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Comment Of The Day: July 20, 2010
Dear Thyroid™ was created so that each thyroid patient could give voice to their disease, on their terms and in their words. Each of us deserves to be heard and recognized. By doing so, we've evolved into a vibrant, often colorful and outspoken community. Today, while on Facebook, it occurred to me, that even though each of us have our respective struggles – and share them – we take time to connect with each other. A simple missive "I hear you." Or "I'm here if you want to talk."
Our diseases can be isolating and we need each other. Thank you for being there for each other. And, for making this community one that I am thankful to be a part of every day. YOU ALL INSPIRE ME MORE THAN YOU WILL EVER KNOW.
A Conspiracy Or Malfunction?, today's Dear Thyroid Letter "Well, it looks like my letter from July 1 got through to you. Or, rather, didn't get through to you – but got through to something else. Now not only do I seem to have hypothyroidism, but you are in cahoots with…my ovaries?"
Comment of the day…
HDinOregon says:
Wisdom from a very famous philospher by the name of Thyfucius:
"Life is one of the hardest!"
So true.
HD in Oregon
P.S.: BTW – Thyfucius lived in the period from about 7:30 AM (or was it AD? – don't remember) until about 2:10 PM, that is when he needed his daily nap because of his glandular imbalance.
Butterfly Paragraph Submission, Written By Bee, "Never stop hoping to emerge from that sheltered state of growth. For once we emerge, we may find true joy in the fact that we've been to hell and back, have survived to talk about it, are able to help others get through it, and end up finding true beauty and a joyful carefree spirit in ourselves." – If you haven't cast your vote for Bee's butterfly paragraph, please do, in comments.
Life Redefined: When Words Have Meaning, written by Joanna Isbill, "I just wanted to share my thoughts with you. We can only support each other when we back up our words with action. When our words of support are followed by inaction, we turn ourselves into liars." – Please give this a read, for inspiration, for affirmation and so much more.
Comment of the day…
Amanda says:
This is so close to my heart right now. Every day I come here [sometimes too many times a day to be considered normal], and I read something, anything… and know this is a great place. When I first started feeling sickly, I scrambled and searched for a place that would have information. I didn't dare tell anyone in my little world here at home, because I didn't want to worry them AND I didn't want to tell them and make it real. I thought I could fix it, like I try to fix everything else in my life. By the time I finally was able to get in to see my doc, I found the Dear Thyroid community. It was right just a day or two before the "down for repairs" message came up. I knew I had found a great place, and poof I lost it. Thankfully through my utter fear of my illness, I braved the Facebook area and found what I needed. Just a response to me answering one of the questions that get posted. I got a response, to ME, with MY name. I was blown away. I am a backwards-assed country hick, me and online communities never have worked. Somehow I had allowed myself to think that I was alone. Whoever was on duty at DT that day on Facebook saved my sanity. You don't even know. You are so right, words followed by actions are the thing that will get us through. I go in for a biopsy next week, and it is scary. But I know I can come here and scream/cry and ramble. Someone will see it, someone will say something. I am not alone.
No one can ever tell you how scary it is to become sick, have Graves Disease, need a biopsy… you only know it when it happens. That is why this place, all of you make the fear just a little bit less… You understand. Your words are followed by actions, even if they are just more words. They are good and healing words.
And I am rambling… Just thanks for saying what I feel Joanna
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Have A Goodrich Day!
December 1, 2017
"There's a story about one of our employees where a customer was picking up their coffee, and he said 'Have a Goodrich Day.' It kind of stuck," jokes Richard Budde, founder of Goodrich Coffee. The name came before the saying, of course, combining the street names where their shop is located (the corner of Main and Goodrich) and Richard's name.
Richard started Goodrich Coffee in July 2008, which Richard says was not an ideal time to start a business. "The stock market was plummeting and business was rough. At first I was not living the dream," Richard said. But, with lots of learning, some changes, and 80 hour work-weeks, things changed. The moment Richard received his first paycheck he celebrated by asking his now-wife to marry him. Goodrich Coffee has continued to grow over the past almost 10 years.
While Goodrich Coffee originally purchased coffee from a supplier in NYC, they soon began to roast their own beans- first right inside their coffee shop in Clarence, NY (a suburb of Buffalo, NY), and now at their separate roasting facility. "I flew out to Nevada for my roasting training with the man who made our roasting machine. Everything is made by hand by him, and manufactured in the USA," notes Richard.
Roasting their beans gives them more control over their products consistency. They purchase higher end beans, fair trade and organic, and some come from micro-lot coffees (40 acres or less). Richard says they fall somewhere in-between 2nd and 3rd wave coffee and he's exciting to be a part of a city with a growing coffee culture.
Ultimately, Richard loves the community aspect of being roaster and having a coffee shop. He gets to see people every day, and be there through it all for them. In fact, he's just refreshed his store for his customers and hopes to bring more tastings to the shop soon.
Want to try Goodrich Coffee right here in Rochester? Pick up their fair trade and organic Christmas Blend – a full-body, well-balanced, high in caffeine coffee with a classic dark chocolate finish- Ethiopian Yircheffe or Goodrich East Timor right here at Hart's Local Grocers. Or, sample their coffee while building your holiday gift basket this Saturday at our 4th Annual Hart's Holiday Market!
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By AMANDA VINCENT
Eleven drivers were docked practice time in the second and final Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series practice at Kentucky Speedway in Sparta on Friday in preparation for Saturday night's Quaker State 400. The penalties were results of inspection issues the previous race weekend at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway that culminated in the running of the Coke Zero 400 on July 1. Previously, NASCAR docked practice time during first practice for inspection issues from the previous race weekend.
The No. 77 and No. 78 Furniture Row Racing Toyota teams of Erik Jones and Martin Truex Jr., the No. 17 Roush Fenway Racing Ford team of Daytona winner Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and the No. 18 and No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota teams of Kyle Busch and Matt Kenseth lost 30 minutes of time in final practice.
The No. 2 Team Penske Ford team of Brad Keselowski, the No. 6 Roush Fenway Racing Ford team of Trevor Bayne, the No. 41 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford team of Kurt Busch, the No. 43 Richard Petty Motorsports Ford team of Darrell Wallace Jr., the No. 83 BK Racing Toyota team of Ryan Sieg and the No. 72 TriStar Motorsports Chevrolet team of Cole Whitt were docked 15 minutes of practice time.
Chip Ganassi Racing was tops in practice, with Jamie McMurray leading way in the opening practice session and Kyle Larson posting the fastest lap in final practice. Martin Truex Jr. was second in both sessions.
Follow Auto Racing Daily on Twitter @AutoRacingDaily or like Auto Racing Daily on Facebook (Facebook.com/autorcngdaily). Amanda's also on Twitter @NASCARexaminer and has a fan/like page on Facebook (Facebook.com/nascarexaminer)
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Franklin Robotics was founded by experienced roboticists; we have designed, built, and shipped robots at scale. Our team, which includes the inventor of the Roomba, combines experiences in consumer, commercial, and agricultural robotics. With a focus on the simple and practical, we develop products that simplify the experience and encourage people to grow food, both on an individual and commercial scale.
Our first product is Tertill, a solar powered weeding robot for home gardens. Tertill is a small Bluetooth-connected robot (about 7" in diameter) that lives in a vegetable or flower garden. Every day it charges itself up with its onboard solar cell, and when the battery is full, it wanders around, avoids plants and obstacles, and cuts any weeds it encounters with a small weed whacker. By taking care of this every day, Tertill maintains a weed free garden, and removes one of the biggest frustrations that people have with gardening–the time and effort required to get rid of weeds.
Beyond just weeding, Tertill also connects with a suite of sensors that provide insight into the microclimate of the garden and the health of the plants in it, encouraging the owner become a better, more productive gardener.


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|Hello and welcome to our News archives. In this section you will find
a wide variety of newspaper clippings regarding the visionary mushrooms.
I Started to catalogue these clippings back in 1976.
They are arranged alphabetically by countries and newspapers and then Chronologically by dates.
|TRIBUNE de MATIN. July 8, 1990. Page 9
Deux Consommateurs de Champignons Hallucinogènes racontent plasir et Déplasir
Two Consumers of hallucinogenic mushrooms tell pleasure and dispair
By Phillippe Dubath (Tramslated in English in Lausanne by Tjakko Stijve)
Pete and Paul love nature. Especially and almost exclusively when they have a date with her to gather psilocybes in the pastures of the Frenches-Montagnes...Once at the end of spring, then Later on in the authumn until the first frost comes. On good days, they gather 300 or 400 of these fall mushrooms, on glorious days several thousands may end up in their basket.
