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On Friday, the Supreme Court said that it would weigh in on whether it is legal for police officers to search the contents of a suspect's cell phone when they are arrested. Specifically, the high court will take up two cases from California and Massachusetts, both arising from criminal prosecutions, that have brought to question the admissibility of evidence obtained through a search of the suspect's phone after arrest.
The legal decision will come down to whether searching cell phones without a warrant is a violation of the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable search and seizure. Earlier court precedent has allowed police officers to search all the items that a person has on them at the time of arrest. But as phones have grown to include e-mail, bank history, and location data, the potential problems with the old standards have become more apparent.
A Supreme Court ruling, at least, would give some clarity as to how such situations should be handled. Reuters notes that 91 percent of Americans now have cellphones, and over half of those can connect to the Internet.
The two cases which will be weighed in court reflect opposing views of lower courts. In California, David Riley was pulled over for having expired tags 20 days after shots were fired at an occupied vehicle in San Diego. Riley's phone had images of what looked to be him at the earlier crime scene, plus various other videos—that were shown by the prosecution in court—in which Riley made gang-related comments. A state appeals court in California upheld Riley's conviction.
In Massachusetts, however, an appeals court threw out two of three counts of possession of drugs and firearms that defendant Brima Wurie had been convicted of. The court found that police could not search Wurie's phone after he was arrested on suspicions of drug dealing. However, Wurie's phone in this instance was not a smartphone; police simply used call logs from the phone to find where Wurie lived, and there police found drugs and firearms.
Ars has been covering the warrantless seizure of cellphones for years. In 2008, the Southern District Court of Kansas ruled that citizens lack a "reasonable expectation of privacy" on address book and call records information stored in their cellular phones. In 2012, a Rhode Island state court ruled that a police officer who searched the texts of a suspect who was not under arrest violated the Fourth Amendment. That same year, the Court of Appeals of Washington ruled that it was legal for an officer the impersonate a suspect via text while the suspect was in custody. And while it's not applicable to law in the US, last year the Canadian Court of Appeal for Ontario ruled that cops can search the phones of arrested suspects as long as the suspects' phones are not password protected.
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in April and will issue rulings by the end of June.

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We've been busy this year. Brother-in-law fell on his head in January and contracted brain damage.. So we went to the hospital (the rest of the family is dead or not interested) and kept contact with the staff, took decisions, shared information and did whatever was necessary. Then we went to his apartment and found that his cat was phobic about people, and the apartment was totally neglected, dirty and full of broken stuff. We found a cat-nanny who accepted the bizarre situation and tried to resocialize the cat. We reserved a day every week to sort and shift the stuff, to clean and to pack books and other necessities - it took us five months.... In the meantime b-i-l was training in a revalidation home, and it was clear that he could never again live on his own; but was he ever able to do that? Social work helped us to find a care home for brain damaged people: we made sure that they were well informed about his Asperger's and that his cat could live with him once more. So we bought new furniture, moved cat, pc and books to the care home, had the old apartment cleared and our patient was moved to his new apartment yesterday, much to his and his cat's satisfaction.
So now we have got two grown-up children: brother-in-law and demented aunt. We'll be there for visits, the administration and all the things thay cannot decide, buy or do for themselves. But I'm so glad that they both have the daily care and attention they need.
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I'm sure it's a big relief to have such a large project behind you. I'm also glad to hear that your b-i-l and his furry friend were able to stay together and that both were satisfied with their updated surroundings.
I'm glad you gave us a background of your b-i-l's situation. Not a pleasant scenario. Sounds like relief is at hand. Good luck with everything and everybody.
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Do you prefer to be called Chris or Plinius now? Like Mindy, I hope you can now enjoy life more.
Chris, you and your husband carry a heavy load. You seem to have paced yourself, even though the tasks were really hard. I hope you can get some rest and recuperate your own life again.
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The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority is warning investors about the risks of treating alternative mutual funds like traditional mutual funds, citing "alt" mutual funds' more nontraditional investment holdings and more complex trading strategies.
In an investor alert released Tuesday, FINRA noted that alt mutual funds, which are publicly offered, SEC-registered funds regulated under the Investment Company Act of 1940, use investment strategies that differ from the buy-and-hold strategy typical in the mutual fund industry. For instance, alt funds might invest in assets such as global real estate, commodities, leveraged loans, startup companies and unlisted securities that offer exposure beyond traditional stocks, bonds and cash.
These alt funds also may employ complex strategies, including hedging and leveraging through derivatives and short selling, FINRA notes. Some alt funds are also structured as a fund containing numerous alternative funds.
Gerri Walsh, FINRA's senior vice president for Investor Education, noted in releasing the alert that "Investors should fully understand the strategies and risks of any alternative mutual fund they are considering. FINRA is warning investors to carefully consider not only how an alt fund works, but how it might fit into their overall portfolio before investing."
FINRA also warns investors not to confuse alt funds with hedge funds.
Alternative mutual funds are regulated under the Investment Company Act of 1940, which limits their operations in ways that do not apply to unregistered hedge funds, FINRA states. For instance, alt funds have limits on illiquid investments; limits on leveraging; diversification requirements, including limits on how much may be invested in any one issuer; and daily pricing and redeemability of fund shares.
FINRA says investors should fully understand the following six characteristics about alt funds before they invest.
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No Law Says Parents Have To Get Their Children
Government and media propaganda hoax continues as parents in Maryland hoodwinked and threatened into believing it is the law to vaccinate kids, error-strewn Fox news report relays disinformation
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News networks and state authorities are once again engaging in mass public deception by claiming that vaccines for children are mandated by law and that parents will go to jail if kids do not take their shots. In reality, there is no law that says you have to vaccinate your children and waiver forms for personal or religious exemptions are freely available.
A situation in Prince George's County, MD. has attracted media attention and once again provided the platform for a propaganda push that falsely implies it is the law for children to be vaccinated with mass produced big pharma shots that are often not stringently tested and have been linked with dangerous side-effects.
More than 2300 children in Prince George's County have been expelled from school for up to a month and a half because they have not received their shots for chicken pox and hepatitis B. This Saturday the parents of more than 1600 children have been ordered to attend Circuit court, where medical officials will be on standby to forcibly inject their children in a scenario befitting of a science fiction horror movie.
School officials have said the parents will receive a verbal reprimand from the judge and be ordered to have their children immunized in the courthouse. The students would then be allowed to return to school. Parents who refuse to comply will get fines and could be jailed for ten days.
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"If the child is not here Saturday, then we will move on with the process, meaning that the PPWs and the counselors will put together the packet to take before the state's attorney's office, asking, requesting that criminal charges be implemented," Dr. Betty Despenza-Green, the chief of student services, said from the courthouse Tuesday.
"We can do this the easy way or we can do this the hard way, but it's going to have to get done. I'm willing to move forward with legal action." said State Attorney Glenn Ivey.
Letters ordering the parents to show up at Prince George's Circuit Court for a court hearing and a free vaccine have been issued with the warning "unexcused absences by your child may subject you to a criminal charge."
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This report is completely riddled with errors and distortions from beginning to end.
The Fox reporter states "A new law was passed last year requiring children from 5th through to 10th grade to have the vaccine". This is completely untrue. The vaccine has been mandated by the state but there is no law in the U.S. that requires mandatory vaccinations of any kind. The report mentions the waiver forms only after claiming that it is the law. How can there be a waiver form that allows someone to break a law?
This is why the parents who do not comply will be charged not under vaccination laws (because there aren't any) but under truancy, neglect or child in need of supervision laws, which state that the parent is culpable after 30 days of a child's unexplained absence from school.
