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Contamination is the presence of an unwanted constituent, harmful substance or impurity in a material, physical body, natural environment, workplace, etc.
"Contamination" has also more specific meanings in science:
- In chemistry, the term usually describes a single constituent, but in specialized fields the term can also mean chemical mixtures, even up to the level of cellular materials. All chemicals contain some level of impurity. Contamination may be recognized or not and may become an issue if the impure chemical is mixed with other chemicals or mixtures and causes additional chemical reactions. The additional chemical reactions can sometimes be beneficial, in which case the label 'contaminant' is replaced with reactant or catalyst. If the additional reactions are detrimental, other terms are often applied such as toxin, poison or pollutant, depending on the type of molecule involved. A major fraction of chemistry is involved with identifying, isolating, and studying contaminants.
- In environmental chemistry the term is in some cases virtually equivalent to pollution, where the main interest is the harm done on a large scale to humans or to organisms or environments that are important to humans.
- In radiation protection the radioactive contamination is radioactive substances on surfaces, or within solids, liquids or gases (including the human body), where their presence is unintended or undesirable, or the process giving rise to their presence in such places.[1][2]
- Also used less formally to refer to a quantity, namely the amount of radioactivity in a location or on a surface, or on a unit area of a surface, such as a square meter or centimeter.
- Contamination may include residual radioactive material remaining at a site after the completion of decommissioning of a site where there was a nuclear reactor, such as a power plant, experimental reactor, isotope reactor or a nuclear powered ship or submarine.
- The term radioactive contamination may have a connotation that is not intended. The term refers only to the presence of radioactivity, and gives no indication of the magnitude of the hazard involved.
- In organic agriculture contamination with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has been a cause for decertification of a farm.[3] In Western Australia a Parliamentary Inquiry was set up in December 2017 to examine mechanisms for compensating farmers where there has been contamination by genetically modified organisms.[4]
See also Environmental monitoring, Radiation monitoring
- In food chemistry and medicinal chemistry, the term "contamination" is used to describe harmful intrusions, such as the presence of toxins or pathogens in food or pharmaceutical drugs, see food contaminant.
- In forensic science, a contaminant can be fingerprints, hair, skin or DNA from first responders or from sources not related to the ongoing investigation, such as family members or friends of the victim who are not suspects.
- In the biological sciences, accidental introduction of "foreign" material ('contamination') can seriously distort the results of experiments where small samples are used. In cases where the contaminant is a living microorganism, it can often multiply and take over the experiment, especially cultures, and render them useless.
- In geology and especially geochemistry, it can have similar effects where even a few grains of "modern" dust can distort results of sophisticated experiments.
- the term "contamination" is sometimes used to describe accidental transfers of organisms from one natural environment to another.
- it has even been used in the "directed panspermia" hypothesis about the origin of life on Earth, which suggests that visiting aliens accidentally infected the planet with microbes from their own world.[5]
- ^ International Atomic Energy Agency (2007). IAEA Safety Glossary: Terminology Used in Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection (PDF). Vienna: IAEA. ISBN 92-0-100707-8.
- ^ International Atomic Energy Agency (2010). Programmes and Systems for Source and Environmental Radiation Monitoring. Safety Reports Series No. 64. Vienna: IAEA. p. 234. ISBN 978-92-0-112409-8.
- ^ Paull, John (2014) Organic versus GMO farming: Contamination, what contamination?. Journal of Organic Systems, 9 (1), pp. 2-4
- ^ Paull, John (2018) Compensation for GMO contamination. International Sustainable Development Research Society (ISDRS) Newsletter, Issue 3: 8
- ^ Crick, F. H.; Orgel, L. E. (1973). "Directed Panspermia". Icarus. 19 (3): 341–348. Bibcode:1973Icar...19..341C. doi:10.1016/0019-1035(73)90110-3


