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- What: Zone Of The Enders HD Compilation
- Where: The Hut PS3 | Xbox 360
- Current Price: £17.85
- Zone Of The Enders HD PS3 | Xbox 360 Price Comparison
In a recent top ten about awesome videogame mecha, we couldn't help but sing the praises of Zone Of The Enders. Both the original game and its sequel stand out as being some of the finest games involving massive stompy exoskeletons ever... and the news 0f an HD compilation was music to our ears.
Now, I admit, it's still a way off (slated for 2012) - but The Hut are already charging an extremely cheap preorder that'll save you around £7. Your card won't be charged until it's dispatched, meaning that this could be a perfect time to order and forget.


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Nice work on the last blog posts. The propaganda show looks interesting.. but before I comment about that, I want to address your questions about paper and architecture. It's funny, sometimes I think I should have been an architect, but then I think of the drafting involved and re-think. With you living in a city known for it's architecture wonders, and me living in a place with the juxtaposition of beautiful, beachy, Mediterranean blues and corals and suburban nightmare boxes - there is lots to talk about. I'm still marveling the design of the new Art Institute Modern Wing. I couldn't get over it's glassed goodness and birch floors. So sleek, yet completely welcoming. To me, this is the equation for a successful design. I am always drawn to modern architecture, but conversely crave the home-grown, home-spun plants and "textiles on every wall" feeling. How do we find a balance?
Another connection stems from blueprints . . and the space in which they create the ability to visualize. That possibility of greatness is so symbolic. For instance, I've always loved Claes Oldenburg's drawings of his sculptures a little more than the sculpture itself. Always a sucker for mystery - blueprints, plans, sketches - give room for something so necessary in making . .. POSSIBILITY. It's like seeing a movie after you have already read the book. It's always better in my head for I can create the visuals, pick the wall color, construct the space.
The simplicity of paper allows this to be possible. The tabula rasa.
Paper - and all of it's simplicity - gets amplified with wallpaper. The act of covering the architecture of your walls with images negates the design of the space at the same time as it draws attention to it. I think this is what I love about wallpaper - its seams seem fluid, but the divide is fascinating. Before I go on and on again about wallpaper. Below are some installation shots of my show at the Florida Craftsman Gallery and a review here.
I have another post waiting-in-the-wings regarding small things, trinkets, fabric and twining, mending, etc. Look for it this weekend.
Question for you: What are you mending, tending to, trinket-collecting, wrapping, etc., lately? Why do we continue on this path? Does it have anything to do with the lack of tactility that modernization brings?

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Stan Popovich, Guest Author
Stress and anxiety are very common when you are a professional speaker. As a result, here is a list of techniques that a professional speaker can use to help manage their daily stresses and anxieties.
Sometimes, we get stressed when everything happens all at once. When this happens, a person should take a deep breath and try to find something to do for a few minutes to get their mind off of the problem. A person could take a walk, listen to some music, read the newspaper or do an activity that will give them a fresh perspective on things.
Challenge your negative thinking with positive statements and realistic thinking. When encountering thoughts that make you fearful or depressed, challenge those thoughts by asking yourself questions that will maintain objectivity and common sense.
Remember that no one can predict the future with one hundred percent certainty. Even if the thing that you feared does happen there are circumstances and factors that you can`t predict which can be used to your advantage. For instance, you are at your place of work and you miss the deadline for a project you have been working on for the last few months.
Everything you feared is coming true. Suddenly, your boss comes to your office and tells you that the deadline is extended and that he forgot to tell you the day before. This unknown factor changes everything.
In dealing with your anxieties as a professional speaker, learn to take it one day at a time. While the consequences of a particular fear may seem real, there are usually other factors that cannot be anticipated and can affect the results of any situation. Get all of the facts of the situation and use them to your advantage. The more control you have over your stresses and anxieties, the better off you will be in the long run.
Take advantage of the help that is available around you. If possible, talk to a professional who can help you manage your fears and anxieties. They will be able to provide you with additional advice and insights on how to deal with your current problem.
By talking to a professional, a person will be helping themselves in the long run because they will become better able to deal with their problems in the future. Managing your fears and anxieties takes practice. The more you practice, the better you will become.
Copyright 2012 by Stan Popovich. Stan is the author of "A Layman's Guide to Managing Fear Using Psychology, Christianity and Non Resistant Methods" – an easy to read book that presents a general overview of techniques that are effective in managing persistent fears and anxieties. For additional information go to: http://www.managingfear.com/
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Purchases were very limited in London, one piece of Liberty print!Very restrained for me.....
Now for finished projects- this is the bound 1600 jelly roll quilt in a basic grey range , which I am happy with but not keen on the colours- it has gone off to a Christmas fair with my daughter!
Next, I decided that I had to make the little quilt on the Moda Bake shop site recently- it is made from Mama sais Sew, which I just happened to have as I sent for it from the States.Not yet backed , but will be soon!
And then I saw a post ( will try and remember whose)about using up triangle scraps- perfect for the offcuts, so I gave it a try and ended up with these blocks-
Then I decided to whip up a little prem baby quilt for linus, here it is -
I decided it was time to tidy up the finished quilts and rearrange some books for a general tidy up-
And finally- one of my clients was clearing out lots of her quilting mags and patterns from the attic!
Whoop whoop- here is a picture of some of the goodies! Plenty of bed time reading for the next year I reckon! and a few paper patterns for animal blocks and a few templates!
There must be abput 120 magazines, all from the last 12 years, full of ideas and information. I am one lucky person!
Off to back and bind my hexi union jack. Watch this space...
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PixlBit | "After not one, but two special format shows with guests, it's high time for the main NWP crew to get together and talk some games. Like, a lot of games. Like, too many games."
N4G is a community of gamers posting and discussing the latest game news. It's part of NewsBoiler, a network of social news sites covering today's pop culture.


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House delayed again
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PMS really makes my mood swings rather largely and it really isnt an excuse for ladies like us for our tantrums and day-and-night temperament. Sometimes we ourselves cant even help it. I felt like dying these few days, literally depressed with "end of the world" mood but today, I'm back being sunny queen again. Even when I just lost a $44 in mahjiong just now. That shucks though. But I'll have better luck next time! I believe it will come back soon to me, just like the way I won $100 the day before. Yes!
Went to view T's apartment at Jurong with dearie and it was lovely. We saw the empty house before and thought it was rather small, just like any other condos. But surprise, after the renovation, the house looked much bigger. I had to marvel at the designer's magic though T said most of the ideas came from her creative wife.
Initially I was deciding between employing a contractor alone or along with a designer since the latter definitely costs more. But after the viewing, it certainly gave me an answer. Might possibly steal some of the ideas because they're so wonderful! Storage, conventionality and style all in one. And her daughter's room, woah, all pink, just as sweet as the little princess. T showed us his KTV system proudly and dearie and me were so amazed. Sorry, kinda sua-gu. He uses BMB, the famous brand for KTV sound system with cordless mikes, that's why the feeling of singing in his lush living area was oh-so-shiok, and not at all weird! All are original MTV's, total of 12,000 songs.
Oh, T gave me a whole stack of Guardian discount vouchers(for their card or something). I have a premonition that I'm going to spend again…
We might start giving our floor plans to contractors/designers soon. Bad news though, our house will be delayed…again…around 1 month due to the buyer's stupid cum f*cked up property agent. We had to collect rent from them, no choice, but it was a friendly figure. Really. A good or bad property agent really make or break you. Be sure to find a good one. Mine was pretty good, patient, accommodating, just PM me for contact if you need.
I really wish our house come soon. Perhaps I'm used to having my own private space, sometimes I'll get irritated when I dont have it. Like,
1) I love having my queen bed to me alone, and not sharing it
2) I can bathe at whatever time I like and then blow dry my hair to sleep. Now I cant because the hair dryer will wake dearie up. (Sigh, that's why I cant sleep now because long hair still damp)
3) I cant read whenever I like it, like when dearie is asleep, because I cant on the lights
4) I have to use ear piece which can get stressful on the ears for long periods when dearie is watching TV, and I dont like hindrance. Sometimes he uses ear phone too, for the same reason
5) Last and not least, SHARING MY WARDROBE LAH. Which obviously aint enough already! 😛


