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Depressed and suicidal prisoners in New Zealand are placed in so-called 'at risk' cells where they are deprived of sleep and subjected to humiliating searches
Kim Dotcom recently spent a month on remand in Mt Eden prison after the police agreed to act on behalf of US authorities. The police took away his cars and froze his bank accounts. In prison, Corrections took away his blankets and deprived him of sleep – they woke him up every two hours. Dotcom said he was treated like a convicted criminal – as if depriving convicted criminals of sleep was a legitimate practice.
Sleep deprivation cells
It's not legitimate. Sleep deprivation was declared illegal under Article 3 of the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. New Zealand signed the convention in 1985. Then there's Section 5 of the Corrections Act (2004) which requires the Department to ensure prisons are"operated in accordance with rules (and regulations) in this Act and… are based, amongst other matters, on the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners." Rule 31 states: "All cruel, inhuman or degrading punishments shall be completely prohibited."
The management of Corrections ignore all this – sleep deprivation is a deliberate and daily practice in New Zealand prisons. What's worse, it's reserved primarily for those who are least able to cope with it – prisoners who are suicidal and psychologically vulnerable. The Corrections Department even has special cells for suicidal prisoners with camera surveillance 24/7 so the prisoner can be observed at all times – including on the toilet. Anything the prisoner might use to commit suicide is taken away; they're not allowed underwear, clothes, sheets or blankets – in case they rip them up to use as a rope. All they get to wear is a canvas tunic. It's so tough it can't be ripped – and it's very uncomfortable.
Throughout the night, the lights come on automatically every 30 minutes, so staff can see if the prisoner is doing anything – other than sleeping. Euphemistically, the Department calls these 'at risk' cells. In reality, they're sleep deprivation cells and Corrections has 160 of them.
The 'naked squat'
Sleep deprivation is not the only breach of UN Rule 31. Another is 'the naked squat'. I heard about this from a prisoner who spent a weekend in these so-called 'at risk' cells. Immediately after being sentenced, he was taken to the receiving office at Rimutaka Prison. There he was told to strip naked in front of four officers, and crouch down so the cheeks of his bum spread apart. Two officers got down and looked up his anus – to see whether he had a cell phone, drugs or other contraband hidden up there. Then he had to stand and hold up his penis and scrotum so they could see if he was hiding anything under his genitals. Finally they looked under his armpits and into his mouth.
After this inspection, the prisoner was asked: "How are you feeling?" He replied: "A bit delicate." That was enough to warrant a trip to the 'at risk' cells. Two officers escorted him, and handed him over to another set of officers – who told him to strip off once again. He protested, saying he'd just been searched five minutes ago. But it's in the rules. All prisoners being admitted to the 'at risk' cells have to be searched. So once again, he stripped off and did 'the naked squat' while more officers examined every orifice.
In the morning, he was taken to the shower block – where pretty much everything he did could be observed. Once brought back to his cell, he had to do the squat again. Then he was taken to a different cell to have breakfast. He asked why? No one seemed to know. After breakfast, he was brought back and once again, the officers examined his anus and genitals. The same thing happened after lunch and after dinner. He was required to perform 'the naked squat' every time he came back to his cell. In the course of one weekend, he had to spread his cheeks 11 times.
Another extremely vulnerable prisoner was kept in these 'at risk' cells for three weeks. Imagine that – anxious and suicidal, nothing to do, no TV, no distractions for three weeks on end – except the lights turning on and off all night; and nothing to look forward to except the intense embarrassment of performing the 'naked squat' in front of prison officers four times a day. Don't forget, this is all happening in a secure environment where the prisoner has no contact with the outside world – where it is simply not possible to find anything to put up your arse, except perhaps a piece of soap from the shower. But why would you want to do that? This prisoner endured this indignity four times a day for three weeks – that's 84 times.
Final analysis
The ideal treatment for depressed or suicidal patients would generally include emotional support, counselling and/or antidepressant medication. For such patients, getting a good night's sleep is paramount. Treatment should focus on improving the prisoner's state of mind.
What happened to these prisoners is an appalling abuse of power – and a breach of the Corrections Act and United Nations Conventions. Dotcom was right -- he was tortured. When this sort of abuse happens in other countries, Amnesty International is quick to point out the perpetrators. Meanwhile, the abuse of sleep-deprived prisoners in New Zealand has been going on for years.
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"The Transformers movies have been a great partnership for Chevrolet by allowing us to introduce our vehicles to new fans, young and old, around the world," said Tim Mahoney, chief marketing officer, Global Chevrolet. "Now for the fourth time, you'll see a Camaro as a heroic Autobot, a fitting role for one of the stars of Chevrolet's lineup."
Director Michael Bay hopes to capitalize on the success of the 2007 film that launched the fifth-generation Camaro as well as the 2009 (Revenge of the Fallen) and 2011 (Dark of the Moon) sequels. No doubt the movies added to the hype surrounding the Camaro's return to market, and boost sales into the stratosphere.
LeeAnne Stables, executive vice president of Worldwide Marketing Partnerships for Paramount Pictures, was quoted as saying: "The Chevrolet partnership with this iconic Michael Bay movie franchise has become one of the longest-running and most innovative movie-brand relationships in film history. This new Chevy campaign will definitely bring new and exciting elements to a global audience of Transformers movie fans around the world."

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IMF credit is extended to its members in both foreign exchange and SDRs. Credit extended in foreign exchange is financed from the quota resources made available to the IMF by members, and essentially involves a transfer of foreign exchange from creditor members to borrowing members. These transfers reduce the available quota resources from creditors and increase their positions with the IMF by the same amount. Members receive a market-related return on their creditor positions with the IMF.
When extending credit in SDRs, the IMF transfers reserve assets directly to borrowing members by drawing on the IMF's own holdings of SDRs in the General Resources Account. The SDRs are placed in the SDR accounts of borrowing members with the IMF; the member can either maintain or convert them into foreign exchange. The amount of SDRs available for these transactions is generally limited, because the IMF normally seeks to maintain part of its usable resources in the form of SDRs—its most liquid asset.
| By the same token, the repayment and servicing of IMF credit results in the receipt of both foreign exchange and SDRs from borrowing members. In this case, the SDRs received by the IMF are added to its holdings in the General Resources Account, while the foreign exchange is passed on to IMF creditor members, reducing their creditor positions with the IMF.
The members that participate in the financing of IMF transactions in foreign exchange are selected by the Executive Board. The selection is based on each member's financial capacity, and takes into account key macroeconomic and financial indicators (see box).
The amounts transferred and received by these members are managed to ensure that their creditor positions in the IMF remain broadly even in relation to their quota, the key measure of each member's rights and obligations in the IMF. This is achieved in the framework of an indicative quarterly plan for financial transactions.1
The accompanying table presents the outcome of the financial transactions plan for the quarterly period completed three months prior to publication.
