalez will join the network as an analyst for "The NFL Today" as well as other programming.
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Chocolate Chip Walnut Tart
Total TimePrep: 15 min. Bake: 25 min. + cooling
Makes12 servings
- Pastry for single-crust pie (9 inches)
- 1 cup coarsely chopped walnuts
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 3 large eggs
- 3/4 cup dark corn syrup
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/4 cup butter, melted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Press pastry onto the bottom and up the sides of an ungreased 9-in. fluted tart pan with removable bottom; trim edges. Sprinkle walnuts and chocolate chips into crust.
- In a small bowl, combine the eggs, corn syrup, brown sugar, butter and vanilla. Pour into crust.
- Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until top is bubbly and crust is golden brown. Cool on a wire rack. Refrigerate leftovers.
Nutrition Facts1 slice: 357 calories, 20g fat (8g saturated fat), 66mg cholesterol, 148mg sodium, 44g carbohydrate (23g sugars, 1g fiber), 5g protein.
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Nov 26, 2011
I made this for a Thanksgiving dessert. It met our expectations and then some!
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Nov 2, 2011
This is so easy, good and impressive. I've made it a couple of times and everyone just loves it.
Nov 2, 2011
I am a diabetic using diet and exercise to control my bloodsugars, but this recipe sounded wonderful. I used 2 mini phylo shell (ready to eat) 25 calories. I melted 1/2 tsp. butter (17 calories) and 1/4 oz. chopped pecans (50 calories) in the microwave. I put 2 (60% cocoa) dark chocolate chips (17 calories) in each phylo tart and divided the nut mixture between them. I drizzled just a touch of sugar free pancake syrup over the top and put them into the refrigerator to cool. I have 2 mini treats at 55 calories each and no leftovers. I think I captured the flavor of her recipe. Linda
Nov 2, 2011
I swapped out the walnuts for pecans and it turned out great. Thought it went together pretty quickly as well.
Oct 20, 2009
So good!! Made this last week and am making another this week. I also had to cook it longer than the recipe states, 15 min. more.
Apr 7, 2009
lfidler, just checking... the time you are suggesting is quite a bit different. did you use a dark tart pan? is your oven calibrated correctly normally? just curious.. with dark pans you have to lower cooking temp and cook longer. i guess i can always cook it the 25 mins suggested, and then add time if necessary.
Jan 29, 2009
this dessert was amazing, but it needed to bake for 1 hour, not 30 minutes.


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SAN JOSE — An experienced corporate chemist and pharmacist from South San Jose became an accused would-be killer on Monday in bizarre fashion: By eschewing her vast expertise and allegedly making a crude mix of rubbing alcohol and orange juice that police say she tried to sneak into the display case of a Starbucks just as it was filling with high-schoolers.
Police haven't revealed whom, if anyone, might have been targeted. But they felt strongly enough to arrest Ramineh Behbehanian on suspicion of attempted murder after the ploy was literally sniffed out by an alert customer and a sharp-eyed employee who took note of her car's license plate number as she made a hasty exit.
Initial tests of the bottles revealed them to have a potentially lethal amount of the household solvent.
"If it weren't for the actions of that customer, I believe we'd be talking about a homicide right now," said Sgt. Jason Dwyer, a police spokesman.
Behbehanian, 50, has been in jail without bail since her Monday night arrest. Police say it remains unclear why she allegedly put the tainted juice bottles into the refrigerated display case at the coffee chain's shop on Snell Avenue.
Luckily, no one drank the toxic concoction, largely because the alleged means and tactics were as clear as the alcohol she purportedly mixed. A coffee-shop regular was standing behind her in line about 3:45 p.m. and watched as she pulled two bottles out of her green Starbucks bag and placed them in the open-air fridge, police said.
The customer immediately alerted a store manager, apparently spooking Behbehanian into leaving, but not before an employee got a glimpse of her license plate, police said.
Employees immediately grabbed the bottles of orange juice and examined them. They realized the seals had been broken and smelled "something toxic," Dwyer said.
They called 911, summoning San Jose police and the San Jose Fire Department, which brought its hazardous materials team. After clearing out the store, the hazardous materials technicians — who are trained to respond to events as high-level as the deployment of weapons of mass destruction — took samples of the liquid and ran it through a portable mass spectrometer that confirmed it was isopropyl alcohol, a common household solvent.
"It was significant enough to be seriously harmful. I can't say it will cause death, but it's a possibility," said Capt. Cleo Doss, a fire department spokesman. "It depends on how much you consume. They could have a sip and stop, or someone who couldn't smell it, maybe had a cold, might drink more."
