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Lol, even had segal in it.
Lol, even had segal in it.
That vid is awsome lol Rogan is the man. "Anderson will always be moving his hands funny, its just him letting you know hes about to fucking explode in your face!", His Anderson Impression is awsome as well. I wish he could call the fights with swears, Im sure people will disagree, "what about the kids?" and shit, but I think it would really make the fights better lol.
I actually didnt know who that was untill I read some comments from the source, I still dont get the "For Asgard!"lol who the fuck is Asgard?
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Kukla's Korner Hockey
Hockey sees international growth
by Paul on 04/09/13 at 08:41 AM ET
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Mixed martial arts (MMA) is considered the world's fastest growing sport, but don't discount hockey – it's entirely on the up, which means more teams, more players, and greater competition in the long run. With the Winter Olympics on the horizon, we can get ready for an exciting hockey tournament.
In the last five years, hockey was the second fastest growing sport in the States, a figure based purely on the sale of hockey equipment in the States. Further proof to this growth includes the teams we are increasingly seeing perform come from areas not traditionally considered hockey states.
Teams like the Dallas Stars, San Jose Sharks, and Los Angeles Kings have helped grow the sport in their respective markets for years and now, teams like the Carolina Hurricanes and the Nashville Predators are at the forefront of the impressive growth in non-traditional American markets. And women's hockey is also making inroads, competing against roller derby and soccer.
But the renewed interest in the sport is international in nature. South Korea, the 2018 Winter Olympic hosts, has just given citizenship to Canadian born Brock Radunske. It's a country not famed for its hockey and importing players like Radunske will result in a lot of local interest in the sport in preparation for when the games are in Pyeongchang, as well as help spur enthusiasm and development at a youth level for future events.
While South Africa might not have much ice or snow, they are considered good competitors in IIHF Div3, where both the mens' and womens' national teams are represented. South African nationals can also be found playing in Canada, Scotland and the US.
The sport is not popular but hockey is being developed in the country at a high rate – giving underprivileged and unlikely youth a chance to try the sport, thanks to high profile events like the Senior World Championships set to take place at a local casino in Cape Town later this month. It won't be long before online casinos in South Africa are accommodating yet another platform for the sports-mad country to pit their teams against each other.
In fact, the IIHF today has 52 full member countries in addition to 17 associate members and 3 affiliate members. Member countries will continue to increase in number and the likes of Thailand, India and South Africa might become teams to watch in the future.
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That building that you came across going east out of Bodie was once a stage stop / toll road station, going farther east and you would have come upon Austin (once the capital of NV/ and or the Calif county seat. There was some dispute about were the border of CA/NV was at the time) Not much there now as mining and salvagers (during ww2) have removed most of the town if not all it by now (it was mostly brick) But there is a very interesting grave yard there with some very resent plantings and a Nv state Senator. Also that road was the main road during the day that most of the heavy mining equipment was brought in on.
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Will This Be the Next Legendary Coral?
MAC Legendary Blush ($22.00 for 0.21 oz.) is described as a "pale soft coral." It has a satin finish. The color is a subdued pink-coral with a subtle golden shimmer-sheen. Bobbi Brown Desert Twilight is very similar. theBalm Don't You Want Me is darker. Tarina Tarantino Feather is similar. MAC Immortal Flower is pinker and has no shimmer. MAC Supercontinental is much more orange and brighter.
The texture was soft but a little stiff. It had decent color payoff, though I did need to build up the color to get it to show up on my coloring (about NC30, for reference). What was nicest about the blush was its finish; it gave just a glimmer of sheen and glow, but it didn't emphasize pores or look frosted. The finish was natural and lovely. I wore this yesterday after swatching, and it managed to last seven hours without fading but after another half hour, it looked faded around the edges.
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Origin: Holland. Eggs: 80 - 160 tinted.
Weight: Bantam Cock: 500 - 550g, Hen: 400 - 450g.
Colours: Gold Partridge, Silver Partridge, Yellow Partridge, Blue Silver Partridge, Blue Yellow Partridge, Blue Partridge, Red Shouldered White (Pile), Cuckoo Partridge (Crele), Cuckoo, Black, White, Blue, Lavender. (Standardised UK).
Useful to Know: A true Bantam. Hardy. Can make a good broody but only covers a small number of eggs. Good temperament and can become quite friendly.
Photo: A Yellow Partridge Dutch Bantam (Male)
Dutch Bantams were developed in Holland during the 1880's after birds were imported from the Dutch East Indies on ships that carried them to supply meat and eggs whilst at sea. Stories say that the local peasants were required to give any large hens eggs that they had to their land owner so they took a liking to these birds since they laid such small eggs that they could keep for themselves.
Dutch Bantams are true bantams (they do not have a large variety counterpart) and are one of the smallest bantams. The first imports into the UK were not until the early 1970's and soon became very popular in the UK. It was Easter 1982, that the Dutch Bantam Club was formed, taking over from the Rare Poultry Society, at a meeting at Malpas and Whitchurch Poultry Show. At the time, this was the largest one day show in the country. The secretary of the Rare Poultry Society at the time was Richard Billson who is the president of the Dutch Bantam Club to this day.
In the U.S. they arrived much earlier (around 1945) but appear to have died out in the 1950's. They were re-imported during the 1970's and soon became popular. The American Dutch Bantam Society was formed in 1986. Dutch Bantams are popular in Switzerland. They arrived there in 1968 and a breed club was formed in 1982.
The British Standards for the different colours of Dutch Bantams were accepted by the Poultry Club of Great Britain over a number of years but it is thought (can anyone confirm this for us??) that the Gold and Silver were Standardised before the Club was formed in 1982. They first entered the American Poultry Standards in 1992.
Dutch Bantams are called Hollandse Kriel in Holland, Naine Hollandaise in France and Holländische Zwerghühner in Germany.