The school itself triggered the truancy violation by unfairly kicking the kids out of school, and failing to inform parents about vaccine waiver forms.
The news report quotes befuddled members of the public, who claim that kids not getting vaccinations endangers those that have had them. How on earth can that be the case if the vaccination is supposed to provide immunity against the disease? In reality, the vaccinated kids are more dangerous to others, considering the plethora of cases where vaccines have induced debilitating side-effects as levels of autism soar to unprecedented levels.
There is no law in America, aside from those applying to medical workers, that says you or your child has to take any vaccine whatsoever, no matter what any executive order, requirement, mandate or policy dictates, there is no situation where you can go to prison for refusing a government vaccine under the U.S. constitution and the law of the land.
As in the case of all other vaccines, executive orders and court mandates merely state that the vaccine is "recommended," yet the mass media drumbeat constantly conditions people to believe that if they don't take their shots they will be kicked out of school, arrested and thrown in jail. This trick will continue to hoodwink Americans into taking all manner of dangerous and untested vaccines, the number of which rises every year, until they realize that there is no law that forces them to take any vaccine.
Here is an example of a vaccine waiver form, this particular one is for Maryland, the state in question in this case, proving that enforced vaccination is not the law and that personal and religious objections are applicable.
http://www.unhinderedliving.com/statevaccexemp.html – Here you can find vaccine exemption forms online by state or country.
The good news is that concerned parents across the U.S. are leading a nationwide revolt against unnecessary, untested and dangerous vaccines as CDC records show a growing amount of religious exemptions on vaccine forms.
Earlier this year we reported on the furor surrounding the HPV vaccine, which experts have slammed as untested and has continues to be linked to dangerous side-effects. A media propaganda campaign along with an executive order issued by Texas governor Rick Perry has had parents in Texas and other areas of the country fooled into believing the vaccine is now the law and young girls must take it. Merck Pharmaceuticals are capitalizing on this fraud by making obscene profits from a crony deal with Governor Rick Perry, while children are put at risk.
Vaccines and drugs that are not stringently tested and are instead foisted upon populations for the purposes of making obscene profits have a clear history of deadly consequences.
Consider the case of Bayer Pharmaceuticals, who deliberately dumped a vaccine that was known to be contaminated with AIDS virus on the European and Latin American market after it killed people in America. Thousands died from an action that the U.S. government allowed to happen through the FDA.
Peruse the plethora of examples where vaccines containing mercury, live HIV virus, live cancer and other horrors have wrought misery after victims were bullied into taking them by government mandates that they were deluded into thinking was the law.
The history alone, a legacy that led former director of the National Institute of Health Dr. James R. Shannon to state, "The only safe vaccine is one that is never used," implores us to stand up and expose this hoax and ensure that similar executive orders and mandates are not passed elsewhere in the country as a result of cynical greed driven lobbying and corporate crony payoffs.
More parents across the country should rally to denounce this development, which sets the pretext for the state to dictate the health of their children, as well as moving us closer to legislation which would allow Americans to be forcibly vaccinated at gunpoint against their will during a time of manufactured crisis, such as in the case of a human to human bird flu pandemic.
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Increase for Nebraska property tax credit fails
Lawmakers have rejected an attempt to add $7.5 million in yearly funding to Nebraska's property tax credit program.
Supporters fell short Thursday of the votes needed to include funding in the state's proposed two-year budget.
Sen. Ken Schilz, of Ogallala, says he introduced the amendment because he constantly hears complaints about property taxes. He says the amendment was intended to keep pressure on lawmakers and attention on the issue.
Opponents say the amendment would divert $15 million in the budget away from wind energy, a water study, child care subsidies and other bills that will cost money. They also argued that it would reward landowners who don't actually live in Nebraska.
Nebraska currently provides $115 million in credits against property-tax bills.
The amendment failed, 14-15, with 18 senators abstaining.


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To celebrate 40 years of ASEAN-Japan Friendship and Cooperation and the Philippines-Japan Friendship Month, Ayala Museum, with the support of the Japan Foundation-Manila, invites you to the I Love Kusama exhibition from July 16 to September 1, 2013.
The exhibit will feature Yayoi Kusama works from the treasure troves of Lito and Kim Camacho, two of the leading collectors of Kusama in the country.
Born in 1929 in Japan, Yayoi Kusama is one of the world's leading and most influential figures in the avant-garde scene. She remains active and relevant at the age of 84.
Notable Kusama installations include her immersive infinity mirror rooms that have been featured in the Whitney Museum of American Art and Tate Modern, and her iconic spotted pumpkin sculptures.
In 2011, Kusama collaborated with Marc Jacobs for a line of whimsical products and corresponding window displays for Louis Vuitton.
With the assistance of the Camachos and the Japan Foundation-Manila, and the guidance of Ota Fine Arts, Yayoi Kusama Studio, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the exhibition at Ayala Museum will be the first major Yayoi Kusama show in the Philippines.
As part of its education component, Ayala Museum has invited Akira Tatehata, one of the world's leading experts on Kusama and the curator the Japanese Pavilion during the 45th Venice Biennale in 1993 (when Kusama represented the country) for a one-time lecture on August 10, 2013.
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Hey ladies, so of course after Christmas we must all run out and go shopping with our Christmas money! Or do what I do and spend most of it on hot chocolates and gas money lol. But, I went out and bought some really cute things from Target and Bath and Body. Both those stores are my favorites to go in when I am shopping, I always go in being like "I'll just spend $25" but, I end up leaving and being like "How did I spend $100 on lotion and socks?!"
I went to Target and picked up some really adorable organizers for my makeup vanity! I am someone who puts all the makeup on and just tosses it on my desk with no organization at all. So, I decided to pick up some little bins and holders to give my vanity a more professional clean look. Get this, I bought all these little cute holders below, all for $1 each! When you walk into Target they have a little $1 section, and you can find all these little containers there currently. I think they are a great bargain, and are good enough quality to hold my makeup brushes, lip glosses, and other cosmetic extras! They had a lot of different colors, but I went with the pink and white holders, so I would have some sort of theme. Below, I also have a picture of my makeup vanity, which is basically is an Ikea desk, and a giant mirror with a lamp. Haha pretty make-shift, but I prefer this set up, I have had real vanity tables in the past and they are too small! Using an actual desk allows me to spread out my stuff when using it 🙂 If you guys want a post about how I organize my makeup and my vanity desk let me know in the comments down below, and I'll be sure to write one.
From Bath and Body, I got lots of goodies! I went there this week during their semiannual sale! They have lots of great deals, and a million products to buy for super cheap after the holidays. Seriously this is a warning, it is dangerous to go there if you don't have much money on you, I got a little carried away…
Below, I picked up the Cashmere Glow shimmer Bomb, which is so incredible! It is a gel that you can rub onto your arms, legs, etc. and it is completely filled with different shimmery colored reflects. It also has a "glow" due to it's slightly golden finish. This gel looks absolutely gorgeous on any skin tone, and smells amazing! After the sale discount, I got it for $3, which is an awesome deal for 6 oz of product. Next to it in the picture, is the Aromatherapy Sleep Lotion. I, like any other 20 year old, am a huge night owl. It takes me a lot of rolling around and starring at the ceiling in order to fall asleep at night. This lotion appealed to me, because I needed a new lotion and now I found one that aids in sleeping. It claims that the honey and milk scent has a warm cinnamon and clove oil that promotes comfort and rest. Whether it actually helps me to sleep or not, the lotion is a great consistency; not greasy or sticky. It finishes smooth and silky, and has a very nice smell reminding me of fall; very warm and rich. The bottle itself is dark blue glass, and is very finely packaged. This lotion is originally $14 and After the sale I got it for $7!