Column 1 indicates the members that participated in the financing of IMF transactions.
Column 2 shows the IMF quota for each of these members, which is the absolute limit of each member's obligation to make resources available to the IMF for its financial transactions.
Column 3 shows for each participating member the available quota resources at the beginning of the quarterly period. The difference between the amounts in columns 2 and 3 reflect the past net contributions of each member to the financing of IMF transactions.
Column 4 indicates the amount of foreign exchange transferred during the quarter by each member to finance the extension of IMF credit 'purchases' (of other members' currencies)2 and other transfers such as interest on creditor positions and other payments to members, and administrative expenses incurred by the IMF at its headquarters and offices around the world. The bulk of administrative payments are made in U.S. dollars. Depending on the number and size of IMF transactions, not all creditor members may participate in transactions in any three-month period.
Column 5 presents data on the amount of foreign exchange repaid to each member, primarily as a result of the repayment of IMF credits by borrowing members. Interest on credit extended by the IMF (charges) is paid in SDRs not currencies. Some foreign exchange is nevertheless typically received in the General Resources Account from members that acquire the necessary SDRs from the IMF with which to pay interest on their outstanding IMF credit. In order to help move toward balanced creditor positions relative to quota (column 7), receipts are not channeled to members with a low ratio in column 7.
Column 6 shows the available quota resources at the end of the period for each member participating in the financing of IMF transactions. When combined with the IMF's SDR holdings (shown in the penultimate row of the table), these resources comprise the IMF's usable resources, a key element in the assessment of the institution's liquidity position.
Column 7 (a) shows members' cumulative contributions to the financing of IMF credit and other transfers and column 7(b) illustrates the guiding principle that these contributions should be broadly balanced in relation to quota. Members that are relative newcomers to the plan thus tend to have creditor positions that are lower than average.
1Until recently, the financial transactions plan was called the operational budget.
2See Article V, Operations and Transactions of the Fund, of the Articles of Agreement.


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Each network user has secured storage space on the Law School network identified as the R:\ drive.
Other drive letters (eg. S:\, J:\ or I:\) are used by some clinics and centers as a central storage area for files.
Each registered law student is allocated 100 megabytes (100MB) of storage space on the Law School Network. This is not enough to store a complete backup of a laptop, however, it should be able to hold course related documents. Please contact firstname.lastname@example.com if you have concerns about space usage.
Most AV files are are not allowed and will be removed automatically as unusual space usage is detected. (mp3, .mov, etc.)
To check how much space you are using
- Double-click "My Computer"
- Double-click the R:\ drive icon
- From the menu bar, choose Edit > Select All.
- With all items selected, right-click on any folder and choose "Properties". After a few moments, the system will tell you how much space you are using.
Deleting files:
- Do not delete the following folders on the R:\ drive: PROFILE, BROWSER, EMAIL. These are required system folders.
- To move files to a floppy disk or USB drive
- Right-click a file
- Choose the "Send To" menu item which will produce a sub-menu
- Select "3 1/2 Floppy (A)" or a USB drive that has been inserted
- After the file copies to the floppy disk, delete the original by right-clicking it again and choosing "Delete"
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The medium of instruction was noise: the kids were to be messy, noisy, and themselves, recording all that in their sketchbooks. Sunkad sir of the Indian Institute of World Culture was no ordinary man, and his expert painting skills called for much attention. I was ten when Amma dropped me off to painting classes in the hopes that I'd blossom into the next Michelangelo. I'll be modest and say that I almost got there, but in my defense, being terrified does things to your bloated self confidence. The Indian Institute of World Culture was an old building. I was petrified in the beginning—scared of the oils and acrylics that stared down on me from every corner, uncanny creations of vivacity, skill and drama. It was a strange, ancient place—a living relic.
The outer verandah was all of a roomy vastness, filtered lights, and walls decorated with a gaudy relevance: it was the documentation of the works of previous students, a history recorded in progression. It was beneath these proud paintings that the teenage artists huddled in groups, squeezing bright colors on the palette. Occasionally, one could crack a joke and the laughter would awaken like a whiplash, travelling around the room—with a loud, raucous, crackling brashness that would eventually saturate the space. In an attempt at bravado, I'd smile: trying to belong in jokes and groups that I hadn't understood. They'd ignore me and continue like Sunkad sir wasn't listening. He'd say something mild then, from inside his office. But the chortles would effectively drown him out. I was afraid.
The less experienced painters and the little miss-nothings would squat in the very back, on smaller tables designed just for them. It was dark with the shadows here. He called for the new students on the first day and asked us to paint whatever we wanted, a freedom in choice, medium, and ideas. I had heard nothing like that before. I painted thoughtlessly, weakly….enjoying it, a little less scared. I would grow accustomed to this place.
As the days rolled, the weak sketches turned into fearless strokes, and the brushes became more varied. Newer sketch books: I was progressing at an amazing pace, and yet nobody would have guessed such rapid improvement by how calm I appeared to be when I was sitting there with my colors, thoroughly absorbed and concentrating. Those were peaceful and languid evenings: lazy, beautiful and creative...where possibilities tiptoed into my head as I moved my brush now with a more refined, gracefully natural cadence, where I balanced color with sensibility, mixed emotion with acrylic. Those evenings exuded an easy charm that I now nostalgically recollect: when I packed my things to head back home, it was always with the sense of profound contentment and achievement: today, I had created something new that nobody else in the world had painted the exact same way, with the exact same brushes, with the exact same ideas. The very thought was appealing.
The people who had graduated the low tables sat on high chairs at the long wooden benches in the inner verandah, and they were vigorous sketchers. They stayed away from the misbehaving teenage painters of the outer hall, and were marked by many lines of wrinkled maturity on their faces. There was a density to their talks, sketches and everything about them. The HB 2 pencils lay scattered around as they produced images with such terrifying accuracy and expert skill that I'd stand in awe and gape. I wanted to earn a greeting from them. I wanted to get there.
I understood what inspiration meant. I understood how images could create emotion, how they could stir feelings. I learnt so many things as I sat there on the low benches, in the shadows with my Camlin paints. I was beginning to learn harder. Aspiration started bearing fruit in a creative head. Sooner or later, the high table with the society of the best sketchers would call on me. Three sketch books later, one painting had made it to the art exhibit. And it was already the end of the year. The high table was still oblivious.
"It'll take about five years to get there," Sunkad sir used to say. And I was truly waiting for that day.