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It didn't take long for DeSean Jackson to weigh in on his sudden release Friday from the Philadelphia Eagles.
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Less than an hour after being cut, Jackson posted a statement thanking "the Eagles organization, the Eagles fans and the city of Philadelphia for my time in Philly," before taking on the "misleading and unfounded reports that my release has anything to do with any affiliation that has been speculated surrounding the company I keep off of the field."
Jackson wrote: "I would like to make it very clear that I am not and never have been part of any gang. I am not a gang member and to speculate and assume that I am involved in such activity off the field is reckless and irresponsible. I work very hard on and off the field and I am a good person with good values.
"I am proud of the accomplishments that I have made both on and off the field. I have worked tirelessly to give back to my community and have a positive impact on those in need. It is unfortunate that I now have to defend myself and my intentions. These reports are irresponsible and just not true. I look forward to working hard for my new team. God Bless."
Jackson also posted this Instagram video, announcing: "God Got the Plan!!"
Before Jackson chimed in, Eagles teammate Jason Kelce tweeted his reaction to a move that stripped Chip Kelly's offense of a pass-catcher who set career highs last season with 82 catches, 1,332 yards and nine touchdowns:
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Where the Eagles are going is away from players who don't blend in with the culture Kelly is building in Philly.
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OTTAWA, Ont. _ The federal government says its deficit will hit $26 billion this year, $5 billion more than predicted, and it expects to take a year longer to balance the budget.
The fall economic update shows that global economic weakness will push the deficit well above the $21.1 billion predicted in the March budget.
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says he expects the deficit will be significantly higher in each of the next four years and won't be completely eliminated until 2016-17.
He says said the key problem is a weak global economy which has depressed prices for commodities Canada sells to the world.
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At about the same time Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher committed suicide in the presence of team officials in Kansas City, the Browns encountered a similar tragedy.
Jay Glazer of FOX reports that a Browns employee was found hanged in the team's equipment shed on Saturday morning.
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Bennie Gray Jr., a 34-year-old man who has been incarcerated since he was 18, says he has paid for his crimes and is ready to come home.
In a Nov. 11 letter to The Day from the Enfield Correctional Institution, where he is beginning the 17th year of a 23-year prison sentence for the 1997 shooting death of DeJohn Strong in New London, Gray wrote that he has "reached the point where the punishment I was given has achieved its purpose."
Gray's family has hired Seymour attorney Ralph C. Crozier to apply for an early release based on his young age at conviction. Recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings require that states give those sentenced to long prison terms for crimes committed as juveniles a "meaningful opportunity" to be released early. Connecticut lawmakers failed to pass a bill on juvenile resentencings during the last session, and the state's Sentencing Commission has resurrected the proposal for the upcoming legislative session. In the meantime, the courts will handle each case individually.
Gray's motion for a sentence modification is pending in New London Superior Court and is on the docket for Friday. If his attorney succeeds, he says, Gray could be eligible for parole as early as February. Otherwise, his maximum release date is in 2019.
Those who work with prisoners after they are released into the community say Gray would face many challenges, since he was so young when he was removed from society and has been locked up for so long.
Debra Phillips from the prison ministry program at Shiloh Baptist Church in New London said her 28-year-old son, who was incarcerated for two years, is "having a hard time getting his feet back on the ground."
"I would say their readjustment, if you can call it that, to society from the DOC environment, which is very limited, is a shock for them," Phillips said. "The question is, 'How do I move on, and will somebody give me a break?'"
Getting a job is a major hurdle for convicts, particularly in a tight employment market. Housing is expensive. And for Gray, who has missed out on years of rapid advances in technology, there will be a big learning curve.
"I know a man who had been in prison for 10 years," said Winston Taylor, facilitator of the prison ministry at Shiloh. Upon his release, the man discovered that most companies accept applications online.
"He didn't know anything about computer skills," Taylor said. "That was a struggle for him right there."
Convincing an employer to take a chance on a convicted felon is not easy, Taylor said, though he added that certain employers, including McDonald's and Applebee's, are willing to give former inmates a chance. Being accepted socially also can be difficult.
"They find even though they did their time, that society will continue to hold their criminal record against them," Taylor said. "People will still try them all over again."
A group of Gray's relatives and a friend from high school attended Gray's last court appearance and said he would have support on the outside, which Taylor says is "huge." Some former inmates have nowhere to go and end up at shelters, where they are exposed to substance abuse and other behaviors that can lead them to reoffend.
Taylor said that despite the odds, he knows of success stories, including Kwan Jenkins, who was released last year following a 10-year sentence for carrying a pistol without a permit, first-degree robbery and conspiracy to commit first-degree robbery. Jenkins, who participated in Shiloh's mentor program while still incarcerated, has found work, gotten married and has begun to serve as a mentor to others.
Taylor's advice to prisoners looking for a new start is to "keep at it."
"You have to be hungry for success," Taylor said. "If a couple of doors slam on you, keep knocking and don't give up. Be humble and willing to ask for help."
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Gray was a standout football player at New London High School. He was devastated by his parents' divorce and gravitated toward the streets, he said in a recent statement submitted to the court. His grades started slipping, and in 11th grade, he fathered a daughter, despite being "just a kid myself." He says he didn't want to let go of his own dreams, but felt like he had to take care of his daughter. Selling drugs made sense to him, he said in the letter.
"I blamed my parents, so I acted out, and I continued to act out until it landed me in prison," Gray wrote. "I went from being a star football player, voted Homecoming King for two consecutive years, and Class President, to being Inmate #259596."
Gray and his cousin, Tavorus Fluker, were charged with killing Strong at the Michael Road apartment complex in a dispute involving drugs. Gray pleaded guilty to manslaughter charges and an unrelated drug charge. Fluker was convicted of a lesser crime but is serving a 25-year prison sentence for an unrelated shooting.
In seeking early release, Gray said he means "no disrespect" to the victim's family and is sensitive to the fact that Strong was also a father. But he said he has fulfilled all of the goals of criminal sentencing: deterrence, rehabilitation and punishment. He writes that the Department of Correction has determined he is at low risk for reoffending. He said he has earned a high school diploma, college credits and trade certificates in culinary arts. He works as a barber, mentors other prisoners and was baptized as a Christian.
Karen Martucci, a deputy warden with the Department of Correction who is serving as the acting director of external affairs, said discharge planning begins well before prisoners' release dates. Upon sentencing, each prisoner gets an "offender accountability plan," which lays out their goals for their incarceration. The purpose, she said, is to reduce recidivism.
"We review the rap sheet, the history of what type of thing they need to work on," she said. "If you're in for drugs, we want you to do addiction services. Everybody has an individual plan."
The latest recidivism figures released by the state for non-sex offenders indicate that 56 percent of 16,286 offenders discharged in 2008 were arrested again.
The department offers some educational programs and vocational training, including a food preparation program where graduates receive a Food Safe certificate, which is required of many restaurant workers.
Discharge planning starts near the end of the inmate's sentence. Staffers put inmates in touch with community providers who might help them with housing and employment. A crucial part of discharge planning is to help inmates obtain valid identification.
"Nobody's going to want to look at you for employment if you don't have a driver's license or a Social Security card, so we have those in place before they leave," Martucci said.
The department has a job center and contacts with employers willing to hire ex-offenders, she said. Discharge planners also help those who are receiving mental health services inside the prison system connect with outside providers, she said.
"Are there challenges?" Martucci said. "I'm sure there are lots. If you've done a significant amount of time, you may not even know how to use a cellphone."
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The 29th century BC is a century which lasted from the year 2900 BC to 2801 BC.
- c. 2900 BC: Beginning of the Early Dynastic Period I in Sumer.
- c. 2900 BC – 2400 BC: Sumerian pictographs evolve into phonograms.
- 2900 BC – 2334 BC: Mesopotamian wars of the Early Dynastic period.
- c. 2900 BC – 2600 BC: Votive statues from the Square Temple of Eshnunna (modern Tell Ashmar, Iraq) were made. One of them is now in the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Excavated 1932–1933.
- 2897 BC: Hùng Vương established the Hồng Bàng Dynasty in Vietnam (then known as Văn Lang).
- 2890 BC: Egypt: Pharaoh Qa'a died. End of First Dynasty, start of Second Dynasty. Pharaoh Hotepsekhemwy started to rule.
- 2880 BC: Estimated germination of the Prometheus Tree
- c. 2874 BC: The 365-day calendar year was installed in ancient Egypt, with fixed lunar months of 30 days + 5 epagomenal days.[1]
- 2852 BC: The beginning of the period of the Three August Ones and Five Emperors in China.
- 2832 BC: Estimated germination of the Methuselah Tree, the oldest known living organism
- 2807 BC: Suggested date for an asteroid or comet impact occurring between Africa and Antarctica, around the time of a solar eclipse on May 10, based on an analysis of flood stories. Possibly causing the Burckle crater and Fenambosy Chevron.[2][3]
- Ur becomes one of the richest cities in Sumer[4]
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- ↑ Cambridge Conference Correspondence
- ↑ Did an Asteroid Impact Cause an Ancient Tsunami? - New York Times
- ↑ Iraq | Iraq Online Directory | Iraq Business Directory - About Iraq
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"It is an ancient Mariner" (1.1); "The Night-mare Life-in-Death was she" (3.193); " 'There was a ship,' quoth he" (1.10). Is the ship the Mariner first mentions to the Wedding Guest not his own ship, but her ship, the death ship? It would work in the structure we are elucidating here. The ship is presented in its sheer existence. Something about the terror, the urgency, with which the Mariner collars the Guest, as if the ship were all too present in his mind, causes the Guest to recoil. The Guest catches a glimpse of Life-in-Death in "his glittering eye" (1.13).
Her face, beautiful and eaten away. She lets bacteria feast on her flesh. Lévinas asserts that the ultimate demonstration of our utter responsibility for the other is maternity, which is a condition of allowing the other to eat you, from the inside, the ultimate host-parasite relationship. Life-in-Death is a perverse mother of us all, a leper woman who just comes alongside us on a floating ship, like the Mariner, the figure of the homeless man stopping one of three by the Bridegroom's door. Two indigents: Lévinas argues that the face is always the face of indigence, always evoking a crushing responsibility on our part. Life-in-Death is utterly destitute, wedded to Death. She is a zero-degree conatus, less than a minimal will to live, more like a letting-the-other-feast-on-me.
Indeed, the mother of us all was "mitochondrial Eve," a bacterium that hid out in protozoan single-celled organisms to survive the global ecological disaster called oxygen. And like DNA, Life-in-Death plays games of chance. And like DNA, and life forms in general, it becomes impossible to tell who is living off of whom. Is she Life-Despite-Death? Like weeds growing up after a bomb explodes? Or Life-as-Death, as tick-tock compulsion to repeat, meiosis? The liveliness of death? The deathliness of life? Coleridge's pithy ballad form makes it wonderfully hard to tell.
If we are to survive the twenty-first century, we ecosocialists will need to revise our ideas of passivity, weakness, the uncanny, vulnerability, and gentleness.
A face that is far from a face of strength and power, far from a face at all. Red lips and free looks, and utter abjection within beauty, abjection as beauty, beauty as abjection. Language breaks down trying to evoke her. She's like the woman sniper at the end of Full Metal Jacket, the horrifying shot of her writhing slowly on the floor whispering "Shoot me...shoot me." Isn't this why Life-in-Death is frightening? Not because she's some Disney witch queen, but because she isn't. "Her skin was white as leprosy"—isn't it a shudder of compassion we feel here? Of course, it isn't mediated through the usual condescending channels, and thus may feel more like revulsion.
Consider the Abrahamic traditions of caring for indigents and lepers.
The Mariner is an anti-Jesus (not perhaps an Antichrist), weighed down with the Albatross-cross, the weight of "it." Now he's faced with the frontal horror of it in the flesh, persecuting figures—yet even for these he is still responsible.
In one sense Life-in-Death is an allegorical figure, always not who she appears to be. But in another, can we ignore how vividly, uniquely realized she is? Would an allegorical reading (which would start by calling her "Life-in-Death," the Mariner's name) begin to tear us away from her collapsing face? Can we coexist with her and not suffer an allegorical-allergic reaction? Can we stay close to her even if our blood "thicks" with "cold"? If we can't stay, isn't our messing about in environmental boats just a boy's game in an ultimately safe, antiseptic, order of the Same? A game of violently bootstrapping ourselves into Being? Into a world that, for all its sublime grandeur, is already paved with the concrete of essence? A place where we could feel at home, comfortable with all our gadgets handy, the golf course down the street, Nature over yonder, animals tolerated, even respected perhaps, sporting around our dwelling?* Where resoluteness in the face of death cocooned us against the vulnerability of life? Where we would finally have sanitized and smoothed over the queerness of the strange stranger, with her uncivilized and unnatural presence, her horrifying gentleness?
Our poem has gone overboard.
*I am quoting Shelley:
No longer now
He slays the beast that sports around his dwelling,
And horribly devours his mangled flesh.
(The Dæmon of the World, 2. )