Using the information provided by the customer and the employee, police tracked Behbehanian to her home 5 miles west on Chambertin Drive and arrested her after questioning.
Her LinkedIn page states she has a master's degree in physical chemistry and chemical engineering from Lehigh University in Pennsylvania and worked as a scientist, engineer or project manager for a string of high-profile corporations including Pfizer, Boston Scientific and Johnson & Johnson. At the time of her arrest, she was working at Janssen, a pharmaceutical subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. This was confirmed by a company spokesman Tuesday.
Calls to Behbehanian's home and relatives went unreturned Tuesday. Behbehanian declined a request for a jailhouse interview with this newspaper.
The alleged poisoning attempt occurred about the time students from Santa Teresa High School usually flock to the Starbucks, which is in the Santa Teresa Square shopping center across the street from the school.
A Starbucks spokesman lauded the multitude of acts that prevented anyone, including the students, from ingesting the spiked substance.
"We're grateful to the customer who did the right thing," Starbucks spokesman Zack Hutson said, adding the company thanked its employees "for doing all the right things," including getting the suspect's license plate number.
Hutson said the company is continuing to cooperate with the police investigation. After the incident, the Snell Avenue store pulled all the remaining juices from the refrigerator and destroyed them. He said other nearby Starbucks were notified and told to check all their juice bottles to make sure the seals weren't broken.
Contact Robert Salonga at 408-920-5002. Follow him at Twitter.com/robertsalonga. Contact Mark Gomez at 408-920-5869. Follow him at Twitter.com/MarkMGomez.


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First show with my wifeRage Against the Machine was the opener!
04 December, 2013
The MeetingMet the band at this show…waited outside in the freezing cold for what seemed to be hours. After being told by security numerous times that they were gone, no need to wait around…the 3 limos came out. Met Edge, followed by Adam and Bono. Larry was gone I guess. Quite a night!
01 July, 2012
Let's Mix It UpThis was my first U2 concert and it was in my face. The show was a crazy sensory shock to my system that in one moment I was stunned and the next embracing them challenging and mocking the culture. Aggresively throwing off the stereotypes of Joshua Tree while embracing the music. Mephisto represents the darkest and most vulnerable places - raw reality - of humanity. I was far from the stage on the field but appreciated their attempt to get closer to us through the enormous and elaborate staging which was fully realized with The Claw.
15 September, 2009
Finally!Since I had missed the ZOO TV tour a few years before, I was really anxious for this tour. It would be my first U2 concert and the show hypnotized me. I had been a die hard fan for about 6 years at this point, and the live show shoved me off a cliff into full-blown obsession...which has never ebbed. Of course the giant lemon, Adam's air filter, and Bono's entrance on "MOFO" were captivating it was the hysteria of all the other fans that threw me into U2 madness.


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Q The tunnel on Highway 1 replacing Devils Slide has made the road a lot safer. Local drivers, however, seem determined to keep the trip between Pacifica and Montara just as dangerous as before.
Especially since the park areas opened, a fair number of vehicles have slowed down to 25 mph northbound at and through the tunnel — in a 45-mph zone. I'd blame it on sightseeing, but there aren't a lot of sights in the tunnel. Instead, I think this is a combination of some really inept signage, the lighting change in the tunnel and some drivers trying much too hard to be economical.
This causes idiots in SUVs to tailgate. Tailgating on a one-lane road well back of the slow driver isn't going to help anyone go faster.
Now add bicyclists who don't obey their own rules of the road to the mix, often by riding tandem on semi-blind curves and narrow lanes with little or no shoulder on the climb from Linda Mar to the tunnel.
The tunnels themselves are nice. The behavior of those on the road, not so much.
Anonymous in Daly City
A As Memorial Day weekend approaches, this area will get a lot of traffic. So be careful out there.
Q Crossing the double yellow on curves? It's now normal driving on Highway 1 between Montara and Pacifica. It's disgusting, dangerous and stupid. There are umpteen tourists driving that stretch of road all hours. They are looking over the side to the Pacific Ocean, not at the road or at you crossing into their right of way. No matter where you are, stay on your side of the road.
John Gruver
A Good advice.
Q Recently my nephew and his family went to walk on the new Devils Slides trail along Highway 1. The parking lot was filled so he parked on the side of the road close to the parking lot. When he came back he received a ticket because you are not allowed to park on state highways.