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Darren Yates gets snap-happy testing to see if smartphones have consigned digital compact cameras to history.
A few years ago, you might have been lucky and had a digital camera in your pocket to pull out and grab those once-in-a-lifetime moments – if you remembered to take it with you. These days, everyone just whips out their smartphones and starts snapping away. I keep telling people you have to think of smartphones as portable computers and in terms of features, they either have or are about to knock a range of devices out of the market from MP3 players to GPS devices. And you have to wonder whether digital compact cameras are next. These cameras are being squeezed by smartphones on one side and ever-decreasing prices for digital SLR cameras on the other. While it's highly doubtful that a compact camera will ever match a digital SLR model for image quality, it's worth asking the question have digital compact cameras met their match in smartphones. So we decided to test it out, comparing two brand-new digital still cameras – Panasonic's $449 Lumix DMC-TZ30 and Canon's $399 Digital IXUS 500 HS - against Samsung's $598-unlocked Galaxy SII smartphone.
The one area where digital compact cameras have really leapt ahead in recent times has been video capture. Gone are the days of small video frame sizes, no optical zoom and no image stabilisation during video capture. Both of the compact cameras we tested feature full HD (1920x1080-pixel or "1080p") capture with optical image stabilisation removing hand wobbles and full optical zoom during video capture. The Panasonic captured its video in AVCHD format, which is very similar to Blu-ray movies in its layout, but it also offers progressive-scan capture, a technique that results in smooth, clean video on big-screen TVs. The Canon stores its movies as straight MOV files and although it uses the same highly-efficient H.264 video compression as the Panasonic, its quality isn't quite as good, particularly with horizontal panning shots. It also captures CD-style WAV audio rather than more efficient AAC or Dolby AC3 format.
Not to be outdone, smartphones capture video too. However, capturing 1080p video requires at least a dual-core processor and they're still rare in smartphones, making the Galaxy SII even more noteworthy. Typical phones with a 1GHz single-core processor will only capture 720p (1280x720-pixel) video at best. The Galaxy SII uses H.264 video compression for its 1080p video capture but without optical zoom and image stabilisation, it's not quite as versatile as the compact cameras. However, provided you can hold it steady, the SII's video quality is noticeably smoother than the IXUS 500 HS, particularly on horizontal panning shots, but the SII's auto-focus tends to "hunt" more and seems slower to react to changes in object distance.
Still images
It still seems to be in our collective buying consciousness that lots of megapixels equals better photos. News of Nokia's new 41-megapixel (41MP) PureView 808 smartphone certainly suggests that. But far more important is the quality of the lens – you can have as many megapixels as you want but if the lens is rubbish, the photos will still look awful. Most of us only print photos at the standard 6x4-inch size and for that, you really only need 3MP images. Even the cheap $149-prepaid HTC Wildfire S smartphone can snap off 5MP photos while the Galaxy SII has an 8MP image sensor.
But again, without optical zoom or image stabilisation, it takes more work to grab high-quality snaps with a smartphone. The new Lumix TZ30 captures 14MP images through a 20X-optical zoom lens with optical image stabilisation, the IXUS 500HS is just a bit behind, capturing 10MP images through a 12X-optical optically-stabilised zoom lens but it's also smaller too.
Another factor that makes a difference is the physical size of the lens – the larger the lens, the more light hits that image sensor. It's one more reason why digital SLR cameras take better quality pictures again. Even so, the SII again gives the IXUS 500 HS plenty to think about and it's only the image stabilisation and optical zoom that keeps the 500 HS just marginally ahead.
Bottom line
And in the end, that's how compact cameras are staving off defeat at the hands of smartphones – by offering higher-end features and in many cases, they look headed for a demarcation dispute with dedicated video cameras. At the moment, the new Lumix DMC-TZ30 looks to be the compact camera to beat and it'll be some time before you see a smartphone match it. On the other hand, Canon's IXUS 500 HS isn't quite in the same league and if you had a Galaxy SII, it's only the 500 HS' optical zoom and image stabilisation you'd miss.
Of course, the one drawback for having your smartphone do everything is battery life – it's well known that few things suck the life out of a smartphone battery like using the GPS and capturing 1080p video wouldn't be too far behind.
But in the end, it's pretty hard to escape the convenience of being able to rattle off pics and video clips with your smartphone – just don't expect your smartphone to match a good compact digital camera, unless you're carrying something like a Galaxy SII or better.
Source: http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/hometech/snap-happy-will-smartphones-spell-the-end-for-digital-cameras-20120320-1vh10.html
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MacBook Pro Retina is as good as promised
I've been using a new MacBook Pro with Retina display for the past week or so and it's by far the best Mac laptop upgrade in quite awhile. For various reasons I've used a whole bunch of different Mac laptops over the past few years leading up to it:
- Pre-unibody 15″ MacBook Pro
- 13″ unibody MacBook Pro (core 2 duo)
- 15″ unibody MacBook Pro (i7 dual core)
- 13″ MacBook Air (i7 dual core)
- 15″ unibody MacBook Pro (i7 quad core)
Of these, everything up through the last 2011 MacBook Pro was not a desktop replacement. In fact, the inability to be one is what pushed me towards the MacBook Air to at least have something light and small for travel and meetings since at both work an home I had separate 27-inch iMacs for the heavy lifting. The quad-core MacBook Pro with an SSD upgrade and ability to take 16GB of RAM finally made a totally viable desktop replacement again, and became pretty much the only computer I used for the last six months. But, it was painful after having embraced the MacBook Air to be back to such a (relative) clunker. Since most of the features continuing to date the unibody design were things I had long given up using (optical drive, ethernet, firewire) I was more than ready for a slim MacBook Pro without these.
The Retina MacBook Pro was is this plus a whole bunch of display awesomeness. It's nearly the agility of a MacBook Air with RAM, CPU, and storage that performs like a really fast desktop. But the display… well, having spent a lot of time using retina displays on the iPhone and new iPad it's exactly the beauty you'd expect, now happily married to desktop tasks like software development. As an iOS developer, it especially stands out having Xcode and the iOS Simulator quietly render all of the Retina assets at full quality using the @2x versions just like the real device would, and working with high-res assets in Photoshop is also a joy. But even simply scrolling and reading tons of text (an inescapable part of writing code) is much easier on the eyes with the Retina display, and of course everything about the core OS just looks great with it as well.
I was also surprised by how useful the other scaled HiDPI resolutions are. Going up from the Retina default of 1440×900 (which is perfectly doubled) to 1680×1050 (the old 15″ hi-res native resolution) is quite readable and sharp, great for lots of workspace when the MBP is your only display. Going up to 1920×1200 still stays quite clear in terms of scaling but is a touch small for my taste, and 2880×1800 – absolute native resolution, and only achievable through a third-party display utility like SwitchResX – is quite absurd, really only good for marveling at what your display is capable of and then quickly changing back to avoid a headache!
Of course I obviously don't miss the lack of optical, ethernet, or firewire, but beyond the slim form factor and display my favorite sleeper feature has been finally having a multitude of external display ports. While single thunderbolt works well for a cinema display or iMac in target display mode, a basic side-by-side setup of multiple 1080p LCD's (a cheap and common desktop setup) always required some imperfect solution until now: either get a display splitter that connects two displays to the single DVI connection and acts like one giant desktop across them (menu bar and dock with a monitor edge down the center? no thanks), or connecting one natively and sacracifing the other to a very mediocre and laggy DVI-over-USB connection like DisplayLink. But with the new MBP it's possible to connect not just two but three external displays, all with full hardware-accelerated capability.
It's worth mentioning that the flash storage is ridiculously fast as well, but having already converted to exclusive use of SSDs over the past couple years I can't say I noticed a difference; it's just something that finally comes standard without a ridiculous add-on price or need for a third-party drive swap anymore. Battery life seems as good as the previous MacBook Pro which is not stellar but good enough (I'm going to be charging this thing every day anyway), and other minor upgrades like better speakers and inclusion of USB 3.0 are handy but not something I use on a daily basis.
If there is one downside to the Retina display it's probably the unavoidable glare of a glossy screen, and while it's a huge improvement over the earlier MacBook Pro's (and from what I can tell, also a tad better than the recent MacBook Air), side-by-side with a matte screen in front of any direct window light or unfortunate overhead fluorescent lightning it's still quite obvious. I'm sure this would bother me more in a typical corporate office, but since I'm using it for now at a scrappy startup loft, random coffee shops, or on the couch at home it hasn't been a problem. But on the flip side I can't say I use the display for watching a whole bunch of movies where the glossy finish might shine either so it's sort of a non-feature for me.
A supposed downside I keep reading about is the lack of upgradability. There were basically two things the last MacBook Pro let a user easily upgrade: the storage drive and RAM. While not user-upgradeable now, it's a reasonably-priced BTO option to include 16GB of RAM (the most that could be upgraded with current sticks and two RAM slots anyway), and of course the built-in flash storage, while expensive, is equally fast and high quality. For a laptop I'm going to replace every 1-2 years anyway this is more than a fair trade for slender, light form factor, and having already embraced it with the MacBook Air it doesn't bother me at all.
Overall, if a Mac is your daily laptop you will love the Retina MacBook Pro. It's a huge upgrade and undoubtedly sets the bar for a new generation of power-user laptops led by Apple.