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About 50 miles into Belize, I come across a police checkpoint. The police man asks me for my drivers license. I give him my AAA international drivers license. He then asks for insurance paperwork. I dont have any insurance in Belize. Mr policeman then proceeds to tell me that I have to have insurance, and that not having insurance is an arrestable offense. He says that I will be put in jail, that the bike will be impounded, and that the judge will decide what to do on Monday (its Sunday now.) He says I will have to follow him back to the station for processing. This whole thing goes on for about 5 minutes of him telling me how bad its going to be. Then he walks over to talk with the two other policeman. I check out his vehicle, while Im thinking about what to do. The police truck is a beat up 90s ford ranger with police hand stenciled onto the side, but it does have blue/red lights on top. Nice!! Two of the policemen are wearing black pants and a black polo with some sort of official looking logo on it. The other policeman has an outfit on that looks like a Halloween costume for President Kim of north korea. Anyway, north korea Kim comes up to me and gives the same talk about insurance, how Im going to jail, and how my bike will be impounded. I notice that Kim doesnt have a gun or a radio. I look back and neither of the other guys have any police gear on. One of them does have a rifle of some sort slung over his back, but its on there all backwards for being able to quickly use it. As president Kim keeps giving me the warnings about Belize jails, I slowly pull up my kickstand, then make sure key is on, then check that the kill switch is off, then slowly put bike in first gear and pull in the clutch. The traffic dies down and the other two policemen walk over to me. Im slowly rocking bike back and forth to make sure the clutch is fully disengaged. Right then, policeman number one says maybe we can make some sort of deal. I say yeah right as I thumb the starter and let out the clutch at the same time, and off I go running from the Belize police with a slowly flattening tire, and them still holding my international drivers license. I haul ass down the road, constantly looking back to see if they are chasing me. After about 20 miles I stop to check my tire .it seems to be holding up, so next stop Belize City. Im really looking forward to getting to some civilization after that shit!!!
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As a public institution we are required to provide equal access to programs and services for our entire community. See more about Legal Standards for Web Accessibility.
In the paragraphs below we present some common issues that will affect most WWU web developers.
- Alt Attributes On All Images
- Multimedia Accessibility
- Relative Font Sizes
- Meaningful Link Names
- Tabindexes on Forms
- Skip Navigation
- Color and Contrast
- Accessible Tables
- Accessible File Formats
ALT attributes on all Images
Every image in your site should have an ALT attribute that explains what the image is for. This is essential for screen readers for the vision-impaired as well as for those that have turned off graphics or working in poor wireless conditions. This is the ALT attribute for the IMG tag in HTML, but you can also put these in using your WYSIWYG editor like Dreamweaver.

If the picture is merely fluff, or a spacer graphic that is not meant to be seen, use a null alt attribute (nothing between the quote marks) so that the screen reader ignores it:

For alt attributes and captions provide as complete a summary as possible. For example, if it's a picture showing population growth, don't just say "Population Growth", sum up the meaning of the graphic as in "Whatcom County Population Growth of 50% expected by year 2020". If you need a longer description, use the longdesc attribute which links to a separate web page on which a detailed description of the graph is provided:

Multimedia Accessibility
Just as graphics must be labeled, other types of multimedia must also be captioned for those that can't hear it or audio-captioned for those that cannot see it. There are a variety of tools available to help with this (google "web captioning") and we hope to have more information on this in the future. Some ideas to start with:
- YouTube has decent captioning for videos.
- You can also provide a written script of your videos
Relative Font Sizes
Absolute font sizes, such as 12px or 24px cannot be resized in Internet Explorer browsers. This prevents people from finding a comfortable font size for their vision level and the monitor they're using. So use relative font sizes, either "ems" or "%" or the keywords such as "small". And since you're using good design techniques, nothing that affects how the page looks is in the html file, but rather in a css file.
There are several relative font sizing mechanisms, the simplest of which is "xx-small", through "medium" through "xx-large", giving seven levels of font sizes. Note that "small" is rendered as about 12px in most browsers, but IE uses "x-small" to represent 12px.
EMS and percentage are also relative font-sizing schemes, but note that they compound - i.e. If you have a section at font-size: 90% and then inside that another font-size: 90% then the resulting font-size will be smaller than the rest of the text, i.e. 90% of 90% or about 80%. A font-size:small inside another font-size:small does not get smaller. So use em and percentage with caution.
The Western Template takes care of this for you, but for your own pages, define the size for all your body and p and h text in your css file similar to this for vision-friendly resizable text:
 { font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, san serif; font-size: 100%; } h1 { font-size: 2.5em; } h2 { font-size: 2.25em; } h3 { font-size: 2em; } h4 { font-size: 1.8em; } p { font-size: 1.6em; }
Meaningful Links
The link name must be meaningful all by itself. Screen readers have functionality that allows users to access links on a web page independently of their context, e.g., in a list of links. Links like "click here" and others don't make sense in this context. Likewise if someone is using speech recognition, the link names must be different for each link.
Don't do generic link names like these:
- Click here to get Instructions for the request form
- Click here to go to the request form
Do use explicitly helpful link names like these:
Add Tabindexes for Forms
If you have form fields on your webpage, allow the user to use keyboard only to move through the form with Tabindex tags. That means that for each <Input> on your page, provide a tabindex set to sequentially higher values. For example:
<input type="text" id="name" tabindex="1" > <input type="text" id="email" tabindex="2" >
Add Skip Navigation
If your template, like ours, starts with navigation on the top / left, then users who are navigating by keyboard rather than mouse must use an outrageous number of keystrokes to get past your navigation so they can access the main content. This is not very friendly. Use Skip to Main Content link to take care of this. First put an anchor on the beginning of the main page content:

Then add a link just under the Body tag to jump to this anchor in your main content:
Skip to main content
Then add an attribute to your css file to make this link off-page:
.skipnav { float:left; margin-left: -1000px; }
You can test how your users see this by making these changes and bringing up your page (or this page for that matter) in Firefox. Then turn off the CSS by selecting View, Page Style, No Style and use your tab key to navigate.
