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Canada's Role in the War
By BROOKE CLAXTON, K.C., M.P.
Delivered to the Conference on "A Grand Strategy for America" at Williams College, March 21, 1942
Vital Speeches of the Day, Vol. VIII, pp. 530-533.
IT is good of you to ask a Canadian to take part in this Conference and I am particularly happy that the choice fell on me. It enables me to renew recollections of your beautiful college. I first visited Williams in 1921 on a motor trip to New York, then considered quite an adventure. The trip was taken with three friends to celebrate our graduation from McGill which had been delayed by the war. Our time was not wasted in working for victory then. What we wasted was the chance victory gave us.
Another visit here was in 1930. I had run out of money in Boston and came across to cash a cheque. I was driving along after midnight and stopped at the only lighted ground-floor window. When I looked in, I saw Canadians from three provinces and Americans from three states. I knew them all. I got my money, the cheque didn't bounce, and another tie was forged between us, based on mutual confidence and neighbourly help in time of need.
The associations so many Canadians have had with Williams is typical of North America. The relations between your country, the United States, and my country, Canada, are unlike the relations between any two countries, at any time. They are closer than any other and they are more cordial than any other. Because our population of eleven-and-a-half millions is only one-twelfth your population, we are far more conscious of you than you are of us. How many of you, for instance, have realized that the boundary line between us is crossed by more trade, more travel, more tourists, more money, more trains, more cars, more radio, and more symphony music than any boundary line has ever been? It is crossed by more after-dinner speakers. It is crossed by more good will. We do not regard Americansas foreigners. You do not regard Canadians as foreigners. Our relations are the relations of people who for the most part speak the same language, have the same customs, the same ideals, the same standards, and almost the same bad habits.
Good neighbours before, we are allies now. You can imagine how glad we are of that. We are partners in a desperate struggle for survival. We are fighting the worst war in history. The battle has gone badly for us everywhere except in Russia. You are potentially the most powerful nation in the world. Allied with you are Britain, Russia, and twenty other nations; and yet to win will require the all-out use of all the power and resolution that the United Nations can marshal. In this titanic struggle, spread-eagling the world, Canada's population of eleven-and-a-half millions does not bulk large. It is only about 3 per cent of the white peoples fighting on our side. But Canada's position and resources give her an important role even on this global stage.
Many Canadians who know the United States feel that Canada has not done nearly enough to tell the United States what we are doing. It is urged that our silence creates a vacuum which will suck in any dirt that comes along. Every association I have with people in the United States strengthens my view that this is regrettable. Many Americans have told me that our failure to make information more readily available is doing a disservice not only to Canada but to the allied cause. Our two countries have had good relations because the boundary line was a connecting link, not a barrier. We visited each other and married each other and got so mixed up you could hardly tell us apart. Nowthat's stopped. We can't let Canadians spend money on pleasure travel in the States when we need the money to pay for steel. This adds to the necessity of our providing information about each other, or rather of your having it about us because there's no doubt of our getting it about you. In this time of crisis and tension we need to keep our friendships in repair. We need confidence in each other based on knowledge, not prejudice or rumor. We need cool heads and warm hearts. I therefore welcome this chance to speak about our relations and about what we are doing. I feel it is the best contribution I can make to this Conference. But first, a word about the position of Canada.
Even before you entered the war your interest in the defense of this continent led you to join us in setting up the permanent Joint Conference Board. I understand the Board has made about twenty-five reports to the two governments and action has been taken on practically all of them. But until Pearl Harbour we looked across the Atlantic for our fighting front and we sent troops to England to keep the war from our shores. Recent events have made us far more concerned about the strategic position of Canada and North America. Japan's attack put North America in the centre. Now we look out with you on two fronts. With you we have become a principal base of supplies for every theatre of war.
The nature of Canada's part was determined by Canada's resources as well as by her strategic position. Our capacity to supply agricultural, industrial, and mineral products was shown by our pre-war position as a leading nation in export trade. Halifax and St. John were the nearest ports from which the products of North America could be sent to Europe. So our ports became the great terminals of the shuttle of ships across the dangerous seas. Losses of ships are greatly reduced in convoy and we enlarged our navy to provide convoys. Ships were still lost in alarming numbers, so we are building ships. Canadians make good pilots and Canada has air-space free from Germans and power lines as well, is adjacent to the United States air industry, and on the way to Europe from Australia and New Zealand. Canada was, therefore, chosen for the plan to train air force personnel on a gigantic scale. It has been a great achievement.
I mention these things to show how the Canadian war effort grew out of its geographical situation and our resources. Canada, however, is a product of geography and history and here I should refer to the way we got into the war and what we have done about it.
Prior to the war, Canada had what might be called a "North American foreign policy", that is, we had no policy except the policy of avoiding commitments. There was no agreement in Canada as to our objectives. We had isolationists, who did not think a war was a shooting war until they could see the whites of the enemy's eyes coming up the beaches. We had internationalists, who were called bloodthirsty pacifists because they were willing to run the risk of war to stop Japan in 1931 or Italy in 1935. We had what we called "imperialists", more properly called "colonialists", who held we should simply follow Britain. They ignored or abhorred our new national status. For it must be remembered that since the last war, the British Empire had been transformed into a commonwealth of autonomous nations, each of which could act alone.