text: Kosmor :: View topic - Spy ship? Imprint Search Log in Legal Memberlist Profile Spy ship? Goto page 1, 2 Next Kosmor Forum Index -> Feedback / suggestions for improvement View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message aquadusGuest Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 10:24 Post subject: Spy ship? I just thought with all of the changes that are going to happen, a spy ship might be a good idea to implement. Something that could look at certain things on an enemy planet and have only a certain amount of success. Like maybe the info is only 80% correct or something like that. On the defensive side of it, there could also be ships that defend from these spy ships. Or there could be a component that does all of this with a building or two to upgrade these abilities by a certain amount. Back to top ShadowmasterGuest Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 16:58 Post subject: this has been brought up before...bad idea.... Back to top NobleSteveGuest Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 17:00 Post subject: i like this idea actually, maybe it could be either a new class of a specially fitted smaller ship like the probe... it could jump to planets and maybe view pro building, mines or factory levels ships being built... all highly valuable pieces of info. Especially with the ship building..... a huge ship like a H11 would be pretty visible being built. To make the ship maybe a new sensor componant could be created? and success of scan could reflect number of "hardpoints" on the ship with these sensors. thus making a fully fitted ship more likely to scan things correctly but one with some defences could suffer interference from thos weapons/shields it has... Here come the however though.... this new ship would probably have the need to scan from its flight range... eg 120 light years or so in order to be made use of if it planet jumped... and many players would have one on their Wp and simply use it to decide which planet they liked best. I would also like to possibly see a limit of numbers on these higly valuable spy ships for a balance to the game Just my Tupence worth... feel free to rip into me for it... nicely of course! Back to top aquadusGuest Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 15:41 Post subject: Shadowmaster, I meant this as a suggestion because people might not attack other players if they didn't have an idea of what they were up against. NobleSteve, Keep the ideas coming. Who knows, maybe if we thow enough ideas at them, one of them might get picked. LOL Seriously, this suggestion of mine was meant for when the rest of the improvements are made. Mainly the one that makes the smaller ships able to carry whatever they want. This is to try and balance the game. Back to top ShadowmasterGuest Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 17:41 Post subject: i agree, new ideas are good...and the spy ships has more disadvantages than good....dont get me wrong, i thought that is was a good idea until the bad things were pointed out...... Back to top aquadusGuest Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 09:17 Post subject: Then point them out already. Lets hear them so we can think of better ideas. Back to top aquadusGuest Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 10:40 Post subject: Hey Shadowmaster. You kept on saying that there were disadvantages. Hurry up and post them. Back to top LocutusGuest Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 11:24 Post subject: Clicky Back to top aquadusGuest Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 11:31 Post subject: Locutus, Thank you. Now I see there aren't any plans for this. Back to top ShadowmasterGuest Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 15:15 Post subject: aquadus wrote: Hey Shadowmaster. You kept on saying that there were disadvantages. Hurry up and post them. sorry... some of the disadvantages that would be due to a spy ship would be, haveing to worry more about what enemies are spying on you, it would make it alot harder to keep better control of your borders....(situation) say you were at war with someone, that person was attacking you, but they dint really have any solid details of your territory, ships, etc...so they have to rely information that your intelegence is able to come up with, and untill the attacker is close enouph he wont have any real intel on you, and when he gets close enouph to get intel, you can see him too...now if he has a spy ship, he can be a long ways out, send in the ship with no worries wether he looses it or not, and get what intel he needs and plan his attack acordingly and you cant do anything about it until he attacks and you will have no knowledge of when and where he will attack until its to late... granted, that would be more like real life, but the game doesnt have to be exactly like real life.....there are others, but im sure that you can think of some yourself as well... Back to top aquadusGuest Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 12:14 Post subject: Okay then. I've read the other thread and I have read what you just said Shadowmaster. Now I think that maybe sending ships on scouting mission might be a better way to go. Like maybe sending a small ship to an enemy planet to see what stuff they have and have there be a large chance that the ship won't return. Example: Say you send a H1 to look at a planet that has 3 H4s. base 25% for surviving base 75% for accuracy of information -2% for each H4 25-2-2-2=19% chance of surviving 75-2-2-2=69% chance of accuracy My reasoning is that the smaller ships, though the most likely to die, would also be the most likely to get classified info. The higher class ships, though most likely to live, would not be able to get as much info because of the enemy seeing them coming. Also, the ship that is scouting will not be able to attack. That way, the person on defense won't be hurt and the person on offense will have to make a valuable choice. Back to top LocutusGuest Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 17:39 Post subject: Did you happen to read my post in the other ship thread? I suggested a similar idea, only that it was a probe launched from the warplanet. Back to top ShadowmasterGuest Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 10:51 Post subject: thats another point, along the lines of locutus....now that there will be no drive limit, dont need a spy ship class, just make h1's with d12s on it and there you go... Back to top aquadusGuest Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 12:18 Post subject: Locutus, I guess I missed that one. I just looked over it again. To broaden on that idea, maybe have it so that it costs money to build one of them. They could also be expendable. Problem is that it may be similar, but, it isn't what I had in mind. Take a look at what I said to Shadowmaster and see what I mean. Shadowmaster, You don't seem to get the point of my first suggestion. A spy ship would ONLY be used to see what the person has equipped to a ship. How many lasers, sheilds, torpedoes, and what the drive capabilities are. What you and Locutus have suggested are explorer ships. Back to top LocutusGuest Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 14:26 Post subject: That would be interesting... a spy ship that sends back messages about ship armaments. It would really ruin strategies, though, but it could also add strategy. I think that if you did that, then the ship could send messages back in your IGM's, and it can only send back, say 20 lines before it is destroyed. Each ship would take up lines equivalent to its hull points. 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What Employers Need to Know
This page provides general information to employers who receive an Order of Income Withholding from the Friend of the Court Office regarding one of their employees and includes answers to the most frequently asked questions..
As an employer and taxpayer, be aware that federal and state programs have been established to ensure that parents support their children. These programs both encourage family responsibility and reduce taxpayer costs for welfare benefits such as Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF).
As a part of these programs, employers and other persons who pay income to persons required by court order to pay support must withhold certain amounts of income when served with an order of income withholding. The amounts withheld must then be sent to the Friend of the Court in the appropriate county.
Changes to Michigan law as of January 1, 1991, have expanded employers' involvement. The law requires income withholding take place immediately for almost all new or modified support orders. Under prior law, this would be required only when a parent fell behind in support payments. This is no longer true. All parents who pay support under support orders entered after January 1, 1991, will be subject to income withholding.
Income withholding for child support is NOT punishment, any more than withholding of income tax is a punishment. The information provided on this web page is intended to serve as a brief summary of your responsibilities as an employer under current law.
What laws pertain to income withholding?
Friend of the Court Act: Michigan Compiled Law 552.501- 552.535; also found in Michigan Statutes Annotated 25.176(1)-25.176(35)
Support and Visitation Enforcement Act: Michigan Compiled Law 552.601- 552.650; also found in Michigan Statutes Annotated 25.164(1)-25.164(50)
Consumer Credit Protection Act: Title III, Section 303(b) of Public Law 90-321, 15 USC, 1673(b)
Who must withhold income?
Any employer or other person, referred to as a "source of income," which owes or will owe income to the payer (the person owing money under a support order). Income is broadly defined to include (among other things): salaries, earnings, wages and commissions; payments due or to be due in the future from a profit-sharing plan, pension plan, insurance contract, or annuity; and any amount of money due to the payer as a debt of any other person, including debts of all kinds of businesses.
When must income be withheld?
An order of income withholding is binding on an employer seven days after the employer is served by ordinary mail with a copy of the order of income withholding. Included with the order will be a notice of income withholding, which will give the date of the mailing, the date to begin withholding, and where to send the money withheld.
How long do I continue withholding money?
The order remains in effect until further order of the court or until the otherwise notified in writing by the Friend of the Court.
What if the employee's income is subject to garnishment or other withholding orders?
An order of income withholding for child support has priority over all other legal process under state law against the same income. This means it takes precedence over garnishments and other payroll deductions (except taxes, social security deductions and other income withholding orders for support).
What happens if I don't withhold the money?
An employer's failure to comply with an order of income withholding within seven days of service may result in a contempt finding by the court against the employer.
How do I know if the amount to be deducted changes?
The Friend of the Court is required to advise employers if the order is changed. If the Friend of the Court serves the employer with a notice of modification of the order of income withholding, the amount withheld must be changed to conform with the court ordered modification within seven days after receipt of the notice of modification.
Isn't there some limit to the amount I may deduct?
The maximum amount taken out must comply with Section 303(b) of Title III of the Consumer Credit Protection Act (15 USC 1673(b)). Although deductions for garnishments are limited to 25% of a person's disposable income, amounts withheld for child support can exceed 50% of the employee's disposable income for a work week in certain cases (such as when there are no other support obligations or there is arrearage in excess of 12 weeks). If withholding of more than 50% of the employee's income is required by the income withholding order, you should contact the Friend of the Court for information, or consult with an attorney.
What do I have to put on the check to identify it as a support payment?
An employer must identify each withholding payment by the employee's name and social security number, case number, amount withheld, and the date on which support was withheld from the employee's income. The employer must also provide its federal employer identification number to the Office of Friend of the Court.
What happens if I receive more than one withholding order for the same person?
If there is more than one order of income withholding against an employee, and the total amount to be withheld exceeds the limits imposed by Section 303(b) of the Consumer Credit Protection Act, the payments pursuant to the orders must be allocated in the following manner:
If the total amount in the orders designated as current support exceeds the amount available for income withholding, allocate to each order an amount for current support equal to the fraction of total current support represented by the order (i.e., the amount of current support in that order divided by the total amount of current support in all orders) multiplied by the amount available for income withholding.
If the total amount in the orders designated as current support does not exceed the amount available for income withholding, pay all amounts of current support and allocate the remaining income available for income withholding among the orders according to the fraction of past due support each order represents of the total past due support.
I have several employees subject to income withholding for support. Must I write a separate check for each one?
When subject to more than one income withholding order with the same Friend of the Court Office, an employer may combine in a single payment amounts withheld from all employees and separately identify by employee, social security number, and case number the portion of the payment that is attributable to each individual.
How often do I have to send in the amounts I withhold?
Amounts withheld pursuant to an order of income withholding must be paid to the Michigan State Disbursement Office (MiSDU) within three days after the date of withholding.
Can I charge the employee for the costs associated with withholding?
Prior law required the employer to withhold an additional $.50 for each payment made. However, this provision was repealed and is no longer in effect.
What if the employee says they do not owe the money and demands that I pay them? What protects me if I am sued for these wages?
Payment to the Michigan State Disbursement Office (MiSDU) in accordance with an order of income withholding discharges liability to the employer as to that portion of the employee's income.
What if I ignore the order and pay it to the employee?
An employer is liable for any amount that it knowingly and intentionally fails to withhold from the employee's income following services on the employer of an order of income withholding, except as the payment amount is limited by the Consumer Credit Protection Act.
This means the court will require the employer to pay the amount that should have withheld, even if the employer paid it to the employee.
What do I do if this person quits, is fired, or otherwise stops working for our company?
After served with an order of income withholding, the employer must notify the Friend of the Court if the employee's income from the company is terminated or interrupted for a period of 14 or more consecutive days. In such cases, the employer must provide the employee's last known address and the name and address of the employee's new employer (if known).
As an employer, do I have an obligation to provide any other information to the Friend of the Court?
Yes, upon the Friend of the Court's request, the employer is required to provide:
1) full name and address of parent
2) social security number
3) date of birth
4) amount of wages earned by or other income due to the parent
5) employment status
6) information concerning dependent health care coverage if it is available as a benefit of employment
What happens if I refuse to hire, or if I take disciplinary action against an employee because of income withholding?
An employer who refuses to employ, discharges, and disciplines or penalizes an employee because of an order of income withholding entered against that employee is guilty of a misdemeanor. The misdemeanor is punishable by a fine of up to $500 and the employer will be required to make full restitution to the aggrieved employee including reinstatement and payment of back pay.
A Special Note to Employers
Employers are making a valuable contribution to the lives of children when they withhold and forward support payments on a timely basis. Employers have become a valued partner in one of the most effective support enforcement programs in the nation. This continued partnership between the public and private sectors will ensure that Michigan's children have the opportunity to lead happy and healthy lives.
[Reprinted with appreciation to Washtenaw County Friend of the Court]