Next I picked up this True Blue Spa Apricot and White Tea facial scrub. I am obsessed with face products right now, and was really excited to pick up this product! I love this brand, and every product I have tried from them I have really loved! Their lotions are so incredible, and they have a pretty good selection of products at Bath and Body. Definitely check them out, if your looking for any good skin care products. I have already tried this out and the scrub is very coarse so you have to be gentle when cleansing your skin. But, it left my face incredibly smooth and clean feeling. It also smells really good, which is obviously important to me :p Next to it in the picture is by the same brand and it is the True Blue Spa Unscented Shea Butter. As I said, their lotions work better than any I have ever tried before, including high end products. This tube is a pretty good size at 6 oz, I will probably end up using it as my purse lotion, I love to use this stuff on my hands to moisturize. I like that they offers scented and non scented lotions. My skin is very sensitive, but I don't need to worry about this lotions having any harsh scents that might irritate my skin. As well, if you have perfume, scented shampoo, etc. It is nice to have a lotion for your body thats scent won't interfere with the scent of your other products. I bought both of these on sale for $3 a piece, which is phenomenal considering they are normally around $15 per bottle.
That's all for today, let me guys know in the comments below if you hit up the Bath and Body sale and what goodies you got! The sale doesn't end at a certain date, it runs till supplies run out which is great, and dangerous for my wallet lol. Or you can comment on any of these products if you have tried them and love or not so much love them. If you have any questions about my makeup vanity or how I organize it feel free to ask as well 🙂 Thank you guys so much for reading, please remember to like this post and my page, also follow me for more blog posts! Love Always Pearlsnheels ❤
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STOP THE PRESSES (or "stop the internet"?). Through some real hard-hitting journalistic mastery, we've gotten our hot little hands on the three video reels that ran during the 2013 WitOut Awards for Philadelphia Comedy…oh, and also, we have them because we're the ones who made 'em. (We just get such a kick out of referrin' to our own shit as "exclusive.")
Thanks to all of the writers who helped with the show and contributed to the jokes in these reels (Aaron Hertzog, Alison Zeidman, Chip Chantry, Jim Grammond, Christian Alsis, Carolyn Busa, Ralph Andracchio, JP Boudwin, Jason Grimley, Greg Maughan and Joe Moore).
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I'm always on the lookout for a decent new burger or sandwich for lunch, so on Thursday, I found myself at Onieals, just a couple blocks away from my office. Walking in, first impression was dark wood, low music, and completely empty. I mean, there were three people sitting at the bar during lunch hour at a restaurant that comfortably seats closer to 70 people.
Things like this confuse me a bit. I mean, for its Little Italy location, it's a fancy looking place. Nice furniture, good sound system, no nicks on the bars, no chipped paint, a classy-looking joint if I ever saw one. How does a place like this survive in the city with no business? Who's keeping up that facade, washing the windows, reupholstering the chairs, and all that?
Certainly the food we got was a good indication to why the place had no customers. The burger wasn't bad, per se, but for $14, you expect something pretty darn good, especially with stiff cheap-but-good lunch food competition around.
About ten minutes into our lunch, the answer came in the form of a veritable wave of people pouring through the front door. Fifty, to be exact, mostly women, mostly blonde, mostly speaking with foreign accents, each one lining up to the bar and walking away with a pink drink in a martini glass.
What the hell?
When a couple sat down next to us, I asked what they were doing there. She responded in a friendly Irish accent, "Sex and the City Tour." Ah. That explains the pink cosmos. Turns out that Onieals plays "Scout" in Sex and the City, the bar owned by Carrie's former beau Aiden and Miranda's husband Steve. (Don't ask me how I know this. I swear, I haven't watched every episode).
Curious, I asked the waitress how often this happens. "Two to five times a day, every day of the week," was her answer. "And they pay $9 for their cosmos," she quickly added.
Holy cow! Just think about that. 50 people each playing $9 plus tip two to five times a day, seven days a week. That's anywhere between $7,000 and $17,500 a week, and all the restaurant has to do is mix up a pitcher of cosmos.
And just as soon as the busload stepped in, they vanished, leaving behind nothing but half empty Cosmos and a faint aroma of leftover Magnolia cupcakes tinged with a hint of Buddakan kitchen. I managed to sneak a sip of a half finished drink before the waitress cleared it away (in the name of good reporting) and can tell you that these drinks are nothing more than well vodka, Rose's lime juice, and a splash of cranberry, served just under lukewarm. Zero effort, plenty of return.
According to the Sex and the City tour website, other stops include Charlotte's gym, the Pleasure Chest (where Samantha bought her rabbit), and a number of Greenwich Village boutiques (where you'll get to indulge in "retail therapy" like Carrie & Co.), amongst nearly 40 other stops.
So is it just me, or does it seem crazy that Sex and the City mania is still around, despite what the second film did to its good name? How many other locations in New York are staying afloat (or at least lining their pockets) with similar Carrie-induced mania?
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Authorities said it took a costume, a comment and a cast of accomplices to pull off a con that fleeced Walmart out of thousands of dollars at various stores in western Wisconsin and Minnesota.
According to court documents, the main suspect would enter a Walmart clad in a former employee's vest, then approach a cashier, who would be told it was breaktime. From there, the suspect would open up the cash register to allow a string of accomplices to buy thousands of dollars in gift cards.
And then, according to authorities, it was off to the next store.
A criminal complaint filed in St. Croix County states a team of suspects ran the same scheme at Walmart stores last summer in Hudson, New Richmond and Red Wing, where they were arrested.
The alleged scam is outlined in complaints filed Feb. 14 against Minneapolis resident Tempestt J. Robinson, 30, and 32-year-old Brianna E. Sutta of Apple Valley, Minn. Both women are charged with felony theft. St. Croix County Circuit Court Judge Scott Needham issued warrants for the arrests of both women later that day. A third woman identified in the complaints, 21-year-old Shafonuna F. Johnson of St. Louis Park, Minn., was charged Feb. 15 in Washington (Minn.) County District Court with theft by swindle.
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A Walmart manager reported July 25, 2017, that a swindle scam had been discovered, totaling more than $3,000 in losses to the Hudson store. The manager told Hudson police he'd learned of the same scam happening two weeks earlier at the New Richmond Walmart and that stores in Minnesota had also been hit.
A Hudson detective learned the suspects had been arrested the same day at the Red Wing Walmart. In addition to Robinson, three others were booked into Goodhue County jail - Shafonuna F. Johnson, 21, Noemi D. Torres, 33, and Lacora N. Gooden.
Johnson gave a statement to police, which was largely corroborated by surveillance footage from the Hudson incident. She said she went to the Hudson Walmart with Sutta and Robinson on June 28. The plan, Johnson said, was for her to impersonate an employee - a scheme she said she learned from a relative who used to work for Walmart - while the other women would steal gift cards.
Johnson said she arrived wearing a Walmart vest and approached a manager. She told the manager she was a transfer from another store. The manager, she said, gave her log-in codes to a cash register, which she used to transact legitimate purchases from other customers before leaving for the store's lawn and garden area.
There, Johnson found a cashier, told him she was relieving him for a break and tricked him into using his employee number to log into the register.
She was approached there by a manager who noticed she didn't have a name tag on her vest. Johnson said the manager brought her a name tag before Robinson intervened to intentionally distract that manager with questions.
Sutta then presented Johnson with six gift cards, which she rang up for $500 apiece.
A Hudson store employee interviewed by police recalled being approached that day by a new employee - later identified as Johnson - who wanted to know the maximum amount that could be loaded onto a card in one transaction.
Johnson told police her cut was supposed to be $1,000 but she only received one card that didn't work; she suspected the other two women intentionally gave her a spent card.