Anne Wegner
Palo Alto
A Parking is a problem at this popular coastal trail. Try Pacifica's free Devils Slide Ride weekend shuttle, which runs from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekends in an approximately one-hour loop from near Oceana High School. The shuttles have room for wheelchairs, surfboards and bicycles.
Q Regarding my wife's comment about me not loving her as much as I love my Corvette. The jury is still out on this one, as she threw me under the bus about the speeding.
David Smith
San Jose
A David's wife Susan wrote on Sunday:
"Gary, you asked if anyone had been ticketed for not having a front license plate. My husband has a beautiful Corvette that I suspect he loves more than he loves me, and he was given a fix-it ticket on Silver Creek Valley Road in San Jose. No complaints, though, since he was probably speeding but not ticketed for that."
David, back to you:
Q I've had my beloved Corvette longer than I've had her! Just kidding!
David Smith
A Oh, David, how are you ever going to make this up to her?
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I've been running various blogs over the past 2 years and have now decided to merge two of them. One being this one (gavinelliott.co.uk) and the other being floobe.com. I had great thoughts about floobe.com when originally starting out, but lack of time and even less effort hindered it's progress.
The high hopes were hindered by lack of effort and the lack of effort was down to having too many places to blog when all I wanted to do was produce awesome content. I'm certainly not shy of hard work and writing content, years ago between 2000 and 2003 I wrote regularly at nvmax.com as the Gaming Editor. Our competitors back then were neowin,
I've been wanting to progress my writing in many ways so finding ways to move on and add better content was key over the past couple of weeks. Making the big decision to port the content from floobe.com to here was a big decision I must admit but one which I feel I have to do.
So in future you'll be getting the same kind of awesome content as you saw on Friday with the 30 Designers, 1 Question post as the follow up post is already in progress.


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Craig A. Lindley is a degreed hardware engineer who, until recently, had been writing large scale Java applications. Craig has authored over 40 technical articles on various programming topics and has published five books dealing mostly with multimedia. He can be contacted via email at [email protected]
Developing large software systems can be rewarding on many levels. Sometimes, however, developing software for the smallest of systems can prove to be equally pleasurable and in many cases can be down right fun. Developing large software solutions requires functional specifications, meetings and group think mentality. Developing small embedded systems is in many case an individual endeavor where one can get their hands and their minds around the whole thing. In addition, there is something magical about controlling a piece of hardware with software you have written.
Over the course of my career I have developed software for the smallest of embedded systems and software for large business applications deployed in large data centers. Now that I'm programming more for fun than for profit, I'm having a great time designing and building custom hardware devices based upon embedded microcontrollers. Throughout this article I will use the term "uC" to denote a microcontroller. Microprocessor are different from uCs is that uCs typically have many on-chip peripherals/subsystems to make system design easier (and to keep external part counts low). This includes on-chip RAM for data storage and FLASH or other type of memory for program storage.
In the last year and a half, I have designed and built (and published articles about) a digital color organ based upon the Texas Instrument's (TI) MSP430 F2012 processor (see Nuts and Volts magazine, September/November2007 and January 2008), a toy web server based on the 8-bit PIC18LF2620 uC (Nuts and Volts, July 2008) and a personal, low-power web server based upon the NetBurner Mod5270 (Dr. Dobb's , November 2008). In doing these projects I used three different uCs with their associated development environments and was pleased in each case with the result.
My purpose with this article is to acquaint you with the concepts of embedded uC development in the hopes that you may take on a project of your own. In addition I want to show you that there isn't any magic to embedded system design, that the development tools are way better than they used to be and their cost is no longer a barrier to entry.
A Range of Microcontrollers for Any Project
There are many companies (to numerous to mention here) playing in the uC space. Some like Atmel, Microchip, Parallax, and Texas Instruments provide chips, development hardware, and design support services to end users. Other companies like Arduino and NetBurner provide built and tested boards and the development tools needed to utilize them. You'll find uCs that cover the full spectrum of functionality and performance for any project you can envision. From lowly 8-bit devices with hundreds of bytes of RAM and 1K of program memory (FLASH or otherwise) to 32- or even 64-bit screamers with over 2 MBytes of RAM and 512 KBytes of FLASH. You can even find devices like the Propeller from Parallax that has eight distinct processor on a single chip. And the best thing about these devices is that, unlike everything else, they are continually dropping in price while their performance keeps increasing. We get more bang for the buck for our designs all the time. SparkFun Electronics has a lot of interesting electronic components and modules which can be interfaced with uCs.