Although Canada had in reality no greater interest in the war in 1939 than the United States, we had never closed the doors of our hearts to the countries from which we had come. Historical and sentimental ties and trade interests made us less self-centered and more conscious of the rest of the world. We were a small power and what we hadseen happen in Europe convinced us that the world would not be a tolerable place for us until Hitlerism was destroyed. So we went to war, but we did it separately from Britain and seven days later. Our going to war was the act of the government of Canada approved by the parliament of Canada. As L. W. Brockington put it, "King George did not ask us to declare war for him. We asked him to declare war for us."
When we entered the war in September, 1939, the Maginot Line still stood and so did the mentality it engendered. At that stage, with France in the fight, it was not considered likely that we would have to send large numbers of soldiers abroad. In addition, we had a good dose of North American isolationism, with some special features of our own, including our bad experience with conscription of 1917. These combined to lead the Government to give assurances that there would be no conscription for overseas service. Those assurances were repeated in the Quebec election held in October 1939, when Duplessis unsuccessfully challenged Quebec's all-out participation in the war. They were repeated again by both the major political parties in the general election of March 1940. The Canadian government has considered that we could get better results by raising our men for overseas service by voluntary means.
But no one can tell what lies ahead and the Government is now seeking its release from these pledges in a plebiscite so that it may, if necessary, introduce conscription for overseas service. I should point out that we have had conscription for home service, and we are still getting by voluntary means all the men we can use. If we had had conscription I do not think we would have a man more in our army abroad or at home. Today we have 400,000 in our forces voluntary enlisted for service anywhere in the world. This is comparable to about five million American men being in uniform.
Up to the collapse of France, we had sent two divisions to England and begun to build a munitions industry literally from scratch. We also started the Air Training Plan. The collapse of France was catastrophic. Sources of supply from England were cut off and we had to reorganize and speed up everything we were doing. Since then, the resources of the nation have been progressively geared into the war machine. We have had to build plants, create industries as well as convert them. We have sent to Britain all the food that ships can be found to carry. We are sending munitions of every character to every front. We have one of the largest automatic rifle plants in the world and the largest aluminum plant. We supply you with all your nickel, most of your asbestos and much of your copper and zinc. A year ago there was not a cargo boat being built in Canada. In the current year we shall build more than a million tons of cargo boats, about as much as Britain.
In addition to supplying food and making munitions, and making the ships to carry them, we are doing a considerable part of the work of convoy across the Atlantic. The Canadian Navy has been increased from thirteen ships and 1,700 men to nearly four hundred ships and 29,000 men.
We have 130,000 men in our army in England, and they are said to be good soldiers, well trained and highly mechanized. In addition, there are another 150,000 men in the army in Canada voluntarily enlisted for service anywhere.
We have enlarged the Air Force to over 100,000 men and from 100 establishments it is turning out thousands of air fighters, technicians and ground crews every month. They go to every part of the world and are said to be as good as their predecessors in the last war.
On the farms we are growing more food than ever and we are short of farm labour. In the factories we are employing over 750,000 men and women on war work, making practically everything needed except aeroplane engines and heavy guns. Unlike you or the British, we have put all the purchasing for our fighting services under one department which also does all the purchasing for our allies in Canada. The Department of Munitions and Supply also handles all matters of supply, priority and construction. Consequently everything having to do with the supply of munitions comes under a single Minister and his powers are practically unlimited. His functions range all the way from taking and filling orders for planes for Britain to giving a permit for more than $5,000 of repair work on any building.
The control of supplies by the Minister of Munitions and Supply dovetails with the price control enforced under the Minister of Finance. To prevent inflation, we have frozen all salaries, all wages, and the prices of all goods and services right across the board. It is probably the most drastic economic measure ever taken in a democracy. The four months it has been in operation are too short to say that we have the grim spectre of inflation licked but the indications inspire confidence.
We have met 80 per cent of our own expenditures (50 per cent if advances to Britain are included) out of taxation which is more than three times the pre-war level. In the lower brackets our income tax will be about twice yours after the proposed increases to yours. In addition there is a payroll tax of 7 per cent for single people and 5 per cent for married. There is a Federal sales tax of 8 per cent and in Quebec an additional 4 per cent. Corporations pay an income tax of 40 per cent with practically 80 per cent on the profits above a pre-war base. Canadians pay more taxes per capita than the Americans or English. Apart from taxes, we have raised the money we need by internal loans. Unfriendly propagandists say we get cash for what we send to Britain. They don't say that in addition to being a full partner in the war, we have this year sent Britain without receiving payment more than twice as much as we sold her in any year before the war. In 1938 our expenditures on war were thirty-four millions. In 1942 they will be three thousand millions.