The colour of psilocybes changes with their age: they are a beautiful brown and somewhat slimy when they burst forth, then grow paler until they are actually white with the first sunshine. Later they turn brown again in their third age. "When gathering them," confesses Peter, "I gobble up the first 20 or 30. After half an hour, they have such a strong effect that I see other fungi growing in front of me. I always eat something with them, to activate the gastric juices, that enhance the effect."
Paul points out: "we are not the only ones to look for psilocybes. If you look at people strolling around in the pastures you see immediately from the way they stoop and stare at a small surface for a while that it's not ordinary mushrooms they're seeking..." He adds: "there are old men who have been gathering psilocybes for years. But among young people the trend started bnarely four or five years ago. I use to sell them myself. One franc a piece (Lets point out that once dried the mushroom becomes almost microscopic!) in the Jura region, 2 fr. in Basle and up to 5 fr. in Geneva...At the beginning it was not easy to find customers, one had to get people to taste them, convince them that the mushrooms were efficient, we did need some time to reach our goal. Nowadays, I don't sell them anymore, I leave this task to others. I just eat a few every season...;"
Peter and Paul have different opinions on the frequency of ingestion. One of them says: You must still watch out not to get hooked." The other replies: "I don't believe in dependence. I can stop or start whenever I want to." Paul tells: You shouldn't see psilocybes as a classical drug, comparable to others. WE include everything when we decide to eat it: The walk in the mountains to find them, the group, the calm. It's something that makes you laugh, laugh so much about anything that sometimes your belly aches. But you laugh only if you feel well. To take these mushrooms when you are alone, and then face alone the noise and the stress of the street, the traffic, can make you flip. Then the whole thing becomes quite negative. Psilocybe is like fondue, the more the merrier...;"
"In fact," points out Peter, Psilocybe makes you see things in two dimensions, it distorts them. Like through a funny camera. But do not think that this creates phenomenal hallucinations or big stories. It may even be frankly unpleasant, everything depends how you're in your mind. If you feel miserable, it won't do you any good. If your relaxed, if you don't expect the efgfects to be there immediately, if you let yourself suprise by the mushrooms, it may help you laugh."
Paul adds: "When I eat psilos, I plan two days. I don't do that on a Sunday knowing I must go back to work on Monday. Because after all it disturbs you, you feel odd afterwards... And the effect may come back several days later, wherever you are. This happened to me one day, when I was driving: I preferred to stop, suddenly I didn't know how to drive anymore. For that matter, some pals, after Psilo parties, wash out their stomachs and kidneys. With an infusion of maize beard?..."
by Phillippe Dubath
[An After Note]
"Roe deers, that's for sure, get high on fir buds. Sometimes they are completely passive, allow you to approach them, and it is always in the budding season. Old hunters say it for that matter...As to cows, I'm sure they eat psilos and get high on them. Some days when we go to gather mushrooms, they give you funny looks, that doesn't fool anybody, it's certainly that... They surely cannot sort out grass and mushrooms when they graze!" As you see, Petter and Paul firmly believe that they have detected a hallucinatory trend with cows. Something is indeed certain: They know how to add a touch of gastronomic pleasure to their trip: "Psilos are ideal with pasta. But don't cook the mushrooms: They would lose all their hallucinogenic properties. You just lay them, dried, on top of the pasta. You may also," says Peter, "do what I tried once: Put a hundred of them onto a slice of bread and jam. But I was in a play [Gambling?] room, I was scared stiff. My heart was beating wildly, my hands got moist, I had the impression that my shirt was soaked (I checked afterwards, it wa dry!) I was afraid of everything around me, the people, the noise, the lack of light. As I told you: it is not always pleasant..." By Ph.D.
|XX International Congress of the EAPCCT, Amsterdam, May 2-5, 2000.
Kunz MW, Rauber-Lüthy Ch, Meier PJ, Kupferschmidt H. 2000. Swiss Toxicological Information Centre (STIC), Zürich and Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, University Hospital Zürich, Switzerland
Objective: The abuse of mushrooms containing the hallucinogenic psilocybin is increasing and serious adverse effects requiring hospitalization are not uncommon. The aim of this study was to analyze the health risk of abusive "magic mushroom" ingestion between January 1995 and July 1999.
Cases and Methods: All cases recorded by the STIC between January 1995 and July 1999 were included in this retrospective study. Cases with written feedback reports of treating physicians and hospitals were analyzed with respect to type and severity of symptoms. Symptom severity was classified according to the Poisoning Severity Score (PSS) of the EAPCCT/EC/IPCS (Persson et al. J Toxicol Clin Toxicol 1998; 36:332-7).
Results: Within the analyzed period (55 months) 161 acute exposures to psilocybe mushrooms (107 males, 41 females, 13 sex unknown; median age 20y (range 14-56)) were reported to the STIC. The reported cases increased from 12 in 1995, 13 in 1996, 24 in 1997, 65 in 1998 to 47 until July in 1999. Detailed written follow-up reports were obtained in 67 cases. 26 of these 67 exposures were mixed intoxications (18 (69%) with concomitant cannabis consumption). Symptoms included hallucinations in 29 (43%) and panic attacks in 21 (31%) patients. Additional symptoms were mydriasis, gastrointestinal upset, and tachycardia. Severity was assessed as mild in 23 cases (34%), moderate in 41 cases (61%), and severe in 3 cases (4%). There were no letal intoxications. Reasons for hospitalization were marked hallucinations, hyperexcitability, panic attacks, coma and convulsions. Concomitant cannabis ingestion did not increase severity. However, concomitant opiate and ethanol ingestion induced coma (GCS 3-4) in one patient, and concomitant LSD consumption resulted in convulsions in another patient. A 19-year-old male jumped from a tree in a while having hallucinations resulting in paraplegia. Delayed reactions (flashbacks) were reported in 3 patients.
Conclusions: The data indicate that in Switzerland the number of hallucinogenic mushroom poisoning has increased during the last five years, with a sharp increase in 1998-1999. In most cases magic mushroom ingestion alone results in mild or moderate self-limited psilocybin poisoning. Severe complications can occur with the concomitant ingestion of other substances of abuse such as opioids, ethanol and/or LSD, or following self-inflicted injury due to the nature of the psychedelic effects of psilocybin.


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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #4170, Sunday, February 20, 2011
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
Paul Valery, posted to Distillation
Consciousness simply is. It is energy manifesting without any interest in any of the concepts that our minds have about good or bad, purpose or meaning. It is absolutely impersonal and has no particular direction. It is playing the game of creation and destruction.
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007
The Possible Navy Frogman
WNDR-AM Radio no longer exists in Syracuse, but on October 24, 1976 I appeared as a guest on a weekly Sunday evening talk show entitled "Open Forum." Host Mike Cahill rather surprised me because his invitation included no mention of the skeptical astronomer who joined us for a discussion about UFOs.
We consumed about two and a half hours of this program that ran from 7:00 to midnight. There was a tape of the show, but only of the part where we talked about UFOs. Later, after I had returned home, still listening to program callers who phoned in long after the fact, the UFO topic remained hot. Now, there were numerous prank calls that night, as one might expect, with regret. But. . .
There was one particular caller, a man with a young-sounding voice, who had an immediate answer for every question the host asked. The caller claimed to have been a U.S. Navy frogman who, as part of a team of seven, assisted in the successful recovery of a strange submerged object that he called a UFO, or a part of one, on December 7, 1969. He reported its location as the Atlantic Ocean, not far from Guantanamo.
I listened intently from home, wishing I were still at the studio to take the call. The caller exhibited a few seconds of hesitation at only one point, and that is when host Cahill requested the retrieval's location. Following disclosure, the man clearly stated that he was warned never to discuss the incident under threat of some undefined punishment. At that point, he also warned radio listeners intrigued by the UFO subject not to get too involved, whatever that meant. The caller did seem genuinely afraid to leave his name off the air and feared his call being traced. He had commented that he probably said too much already.