Modern uCs come with an impressive array of on-chip peripherals including: timers, counters, analog to digital converters, pulse width modulators, uarts, network interfaces, digital I/O, etc. in addition to on-chip RAM and program memory. To make things even more attractive, many of the manufacturers provide extensive code libraries for things like real-time operating systems, TCP/IP, FAT file systems and various network protocols (SMTP, FTP, etc.) you are free to use in your projects that shrink your development time substantially.


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Experion necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 158 diseños de 29 diseñadores freelance.
Experion Systems owns http://www.PlanPrescriber.com, a web site that generates sales leads for various insurance products. We are interested in replacing our current logo with one that will match the new 'look & feel' of our web site. The new look & feel can be seen at the below URL: http://qa60.experionsystems.com/PRE…ER_CUT.jpg
We want something with a very professional look & feel that stands up well to competitors such as http://www.destinationrx.com.
Men and women in their forties through sixties living in the United States. There is no specialization related to ethnicity or income.
We want a horizontally oriented logo for http://www.planprescriber.com. We want the logo to use an "autumn" color palette like the one used on the new version of our web site. See the new version of our web site at the below url:
We want the logo to convey a sense of professionalism and trustworthiness. Our company has a strong focus on customer advocacy. Since PlanPrescriber helps consumers make optimal decisions on insurance products by providing them with unbiased information, it would be nice if the logo incorporated an icon that helped convey our customer advocacy position or our relationship to insurance.
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|© Copyright: McCain. Photographer: Erik Almås
McCain is releasing an outdoor and print campaign that spoofs one of the most iconic images in British music history. The ads, created by BMB, show four farmers striding across a potato field in a scene reminiscent of The Beatles' Abbey Road cover. The work stresses that McCain uses only British potatoes. It was written by Tom Sillars, art directed by Dani Asensio and photographed by Erik Almas through Trayler & Trayler. Media was handled by PHD


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I take most of my photos on our sun porch. It has pale yellow bead-board paneled, brick painted walls and with windows on three sides. The light is great, but I often have trouble getting a nice clean backdrop because of the windows or the painted brick. I decided to paint some backdrops to give my photos a more professional look.
I painted my large canvas a pale powder blue - this blue has always been my signature color.
I purchased all of the paint colors I need to mix custom colors whenever I need them. I'm able to paint my large canvas or smaller foam boards any color that I need at a moments notice.
I'm storing them in this little box in my workshop/utility room to keep them handy.
My blue board at work! I love it. I can't wait to try other colors on my foam boards.


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learn (something) down pat
To learn, master, or understand something perfectly, to the point of requiring little or no focus to do, recall, or accomplish it. I made sure to learn my speech down pat before the ceremony so I wouldn't spend the whole time looking down at piece of paper. My sister is such a musical prodigy that she can learn a song down pat after listening to it only once or twice.


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Are you trying to make up for your signature?René wrote:Sure, but maybe not from a BLACK perspective. Not only that IMARO is a black tribesman, the author C.R. Saunders is black, too, and was a strong sympathisant of the black emancipation movement of the 70s. He wrote IMARO as his contribution to a black F / SF -scene. And he did a lot of research: you'll notice this when reading. All the myths and stories and landscapes and even the language feel real. He e.g. doesn't say "black magic", but "mchawi", not "lion", but "Ngatun" etc.
Just kidding (sort of) - I have been very curious about these books but haven't had the time to track them down. Thanks for the info.


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Our Technology department specializes in Technology Integration Consulting and Projects. It has more than 20 years experience and has an extensive consulting and project track in Infrastructure Monitoring and Application Performance Monitoring. The goal of the company is to design, build and manage your monitoring environment, based on your requirements.


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Monday afternoon's preseason friendlies marked two weeks that the Fire have been in 2010 preseason camp under the tutelage of head coach Carlos de los Cobos. The new manager has spent that time learning his player's strengths and weakness while implementing new coaching and training techniques in combination with an overall change in environment to a club that has come up just short in recent years.
How has it been so far?
"I am content with the positive response that I have from all the players, veterans and trialists alike," said de los Cobos. "We've adjusted very well for the short time period and I am convinced that the team will take its best shape little by little."
The former Mexican international has brought a more playful aura to the training pitch since taking the helm at the beginning of the year. Commanding respect by letting his resume speak for itself, the players seem to be responding well to their new manager.