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Kate & Naomi: two black dresses
Can you imagine how happy Kate Beckinsale must be these two weeks? It's virtually impossible, in theory, among so many tacky Euros, to OverDress in Cannes. Every night she's in a new big dress and people want to take her picture. Every night she's walking that carpet hoping so hard that it belongs to her. Last night was no exception. At the premiere of Biutiful, here's Kate, the jury member, fronting like she's actually a part of the film, in a gorgeous Balmain accessorised by her right leg. She's not posing very well with that right leg. It's not...centred enough. See? This just about sums her up. Always falling a little short.
One dress per night? It's never enough for Beckinsale. Which is why she changed for the Chopard party after the gala. Let her have her moment then. When we look back in several years, being a judge at this festival and wearing pretty dress after pretty dress might just be her crowning achievement.
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Author Notes: This is a flavorful dough that I created when I was in school and I've continued to tweak. It is great eaten on its own or as a sandwich bread for many kinds of sandwiches but particularly pastrami and grilled cheese sandwiches with or without proscuitto. Some cooking notes: While I love the meditative activity of kneading dough by hand, this is a fairly wet dough and is best kneaded with the dough hook attachment on a standing mixer. One of the ways to build flavor in bread is through a longer rising time. To enhance the bread flavor, I made a pre-ferment (sometime referred to as poolish) the day before I planned to bake the bread, which was then added to the other bread ingredients on baking day. Poolish also helps make a crusty bread with irregular crumb (bigger holes), which I was looking for in creating this recipe, and also provides greater dough strength, better aroma and increased shelf life. Poolish is essentially equal parts bread flour and water with a little yeast. It takes about 5 minutes to make and is well worth the effort if you plan ahead. The recipe instructions include directions on how to do this as well as other tips on how to get a crispy crust. One of my big surprises when I was in school was that I discovered I LOVED making bread. So I've included a number of tips that I've learned along the way that have helped me. You may already know about these and more, and I apologize if it ends up being TMI! Important Note: I use instant yeast when baking bread, making it much easier to work with. If you are working with active dry yeast, multiply the instant yeast amount in the recipe by 1.5 to get the right amount of active dry yeast to use! —TheWimpyVegetarian
Food52 Review: ChezSuzanne has clearly done her research with this recipe. As she notes, using a poolish makes for an extra crisp crust and a lovely, air pocket-filled crumb. The bread is a gorgeous caramel color from the combination of stout, malt syrup and honey, and the resulting loaf is chewy with a pleasant tang from the beer. The sea salt on top lends a savory crunch, and there is plenty of rosemary to go around (if you prefer a subtler flavor, you can decrease the amount by half -- we liked it nice and woodsy!). A couple of notes: we skipped the scale when separating the dough in half and eyeballed it (your choice), and our bread took only 25 minutes to bake, so check it well before the 30-minute mark. - A&M —The Editors
Serves: 2 boules
Poolish (Pre-ferment)
teaspoon instant yeast (1/4 tsp X 1.5 if using Active Dry Yeast)
grams water at 70 degrees F
grams bread flour (I recommend King Arthur bread flour)
Rosemary Ciabatta with Stout Beer
ounces bread flour (I recommend King Arthur bread flour)
teaspoon instant yeast (multiply this amount by 1.5 if using Active Dry Yeast)
teaspoons kosher salt
ounces poolish (from recipe provided above)
ounces Stout beer (other beers can be used as well)
teaspoons malt syrup
tablespoon olive oil
tablespoon honey
2 1/2
tablespoons minced fresh rosemary
fleur de sel for sprinkling on top of each boule
Poolish (Pre-ferment)
- Mix the yeast and water together in a small bowl. Add the flour and mix well with a spoon. Cover and let rest at room temperature at least 12 hours, ideally overnight.
- Before using, check to make sure the yeast has grown as evidenced by many air bubbles on the surface of the dough and enhanced dough mass.
Rosemary Ciabatta with Stout Beer
- Combine the dry ingredients in the mixing bowl of a standing mixer and mix with a whisk. Add the poolish, beer, malt syrup, olive oil and honey. If using Active Dry Yeast, add it at this time with the other wet ingredients. Using the hook attachment, mix for 5-7 minutes at the lowest speed. The dough should be wet and sticky to the touch. If it is too wet, add a little bread flour; if too dry, add a little more beer. It should be a fairly smooth dough at this stage.
- Sprinkle the minced rosemary over the dough and increase the mixer speed to the next highest level and mix for 2 minutes. When you're finished, there are two ways to check and see if the dough is ready for it's first rising: (1) detach the dough hook and pull up on the dough with the hook to see if the dough is very elastic and moves with the hook or if the dough breaks/tears; (2) take a piece of dough the size of 2 large marbles and with your fingers carefully stretch it out pulling on 4 corners of the dough to see if it stretches or tears as you pull on the it. If the dough tears fairly easily in either test, more kneading is necessary. What you're doing in this stage is to develop the gluten, or elasticity of the dough.
- Put the dough in a lightly oiled bowl, cover it and place it someplace warm for the first rising until it doubles in size. This can take 3 to 3 1/2 hours. During this stage of rising, uncover the dough each hour and pull up one side of the dough and fold it over on itself to essentially fold the dough in half. This is done to help build structure in the bread. Tips if you can't find a warm place for the dough to rise: heat a cup of water in the microwave oven to really hot, turn the microwave off and put the bowl of covered dough in the microwave with the cup of water. Or place the covered bowl near the stove if you're cooking, (being careful that it doesn't get too hot!).
- Weigh the dough and divide in half to form 2 boules or loaves. Loosely pre-shape each boule or loaf and place on a parchment lined baking sheet(s). Cover with a towel and plastic wrap and let rest for 10 - 20 minutes.
- Perform final shaping of the boules or loaves on a lightly floured board. Place back on the parchment lined baking sheet(s) for the 2nd rising. Re-cover with a towel and plastic and let rise for 1 to 1 1/2 hours. Preheat the oven to 450F. I place a pizza stone in the oven on the rack I plan to use and an empty metal pan in the bottom of the oven. If using the pizza stone, allow time for the oven to be at 450F for about an hour so that the stone is completely preheated.
- Score the boules or loaves with an oiled razor blade, spray lightly with water, sprinkle with the fleur de sel and place the baking sheet on top of the pizza stone. The pizza stone will help keep the baking sheet at a constant temperature while the bread bakes. Just before closing the oven door, throw a bunch of ice cubes or cold water into the hot metal pan at the bottom of the oven to create a little steam.
- Bake the bread for about 30 minutes. In the first 10 minutes of baking, open the oven door just long enough to squirt some water on the sides of the oven with a squirt bottle. If you don't have one, just get your hands wet and fling the water at the sides of the oven to create steam. Do this 3 times, but not after the first 10 minutes of baking. During the last 5 minutes of baking, open the oven door. A crisper crust is encouraged by shots of steam in the beginning of baking, and by a dry oven at the end.
- The bread is ready when it's internal temperature reaches 200F. To check, I pull the boule from the oven and stick a probe into the bottom.
- Because this is a wet bread, especially compared to french bread, let it cool before serving.
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By Emma Westport
In July 1904, the cannons of the Peter and Paul fortress fired 300 times to announce that, after four daughters, Alexandra had given birth to a son. Russia had a Tsarevich. The imperial couple was overjoyed but, within six short weeks, that joy turned to pain. Something was wrong. The slightest bump, the smallest pinch and the baby's skin bruised. The bruises did not heal. The child cried with pain and neither his mother nor his doctors could offer him relief. Alexei was a hemophiliac.
For Alexandra, the news was devastating. She'd already lost a brother and uncle to the disease and she knew what the future held. Her beautiful boy had almost no chance of surviving to adulthood and, even if he did, he'd never be live or play like a normal child. There was nothing conventional medicine could do.
Alexandra looked elsewhere. In 1905, friends introduced her and her husband to Rasputin. Neither priest nor monk, the uneducated peasant had already earned a repuation as a starets or spiritual teacher. He was also known as a healer and prophet. Did he provide relief to the young Tsarevich? His worst critics admit he did. He also helped the Tsarina deal with her unbearable guilt and suffering--but that help came at a price.
Rasputin's gifts were offset by his drinking and womanizing. Scandal was his constant companion. As his power grew, so did his faults, his behavior becoming increasingly outrageous. Nicholas ignored it—Alexandra denied it—but the scandal was always there. And the stink of it threatened the autocracy. Many believed there was more to the relationship between Alexandra and Rasputin than the sharing of spiritual comfort.
The situation became especially ugly in 1910 and 1911 when Rasputin seduced a woman serving as nurse to the Imperial children. The governess, on hearing the story, objected to Rasputin's familiarity with the Grand Duchesses. She insisted the Tsarina ban him from the girls' bedrooms. The Tsarina refused. The nurse and governess were dismissed. Rasputin was now free to come and go as he pleased and the rumors that spread through St. Petersburg now included the young Grand Duchesses.
Nicholas was ineffective in dealing with Rasputin. Unwilling to upset his wife, he ignored police reports and the advice of friends. He even ignored photographs. After a night's carousing, a drunk and naked Rasputin had been photographed surrounded by a circle of nude women. Blackmailers told Rasputin he had a choice. Leave St. Petersburg or the pictures would be given to the Tsar. Rasputin took the photos to Nicholas himself, saying he'd sinned and begging for forgiveness. Nicholas forgave him. But the behavior continued.
In 1914, the first attempt was made on Rasputin's life. A former prostitute, disfigured by syphilis, disguised herself as a beggar woman and followed Rasputin to his home in Siberia. She asked him for money and, when he stopped to help her, she stabbed him, nearly killing him. Rasputin recovered but his drinking increased.
In 1915, Rasputin tried to seduce a woman at the famous Yar restaurant in Moscow. When the lady refused his efforts a drunken, outraged Rasputin went berserk. He smashed the furniture and mirrors in the private dining room, shouting all the while about his relationship with the 'old woman,' the Tsarina, and bragging how he did "with her what I want!" He exposed himself and was finally dragged away by police, fighting and hollering the Tsar would protect him and threatening to get even. The event was witnessed--and publicized--by a journalist who was present.
Alexandra had failings but being Rasputin's lover was not one of them. Unfortunately, letters she'd written to Rasputin convinced people otherwise. The Tsarina's flowery language was deliberately misinterpreted and pornographic caricatures of the Tsarina and Rasputin began to circulate.
All this occurred at a time when Russia was experiencing defeats at the front and serious problems at home. With Nicholas taking over command of the armies, Alexandra took a more active role in the government and her decisions were guided by Rasputin. It was a recipe for disaster.
In November 1916, Vladimir Purishkevich, a conservative member of the Duma, Russia's parliament, gave a speech in in which he spoke of spoke of the "filthy, depraved, corrupt peasant" the Tsarina all but worshipped. Rasputin was seen to be at the center of the 'Dark Forces' destroying the country.
In less than a month, Purishkevich joined with Prince Felix Yusopov, the Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, and a few other conspirators. Together, they would plot the infamous and successful assassination of the starets.
Rasputin was murdered on December 29, 1916. His assassins hoped Rasputin's death would turn things around but it was already too late.
For his part, Rasputin expected assassination. He'd allegedly warned Nicholas and Alexandra that if his death came at the hands of the nobility, neither they nor their dynasty would last more than two years. In that, he was correct. Nicholas abdicated the throne on March 15, 1917. He, his wife and five children were murdered in July 1918.
The 300 year old dynasty had come to an end.
(All dates are new style. The quotes are from Brian Moynahan's biography, Rasputin: The Saint Who Sinned. The photo is from wikimedia.)