Johnson, who told police she was running the scam to buy clothes and diapers for her newborn, admitted to running the same operation in New Richmond with Robinson and Gooden.


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Jackie Buckley was an inner-city kid. When she was growing up, there was maybe one tree on her whole block. As a young child, her family lived in apartments; pets weren't allowed. Later, they moved into a house and she finally got to have a dog, and she was so excited, she says it was like when other kids wish for a pony and get it.
It's no wonder then that her family still doesn't know what to make of her decision to come to UNH where she is majoring in medical veterinary science.
As a member of the CREAM program that manages UNH's dairy herd, Buckley has learned how to feed and milk cows, and how to muck and re-bed their stalls. Oh, and she's also certified in artificial insemination. And, a member of the Dairy Club.
"I was 18 years old before I even saw my first cow," Buckley says. "My family keeps saying, 'Who are you?'"
Who she is is an articulate, laser-focused young woman who doesn't remember a time when she didn't want to be a veterinarian. The steps she has taken while at UNH have helped her define her goal of specializing on small animal care.
During the summer of 2012, Buckley spent a month in South Africa, starting in Johannesburg and traveling to Pretoria and Kruger National Park in Skukuza. In Soweto, she helped give distemper vaccines and de-worming pills to the vast dog population. At a lion park, Buckley learned how to judge an animal's condition by the tracks it left behind.
"You can tell the gender of an animal by its paw prints. And you can tell how they feel by how they walk; if they're running with their claws out, you know they're stressed," she says.
The group she was with volunteered to perform a necropsy on a large boa at a reptile sanctuary, where they learned about the reptile and other cold-blooded animals that call South Africa home. They did several game drives, and spent most of their time in Kruger Park doing game watches.
"We learned a lot about conservation," she says.
And about poaching. And that rhino horns go for about $60,000 a kilo, leading to the slaughter of hundreds of rhinoceroses every year. And, even though it's illegal to sell ivory, poachers still kill thousands of elephants a year, Buckley says.
"Elephants are incredible animals. To stand next to one is so leveling—being so close to something so big and just feel so small," she says.
The last three days in South Africa, Buckley worked with a wildlife veterinarian, rising at 4 a.m., witnessing the correct way—the safe way-- to approach an animal, and how to treat one who is injured. She also was beside the veterinarian in a helicopter during darting practice, a method used to tranquilize an animal.
"You have about the amount of time it takes to get on the ground and run to the animal to decide what to do," Buckley says. "It takes a lot of people to treat a wild animal. You can't weigh them so you have to guess so you don't give them too much or too little medication."
The South African trip solidified what she had been beginning to suspect from her studies here in New Hampshire: that she wants to work with small animals not big ones. She credits UNH for providing her the hands-on opportunities that convinced her.
"I'm from New York. I could have gone to Cornell but I wouldn't have gotten the experience I wanted. The dairy barn, the horse barn, the (New Hampshire Veterinary) diagnostic lab that I've had access to here have all taught me things you can't learn in a classroom," Buckley says.
"You can read that when a cow has ketosis, it has sweet smelling breath but you can't smell it in a textbook. You have to open up an animal to know, 'Can I do this?'" she says.
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Japanese figure maker Alter has put up new listings for its fall figurine line-up which includes a Persona 3 Elizabeth from sculptor Fumiki Saitou and an Oneechanbara VorteX Aya from Goutarou Takeuchi. The Elizabeth (pictured) is 22cm tall and books at ¥6,090 (US$58), while the Aya (after the jump) is 25cm tall and priced at ¥8,190 (US$78). Aya, of course, is more expensive because she is 3cm higher and not because she is in her skippies and carrying swords. Oh no.
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Argonne scientists Rajh, Soderholm and Segre named AAAS fellows
ARGONNE, Ill. — Physical chemist Tijana Rajh, chemist Lynda Soderholm and physicist Carlo Segre of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Fellows are elected for this honor by AAAS because of their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. This year's fellows will be formally announced in the journal Science on Nov. 29 and will be presented with an official certificate during the 2014 AAAS Annual Meeting in Chicago.
Rajh, a senior scientist and group leader for the nanobio research interface group within Argonne's Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM), was elected as a AAAS fellow for her "distinguished contributions to the fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology, with particular emphasis on semiconductor-assisted photocatalysis, solar energy conversion and energy storage."
"Tijana is a world-leading and highly innovative scientist in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology," said Amanda Petford-Long, director of CNM and the lab's Nanoscience and Technology Division. "I am delighted that her distinguished performance has been recognized by her election as a fellow of the AAAS."
Rajh earned her doctorate from the University of Belgrade in Yugoslavia. She joined Argonne in 1996, working in its Chemistry Division. Rajh is a prolific researcher, co-authoring more than 150 papers and holding 4 patents.
Soderholm is a senior scientist and group leader of heavy element and separations science in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division at Argonne. She was chosen as an AAAS fellow for her contributions to the application of advanced physical techniques – especially high-energy X-ray scattering – to elucidate the structures of actinide-containing systems in dynamic solutions.
"Lynda Soderholm has conducted cutting-edge research using synchrotron radiation methods to study the behavior of heavy elements in solution as they relate to chemistries relevant to separation processes for the extraction and separation of actinides," said Emilio Bunel, division director of Chemical Sciences and Engineering.
"I would like to thank my colleagues for their recognition," Soderholm said.
Soderholm has received several awards, notably the University of Chicago Board of Governors' Distinguished Performance Award in 2009 and the DOE's materials sciences research competition for Outstanding Scientific Accomplishments in Solid State Physics in 1987.
Segre is deputy director of the Biophysics Collaborative Access Team (BioCAT) at the Advanced Photon Source and a professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He was chosen as an AAAS fellow for his contributions to materials science and engineering - particularly high-temperature superconductivity and developing facilities for synchrotron radiation studies of electrochemical and catalytic systems.
"A lot of my work has been done in collaboration with Argonne," says Segre about his 20-year relationship working with the Materials Research Collaborative Access Team (MRCAT) beamline at the laboratory. "Working in collaboration with IIT and other institutions has been a big part of my career."
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At first glance, I thought Mathmos has released a new mood light, but that glowing blue image is actually of Saturn, captured by the Hubble telescope. It's a very rare photo, as both poles and rings are visible.
You actually just make out the Northern Lights-like aurorae on both poles, which is apparently caused by solar wind from the sun mixing up with molecules. Sadly, this is the only chance you'll get at having Saturn's aurorae as your desktop wallpaper, as the angle from which they can be viewed at is only possible twice every 30 years, and the Hubble telescope will no longer be used when the next opportunity comes along.
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A 12-megapixel resolution plus a wider than average 5x optical zoom range equivalent to 24-120mm on a 35mm film camera, and all for a UK asking price of £169, doesn't sound a bad deal on the face of it.
Or perhaps that should be "fascia", as the entry level FE-5020 comes with a choice of four fashion-conscious faceplates: blue, brown, grey or white. With the camera covered in a see-through plastic layer that seems to hover above the bodywork. Budget, it seems, doesn't have to equal boring.
Constructed from the standard mix of plastic and metal, when held in the palm the camera feels solid and of very similar dimensions to its bigger brother the Mju 7010. It boasts a depth of a mere 24.7mm married to a weight (without battery or media card) of 107g. Thus this is a camera that slips very easily into breast pocket or handbag. Could it therefore be an ideal tool for those wanting to upgrade from a camera phone, but still maintain a small form factor?