Because we need coal and steel and oil and aeroplane engines and machine tools for war work, we are buying in the United States twice as much as before the war and we pay for everything we get for ourselves in cash. Since the Hyde Park Declaration, the components we receive from you for manufacture for Britain are lease-lent to Britain and you are helping to balance our trade by buying some munitions from us.
This has been done by a people of eleven-and-a-half millions who have had to keep their country going and it is a little larger than your own. Please do not think we are satisfied. There is a ceiling on prices; there is no ceiling on effort. We are not going to stop short of our utmost. Each achievement enables us to raise the sights again.
In organizing the Canadian war effort, the Government, industry and the fighting services have shown the ability to meet the need. Where all the democracies have not done so well is in anticipating needs. Orders have been placed when requisitions are approved to fill programs that are often inadequate before they are half completed. Then again, I imagine we all could do with new devices to get ideas through to the men who have the power and the will to act. I have the feeling that some of the weapons our side is making are not as powerful and mobile as our engineers and scientists could turn out. In many different directions we can simplify and improve. Everything that has happened yet shows that it is going to take the best we can make to defeat the enemy. We shall have to supplement our stretched resources of management and other skills by training and giving increased opportunities to young men taken from the ranks of industry as well as of the services.
Another field in which our Government has not succeeded so well is in harnessing the unlimited willingness of people to work. Everywhere are men and women anxious to jump into the war with both feet but they feel that they can't break through the crust. This war can't be won if it is fought as the private affair of the bureaucrats and fighting services. I am not sure that people need so many ex-hortatory appeals, or that it does very much good to make general charges of "complacency." People want to be told what they should do and why. Every man, woman and child must be made to feel that in total war everyone serves whether making a home or piloting a bomber. The problem is to apply a steady process of upgrading by which peoples' services are progressively related closer to the fighting front and war supplies and to create the feeling of participation and achievement.
Another general comment, applicable in some way or another to all the fighting nations, is on the role of criticism. Criticism is the life-blood of democracy, but a campaign of unlimited detraction is pure poison at a time like this. We have had this in Canada from certain newspapers and politicians, just as you are having it from certain newspapers and politicians. Whatever be its purpose, this criticism exploits every turn of events so as to reduce confidence in the government and belittle achievement. Sometimes this attack comes from interests which want to wrest control from the peoples' elected representatives. Such critics are alternatively defeatists and alarmists, and sometimes they are both at once.
You may have heard of a man called Hepburn in Canada. He is a local politician who has used every opportunity to attack and embarrass the government. He has used your hospitality to get a sounding-board to be better heard in Canada. It must have been particularly galling that his remarks about your fleet should have been made at a time when a large part of it was convoying your men to defend Australia. He spoke for no one in Canada except himself. You have your Hepburns. We must all remember that the true character of a people is not always manifested by those who have the loudest voices. Unfortunately the reasoned plea for mutual understanding and trust is not news. A venomous attack on an ally is sensational and it does its work. It does Hitler's work too. If we had Hitler's propagandists in our midst and gave them unlimited funds and a free hand, they could not do more harm than some of our own people do to our cause under the cloak of patriotism. Though they may not intend to do it, they are working out the Axis plan to divide and conquer.
Today it must be evident to a child of twelve that unless the United Nations stay united, they will not win the war. I know of no surer way of helping the enemy than to divide our forces by using every setback as an excuse for recrimination. It is not going to help us win and we need all the help we can get.
Some of the criticism to which I have referred is directed against Britain. We all know that Britain has made mistakes. So have we all, and we will probably make more. Britain is still blamed for appeasement, but we were not helping very much at that time; and much as they hated going to war, Britain stopped appeasing and fought when Poland was invaded. They fought on after France fell and they, thank God, made better aeroplanes than anyone else and they had better pilots than Germany, and their people had stout hearts and stood the siege. We on this side, concealed our interest in what was taking place by talking about "Aid toBritain." To many of us, the war was then "Britain's war." Some of our people seem to be moving from that to another conception, the conception of a North American war in which Britain is not doing its share. The fact is that in 1941 Britain received 2,134 planes from the United States and Canada and she sent 9,761 overseas. She received 200 tanks and sent abroad 3,000.
We know that this is a global war. We know that we cannot win separate wars. The enemy has taught us that the war is one and indivisible. There is one war, the war of humanity. There is one front, the front against the "savage and brutal forces seeking to subjugate the world." The only place where we can't afford to defeat the enemy is in North America. We can't afford to wait until the enemy is here.
Failure to grasp the nature of the struggle is partly due to our still thinking of the war as a war of defence. We must lift ourselves out of the defensive attitude. This is partly due to the war being regarded too much as an Anglo-American affair. I don't know any more certain way of weakening our friends and aiding the enemy than to give the impression that we are fighting for Anglo-Saxondom, or something of that kind. Knowing the way some Canadians feel about this I wonder at its effect on our gallant allies, the Chinese and Russians.