I'm still waiting
Art—a favorite childhood pastime was buried in my love of books that dominated all my other tastes, interests and choices. Nothing I've ever done has found a more abrupt halt. The love for the written word robbed my interest in images, and in case, I was moving away from Bangalore.
I remember bidding farewell to the place. From then on, I've never picked up a paint brush, never found the inclination to, never even desired.
I remember bidding farewell to the place. From then on, I've never picked up a paint brush, never found the inclination to, never even desired.
Until yesterday.
I don't know what prompted me to pick the brush up again. I was reading R.K. Narayan's "Bachelor of Arts" recently, and flipped through the pages. Vivid images of how I imagined the character of Chandran flashed into my conscious thought. I decided ten years was long enough a wait. It was time to pick up the brush and paint—however clumsily, however pathetically, however crudely.
And "Penance" took shape.
The beginnings of "The Penance"—before I got to painting the beard.
This is with increased saturation standards, just for fun, I was playing with it in Picasa.
The sepia gives a old-worldly, nostalgic effect that i find an essential component of the painting that I couldn't bring to focus, so i took a little help.
Every stroke was discovery. I felt contentment so complete that I've never felt anything like it in the recent years: it was the silent joy of rediscovery, the kind of joy that escapes sensible thought. Every stroke took me back to the peaceful evenings in the verandah's of the Indian Institute of World Culture, where I used to walk past the high table, in hope of belonging with the expert painters.
I hope the high table is proud of me. If they aren't, well, I'm still trying. As I used to say, ten years ago, Someday, I'll get there. Trying is all that matters.


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Turok is an epic, story-driven FPS game set on a dark, mysterious planet in the near future. Players take on the role of Joseph Turok, a former Black Ops commando, now part of an elite Special Forces squad on a mission to take down a war criminal on a genetically-altered planet. After the ship is shot down while approaching the planet, Joseph Turok must use his instincts and elite military training to elude an army of well-trained soldiers, and the ravenous, unpredictable creatures that populate the dangerous environment. Joseph Turok's mission? Survive at all costs.
Our Turok guide makes all others extinct.
The ravenous dinosaurs of Turok have made their mark all over the globe as Touchstone announced today the intense first person shooter has shipped more than 1 million units worldwide. The company also announced that the dinosaur-infested multiplayer mode of Turok will soon expand with the release of the Velociraptor Pack, five new downloadable maps. The new Turok downloadable maps will be available on Xbox Live Marketplace for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft for 400 Microsoft Points and on PlayStation Network for PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system for $4.99 starting on Thursday, March 27, 2008. Read More »
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That black book is getting smaller all the time. House Speaker Frank McNulty's getting married in two weeks and former state Sen. Dan Gibbs tied the knot this afternoon in New York.
Gibbs, now a Summit County commissioner, married Jeanne Johanna Raquet at the Seagle Music Colony in Schroon Lake, N.Y.in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains. It's where they had their first date eight years ago.
"An enchanted evening in an enchanted setting," Gibbs said.
But the best part of his wedding notice was the following line: "The couple reside in Breckenridge with their beloved canine companion Tuff."
The two got engaged last December while dressed as Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus at a Breckenridge holiday party. It's a cute story.


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The state attorney representing Polk County is calling the actions of a Lakeland police officer who instructed a woman to shake out her bra during a drug search "highly questionable.''
In a letter sent to the Lakeland Police Department this week, State Attorney Jerry Hill also called the actions of Officer Dustin Fetz "ineffective and possibly dangerous."
The Ledger of Lakeland reports Fetz asked the woman to lift her shirt above her stomach, pull her bra away from her chest and shake it during a May 21 traffic stop.
Hill says police didn't have reason to suspect she was carrying drugs. No drugs were found on the woman, her boyfriend or in the car.
Police Chief Lisa Womack told the Ledger has reviewed the letter and plans to investigate.


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As the weather grew colder in the first months after Kristen died, a sweet friend wrote to me that she wanted to get me a down blanket as a reminder of Psalm 91:4:
He will cover you with his feathers,There's a comfort in that verse that has become more real to me this year. It is only through God's faithfulness that I am still standing. He's been my strength when I have had absolutely none of my own. The very verse that was shared with me in such love inspired something that I've been able to share with others, from those who have attended our local GriefShare: Surviving the Holidays seminars to friends who themselves have had to face the pain of saying goodbye to a loved one all too soon.
and under his wings you will find refuge;
his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.
Dear Heavenly Father,
Please let each one who needs it feel the comfort of your feathers, the warmth of You around their shoulders. Allow them to know the protection of your wings as You envelop them in your mighty and merciful way. Help them to allow your faithfulness to bolster them to withstand the storms. Calm their spirits and give them peace, Lord, the peace that only You can give.
In Your Son's precious name,


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The SEX WISDOM podcast series returns today with a bang. I have a remarkable guest on hand to speak to us about a wealth of topics, not least of which is his twenty-plus year career in porn. This podcast series, as you recall, brings us conversations with movers and shakers in the field of human sexuality — researchers, educators, clinicians, pundits and philosophers — all who are making news and reshaping how we look at our sexual selves.
If you know anything about pornography in general, and fetish porn in particular, you will immediately recognize the name Luc Wylder. He is a pioneer, a trendsetter, founder of the Fallen Angel brand, a performer, director and producer, the consummate male dominant and all-around wonderful guy.
I have to warn you though; today's show is exceptionally long. It's just that when Luc and I get to talking there is no stopping us. So kick back, put your feet up and settle in for an absorbing conversation that will provide you a unique historical perspective on the modern adult entertainment industry.
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One won the Iowa straw poll five months ago and is now trending in single digits on the day of that state's caucus vote. The other made the playoffs despite a three-game losing streak to end the regular season with a .500 record. See? They're exactly the same! [The Hill]
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We find ourselves getting tired of pointing out the folly taking place in the Kansas Secretary of State's Office.
Kris Kobach, the elected official in charge, is relentless in his pursuit of providing solutions to non-existent problems -- and Kansas taxpayers pick up the tab. The secretary envisions a Sunflower State without any undocumented immigrants, regardless of the vital role they play in the state economy.
Kobach's paranoia concerning these foreign workers casting votes in state elections reached new heights this week. The states of Kansas and Arizona are suing the federal Elections Assistance Commission in an attempt to force everyone filling out a voter registration form to be required to produce documents proving their citizenship.
"Voting is the most cherished right of a U.S. citizenship," Kobach said. "We take seriously our obligation to protect that right and to secure that right and to guard it close so that only citizens may exercise the right to vote."
Sounds good on its face, right? Kobach said noncitizens have tried to vote numerous times through the years, even citing one instance where an individual voted five times during a single election -- each time illegally.