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In San Mateo, several local politicians, including Rep. Jackie Speier, organized a gun buyback that attracted hundreds of area residents who turned in more than 700 handguns and rifles. At the same time, in San Francisco, members of the local chapter of a new advocacy group called the One Million Moms for Gun Control, marched in support of more restrictive gun laws.
The number of people who turned out for the buyback event — many of whom had to wait an hour or more to turn in their guns — suggests that "people recognize the time has come to get guns out of their homes and return them to a safer place," said Speier, D-San Mateo.
The gun control issue has been front and center since Adam Lanza shot and killed 26 people, including 20 children, at Newtown's Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14. In the wake of the shootings, President Barack Obama, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and other politicians — mostly Democrats — have called for new gun restrictions, including universal background checks and bans on military-style assault weapons and large-capacity ammunition magazines.
Those calls have been joined by One Million Moms for Gun Control, an organization founded the day of — and in response to — the Newtown massacre. Affiliates of the group marched Saturday not only in San Francisco but also in 12 other cities nationwide, including Washington, D.C.
Thousands of people took part in the march in the capital, including about 100 residents of Newtown. U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan told the crowd that the president would do everything he could to tighten gun laws.
"This is about trying to create a climate in which our children can grow up free of fear," Duncan said. "We must act. We must act. We must act."
The proposed new restrictions have been opposed by the National Rifle Association, most Republican politicians and some Democrats from rural states.
Representatives of the NRA didn't immediately return calls seeking comment on Saturday's gun control events.
While Newtown may have been in the minds of the organizers of the buyback event in San Mateo, many of those participating had more practical or personal reasons for handing in their guns. Event organizers paid $100 for each handgun, shotgun or rifle and $200 for each assault weapon, and many participants simply saw the buyback, held at the San Mateo County Event Center, as a good way to get rid of seldom used weapons.
Jim Welton, 73, of El Granada, turned in a .22 caliber rifle that he said he got from a neighbor nearly 60 years ago. Although he once used it for shooting squirrels and rats, Welton said he hadn't used the rifle in decades.
"I don't want it in the house," he said. "I don't need to have it."
Others cited concerns about the safety of their family members. Simon Lee of Daly City said he turned in a rifle he'd had since he participated in junior ROTC in high school some 35 years ago. Lee said he doesn't use the gun any more and doesn't have a place to store it securely. He has teenage children in the house and worried about them or their friends having access to it.
"It's better just to have one less firearm in the house that somebody else can break into or get access to," said Lee, 52.
Others expressed concerns that their unused guns might fall into the hands of criminals.
San Jose resident Ron Hegemier, 78, drove up to San Mateo to turn in an SKS semi-automatic rifle. Hegemier formerly used the gun for target practice but hasn't shot it for 14 or 15 years.
He decided to take it to the buyback rather than selling it to a gun shop because doing the latter would "just put one more gun back on the street," he said. The event Saturday, Hegemier added, was about getting "rid of whatever guns you can get rid of."
The buyback was the first held in San Mateo in recent memory, event organizers said, but it follows similar events last month in San Francisco and Oakland. During a buyback in Seattle on Saturday, one person turned in a surface-to-air missile tube, according to the Seattle Times.
Nothing that exotic was handed in at the San Mateo event, but by the end of Saturday's buyback, citizens had turned over some 338 handguns, 371 rifles and shotguns and 24 military-style assault weapons, said Katrina Rill, a spokeswoman for Rep. Speier.
The weapons handed included a sawed-off shotgun, the possession of which is a felony offense, and a so-called Street Sweeper, a shotgun that holds multiple cartridges in a revolving cylinder like that on a revolver.
In return for the guns, organizers handed out $63,500, said Rebecca Rosenblatt, spokeswoman for the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office, which ran the buyback. The money came from private donations, including a personal contribution from Speier, Rill said.
The issue of gun control is a long-standing one for Speier, who organized a buyback while serving in the state Assembly more than 15 years ago. While a staffer for Rep. Leo Ryan, Speier was part of a mission to investigate Jim Jones' cult colony in Guyana. Speier was shot five times and left for dead in an ambush that killed Ryan.
Organizers planned to catalog the guns to look for weapons reported lost or those used in crimes. Then they planned to destroy the guns, which included a smattering of military-style weapons along with numerous rifles and handguns.
In San Francisco, the march by the local chapter of the One Million Moms group was the first chance for most members to meet each other in person and to raise awareness for their campaign, said Christine Tachner, the local chapter's co-chairwoman.
The local branch was founded three days after the Newtown massacre and now has nearly two thousand members, she said. Some 300 people, including adults and children, showed up for the San Francisco event, she said.
Tachner said that while local members wanted to show their support for and solidarity with their fellow members in other cities, the event at Crissy Field was more of a "stroll" than a march. The group didn't head to City Hall and didn't have any loudspeakers, she noted.
"Ours was a more low-key, family event," she said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. Contact Troy Wolverton at 408-840-4285. Follow him at Twitter.com/troywolv.