Color and Contrast
The general rule about color is: Don't use color alone to convey information. Screen readers don't indicate text color and some vision impairments mask color differences. A common mistake is the following:
(Required fields are red)
Only those who can see red can see the distinctions here. But starred works for all readers:
(*Required fields are red and starred)
The general rule for contrast is that more is better. Readability is increased if there is adequate contrast between the background color and the foreground text color. That's why black text on white background is a good standard. If you're not sure, there are color contrast checking tools to test this on your site.
But the subject becomes more complex when you consider those who see color differently, and there are tools that show you how your page looks to someone with color-blindness. To anticipate these difficulties, imagine your site in shades of gray - it should be the contrast (light, dark) of the the colors that distinguishes them, not just the color values (red, green) themselves.
Again - don't convey information with color alone and when you use colors for effect consider their contrast and value.
Accessible Tables
Screen readers read tables from left to right starting at the top. As users get deep into the table, it can be difficult for them to appreciate where they are in the table and which headers apply to which cells. The table below looks standard:
but a screen reader could read this as:
Parking at WWU
Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall;
2005, 3500, 2900, 650, 3000;
2000, 3300, 2400, 390, 2000.
This reading would completely confuse the meaning of "2000" as a year and "2000" as a number of cars parked. So how can this table be improved?
An improved caption would help: "Parking increases at WWU between 2000 and 2005". Your captions should always sum up the meaning of the table - it helps everyone understand the table.
Also, labeling can be more specific - label the years fields to more clearly differentiate them from the parking counts, e.g. yr 2005.
But to provide specific assistance to screen readers without modifying what you see on the screen, use the summary attribute and the scope attribute to make this table easier to understand. The summary attribute provides additional information about the table as a whole while the scope tells the screen reader which fields name columns and which fields name rows as in this code excerpt:

	 Winter	 ... Fall

 2005	 3000	 ....

 2000	2000	 ...
Using the attributes in this way enables the screen reader to read the above chart as
The average number of cars per day parking at Western each term now and 5 years ago.
2005: Winter, 3500; Spring, 2900; Summer, 650; Fall 3000.
2000: Winter, 3300; Spring, 2400; Summer, 390; Fall 2000.
For more complex tables comprised of nested tables use these guidelines:
- Be sure that all row and column headers are marked up as
- Include an id="name" attribute for all  elements
- Include a headers="th1 th2..." attribute for all  elements, the value being a space-delimited list of id's representing each  element that applies to that cell.
Accessible File Formats
Web pages are the most accessible files - no matter the operating system, browser / screen reader or device, the user is fairly certain to be able to get to your content. However other file formats are not so universal. Word, Powerpoint and Excel types require a Microsoft reader; PDF requires an Adobe reader; although these formats are very prevalent they are not as accessible as HTML and frequently the issues are harder to remedy.
So your content should be in HTML.
That said there are times that other formats are an acceptable compromise:
- The document is distributed in another medium, such as print, and it is important that the on-line version be the same
- A large repository of documents exists and are not yet converted or are prohibitively expensive to convert
These are real-word reasons - just remember that you are potentially compromising some users' accessibility to these documents. Also see notes on Linking to non HTML documents
Creating accessible PDF files
Special care must be taken with Adobe PDF (portable document format) files to ensure that they are accessibility-compliant. A common issue with PDF files is that they do not contain information about structure by default (such as heading elements and paragraph elements which can be parsed by a screen reader.) Fortunately, there are solutions in place which address these issues by "tagging" the document to enable compatibility with assistive technologies.
Please review the following documents for assistance with creation and formatting of accessible PDFs:


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A Plea to EA
07-03-2012, 03:54 PM | Post: #21VitalBullet
This thread makes me sad.
Everyone saying why are the widgets in there you just want the rare items inside the drops. Please stop and try to think for a second... If the only items you get are the "are" items then what is the point in making a supply drop anyway... might as well just put them in the store.
For those saying it is gambling. Technically it's not as you always get an item worth at least as much as the cost of the drop, so there is never any loss. The only reason YOU call it gambling is because you see anything that is not one of the "rare" items as a loss.
These are YOUR expectations of the Supply Drop feature, not what they actually provide which voids any actual gamble.
So by YOUR expectations the Supply Drops are indeed a gamble and you are never guaranteed to get the items you want in the first few drops... you could go 10+ drops and not get any of these items, or you could get one on your first, second and third tries
There is no "losing" but it takes some luck to get the jackpot... so to speak.
(Yes I know this threads is a little old)
07-03-2012, 04:05 PM | Post: #22UncleCreepy
You could always add more clothing items instead of widgets to the supply drops. Supply drops should give weapons and clothing much more often than widgets. We want permanent clothing and weapons not band aids, wrenches, and temporary items. Instead of the Experimental Drop containing only rare clothing and widgets, they should contain the entire regular Dr set as well as the few rare items. This way each purchase will get you at least one part of permanent clothing and if you are lucky a rare. Its not that we want only rare items we simply do not want the widgets.
07-03-2012, 04:36 PM | Post: #23-Scheetje!
Just for the record... My royal mando had 3 of the 5 'rare' inventor items.
Tried to get the top for him, this is the result.
Note I got the mask in my first drop.
So 30k of funds for just a shipment of tonics.
Rather had bought some other items instead...
07-03-2012, 06:01 PM | Post: #24_Super1d__Zero_
^Why so sad lol?
Btw, did you bother to read Vital's post?
07-03-2012, 06:22 PM | Post: #25TPangolin
I'll be happy as long as they remove VP Boost from the drops...
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07-03-2012, 06:33 PM | Post: #26-Scheetje!