We small nations naturally look to Britain and to you for leadership, but I do not see how the United Nations can make the utmost use of our pooled resources unless we feel that we are fighting as one and unless there is better machinery of cooperation. Not long ago an American publication said: "An Anglo-American condominion is not the answer to either winning the war or the peace. The answer must be in broadening and deepening the democratic reach until it includes in its partnership all the peoples found against the Nazi action." Only two days ago a dispatch was received from Australia reporting vast shipments of munitions from Canada to Britain and Egypt in proportion to the amounts shipped to Australia. It expressed extreme dissatisfaction. The fact is that the shipments were made to fulfill engagements made months ago, but both the situation and the complaint called for representative machinery to work out questions of supply as well as of materials and shipping. We must also work out common aims and a common ideology.
Canada has often been referred to as an interpreter between the United States and Britain. This is a favourite topic of travelling speakers. It has never been put in higher terms than it was by Winston Churchill in The Saturday Evening Post. In 1930 he wrote this about Canada: "She is a magnet exercising a double attraction, drawing both Great Britain and the United States towards herself and thus drawing them closer to each other. She is the only surviving bond which stretches from Europe across the AtlanticOcean. In fact, no state, no country, no band of men can more truly be described as the linchpin of peace and world progress." These are fine words and it is not for me to say that there is no truth in them. The whole structure of cooperation between the United States and Britain really begins with the statements of President Roosevelt and Prime Minister King at Kingston and Woodbridge three years ago. It was continued through the Ogdensburg Agreement of August 1940, the destroyer-base exchange, Lease-Lend, and the Hyde Park Declaration of April, 1941, to the Atlantic Charter and the Declaration of the United Nations. Their foundation was, I believe, the relations between individual Americans and Canadians like ourselves, personified in the good relations of Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. King. Is it not possible that Canada can play a useful part in the union of the United Nations? It is true that you and the English can each speak to us better than you can to each other.
It may surprise you to learn that our 1941 census will show that we are less Anglo-Saxon than you. Thirty per cent of our population is of French origin. If the United States had forty million people whose mother tongue and traditions had been French for three hundred years in North America, it would be difficult to refer to the United States as an English-speaking country. We can look at things from the point of view of a small power that is not Anglo-Saxon. We provide the United States with a touchstone, a standard, of her conduct in international affairs. It is useful to have us around when you are considering the machinery of international cooperation and international order. Many of us think that machinery of this kind is as essential to the successful prosecution of the war as it is to the consolidation of the peace.
My country, Canada, has no interests in this war different from yours. We intend with all the power of our will to do our utmost to bring victory. It is a prerequisite to life and yet it will give us nothing except a chance. It will give control of the future to us, not Hitler. In order to make our utmost effort, Canada, the United States, all the United Nations, must have faith that in consequence of that effort being made we will get not only victory but the chance to work for a better world than man has ever known and the probability that we are going to get it. To prevent falling apart and disaster, even to fight our hardest, the United Nations and the peoples in each of the United Nations must share views and ideas, create habits of thinking and working together, build confidence in each other and in their ability to carry out their purposes. Our aim to defeat the enemy is only a stage. The need for a united will and united action goes far beyond victory. We must see that the Four Freedoms your great President defined for the world shall belong to us and to our children, to all the people of the United States, to all the people in my country, Canada, to everyone everywhere in the world.


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I Have a new obsession. GLITTER LIQUID LINER!! I've been seeing a lot of pictures in magazines of this trend lately and fell in love.
I bought me 6 different colours (Silver, gold, a black and gold combo, blue, purple and green). These are the different ways I wore them thus far!
· I made a winged line using a black liquid liner and then went over the liner with the black and gold glitter liner and then also liner my lower lash line with black liner and the glitter liner. This was for a night out with the girls so I wanted a dramatic look and this was perfect.
· For a less dramatic effect I only applied the glitter liner to my lower lash line over an eye pencil of the same colour.
When using glitter liner I think that it is important to tone down the rest of your make up. It would be overkill to try and have more than one area of your face being the focusJ
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I have 12 years of missed prayers and Alhamdulillah I had make it up consistently for a month now.
I prayed 1 extra make up fardh after the fardh prayers.
Just a few questions, can I pray Duha/Awwabin/Tahajjud/Witr/ taraweeh. Ive been regularly doing Duha/Awwabin/Witr prayers and making up 5 missed fardh prayers everyday. Ive read that its unlawful to pray Sunnah prayers if you still have make up prayers to be made?
Should make up prayers be made at the appropriate time or can I just for example make up my Fajr prayers in the afternoon/ zuhr prayers at night?
What is the right thing to do?
And when Ramadan comes, can I pray Taraweeh at the mosque or should I separate from the congregation when they are starting taraweeh, and pray my make up prayers at the side of the mosque so as not to disturb the congregation?
Many thanks.
wa ʿalaikum al-salām wa raḥmatullāhi wa barakātuh
Make up prayers may be done at any time during the day and night, even during the five forbidden times. Also, making them up in order is not obligatory, rather it is recommended. So, you do not have to make up the five prayers for each day in order. For the remainder of your questions, please see the Q&A below:
May Allah give you tawfīq.