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Man Arrested in Milaca After Bomb Discovered in His Car
MILACA -- No one was hurt after a motorist carrying a homemade bomb in his vehicle was prevented from detonating the device today (Tuesday).
A Mille Lacs County Sheriff's deputy made a traffic stop on Highway 169 just south of Onamia at about 10:00 a.m. after noticing a man speeding.
The deputy says the driver, 41-year-old Shannon Lemon of Zimmerman, was acting nervous, angry and in an unusual manner. The officer also noticed a propane tank in the car. Lemon was given a warning and allowed to leave. The deputy immediately alerted the North Central Drug Task Force who put surveillance on the vehicle.
After Lemon was spotted driving erratically on Highway 23 in Milaca, agents stopped the vehicle.
Officers discovered an explosive device, burglary tools and propane tank. Lemon admitted it was a bomb with nails, gun powder, kerosene and electronic detonation device. He was immediately arrested and the Crow Wing County Bomb Squad was called in.
Authorities cordoned off exits to Highway 169 and Highway 23. Businesses in the area were evacuated while the bomb squad detonated the device.
The highways reopened at about 3:00 p.m.
Police say the man's motive appeared to be suicide. He was on his way to meet with a probation officer in Elk River, but it's unclear where he planned to detonate the device.
The Mille Lacs County Sheriff says an observant deputy and quick acting assistance from other agencies prevented injuries and fatalities.


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One fascination of director Michael Winterbottom's breezy culinary road trip with
Served in small, savory bites, these are just some of the film's improvisational delights.
Indeed, the light, dry comedy is a model of minimalism in the way it follows the men, playing ever-so-slightly fictionalized versions of themselves, and their conversation through the sun-drenched Italian countryside. Along the way, they sample the top local cuisine, search out the spots that inspired British Romantic poets Shelley and Byron nearly 200 years ago, and contemplate modern life and middle age as tracks from Alanis Morissette's "Jagged Little Pill" play.
As was the case in 2010's
With the camera once again in the good hands of James Clarke, the look and feel of the film hovers somewhere between picture-postcard perfect and cinéma vérité as the car wends its way from Liguria to Capri. The food prep in steaming kitchens, the fishing villages nestled against the Mediterranean and their rooms with a view are all sumptuous.
But you come for the conversation, and in that, "The Trip to Italy" rarely disappoints. Brydon and Coogan's discourse over breakfast, lunch and dinner is captured with a casualness that makes the eavesdropping delicious. Every tiny snippet is drenched in the wry British wit and dash of lunacy both comic actors are known for. But the outsized physicality that often marks Coogan's work in particular is pulled back to human proportions.
It's easy to forget that the film — excerpted from the second season of the pair's popular British TV series "The Trip" — is a fiction. But there are reminders. When Brydon asks Coogan what he'll be remembered for most, the actor quickly answers: his "six" BAFTAs (the real Coogan has won four of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts' top awards). And there is no mention of the real Coogan's Oscar nomination earlier this year for co-writing
Occasionally, Coogan and Brydon dig a little deeper, skirting around topics of mortality. But before things get too serious, they've launched into a discussion of which actor might play Coogan in a costume drama about his life.
What helps "The Trip to Italy" feel fresh rather than a rehash of the first "Trip" in a sunnier clime is the intrusion of various outside forces. Brydon is dealing with relationship issues. Brief calls home to an impatient wife overwhelmed by their fussy 3-year-old set the stage for a possibly flirtation with Lucy (Rosie Fellner), the sensitive blond who captains the yacht that takes them on one leg of the journey.
Meanwhile, Coogan is Skyping with his frustrated teenager Joe (Timothy Leach), their relationship testy because of the travel demands of the actor's job and that normal distancing act 16-year-olds manage with such infuriating aplomb.
The food gets the kind of star turn designed to leave you salivating. Beautifully plated, a series of tempting delicacies are slipped in front of them at each stop. Byron and Shelley's work is made just as savory as the poets' lovely lyricism is recited and mulled.
From beginning to end, Coogan and Brydon exist in the kind of friend zone that is always inviting. As they reconnect, the fondness and the resentments surface but are never overdone. Winterbottom is clever to keep the portions small and the emotions light, because truly no one wants a summer road trip to get too heavy.
The only real downside of "The Trip to Italy" is that movie theaters don't serve five-star pasta dishes on the side.
'The Trip to Italy'
Not rated
Running time: 1 hour, 47 minutes
Playing: Landmark Theatres, West Los Angeles


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Red States, Too, Get Health Care Nod From Obama
WASHINGTON (AP) — Some bipartisan cooperation may finally be breaking out in the nation's contentious battle over health care overhaul.
The Obama administration announced Thursday that four red states are on the list of those getting the initial go-ahead to build their own health insurance marketplaces. Open enrollment for millions of uninsured Americans is less than 10 months away — Oct. 1.
The GOP-led states — Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah — joined five others getting conditional approval from Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (seh-BEEL'-yuhs).
Counting previous approvals, 17 states plus Washington, D.C., have been cleared to run their own insurance exchanges.
Washington will set up the new insurance markets in states that don't want to participate.
But at least nine other states are considering partnerships with the administration.