The other key feature worth flagging up on the FE-5020 include its quartet of "magic filters", accessed with a press of the "menu" button on the back plate. Again these are the offspring of the "art" filters introduced on Olympus' more grown up E-series cameras, and allow the user to apply a range of visual effects at the point of photo capture. The options here are Pop Art, Pin Hole, Fish Eye and Sketch, the latter processing the image to resemble a B&W negative that also recalls early-1980s music videos.
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In terms of operational speed, however, the FE-5020 is bang up-to-date. The camera powers up – screen blinking into life and lens extending to that impressively wide angle setting to a brief musical accompaniment – in just over a second, via a press of the tiny on/off button that barely breaks the surface of the camera's minimalist top plate.
With no optical viewfinder, the user is provided with a 2.7-inch LCD monitor for shot composition and review, delivering adequate visibility indoors and out courtesy of an industry standard 230k-dot resolution, even if it does quickly become covered in thumbprints as you try to find something on this compact to actually grip.
With a half press of the shutter release button this little Olympus is commendably speedy to determine focus and exposure, the AF point illuminating in green on the LCD, accompanied by a loud beep of confirmation. Though shutter lag is negligible, the FE-5020 is slightly slower to write a highest resolution JPEG to memory, a process lasting 3 to 4 seconds. Its LCD pauses on the captured image while an orange indicator above blinks like it's having a seizure. The zoom lens also is responsive, travelling through its full range to the accompaniment of a fairy unobtrusive mechanical buzz in just 2 seconds.
Also present and correct amongst the spec list are Advanced Face Detection for up to 16 people in the frame, an AF tracking function to help with kids who won't stay put, plus 14 user selectable scene modes. In the absence of any dedicated mode dial (as found on the 7010) one merely keeps pressing the red camera icon on the FE-5020's back to move through the available options, which takes a bit of getting used to. Pause for a second and you're deemed to have "selected" whatever icon you've stopped on.
Along the horizontal strip presented we get the inclusion of VGA quality video (though the optical zoom is sadly disabled in this mode), and an auto-everything iA (intelligent auto) mode that recognises common scenes and subjects and adjusts settings accordingly, with just five options to select from.
Its inclusion makes sense for the beginner market the FE-5020's aimed at who will most likely be happy to purely point and shoot, as does the provided plastic adapter to enable use of the microSD card commonly used among camera phones rather than the xD-Picture Card for which a slot stubbornly provided (Fujifilm and Olympus having co-developed the widely unloved format). An internal 48MB capacity is provided to get users started out of the box.
Pleasingly the camera's on-screen menu options are likewise beginner friendly, the appearance re-vamped from previous generations of Olympus compact to now resemble something from a child's Disney DVD. As an aid to composition, with a press of the "display" button at the back owners can summon up a nine zone compositional grid, while if pressing the same button whilst tabbing through menu options, a concise text explanation of each is provided. For those who don't want to be taxed whilst taking snaps, the FE-5020 suggests a perfect fit.
So, can an inexpensive pocket snapper really be that much cop when it comes to delivering images? Actually no. Although the FE-5020's light sensitivity range is broader than you'd expect from this class of camera, in stretching from ISO64 (instead of the usual ISO100) to the more predictable ISO1600, noise intrudes visibly upwards of ISO400, plus, with this model, image stabilisation is electronic rather than the more desirable mechanic.
Since the surface of the slender camera is slippery and shutter speed seemingly sluggish, we managed to get the occasional instance of camera shake even under what should have been a perfectly adequate amount of daylight.
Tricky exposures commonly lead to blown highlight detail, while instances of pixel fringing are readily apparent when zooming in on detail. In truth, this is the sort of performance we'd expect to get from a budget model, and perhaps it seems extra disappointing because the camera's polished exterior suggests it might have been capable of more.
Despite our nit-picking reservations about picture quality, the camera's beginner target market will be less fussy, so the FE-5020 remains a decent investment for those within the region of £150 to spend. Alternatives from Panasonic, Sony et al are however looking a better bet for those with slightly more cash-in-hand.


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Deep Fried Chicago: Lee's Chop Suey
From Chinese to Thai to Japanese and beyond, there's no shortage of excellent Asian restaurants in Chicago and its suburbs. And as we've documented (rather extensively, I might add) here on this site, the Chinese options, particularly those fronted by Tony Hu, are at the top of the heap. But sometimes you don't want dishes celebrating the regional nuances of China; sometimes you want good old Chinese American dishes that you can drown in soy sauce and eat clumsily with chop sticks. In those moments of need, turn to Lee's Chop Suey. You get the impression that things haven't changed a bit here on Diversey since it opened in 1968, right down to the wood paneling and generically Asian light fixtures. Luckily for us, that's mostly a good thing.
The Combination Tray ($11.95) is an easy way to dive head first into the deep fryer right from the start. Clockwise from the top are Fried Shrimp, Egg Rolls, Fried Chicken, Crab Rangoon, and Fried Wontons that the nice waitress allowed me to sub out for the beef teriyaki skewers that usually round out the plate. The Fried Chicken is sliced breast meat battered in a tempura batter; while juicy, there isn't much flavor. Same goes for the Fried Shrimp. The Egg Rolls, though, are a different story. Stuffed to the gills with whole tiny shrimp, barbecue pork, and cabbage, the flavor of each component really stand out, especially the cabbage. I'd definitely get these again. Ditto on the Crab Rangoon, which are generously filled with a cream cheese and crab mixture that actually tastes like crustacean. Since the Fried Wontons are essentially wrappers folded into hats and deep fried, the Rangoon renders them redundant. Next time, I'll separate the wheat from the chaff and get an order each of the Egg Rolls and Crab Rangoon and call it a day.
The Sesame Chicken ($11.00) is as pure a distillation of the dish as I've encountered. The uniformly sized battered chicken nuggets arrive steaming to the table with little more adornment than orange sauce and a generous sprinkle of the namesake seeds. The chicken is crisp and juicy, the sauce is sweet without being cloying, and if you'd prefer yours with steamed broccoli and could stand to be without the sesame, the waitress told me that the Orange Chicken ($11.00) is the same thing.
Less successful, at least for my taste, is the Sweet & Sour Shrimp ($12.50). To be fair, I've never been much of a sweet and sour anything fan, but this dish does exactly what it sets out to do. The fried shrimp are the same as the ones in the combination tray, but pairing them with the apricot-based sauce works much better here. While the canned pineapple add a juicy burst of flavor here and there, the tomato and green pepper chunks are probably not worth your time.
The Plain Fried Rice ($7.95) isn't deep fried, but I couldn't resist ordering it because (1) it has the word "fried" in the name, and (2) growing up on food court Chinese food means that Sesame Chicken just doesn't taste as good with steamed white rice. And I'm glad I made the call, because the rice was one of the better Chinese American versions I've had. The problem with most fried rice is that it's made with too much oil, which results in a greasy pile of mush that tastes more like the wok it was cooked in than anything else. This version, although light on seasoning, featured individual grains of rice that still retained their own structure, a benchmark of properly fried rice. I was more than happy to add a bit of Kikkoman at the table on my own.
If you decide to go to Lee's Chop Suey, make sure you know what you're getting yourself into. There's no secret menu to order off of, and you won't have much luck scouring the forums for that perfect dish that only those in the know get. But there are carafes of soy sauce and pancake syrup pitchers of sweet & sour sauce and Lazy Susan topped round tables that can handle a crowd. And along with a pair of trusty chopsticks, sometimes that's all you need.
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Ray Ozzie on NSA spying: We got what we asked for. Now it's time to wake up.
Ray Ozzie, the creator of Lotus Notes and Microsoft's former software head, joined the chorus of technical leaders pushing back on the government's far-reaching surveillance program.