"The transition for everyone has been smooth," said veteran goalkeeper Jon Busch. "Getting into line with the philosophies that he and the Professor [Alvaro Briones] bring to the team has been different. Both are demanding, but in a good way -- the players see the reasons behind what we're doing in training and it results in a more positive and focused attitude throughout the team."
Though not fluent in English, de los Cobos has done a good job communicating with the players, getting his point across while learning more of the language. Assistant Equipment Manager Allan Araujo has served as the translator for both coaches, though he sticks more closely to Briones.
"Language has not been a barrier," said de los Cobos. "My English is better than I usually give myself credit for and football is an international language anyway. It's nice because I've improved a lot since being here and I feel more and more comfortable communicating in the language."
Midfielder Logan Pause, one of the veteran players in camp, has been impressed with the new leadership at the top, specifically in terms of bringing guys together.
"This has been one of the more exciting preseasons of my career," said Pause. "Obviously things change from year-to-year. Players always come and go, coaches sometimes as well. Carlos is a great communicator no matter what the language. I think that his lack of fluency might be helpful, he seems more clear and to the point. Overall though, he has brought a renewed sense of commitment and unity to our locker room and the players are feeding off of his leadership."
Finding success in new situations is something de los Cobos has become accustomed to. In his previous job with the Salvadoran national team, the new Fire manager was charged with rebuilding a program that had been left in shambles for much of the decade. Making the situation more difficult was the national rivalry that existed between the country of his birth and El Salvador -- becoming the first Mexican to take over los Cuscatlecos.
"The beginning of my time with the national team was tough because there is a lot of differing sentiment between the two countries," he said. "As time went on, I was able to convince the players and then the fans that with hard work we could achieve what I wanted and with that, results and good soccer came along the way. Coming into this job, the main thing I took from my experience there is that as a coach, it is imperative to earn the confidence of the players, because at the end, they are the most important part of this game."
As the first leg of the 2010 preseason tour winds down, de los Cobos has earned the confidence of the Fire players. The first team returns to Chicago Thursday night and then depart for Guadalajara, Mexico for the second leg of preseason on Sunday.
"We're happy with what we've seen in Phoenix and I think Carlos and his staff have done a great job so far in beginning to shape a team that can do very well in MLS this season," said Technical Director Frank Klopas.
As for De los Cobos', the outlook for the rest of preseason is straightforward and something that should bring joy to the Fire faithful.
"My main concern within the next two months is to get a team that not only wins, but that attracts people with the style of playing. I like a team that treats the ball right based on a collective type of soccer and that's what we're beginning to look for."


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Remember my little collection of candy like jewels?
I couldn't resist making some more, and I hope you will love the result!
There's a couple more brooches, two little pendants and a ring, but I will soon show you some other models.. I just need to finish them and shoot a few more pics! : )
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ESA missions extend fibre optics to orbit
ESA's SMOS satellite is on the verge of beginning its operational life, returning snapshots of Earth's watery 'skin'. The water mission's success has been made possible by a particular technical distinction: the first mission-critical use of fibre optics.
SMOS and the Proba-2 microsatellite – which also has an optical fibre system and was launched together with the larger mission – represent a historic step forward for 'photonics' in space.
Two very different missions, SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) and Proba-2, ESA's latest technology demonstration satellite, shared a Rockot launcher into orbit on 2 November 2009.
The full-sized SMOS looks back at its home world, detecting faint, naturally emitted radio signals to track ocean salinity and soil moisture for weather and climate studies. The smaller Proba-2, less than a cubic metre, is focused in the other direction, its instruments concentrated on the Sun and space weather.
Besides their rocket, the two missions do have something else in common: their novel use of optical fibres.
Proba-2's experimental payload includes a fibre-optic sensor system which monitors its propulsion, while SMOS's triple-armed MIRAS (Microwave Imaging Radiometer using Aperture Synthesis) is entirely reliant on an optical fibre-based communication harness.
Historical turning point
"SMOS is the first mission worldwide whose payload depends critically on the performance of optical fibre links," said Dr Nikos Karafolas, opto-electronic engineer with ESA's Directorate of Technical and Quality Management (TEC).
"This represents a historical turning point for the use of lightwave technologies in space – there are more than 500 metres of optical fibres embedded within the MIRAS instrument.
"By comparison, Proba-2 has a mere six optical fibre lines, but they are being used in a whole new way, to make temperature and pressure measurements around its fuel tank, propellant lines and thruster nozzle."