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2008 New York Art Fairs
This week marks the beginning of the 2008 New York art fairs (complete list). The most notable of them, The Armory Show, features 150 of the world's top contemporary art galleries showcasing the latest in today's artwork. The show historically dates to 1913, where the first International Art Fair took place in New York's 69th Regiment Armory on Lexington Avenue between 25th and 26th Streets.[…..]


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2012-13: Set an NCAA 'B' cut and his season-best time in the 400 IM (3:51.55) at the Pac-12 Championships on his way to a 14th overall standing…Also placed 20th overall in the 200 freestyle (1:49.04) at the Pac-12 Championships…Part of the 400 medley relay team that broke the school record (3:13.11)…Placed first in the 200 backstroke (1:52.10) in the home opener victory against UC San Diego on Nov. 2…Placed first the next day in the 400 IM in a victory over rival Cal Poly…Saw another first place finish in the 200 IM (1:55.66) against Cal State Bakersfield on Dec. 15.
2011-12: Placed seventh in the 200-yard medley relay (1:30.06), 22nd in the 200-yard individual medley (1:49.90), seventh in the 400-yard individual medley (3:48.08), sixth in the 400-yard medley relay (3:19.45) and 10th in the 200-yard butterfly (1:47.15) at the Pac-12 Swimming Championships…Holds the fifth fastest time in UCSB history in the 200-yard butterfly and the second fastest time in UCSB history the 400-meter individual medley with at time of 4:38.08…Competed in the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials and placed 107th in the 400-meter individual medley.
2010-11: Placed 12th in the 400 individual medley (3:55.26), 14th in the 200 butterfly (1:50.42), and 24th in the 200 IM (1:51.96) at the Pac-10 Championships…Posted a season-best time of 1:49.83 in the 200 fly during the Pac-10 prelims…Swam season-bests in the 500 free (4:38.62) and 100 back (52.28) at the Arena Invitational…His best 1000 free mark was 9:55.61 during a dual meet with Pacific.
Swam at Frontier High School for coach Candice Urmstom...Earned All-American honors for the Titans...Also swam for Bakersfield Swim Club under coach Keith Moore...Earned Scholastic All-American honors.
Randy Jefferey-Daniel Aakhus was born on Jan. 5, 1992 in Bakersfield, Calif....Son of Gregory and Luanne...Has five siblings: Zachary, Kacy, Remi, Makenzine and Timothy...Nicknamed "T.G.R.A."...Has yet to declare a major at UCSB but would like to pursue a career as an accountant...Enjoys wakeboarding and tubing...Favorite movie is "Troy" and his favorite book is "Hot Zone"...Names head coach Gregg Wilson as his personal hero...Favorite aspect of college swimming is the people.


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Irenaeus (Active AD 175 - 195) was a student of Polycarp of Smyrna and was born into a Christian family in the early 2nd Century in Asia Minor. He moved to Lyons in France as a young man where Christians from Asia Minor had already planted churches. After persecution took the life of the Bishop of Lyons in 177, Irenaeus was elected in his place. His lengthy refutation of Gnosticism marks him out as one of the most significant 2nd Century Church Fathers.


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Monday, June 25, 2007
Jaaniõhtu 2007 - St John's Night 2007
The shortest night of 2007 is behind us, and I'm pleased to say I had a lovely time in Lalli village in Raplamaa. Before the night's festivities began, I found my first porcini mushroom of the year (above) - an early brown birch bolete (Leccinum scabrum, Birkenpilz) and between the two of us managed to pick a good kilogram of wild strawberries in just over an hour. Wild strawberries vol. 2007 deserve a separate post of their own, so click here to read :)
After visiting my uncle in Paluküla and one of my first cousins in nearby Kädva, we returned to Lalli just in time for the traditional village bonfire celebrating the shortest night of the year, The bonfire was held on their traditional bonfire site - Sonni hill. Not the most dramatic location, but extremely peaceful and beautiful nevertheless. The party began around 9pm, and there were 14 people in total, aged 9 to 90, with couple of dogs to boot. Here's a picture taken from the bonfire site from 9.30 pm, and it's still rather light:
And almost the same view half an hour before midnight:
Dark, but still not too bad, is it? As we walked home across those fields around 1am, without any flashlights, and I was giggling when I saw my sneakers in the dark. Althought summer nights in Scotland are light compared to the ones in Southern Europe, I had still forgotten how much lighter they are at home in Estonia..
There was some singing, and lots of chatting and catching up. And of course there was lots of food. I had made a selection of small sandwiches to take along: small rye bread squares with garlicky cheese filling, classic sandwich triangles with egg & cress mayo, and some with tuna & tomato filling. Additionally, I brought along two types of muffins, adapting my recipe for moist rhubarb muffins to make pear & ginger muffins and apple & cranberry muffins. From the market, we picked up some day-old salted cucumbers and a huge Italian watermelon, and other people had brought along lots of different sausages for roasting over the flames. Our 'BBQ' was one of the very rustic ones:
You see the two sticks on the right, with chunks of meat stuck on them? Well, that's my improvised rosemary-lemon-honey lamb, which seemed to be much more popular than the various sausages, I'm pleased to report :)
And here's what's left of the big fire at 1 am, just before we left..
BLAST FROM THE PAST: A year ago I spent St John's Night on Santorini, in Greece, where my friends Annemieke and Georgios got hitched. You can read about breakfasts with fabulous views here and dining on Santorini here. Two years ago I was hosting my parents, sister and older nephew in Edinburgh, as they had flown over for my graduation ceremony.
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- Alanna said...
Better than the sausages? No way! Lovely, that light, yes. When I lived in Finland and we spent some weeks on a small island near Sorsavesi, I could read at night, inside, with nothing but light from the window. Lovely post, thanks for all the photos and descriptions.
- 3:16 pm, June 25, 2007
- K & S said...
what a beautiful outing!
- 4:32 pm, June 25, 2007
- Figs Olives Wine said...
Oh how lovely! I grew up in Fife, and I remember the lightness and the late night bonfires on the beach, but this is truly magical!
- 5:41 pm, June 25, 2007
- MyKitchenInHalfCups said...
That setting looks pretty grand if you ask me. And the food sounds wonderful. I'd go for the lamb!
- 10:10 pm, June 25, 2007
Ohh, jaanituli Eestis toob ilusaid mälestusi meelde!(Siin muidugi sadas meeletult palju) Metsmaasikad teevad kadedaks. Et Sul õnnestus neid nii palju korvi saada, mul oleksid nad kohe suhu kadunud.
- 11:22 pm, June 25, 2007
- neil said...
What a great night you all had. Love the look (and sound) of wild strawberries, would love to try some but will have to be content with your upcoming post. Lucky you with your first porcini, they don't grow here in Oz, I also saw your morels, you two are doing very nicely!
- 1:53 am, June 26, 2007
- bea at La tartine gourmande said...
Oh this is so nice! I wish I had been there. One of these life things I have not yet done, but it is on my list (and I am talking about the midnight sun!) ;-)
- 5:55 am, June 26, 2007
- Zarah Maria said...
Ah Skt. Hans! I was stuck in the national arena for a Justin Timberlake concert - which was great, but I somehow wished I could have had a nice time in front of a bonfire instead... Am I getting old?:)
- 9:43 am, June 26, 2007
- joey said...
What a great bonfire and what magical photos! I would definitely have swiped some of that lamb ;)
I have experienced Helsinki in the summer and it was something like this...except me lying in bed eyes wide open and sun streaming through my window! :) It was wonderfully exciting for me because I had never experienced anything like it before :)
- 3:23 pm, June 26, 2007
- Pille said...
Alanna - yep, better than sausages (which weren't bad at all, so it's just that lamb was so good:) Sorsavesi is a place I'm yet to visit, but I'm glad to hear that you've enjoyed midnight sun in your life!
K&S - indeed!
Figs Olives Wines - I though the nights were light in Edinburgh, but now I realise how much lighter they are here in Estonia (we're on the same latitude with Orkney islands, so way up north if you look from Edinburgh and Fife!)
Tanna - lamb was good!
Ülle, ära muretse, suhu läks ka hulgaliselt metsmaasikaid. Kohe niiii palju, et enam ei mahtunud:)
Neil - we are, thank you:)
Bea - I think midnight sun should be in the to-do list indeed!
Zarah Maria - I don't think you should worry. Anyone visiting Justin Timberlake concert in the first place is still in their late teens, at the most :)
Joey - those are nice memories from Finland..
- 11:42 am, July 02, 2007