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I've decided to save myself some emailing, I'll have my Sock Monkey tutorial straight on this blog instead of in my Etsy shop. :)
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Nearly one month after Typhoon Haiyan swept through the Philippines, displacing more than four million people, health experts are trying to lower the rising risk of malnutrition among 1.5 million children under five, and help hundreds of thousands of women continue breastfeeding.
"What is easily seen in the aftermath of the typhoon is the destruction [of facilities, and] injuries that require emergency care… malnutrition is a silent threat, as people often do not recognize the symptoms and it is left untreated," said Katrien Ghoos, the World Food Programme's (WFP) nutrition officer for the Asia-Pacific.
Before the typhoon struck, one out of every three children under the age of five in the regions of Tacloban, Central Visayas and Cebu in the central Philippines were chronically malnourished, 33.6 percent were stunted (having a low height for their age), and 7.8 percent were wasted (having a low weight for their height), according to the 2011 National Nutrition Survey, as cited in the recently released Multi-Cluster Initial Rapid Assessment (MIRA), produced by more than 40 agencies across nine provinces.
So far, in the aftermath of the typhoon the national nutrition "cluster" - comprising 30 partners, including NGOs, UN agencies and government ministries - is treating about 14 cases of acute malnutrition, which occurs "when children suffer severe wasting that [may be] accompanied by swelling of the body from fluid retention", and 118 moderate cases. Up to 5 December some 21,000 children have been screened for acute malnutrition; 172 had severe acute malnutrition and another 531 had signs of moderate acute malnutrition.
"The nutritional status of young children and mothers may have significantly deteriorated," Ayadil Saparbekov, the deputy coordinator for the Geneva-based Global Nutrition Cluster, told IRIN from the Philippine capital, Manila. He said diminished access to nutritious food, limited access to safe water and sanitation leading to a likely rise in water-borne infections, young children separated from their parents, and inadequate settings for breastfeeding were some of the aggravating factors.
Screening for malnutrition by specialized aid groups will be completed in the coming weeks, when informed post-disaster malnutrition rates will become available. Health service delivery has been hampered by the destruction of between 46 and 62 percent of all local clinics and hospitals in the Tacloban, Central Visayas, and Cebu regions, according to the MIRA released in November.
In addition, up to half of the medical personnel working in the affected regions were personally affected by the typhoon. "Because of the lack of food and water in the affected areas, some doctors abandoned their posts," said Martin Parreno, the health and nutrition coordinator for the French NGO, Action Contre la Faim International (ACF).
"Ideally, an investment will be made [at the regional level] in the government health system, health workers, and larger-scale training for the delivery of community-based therapeutic care. [But] health services and infrastructure need to be re-established first," WFP's Ghoos said from Bangkok, Thailand.
Rallying support for breastfeeding
Humanitarian health workers will now be focusing on boosting supplementary feeding for children aged 6 to 23 months in 30 municipalities on the islands of Leyte, Eastern Samar, and Western Samar.
"Unless the situation in these areas is brought back to 'normal', a rise in acute malnutrition can be expected," warned Ghoos.
Humanitarians are also worried about the uncontrolled distribution of infant formula and milk powder donations by charities and church groups, which occurs so frequently after disasters that in 1986 the Philippines government instituted a "Milk Code" banning donations of infant formula products in disasters.
"Donations of powdered infant formula discourage mothers to continue breastfeeding exclusively, and exacerbates the risk of morbidity and mortality among infants, which will in turn contribute to increased levels of acute malnutrition and disease," said Saparbekov, from the global nutrition cluster.
Thirty breastfeeding tents will be put up this month in evacuation centres in Tacloban and the nearby region of Tanauan. Aid groups will also broadcast nutrition-related messages for half an hour on the radio each morning at 10 a.m., according to the national nutrition group.
Yet exacerbated malnutrition is only one aspect of the disaster's impact on maternal and child health, say local health workers. "A newborn in [one of my colleague's communities] died right after delivery due to lack of facilities that would attend to his condition," Anna Sharmie Quezon, a local doctor in Central Visayas reported to the UK-based medical journal, The Lancet, on 30 November.
At a nutrition and food security conference held in the region in late November, health experts spotlighted the first thousand days of life after birth as critical for optimum nutrition.
ACF's Parreno noted that "Damaged health facilities [are being] quickly repaired and made functioning to accommodate more patients."


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Platform : Xbox
Developer/Euro Publisher: Rage Int.
Northern America Publisher : Majesco
A satisfying demolition derby is a massive 16-car smash-fest that inevitably leads to exploding vehicles and injured drivers. Many companies have tried to present the excitement of this outstanding venue in the form of a game, and just as many have failed at this task. The good people at Rage Interactive/Majesco, however, have done it right with one of their latest releases, Crash/Totaled.