I phoned Mike Cahill Monday morning (I was unable to reach him the previous evening) to see if a studio tape recording existed of the show, but there was no tape. He, too, had wished for a recording of this most intriguing call. He promised to contact me with any further information, but nothing materialized.
Monday evening I phoned Coral Lorenzen about this, she was "intrigued" and thought perhaps some of their military members could look into this.
As an aside, this is also the call where Coral informed me that an interview about APRO had just appeared in Oui Magazine and that there was some misquoting involved. She vowed to do no more interviews via phone unless she could tape them and review the articles first. I had to conceal my laughter when she confessed no prior knowledge that Oui featured pictures of naked women and, indeed, she insisted that her son cut the article out and give to her so she wouldn't have to look at the other contents -- and then she threw the remainder in the trash.
By this point, her husband Jim had fully recovered from heart bypass surgery and felt great. Coral was expecting a call from a Japanese film company this very evening, intent upon coming to the U.S. to film a documentary about UFO abductions, and she was working on a new book regarding abductions based upon what she called seven good cases. Quite confident, Coral promised the book would be unlike any other UFO book. I'm not sure whether anything more developed from this ongoing project, and I also suspect that answers to a great many questions like this will only be answered when access to APRO's files occurs someday (these invaluable files are apparently in the hands of a couple who somehow inherited them after Coral's death and APRO's demise).
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There are set to be some significant changes to the rules and procedures for foreign nationals obtaining work visas in Brazil. The changes have been implemented by Decree 8757/16 which was published on the 11th May. The decree has not yet been fully implemented although we expect the changes to take place soon.
The new law makes official provisions that were previously applied through other instruments such as the Normative Resolutions and internal documents of certain departments of the government. This change provides more stability to the processes that could previously be interpreted in different ways.
The major changes set out by the Decree are as follows:
Temporary visa
- Vitem V work visas can now be obtained in any Brazilian Consulate rather than being restricted to the applicants local of residency;
- Dependents of work visa holders who are 16 years and over will be able to work in Brazil;
- A new visa will be created for research and innovation projects;
- The National Council of Immigration can point "strategic professionals" and create simplified regulation to grant a work visa to those professionals – however, the definition of "strategic professionals" and the details of the new streamlined process have not yet been established.
- It will now be possible to apply to the Ministry of Labour to change status post arrival from a business or student visa to a work visa; Tourist visas cannot be transformed to work visas.
- It will now be possible to apply to the Ministry of Labour to change status post arrival from a tourist visa to a student visa;
Post arrival procedures
- The protocol of registration at the Federal Police will now be considered as a valid identity document for a period of up to 180 days from the date of issuance;
- Change of employer notifications will also be possible online to the Ministry of Labour, rather than to the Ministry of Justice;
- The required notification of the change of the foreigner domicile to the Federal Police Department may also be communicated, preferably by digital means, in addition to other existing options.
Extension of period of Stay
- Work visa renewal applications before in the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Justice and subject only to the manifestation of the Ministry of Labor, now have to be requested from the Ministry Labor and, if accepted, they are forwarded to the Ministry of Justice. The extension application process is now electron, rather than manual;
- Extension of the period of stay, applications now can be accompanied by a copy of the travel document, rather than a certified copy.
- Work visa extension applications will no longer require the employer to be responsible for the employee"s repatriation costs;
- The proof of the extension application will grant the foreigner a legal status until the final analysis of the extension process.
It is important that companies employing foreign nationals in Brazil use the new online work visa renewal system. We will keep you updated with any further changes that take place.
For further questions regarding the changes mentioned above please contact us as email@example.com


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If you're in the coursing for your aboriginal DSLR camera, or you've just purchased a DSLR and you're new to agenda photography, affairs are you've been on the internet and watched one or two videos about things you should apperceive or ability wish to apperceive in adjustment to get the a lot of out of your camera – these are the "basics" or "fundamentals" blazon videos, of which there are a ton on YouTube. In some of these videos, they may accept talked about something alleged a Histogram – usually cogent you to attending on your camera's LCD screen, afterwards you've taken a photo and "see what the Histogram is cogent you", as a way to apperceive whether your photo has arise out properly, or is contrarily either too ablaze or too dark, in which case you will charge to accomplish assertive adjustments to your camera settings and try demography the photo again.
All able-bodied and good, but let's say you've watched one or two of these videos and are still a bit abashed as to how to adapt these Histogram things. Well, this is the bearings I activate myself in for a few months – for a time, no amount how they phrased it, these altered photography experts bootless to get their ability through my abutting cranium. I achievement to allotment with you how I eventually came to accept what these Histograms meant and how they're in fact actual simple to plan with, already you accept their meanings.
Right, actuality goes…
A Histogram is annihilation added than a blueprint that tells you whether your photo has locations that are too ablaze (overexposed) or too aphotic (underexposed), to the admeasurement that assertive portions of your angel abstracts will not be adapted if/when you get your photo aback into alteration software, such as Adobe Lightroom, to accomplishment processing your photos – assurance me, if cutting in the recommended angel architecture referred to as "RAW", it's amazing how abundant detail even the a lot of adult avant-garde camera lenses abort to reproduce, and it's alone if you get your images into a program, such as Lightroom, that you can acclimatize assorted settings to accompany out the affluence and abyss of the colors, lights and shadows, which, thankfully, the camera's agenda sensor DOES administer to capture. It just needs software to aggravate it out – in the pre-digital era, photographers acclimated to do this in the "darkroom"; today, in the agenda era, you don't charge to be in abreast absolute atramentous in adjustment to action your photos, you can do it in a accurately lit room, on your accurately lit computer… which is a lot of apparently the acumen Adobe didn't alarm their software Adobe Darkroom.
So, accepting aback on track, at actual appropriate bend of the Histogram graph, you accept abstracts for white; at the added end, over on the actual left, you accept the abstracts for black. Everything abroad in amid represents all the blow of the colors, or shades/tones of colors that can be present in any accustomed angel or scene. Anniversary photograph you yield will accept its own Histogram assigned to it – this is a graphical almanac of all the highlights, caliginosity and colors (of capricious shades and tones) in that one image.
Try this simple alternation of 5 tests – this is what I did and it helped me accept what was traveling on with the Histograms:
Test 1. Put the lens cap on, yield a photo and attending at the histogram. There should be a alone band on the larboard of the graph, yes? If there had been all sorts of colors in your arena and you're accepting something too atramentous or too dark, and if the curve of your Histogram are mostly over on the larboard of the graph, afresh you're accident detail and would charge to accomplish assertive adjustments, such as abbreviating the Shutter Speed; allotment a added Aperture; and/or accretion the ISO. All of these changes advice to brighten up your image.
Test 2. Now, yield the lens cap off, and point the lens at something white (like a apparent area of paper) and ample the anatomy with it (go up close, so that there are no added colors in the arena bit-by-bit into your photo). If you don't accept a section of white cardboard or annihilation white to use, about-face your ISO up to something like 1600 or higher, afresh about-face the Shutter Speed to a absolutely apathetic ambience – accord it a acceptable 30 abnormal and point the lens at the lightest color(s) accessible to you (e.g. walls; ceiling; up at the sky out of a window, etc.) and yield a photo. If you attending at your Histogram, for this image, there should be a alone line, or a actual baby agglomeration of lines, over on the acute appropriate of the graph. The angel will arise white and the Histogram abstracts is absorption this. The camera interprets this as an "overexposed" image. If there had been all sorts of colors in your arena and you're accepting something too white or too done out, and if the curve of the Histogram are mostly over on the appropriate of the graph, afresh you're accident detail, already again. Adjustments you ability wish to accomplish cover accretion the Shutter Speed; allotment a narrower Aperture; and/or abbreviation the ISO (unless you're already at the everyman ISO setting, that is). All of these changes advice to abate the accuracy of an image.
Test 3. With your camera still accomplished on that ablaze accountable (whether a bank or beam or section of white paper), yield a alternation of photos with anytime faster Shutter Speeds. Then, attending at the Histogram for anniversary agnate image, and you should see the band or accumulation of attenuated curve gradually biking from the appropriate ancillary of the graph, over against the larboard ancillary (depending on how abounding shots in this analysis arrangement you can be agitated to take). If you were training your camera on something white, afresh the images in the arrangement should activate to attending anytime added grey.