(07-03-2012 06:01 PM)_Super1d__Zero_ Wrote: ^Why so sad lol?
Why so sad? I'm not sad, just wondering if it is normal to spend 30k funds for 1 hat that's as ugly as hell
and yes, I did read VB's post.
07-03-2012, 06:37 PM | Post: #27Gator4Eva
I agree with Vital that it isn't gambling just because you don't get what you want, but having to drop 20,000 funds (as Vital said it could take 10 drops) seems like a total waste. You could buy tons of items and weapons with 20,000 funds, but you guys at EA think we should have to waste our money on one item because you want to make more money?
I always am hesitant to buy 1 supply drop out of fear of getting a widget, I rarely buy funds, maybe 20 dollars worth every 3 months? Even less now that EA banned my original account (but that is a different story). So when I do have 10,000 funds (and right now I have no weapons) and wanting to get a drop and weapons, I dont want to spend 2000 on a drop that gives me a widget on the first 1-10 drops when I could've gotten a weapon instead. Just make more rares, some witha lower chance, so that almost every drop gives a clothing item, high rate or not. Keep the widgets but with a MUCH lower chance.
07-03-2012, 06:58 PM | Post: #28captainmessi
(27-02-2012 09:59 PM)-Scheetje! Wrote: Opened 8 2k funds supply drops, and he only thing I got were widgets.says the guy who complains when i QQ. LOL jk. btw guys Stop QQ over not getting ur items. its a gamble. so dont QQ when u loose. even if u do it over and over again and get widgets its not ea's fault its your fault for spending the funds when knowing u could end up with a load of widgets. All ways do barbarian drops they always give unlimited first try.
07-03-2012, 07:01 PM | Post: #29captainmessi
(27-02-2012 10:08 PM)blindboylevy Wrote: You've seen threads about people asking for drops like this and like that. You've seen threads about people nerf stuff. Now you want higher drop rates? C'mon, what's next. Every weekend 4000P4F-F.?+1 i normally dont agree with u but on this i do.
07-03-2012, 07:26 PM | Post: #30Acetonium
woahh, this thread has almost 400.000 views
It's an interesting topic though, would be cool if you could get some smallish things if you don't get the stuff you're actually looking for, and not widgets...
07-03-2012, 07:32 PM | Post: #31captainmessi
^^ whats that hammer next to closed beta never seen it before? is it from LOU?
07-03-2012, 07:39 PM | Post: #32Harlinger
Well you might always get an item of the same price, that doesn't mean you will never get worthless items. Like a VP or XPboost for a level 30 player.
And the goal for a player buying a boost isn't to get an item which is worth the same BF, but to get the items. Leading to frustration. EA has a choice, increase the change of getting a really wanted item, or increase the number of widgets you get, or, my favorite, make a wrence or tonic the standard you will get when not receiving an item. Cause those VPboosts can't satisfy me.
07-03-2012, 08:16 PM | Post: #33Mister_Mighty
Just removing the VP-Boosts would be nice or at least make their dropchance a lower.
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07-03-2012, 08:18 PM | Post: #34Gator4Eva
Maybe EA could put Pocket jeep, magic, and other expensive widgets instead of bandages, wrenches, and tonics. I'd rather get 20 pocket jeeps then 500 wrenches.
07-03-2012, 08:28 PM | Post: #35Harlinger
(07-03-2012 08:18 PM)Gator4Eva Wrote: Maybe EA could put Pocket jeep, magic, and other expensive widgets instead of bandages, wrenches, and tonics. I'd rather get 20 pocket jeeps then 500 wrenches.
Lolwut? Are you crazy? Wrenches rule!
07-03-2012, 08:31 PM | Post: #36Gator4Eva
(07-03-2012 08:28 PM)Harlinger Wrote:Not when you don't play on vehicle maps they dont >:O(07-03-2012 08:18 PM)Gator4Eva Wrote: Maybe EA could put Pocket jeep, magic, and other expensive widgets instead of bandages, wrenches, and tonics. I'd rather get 20 pocket jeeps then 500 wrenches.
07-03-2012, 08:49 PM | Post: #37Wynhead
I think the drops are cool.
The drops are mostly the only thing where I spend my money on....
Keep it up with the Drops EA!
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07-03-2012, 09:26 PM | Post: #38Equuinox
(07-03-2012 03:54 PM)VitalBullet Wrote: There is no "losing" but it takes some luck to get the jackpot... so to speak.
I entirely understand your points, but it's not the rate of the rare items, but what they are replaced by that bothers me. Every alternative to a rare is a limited, and in the case of VP boost, fairly useless item. I'm all for keeping the drop sets exclusive, but please- offer something a bit more rewarding in return for what will definitely be a lot of money spent in attempts to get the drops.
08-03-2012, 12:30 AM | Post: #39CHIARAMONTAY
(07-03-2012 07:32 PM)captainmessi Wrote: ^^ whats that hammer next to closed beta never seen it before? is it from LOU?Long before you arrived in the Community. Those hammers were assigned to people to be the Judges in Official Media contests. From what I remember Solid and Cyblos had them.
Sorry to go Offtopic.
16-03-2012, 10:57 PM | Post: #40herbbie88
(27-02-2012 10:08 PM)blindboylevy Wrote: You've seen threads about people asking for drops like this and like that. You've seen threads about people nerf stuff. Now you want higher drop rates? C'mon, what's next. Every weekend 4000P4F-F.?
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Top message: It's amazing how hard it is to get people to understand this by Globhead
Replying to: Re: Sadly, most Americans are economically ignorant by Joshiwa
It's all part of the credit economy, again, partly due to subsidies. That $249 smartphone you got on a 2 year plan? Costs the store that sold it to you $550. And if the great new device turns out to be a flop? That's a lot of money lost. If consumers and companies both stopped trying to subsidize and lock phones, and simply have phones and services sold at profit and not at subsidy, we may see phone retail and wholesale prices drop a little and carrier service prices drop some as well. Phone carriers could also stop running on borrowed money if they no longer have to foot the bill on customizing and buying all the phones for their network. We've seen technology crop up recently where a phone radio tuner can switch frequencies totally on software now, potentially making a phone compatible with any network of the same type by changing a setting.