At the same time, there are approximately 15,000 tax-paying Kansas citizens who cannot vote because of the overly stringent state laws requiring they prove their citizenship. These Kansans registered under the federal guidelines, which have worked just fine for decades throughout the country.
In Kobach's attempt to stop one illegal vote, he's devalued the rights of 15,000 legal voters. It seems not to matter to him.
Also seemingly irrelevant is the potential for this federal lawsuit to be successful.
"I think the state has a very weak position there, because I am not aware of any proof they have that the failure to require proof a citizenship when you register to vote has resulted in any non-citizen voting," said Paul Bender, a constitutional law professor at Arizona State University.
Tax dollars will be used, nonetheless, to pay for Kobach's futile endeavor. Tax dollars that are so scarce, according to the Legislature, there isn't enough to properly pay for K-12 education, universities, mental health, social services and myriad other vital societal obligations.
While we might be tired of beating this same horse, we will continue to do so. Secretary Kobach will not give up his xenophobic fight until the people of Kansas demand it.
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With a major renovation in the summer of 2006, the Tao Tennis Centercan now be considered one of the top college tennis facilities in NCAA Division III. Among the many improvements, the courts were resurfaced with post-tension concrete and were painted to reflect the school colors, red and green. The six courts are red and the outer boundaries are green. In addition, new lights, fences, windscreens, nets, bleachers, and a second storage shed were installed.
The Tao Tennis Center served as the host facility for the 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 NCAA Division III Men's Tennis Central Regional and the 2013, 2014 and 2016 NCAA Division III Women's Tennis Central Region. It also was the practice facility for the 2007 NCAA Division III Men's Tennis Championships, hosted by Washington University at the Dwight Davis Tennis Center in Forest Park.
Named in honor of William K.Y. Tao, the Tao Tennis Center was originally refurbished in 1985 in conjunction with the renovation of the Athletic Complex. Tao is a 1950 graduate of Washington University, and currently holds the title of affiliate professor in the schools of engineering and architecture.
Born in Peking, China, he received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Washington University, and has taught at Washington U. since 1960. He is also the founder and President of William Tao and Associates, Consulting Engineers, and the national chairman of the Energy Advisory Committee of the Illuminating Engineering Society.
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When I lived in Lincoln, Neb., in the 1990s, one of my favorite pursuits was haunting thrift shops in the city and in the small towns surrounding it. I never had any particular quest in mind, but my eye usually snagged and held to vintage needlework and supplies. No surprise there.
One of my best finds was the cross stitch textile whatever-it-is I found in a tiny thrift shop on Main Street in Seward, Neb., on the early spring day I drove to Branched Oak Lake, a man-made body of water where as many as a dozen bald eagles roosted in the cottonwood trees along the lake's edge, scanning for yummy waterfowl, no doubt.
The textile, which cost 50 cents, measures roughly 24 inches by 17 inches and is made of rough burlap, the kind that once might have held grain, though nothing about the piece indicates the material might have served that purpose. The piece is sewn by machine into what looks to me like a pillowcase, which seems unlikely since burlap is not a fabric that invites one to loll on it. The item's seams are bound with bias tape to prevent fraying and the open end is finished on the inside with a band of brown satin ribbon nearly 1 inch wide. The ribbon has two places where pieces were added, as if the seamstress had measured incorrectly the amount of ribbon she needed to finish the opening, cut it and had to "piecen" it, as my mother would have said, to make it the correct length.
But before this bag or pillowcase, or whatever it is, was stitched together, one side was decorated with cross stitch images in red, brown, blue, green, white, pink, orange and gray. Some of the yarn used for the embroidery is worsted weight and some is sock weight.
The maker stitched the letters M and E on it — which spoke loudly to me because ME is the abbreviation for Maine, the state I was homesick for, though the letters are, perhaps, the maker's initials. The maker also stitched the number 1912, which may be the year the piece was embroidered. There is no way to tell.
The largest figure on the piece is a donkey or mule wearing a saddle and yellow bridle with a green lead line that appears to be fastened to a figure shaped like a squirrel's tail. On either side of the donkey are figures of ducks, one done in two shades of green, the other just green. Along the short seam of the piece, placed so it appears to be standing on its head, is a running rabbit done in gray. A windmill in yellow and green is beside it. The maker also stitched two green squirrels (one with an orange and green tail) holding acorns, a small white dog, a small red bird, a green and red tree, a green and red vine and a small rabbit done in several shades of pink and maroon, colors that remind me of the ombre yarns of the early 1960s. The lower left hand corner has an L-shaped band design, vaguely floral in intent, done in blue, red and yellow. The designs, especially the donkey, remind me of designs popular in the 1940s.
The reverse side of the embroidery is neatly done, which makes me think it wasn't stitched by a child.
In general, the piece looks as if it were stitched by someone who knew how to embroider and sew, but whose yarn types and color choices were limited, and for whom fine fabrics, such a linen, were not easy to come by.
Whenever I look at the piece, questions come to mind: What exactly is it; who stitched it; did she live on a farm near Seward; did the windmill signify that her family originated in Holland; did she have a dog; was her first name Mary; what was her life like?
Did she stitch the piece to while away a long winter evening when the determined, frigid wind blew relentlessly out of Canada across the Nebraska prairie, burying the lonely road to her house in drifts 10 feet deep?
None of my questions will ever be answered, but I like to think of her, the lamp burning brightly on the kitchen table, the stove throwing off heat, as she counted the threads and placed the stitches, making something pretty to brighten her house out of a rough, drab piece of burlap.
Of this I am certain — she had no idea her embroidery would find its way to Maine and survive into the 21st century.
Cindy Proulx, case aide at Child and Family Services, an office of the Maine State Department of Human Services, invites knitters, crocheters and quilters to donate handmade hats, scarves, mittens and blankets for the staff's Holiday Gift Project to benefit children of all ages and families in need in Penobscot and Piscataquis counties. For information, contact Proulx at 561-4220, toll-free at 800-432-7825, or email email@example.com.
The Wednesday Spinners, who have been meeting for 37 years, will show their work during November at the Blue Hill LIbrary. The show will include handspun yarn, knitted and woven accessories, home furnishings and felted masks. The group will demonstrate spinning 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14. An artists' reception open to all will be held 3-4 p.m. the same day.
Children and teens are invited to the Portland Public Library, 4-5 p.m. the first and third Monday of each month to Sit & Knit. Bring a work in progress or start something new. The sessions are open to those of all skill levels. Basic knitting instruction will be provided. Organizers say they have plenty of yarn to share, but bring your own knitting needles. Crocheters are encouraged to attend. Children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult.
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A lot of stupid things will be said in Denver following Saturday's crushing loss. The dumbest among them will point out that Peyton Manning's Denver Broncos got no further in the playoffs than Tim Tebow.