"I hope that people wake up, truly wake up, to what's happening to society, from both a big brother perspective and little brother perspective,'' he said during the Nantucket Conference.
He said that, after Sept. 11, the pendulum had swung too far towards government surveillance and data gathering
"We got what we asked for, and now it's time to pull it back,'' Ozzie said, referencing the near-unanimous passage of the PATRIOT Act, noting the danger that broad data gathering operations present. "Imagine if you had an administration targeting journalists or groups of people based on political leanings.''
The current administration, of course, is facing allegations that it did just that, with the Department of Justice secretly obtaining Associated Press phone records and investigating a Fox News reporter's personal emails while the IRS is facing allegations it focused audits on politically conservative groups.
Ozzie has been an advocate of strengthened online privacy and serves on the board of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a group that has been instrumental in bringing to light much of the government's surveillance. He also said that current protections are simply inadequate and outdated.
"The privacy act that we're operating under right now was written in 1974,'' he noted. "What's happened since 1974?'' For example, he was critical of third-party doctrine, which holds that information given to a third-party — such as a phone company, an email host, or social network like Facebook or Twitter — essentially waives Fourth Amendment protections "against unreasonable searches and seizures.''
Given how much information is stored digitally, that means a much wider array of information is now available without probable cause.
"It's really dangerous,'' Ozzie said. "I hope that what's happened in the past few days gets people riled up. This is a non-partisan issue. I hope people wake up a little bit more and don't just build apps and say, I'm going to sell private information for ads.''
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LIPA CITY, Philippines (Reuters) - Not far from the world of regimented cubicles and headset-toting call center operators, a quiet revolution is stirring in its slippers.
University librarian Sheila Ortencio, for example, was so poorly paid that half her salary went for childcare, and her meals amounted to dried fish and one fried egg per day. Four years on, she juggles two daughters, a husband and two Pomeranians as she catalogues ebooks online from her parents' couch.
In her freelancing job, she's earned enough money to buy land for a house nearby and make down payments on a condo in the capital.
"I have double the work but, it doesn't bother me because it doesn't feel like work," she says.
Ortencio is one of more than half a million Filipinos registered on freelance website oDesk.com - more than are currently employed by the country's growing business process outsourcing (BPO) industry.
While it's early days, proponents of so-called commercial crowdsourcing contend that a swelling army of global freelancers is already disrupting traditional outsourcing - from preparing tax statements to conducting research on pediatricians.
"This is all about cost arbitration across borders," says Siou Chew Kuek, a Singaporean researcher who works with the World Bank. "Now you can farm out your work to anyone in the world."
Driving this trend are a dozen mostly U.S. startups that let other small and medium-sized companies carve projects into chunks and then recruit individuals or teams of freelancers to do the work. By leveraging a faster, more ubiquitous and cheaper Internet, the startups can pluck the low-hanging fruit of IT and data-entry outsourcing that big BPO players such as Infosys and Wipro once considered their own.
Australian-U.S. startup 99designs, for example, has paid out $40 million to some 180,000 graphic designers, with its largest user base outside the United States being in Indonesia. Elance has 266,000 freelancers in India who have earned nearly $150 million. Odesk has 2.4 million registered freelancers and more than 480,000 clients - companies including Cisco and HP.
"This is moving the entire BPO industry - that was dominated by these large middlemen organisations that take most of the profits - to the cloud," says Anand Kulkarni, an academic-turned-entrepreneur. "Now you no longer need to be able to afford Infosys rates to be able to get quality results out of an outsourcing system."
For sure, the BPO industry is not necessarily quaking in its boots. The industry was worth $150 billion last year and is growing at 5-6 percent a year, according to Pradeep Mukherji, an Indian IT consultant and adviser to the World Bank.
Crowdsourcing companies admit it's still an uphill struggle to persuade firms to experiment with outsourcing work to freelancers rather than keeping it in-house or sticking with established BPO players.
For freelancers, many face a precarious career: not always getting paid for work completed, going without healthcare insurance, and job opportunities not always being available. Indeed, many freelancers who have signed up with oDesk have never received feedback from clients - suggesting they have either not tried to pitch for work or haven't won any yet.
"It's true to say that it's hard to get that first contract," says Panos Ipeirotis, an associate professor at New York University who studies oDesk data.
Such imbalances are feeding a second wave of innovation in the industry. The first outsourcers focused on what oDesk.com CEO Gary Swart calls the eBay model — using recommendations, feedback and trust to create a market where companies find good freelancers and freelancers can build a reputation.
But as freelancers build closer relationships with clients, both sides prefer a more structured model where trusted freelancers hire their own team, prompting oDesk and others to tweak their software to accommodate them. Ortencio, for example, manages several other oDeskers on behalf of long-term clients.
In the past couple of years, other startups have tried to mend weak links in the chain. A potential employer posting a project on Elance or oDesk, for example, can be overwhelmed by applicants - making it difficult for them to find the best freelancers quickly, and harder for freelancers to stand out from the crowd.
Kulkarni hopes to solve this problem by having his startup MobileWorks train workers to guarantee quality, and by breaking down projects into micro-tasks to lift less-skilled workers onto their first rung. Tasks range from transcribing hedge fund forms to generating sales leads.
Once they're proficient at micro-tasks, Kulkarni says, "they would be let loose on sites like oDesk or Freelancer.com" where they can earn higher fees.
Ortencio similarly multiplied her pay. She started out charging $1.50 an hour - the same she was earning as a librarian — but is now billing $8.50. Her experience is far from unique: The average contractor on oDesk, the company says, has seen monthly income grow 190 percent after three years.
Nearly all crowdsourcing companies make their money by charging a fee to contractors for each successful transaction. All declined to share detailed earnings, but oDesk, which claims to be the biggest online workplace, said that its contractors earned about $75 million in the first quarter of 2012, against $40 million a year ago.
While crowdsourcing is global - Elance boasts clients in 180 countries and freelancers in 155 - much of the growth is coming from Asia. Indonesians, for example, flock to 99designs.com, where instead of up-front contracts they submit graphic designs in the hope of winning a prize.
Recently dozens gathered in the Javanese city of Yogyakarta to thank 99designs in a video. The first the company's Australian president and CEO, Patrick Llewellyn, heard about it was when it was posted online. "I was moved to tears," he said.
Such growth is prompting crowdsourcing companies to set up operations nearer to where the action is. Taskus, a boutique outsourcing company, and Freelancer.com, for example, have both based their Asian operations in the Philippines.
Some are going further afield. On a trip to Nepal, Canadian Mark Sears saw so many engineers and MBAs sitting idle that he saw a business opportunity and moved his family to Kathmandu. Now CloudFactory trains teams to complete micro-tasks on behalf of clients back home, like annotating videos of amateur hockey games. His latest recruit: Mohamud Juman, an English-speaking Facebook addict who collects trash outside their office.
Indeed, companies like CloudFactory and MobileWorks say they are out not only to turn a profit but also to battle poverty. World Bank adviser Mukherji says this so-called "impact sourcing" already employs 560,000 workers and could account for nearly a quarter of the total BPO workforce by the end of the decade.
Governments and organisations such as the World Bank are taking note of the potential for an industry that generates foreign exchange but requires very little capital outlay. Bangladesh was one of the first countries to declare online earnings tax-free, for example, and MobileWorks has recently signed an agreement with the government of Jamaica to deploy the service on a national scale.
All companies stress they're out to make money by mobilizing what Ajay Vinze, of the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, calls a movement of "micro-entrepreneurs."
Sheila Ortencio puts it more simply: "We want to be an independent, modern Filipino family."