Test 4. The fourth analysis is to go hunting for altar with alone colors, bushing the anatomy with anniversary article in turn, and afresh demography alone photos of these alone colors. Photograph something red (filling the anatomy with this color, so your absolute photograph is a accumulation of red), and there will be a attenuated agglomeration of curve in this photo's Histogram hardly to the larboard of the actual centermost of the graph. A photo that's all chicken will accept a agglomeration of curve added over on the appropriate ancillary of the graph, just over bisected way from the actual centermost of the graph. Play about with demography photos altered alone colors, and their agnate Histograms should accord you a bigger compassionate of how the Histogram is allowance you to adapt alone colors in any accustomed image.
Test 5. The fifth and final analysis is to yield photos of annihilation you like. Introduce a array of colors into your photos and see the agrarian patterns of their agnate Histograms. If the majority of the curve are bulked over on the larboard of the Histogram graph, it's apparently cogent you that your angel is too aphotic (too underexposed) and you charge to acclimatize your camera's settings to brighten it up. Conversely, if the blueprint is mostly bulked over on the appropriate ancillary of the graph, afresh your photo is acceptable to be too ablaze and done out (too overexposed) and you charge to acclimatize your camera's settings to abate the brightness. If there is atramentous in your image, such as a atramentous car, afresh there will be a fasten on the larboard of the graph, advertence the atramentous blush (this is fine).
After accomplishing these tests, I acquainted decidedly added adequate "checking my Histogram" and compassionate what the graphs were cogent me about the alone photos I was taking.
Hope this helped.


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Esports continues to rise in popularity, gain mainstream acceptance in United States
The debate of whether or not it is a 'sport' may never die, however
Gamers battle at the League of Legends North American Championship series Spring r|Getty Images
Gamers battle at the League of Legends North American Championship series Spring r|Getty Images
Gamers battle at the League of Legends North American Championship series Spring r|Getty Images
Gamers battle at the League of Legends North American Championship series Spring r|Getty Images
Idol worshiping is not nearly as cool, fun or lucrative as being a superstar yourself, and that's a big reason why so many young people in this country are gravitating toward eSports, which is essentially competitive video game playing.
The "sport," if you want to call it that – and there's plenty of debate on that topic – routinely packs major sports arenas across the U.S. and is becoming increasingly mainstream. The traditional sports fan may scoff at that notion, as the "video game geek" tag often gets tossed around. But here's a taste of how legit eSports is in 2016 – Robert Morris University in Chicago has its own varsity eSports team with scholarships (70 percent tuition for top gamers), ESPN.com now has its own eSports landing page, top pro gamers are already millionaires, and the League of Legends World Championship Final at the 17,000-seat Mercedes-Benz Arena in Germany last year sold out in three minutes.
ESports has not yet crested either, according to the man who put together the varsity eSports team at Robert Morris, associate athletic director Kurt Melcher.
"In my mind it's mostly a recent phenomenon. There will be some people who tell you, 'oh, there was this Space Invaders tournament in 1981' and all that, but I think the rise of eSports really went hand-in-hand with the emergence of broadband Internet," Melcher told Metro. "Starcraft was the first big [eSport] and it was big back in the middle 2000s and it's grown so much since then. Broadband Internet has opened so many doors to make it a global game. It's really escalated in the last five years and has taken off. I don't think it's at its peak yet, it's just a situation of the mainstream media paying more attention to it."
Competitive streak
League of Legends is the massive game in 2016, and it has a team concept. Teams of five battle against one another and gamers work together to destroy the other team's "base." One game typically takes 35-40 minutes and there are typically best-of-three or best-of-five series'.
Gamers at Robert Morris practice Monday through Thursday each week from 4:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. and the season starts in late September and runs until May. It's easily Robert Morris' longest-running season.
"It's a grind," Melcher told Metro. "There's a lot of discipline to it as it's such a mental game. It's different from say, football. In football if you're frustrated you can just hit your opponent harder. In eSports there's not a lot of outlets for frustration or anger if things aren't going well. It's really a mental game of the highest level."
Many pro eSports players now have nutritionists and you absolutely can't be fatigued mentally to succeed in this world.
"One of the biggest misconceptions is that people default to the stereotype of who is participating," Melcher said. "It's a default to a lazy person or a person who is fueled by Red Bull, a person who is non-competitive … basically, 'slouchy.' That doesn't hold true, especially with our players. The people on our team are just as competitive as any player on any of our other traditional athletics teams."
So, is it a "sport?"
A big part of the reluctance of the mainstream sports world to embrace eSports may be because of the fact that "sport" is actually in the name. The name alone is basically screaming at you, "hey, we're legitimate."
"You just have to take it at face value," Melcher said. "There's a reason there's an 'E' at the beginning of eSports. It's 'electronic sport' and it's competitive entertainment.
"To compare it to a mainstream sport, a lot of people have a hard time understanding why someone would want to watch golf on TV. But people watch it because they can appreciate the skill of getting out of a bunker or sinking a great putt. The same holds true with eSports. There's not a whole lot of physical exertion in golf. It's just a great game of skill, like eSports. You just have to take it at face value. It's not replacing football or basketball or soccer."


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Letters to the Editors
Warren Klass: Dissent from Canadian liberalism
01:00 AM EDT on Monday, July 12, 2004
First, I would like to compliment The Providence Journal for being one of the few American newspapers to actually pays attention to Canada. There are just a couple of points worth clarifying in an otherwise outstanding editorial, "Still north and left" (July 1).
It's not all of Canada that buys into this left-wing agenda; it's Ontario. More specifically, Greater Toronto. With the exception of southern Ontario and, to a lesser extent, the Maritimes, Canada overwhelmingly rejected this vision.
In Qu�bec, a former bastion of Liberal Party support, the separatist Bloc Qu�b�cois won virtually every Francophone district, including former Prime Minister Jean Chr�tien's riding. The Liberals were reduced to a few Anglophone seats, in West Montr�al.
In rural Ontario, the Conservatives went from two seats to 24. Rural Manitoba overwhelmingly voted Conservative, and in Winnipeg, its capital, the Liberals lost two seats, retaining only three. In Saskatchewan, the whole Kumbaya gang (the Liberals and New Democrats) were wiped out; the province voted Conservative except for one seat, in Regina, its capital, for a total of 13 seats won by the Conservatives.
In Alberta, the seat count was Conservatives 26, Liberals 2. Both Liberal seats in Alberta were in Edmonton -- nicknamed Redmonton -- but were won by razor-thin margins: Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan won by 200 votes, while the other Liberal seat was won by 50 votes.
British Columbia also overwhelmingly voted Conservative, although the Liberals and New Democrats won a handful of seats in Vancouver and Victoria.
Separatist sentiments in Canada are not restricted to Qu�bec. This election will hasten separatist sentiments in Western Canada, especially Alberta, which is sick and tired of Ontario's imposing its agenda on the rest of the country.
Press ReleaseMay 27, 2004
Forces Canada Endorses The Conservative Party of Canada in the June 28,2004 Federal Election.
Comment from Warren Klass, President of Forces Canada.
"More people smoke in Canada that vote Liberal in Federal elections." The National Post.
May 25,2004.I am going to digress from the usual Forces Canada format that deals with the tobacco news from Canada to make a special plea to the smokers of Canada-please go to the polls on June 28 and vote Conservative.
I have been asked many times over the past few years, how we can change the treatment of smokers in Canada. My reply has been at the ballot box. This is the first time in 10 years that the Liberal Party looks beatable. For the past decade, Liberal Party doctrine has been to make our lives as miserable as possible. If you want to change things, then please go to the polls on June 28th and tell the Liberal Party-I'VE HAD ENOUGH!
The best reason for getting rid of the Liberal Party is that they are the patrons of a $500 million PARASITE INDUSTRY. $500 million of YOUR TAX DOLLARS every year goes to PARASITES like The Non-Smokers Rights Association, Physicians For A Smoker Free Canada, The Cancer Society, The Lung Association and a whole mob of unnecessary duplicates to spread lie after lie in the media, push for smoking bans, and increased cigarette taxes and to spread a campaign to"de-normalize"you. Millions are spent to send PARASITES into the schools to tell your kids lies like:" Mommy and Daddy are poisoning you with second-hand smoke."