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Digital currency has already been a rising trend in the travel industry, thanks to the growing popularity of Bitcoin among the most tech-savvy of travelers, but Sweden is set to take the concept even further—their central bank, Riksbank, has announced the beginning of a two-year project to introduce its own national digital money.
Tentatively called the E-krona, its introduction would have a significant impact on travelers, who would no longer have to worry about the tedious process of currency exchange when on trips to Sweden. Rather than bringing their own money and going to an exchange booth to get local currency, the savvy traveler could theoretically buy their foreign currency in advance, eliminating at least two possible stops from their trip.
The benefit, though, could be even greater in the long-term—if the concept makes it big in Sweden and spreads to other developed nations, it could help eliminate the idea of currency exchange altogether and make it easy for people from one country to pay for things in any other. The current Bitcoin environment offers a tantalizing look at that future; at least one man, Felix Weis of Luxembourg, managed to take a year-long trip around the world paying for everything with only Bitcoin. However, he had to be careful to find stores that accept the cryptocurrency, and there are certainly many that don't. Its status as an "underground" currency also impacts its legitimacy among governments and everyday people.
A form of electronic currency that is accepted as a nationwide standard would open many more doors for many more people, and with big names in the travel industry like Virgin Galactic already accepting Bitcoin payments, the writing on the wall seems clear for a digital future. For now, eyes will be on Sweden as they roll out their grand experiment, hopefully on track to keep us away from currency exchange booths in a few years' time.


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House Republicans vote for bill to deny pay increase for selves in FY16. The measure, HB 576, amends State law to block implementation of the automatic pay increases slated to be paid in FY16 to Illinois elected officials. This action is necessary to prevent an annual automatic pay increase from being paid to members of the General Assembly, statewide elected officials, certain Cabinet-level executive branch agency directors and appointees, and county state's attorneys. Automatic pay increases of this type have been mandated by the Compensation Review Act since 1984.
The increase for FY16, which is designed to help beneficiaries keep up with the level of inflation, is 2.0%. If HB 576 passes through the Senate and is signed by the Governor, this 2.0% pay hike will be blocked for the year. HB 576 also blocks scheduled increases in the legislator per diem and legislative mileage reimbursements that are meant to compensate legislators for their living expenses when living in, or traveling to and from, Springfield and other places of legislative duty.
The 101-1-0 House vote on HB 576 was held on Tuesday, July 28. Gov. Rauner has signaled his support for blocking these pay hikes, but action on this bill in the state Senate is not certain. The Senate will reconvene on Tuesday, August 4.
FY16 Budget Crisis
Budget crisis continues. Two months after the constitutionally-mandated deadline for the Illinois General Assembly to complete its business, and one month after the beginning of the new fiscal year, Illinois still does not have a budget for FY16. Appropriations for the fiscal year, which began on July 1, 2015 and will end on June 30, 2016, are supposed to control how much money the State has to spend during this period; but as of Friday, July 31, there are no appropriations and no legal controls in place for expenditure areas other than elementary and secondary education this fiscal year.
The current budget crisis is the product of a series of questionable decisions by the Democratic majorities of both houses of the General Assembly. The Constitution strongly encourages the state legislature to enact an annual balanced budget, and then adjourn on or before May 31st of each year. In 2015, the members of the majority party failed to perform this duty. Their failure was no surprise, as the Illinois House and the Illinois Senate have had the same Democrat leadership teams in place for many years, and in past years they have repeatedly passed unbalanced budgets. For many years the budget was nominally "balanced" by underpaying monies into State-managed pension funds, thereby compounding the growing crisis. Current law requires full pension funding; however, and this will require the State to appropriate at least $36 billion in taxpayer money to continue existing operations in FY16. At the same time, current State tax laws will lead to the generation of only about $32 billion in revenue for State coffers in the same fiscal year. There is a gap of at least $4 billion in the current 12-month period.
In May 2015, the Democrats could have either come up with an FY16 budget that reduced State spending by $4 billion to close the gap, or proposed significant FY16 tax increases to close the gap in the other direction. They did neither. They brazenly voted for a $36 billion unbalanced "budget," and then declared they had done their work and could leave Springfield. After their adjournment caused an uproar, Democratic Speaker Madigan reconvened the Illinois House – the operations of which he controls – for one day each week in June and July of 2015, but no new comprehensive budget appeared. Instead, the House majority repeatedly affirmed and offered changes to their existing unbalanced budget, even though most of it (school aid was an exception) had already been vetoed by Gov. Rauner.
State Employee Labor Relations/Pay Update
Litigation seeks to clarify how long State employees will be paid without a budget. Since July 1, Illinois has been operating without a State budget. Operations have continued, and State employees and workers have continued to be paid, for at least four weeks since this fiscal deadline. Litigation has, so far, produced a mashup of various legal decisions. These decisions point in different directions with regard to the status and standing of different pieces of the government and their employees. If there is any common theme to the current legal situation, it is the continuation of many State agencies' cash flows at the level they operated on in FY15. This, in turn, has allowed these agencies to continue to pay their employees as of this week.
In one key case originating in Downstate's St. Clair County, the current judgment being implemented is that of the Fifth Illinois Appellate Court. This decision, by the Appellate Court with jurisdiction over southern Illinois and handed down on Friday, July 24, affirmed the Circuit Court's injunction and ordered that all State employees should be paid their full payroll checks. However, the Appellate Court also recognized the non-lawful nature of this cash flow – which is being paid out without a budget – and simultaneously remanded the case to the Circuit Court with an order that the lower court should hold a hearing and determine an expiration date for the injunction. The Appellate Court's remand order was seen by critics as recognition that the State is facing a substantial – and growing – moral hazard in operating without a budget. Creating an expiration date for employee pay could be one way to increase pressure on key Illinois officials to develop a legal outcome to the current FY16 budget impasse.
Governor vetoes bill to impose single negotiation platform on public labor negotiations. SB 1229 would amend the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act to replace collective bargaining with binding interest arbitration with respect to collective bargaining agreements that have expired. The provisions of SB 1229 would be effective for four years (July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2019). The collective-bargaining process is the traditional pathway used by labor and management to resolve most issues of workplace life, pay, and benefits. Like all other gubernatorial vetoes, the veto of SB 1229 is subject to the oversight of the General Assembly. Gov. Rauner signed the veto message on Wednesday, July 29.
The Illinois Public Labor Relations Act governs the relations between most non-educational public-sector employers and their employees. Affected entities include the State of Illinois, its 102 counties, and thousands of municipalities and other units of local government. The labor relations of these units are one of the factors that determine the income, sales, and property taxes that most Illinois private-sector residents pay.