Reporting By Jeremy Wagstaff; Editing by Ken Wills


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Arizona – first argument report
The argument is just finishing. Most of the time was spent on the provisions permitting the state to inquire about immigration status. Those provisions are likely to be upheld because the federal government can always decline to enforce immigration laws even if they learn about someone with an illegal status. The Court may be unanimous on that question.
Very little time was spent on the provisions making it a state crime to violate your federal immigration status. But I think there will be at least were at least four votes to strike those provisions down (at least the failure to register), meaning the Ninth Circuit's decision will be upheld in that respect. The Court is also likely to leave open the question whether as applied challenges can be brought against all the provisions of the statute.
Recommended Citation: Tom Goldstein, Arizona – first argument report, SCOTUSblog (Apr. 25, 2012, 11:30 AM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2012/04/arizona-first-argument-report/


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As reported today by EN World…
Sept 2, 2004 (North Providence, RI) — Bad Axe Games is extremely pleased at the recognition awarded to Grim Tales by our fellow d20 designers. Although we would like to thank our fans, our freelancers, and our staff for a job well done, we are especially grateful to the many designers and contributors of Open Content whose work appears within the pages of Grim Tales. We share this award with all of you.
EN World Peer Award
Due to last-minute confusion, the EN World Peer Awards were accidentally left out of the awards ceremony at GenCon. Now, at last, we are happy to announce the Silver and Gold Award winners on EN World. First, a revision of the speech this year's Peer Award coordinator Will Hindmarch wrote for the presentation of the Peer Award at Gen Con Indy 2004:
The Peer Award is determined through direct voting by a wide selection of d20 System game designers and authors. The process involves no nomination process: each invited participant simply votes for his or her favorite d20 System products from the last year (May 31, 2003 through May 30, 2004) and the products with the most votes are recognized with an honorary ENnie for their contribution to the library of products at large.
The spirit of the award is this: d20 System designers are fans, too, but sometimes measure the success of a product differently than the fan community at large. These products, therefore, are those which excited us as designers–or made us jealous. These are products we admire and appreciate, even if they weren't included in the formal nominations of the EN World Awards.
No trophy is given for these products. Instead, we announce them here, in good company, as a pat on the back or a tip of the glass. If you haven't given these books a chance, please do so. Each is an exceptional example of d20 System design at work, whether it bravely attempts something new or masterfully realizes a favorite old concept. If you're a d20 System designer (and all you DMs are to some extent), study these books and learn. Then, when you see their creators at a convention somewhere, buy them a drink, throw the goat, or do whatever it is you do to recognize quality work.
It's been my pleasure to conduct this year's voting and be witness to the respect and generous praise each voter cast upon his or her peers. Better still, this year's votes left us with ties in both the Silver and Gold Award Categories, so we get to share the good feelings with many talented designers and honor four stellar products today! They are, in no discernable order:
- Grim Tales (Benjamin Durbin, for Bad Axe Games)
- Draconomicon (Andy Collins, James Wyatt, Skip Williams, for Wizards of the Coast)
- Arcana Unearthed (Monte Cook, Malhavoc Press)
- Grimm (Robert J. Schwalb, Robert Vaughn, for Fantasy Flight Games)
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I never hope for a player to get hurt, but this guy did, and it's great news for the Chiefs. Look for the Donks to be in the cellar of the AFC West this year!
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It worked out great and tasted great too. And I have some left over. I combined the ideas from several recipes to come up with:
1.5 large red onions
4 cloves of garlic
1 pound chorizo
6 medium potatoes
1 can of black eyed peas
1 large sweet red bell pepper
6 or more baby carrots
1 pound of kale
8 cups of water
enough olive oil for sauting
First finely chop the onion, crush the garlic and dice about 1/4 of the chorizo.
Saute in the large pot in olive oil til the onion is transparent.
Next add the potatoes, peeled and diced in about 1/4 inch cubes, with some of the peas and saute for about 2 minutes.
Add the water and bring to a boil then down to a simmer for 20 minutes or until the potatoes are soft.
Remove from heat and cool enough to puree. Puree.
Dice the carrots, pepper and the remaining chorizo.
Thinly slice or chop as finely as possible, or as I did use a food processor to shred the kale.
Return the puree to the pot and add the rest of the ingredients (peas, chorizo, pepper, carrots and kale)
Bring back to a boil and cook until the kale becomes tender and dark green — about 10 minutes.
The carrots and pepper will still have some crunch to them and will add texture and color to the soup.
The combination of greens (could have used collards) and black eyed peas will bring you wealth and good luck if eaten on New Year's Day.
Things I learned for next time: Strip the kale for the stalks before shredding. Perhaps add spices — hot pepper, bayleaf, thyme — that I expected to get from the taste of the chorizo. Add a few of the cooked black eyed peas as garnish near the end for better visual effect. Consider a spicier chorizo to better suit the palettes of this house. Serve with corn bread. I used sourdough which was great, but good cornbread would be perfect with this.


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Romania : CFR
Căile Ferate Române (CFR, meaning 'Romanian Railways') is the national train operator in Romania, serving the 22,247km of track.
The network is well connected with Europe, including the cities of Vienna, Budapest, Prague, Warsaw and Venice among others, providing pan-European passenger services through several passes.
The company is divided into four sections, the CFR Călători, responsible for passenger services; the CFR Marfă, responsible for freight transport; the CFR Infrastructură, which manages the Romanian railway network infrastructure and the Societatea Feroviară de Turism, or SFT, which manages scenic and tourist railways.
Romania has excellent train coverage and a range of services to suit your needs. From the rickety Personal trains that link remote villages at an average speed of around 34km/h, and a ticket price of just a few euros. To the speedy 87km/h InterCity trains with their excellent reputation for comfort, cleanliness and service.
CFR offer two night trains, one from Belgrade to Bucharest and the other from Budapest to Bucharest via Arad.


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Dierks Bentley and Brantley Gilbert Added to Taste of Country Festival Lineup!
We are beyond excited to announce that Dierks Bentley and Brantley Gilbert will be joining already-announced Brad Paisley at the 2014 Taste of Country Festival, with more artists to be added!
The second-annual Taste of Country Festival will be held June 13-15 at Hunter Mountain Resort in Hunter, New York, in the scenic Catskills Mountains. Early bird tickets for the festival go on sale Friday, Nov. 8 at 10 a.m. on Taste of Country Festival's website, with tons of ticket and camping options -- from general admission to Outlaw (VIP), to mountaintop camping.
If you can't wait until Nov. 8, we're going to be offering a special presale to you for being a loyal listener. Make sure to sign up for our newsletter to get this special code in your inbox and be among the first to snag your tickets!
The Taste of Country Music Festival is the first and only three-day country music camping festival in the Northeast. The festival features world class entertainment, camping in the renowned terrain of the Catskills, outdoor recreation, top-notch food and beverage service and luxury mountainside accommodations unique to host Hunter Mountain. 2013 was our inaugural year and had a powerhouse list of country artists on the lineup - including Willie Nelson, Lady Antebellum and Hunter Hayes.
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Princeton and Munich university launch collaboration on cosmological computational science
Scientists at Princeton University have formalized a collaboration with researchers at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich that will employ supercomputers to aid them in arriving at a better understanding of galaxy formation.
The work will be centered at the Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering (PICSciE) and the University Observatory Munich.
Understanding how galaxies are formed and what conditions are necessary to produce them is one of the biggest questions in astronomy, according to Jeremiah Ostriker, a professor in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences and director of PICSciE. The partnership is designed to improve on the present day quandary that computations designed to simulate the formation of galaxies over time have not produced results that look realistic.