These PARASITES make annual salaries of hundreds of thousands. Millions more are spent on nauseating television commercials-that serve to buy off the media from examining their bogus claims and antics. More millions are pissed away on things like winter conferences on Teen smoking in Miami, while you spent $10 on a pack of cigarettes and are forced to smoke them in the freezing cold.
Here is a sample from a recent conference attended by legions of Canadian anti-smoking PARASITES, whose attendance was paid for by The Liberal Party. The PARASITES are now targeting homosexual smokers as part of "Tobacco Control." Here is a sample of how The Liberal Party spends your tax dollars:
"Applying Queer (Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual and Transgender) Theory for Tobacco Prevention Messages.
Participants will be able to identify domains of Queer Theory in relation to message construction for tobacco prevention. Participants will be able to analyze messages from the tobacco industry and learn their impact in defining queer culture. Participants will learn of resources to learn how to apply Queer Theory for the development of prevention initiatives.
The workshop will identify key learning's from Queer Theory and their implications for tobacco prevention and consumption messages.
The workshops will provide participants tools for analyzing tobacco prevention messages from a Queer paradigm."
Have you ever heard anything as gut-wrenchingly nauseating as this? Or as patronizing? This is the $500 million a year Liberal Party PARASITE INDUSTRY that wants to"de-normalize" us.
If you have HAD ENOUGH of the Liberal Party PATRONAGE MACHINE squandering $500 million a year of YOUR MONEY on these PARASITES-then please vote Conservative on June 28th.
Warren Klass,
September 28, 2003
Manitoba looking at becoming first province to ban smoking provincewide
WINNIPEG (CP) - Manitoba could become the first province to go cold turkey and ban smoking wherever people work, indoors or out, with no ifs ands or butts.
Some say that would make the province the most progressive government in Canada; others compare the move to Nazi Germany. Bland opinion seems hard to find in the spicy stew an all-party committee of the legislature must digest as it prepares to come up with a recommendation as early as November.
Dr. Mark Taylor, a Winnipeg physician and vice-president of Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada, holds the former opinion. He says British Columbia and Prince Edward Island came close with rules that confine smokers, but both stop a little short.
"B.C. and Prince Edward Island are both good (but) neither one of them are excellent, and we hope we can prevail on the government of Manitoba to bring forward the first excellent law in Canada," says Taylor.
He cites mounting evidence on second-hand smoke, which he says should prove the case to anyone.
Smokers like Warren Klass aren't buying.
"You're a citizen who's obeying all the laws and all of a sudden some people decide they want to de-normalize you for some great higher purpose, for some wonderful fantasy of the secure and sanitary utopia, as Hitler called it," said Klass.
Klass is president of FORCES Canada. It stands for Fight Ordinances to Restrict Control and Eliminate Smoking.
As the committee wrapped up its public hearings last week in Winnipeg, Klass reminded it that Hitler was a non-smoker who waged a determined anti-smoking campaign in Germany, which failed.
More typical of the majority opinion at the hearings is Patricia Lane, a member of a Winnipeg high school parents council who wants to ensure a ban extends to smoking anywhere on school grounds.
She says to do otherwise is like telling kids they can only play with sharp knives in a designated area, adding that protection should extend to the home.
"Obviously, I think parents shouldn't expose their children to second-hand smoke," says Lane.
Many provinces have been wrestling with this issue of smoking bans as more and more municipalities bring in their own.
British Columbia got close but backed down after a court decision and then the election of a new government put the brakes on an all-out ban using workplace safety regulations.
In the end, the province decided to allow specially ventilated smoking rooms in bars and restaurants. Prince Edward Island has had a similar system in place since May.
That solution is just fine for Courtney Donovan of the Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association.
"It's not the perfect solution. It doesn't work for every establishment," she says.
"But there's 5,000 food service establishments in B.C. (and) 4,500 of them chose voluntarily to go smoke free. Only 500 of them decided they wanted to put in a smoking room. I see no reason why that wouldn't work in Manitoba."
Manitoba, however, has been under pressure to copy Winnipeg's tough no-smoking bylaw or an even tougher one in Brandon, the province's second-largest city, which makes no allowance for smoking rooms.
Manitoba workplace regulations already specify that exposure to airborne carcinogens must be controlled to as close to zero as practicable. Tobacco smoke produces some of those chemicals.
In an internal report, the government has been urged to bring in a phased-in ban. Smoking rooms would be allowed for a year, then eliminated and followed within three years by a complete ban of smoking indoors or outdoors at any workplace.
Stan Struthers, the government-appointed committee chairman, is non-committal, but opposition members suggest a ban is coming and only the details remain to be worked out.
"I think this committee is going to bring forward a recommendation for banning smoking provincewide in the workplace and in public places," says Liberal leader Jon Gerrard.
Conservative Denis Rocan, a reformed smoker, says he sees the issue as black and white.
"This is not a time to be piecemeal . . . you're either pregnant or you're not pregnant. So if you're going to do it, bite the bullet, let it happen."
But smokers like George McKeever see it as the beginning of the end.
"Next we can expect the secret police to patrol the streets with infrared heat-seeking devices to track us down in our bedrooms," said McKeever, 79, as he shuffled out of the room where hearings were held last week.
"George Orwell, how right you were."
September 24, 2003
Smoking ban compared to Nazi GermanyWINNIPEG -- A national smokers' rights group argues the Doer government will be following Adolf Hitler if it bans smoking in public places.
The group, Fight Ordinances and Restrictions to Control and Eliminate Smoking, says the Nazis tried to stamp out smoking.
Spokesman Warren Klass says the end result was a country with the highest smoking rate in recorded human history.
Klass is one of several people who will speak about the proposed ban when a government-led task force holds hearings in the city Thursday and Friday.
The task force was told in St. Pierre last night that a ban is the only way to go.
Ste. Anne physician, Dr. Gabriel Lemoine, says there is chaos in families where there is smoking.
Jim Baker with the Manitoba Hotel Association says a ban could spell the end of many rural hotels.
A final decision on the ban is expected in November.
July 27, 2003
RE: DANIELLE Bowditch's smoking column from last Sunday.
Does she have a clue what she's talking about? For disclaimer purposes, I am President of the Canadian Chapter of the world's largest smokers' rights group, Forces International (www.forces.org).
Her comment that "there is no safe level of second-hand smoke," is a lie. Has she ever heard of toxicology? The "threshold" levels quantified by toxicologists assume a sealed 8-ft. by 12-ft. non-ventilated room-per hour: Toluene -- one million cigarettes per hour; Polonium -- 210,000 to 750,000 cigarettes per hour.
The lowest "threshold" level for the 19 substances in second-hand smoke is Hydroquinone, where only 1,250 cigarettes are needed to reach "threshold" levels. This would require 300 people smoking 62 packs per hour in said room. A cup of coffee contains 19 carcinogens and 5,000 chemicals. This does not mean that a cup of coffee is harmful because the dosage is minute, just like second-hand smoke.
The other big lie in her column was about the effect of second-hand smoke on hospitality personnel.
The longest, most comprehensive study on this question was conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy's laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tenn. The peer-reviewed Oak Ridge study spent years replicating the prolonged effect of exposure to second-hand smoke on 173 non-smoking bartenders, waiters and waitresses.
After years of study, they came up with nothing. No lung cancer. No heart disease. No asthma. No bronchitis. No pneumonia. No inner ear infection. Nothing.
What the Oak Ridge study found was that exposure to "respirable suspended particulate matter," which includes second-hand smoke, was less than one-sixth of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration's allowable level.
The Oak Ridge Study also found that the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) manipulated levels of second-hand smoke in their studies to push for smoking bans.
Warren Klass,
June 25, 2003
Second-hand smoke myths
In response to the story, Sufferers breathe easier as tobacco bylaw nears (June 22): I have been an asthmatic for well over 40 years, and a cigarette smoker for well over 30 years. I am also president of the Canadian chapter of the world's largest smokers rights group, Forces International.
As an asthmatic, a smoker and someone conversant on the medical literature of this question, I would just like to inform The Sun that the issue of second-hand smoke and asthma is a myth put out by hypochondriacs and spread by media.
There are no documented allergens in cigarette smoke. An asthmatic is potentially allergic to thousands of things, the most common being dust, pollen and pet hair. If cigarette smoke contained allergens there is no possible way millions of asthmatics could possibly be smokers.