Down on the ground, optical fibres form the basis of today's global communications infrastructure. Bundled into cables, these hair-thickness lines of glass rely on internal reflection to transmit pulsed light signals across vast distances. Optical fibres have practically unlimited bandwidth while weighing less and being mechanically flexible.
All of these are attractive attributes for space operations too, but it was a separate characteristic that made optical fibres a SMOS must-have.
Must-have for MIRAS
"MIRAS is basically a receiver, detecting very faint thermal noise from Earth's surface, which has to be amplified ten billion-fold before it is used," explained Manuel Martin-Neira, ESA Payload Engineer for SMOS.
"Any electrical noise leaking out from the electronic boxes in the arms can influence the correlation measured and blur the resulting images. However, optical fibres relay information with light pulses rather than electrical signals, so they do not produce any electromagnetic radiation."
MIRAS creates a two-dimensional image by combining radiometric signals received by 69 separate receivers, all of them needing to be linked together and connected to a central correlator unit.
As Dr Martin-Neira added: "You can imagine the enormous difficulties involved if we had gone with an electrical harness and then, when the instrument was completed, found that somewhere inside it a signal was polluting the results. At that stage it would have been an insurmountable problem."
So the MIRAS team turned to optical fibres instead. It was a brave decision because nothing like it had ever flown in space, and dedicated optoelectronic transmitters and receivers as well as passive fibre optic splitters also needed to be developed.
But MIRAS's optical fibre harness turned out to bring other advantages. Their lower weight meant that the instrument's long arms could be unfolded in orbit using relatively light spring-loaded motors, and the fibres' mechanical flexibility meant their performance was unaffected by this movement.
Start of a satellite nervous system
Proba-2's Fibre Sensor Demonstrator (FSD) was not mission-critical, but could become a standard part of future space missions. It was designed by MPB Technologies of Canada with the support of ESA's General Support Technology Programme, devoted to evolving promising prototypes into space-ready hardware.
This first complete fibre optic sensor system to fly on a satellite functions like a kind of basic nervous system. It incorporates a number of sensors that are themselves fibre-based – known as Fibre Bragg grating sensors and widely used on the ground, often placed into critical infrastructure such as pipelines or dams. Any change in local temperature or pressure causes very slight changes to the wavelength of light passing through them, which can then be precisely decoded.
Telemetry confirms Proba-2's FSD is working well, and returning useful information on the operations of its propulsion system. It is measuring only pressure and temperature, but future versions could also gather strain and acceleration data.
"Because of their unique advantages, it is expected many missions will take advantage of photonic technology," said Iain McKenzie, opto-electronic engineer within TEC. "This takes in optical analogue and digital communications, optical switching, fibre optic sensors and optopyrotechnics.
"We are confident of this due to the extensive body of work performed by the Agency and its industrial and academic partners in developing the photonic technology building blocks, and the successes of these trailblazing missions."


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What You Do Is OK Just Keep Me Safe
Filed Under (The HELL You Say!) by admin on 25-02-2010
Scan me, strip me, pat me down, abuse my kids: it's all okay, just keep me safe. That's the mindset of today's airline passenger. So that's precisely what agents from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) do.
And the more compliant passengers become the more abusive government becomes.
In the wake of the 9/11 attacks the traveling public gladly handed over their 4th Amendment (that's the one that is supposed to keep people "secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures") rights to a government promising to keep them "safe."
Hoping to remain safe we allowed airline security personnel to search through our luggage and carry-on bags as if we're criminals and, if we "looked suspicious," pat us down as well. Then the TSA was formed and in a matter of months thousands of new people were hired as screeners, and things got worse.
Now, according to press reports, this is what we get:
- Sippy cups taken from toddlers
A former Secret Service agent who left the service to raise her child was stopped by TSA because there was water in her 19-month-old son'Äôs sippy cup. She asked if she could have it back if she drank or poured out the water but the 'Äúfriendly'Äù TSA agent refused. She asked for a supervisor. The supervisor told her she had to leave security, empty the cup and be re-screened. While being escorted out by TSA and a police officer she unscrewed the cap to drink the water and some spilled.¬Ý She was then made to get down on her hands and knees to clean up the spill while her son cried for his cup. Then she was ordered to apologize for the spill and was threatened with arrest. In all, three TSA agents and four police officers were brought in to detain and harass a mom trying to have on hand what she needed to keep her son happy on a flight. Of course, she missed her flight. (The Philadelphia Enquirer)
- Moms forced to drink breast milk
A mother with an infant brought bottles of breast milk in her carryon bag so she wouldn't have to nurse her child on the plane. TSA agents made her drink it to prove it wasn't harmful.