Contentious State labor negotiations extended until at least September 30. The State of Illinois continues to pursue negotiations with its principal union, AFSCME, with the goal of inking a new State labor contract. Several facets of these negotiations are relatively contentious, as labor and management grapple with overall issues of U.S. public policy and the relative spaces that should be given, in justice, to the public sector and private sector here in Illinois. As discussions continue, both sides have agreed to extend the negotiations until at least September 30. The agreement includes a mutual no-strike-no-lockout pledge that will operate throughout this period.
Economic growth – Business licensure website
Governor signs one-stop license website bill co-sponsored by Rep Keith Wheeler. The measure, SB 659, directs the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) to create a one-stop "licensure application website" for businesspersons wishing to create new businesses or relocate businesses to Illinois. The General Assembly has directed that information be included on the single website to "walk applicants through" the initial stages of the permit application/license application or applications that may be required for implementation of these job-creation plans. Other states have already set up similar websites.
Gov. Rauner signed SB 659 into law on Friday, July 24, and the new website should be online by July 2017.
Pensions – public employees
Attorney General Lisa Madigan signals that SB 1 decision may be appealed to federal Supreme Court. An Illinois Supreme Court decision in early May struck down the 2013 "pension reform" bill, SB 1, and ordered Illinois government officials and taxpayers to cover the entire unfunded costs of pension benefits promised to many Illinois workers in the public sector. These unfunded costs are estimated to exceed $100 billion, and the burden of meeting these costs is one of the elements in the FY16 budget crisis.
The Illinois Supreme Court's decision was an interpretation of legal language within the Constitution of 1970 that granted explicit contractual protection to pension benefits. While the constitutional interpretation of each state's constitution is traditionally a subject for the sole jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of that state, some legal scholars believe that the urgency of this issue could grant the Attorney General standing to appeal the 2015 decision to the federal Supreme Court. The Attorney General is in the process of filing a paper asking for additional time to study the issue and possibly file this appeal. Lisa Madigan's action was described by "Crain's Chicago Business" on Tuesday, July 28.
Infectious disease – mumps
Mumps outbreak reported at the University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). The highly infectious viral disease is controlled by childhood vaccinations, but many young people around the world do not undertake a full schedule of inoculations and shots for various diseases. Young children can be protected from mumps even before becoming toddlers by administration (typically when they are 12 months to 15 months old) of a multiprong vaccine that also protects them against measles, rubella, and varicella. University campuses can, however, be vectors for infectious disease because of their role as host locations for people from various U.S. states and international cultures where vaccinations are less widely practiced.
The McKinley Health Center at UIUC and the Illinois Department of Public Health (DPH) have begun to fight the outbreak and collect numbers on those afflicted. According to the "Chicago Tribune," more than two-thirds of Illinois' 73 known current cases of mumps have been diagnosed in Champaign County, home to Illinois' flagship State University. Persons displaying symptoms of mumps, which include fever, headache, muscle aches and loss of appetite, should contact a medical professional. Persons with mumps are typically isolated from their peers to reduce the contagious spread of the virus.
9-1-1 prank calls – John Anthony bill
House Republican-sponsored measure creates financial penalty for 9-1-1 prank callers. The bill applies to persons who, by making a prank call to a 9-1-1 emergency-response number, commit the offense of disorderly conduct. This offense is defined as the act of knowingly transmitting a false alarm to an emergency-response 9-1-1 number. Persons who unknowingly transmit a false report to 9-1-1 should not be charged with the offense.
Under HB 3988, sponsored by State Rep. John Anthony, if a knowingly false 9-1-1 prank call is made, the court shall order the perpetrator to reimburse the emergency response pubic agency for the reasonable costs of the emergency response, not to exceed $10,000. As a retired sheriff's deputy, Rep. Anthony is well aware of the cost to public safety rapid-response teams and their personal of prank calls like these. Gov. Bruce Rauner signed HB 3988 into law on Tuesday, July 28. The House had previously agreed to the final language of the bill by a unanimous vote of 111-0-0.
O'Hare Airport – Noise bill signed
Airport noise set to increase around O'Hare International Airport as new runway opens; noise bill signed. The airplanes that use O'Hare International Airport, including jumbo jets, impose significant changes on the quality of life and property values of the communities that surround the airport. These communities include both neighborhoods in the city of Chicago and the suburbs that surround the airport's north, west and south sides.
Changes in the layout of the runways used by jet aircraft at O'Hare Airport are changing and, in some cases, increasing these noise impacts. The airport has constructed a series of east-west runways, parallel to each other, on which planes take off and land going east to west or west to east. These parallel runways reduce air traffic safety challenges and reduce collision risks, but also multiply the effects of airport noise on specific "footprints" of land underneath the areas surrounding the airport.
SB 636 was passed by the Illinois General Assembly in the spring 2015 session to continue the process of responding to these airport use patterns. The bill was co-sponsored by House Republicans Michael McAuliffe and Christine Winger. It directs the City of Chicago to maintain, and improve, the existing system of noise monitors around O'Hare Airport. A new mathematical formula is set forth in law for the software that the new noise monitor network must use. This software will enable authorities to "pinpoint" the airplanes and times of day that are seeing the greatest challenges to local residents' quality of life. The bill also opens the door for negotiations to enable the airport to continue to operate its existing "diagonal" runways, the historic runways of O'Hare' traditional operational footprint. If O'Hare International Airport can safely use both its parallel runways and its diagonal runways, this will enable airport noise to be more evenly "spread out" among all of the communities that adjoin the airport and reduce the burden of this noise on the hardest-hit communities.
SB 636 was signed into law on Thursday, July 30.
Veterans' preferences
New Veterans Preference in Private Employment Act signed into law. HB 3122, which originated with Representative Bob Pritchard of DeKalb County, seeks to strongly encourage (but not require) a veterans' preference path to employment in private-sector workplaces that opt into the program. The Act encourages all such programs to be set forth in writing and posted at the place of employment or employment website. The Act contains provisions intended to ensure that the policy, if in place, shall be applied with uniformity and continue to be in place should the employer be required to carry out a reduction in force.
Governor Bruce Rauner signed HB 3122 into law on Tuesday, July 28. The House had earlier approved the bill in a unanimous vote.
DuPage County – Local government consolidation
Peter Breen bill abolishes obsolete unit of local government. HB 3747 winds up the affairs of the DuPage County Fair and Exposition Authority. Once-rural DuPage County strongly supports its county fair and, in past years, created an independent authority to operate it. The county's long-term planning included the farsighted acquisition of a large parcel of property, the County Farm and fairgrounds, much of which was adaptively reused in the late 1980s for the county's governmental complex and Courthouse Square west of Wheaton.
The DuPage County Fair celebrated its 61st gathering in July 2015. The fairgrounds also serve as a host for other celebration marketplaces and special events throughout the year. As the fairground's activities diversify, DuPage County fair management has joined other county fairs throughout Illinois in moving towards a joint public-private-sector identity. The DuPage County Fair Association is completing the task of taking over the responsibilities of the Authority, leading to the consolidation of one unit of Illinois local government. With 6,963 units in March of this year, Illinois had more units of local government than any other state in the U.S.
HB 3747 (Breen/Connelly) was signed into law on Wednesday, July 29 by Gov. Bruce Rauner.