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TANZANIA Revenue Authority (TRA) on Sunday defended the allegedly inflated prices of Electronic Fiscal Devices (EFD) which are sold to Value Added Tax (VAT) registered traders.
The authority said the gadgets were tailor made to serve specific purposes. TRA Deputy Commissioner General Rished Bade told the 'Daily News' on Sunday in Dar es Salaam that it is possible that Mbozi East lawmaker, Erasto Zambi saw EFD machines which are similar to those being used by traders.
He said that the gadget the lawmaker saw could have been a different brand and model. "Our devices are different and have been specifically manufactured to perform some specialized tasks.
"They are not sold randomly in the market," said Mr Bade who, however, did not want to give further details. "You should have written us specific questions so that we respond to them," the TRA second in command noted.
Traders and lawmakers oppose the hiked devices' prices. The EFD gadgets which were introduced in 2010 targeting traders with a turnover of 40m/- per annum have so far been sold to close to 17,000 traders with an annual turnover of not less than 14m/-.
According to the authority, EFD bears a fiscal seal, has special inbuilt Read Only Memory (ROM), incorporates fiscal memory that cannot be erased by use of electromagnetic interface and keeps 48 hours power backup. It can also use external battery in areas without electricity supply, among some of their characteristics.
In addition, the machines have irreversible date mechanism ensuring that no backdating can exist and they can be used as a stand-alone or configured into network with memory capacity to store data for at least five years or 1800-day transactions. When first introduced in 2010, their prices peaked over 1.5m/- which was later reduced to 800,000/- following an outcry by business people.
Mr Zambi who demanded in Parliament last week that the government stop further distribution of the devices or lower prices, wants the prices slashed further. "Traders are complaining against the hefty prices.
I went o Dubai and China and found the gadgets being sold at between 60 and 150 US dollars (between 96,000/- and 240,000/-)," Zambi alleged saying the price difference is alarming hence the need to review it. The fiery Mbozi legislator further noted that small and medium scale traders whose turnover is not more than 14m/-, is a burden because paying 800,000/- for a gadget meant to enable TRA collect taxes is choking their businesses.
TRA has made impressive VAT collection since introducing the devices collecting over 791.4bn/- in 2010/11 fiscal year compared to the 785.8bn/- collected in the 2009/2010 season. In 2011/12 season, TRA collected over 1.08trn/- in VAT revenue.


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In Washington today, Republicans will try again to re-open limited parts of the government. Democrats and the President say it's all or nothing.
The Capitol is operating with a skeleton crew this morning, and there's word President Obama may be canceling part of his Asian trip next week to stay home and deal with this. He's blaming conservatives who insist on delaying health care to get the government running.
Tea partiers insist most Americans don't even notice the shutdown: "They still got their mail today they are still going to get their social security check," said Rep. Tim Huelskamp, (R) Kansas.
But around the country, mothers and children have lost food assistance. Some head start centers closed.
The CDC is no longer monitoring flu.
Hawaii's losing $50, 000 a day because the U.S.S. Arizona is closed. "We can't go in - it's just a big disappointment," said Ruben Bijvank, Visitor from Holland.
The commissary is closing at Pearl Harbor naval shipyard, so workers are getting rid of perishable food: "Even for hurricanes and tsunamis, I've never seen it this bad," said Dave Dawley, Furloughed Worker.
800 civilians furloughed at camp Lejeune. "That's money out of their pocket, money to pay the bills, childcare, and schools," said Retired Marine Sylvia Grinage.
With national parks closed, this California class had to cancel their camping trip. "I was sad because I really liked the trip last year and really wanted to go again this year," said 6th Grade Student Trevor Canton.
In Washington, votes that failed Tuesday are scheduled again today to fund parks, museums, veterans' services and washington d-c only.
Democrats insist they won't do it piecemeal. President Obama blames the tea party: "They demanded ransom just for doing their job." President Barack Obama
And across America there is frustration. "Congress needs to be turned over somebody's knee and spanked real hard," said EPA Employee Elizabeth Lytle.
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Laurent Fabius, Foreign Minister from France, speaks during a meeting on Syria in the United Nations Security Council, Aug. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
PARIS: Western powers are preparing a tough response in case Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime deploys chemical or biological weapons in its civil war, France's foreign minister said Monday.
Syria's leadership has said the country, which is believed to have nerve agents as well as mustard gas and Scud missiles capable of delivering them, could use chemical or biological weapons if it were attacked from outside.
President Barack Obama has called it a "red line" for the U.S. if Assad's regime were to use such lethal weapons, and France has been ratcheting up its language on the issue.
If Syria uses such weapons, "our response ... would be massive and blistering," French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on RMC radio Monday.
He said Western countries are monitoring the movement of the weapons in Syria to be ready to "step in" immediately.
Fabius said "we are discussing this notably with our American and English partners."
Fabius added that Russia and China are "of the same position," but did not elaborate. Fabius acknowledged frustration at their continuing support for Assad.
The foreign ministries of both China and Russia declined immediate comment on Monday.
Since the start of the Syrian conflict, Beijing has been consistent in its stance that it should be settled through negotiations and not by outside forces.
Moscow is Syria's chief ally, and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov told the AP in a recent interview that Russia has the Syrian government's assurances that chemical weapons will not be used. Gatilov said Russia will "work toward the goal of preventing such things from happening."
China and Russia have repeatedly used their veto powers in the U.N. Security Council to block U.S.- and Arab-backed action that could have led to sanctions against Assad's regime.
Syria's opposition has urged outside military help against Assad's armed forces.