- Kids' Play-Doh confiscated
TSA agents found tubs of Play-doh in a parent's bag and confiscated it in front a 3-year-old, saying it looked like plastic explosives. The parent brought it to occupy the child on the flight. Sorry kid, you could be a terrorist.
- White-haired grandmothers strip searcheded
Suspicious-looking white-haired grandmothers are often taken out of the screening line and taken to another room for extra screening. It makes perfect sense. They fit the profile after all.
- Diminutive business woman charged with assaulting TSA agents
A small 57-year-old business woman was for some reason singled out for extra screening and TSA agents began emptying her carry-on bags. She objected and asked for a private screening. TSA took her to a private room and examined everything in her bags, including sniffing lipstick and pulling out credit cards. TSA agents claim the woman demanded the bags be carefully repacked. Upon leaving the room, according to TSA, the woman hit TSA agents with her bag and threw sandals. She was arrested, spent 17 hours in jail and charged with 10 felonies. A judge threw out all the charges and expunged her record because TSA didn't save the video tape of the alleged incident. (The Philadelphia Enquirer)
- TSA agents as jokesters
A TSA agent confronted a young woman who had just come through the metal detector. Holding up a bag of white powder he asked her, "What's this?" The woman said she was dumbfounded and became very frightened because nothing like that should have been in her bag. After harassing her about it for a moment the TSA agent smiled and said, "Just joking."
- Four-year-old forced to remove leg braces and walk himself through screening
A Camden, N.J., police officer, his wife and their 4-year-old son were traveling to Orlando for the child's birthday. The child, who was born 16 weeks premature, is developmentally delayed and has malformed ankles, was forced to remove his leg braces and walk through the metal detector on his own—something that he was just learning to do. He managed to make it through. The father, understandably upset, confronted a supervisor who turned and walked away. A local police officer approached and told the father he should calm down and enjoy his vacation. When a reporter asked a TSA spokesperson how such a thing could happen the TSA representative said the boy should never have been made to remove his braces, he should have just been taken to a screening room and had his braces swabbed for explosives instead. (The Philadelphia Enquirer)
Incidents like these leave you scratching you head. But it's not just foolishness on the part of some undertrained agent—although there is a lot that throughout the TSA—it's a power play by people given a little authority that they begin to abuse. And it plays into the hands of government seeking more control.
And here's an example of how they always want more control: On the heels of the Christmas Day underwear bomber incident, TSA said it was installing naked body scanners in all airports: a boon to some well-heeled government players, as we documented here.
Now it's not enough for them to rifle through your bags, humiliate you or feel you up, they now want to see you and your kids naked—and expose you to harmful radiation to boot. We documented the health risks posed by naked body scanners here.
Of course, TSA promised that there is no way for the images taken by the scanners to be saved or transmitted. As implausible as that was, that was their story. Now we see that TSA was indeed lying when it said the machines could not store or transmit images.
In London, Indian film star Shahrukh Khan told a British television audience that after he went through security at Heathrow Airport female security agents had printouts of his image made by the scanners. He said "you could see everything." He autographed them and returned them to the women.
As usual, the goal by government is not to keep you safe, as evidenced by the facts that have come out about the Christmas Day underwear bomber. The goal is to continue to peel back your resistance to their tyranny. Scare you, show you a government solution and sell it, all while enriching a few well-connected people. That's the government way.
But most go along to get along, as long as a semblance of safety is promised.
Scan me, strip me, pat me down, abuse my kids; even take pictures of my kid's naked body. I feel safer already.


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Big MPVs aren't really in-keeping with SEAT's racy brand image but the Alhambra has always done very well for the brand - especially in second generation guise. Unlike more compact 7-seat MPVs, with this one, adults can actually use all three rows of seats, with those chairs folding neatly into the floor thanks to the Easy-Fold seating system. You also get sliding side doors and a plethora of storage options that give this car strong practical credentials. This improved version gets more efficient diesel and petrol engines, improved safety and some new generation infotainment technology.