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Harry Potter Stars Among Hollywood's Highest Young Earners
HARRY POTTER stars DANIEL RADCLIFFE, EMMA WATSON and RUPERT GRINT have made the top 20 in a list of the highest paid celebrities under 30.
The talented trio has found themselves among such illustrious company as pop star Beyonce Knowles, U.S. basketball ace Kobe Bryant and Hollywood beauty Katherine Heigl on the rich list, compiled by American publication Forbes.
Radcliffe, who plays J.K. Rowling's superhero wizard in the popular fantasy series, raked in the biggest fortune for the year ending June 2008, amassing a staggering $32.5 million (£23.8 million) to outstrip the likes of Miley Cyrus and all three Jonas Brothers.
Watson, who plays faithful sidekick Hermione Granger, brought home $7.1 million (£5.2 million), while Grint's role as geeky accomplice Ron Weasley earned him $6.4 million (£4.7 million).
But Crazy in Love star Knowles was miles ahead of the chasing pack with an estimated $104m (£76.4 million) fortune, while Justin Timberlake took second spot with $57.3 million (£42 million).
Beyonce #1, as always 🙂
I hate that I don't know half of the people on the list. Oh, well. I am not surprised about the Harry Potter kids. They are very successful movies.


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Recently state Sen. Lois Kolkhorst wrote an op-ed in my hometown paper proclaiming that "women's rights are human rights." I immediately bristled at the headline because I would not consider Kolkhorst to be a strong defender of women's rights and, considering that our right-wing lieutenant governor picked her to champion Texas' version of the discriminatory "bathroom bill," my immediate reaction was, "No you don't, Lois!"
My esteemed colleague Chuck Smith, executive director of Equality Texas, wrote a wonderful takedown of Kolkhorst's article, and I encourage you to read it. The simple fact is SB 6 is about as ugly as it gets. It attacks the most vulnerable populations this state has: transgender women and transgender children. Case in point: just this last week in neighboring Louisiana, three black transgender women were murdered.
The truth is that this bill, Senate Bill 6, was originally going to be called the "Women's Privacy Act." Hilarious, considering that Patrick and Kolkhorst have both introduced, sponsored, and voted for multiple pieces of legislation that have restricted reproductive health care access for women, girls, transmen and gender-nonconforming people.
Conversely, I have not seen them championing legislation that would be #soprolife (if the "pro-life" movement worked at all to pass common sense policies for children once they are born) like pay equity, paid family leave, raising the minimum wage, and increasing protections for breastfeeding parents.
Women do not need Lois Kolkhorst and Dan Patrick to protect them. The justification for SB 6 feeds into outdated and harmful gender norms that paint women as helpless, vulnerable creatures that must be protected from the world. This same paternalistic worldview is behind the anti-abortion, anti-contraception policies these lawmakers promote. They do not trust women to make their own decisions. They think women need to be protected, including from themselves.
But women are strong and independent and we know when someone who is just there to use the bathroom. We are capable of smiling and nodding and going about our business in a polite way instead of shaming and attacking someone because of their gender identity. Transgender people do not present a danger to women and children, but lawmakers like Kolkhorst and Patrick do.
Discrimination is not a feminist value. Hate is not a feminist value. Lois Kolkhorst does not get to invoke women's rights or a human rights frameworks to justify bigotry and discrimination. She and Lt. Gov. Patrick do not get to use women to advance their hateful agenda.
At NARAL Pro-Choice Texas, we fight for the human rights of all Texans, including transgender and gender-nonconforming Texans. We stand up for all Texans and we oppose SB6.
Join us in opposing SB 6 as it is heard in the Senate State Affairs committee on Tuesday, March 7, starting at 8am in E1.036.
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Recent articles in the local newspapers informed their readers of the Town of Barnstable's efforts to gain compliance with a tax levy shifting option known as the residential exemption.
Both articles stated that the residential tax class has a higher tax rate due to the Town granting the residential exemption to 4,704 property owners that previously qualified for the exemption but have not filed the necessary qualifying paperwork in time for setting the FY10 tax rate.
This statement would only hold true if in fact the 4,704 property owners do not qualify. It is our belief that most of these property owners do qualify but, for whatever reason, have not responded to our efforts to qualify them since last June. We want our taxpayers to receive a benefit they are entitled to and are temporarily providing them with the benefit of the doubt that they deserve. At the same time, it is not legal for someone to receive an exemption they are not qualified for and we will need to take action to achieve full compliance with the law. This is a complicated matter and the underlying financial issues need to be examined to understand why we took the steps we did in setting the FY10 tax rate.
First, if we decided not to apply the exemption to the 4,704 properties we would have had to increase the Town's budget for abatements and exemptions, or refunds, by $3,349,248, the value of the residential exemption ($714) times the number of properties affected, since the potential for these property owners to file for abatement was very real. This would have resulted in a similar residential tax rate to the one we currently have. In order to do this we would have had to cut operating budgets by a corresponding amount. Even if we only budgeted for one-half of these properties qualifying, further reductions of close to $1.7 million to operating budgets would have been necessary on top of the $7 million in budget reductions already made for FY10 and we were already six months into the fiscal year.
Secondly, we could have removed these 4,704 exemptions and not budgeted for the potential refunds to these property owners. Under this scenario, and only under this scenario, would the tax rate have been $0.31 cents less for the residential class. Since we would have no budget to pay for any refunds awarded to the 4,704 property owners, a spending deficit would certainly be created. We believed many of these property owners would have come forward with their paperwork when they received their FY10 tax bill and we would have to issue them a refund. Knowingly creating a spending deficit situation for the Town of Barnstable does not make good financial sense. It would give the taxpayers a one-time reduction in their tax bill by artificially deflating the tax rate for one year. The taxpayers would then have to pay for the spending deficit the following year by either increasing taxes or making further reductions to services. The alternative we chose can provide the taxpayers a similar financial benefit without reducing services and provide qualifying taxpayers with a benefit they are entitled to.
The third alternative, and the one we are pursuing which coincides with our mission to preserve the Town's financial integrity, was to apply the exemption to these properties and provide them with one more opportunity to establish their qualification for the exemption during the fiscal year in which they received it. This protects the Town from the creation of a likely spending deficit this year, a situation we avoided by taking the action we did, and avoids the probability of a higher tax rate for all properties in FY11 due to the likely deficit.
We are now planning to send notification of a pending omitted tax bill to these 4,704 taxpayers, giving them a last opportunity to submit the required paperwork. If they fail to respond to the notice, we will issue an omitted bill for the tax value of the exemption. This tool is probably the most effective one we have to ensure compliance, since an additional tax bill for $736 ($714 for town tax plus $22 for the community preservation surcharge) will most likely result in the property owner promptly complying. If the paperwork is provided then the inclusion of the exemption in the tax rate was correct and we expect that most of them will respond.
Furthermore, the Town did not adopt a spending plan that included the collection of any taxes from subsequent bills so services will not have to be reduced. Any funds collected will become part of the general fund surplus (except for the $22 which will be added to the Community Preservation Fund surplus). The following year, the Town has the option to propose using any funds collected from non-qualifying property owners to reduce the FY11 tax rate, essentially providing the same tax benefit they would have received in FY10 if we had known for certain how many of the 4,704 non-compliers did not qualify for the exemption.
The other option we have is to not send subsequent bills and continue our attempts to gain compliance for another year by using direct mailings, newspapers, Channel 18, the Town's Web site, monthly town bulletin, radio, and the weekly eNnewsletter. This only delays the inevitable need to fully comply with state law. In the meantime, property owners within the group of 4,704 who may or may not qualify will receive this benefit for FY10.
Our goal under this program is to obtain compliance and not to generate additional revenue for the Town of Barnstable, which could be an interpretation of the recent articles written on this matter. We have already heard from several taxpayers that this was their understanding. If we choose to proceed with the issuing of tax bills to this group of taxpayers, and any of them do not qualify and pay the additional tax, it will be our recommendation to the Town Manager and Town Council that this revenue be used to reduce the tax rate for FY11. We are still waiting to hear from the Department of Revenue to see if we can provide some other form of tax relief with any taxes collected but we don't believe the law allows that. We have not made a formal recommendation to the Town Manager or Town Council as we continue to explore all of our options. We have not even made the final decision to send the tax bills out to the non-compliers as we are still discussing other options to attain conformity with the program. Currently, issuing an omitted bill appears to be the best option since we don't believe that taxpayers who made the effort to properly qualify for their exemption should be subsidizing those who didn't.
As a point of reference it takes $133,580 of revenue to reduce the Town's current tax rate by one cent. This means that for every 187 non-qualifying residential property owners who pay the additional tax the tax rate could be reduced by one penny next year. The reduction to the tax rate cannot happen until FY11 as the FY10 tax rate has been certified by the Commonwealth's Department of Revenue.
We want to thank The Barnstable Patriot and the Cape Cod Times for covering this issue as their articles will certainly help us with our main goal, which is compliance with the program and state law.


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Nikolai Kiselev
Life: 1913-1974
Why you should know him: Nikolai Kiselev was born to a peasant family in the rural Russian Empire, but went off to the city to study foreign trade. Although he wasn't drafted into the Russian army when the Nazis invaded, Nikolai volunteered to fight, nonetheless. As a soldier who saw much action, Nikolai was wounded and taken prisoner by the Nazis.
While being transported to a Nazi prison camp, Nikolai escaped the train. Fleeing to the forests of Belarus, Nikolai joined a group of anti-Nazi partisans, where his job was to organize groups of Jews and escaped Russian prisoners to fight the dreaded Germans.
In the nearby ghetto of Dolginovo, the Nazis collected and massacred 5,000 Jews - men, women, and children. Of those thousands, less than 300 survived. Single-handedly, Nikolai led the survivors nearly 1,000 miles to safety behind Soviet lines.
During this long march to safety, one young boy became ill and could not continue. The boy's mother would not leave her beloved son and asked that they both be shot, lest they fall victim to the Nazis. Nikolai refused and carried the boy in his arms until he was well. In another instance, a small three-year-old girl was constantly crying from hunger. Some thought the girl's life should be taken in order to spare the rest, as the Nazis would surely hear the girl's cries. Instead, Nikolai carried her and fed her his own bread.
At last, the band of survivors made it to safety. Because of Nikolai Kiselev's leadership and selflessness, 218 Jewish lives were saved. Nikolai, himself, was forced to sit out the rest of the war, as the march had taken a toll on his health. Once he recovered, though, he lived to the age of 60, still keeping in touch with some of the Jews he had saved. In 2005, Nikolai Kiselev was named Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem.