Warren Klass
June 10, 2003
Warren Klass: Liberals promote 'reefer madness' in Canada
WINNIPEG, Manitoba
THERE'S A POINT worth making about so-called decriminalization of marijuana in Canada ("It's Canada's business," editorial, June 4). The Liberal Party of Canada is not, in fact, decriminalizing marijuana -- it's criminalizing it.
A succession of Canadian courts have ruled that the Canadian laws regarding the possession of marijuana are unconstitutional. Just a couple of weeks ago, the Ontario Supreme Court threw out the conviction of a 16-year-old kid in Windsor who had skipped school, gone to Itchykoo Park to get high, and been caught with a couple of joints. The Ontario Supreme Court decision is a binding precedent on Canadian courts. The Supreme Court of Canada also ruled Canada's possession laws unconstitutional, and gave the government a year to pass a new law -- which it never did.
Thus, the Ontario Supreme Court ruled Canada's possession laws null and void. Abortion is legal in Canada, because the Canadian Supreme Court ruled the old law unconstitutional and the politicians could not agree on a new one. Polls show 82 percent of Canadians are in favor of decriminalization, or legalization, of marijuana.
The proposed penalty for possession is identical to that in 12 U.S. states: a $150 (Canadian) fine for possession of up to 15 grams. This would, in practice, recriminalize pot in Canada. Right now, possession laws -- especially in the cities -- are rarely, if ever, enforced. And if you are unlucky enough to get charged, your case is rarely prosecuted. If it is prosecuted, you'll most likely get an "absolute discharge" ("Be a good boy and there is no record of your being charged"). If you're a small-time grower or dealer, the most common sentence is a "conditional discharge" ("Be a good boy for six months to a year and there is no record of your being charged").
The worry of Canada's legions of pot smokers about the new "decriminalization" is that this will become like photo radar. The police will actually start enforcing the pot laws, as a huge new cash cow, to grab the $150 fines.
There is also a lot of complaining from the 600,000 Canadians who have pot convictions on their records that the proposed law is not retroactive. Technically, they can be barred from entering the United States as tourists.
As the president of the Canadian chapter of the world's largest smokers'-rights group, Forces International (www.forces.org), I am regularly inundated with e-mails from older Canadians who wonder why there is a laissez-faire attitude toward marijuana -- still technically an illegal substance in Canada -- compared with draconian restrictions on cigarettes -- which are still technically legal.
The answer I give is trite: Rich people in Canada smoke pot; poor people smoke cigarettes. The health argument is a joke. Marijuana contains at least 10 to 20 times the carcinogens and tar as cigarettes. Yet noted anti-smoking loudmouths in the media are champions of marijuana legalization. (Speaking strictly as an individual, I am in favor of the complete legalization of marijuana.)
The absurdity of this can be seen in Vancouver. The maximum penalty there for smoking marijuana (rarely, if ever, enforced) is a $50 fine; the penalty for smoking a cigarette indoors in Vancouver is a $100 fine, and it is rigorously enforced. So you can go into innumerable Vancouver head shops and smoke joint after joint -- but you can't light up a cigarette; you're told, "We don't need the hassles with the cops."
In some parts of Canada the fines for smoking a cigarette indoors is 10 times the amount for smoking marijuana indoors.
For instance, the owners and employees of a pool hall in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, are facing a $150 fine for allowing cigarette smoking in their establishment. There is no law against smoking pot in the pool hall. Its called the Tobacco Control Act.
The Liberal Party is becoming a laughingstock over its marijuana policy. It embarked upon this because it recently lost a by-election in its Ontario stronghold. The far-left New Democratic Party, which campaigned on complete legalization of marijuana, siphoned off enough votes from the Liberals to allow the Conservatives to win the by-election. The more conservative elements of the Liberal Party -- the party that tries to be all things to all men -- are promising/threatening a $245 million "education campaign" warning of the dangers of decriminalized pot.
The tab for the Liberals' lifestyle programs is expensive: $480 million for "tobacco control," for example. Recently, we learned that youth smoking has skyrocketed. (Tell kids not to smoke 50,000 times and guess what they're going to do?) A billion dollars was spent on a "gun registry" that was supposed to cost $4 million. Provinces are refusing to enforce the gun-control laws. The nuts and the criminals have never had a problem finding guns; the law made no dent in crime but has turned law-abiding farmers and hunters into criminals for refusing to register their guns. And now $245 million for "Reefer Madness II."
Canada doesn't need a prime minister. It needs a psychiatrist to figure out why we keep voting Liberal.
Warren Klass, of Winnipeg, is president of Forces Canada (www.forces.org/canada), a smoking-rights group.
March 15, 2003
LETTER OF THE DAYTHIS IS in response to some of the factually inaccurate claims contained in correspondence directed to Michael Coren. ("Strange Bedfellows," March 8). The thrust of the correspondence seemed to be that Hitler's PETA-like agenda was either a coincidence or tangential to Nazism. Neither claim is factually accurate.
In 1933, as one of his first acts, Hitler banned the kosher slaughter of animals in Germany. Also in 1933, Hitler banned animal vivisections. Concentration camp inmates were used instead.
In 1938, Hitler banned Jews from owning pets. The animals were all slaughtered, often in front of their owners.
In the propaganda film, The Eternal Jew, one of the more graphic scenes focused on Jews supposedly mistreating animals. Scenes taken from a Polish kosher slaughterhouse were shown to induce hate. The supposed mistreatment of animals by Jews was a constant in Nazi anti-Semitic propaganda.
But Hitler's fetishes did not stop at animals. Hitler was a pronounced anti-smoking activist who brought in the world's first indoor smoking bans. German propaganda called second-hand smoke "a Jewish plot to poison the Aryan race." Jews were banned from smoking in Germany in 1938.
Hitler was very much a friend of the Earth environmentalist, and where possible mandated organic substances replace chemicals in cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. Concentration camp inmates at Dachau were forced to make organic honey.
Hitler, with his fetish for animals, his anti-smoking campaigns, his environmental awareness and his love of organics was a real '90s kind of guy.
Warren Klass
PETA Turns Holocaust into Pig Pen:
May 13, 2003
Veterans earned right to smoke
Irene Zigarliski (Veterans fighting for ill health, letters, May 6) is mistaken on numerous levels. The statement that "second-hand smoke is slowly killing the Canadian people" is a tautological assertion devoid of one iota of evidence.
The veterans went to war to stop those using phony health scares to legislate their personal morality. Hitler's quest was for a "Smoke-free Germany... a secure and sanitary utopia."
Be assured that without the sacrifice of aging, heroic veterans, the likes of Mayor Glen Murray and Coun. Jenny Gerbasi -- who legislate their own morality in private clubs -- would be wearing pink triangles and yellow stars in Dachau. This is the gratitude given to aging heroes who risked their lives for freedom?
April 8, 2003
Canada split about America
"Fickle foreign friends" (April 4) is a great editorial, but as a Canadian I'd just like to try to explain the dynamics of Chretien's decision not to support America, which has split Canada.
There is a provincial election in Quebec in a couple of weeks. The war is unbelievably unpopular there; polls put opposition at about 80 percent. French-speaking Quebec gets its news not from CNN but from the likes of France's TV5 -- an endless anti-American propaganda barrage. The U.S. national anthem was booed at the Montreal Forum. A group of 11- and 12-year-old hockey players from New England playing in a tournament in Montreal were tormented. Some yahoos burned an American flag in front of these kids.
In order to give the provincial Liberal Party a shot in the Quebec election, Chretien betrayed not only America, but Britain as well. The pretext used for Canada's refusal to join the coalition of the willing was transparently phony: that the U.N. Security Council did not approve. Canada, however, joined the fight over Kosovo without U.N. Security Council approval.
Outside Quebec, and to a much lesser extent in southern Ontario, there is overwhelming support for Canada's joining the war to liberate Iraq. In Alberta the most recent poll put support for the United States at 80 percent. In the most recent poll in The (Toronto) Globe and Mail, 76 percent of Canadians would have "accepted" Canada's participation. In western Canada, the letters to the editors and the call-in shows are overwhelmingly pro-American and anti-Chretien. The most common theme has been "Chretien has made me ashamed to be a Canadian."
Nobody heckled me for the sign I carried around on Saturday at a pro-American demonstration (my first since the '60s) at the Manitoba legislature. The sign read, "Bush for Mt. Rushmore. God Bless America."