With that in mind, we present Peter Tebow, Tim's brother.
Am I the only one in Denver who's happy right now?â Peter Tebow (@petertebow) January 13, 2013
The account isn't verified, but Tim Tebow's account wished the account a happy birthday last year. Peter Tebow's tweet after the game has been retweeted more than a 1,000 times as of this writing, and it's just getting started.
Peter Tebow is that guy who gloats about your team losing right after they lost. He followed up his classy gem above by retweeting the following message. Oof.
"That's karma, Elway." -- wife, Tebow-loverâ Ted Spiker (@ProfSpiker) January 13, 2013
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Top Ten Historic Advances for Women Now at Risk
1. Jobs, Jobs, Jobs – The Equal Pay Act of 1963, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (2010)
Today women are virtually 50% of employed workers in the U.S. Taken together, these laws prohibit employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, including pregnancy, and national origin. The Equal Pay Act deals specifically with pay discrimination on the basis of sex. Title VII covers all employment actions, including hiring, promotion, pay, and termination, as well as all of the other terms and conditions of employment. Both have been central to expanding women's economic opportunities and helping women achieve economic and retirement security. The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act reversed a Roberts Court decision that greatly weakened the wage discrimination provision of Title VII.
Recent rulings by the conservative majority of the Supreme Court have weakened employment discrimination laws, placing women's rights in the workplace in jeopardy and actions by conservative Senators have undermined efforts to restore these acts and strengthen employment protections for women, including filibustering the Paycheck Fairness Act in 2010. Moreover, during the current recovery period, women have lost jobs. There has been an assault on state and public sector jobs. Some 800 bills were introduced at the state level to attack collective bargaining rights of public workers. Women are a majority of public sector workers at the state and local levels.
Advancement Goals:
Passage in Congress of the Paycheck Fairness Act and the Fair Pay Act to strengthen Title VII and the Equal Pay Act. Collective bargaining rights must be supported, such as the broad coalition efforts in Ohio to reject Senate Bill 5 that took away public workers' rights. Passage of the Pathways Back to Work Act that provides funding for subsidized employment programs and supports summer and year-round employment for disadvantaged youth. Passage of legislation advancing career and technical education for women and girls including non-traditional jobs. Reauthorization of the Perkings Vocational and Technical Education Act, which expires in 2012 andincludes gender equity provisions.
Raise and index the federal subminimum wage for tipped workers (66% women), which stands at $2.13 per hour. Restaurant workers are 71% female and comprise the largest group of tipped workers. Raise and index the federal minimum wage.
2. The Affordable Care Act (2010)
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) covers maternity care, eliminates pre-existing conditions and prevents health plans from charging women more than men for the same coverage. ACA also covers well-woman preventive health services, such as an annual well-woman visit, contraceptives, mammograms, cancer screenings, prenatal care and counseling for domestic violence, as basic health care for women at no additional cost and includes the first federal ban on sex discrimination in health care programs and activities. Combined with other provisions, the ACA is an historic step forward for women's health.
The House of Representatives voted to repeal the ACA. Conservative senators, state legislators and governors have also pledged to repeal ACA and deny women, of all ages, critical preventive care services. The ACA is under current review by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Advancement Goals:
Full implementation of the ACA. Pass the Health Equity and Accountability Act (H.R. 2954), which seeks to build on the foundation of the ACA to reduce health disparities faced by communities of color and other underserved communities.
3. Women's Right to Vote (1920)
The 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1920, guaranteed American women the right to vote, although many women of color did not win full voting rights until 45 years later under the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Currently women surpass men both in the proportion and numbers of voters.
Instead of advocating a 21st century voting system that is inclusive, conservative legislatures in 30 states are attempting to turn the clock back to the 19th century when only privileged white males were allowed to vote. Newly imposed government issued ID requirements target students, people of color and women. As many as 32 million women of voting age do not have documentation with their current legal name.
Advancement Goals:
Early voting, same day registration, and reversal of state laws that aim to suppress the vote.
4. Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) and Eisenstadt v. Baird (1972) Supreme Court Decisions
The Griswold v. Connecticut Supreme Court decision reverses a Connecticut law that banned prescribed contraceptives for married couples and in so doing, legalized birth control for married couples in all 50 states. Establishes the right to marital privacy. Eisenstadt v. Baird overturned a Massachusetts law and extended the Griswold ruling by establishing the right privacy for unmarried or single people in obtaining prescribed contraceptives, thus legalizing birth control for all.
The so-called "personhood" campaigns would define life at fertilization resulting in banning hormonal contraceptives, the IUD, select fertility treatments, stem cell research and other advances.
5. Title X, The National Family Planning Program (1970)
Title X is the only dedicated source of federal funding for family planning services in the United States. Title X provides family planning and other preventive health care to more than 5 million low-income and uninsured women who may otherwise lack access to health care.
For the first time in history, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to completely defund Title X in 2011. Nine states have reduced family planning funding through legislative action and one (NJ) has eliminated it through the governor's veto.
Advancement Goals:
Full funding of the Title X program. Despite the critical importance of family planning for the health of women and families, Title X is still not funded sufficiently to meet the need for these services.
6. Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision (1973)
In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Roe v. Wade that a right to privacy under the 14th Amendment extended to a women's decision to have an abortion.
Anti-abortion Members of Congress have introduced legislation that would make all abortions illegal and essentially overturn Roe v. Wade. In 2011, over 1,000 pieces of legislation have been introduced and 162 bills have been passed at the state level to restrict access to abortion and/or family planning.
Advancement Goals:
Restore and protect coverage for abortion care in all public and private health plans, including for military families, Medicaid recipients, government employees, and consumers who participate in the health care exchanges. Support programs to train medical providers for the full range of reproductive health care, including training on medical and surgical abortion.
7. Social Security Act (1935)
Social Security is the bedrock of older women's financial security – virtually the only source of income for 3 in 10 women 65 and older – and a critical source of disability and life insurance protection throughout their lives.
Efforts to cut the federal budget threaten to shrink the Social Security program, which would disproportionately impact women's economic security. For example, women stand to lose the most from a reduction in the annual cost-of-living adjustment or an increase in the retirement age.
Advancement Goals:
Social Security's finances should be strengthened while simultaneously improving benefits for those who depend on them. For example, raising or removing the cap on earnings subject to the Social Security payroll tax—right now, earnings above $110,100 are not taxed—and otherwise broadening the payroll tax base would put Social Security on solid financial ground and would fund benefit improvements that would be especially important for older women's economic security. Removing penalties for "care giving" years and increase percentage of workers benefits for dependent spouses.
8. Medicare (1965)
Medicare is the nation's health insurance program for seniors and younger adults with permanent disabilities. More than half (56%) of all Medicare beneficiaries are women.