For a demolition derby game to actually BE a demolition derby game, the cars must accurately reflect the amount of damage that they've incurred. In a technological age where 3D graphics can blur the line between fantasy and reality, game developers can spare some of the research & development dollars into making a decent graphical game, and Totaled delivers just that. Each car is excellently crafted and has a realistic damage system that comes close to PS2's Stuntman: bumpers drag, doors flop open, and windows shatter. Before you get visions of auto-armageddon, allow me to mention that not everything is destructible; for example, the suspension system, wheels, and paint never seem to take any damage. One thing to note is the damage system in this game has a feature I haven't seen before. If you put enough force into a hit, and the AI/other player didn't see it coming, you do not suffer any damage. This feature eliminates the practice of using different parts of your car to ram other cars, to prevent one area from becoming a weak spot. To sum it up, a great damage system.
Mainly modeled after actual cars, the car models in the game are also top-notch. Although the cars in the game are not named after their likenesses, the chassis design is instantly recognizable – the Bullet is a vintage Mustang, and the Hammerhead is a total remake of a '70's Charger. The arenas that you compete in span the globe and can range from a circular pit to a crazy 8 race track. The detail of each arena varies; some are a bit bland and one-sided, but you don't really notice because you are too focused on playing the game, which is good (in my opinion). This game definitely has above-average graphics.
The game play is simply outstanding! This game finally mixes in a bit of each automotive sport – stunts, racing, and, of course, demolition derby – to create the ultimate racing game! All of the demolition derby games I have tried were bland, because they were simply demolition derbies and nothing else. Some games have offered a similar combination before but suffered because of a lack of stages, race options, and graphical appeal. In Totaled, each arena has a different set of race options, with some options being unique to certain tracks. Some of the racing mode options include: Hunter, in which the objective is to kill the player with the ever-moving ball, Stuntman, in which the player completes rigorous stunts for points while being harassed by the AI, and Last Man Standing, in which you start out the game with a damaged vehicle, making it extremely difficult to stay alive. There are plenty of derby options, but you will have to check out this game to see the rest.
Every aspect of this game is based on a point system, so the more points you score, the more car and track options are available to you. Some tracks that you unlock are only available in arcade or multiplayer modes, and likewise, some tracks are specific to the career mode. Not only do you unlock tracks and cars, you also unlock new racing options as well. With each event, you have a choice of which car you want to drive. Aside from pure looks, each car has its own set of attributes that should be factored into your vehicle selection. There are cars that are light and fast but very fragile, while others are heavy, slow and can withstand a beating. You have to determine if speed is more important than toughness, or whether you can sacrifice good acceleration to have a better grip.
There is no AI difficulty setting in career mode, which is kind of a bummer, but there is one in arcade/multiplayer, so all is forgiven. ;) Totaled's multiplayer mode makes it the most fun racing game I've ever played. Grab three friends, and this will quickly turn into a commotion of curse words and derogatory taunts. Multiplayer mode in Totaled is a great stress reliever … what could be better than four players and eight AI's battling it out for the top prize? Shady alliances form, only to be broken when only two players remain. There can be only ONE!
The music in Totaled is fast-paced and sounds like punk rock. This totally adds to the mood of each event, always keeping you on edge and ready to smash up some cars! I don't know how many different selections of music there are (I was too focused on the game), but I am pretty sure there is at least one track for each arena. The sound effects for the cars are the same – they all sound like muscle cars – but don't all cars of the same class sound similar? Great music and great sound equals great audio!
This game is everything that I have ever wanted in a demolition derby game. Although some seem to think this game is less than stellar due to some graphic errors, the lack of different sounding engines and the plain menus, I laugh at them, for they are truly missing out on a great game. I give this game 10 out of 10 because the minor errors are more than counteracted by the sheer fun factor of Crash/Totaled, another WorthPlaying title!
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early as prior to 1,300 years ago, when the tribes
of the Yarlung Valley were rising to prosperity,
the ancestors of Songtsan Gampo lived in the Six
Palaces of Chingwar Taktse situated near Lhamo
Hill, from where they ruled over thousands and
thousands of tribal people and opened up the mild
and fertile Yarlung Valley. There, Tubo tribes
waxed and multiplied, swallowing up the nearby
peoples. Then, Namri Songtsan crossed the northern
mountain range and defeated the Sumba people who
lived in the river valleys of the Kyichu (Lhasa
River) and Nyangchu. Spreading his power over
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Namri Songtsan's son, Songtsan Gampo, moved his
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then political, economic, military and cultural
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ancestors had originated from the Yarlung Valley,
and they frequently came back to reside so as
never to forget their ancestors' heroic deeds
and meritorious services. The Princesses Wencheng
and Jincheng of the Tang court also often spent
time there after their marriage with the Tubo
Tsanpos. In memory of their origins, the Tubo
Tsanpos were all buried at Chong-gye, which explains
why so many tumuli are gathered there.