Winnipeg, Manitoba
March 5, 2003
January 14, 2003 - In previous commentaries I mentioned to the smokers of both Canada and the U.S. how to turn around smoking bans: don't patronize establishments where you can't smoke. I mentioned the Freedom Fighters of Manitoba's second largest city, Brandon, about 150 miles west of Winnipeg. Today the Brandon city council is voting on changing one of Canada's most restrictive by-laws. This is happening not just because of smokers but because of the non-smoking friends of smokers who have decided to go elsewhere, as well. We at Forces are very cognizant that there is a huge distinction between non-smokers and anti-smokers. Non-smokers respect the rights of others, anti-smokers are a different breed entirely.
Brandon is a small city whose population is measured in thousands. Brandon, was, until the smoking bans were imposed, a wonderful city that I always enjoyed visiting. According to the Jan13, 2003 edition of the Winnipeg Free Press, many others felt that way as well. Tourism has taken a huge hit. According to the Free Press:
"The Brandon economy has lost $2-3 million since Bylaw 6696 began. Even a gas station on the Trans-Canada highway inside Brandon claimed to lose $15,000 in one week because truckers weren't stopping. Much of the truck traffic began stopping in Virden instead. "The big thing is truckers. We used to get two or three a night at the Trails West Motor Inn (the owner quoted in the Free Press puts her loss since the smoking ban in the six figures) and now they completely bypass us."
"The loss of customers affects everyone from from staff who get less hours or fewer tips and may even have to be laid off, to suppliers of food and liquor to the bars. It also effects employment of musicians performing in beverage rooms". "...Brandon bars are seeing a 40-55 per cent drop in VLT (Video Lottery Terminal) revenues."
In response to a bar owner's "sob story" Brandon City Councilor Errol (the error) Black (my nominee for the Marie Antoinette "Let them eat cake" sensitivity award) told bar owners, "Then go find another business." He said drinking establishments are disappearing as society adopts a healthier lifestyle."
As someone who has in the past been a tourist in Brandon, I challenge Errol "the error" Black to put his own money into a California style Juice/Oxygen bar in blue-collar Brandon and let us know how long it takes to go bankrupt. Brandon ain't Berkeley on the prairies. Thank God.
In 1920s America the cry of the prohibitionists Carrie Nation and Billy Sunday was" First alcohol-then tobacco." Now the cry of the modern day intellectual descendents like Brandon's Errol "the error" Black is "First Tobacco-then alcohol."
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Monday, January 13, 2003
To the editor:
Someone from the Halifax area recently forwarded me a copy of a letter by Michael Parsons, A Deeper Look Into Second-Hand Smoke, in the Jan. 3 Daily News.
The organization I represent, Forces Canada (Fight Ordinances to Restrict Control Eliminate Smoking, www.forces.org/canada) was mentioned in a very distorted manner.
Forces Canada is the Canadian chapter of the world's largest smokers'-rights group: Forces International. Its Web site, www.forces.org, had 10 million hits in the past year. We are all grassroots volunteers. Two of our chapters' presidents are MDs, including the president of Forces Italy, who is a non-smoking MD/PhD, world-renowned cancer specialist.
Several of our chapters' presidents have PhDs. Many of us have master's degrees.
In the Forces' evidence archive, we have virtually every scientific study ever conducted on second-hand smoke. The archive contains more than 100 epidemiological studies. In addition, we have court judgments in which the rules of evidence apply that have "vacated," or rendered null and void, every spurious myth about second-hand smoke.
In our archives, we have the scathing judgment of the Australian Supreme Court and the identical judgment from U.S. federal Judge William Osteen that "vacated" every myth about second-hand smoke in a landmark 92-page decision, i.e., second-hand smoke causes lung cancer in non-smokers, is responsible for causing or irritating existing asthma, bronchitis, pneumonia, inner-ear infections, etc.
Parsons claims that Osteen "vacated" the claims about second-hand smoke on procedural grounds. Osteen based his decision on 31 epidemiological studies submitted by both sides.
Here is a sample of Judge Osteen's comments:
"EPA publicly committed to a conclusion before research has begun; excluded industry by violating the Radon Act's procedural requirements; adjusted established procedure and scientific norms to validate the agencies public conclusion, and aggressively used the Act's authority to disseminate findings to establish a de facto regulatory scheme intended to restrict Plaintiff's products and to influence public opinion.
"The Court is faced with the ugly possibility that EPA adopted a methodology for each chapter, without explanation, based on the outcome sought in that chapter."(Osteen, North Carolina, 6:93 V00370, 17/July 98).
Parsons goes on to state "this court decision was based on largely procedural grounds and did not challenge the findings concerning the serious respiratory health effects of second-hand smoke in children."
Wrong. All claims regarding children (causes or irritates existing asthma, bronchitis, pneumonia and inner-ear infections) were vacated.
What you might find even more fascinating is the author of Chapters 7 and 8 of the "vacated" EPA report (Passive Smoking and Respiratory Disorders Other than Cancer, and Assessment of Increased Risk for Respiratory Illnesses in Children from Environmental Tobacco Smoke), Dr. Fernando Martinez, director of respiratory sciences at the University of Arizona, has completely disavowed his previous contentions.
Martinez now believes that the outbreak of asthma among children is being caused not by second-hand smoke, but by smoking bans and hyper-sterilized surroundings. He calls this "lazy-lung" syndrome, in which the lungs are not being properly exercised and thus are acutely susceptible to disease.
Martinez was recently quoted as saying: "Like most people, I assumed tobacco smoke and pollution were the problem - this was the politically correct way to think. But these factors turned out not to play a major role. In high pollution areas, in low pollution areas. Among all ethnic groups, there was asthma. Clearly, something else was involved." (Does Civilization Cause Asthma? by Ellen Ruppel Shell, in the May 2000 Atlantic Monthly)
Warren Klass
Winnipeg Free Press
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In Years 10 and 11 we study separate English Language and English Literature qualifications.
These are taken with the Cambridge and Edexcel board.
English Language:
The opportunity is given for students to study the way language is used for effect in texts. The ability to summarise a text and break it down into its important parts is also studied. In this course students are asked to read for meaning and expected to break down a text using skills of inference and deduction.
Part of the course includes a coursework portfolio where students are asked to create 3 pieces of writing that are crafted for a certain purpose and audience. The pieces have the following titles:
· Writing in response (argue)
· Writing to inform
· Writing to describe
Speaking and Listening is an integral part of the course and students are also tested on their ability to speak about a chosen topic for 5 minutes and then be questioned on that topic for a further 5 minutes. This enables our students to become clear and confident speakers who can present themselves in a formal setting with success.
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This GCSE focuses on reading set texts and being able to create analytical pieces of writing about them. There is no coursework element for this qualification.
English Literature is based solely on examination and has 4 main components:
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· Drama (a play is studied and then an essay question on theme or character is produced. Set plays include: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller)
· Prose (a set text is studied that challenges the reader to answer on either a set theme or character. Set texts include: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen)
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· Unseen texts (students are given a poem and an extract from a story and are asked to comment on the poet's/writer's use of language and description)
· Poetry (students study a set anthology of 12 poems and are asked to produce an essay analysing the poems. Poems include If by Rudyard Kipling and The Tyger by William Blake)
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THE Home Secretary has admitted he is powerless to stop extremists who have wreaked havoc across the Midlands demonstrating in the region during Easter.
The English Defence League (EDL) plans to hold a rally this Saturday in Dudley to protest against plans for a new £18 million mosque .
Previous EDL marches, including ones in Birmingham, Stoke-on-Trent and Nottingham, have erupted into violent clashes between rival groups, including United Against Fascism (UAF).
Shoppers have been left horrified as yobs took over their city centres and several arrests were made by police.
And Alan Johnson has condemned extremists whose aim it is to divide communities
Yet he said there are no laws available to allow him to halt the incendiary group from demonstrating next Saturday.
"The police can in certain circumstance apply to me to stop a march, a demonstration that is physically moving along," Mr Johnson told the Sunday Mercury.
"They have no such powers on static demonstrations if they are on public land.
"They have powers to ensure people can go about their daily business, powers to say make sure you are not in the middle of the road, but the power to stop it doesn't exist."
And he defended the right of all groups to demonstrate.
He said: "I deplore any attempt to cause disruption and disharmony in communities but because I disagree with the views of people demonstrating it doesn't mean I should stop them.