The conservative majority of the House of Representative passed a fiscal year 2012 budget bill that will effectively end Medicare and replace it for those now under 55 with a voucher to buy private insurance. It would increase out-of-pocket health care costs, limit benefits and severely restrict the choice of doctors.
Advancement Goals:
Close the donut hole. The Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit contains a huge "donut hole" that leaves many seniors unable to pay for urgently needed medication.
9. Medicaid (1965)
Medicaid provides 19 million women access to vital health services at all stages of their lives. In 1107 nearly seven in ten elderly individuals who relied on Medicaid for assistance were women. Medicaid pays for about two-thirds of elderly in nursing homes. Additionally, Medicaid covers millions of pregnant women and more than one-third of all children. ACA expands Medicaid coverage.
Under the conservative House budget, Medicaid was targeted for deep budget cuts and converted into capped block grants to states. Medicaid still faces threats as the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction deliberates and identifies at least an additional $1.2 trillion in budget cuts.
Advancement Goals:
Full funding of Medicaid. Despite the critical importance of health care access for low-income women and families, Medicaid has been consistently underfunded, and even without additional cuts there is still not sufficient funding to meet the need for basic health care and preventive services.
10. The Violence Against Women Act (1994)
The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) created the first U.S. federal legislation acknowledging the severity of crimes related to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
VAWA expired in 2011 and therefore needs to be reauthorized immediately. A renewed VAWA, S 1925, is currently awaiting a vote in the U.S. Senate. That bill, passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee on February 2, 2012 by a straight 10-8 party line vote (all Democrats for, all Republicans against), would update and strengthen VAWA by including provisions that will help protect college students and other young people who are frequently victims of sexual harassment, assault and violence. Further, it will ensure that tribal, immigrant, and LGBT victims receive the lifesaving services that they need.
Advancement Goals:
Since its enactment in 1994, the Violence Against Women Act has never been fully funded. On September 15, 2011, 89 percent of identified local domestic violence programs in the US and territories participated in the 2011 National Census of Domestic Violence Services. On that day, 67,399 victims were served; but, more than 10,000 requests for services, including emergency shelter, housing, transportation, childcare, and legal representation, could not be met because programs did not have adequate resources. VAWA should also require DHS to apply the standards of the Prison Rape Elimination Act to facilities housing immigration detainees because of women and LGBT detainee's documented vulnerability to sexual abuse in detention. Congress must fully fund the Violence Against Women Act.
11. Title IX of the Education Amendments (1972)
Title IX prohibits sex discrimination in federally funded education programs or activities. Title IX greatly expanded equal access to college education, professional and graduate schools and dramatically increased equal access to sports opportunities so that today girls and women represent over 40% of all college and high school athletes. Title IX also plays a vital role in increasing gender equity in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education by improving the climate for women in those fields.
A combination of administrative budget cuts, regulations, private school vouchers schemes, and pressure from congressional opponents threatens to weaken enforcement of Title IX.
Advancement Goals:
Rescission of a 1106 Title IX regulation that makes it easier for public schools to allow sex segregation of academic classes and schools.
12. Family and Medical Leave (1993)
At some point, nearly all workers will need time away from work to deal with a personal or family illness, or to care for a new child. The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) guarantees eligible employees 12 weeks of unpaid leave each year to care for a newborn or newly adopted child, seriously ill family member, or to recover from their own serious health conditions, while ensuring job security. The FMLA is the only federal law that helps working men and women meet the dual demands of work and family and it has been used by workers more than 100 million times.
The FMLA was an important start, but the law has significant gaps that leave roughly half of workers ineligible for FMLA leave including workers in businesses with fewer than 50 employees, workers caring for siblings, grandparents and other close relatives, and part-time workers.
Advancement Goals:
It is long past time for workplaces to reflect the needs of 21st century working families, which for many include the ability to care for children, family members and elderly relatives while also being productive, responsible employees. We need to expand access to the FMLA, create family and medical leave insurance which would allow workers to earn a portion of their pay while they take a limited amount of time away from work to care for a new child, sick family member, or address their own serious health condition and pass the Healthy Families Act which would allow workers to earn up to seven job-protected sick days each year to care for themselves or a family member. Everybody gets sick and it is time that everybody had the time to get better.


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WASHINGTON, May 23, 2008--The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) today issued a final rule that changes the exotic Newcastle disease (END) domestic quarantine regulations.
These changes include harmonizing foreign and domestic regulations regarding the movement of dressed carcasses of dead birds and dead poultry; adding restrictions on the interstate movement of ratites out of quarantined areas; adding an option for the movement of pet birds; providing for the use of alternative procedures for treating manure and litter for composting and adding an additional surveillance period prior to removing quarantine restrictions.
APHIS has determined that these changes are necessary based on experiences during the eradication programs for the outbreaks of END in California, Arizona, Nevada and Texas in 2002 and 2003. This final rule will help ensure that if an END outbreak occurs again, the disease can be eradicated within future quarantine areas and disease spread can be prevented.
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The Art Dealers sheds new light on what people in the business of art do, what skills they rely on, and how dealers have changed modern ideas of what art is. Major figures from the past five decades of art dealership speak out in this collection of in-depth interviews, discussing their relationships with artists and revealing the significant role dealers play in establishing artists' careers. Included are interviews with legends like Betty Parsons, who early on brought the works of Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko to the public, and Leo Castelli, who championed Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol. Also having their say are more contemporary dealers such as Mary Boone and Annina Nosei, both of whom helped start the careers of Julian Schnabel and Jean Michel Basquiat. The dealers hold forth on their individual enthusiasms for art, the economics and psychology of selling art, the trends the art world has seen since World War II, and much more. The candid interviews reveal gossip, rivalries, and some closely guarded professional secrets.
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Personally I'm less worried about being spied on than I am of the knowledge that our governments don't seem to be able to comprehend security.
Highly sensitive US military networks are apparently vulnerable to anybody with a few scrip-kiddie tools and in the UK our government can't even keep social security records on laptops safe.
I mean my god the NSA just grabbed everybody's data in a drag net to catch one or two people. Does anybody think Fox Mulder is going to be sitting there reading every single e-mail and web search? Uncaring emotionless computers will do all the grunt work.
Nobody cares you watch lesbian granny porn and pay for the privilege.
Now Google and other similar companies already track everything you do on-line. And they can't even claim it's in the interests of national security.
The Facebook page seems to be gone. All the links are dead.
All of the companies mentioned in the headline are American multi-nationals. Why would they care what the UK government wants them to do?
We all know the UK follows. It does not lead.