According to historical records
there should be of altogether thirteen tumuli
of Tibetan kings, but only nine can still
be discerned. It is clear that over the
passage of time some tumuli must have sunk
and disappeared. The nine tumuli which still
remain have been reliably identified as
belonging to the following: Songtsan Gampo,
Gungri Gungtsan (son of Songtsan Gampo),
Dusong Mangtsan (grandson of Songtsan Gampo),
Tridu Songtsan (son of Mangsong Mangtsan),
Tride Tsugtan (son of Tridu Songtsan), Trisung
Detsan (son of Tride Tsugtan), Tride Songtsan
(younger brother of Trisung Detsan), Muni
Tsanpo (son of Trisung Detsan), and lastly
Princess Jincheng (wife of Tride Tsugtan).
On the summit of Songtsan Gampo's
tumulus there used to be an ancient temple
called Tongtsan Luakhang (Songtsan's Temple),
which was where the Guardian of the Tombs
resided. Within the temple, images of Songtsan
Gampo, Princess Wencheng, Princess Bhrikuti
Devi, and the Ministers Gar Tongtsan and
Thonmi Sambhota were enshrined. Only the
ruins now remain.
the ancient temple was Songtsan Gampo's vault.
It lay at the mouth of the Chongpo Stream about
one and half kilometres from Piro Hill, in a group
of tumuli located to the west of the present Chong-gye
Dzong. Massive in size, the subterranean mausoleum
was composed of five chambers, and in all was
the length of an arrow-shot and the breadth of
a call. Statues of Songtsan Gampo, Sakyamuni and
Avaloki-tesvara were placed inside the mausoleum
along with great quantities of gold, silver, pearls,
and agates as funerary objects, and so it was
named "the Mausoleum with lnner Decorations."
The front gate of Songtsan Gampo's mausoleum faced
the southwest, looking towards the birthplace
of Sakyamuni. On the left of the tomb itself was
buried a suit of golden armour worn by Songtsan
Gampo on expeditions; at the foot of the tomb
was a cache of pearls, weighing two and half "kals,"
wrapped in satin, which was Songtsan Gampo's share
of wealth, and at the head of the tomb was buried
a coral statue of Lord Loyak Gyalmo, eight "forearms"
(a unit of length from elbow to fingertip) in
height, which was supposed to give light to the
dead king. Knights and battle-horses made of pure
gold were laid out on the right, as the retinue
of Songtsan Gampo after his death.
Judging from accounts, the grand
burial given to Songtsan Gampo by the Tubo
dynasty slave society, befitted his unparalled
achievements and prestige. However, mausoleum
containing only funerary objects and without
a single sacrificial human victim does not
quite conform with the general custom of
Tibet at that time, and this probably shows
the influence of the Tang Dynasty which
then was at its height. Generally speaking,
in feudal society human sacrifice was not
practised in royal burials, but Songtsan
Gampo reigned during the latter part of
a slave society which must have been well
advanced judging from the fact that no slaves
were reportedly sacrificed as funerary objects.
As yet the tomb has not been excavated,
and the details given here come solely from
records or oral traditions. This ancient
tomb, undisturbed for over a millenium,
still holds its secret for future discovery.
The tumulus of Princess
Jincheng's husband, Tride Tsugtan
is another huge one, which is a six-metre
high mound. Forty metres away a stone
tablet erected more than a thousand
years ago stands in a deep shaft covered
by a small shelter. At that time the
Tubo dynasty was still in its golden
age. When the Tsanpo died, a stone
tablet was enacted to his memory,
as was done to his maternal uncles
(the Tang emperors). which shows the
influence of Princess Jincheng.
The tomb of Gungri Gungtsan,
Songtsan Gampo's son, was built while his
father was on the throne. It is the biggest
in size and best in location. The site chosen
for Songtsan Gampo's own tumulus was not
as good as his son's.
On the Molari Hill, there are
two tumuli joined together, which at first
appeared to be one single tumulus. About
40 metres high and 170 metres across, the
burial mounds look like a pair of square
hills. Two successive generations were buried
here: Mangsong Mangtsan (Gungri Gungtsan's
son) and Dusong Mangtsan, his son. These
two tumuli are notable because a pair of
carved marble lions stood guard before them
about two hundred metres apart. The two
lions were seated facing the tumuli, tails
curled to the left, and were carved out
of solid stone in clear, untrammelled lines.
Unmarked by the passage of time, their carved
designs were still distinct.
At present apart from
these tumuli no other cemeteries and burial
places have been found in Tibet. Owing to
the widespread practice of celestial and
water burial, the existence of these tumuli
seems very strange. One possible explanation
is that during the Tubo epoch, interment
was considered the noblest form of funeral,
and the idea of "sacrificing one's
body" was not yet upmost in the minds
of the Tubo people.


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A friend who lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, recently left her high-pressure job for one with less stress and two months off per year. Deb and her partner, Mike, who are both in their mid- to late 50s, wanted more time to travel and enjoy a more relaxed life. Fortunately, because of Canada's single-payer system, one problem Deb never had to consider was whether her new employer offered health care benefits.
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Keeping Bernard's book as reference, it is the best way.
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Tom Peat <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Bernard went to a lot of work to verify that this structure was wrong, so we should also thank him for his efforts.
> It is good to see someone who has a hunch follow that up and let the rest of us know about it.
> Thanks Bernard!