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First Open Source Native App for iPhone Contact Synchronization
Funambol today announced it has released an open source native app for iPhone contact synchronization. The Funambol plug-in for iPhone synchronizes the iPhone's address book with contacts from popular sources such as Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, Microsoft Outlook, GNOME Evolution and SyncML servers such as the Funambol server.
Until now, contact synchronization on the iPhone was possible only using a cable connected to a computer running iTunes. The new Funambol plug-in is the first open source native app for iPhone address book synchronization. To learn more, view screenshots and download the software, visit http://www.funambol.com/solutions/iphone.php.
"In mobile, the open road is the only road. The pace of development must be rapid, the compatibility wide and the cost reasonable. Open networks and devices are on the rise and are transforming the mobile industry," said Fabrizio Capobianco, CEO of Funambol. "The Funambol open source community has been operating at this pace for years and is delivering innovation that gives people access to features they otherwise wouldn't have."
The Funambol iPhone plug-in was developed in large part by Patrick Ohly, a long-time member of the Funambol community. Demonstrating the full value of open source, he set out to develop a native iPhone sync solution. He upgraded SyncEvolution (http://www.estamos.de/projects/SyncML/) for the iPhone which provides the core syncing capabilities. Funambol adapted the plug-in's user interface from its work with other mobile devices.
"Just as the cable physically ties the iPhone to a computer, the dependency on iTunes locks iPhone users into a specific platform. Because SyncML is a well-established, open standard for data synchronization, adding support for it to the iPhone was an obvious choice," said Patrick. "Extending SyncEvolution was simple -- the hard part was to figure out how the contact data on the iPhone could be accessed, due to the current lack of documentation. Hopefully, Apple's SDK will fill that gap."
Earlier this year, Funambol announced the availability of the first over-the-air (OTA) web-based contacts app for the iPhone. With the addition of this new native app for the iPhone, Funambol once again demonstrates the strength of the open source model. With the release of the Apple iPhone SDK
in Q1, 2008, Funambol looks forward to extending the iPhone plug-in for capabilities such as calendar sync and push email.
Funambol provides open source-based mobile email, contacts and calendars for 1.5 billion mobile devices, including the iPhone, iPod, and phones from Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, LG and other device manufacturers.
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In 2012 the the Spitfire Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month first was introduced with a 18-carat red gold case. Now the real cool and more affordable one hits the markets! Cool because no one really needs a red gold case and cool since the price of that watch is quite attractive.Almost unbelievable but true! The 46 mm Spitfire Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month from Cheap IWC Replica is now available in a cool and much more affordable stainless steel case.
The Spitfire Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month combines tasteful design and traditional Swiss watchmaking at its finest.
Mechanical chronograph movement – Stopwatch function with hours, minutes and seconds – Hour and minute counters combined in a totalizer at 12 o'clock – Flyback function – Small hacking seconds – Perpetual calendar – Large double-digit displays for both the date and month – Leap year display – Screw-in crown – Glass secured against displacement by drops in air pressure – See-through sapphire- glass back – Rotor in the shape of a SpitfireAnd in fact it is the only IWC Replica to show the date and month digitally in the form of four large numerals. Perfect readability is guaranteed! In visual terms, it goes perfectly with the instrument appearance and revives the tradition of the Pallweber system, now dating back well over 100 years. The sapphire-glass back offers a perfect look at the movement with its unusual rotor in the delicate shape of a Spitfire silhouette.
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If you've ever wanted to have a fireplace to enjoy but have never had the space or money to get one, this portable indoor outdoor fireplace by Holly & Martin is a great alternative.
Not only does it offer a sleek and modern design, but it is also incredibly functional and can be used virtually anywhere you would like to start a calming fire. The heath is able to run on up to three FireGlo gels or even decorative candles. The floating glass panels along with the brushed nickel base makes it a vision of contemporary elegance. Whether you want to sit by the fire in your backyard or within the comfort of your own home, this versatile fireplace will make all of that possible.
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Sweet Honey-Ginger Bites
This sweet yet tangy honey and ginger recipe is rolled in powdered sugar.
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- In a small saucepan, combine honey and butter. Cook and stir over low heat until butter melts. Remove from heat. Pour mixture into a bowl and cool to room temperature.
- In a mixing bowl, stir together the flour, sugar, ginger, baking soda, and, if desired, pepper; set aside.
- Stir egg into cooled honey mixture. Gradually stir in flour mixture until combined; knead in the last of the flour mixture by hand, if necessary. Cover and chill about 1 hour or until dough is easy to handle.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Divide dough into 12 portions*. On a lightly floured surface, roll each portion into a 10-inch long rope. Cut ropes into 1/2-inch pieces. Place pieces 1/2 inch apart in an ungreased shallow baking pan.
- Bake for 6 to 8 minutes or until tops are very lightly browned. Transfer cookies to paper towels to cool. Roll in powdered sugar.
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The Toledo Doll, Bear & Toy Show, formerly known as the Toledo Glass City Doll Show, is expanding its offerings in 2012. Now under the management of Sandy Kean-Bullock of Alora's Attic, the show will feature new, antique, and artist teddy bears as well as dolls and accessories. Author and Teddy Bear Review columnist Ken Yenke will be appraising bears and antique toys at the show, as well.
The next show is scheduled for April 15 at Stranahan Great Hall, 4645 Heatherdowns Blvd. in Toledo, Ohio. Admission is $4, with children under 10 admitted free. The show hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, visit www.toledodollshow.com or contact Bullock at (734) 282-0152 or email@example.com.