It's really sad people in the nation that proclaims it's self to be the leader of the free world are fighting over a tips jar in court. Even worse, they still have a tips jar!
"Open source licenses are often described as the "constitutions" for the communities that form around the software they govern. That would seem to imply that in their absence, alongside other unwanted consequences, the communities would collapse. A provocative paper by Clark Asay, Assistant Professor at Penn State University Dickinson School of Law, suggests that this isn't the case, and that software could be released into the public domain and yet still thrive as a collaborative project."
I've never known anybody to even suggest this. The purpose of the GPL is to stop industry or other entities building on open source code and then refusing to share their improvements. Clearly such entities would not really be part of the core community and would just be bit part actors on the side lines scraping up scraps of code from the web.
The problem is not so much the "not sharing". It's the unfair advantage they gain.
I think it's best to find out before commenting just what these sites are/were up to.
Telsa have to admit we have a long way to go before their electric cars can match standard American gas guzzlers.
The Times need to make sure the next time they send a reporter to review what is essentially an oversized child's electric go-cart, they send someone who can at least operate a toaster without instruction. I think their reporter in this case would have struggled with that task.
This is really just one more reason to use LibreOffice.org instead or even Google Docs.
That way everybody is a winner. Microsoft's software doesn't get pirated and users get to use their software as they see fit and save Ł100 or so into the bargain.
Even more shocking than this policy of Microsoft's is how EMC licences Captiva. They do it "per image captured". When you reach your pre-paid level of images you can't scan any more until you buy a new licence package.
Imagine if Microsoft charged per Word document? Perhaps by page produced in Word? Or even per word typed in Word?
I know 6 to 8 years isn't exactly a lifetime, but so far as free offers or discounted hosting deals go it's a damn good run.
The company could probably phase this out more gradually. If the hardware's failing and it's going to cost them too much to virtualise then what else can they do? Sticking to the line "we promised" isn't a viable business model.
Techdirt is always ready to criticize companies and organizations for sticking belligerently to failing business models. Well when things change there are often casualties. You can't have it both ways.
Patents and copyright are government sponsored licensed monopolies. Given that they are "licensed", meaning your monopoly doesn't last forever (in theory), it should be illegal to sell them on.
Think of it this way. You apply for a drivers licence, pay the fee, take the test and if you meet the criteria you get your drivers license. You are no however allowed to sell that license on. Now some people will say "yeah but that drivers license is unique to you and covers only you". Which is true.
However the whole point about copyright and patents is the IP created is unique. An inventor is granted a patent when the inventor creates a unique innovation nobody else would have thought of because it's not obvious. Which makes that invention or innovation unique to the inventor.
Of course the USPTO and the US government know full well the overwhelmingly vast majority of patents are not for unique innovations or inventions. Which is why they are moving to "first to file" rather than "first to invent". Which really brings into question the legitimacy of most patents.
LOL! This whole IP ownership nonsense gets more ridiculous by the day. Before you know it every human on the planet will have to devise his/her/it's own language and totally unique name just to live without being sued. Of course we'll all have to pay each other royalties every time we talk to one another using the other's language.
IBM and some other company tried and failed.
So what this guy is saying that just by using consumer technologies, bought and paid for from a high street store, consumers are infringing on patents? God help us if this is allowed to set a precedent. Can you imagine how many patents the average consumer could be accused of violating? How many patents are involved in PCs, cars, TVs, mobile phones, land line phones, cookers, microwave ovens, iPods, MP3 players, bues, power tools, toys, trains and planes and any other consumer device or object you care to name?
The Amish life is looking appealing. Although I'm pretty sure someone has a patent on the horse and cart.
If you can't use information or knowledge then what's the point of knowing about it? And that's what IP laws do. They lock-down knowledge and stop people from using it. So it really makes no difference if people kept their knowledge secrete without IP protection. It's a rare event when there's only one person working on an idea. The world wouldn't suffer without IP laws.
What these patents demonstrate is that anything can be patented if you fill in the form correctly and pay the money. Now who's patented blogging? Seriously that's got to be more lucrative than a temporary snow person.
I predict an anti-trust law suit in the next few years when Windows 8 hits the stores. Apparently Microsoft are insisting OEMs and ODMs producing "Ultrabooks" who are participating in the Windows 8 logo program use a "security" feature of UEFI which requires an OS to be digitally signed with special keys. Which will of course lock out many GNU/Linux distributions from the mainstream PC market.
I think this will come down to the format rights for the shows. If the Italian show infringes on the BBC's format rights then the BBC could have a case. As dumb as that sounds. I think the BBC are being really stupid here.
Just when I thought ad campaigns couldn't get any dumber than Microsoft's. I'm proven wrong.
I think maybe all these little developers should move to a country where copyright is considered sufficient to protect original software works. Maybe then the US and other countries where software patents are problematic will get a clue.
Have the TechDirt staff been taking stupid pills lately? I don't think anybody calls e-mail "file sharing software". I think we know what sort of applications this university are talking about. Torrent clients and the like.
It's also not a bad thing to get people to learn about copyright, what is or isn't infringement. Isn't that part of what you guys try to do here. Make people aware?


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Transfer News: Southampton won't sell Adam Lallana after Manchester United link
Mauricio Pochettino says Southampton are under no pressure to sell Adam Lallana after he was linked with Man United.
Last Updated: 27/12/13 9:03am
Speculation in the Boxing Day papers claimed United manager David Moyes was considering a £15million January bid for Lallana.
The 25-year-old has been an impressive figure for Southampton this season and again caught the eye in Thursday's 3-0 victory away to Cardiff City.
He created the opening goal for Jay Rodriguez and his performance capped a memorable few days after he got married earlier this week.
Saints boss Pochettino is not worried about losing the England international and is confident Lallana is happy to stay at St Mary's.
"I think Adam and other players are going to stay with us," said Pochettino after the win at Cardiff.
"There is no pressure to sell them, Adam has said he is happy at Southampton and Southampton have no plans to sell him."
Of Lallana's wedding, he added: "He has had a complete week.
"He trained yesterday, then went off to get married and then went back to training. He did not even have a day off."
Lallana has made over 240 appearances for Southampton after coming through the ranks and was rewarded with his England debut against Chile last month.


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Dallas, sixth safest large city
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Dallas Police Chief David Brown told the Dallas City Council at its briefing meeting held Oct. 2 that the city has come a long way in reducing crime.
"The city of Dallas has had the most significant crime reduction of the largest cities in the nation from the years 2003-2012," Brown said. "Dallas has reduced its most significant criminal offense reductions of major cities by 45.38 percent followed by Los Angeles with 42.57 percent. Half of that reduction has occurred since 2010."
The report came after the Federal Bureau of Investigation recently released information regarding crime rates and populations throughout the country.