"I am going to be very clear, we are requesting military intervention in order to protect Syrian civilians who have been constantly murdered over the last year and a half," the head of the Syrian National Council, Abdelbaset Sieda, said in Madrid on Monday.
"The European Union should take the initiative and pressure Russia ... so we can lay down some protected areas for refugees," Sieda said after meeting Spain's Foreign Affairs Minister Jose Manuel Garcia Margallo.
Margallo said Spain would continue to press for a united EU approach to Syria and urged Syrian opposition groups to overcome their divisions and join together against the Assad regime.
The new U.N. envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, acknowledged Monday that brokering an end to the civil war is a "very, very difficult task."
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According to the Millennium Development Goals Report 2010, launched on 23 June, the economic crisis took a heavy toll on jobs and incomes around the world, but its impact does not threaten achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) target of cutting the rate of extreme poverty in half by 2015. While the annual MDG accounting report highlights a number of successes, it also assesses the human impact of lack of adequate progress on many of the Goals.
"This report shows that the Goals are achievable when nationally owned development strategies and policies are supported by international development partners," UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon states in his foreword to the report. "At the same time, it is clear that improvements in the lives of the poor have been unacceptably slow, and some hard-won gains are being eroded by the climate, food and economic crises. Billions of people are looking to the international community to realize the great vision embodied in the Millennium Development Goals. Let us keep that promise."
The report highlights big gains in getting children into primary schools in many poor countries, especially in Africa; strong interventions in addressing AIDS, malaria and child health; and a good chance to reach the target for access to clean drinking water. But disadvantages that hurt the poorest, those living in remote areas or with a disability, or due to ethnicity or gender, have sapped progress on many other fronts, it warns.
Among the findings are that only half of the developing world's population has access to improved sanitation, such as toilets or latrines; girls in the poorest quintile of households are 3.5 times more likely to be out of school than those from the richest households, and four times more likely than boys from this background; and less than half of the women in some developing regions benefit from maternal care by skilled health personnel when giving birth.
The share of people in the developing world who subsist on less than $1.25 a day, in constant US dollars, dropped from 46% in the baseline year of 1990 to 27% in 2005 – led by progress in China and Southern and South Eastern Asia – and is expected to tumble to 15% by the target year of 2015.
However the MDG Report 2010 also indicates that progress against hunger has been impacted more severely by economic troubles. The ability of the poor to feed their families was hit consecutively by skyrocketing food prices in 2008 and falling incomes in 2009, and the number of malnourished, already growing since the beginning of the decade, may have grown at a faster pace after 2008.
The assessment of Goal 8 – for a global partnership for development – indicates resilience in international cooperation in the face of recent economic difficulties. Official development assistance (ODA) rose in both 2008 and 2009, to reach a total of nearly $120 billion per year; developing and poor countries continued to improve access to rich-country markets; and developing-nation debt burdens continued to ease, due to good debt management and ongoing debt relief for the poorest countries.
"Despite the setback to exports caused by the global economic crisis, the ratio of debt service to exports remained stable or again fell in most developing regions in 2008," the report states. "Despite further losses of export earnings in 2009 and, for some countries, declining growth, debt burdens are likely to remain well below historical levels." But the jury is still out on the global partnership's overall performance. The report cautions that the 2009 ODA increase sorts out as a mere 0.7% over the 2008 total in real terms, and in current US dollars actually constitutes a 2% decline. The report voices concern on projections for 2010 development assistance, which may possibly be jeopardized by fiscal difficulties in donor countries, and also notes a substantial gap in fulfillment of 2005 commitments to double aid to Africa. Moreover, hopes for completing the "development round" of world trade talks, under way since 2001, have been frustrated.
Climate change and Goal 7
Under Goal 7, covering the broad area of environmental sustainability, the UN reports that over the last decade the world lost 13 million hectares of forest each year – an alarming rate which is nevertheless a notch down from the annual average of 16 million hectares recorded during the previous decade.
Population increase and economic growth in the last two decades have produced a nearly 50% increase in global CO2 emissions between 1991 and 2007, from 21.9 to 29.6 billion metric tons. Figures for 2008 are expected to show that the rate of increase has slowed, largely as a result of economic downturn. It is even possible that total emissions may have decreased in 2009. But the same estimates that produced these findings also suggest that unless decisive action is taken, emissions will again rise rapidly as the world economy reboots. The UN convenes the next round of international climate change negotiations late in 2010, in Cancun, Mexico.
MDG +10 Summit: An action agenda to 2015
The UN is convening a special summit in New York, 20-22 September, to agree on a plan to accelerate global action on the Goals. More than 100 Heads of State and Government are expected, along with leaders from the private sector, foundations and civil society organizations.
Some highlights from the report:
Achieving the MDGs will also require increased attention to those most vulnerable. Policies and interventions will be needed to eliminate the persistent or even increasing inequalities between the rich and the poor, between those living in rural or remote areas or in slums versus better-off urban populations, and those disadvantaged by geographic location, sex, age, disability or ethnicity:
• In all developing regions, children in rural areas are more likely to be underweight than urban children. In Latin America and the Caribbean and parts of Asia, this disparity increased between 1990 and 2008.
• The gap between the richest and the poorest households remains enormous. In Southern Asia, 60% of children in the poorest areas are underweight compared to 25% of children in the richest households.
• In developing regions overall, girls in the poorest 20% of households are 3.5 times more likely to be out of school than girls in the richest households and four times more likely to be out of school than boys from the richest households.
• Even in countries close to achieving universal primary education, children with disabilities are the majority of those excluded.
• Maternal health is one of the areas in which the gap between rich and poor is most conspicuous. While almost all births are attended by skilled health personnel in the developed countries, less than half of women receive such care when giving birth in parts of the developing world.
• Disparities in access to care during pregnancy are also striking, with women in the richest households 1.7 times more likely to visit a skilled health worker at least once before birth than the poorest women.