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Verizon has added a new smartphone to its newly simplified prepaid roster. The LG Optimus Zone 3 got leaked in December as it was being prepared for launch, and now it's finally official.
You can pick one up on Verizon's prepaid plans for just $69.99. Obviously for that amount of cash you're not getting a high-end flagship, rather an entry-level device.
The LG Optimus Zone 3 has a 4.5-inch touchscreen, a 1.1 GHz quad-core processor, a 5 MP rear camera, a 2 MP selfie shooter, and 32GB of expandable storage. It runs Android Lollipop, and since the exact version isn't mentioned we assume that's 5.0 and not 5.1.
The phone can be paired with the new prepaid plans from Big Red. For $30 per month you get unlimited talk and text, while $45 nets you 1GB of data as well and $60 means you'll receive 3GB of traffic.
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State auditors are investigating a no-bid contract the Department of Motor Vehicles gave to a friend of former Gov. John G. Rowland .
Joaquim "Jack" Sousa , who held political fund-raisers for Rowland when he was governor, has profited for eight years from the contract to provide mandated driver retraining classes for motorists who commit multiple violations. He is now the largest provider of the courses for the state, surpassing the nonprofit organization that developed the program's curriculum.
The state Office of Legislative Research recently criticized the contracts with Sousa and the nonprofit National Safety Council because the contractors were "selected through an informal process that did not involve issuance of a Request for Proposals."
Sousa said he received no help from Rowland to get the contract for his Waterbury driving school. Former DMV Commissioner Michael Kozlowski , who signed the deal with Sousa's group in 1996, said the governor's office did not pressure the DMV to approve the contract with Sousa.
Shays urges amnesty for troops refusing vaccine
Hundreds of military officials who refused to take the anthrax vaccine should be given amnesty, U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays says.
Shays, a Republican whose House National Security subcommittee held hearings on the issue, said he will introduce legislation soon to clear the record of anyone sanctioned for refusing the vaccine.
"We need to make sure those who opted out of the vaccine program are not punished," Shays said. "An unproven vaccine administered against an uncertain threat is simply not good policy and no punitive measures should be taken against those who chose their health over fulfilling an ill-informed requirement."
Skakel juror now doubts guilty verdict
A former police officer who sat on the jury that convicted Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel of murder now says he has doubts about whether Skakel is guilty and is working for Skakel's defense team.
"I'm now not convinced Michael Skakel is guilty," retired Darien police officer Brian Wood told Fox News . "I'm not sure he got a fair trial."
Wood, 43, helped convict Skakel in 2002 of bludgeoning his neighbor,
Wood is working part time for Skakel's private investigator, Vito Colucci.
Skakel, a nephew of Ethel Kennedy , is serving 20 years to life is prison.
Cop killer should have been on probation
The man who shot and killed a Newington police officer last month should have been on probation at the time, state officials said.
Judicial officials acknowledged Friday that someone mistakenly closed Bruce Carrier's probation file after he was released from prison in 2002. He had just served several months in prison for charges that included violating probation from a 1999 assault conviction.
Under the terms of what would have been three years of probation, Carrier, who has a lengthy arrest record, should have been barred from having any weapons or contact with his girlfriend, Mary Fletcher , and should have been attending anger management classes, state officials said.
Carrier killed Newington Master Police Officer Peter Lavery with an altered assault rifle, and then turned a gun on himself following a lengthy standoff at Fletcher's house in Newington on Dec. 31 - days before his probation would have expired.
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McDonald's Corp. has replaced its largest supplier in China in the wake of an expired-meat scandal and could reconsider the relationship pending results of a government probe into the supplier's practices.
The Oak Brook, Ill., chain has in the last six weeks suspended its partnership with U.S.-based meat supplier OSI Group Inc. and pushed alternate suppliers, such as Keystone Foods and Cargill Inc. , to increase their supply capacity, a McDonald's spokeswoman said. She said the fast-food chain is evaluating its relationship with OSI and that she couldn't rule out the possibility of it replacing the meat supplier over the long term.
McDonald's MCD, -1.68% partnership with OSI and other suppliers will largely depend on the results from an official Chinese government investigation into OSI's subsidiary, Shanghai Husi Food Co., the spokeswoman said.
A spokesman for OSI in China didn't respond to requests for comment.
Shanghai Husi has been under scrutiny in China, where authorities accused it of intentionally selling meat beyond its shelf life to restaurant companies after a TV station ran a report alleging the practice. Authorities have launched an investigation into the firm, according to China's food and drug regulators.
An expanded version of this report appears at WSJ.com.
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The atrocities against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar are unceasing, as a recent report released by the United Nations reveals Myanmar's security forces committed mass killings and gang rapes of Rohingya Muslims and burned their villages.
However, the government of Myanmar denies all allegations, while simultaneously launching an investigation into the human rights allegations.
"The U.N. report provides many detailed accounts of what allegedly happened, and that's why an investigation committee was set up to respond to the report with evidence," police Colonel Myo Thu Soe said.
The violence and genocide in Myanmar has forced thousands of Rohingya Muslims to cross the border into neighboring Bangladesh. According to the United Nations, an estimated number of 69,000 Rohingyas have fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh since the security force sweep.
Recently, a video emerged on social media showing Myanmar police brutally beating Rohinya men. The clip was filmed by a border security guard during an intense clearance operation. It shows officers lining up cowering Rohingya men and brutalizing them. The incident prompted Myanmar's first investigation and five police officers were sentenced to two months detention.
Myanmar doesn't allow media coverage of the embattled region; it's only after the refugees' arrival in Bangladesh that journalists are able to report the abuses they faced prior to their escape.
The brutality doesn't end there. Not long ago, refugees who escaped Rakhine told that they hid in rice fields for days.
"Some didn't eat. Others ate only leaves they found in the forests on the hills surrounding the border," said one refugee.
Slamming down all claims, Myanmar's de facto leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi accused the international community of "stoking resentment between Buddhists and Muslims" in the country's northwestern Rakhine state.
"I would appreciate it so much if the international community would help us to maintain peace and stability, and to make progress in building better relations between the two communities, instead of always drumming up cause for bigger fires of resentment," she said.
Another unfortunate event emerged when a Rohingya activist, Ro Nay San Lwin, tweeted images of small bamboo huts with their fences removed by Burmese forces.
All fences of #Rohingya houses in #Maungdaw downtown had to remove today by the order of #Myanmar's BGP chief Thura San Lwin. pic.twitter.com/SX9o1RU90P— Ro Nay San Lwin (@nslwin) November 9, 2016
United States is "deeply troubled" by the findings of a United Nations report. However, the new administration of President Donald Trump has yet to outline its Myanmar policy.
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When most people travel, there are lots of pictures of themselves and their friends/family standing in front of something. My travel photos are full of things that catch my eye, make me laugh or that I think may inspire my work in the future. Take a look at some of these photos that I have taken over the last year or two.
This is the brick work on the sidewalks of Palm Springs. I love tile and working tile into patterns so this immediately caught my eye. Plus it is a detail that seems to be lacking from so many of our metropolitan areas.
This photo comes from a walk to the beach in Carmel. I took pictures of the house on the way down to the beach because as a composition, I loved it. On the way back to town, I stopped at the house again and marveled at the details. I didn't realize that it was the same house until my husband laughingly pointed it out to me.
I loved the iron leaves that serve as brackets for the pierced wood panels. Since Houston has several sources of wood panels this one really appealed to me.
One of my favorite photos was from a visit to NYC a couple of years ago during New Years. I loved this pavilion just at dusk. There is just a calmness to this scene to me. There are still rhythm and repetition, but it is simple and it calls to me.


text: The artistic plan a St. Joseph man has for his bluff-side home has crossed beyond the scope of the city's residential zoning ordinance. Ervin Wagner, 63, wants to place a 30-foot-tall steel cross on a 16- by 80-foot concrete base in his front lawn on Old Lake Shore Road, on the city's southwest side. But after reviewing his plans, city officials concluded the cross is an "accessory structure," and accessory structures are not permitted in front yards in residential districts, St. Joseph Assistant City Manager John Hodgson said. Under the city's zoning rules an accessory structure is defined as something that is permanently fixed to a location on the ground. Also, the city has a 14-foot limit on accessory structures, he said. The structure's religious significance is not at issue. "It's got nothing to do with that," Hodgson said. "It could be something that said 'Go U-M' and you can't do that." For Wagner, building the cross is something he has wanted to do for some time. "The Lord told me to do this a long time ago," the Vietnam veteran said, adding that the impulse stems from the numerous brushes with death he has had. Wagner had planned to place a light in the center and post video of it on the Internet. A plaque on the structure would read "A place to connect." "I can see that cross shining and all lit up at night, with my cameras on it hooked up" to my computer, Wagner said. "I can see children and people driving by and getting connected to the cross instead of marijuana and beer." He feels that the city, which has placed pieces of art in parks and sidewalks, has encouraged public art and should allow his creation to stand. "If it's in good taste, if my neighbors don't complain, if it's in an out of the way place, I should be able to do it because you have started this," Wagner said.


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MQM seeks support of PTI, JI for Karachi development
Speaking to media at Karachi airport after his arrival from London, Akhtar said JI and PTI must support MQM in the best interest of the Karachi populace.
Regarding curtailment of Mayor's powers, the MQM leader said his party would talk to the Sindh government and move court, if needed, to get the issues resolved.
Farooq Sattar, who was also present on the occasion, said local government was the future of Pakistan.
Earlier, Waseem Akhtar had said that resolving Karachi's water crisis and cleanliness issues would be his top priority as mayor.


text: Alexej I was going to ask just one question 'why?', but then I thought back to my dim and distant past and I remembered doing something very similar. I was learning programming language 'B' after being fairly proficient (as I thought at the time) in language 'A'. I started writing macros and routines in 'B' to make it look more like 'A'. Instead I should have embraced language 'B', written my code in the 'approved' style rather than a bastardised version trying to emulate another. It turned out it was neither cool, useful or sensible. It stopped me embracing the new language, my code was unreadable both by anyone who knew 'A' or 'B' and was unmaintainable. I suggest that you forget this approach, I can't see it helping anyone (especially yourself). There are many ways to do what you want in Perl, here are just a couple. while(1) { # do something sleep 5; last if $all_done; } my $working = 1; while ($working) { # do something sleep 5; $working = 0 if $all_done; } And numerous variations. On 12 December 2012 17:05, Alexej Magura <perlook at cpan.org> wrote: > Okay, allow me to clarify what the TrueFalse module that I wrote is trying > to emulate. It's trying to emulate the 'true' and 'false' user commands > available under Linux. > > Haven't you ever done something like this in Unix Shell? > > while true; do ls /var/log/; sleep 5s; clear; done > > The statment 'true' in this example, as far as I know, only returns true > and that's it. It may not look very useful, but it can be useful when > you just need to do something and just want to write 'Just because I > said so, keep doing A until I say stop.' > > I'm sorry if all of you think that my modules are poorly written, but if > you want me to take you seriously, then say something productive for a > change, that is make some suggestions (I'm open to suggestions.) >