The Alhambra has evolved in this improved guise, brought thoroughly up to date so that it can respond to the challenge posed by Ford's fourth generation Galaxy and Volkswagen's much-improved Sharan in the large MPV segment. It continues to be the most un-SEAT car SEAT makes. A big seven-seater MPV, after all, isn't quite on message with the brand's exuberant marketing but this People Carrier has always been so successful that the Spanish manufacturer can't resist selling it. This version, like its first generation predecessor, is a SEAT-badged version of that Volkswagen Sharan model we just mentioned, but is offered with value pricing. That means you get all the latest modern Volkswagen TDI diesel engines, units that are just about ideal for a People Carrier of this sort. Plus a 1.4-litre TSI petrol unit. Large MPVs may have somewhat fallen out of fashion in recent years, but this one still makes an awful lot of sense for a growing family. For the same sort of money you'd pay for the kind of 7-seater that would squash your family up inside, this People Carrier will really let them stretch out.
Driving Experience
The claim from SEAT is that the sporting character and driving fun it builds into all its cars are very much intact where the Alhambra is concerned. It is a seven-seater measuring close to five-meters in length, though, so expectations may need to be tempered a little. The uprated and now more powerful mainstream engines are all diesel-powered, with 150 and 184PS versions of the familiar 2.0 TDI common-rail injection unit. There's also now a 1.4-litre TSI petrol option. Around town, the Alhambra can eek extra miles out of its fuel tank and contribute to cleaner air with its standard Start-Stop technology. When the vehicle is stationary, taking it out of gear and lifting the clutch stops the engine. All you have to do is drop the clutch to restart it. The DSG dual clutch gearbox is available as an option giving drivers the choice of fully automatic shifting or flipping through the gears themselves with the wheel-mounted paddles.
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This improved Alhambra model's design has been subtly updated but the changes are diffucult to spot. Restyled rear lights with LED technology display SEAT's distinctive light signature. Plus the latest brand logo is set into the modified front grille and there are revised wheel designs. The interior comes with smarter trim colours, the steering wheel design is taken from the SEAT Leon and some of the control elements have been redesigned. The keyless entry and start system is another ease of use feature. Otherwise, it's as you were. Size is not in short supply with the Alhambra but SEAT's largest MPV disguises its bulk well through some typically sleek styling. The bonnet and windscreen form a continuous, sharply-angled line from roof to grille for a wedge-shaped profile while the large headlights and low bumper add a little character to the nose. There's a lot of glass, so even passengers in the third row should get a good view out and getting light in won't be a problem. Getting passengers in should also be straightforward thanks to sliding side doors that provide a wide aperture and outer seats in the middle row that tilt forward giving walk-through access to the third row. Seven seats are standard and there's plenty of versatility in all models thanks to the Easy-Fold seating system. You needed a MENSA IQ and the strength of a Ukrainian shot putter to maximise the luggage capacity of the old Alhambra as the seats needed to be folded, unclipped from their mounts and lifted out. Now all of the rear seats can tumble down beneath the floor with a minimum of fuss. The boot capacity isn't huge with seven people inside but there's up to 1,167 litres with five occupants and up to 2,297 litres when you travel two-up.
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Prices start at around £25,000 and there's a wide choice of trim derivations - 'S', 'SE', 'Connect', 'SE LUX' and sporty 'FR-Line'. The equipment list on the Alhambra is festooned with the usual array of storage options and convenience features you expect to find in a modern seven-seater but there are also some options you might not expect to find. The sliding side doors can be electrically powered if you like and the bi-xenon headlamps come with a Full Beam Assistant function that dips the beam automatically when it detects on-coming traffic. As for the recent changes, well this revised model comes with a new generation of SEAT Easy Connect infotainment systems. These include high-resolution touchscreen displays and the very latest processors for much faster booting and rapid route calculation, offering a completely new level of connectivity too. As for safety, well the VW Group's award-winning multi-collision brake system is now standard equipment in this Alhambra. In the event that the driver can no longer intervene following an accident, it initiates automatic braking to avoid a secondary collision. This car can also now be specified with a Blind-Spot Sensor, which warns of unseen vehicles when changing lane. Another feresh feature Alhambra buyers can specify is DCC (Dynamic Chassis Control). The system regulates the damper valves in a matter of milliseconds to adapt the vehicle characteristics to the exact driving situation - whether it's supreme comfort or a sportier drive. Optional massage seats also deliver an exceptionally high level of long-distance comfort.
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SEAT claim that this improved model is up to 15% more fuel efficient than ts predecessor. In 2.0 TDI 150PS guise for instance, it manages 57.6mpg n the combined cycle and 130g/km of CO2, impressive figures for such a large MPV. All engines can be combined with the DSG dual-clutch automatic transmission, which in its latest generation also boasts a fuel-saving coasting function. As soon as the driver lifts off the accelerator, the Alhambra runs with the engine decoupled.
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