"Until now, people have not succeeded in their computer simulations of taking calculations and making galaxies that look like real galaxies," said Ostriker, the collaboration's leader at Princeton. "We want to take the prevailing cosmology and compute it in enough detail to see if we get the building blocks of what we observe."
Central to the research partnership will be the upgrade of Artemis, a supercomputer at PICSciE, that will double its capacity and computing speed. Enhancements of the energy-efficient SGI device are under way.
Superfast computers that can crunch a vast array of numbers are essential tools to scientists looking to answer many questions in modern cosmology, according to Andreas Burkert, the chair for astronomy and astrophysics for theoretical and numerical astrophysics at the Munich university. "The universe is so complex, with everything happening at the same time, so it helps to use simulations to guide you," added Burkert, who will lead the Munich side of the collaboration.
Computer simulations of galactic evolution attempt to represent the interaction of billions of particles, some visible and some invisible, with operating instructions built upon current understanding of what has happened to create structures in the universe over time.
Using the new, more powerful supercomputer, the researchers plan to revise the basic formulas used in simulations to make them more realistic and see if we ultimately produce something that more closely matches the visible universe. "We want to know whether we can explain the origin of our Milky Way and whether we can predict what will happen in the future," Burkert said.
Burkert described Ostriker as "one of the heroes of the field" of cosmology, explaining why the group came together. "Jerry's been there from the beginning," Burkert said. "He established the field. For us, it's a pleasure he wants to work with us."
Other key researchers in the partnership include David Spergel, the Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy on the Class of 1897 Foundation and chair of the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton, and Thorsten Naab, a professor of physics at the University Observatory Munich.
The groups have been collaborating for some time but decided to formalize the arrangement earlier this year. PICSciE is housed in Princeton's new Lewis Library and has offices for staff, faculty and postdoctoral fellows and space for computers and visualization equipment.


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The Four Seasons occupies what was once a Florentine palace, and its 2,500-square-foot Royal Suite features Uffizi-appropriate frescoes and stuccos. Her jacket and shorts by Michael Kors, earrings by Isharya, ring by De Beers (right hand), ring by Roberto Coin (left hand).
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The Opera House's steps lead up from Florence's largest piazza—newly outfitted with fountains, lawns, a bookshop, and a café.
The new opera house, by Italian architect Paolo Desideri, opened in December 2011 to celebrate the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of Italy's unification. Her jacket and shorts by Louis Vuitton, shoes by Gucci, earrings by Cartier, bracelets by De Beers, Roberto Coin, Shashi, Jook & Nona, Rebecca Norman, and Tateossian (right wrist), ring by Anna Sheffield (right hand), watch by Longines, bracelet by Tod's (left wrist), rings by Adeler and Giles & Brother (left hand).
A fashionable crowd comes to J.K. Place hotel for its quiet, cozy ambience. Her shirt and pants by Ports, shoes by Christian Louboutin, bag by Victor Hugo, bracelets by De Beers, Roberto Coin, Shashi, Jook & Nona, Rebecca Norman, and Tateossian (right wrist), necklace and pendant by Elizabeth Locke, necklace by Adeler, watch by Longines, ring by House of Lavande.
Florentines cycle to the Basilica di San Miniato al Monte, an eleventh-century cathedral with terraced stairs that lead up the area's highest hill. Her jumpsuit by Fendi, shoes by Jimmy Choo, clutch by Kate Spade, sunglasses by Karen Walker, necklace and ring by House of Lavande, watch by Cartier.
The ten-acre Villa Bardini Gardens, overlooking Florence, reopened in 2005 after lying dormant for 50 years. Her jacket, shirt, and pants by Stella McCartney, shoes by Jimmy Choo, earrings by Cartier, bag by Vionnet, bracelet by Elizabeth Locke.
It's easy to find some space at the Villa Bardini Gardens, which are less touristed than the adjacent Piazzale Michelangelo. Her dress by Gucci, necklace by Jook & Nona, necklace by Anna Sheffield, watch by Cartier, ring by De Beers (right hand), ring by Roberto Coin (left hand). His jacket and pants by Bottega Veneta, shirt by Brunello Cucinelli, watch by Omega, bracelets by Giles & Brother and Jook & Nona (right wrist), shoes by Converse.
The** Westin Excelsior'**s Junior Suite Terrace comes with a terrace that's big enough—at 750 square feet—for a game of tag. Her dress by Oscar de la Renta, shoes by Jimmy Choo, earrings by David Yurman, bracelet by Lara Bohinc, rings by Hellmuth and Roberto Coin. His jacket, shirt, and belt by Etro, pants by Uniqlo, shoes by Del Toro.


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Treasure Bag Theme - Rolling Pin
All children enjoy the Treasure Bag with the excitement of what will be in the Treasure Bag today. This is wonderful part of the lesson enjoyed by all the children whatever their age. Each child also gets an ink stamp on their right hand and foot to further reinforce the theme of the day and to help them distinguish their right and left side.
If you have a book, soft toy or similar matching item for our theme for the week - please bring it along.
Non-Mobile babies have different themes to the other age groups each week. There is no need to bring those items.


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How To: Install a French drain
The French drain is a time-honored system for eliminating excess water from low points and other areas prone to saturated soil. French drains are quite simple: in essence they are just trenches filled with gravel, with sand on top of that. Often, you'll see French drains defined to include a drain pipe as well, though the traditional design is simply the gravel-filled trench. The advantages of French drains are low cost and easy installation. In addition, they can be covered over with turf after installation, making them less conspicuous.
- Dig the trench
A French drain starts with digging a trench. The depth and width of the trench can vary, but 5 to 6 inches wide and 8 to 12 inches deep are common sizes and usually satisfy most needs.
- Ensure proper slope
Grading is a critical consideration you must ensure that enough slope exists for the water to actually flow, and flow in the right direction. It might be adequate to check very short stretches of drain with a level to ensure that a slope exists to carry water in the desired direction. However, you should take whatever measures are necessary, including a survey and grading, if needed, to ensure that you have at least a 0.5 percent slope. A 1 or 2 percent grade is better.
- Fill with gravel
Add gravel to the trench to within a few inches of the surface. Gravel for this use is typically 0.5 to 1 inch in size.
- Top off with sand
On top of the gravel, lay at least 3 or 4 inches of coarse sand. This provides a medium in which turf can grow so that the trench will not be visible. But remember that the sand must be coarse or it won't allow water to properly drain through.
- Turf the trench
Turf may be seeded into the sand or simply allowed to grow in from the adjacent stand, if the turf is a spreading type. Or, you can lay sod over the sand. However, if you do this, be sure to wash the soil from the sod roots before laying it so that you don't contaminate the sand with finer soil.
Adding a drain pipe
If you wish to use drain pipe, the process is similar to that just described, except you will first lay an inch or two of gravel in the bottom of the trench, on which a perforated drain pipe will rest. The drain pipe should be wrapped in a filter fabric. Then, finish filling in with gravel around the pipe, ensuring at least 1 inch of gravel surrounds the pipe on all sides. Four- or 6-inch drain pipes are commonly used, and are easily accommodated by 6- to 8-inch trenches.
Be sure to run the upper end of the drain pipe to the surface and cap it so that you can, if necessary, access the pipe to unclog it.
Don't get in over your head
Consider hiring a site engineer or similar professional for complex systems that cover large areas and require multiple lines. Proper grading, pipe-sizing and other design factors can make or break a complex drain system.
A 1-percent slope equals a drop of 1 foot over a distance of 100 feet. For shorter distances, the drop can be quite small. For example, a 20-foot run needs a drop of just 0.2 foot (a little more than 2 inches) for a 1-percent grade. Shorter drains may be easy to grade with the help of a good level. However, when in doubt, hire a surveyor.
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