In the report, Dallas came in sixth place as the safest city in America with populations of 1 million or more.
"Dallas moved from seventh place to sixth place, moving past Chicago in safest major city," Brown said. "The latest findings show that Dallas is trending to the top."
Dallas Interim City Manager A.C. Gonzales explained that the FBI also submitted a request when publishing its findings.
"The FBI has also issued that – with the information that we have received – we as cities throughout the country do not compare ourselves to each other," Gonzales said.
The research looked at how cities fared regarding crime reduction from the years 2003 through 2010.
Brown said the effort to improve Dallas as a safer city began in 2003 after a newspaper article noted "Dallas has No. 1 big-city crime rate with a population of 10 million or more."
"That finding back then really pushed us and challenged our department in getting out of that spot," Brown said. "It was really hard to fathom that we were behind Detroit in 2003 for safest major city. We were in 10th place at the time and we were in a deep hole."
Brown said in 2004, under the leadership of then Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle, the department began working on some crime reduction strategies. They created narcotic teams focusing on street level drug dealings and initiated the Drive SMART program to reduce traffic fatalities, created school zones and instituted seat belt ordinances.
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The Yolk of 1 Egg.
1 Teaspoonful Worcestershire Sauce. (From the UK!)
1 Teaspoonful Tomato Catsup. (Chefs Brand Ketchup)
1 Dash of Pepper on Top.
Do not break the Yolk of Egg.
Similar to the Prairie Hen, but only the yolk this time.
While I will recommend you serve this with a shot back, I don't really get what the big deal is.
It's just a raw egg, is that so terrifying?
Man (or Woman) up, fer cripes sake!
This post is one in a series documenting my ongoing effort to make all of the cocktails in the Savoy Cocktail Book, starting at the first, Abbey, and ending at the last, Zed.


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Are Yahoo & The AP Manipulating Comments? Or Are They Just Really Bad At The Internet? [Updated]
from the do-you,-uh,-yahoo? deptSomeone who prefers to remain anonymous sent over this story about how Associated Press stories hosted on Yahoo News appear to have tons of comments from old stories. It's not entirely clear what's happening, though I have my suspicions (explained further down), but it appears that when new stories are showing up on certain topics, Yahoo is simply copying over older comments from previous stories on similar or related topics. The comments look as if they're about the story posted -- and the only way you can tell they're not is if you notice the date:
I'd go from one Yahoo article to another and notice that regardless of the subject matter, the first user comment was always the same -- at least on AP articles covering the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. The comment that kept reappearing was posted by "Robert" and it was a one liner. "Hamas is now in control of the Gaza Strip after winning an election there against Abbas Palestinian Authority." That was it. Fair enough -- I've got no quarrel with the messenger or the message. But somehow that one comment generated an incredible 184 responses and, last I checked, readers had given it 3212 thumbs up and 2525 thumbs down.Oddly (and inexplicably) the author of that post, Ahmed Amr, does not link to Yahoo to show this, but it's not hard to find. Here's a story published on June 3rd, 2010 at 9:19pm. Yet, there's that same first comment, from March 9th, at 12:47am. And here's a story published on May 6th at 1:09 pm with the identical comments, also beginning with the March 9th comment. To let you see what they both look like before they change (and I'll explain in a second why I think they'll change) I've turned both of those pages into PDFs, which you can see below (you may have to either download or view at full screen and scroll to see the "comments" at the bottom):
I got a little curious about why Robert's one liner had generated so much controversy. I've written hundreds of articles and never got anywhere near that kind of attention. Frankly, I was full of envy. How did 'Robert' pull this off with one miserly line? Then I noticed the strangest thing: it was dated March 09, 2010. The comment was two months old and was the lead comment of 40,000 responses. That seemed a little high considering the fact that the AP article I was reading had only been posted for thirty minutes.
What were Yahoo and AP up to? The answer is simple; they were porting comments from one article to another and, in this particular case, they've been doing it for two months.
Take a look at the two links I put above to the Yahoo stories. The URLs (as found by a quick search for the comment string Amr mentioned in his post) are as follows:
- http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_israel_palestinian
- http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100506/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians
After the date of publication, breaking the basic principle of a link to a news story being a link to that news story alone, Yahoo moves the story to a new date-defined directory, and the original URL is freed up for the next story on that particular topic. If this seems stupid and confusing to users and destructive to the very idea of the "link economy" or valuing earned or passed links, you're right. But take that up with Yahoo and the Associated Press.
Of course, here's where the real level of tech incompetence comes in: It appears that Yahoo News' comment system doesn't understand that Yahoo does this. So, it associates the comments to that last bit of the URL string "/ml_israel_palestinian" and the same comments will appear every time that string is used as the final part of a URL string. It's bizarre that Yahoo would do this, but apparently, that's how Yahoo rolls.
Amr suggests that this is part of a planned bit of "corporate fraud" by Yahoo and the AP, perhaps to make it look like certain stories are getting a hell of a lot more comments than they are. He also suggests other conspiracy theories involving pro-Israeli operatives, saying that as far as he can tell, this only happens on AP stories concerning the Israeli/Palestinian crisis. I believe Amr didn't try very hard to find alternatives. On my very first attempt to find an example related to something entirely different, I found the identical behavior. I just picked a popular story that likely would have multiple stories over multiple days: the BP oil spill in the Gulf. Then I looked for an AP story hosted by Yahoo News... Bingo.
The first news story I found was published on June 3rd at 2:28 pm, but the first comment on the story? Why it's from May 1st at 2:06am. And the URL? The string ends with "us_gulf_oil_spill_947." You can find the identical comments on this story which was published May 21st, but ends with the string "us_gulf_oil_spill" suggesting that Yahoo's comment system also ignores numbers at the end of that final URL part in replicating its comments.
And here's another story about the White House's response to the oil spill. Published June 3rd at 11:57 pm. First comment? May 10, 2010 12:58 pm. URL string? "us_gulf_oil_spill_washington_9". And here's a story from May 17th with the identical comments at the end, with the closing URL string "us_gulf_oil_spill_washington_1." Yup, Yahoo seems to just match up comments with pretty simple URL hashes.
You can see all of that below as embedded PDFs:
Update: The AP got in touch to make it entirely clear that this is entirely Yahoo's incompetence and not its own:
The Associated Press distributes news content to Yahoo! News, but the display of AP stories and the curating of comments are entirely up to Yahoo!While undoubtedly true, in the comments we've heard from multiple people who work at news sites that license AP content, and they note that AP has a weird feed process, whereby it gives a simple slug like the ones used above, so that it can force update stories, often leading people to see stories totally change over the course of the day. This is clearly a Yahoo issue, but AP's policies don't help.
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