"This is a democracy quite rightly the power of politicians to stop people demonstrating is limited.
"There are rules about what they can say, about inciting racial hatred, laws that we have introduced, but there is not a law that says because we don't like their views we can ban their static demonstration."
Dudley residents were warned to "prepare for the worst" when it was announced the EDL was planning to march in their town.
The council's deputy leader Les Jones said: "It's not particularly unexpected and so now we've just got to prepare for the worst case scenario."
And council leaders from the three main political parties and UKIP signed a public notice calling on residents to stay away from the demonstration.
But supporters of the EDL, who are travelling from as far away as Bolton in Lancashire and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, have been arranging their plans through the group's website.
One from wolves15 reads: "Can't wait, been waitin for ages for one close to home that i can go to."
Dudley Council originally turned down plans by the Dudley Muslim Association to build the mosque in 2007, after a petition opposing the scheme raised 22,000 signatures.
But the association took their fight to a public inquiry and now a government planning inspector has ruled in its favour, granting its appeal against the council's refusal of outline planning permission in July 2008.
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How to Turn $100 a Month into a Million will teach readers some tips on how to cut on expenses and make wise investment decisions.
ISBN 13 (eBook): 978-1-4817-0422-9
How if you start saving and investing at a young age that it will grow overtime. It gives practical advice and how you can start with small amounts of money but doing it on a regular basis will make you a wealthy investor.
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Japanese mattress inventor, Motokuni Takaoka, has developed one of the best mattresses in the world that many athletes benefit from. He has, in fact, been to all of major sports events, including the Olympics, in order to find out how his design and inventions have helped sportsmen to become better at their game.
Takaoka is credited for the Airweave, a type of pad that is made with resin fibers that encourage a better sleeping environment for its users. Athletes who have tried sleeping with the Airweave apparently end up less fatigued and more physically ready to face the day's game.
Takaoka's beginnings as a sleep specialists, as well as the development of his mattress innovation has been profiled in the Asahi.
Takaoka's mattress story starts a decade ago and upon discovering how resins his company used for fishing and net production were also used for mattress stuffing. Using different types of mattress models and undergoing a research that spanned for many years, as well as many prototypes, the inventor was able to create a mattress pad that Olympic winners used in the last Beijing Olympics.
Today, his invention is used by airline companies, five star hotels and resorts all over Japan. His Airweave was also part of the London Olympics support program.
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Combining the thrills of a GHOST TOUR with the ADVENTURE of a Paranormal Investigation and you have the 1905 Basin Park Hotel's "GHOST ADVENToUR".
Learn the stories of the colorful characters who stayed, worked, died, and perhaps remain here at the "People's Hotel". Then, unlike any other GHOST TOUR, participate in a guided PARANORMAL INVESTIGATION to find the spirits... all with exclusive access to the hotel's rooftop, the underground cave that stored bootleg whiskey, and more!
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If i run vncserver, it crashes:
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New Zealand, officially "The Dominion of New Zealand" is an island situated in the south western part of the Pacific Ocean. It has two main islands, namely, the North Island and the South Island. New Zealand is spread over an area of 268,670 sq kilometers. The population of New Zealand has been estimated to be around 434,966 as per December 2010 census.
While English is the predominant language in New Zealand, 98% of the population speaks it with an accent similar to Australian English. Christianity is predominantly followed here among 55.6% of the population while 34.7% belonged to no religion and the rest 4% affiliate to other religions.
New Zealand has mild and maritime climate with an annual temperature from 10 degree Celsius in the south to 16 degree Celsius in the north.
The flora of New Zealand includes 75% of world's unique and oldest plant forms. Conifers, ferns, lycopods constitute much of the land vegetation that shows connection with the plants of Malayan region. More than 250 species of plants are common to both Australia and New Zealand. Other eye-catching trees include pohutukawa and other species of rata and kowhai.
While seals and two species of bats are seen in New Zealand, it has no natural mammals. Pests such as rabbit, deer, pig, and the Australian possum including whales and dolphins can also be found in New Zealand. Around 250 species of birds are seen breeding and migrating. Other birds such as kea, mountain parrot, and the tui can be found.
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Open House Postponed Due to Weather
Tonight's Court Facility Improvement Project Open House has been rescheduled to Thursday, January 18th.
The Court Facility Improvement Project Open House scheduled for tonight is being canceled due to inclement weather.
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Prime Minister Modi's popularity is clearly on the wane though returning to power next year would not be a problem due to the divided opposition, which is in disarray and leadership vacuum to give real fight to the Party in power. However, 'aache din' as promised by the Prime Minister is nowhere in sight as most citizens struggle to make both ends meet with rising inflation, unemployment and corruption being the real issues witnessed by the nation today. PM Modi undoubtedly is a capable leader who puts in a lot of hard work but he now needs to deliver on his promises by taking tough decisions for the betterment of the nation. Corruption should be fought on a war footing and money generated or saved by targeting illegal activities, should be utilised for public welfare programmes that directly support the poor. Policies should be employment generating and self-employment should be encouraged. Inflation can come down if hoarding of commodities are targeted. Next term for Prime Minister would be challenging and he needs to work in right earnest by delivering on his promises to regain public faith and improving his declining popularity!
— S.N. Kabra, Goregaon
The 90-minute speech of PM Narendra Modi on the floor of the parliament was most disappointing and directionless by attacking the Congress rule of the past and present without realising that he is the PM of India, and not an opposition leader which proves that he was in election mood and was trying to give a campaigning speech and ducking the key questions like joblessness among the youth, farm crisis, threat to security to the nation from Pakistan-China and corruption in the Rafale fighter deal to divert the attention of the people of India without penning down any action to take the country forward. I strongly feel that the speech of the PM was of a low standard and did not suit his image and neither had credibility.
The urgent need of the hour is that he must stop attacking the Congress Party and do something for the country which under his rule, has been in a total mess for last four years in all sectors and has become backward. Instead of barking with a big voice, he must implement the promises that he made in 2014. He is just a big talker without any action, and it is only boosting his own bogus image.
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Convertible debt is an investment that can "convert" into equity in the future at the option of the debt holder, usually at a discount to the next funding round price, and which sometimes has a "cap" (maximum price). It is a low cost alternative to an equity investment, often issued before the Series A round. Early stage investors (e.g. angel, seed) take the most risk, and convertible notes, with or without a valuation cap, are structured to provided beneficial features to reward them.
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Best Caribbean Holidays For Couples
Do you long for a secret rendezvous in the Caribbean with your partner on a Caribbean yacht charters holiday? If you are, then you can start making plans, as the following islands are three of the best Caribbean holidays for couples. You can book a charter holday here, they also have local contact numbers available.
St Lucia
If you want a holiday that will turn up the heat or rekindle the romantic flame, then St Lucia is the best place to go. For five consecutive years, the island was voted as the World's Leading Honeymoon Destination with the perfect setting to draw couples closer. The island was also named the sexiest romance/honeymoon destination by Recommend Readers Choice. There are many hotels in St Lucia that are perfect for couples. These include Anse Chastenet, Sandals Halcyon and Jade Mountain, which were voted the number 1 honeymoon resort in the Caribbean.
Jamaica is a haven for those in love. This very small island features many all-inclusive hotels geared towards couples only. The Couples chain of resorts has four hotels and includes the Couples Negril, Couples Swept Away, San Souci and Couples Tower Isle. The Sandals Resorts Chain of hotels also caters to couples only and has six hotels in the resort towns of Montego Bay, Negril and Ocho Rios. These hotels feature exotic gardens and the perfect atmosphere for privacy to rediscover and rekindle romance. The resort town of Negril is especially popular among couples and is famous for its white sandy beaches and captivating sunsets.
The Bahamas is considered one of the most intimate destinations for couples. This area has over 700 islands and cays, which makes it the perfect exotic hideaway. The Bahamas also boasts many secluded beaches and hotels that are ideal for couples. For a truly romantic holiday, you can book your stay at the Sandals Royal Bahamian, One & Only Beach Club, Stella Maris Resort Club or Green Turtle Club Resort and Marina.
Bahamas, St. Lucia and Jamaica are the perfect Caribbean getaways for couples. These islands are very close in proximity and if you cant decide on which one to visit, island hopping is definitely an option. Visit any one of these Caribbean islands if you want to experience a truly memorable holiday.