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Outstandingly entertaining read - - and you know why? It is one of those quasi-fictional books which fictionalizes the facts, the nonfictional background stories. Most supposedly nonfiction books today are mostly fiction; those entertaining fictional books are usually the real nonfiction, masked as entertainment. This author really knows his stuff [ignore the author's photo on the jacket cover; looks like a good fella without the chest hair].
Which brings to mind the much ado about the Russian hacking [which the CIA has still NOT provided hardcore evidence of], which even if somewhat factual [which is highly uncertain at this point], consider how incredibly insignificant it is compared to the unbelievable hacking of the Chinese military [GhostNet, Deep Panda, Titan Rain, et cetera, et cetera]; not only stealing plans and specs for EVERY important weapons system the US possesses but hacks over 25 million personnel records at the OPM, which allows them to match to other financial records they have hacked, seeking financially vulnerable government workers [especially Chinese and Chinese-American government workers and employees of defense contractors, which they most decidedly hacked already] so as to seek out spies internally. Why this hasn't been discussed more may be the most serious indictment of the so-called National Security Establishment under Bush and Obama! [We know from David Wise's book, Tiger Trap, the Chinese military long ago successfully deeply penetrated the FBI, whose activities should be kept under close watch now.]
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Mac, A.K.A. Mcgoo.A main character in this strip, Mac is a fourth generation farmer whose family went from growing fruits and vegetables to selling them via a chain of grocery stores they now own. Mac is a fast paced yet a very easy going sort. He never get angry and has a propensity to destroy the English language. He has a natural love of animals and among his many pets is a squirrel monkey named Jocko and a talking parrot named Hector.
Richard Crabgrass, A.K.A. Dickweed. Richard is another "good ole boy". Like Mcgoo he loves NASCAR and Budweiser and when he's had a few, he tends to have a solution to all the world's problems. He's never meet a stranger and considers himself to be a ladies man. You will occasionally hear him speak of his little buddy Herman, which is how he refers to his male organ.
Becky . A true "southern belle" living off a trust fund left to her by her daddy. She's very sweet, polite and accommodating. Always bringing cookies and cakes to any one that might happen by the bench. She is a bit of a worry wort, afraid that the activities at the bench are going to get her in trouble, yet her paranoia doesn't stop her from enjoying the party.
Frank. Not his real name but what everyone calls him. He acquired the nickname from his brother who called him Frank after a retarded schoolmate they knew as youngsters. Frank is a very likable and intelligent fellow who is Mr Fix-it. He always has some type of project going on and is the guy the gang calls if one of their cars breaks down.
Tina, A.K.A. Miss Bitch. This young lady is a hottie and knows it. She dresses well and is the queen of the ball busters. She can be nice but this is usually only when she is trying to get something from one of the guys. which is most of the time. Although she is a preachers daughter she can get down and dirty with the best of them.
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A brown leather book with a small lock on the front, the name Marella's Journal is written on the front in common. The language used in the book is Dunmeris, the hand writing in the book is neat.
Marella's log star date 2 Morningstar, third Era, 405th Year.
We have been down here for a full day now and lucky none of us have died. We have had a few close calls with the quiet orc and the other dunmer. Thankfully the other orc Broan and the Imperial woman are on good terms with their respective divine. The divine blessings of those two have kept us all alive, so far. If there is a way out and we don't run out of food, we may just survive the mix of monsters and men that seem determined to kill us.
Marella's log star date 3 Morningstar, third Era, 405th Year.
We are sleeping down here again, just barely survived that fight with those skeletons. There is still a door in this room and one back in the hall we just came from. There is also a handle on the throne in here, probably leads to a secret exit or a pit trap. We will find out come tomorrow.
Marella's log star date 4 Morningstar, third Era, 405th Year.
Another day in the dark tunnels, never been so glad I have night eyes in my life. Azagoth is unconscious again, as was Avery this time. Khyu'Grym has been infected with a disease from one of the giant rats running around down here. He has been in a trance since he was bitten, I hope he pulls through. The nord and breton that were in the room we are resting in, put up quit the fight. Broan is thankful to Talos for providing him with so many worthy challenges. Personally as long as Talos eventually sees fit to get us out of these tunnels alive, I don't mind a few of challenges.
Marella's log star date 5 Morningstar, third Era, 405th Year.
We made it, thank Azura, Talos, and whatever divine or daedric prince any of the others may follow. We found our way out we just barely made it past the last line of monsters guarding the exit. There was some more areas unexplored, but the rest of the group felt that we were in too rough a shape to continue.
Once outside we found our way to a nearby city by the name of Gothway Garden. We have only just gotten here and are resting and recovering from the tunnels. Hopefully once we are all recovered we can continue our mission, but I have a feeling we may need to make some other arrangements, since we are without supplies or financial support. I will have to see what the others think.


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<> Over 50,000 seniors live below poverty level in San Diego County. These brave, needy senior citizens fought our wars, paid taxes and handed down a legacy of freedom, hope and opportunity. We cannot let them suffer in their fragile seniors years. We provide "Senior Food-for-a-Week" Emergency Food Boxes FREE the 3rd week of the month for seniors whose income is $985 or less per month. This sustains them until their next Social Security check arrives . . . most of these seniors much choose between purchasing food and medicine each month. Our food boxes are distributed to seniors who have signed up and qualify at participating Senior Centers, Salvation Army sites and pantry programs. See our website for a list of distribution sites.
The Angel's Depot initiates food drives, food box packing dates for our nutritious, nonperishable "Senior Food-for-a-Week" Emergency Food Boxes. These food boxes contain 21 meals, breakfast, lunch and dinner for a full week. We gather and pack items such as: canned tuna, chicken breast, roast beef & gravy, mashed potatoes, a lb. of brown rice, spaghetti sauce with meat, chili with meat, beef stew, mac & cheese, vegetables, soup, peanut, crackers, fruit, oatmeal, raisins, cookies and nonfat dried milk. Each food box is packed by a volunteer. See our website for further information on our current needs: http://www.theangelsdepot.org
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Town's flood gates to be replaced
Environment Agency hosts drop-in event where community can find out more about Yarm flood gates replacement.
Residents in Yarm are invited to a community drop-in this week to find out more about Environment Agency work to replace the flood gates in the town.
The project will start in April and is expected to be complete by June, taking around 12 weeks.
There are 30 flood gates along the flood defence in Yarm, and as part of the work some of the gates may be replaced and others may be removed and the flood wall bricked up, subject to further discussions with residents.
The work will start by replacing the flood gates along True Lover's Walk riverside path, starting with flood gates at West Street and working towards Silver Street.
Residents are invited to find out more at a community event taking place at Yarm Town Hall on Friday 24 February. They can drop in any time between 3pm and 6pm.
Project Manager Neil Smith said:
The gates are being replaced because many of the existing flood gates are approaching the end of their usable life. To maintain the current standard of protection for the town it's essential these gates are replaced.
By carrying out this work we will ensure the town continues to be protected from flooding from the River Tees in the future. I'd urge residents to come along to the event where they can find out more about the work we are carrying out in the town.
Work is also already underway to carry out improvements at the Boat Landing stage. Some wall coping stones and block paving have been repaired and new handrails will be put up along the waterside of the boat landing in May.
In addition, there will be restoration and repainting of the perimeter fence and replacement of benches and litter bins in the area.


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I did however find myself helpless in an unexpected area full of carnivorous plants, and escaped as any sane man would, with a single pot of Darlingtonia californica, our native carnivore. The cobra lily is interesting for a number of reasons which mostly elude me, as I'm not a big carnivorous plant aficionado. But it undeniably looks cool, the flowers too.And since it grows in running water, in mountain streams, with winter snow cover, it should be a piece of cake!
Other acquisitions included 2 monkeyflowers, a very nicely mottled Lachenalia hybrid, an unidentified Mexican Silene they've been pushing hard, and Aquilegia formosa in belated admission of my failure to start it from seed.
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13" exterior 8.25" interior bowl. A single piece of maple, not 2 pieces glued. I had intended to core out the larger piece but the blade slipped. A fortunate accident.
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This house is located at 1671 34th Street, NW. The MRIS listing says:
"Elegant & Classically inspired residence of noted Washington interior designer – photographed for numerous home & style periodicals,featuring a gracious Entrance Hall,warm Family Room w/rear wall of floor to ceiling plate glass & doors to formal Garden/Patio. Dramatic wide staircase to upper floors; superb Drawing room w/13′ ceilings,large Dining room,Study, 3 generous bedrooms,driveway & Garage."
You can see a virtual tour here.
This 3 bed/2 bath is going for $3,500,000.