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List of IR transformations used in Jitrino.OPT compiler:
Use this link for details on type system used in Jitrino.OPT compiler
IR construction:
translator - Translates Java bytecode to High Level Intermediate Representation (HIR)
hir2lir - Translates HIR to Low Level Intermediate Representation (LIR)
High-Level (HIR) optimizaitons
optimizer - An alias for all HIR transformations
abce - Array bounds check elimination
dce - Dead code elimination
dessa - SSA deconstruction
devirt_intf - Guarded devirtualization of interface calls
devirt_virtual - Guarded devirtualization of virtual calls
edge_annotate - IR annotation with edge profile
edge_instrument - IR instrumentation in order to collect edge profile
escape - Escape analysis bases optimizations
gcm - Global code motion
gvn - Global value numbering
hlo_api_magic - Replaces known Java API method calls with predefined algorithms written with HIR
hvn - Hash value numbering (CSE)
inline - Inlines hot methods calls
inline_helpers - Replaces HIR instruction with a Java method call and inlines this call
lazyexc - Eliminates redundant creation of exception objects
lower - Partial inlining for type checks
memopt - Redundant memory loads and stores elimination
osr - Operator strength reduction
peel - Loop peeling
purge - Purge empty nodes
simplify - Type/copy propogation and constant folding
ssa - SSA construction
statprof - Annotates HIR with edge profile using static heuristics
throwopt - Replaces Throw instruction with the jump to the exception handler
uce - Unreachable code elimination
unguard - Removal of untaken type guards
unroll - Loop unrolling
Low-level (LIR) optimizations
codegen - An alias for all LIR transformations
api_magic - Replaces known Java API method calls with predefined algorithms written with LIR
bbp - Back branch polling for loops
break - Inserts 'int3' into the prologue of the generated method
btr - Branch optimizations
cafl - Complex address form loader
cg_dce - Removes dead code
cg_fastArrayFill - Finds and replaces particular internal helper with a loop providing fast array filling with a constant
constraints - Performs resolution of operand constraints and assigns calculated constraints to operands
copy - translates CopyPseudoInsts to corresponding copying sequences
early_prop - A simple algorithm of constant and copy propagation
emitter - Emits binary code from LIR
gcmap - Builds a map with information for all Object and Managed pointers operands locations on suspension points
gcpoints - Inserts pseudo-use instructions for some Object operands to extend their live-ranges.
i586 - Replaces SSE2 instructions with SSE or FPU ones if SSE2 is not supported by the current platform
i8l - Splits 64-bit integer operands into two 32-bit ones
info - Registers various method information in VM memory associated with the method
iprof - Instruments a method with various profile collection counters
itrace - Instruments method entry/exit and unwind points with calls to logger
layout - Prepares code layout
light_jni - Allows to call some predefined JNI methods directly avoiding JNI stub
native - Transforms 3-address LIR form into 2-address form
peephole - Performs various architecture specific per-inst optimizations
rce - Removes redundant comparisons. The analysis is based on EFLAGS affect
regalloc - Global register allocator
si_insts - Saves information about call instructions for stack unwinding
spillgen - Local (basic-block level) register allocation and spill generator
stack - Layouts stack and assigns locations for operands on stack
Auxilary runtime and confuguration services:
opt_init - Initializes global optimizer flags
lock_method - Locks method data in VM
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Well, I'm back from my adventure getting my system. The lines were long, and the outside of Target looked like Stalingrad. People huddled together for warmth around shallow fires, hollow eyed and near motionless. I drove past them, picked up my unit from the store who had my preorder, and have just arrived home.
The one thing I did notice was that while there were Core units to be found, the hard drive was the tough item to track down. I had to hit a few stores before I found one in a Walmart that was open 24 hours, and I had to do some fast talking to be able to cut in line and grab the last hard drive they had. No easy feat considering most of the people in line were getting the Core units as well, but my argument that I wasn't waiting in line for a system seemed to throw the clerk and he let me have it.
With five hojillion units on Ebay, it's possible the most poachable item is going to be the ultra hard to find hard drive. Especially considering how many people are settling for Core units.


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Stephen Tidwell necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 98 diseños de 21 diseñadores freelance.
StatementLine.com will provide telephone interview services through out the U.S., primarily to the insurance industry, via a web based solution. The philosophy is to alleviate our clients burden of scheduling and conducting telephone interviews, which can be exceedingly time consuming, with the click of a mouse.
Within the industry there are two major methods of gathering information one is through telephone statements, the other is in person interviews. When a potential client sees our logo I want them to think "telephone statement".
We will be needing letterhead and brochure work done soon, so the winner will get first crack at that.
Our target audience is primarily insurance companies. They tend to be rather conservative so we want to keep the logo more corporate and business like.
I don't want to drive the preliminary design effort too much but I have been thinking of some type of image that evokes telephone usage, maybe a stylized telephone, switchboard, telephone poles with wires, etc. But let your creative juices flow. The best design is probably something I would never think of, that's why we need your help.
Our company is offering a high tech solution to an industry that is traditionally embraces low tech solutions, so a retro look might be appealing.
To fit the allotted space in the web site the logo should be more horizontal than vertical but with that said the name StatementLine.com is rather lengthy so it might be adventitious to stack "Statement" above "Line" to help shorten it. And I would like to see examples with and without ".com" at the end of StatementLine.
The logo needs to scale well and work in color or mono tones.
Contest winner must provide modifiable vector-based image files.
We are looking for original work, no clip art or stock artwork, and all design rights will be transferred to us.
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Two of the most important issues facing U.S. rice producers in the coming months and years — genetically-engineered rice and the farm bill — will be on the program at the USA Rice Outlook Conference, Dec. 3-5, at the Caesars Palace Hotel in Las Vegas, Nev.
Featured speaker on farm policy is former congressman and former chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, Larry Combest. Combest will provide an overview of the issues shaping the next farm bill, including the budget situation, trade issues, election outcomes, competing policy proposals and new players in the farm bill dialogue.
Combest, along with former Congressman Charlie Stenholm, is considered to be the principle author of the 2002 farm bill. He began working as a farm bill consultant with the USA Rice staff on Feb. 1.
A farm bill session at the conference will focus on a number of the key factors influencing farm policy from the perspective of those inside the debate in Congress and the administration. Jim Wiesemeyer of Informa Economics and consultant to Pro Farmer will provide post-election impacts on farm programs and key trade policy issues.
The U.S. rice industry was shaken to its foundation with the Aug. 18, 2006, announcement by Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns of the discovery of trace elements of GE rice in commercial long-grain samples. The announcement shocked the U.S. rice industry, as no GE rice was known to be in the U.S. commercial supply.
In the short-term, U.S. rice prices suffered, and in the long term, a number of importing countries felt compelled to impose testing procedures on incoming shipments of U.S. long-grain rice to ensure they contain no GE rice. In this session, research and industry experts will examine events to date as well as issues and actions going forward.
Special guest speaker (invited) Bruce Knight, undersecretary for marketing and regulatory programs, USDA/APHIS, will review the latest developments in the LibertyLink GE rice issue including USDA's effort to assist the rice industry and the outlook on this issue.
On Tuesday, Dec. 5, Nathan Childs, senior rice market analyst with USDA's Economic Research Service, will provide an overview of the domestic and global market and the outlook for U.S. rice.
Another important session is the new products and technology breakfast showcase, where attendees can hear about innovations in rice-related products, services and technologies. The conference will conclude with annual state production outlooks and research reports.
The USA Rice Outlook Conference will also hold a trade show, a comprehensive annual U.S. expositions devoted exclusively to rice-related equipment, technology, products and services.
For more information, call the USA Rice Federation at (703) 236-1447, or (703) 236-1472. You can also find more information at www.usarice.com under industry.


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This piece is called "Nothing Much Happened Today (for Eric and Dylan)" and is by artist Noelle Mason. It's been
lovingly carefully stitched by hand, and who knows how long it must have taken. My interpretation: those long hours pay homage to the community around the Columbine High School shooting. I'm sure each stitch was spent deeply considering the implications of the image. The piece measures 50 x 66 inches. Via Radical Cross Stitch.


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Patrick is also going home tongiht. A lot sooner than I would have thought. I guess he snuck out the window when my back was turned.
Bobby Bennett also goes home tonight. Not too surprising, and yet I thought Kevin would have gotten the lowest. Grrrrrrr, 90 year olds probably saved him.
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