• Lack of education is another major obstacle to accessing tools that could improve people's lives. For instance, poverty and unequal access to schooling perpetuate high adolescent birth rates, jeopardizing the health of girls and diminishing their opportunities for social and economic advancement.
• Contraceptive use is four times higher among women with a secondary education than among those with no education. For women in the poorest households and among those with no education, negligible progress was seen over the last decade.
• Only about half of the developing world's population are using improved sanitation, and addressing this inequality will have a major impact on several of the MDGs. Disparities between rural and urban areas remain daunting, with only 40 per cent of rural populations covered. And while 77% of the population in the richest 20% of households use improved sanitation facilities, the share is only 16% of those in the poorest households.
A number of advance have been made:
The collective efforts towards achievement of the MDGs have made inroads in many areas. Encouraging trends before 2008 had put many regions on track to achieve at least some of the goals. The economic growth momentum in developing regions remains strong and, learning from the many successes of even the most challenged countries, achieving the MDGs is still within our grasp:
• Progress on poverty reduction is still being made, despite significant setbacks due to the 2008-2009 economic downturn, and food and energy crises. The developing world as a whole remains on track to achieve the poverty reduction target by 2015. The overall poverty rate is still expected to fall to 15% by 2015, which translates to around 920 million people living under the international poverty line – half the number in 1990.
• Major advances have been made in getting children into school in many of the poorest countries, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa.
• Remarkable improvements in key interventions – for malaria and HIV control, and measles immunization, for example – have cut child deaths from 12.5 million in 1990 to 8.8 million in 2008.
• Between 2003 and 2008, the number of people receiving antiretroviral therapy increased tenfold – from 400,000 to 4 million – corresponding to 42% of the 8.8 million people who needed treatment for HIV.
• Major increases in funding and a stronger commitment to control malaria have accelerated delivery of malaria interventions. Across Africa, more communities are benefiting from bed net protection and more children are being treated with effective drugs.
• The rate of deforestation, though still alarmingly high, appears to have slowed, due to tree-planting schemes combined with the natural expansion of forests.
• Increased use of improved water sources in rural areas has narrowed the large gap with urban areas, where coverage has remained at 94% – almost unchanged since 1990. However, the safety of water supplies remains a challenge and urgently needs to be addressed.
• Mobile telephony continues to expand in the developing world and is increasingly being used for m-banking, disaster management and other non-voice applications for development. By the end of 2009, cellular subscriptions per 100 people had reached the 50% mark.
The Millennium Development Goals Report, an annual assessment of regional progress towards the Goals, reflects the most comprehensive, up-to-date data compiled by over 25 UN and international agencies. Produced by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the report has been designated by the UN General Assembly as an official input to the MDG summit.
It is based on a master set of data that has been compiled by an Inter-Agency and Expert Group on MDG Indicators led by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat. A number of national statisticians and outside expert advisers also contributed. A complete set of the data used to prepare the report is available online.
Read the Secretary-General's statement at the launch of the report.
For further information, on the September summit, click here.
FAO's "The State of Food and Agriculture –Women in agriculture: Closing the gender gap for development" finds clear synergies between the Millennium Development Goals on gender equality (MDG 3) and poverty and food security (MDG 1). It argues that closing the gender gap in agriculture would produce significant gains for society by increasing agricultural productivity, reducing poverty and hunger and promoting economic growth.
"Score the Goals: Teaming Up to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals" is the title of an educational comic book, recently released at the United Nations in Geneva, that aims to make 8-14 year old children around the world aware of the Millennium Development Goals in a fun and interactive way, and invites them to take action through various activities provided in an adjoining educational guide.
A new matrix is now available that provides an overview of the commitments and initiatives announced during the MDG Summit in September 2010, as well as a report of the numerous side events that were held.
On 4 October 2010 in Geneva, NGLS organized a briefing and multi-stakeholder interactive panel to take stock of the outcome of the "MDG summit"– the UN High Level Plenary Meeting that was held in New York on 20-22 September to review and accelerate progress in the realization of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Following the outcome of the High-level Plenary Meeting on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), better known as the "MDG Summit" (20-22 September, New York), NGLS has released a special NGLS e-Roundup, which analyzes the outcome of the negotiations in light of civil society contributions to the summit process. It also reviews the various plenary sessions, roundtables, side events, partnerships and other initiatives that took place during the three-day summit.
In conjunction with the "MDG Summit" (20-22 September, New York), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on Africa (UN-OSAA), and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) organized a joint MDG Partnership event (20 September) in order to present UNECA/OECD's "2010 Mutual Review of Development Effectiveness in Africa," as well as UN-OSAA's report on "Africa's Cooperation with New and Emerging Development Partners: Options for Africa's Development."
The MDG Summit has concluded, following the General Assembly's adoption of the outcome document, 'Keeping the Promise: United to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals', which reaffirms world leaders' commitment to the MDGs.


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Marvin Sapp, Regina Bell, Rick Ross, Keyshia Cole and Jimmy Highsmith are among the musical acts performing at this year's Rochester SummerFest.
This is the third annual SummerFest for the City of Rochester and it's not just music – the four-day event also includes a school supply giveaway and a basketball tournament.
Six elementary schools in the Rochester City School District are in the running to win backpacks filled with school supplies for all students. The winning school will be announced at 2 p.m. on Thursday, July 10. The other five schools will receive a $400 check to purchase school supplies.
The day after the school supply drawing, the fifth annual $25K Basketball Tournament gets underway at the Thomas P. Ryan Community Center on Webster Avenue. The tournament continues each morning at 9 a.m. on July 12 and 13 where teams from Florida, Tennessee, Indiana, New Jersey and New York City will participate. Admission is $5 on July 11 and 12 and $10 on July 13 for the championship game.
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Tickets for Marvin Sapp, Regina Belle and the Jimmy Highsmith Band
Performance takes place at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, July 11 at the Auditorium Theatre
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
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Performance takes place at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 12 at the Blue Cross Arena
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CHEF JEFF — ONE BYTE AT A TIME: Rack of LambAre you tired of turkey at Thanksgiving? Then, how about a nice aromatic roast rack of lamb?
Are you tired of turkey at Thanksgiving? Then, how about a nice aromatic roast rack of lamb?
Rack of Lamb
1 rack of lamb, about 1 1/3 pounds
3 sprigs each, leaves chopped: tarragon, rosemary
1 shallot, minced
1 tablespoon each: Dijon mustard, olive oil
1 teaspoon each: salt, freshly ground pepper
Heat oven to 425 degrees. Lightly score the fat on the lamb, taking care not to pierce the meat underneath. Combine herbs, shallot, mustard, olive oil, salt and pepper in a bowl. Rub the mixture over all sides of the rack. Let rest 15 minutes at room temperature, if possible.
Place lamb fat side up in a small baking pan. Roast in upper third of the oven, 10 minutes. Check rack; if top looks dry, drizzle on a little extra olive oil. Roast until the rack is medium-rare (130 degrees), about 10 to 15 minutes, or to desired doneness. Let meat rest 5 minutes. Carve into chops; serve.
Yield: Serves 4.
Approximated nutritional analysis per serving: 312 calories, 69 percent of calories from fat, 24 grams fat (9 grams saturated), 87 milligrams cholesterol, 2 grams carbohydrates, 22 grams protein, 680 milligrams sodium, no fiber.
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An investigation conducted by the Independent and Authoritative Heritage Newspaper divulged that there is no community radio station in Gbarma District, Gbarpolu County. Gbarma District is the third-most populated district in Gbarpolu County with 15,972 inhabitants, according to the census conducted by the Liberia Institute for Statistics and Geo-Information Services (LISGIS) in 2008.
Residents of Gbarma told this writer that the people rely on the State owned radio station; Liberia Broadcasting System (LBS) or Radio Bomi to get information about major happenings in the country. They (residents) said the only radio station, which is in the capital; Bopolu City no longer comes on. Most besides, the station does not have the wave power to reach other major towns and villages or districts including Gbarma.
"There is no radio station in this district. We are trying to bring on air a station to be called the Human Rights Community Rural Radio Station, but as youth and ordinary citizens, we don't have it all monetarily to accomplish that," said Mr. Adolphus W. Quaye, acting administrator of the proposed Human Rights Community Radio Station.
According to Mr. Quaye, Senator Armah Zulu Jallah sometimes ago donated a transmitter to the proposed station, but said they (citizens) need more money to get the station on. "We need cement to complete the building. As I speak to you the station is at window level. Even when this building is completed, we need a generator for electricity to keep the station running by the day," he stated.
"We want to use this medium to call on our county officials to come to the aid of the district. The radio station would be for everybody," Mr. Quaye furthered. Gbarma District, according to this writer who visited there recently, doesn't have any center for youth activities or discussion as one may put it. The only things that keep them busy at their (youth) leisure time are the soccer pitches in the district.
Quaye and other youth are again calling on the county leadership to help them get a youth center. "If this radio station can be completed, a part of it can also be used as a youth center. We, too, must have a voice in national discussion," commented one Momoh Jallah, a youth in Gbarma. The cry for a community radio station and youth center is not the first of its kind in recent time in Gbarma.
It can be recalled that sometimes ago, residents and health workers in the district told this writer that the district has no health center, and that people with critical medical cases are transferred to the Chief Jallon Medical Center in Bopolu City or at the Liberia Government Hospital in Tubmanburg, Bomi County. According to the residents and health workers, the district only has what they called "mini clinics".
The lack of health center in the district means that the lives of over 15,000 people are in great danger on a daily basis especially during the rainy season. At the same time, there have also been calls by a school authority for the provision of instructional materials. This means that the President's plan for free education is failing in Gbarpolu County where teachers have no teaching materials, the buildings are in disrepair and the staff-to-student ratio at one school is 75 to 1.
It can be recalled that Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf's government reintroduced the Compulsory Free Primary Education for public schools in the country. This initiative, which is aimed at reducing the financial burdens on parents and guardians at the early stage of their children education, thereby encouraging high enrollment of students, was also extended to the junior high division in 2011.
A few months into the new school year, teachers and students across the county are learning that free access to education does not mean equal access. The Ministry of Education's ratio, according to Communication Director, Mr. Martin Bletyn, is one teacher to 45 students. This simply means that the Gbarma scenario is a total contradiction to the MOE's ratio of teacher to students.
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The Thurgood Marshall Legal Society, Chicano/Hispanic Law Students' Association, Texas Hispanic Journal of Law & Policy, and the University of Texas chapter of the National Black Law Journal will host a symposium, "Pursuing Justice through Legal Innovation," on Thursday, February 18, 2010, at the University of Texas School of Law.
The Supreme Court of Texas will open the symposium at 9:00 a.m. with oral arguments held in UT Law's Eidman Courtroom. A formal luncheon will follow at noon with a keynote speech by Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Edward C. Prado, a 1972 graduate of the Law School. The afternoon session features panels covering civil, criminal, and ethical topics, for which attendees can receive up to 3.5 hours of CLE credit.
Oral arguments are free and open to the public. Registration fees are required for the additional events (including the luncheon, which can be attended for $15). There are various levels of registration available, as well as sponsorship opportunities. Attendees can register on the day of the event, but advance registration is preferred.
For detailed information about registration and sponsorship opportunities, see the "Pursuing Justice through Legal Innovation" (PDF) schedule.
The first event of its kind to be held at UT Law, the spring symposium will attract attorneys, professors, entrepreneurs, judges, and law students from around the nation in a stimulating exchange of ideas and legal experience.
For maps to the Law School go to: http://www.utexas.edu/law/about/maps/ .
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