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> Reading the paper from Dr. Hofkristallrat a.D. and the editorial in ActaF, I must say that besides the rather reasonable demand for journals to include crystallography experts as referees, "Table 1" would have fooled me as referee. A validation report of the VTF style might not had helped either in refereeing - in this case. Alarm bells could had rung possibly if the PDB was re-refining all submitted structures and look for 'too good to be true' improvements (sorry Robbie ... we are not there yet to improve things SO much!). Saving the images in a repository would had been equally unlikely to have helped (they would had submitted some data ... unless these were systematically validated and cross-matched to the CRYST data cards no alarm bells either - even if running PDB_REDO in all submissions appears a tad unrealistic, re-processing all images and matching them to CRYST records seems more troublesome at the present moment).
> A thing that could had helped, would had been if our biology colleagues who want a structure for their story would had valued more the structural contribution by scrutinising the data (a corresponding author must scrutinise all data before accepting responsibility - and not when questioned throw the hands up waving 'it was not me ...'). Maybe ourselves as a community could also help by making our colleagues aware that crystallographic work is a tad more than 'and the author in the middle of the paper just contributed a structure' and explain them that if they want to be using structures for their publications they should be always prepared to engage in close and real collaborations where both sides accept responsibility for the data of each other, as it happens in many fruitful collaborations between biologists and "crystallographers" (such as these I had the privilege to engage with collaborators that criticised my data, as I did theirs ...).
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21-11-2013, 21:14 #1
Crash on connect
have some trouble with the iOS app. I've updated to 7.1b1 and installed Procon, added the connection for the layer, but if I click on connect the app everytime the app crashes. Means I can't use it. Is this because of I'm using 7.1b1? And if, will there be an update in near future for 7.1?
23-11-2013, 10:38 #2
If you want I can try to log onto your layer server and check out whatever issues that might occur. To be able to do so I'd need you to set up a low rights temporary layer account and send the connection details to me via PM.
25-11-2013, 18:41 #3
Will do this. PM in about a minute.
26-11-2013, 17:55 #4
Well I seem to be able to connect to the server just fine with the regular current iOS.
I don't know why it won't work which iOS 7.1 beta 1 and actually I don't know if there's a true need to find out. If the problem persists throughout all iOS 7.1 beta releases to the final version it sure is an issue. But I'd say that there is a good chance that the app will return to a working state by itself on the way to the final release.
I'd be happy if you'd let me know actually because I don't plan on turning my iPhone into a beta testing device (I need my iPhone as a reliable phone for my job - no way I could do this).
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26-11-2013, 22:26 #5
Sure, sure. I've moved over to 7.1b because of I was on 6.1.3 and Procon App needs 7. And the day I did this 7.1b was released. Thought I could give it a try But thanks for your statement and testing. Keep up your good work and thanks for doing this awesome app.
27-11-2013, 16:41 #6
Thank you very much!
If it's okay for you I'd PM you maybe sometime later and to get an update on the iOS 7.1 beta compatibility status...
16-12-2013, 17:00 #7
Any news on the iOS 7.1 beta 2 which has been released lately regarding it's compatibility with iOS Procon?
08-01-2014, 21:19 #8
It looks like it was a bug in the first two iOS 7.1 beta releases after all. It's safe to say that because Narf! just told me that the issue has been resolved with the newly released iOS7.1 beta 3.
All 7.1 beta users should be able to use iOS Procon again. Great news!


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First time students
Welcome, all beginners!
New students, try our Intro 1 Month for only $39 and take advantage of unlimited access to our full class schedule for a complete month with mat and towl service included!
Bikram Yoga is a recommended daily practice, especially when you are new.
Stay hydrated. Drink more water today to be more hydrated tomorrow. Drink lots of water to replenish yourself after class, and to prepare for your next class.
Take it easy. As a beginner, try to stay inside in the room, and take your time. Simply learning to relax and breathe goes a long way toward developing a healthy yoga practice. With a calm and open mind, you will increase your strength, flexibility, and endurance gradually over time.
Breathe in and out by your nose during class. At first it may seem impossible, but with practice this breathing technique becomes normal. Breathing in and out by your nose will help you stay calm and neutral, and not work too hard.
Stick with it. Try a few classes in a row, and don't worry if you feel tired or a bit ill or head-achey in the beginning. The 90-minute sequence addresses your whole body systematically, stimulating an overall physiological healing response as your systems get moving. Generally these feelings subside after the first few classes, and feelings of physical energy and mental clarity instead start to increase.
Ask questions. The teachers are available before and after class, and they are especially here for YOU. Allow us to support you in any way we can. If you can't remember your questions before or after class, then we invite you to call the studio or send us a message anytime.
Feel free to reach out! We would love to hear from you.


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Our family went downtown yesterday for Market Day. It's a once a month deal where local artisans and crafters can sell their wares around the town square.
I came across yet another use for Mason jars which I love. Got to find me some soap dispensers that will fit!
With everything else that is going on, I am also asking for prayers regarding my brother in law. He is not doing well with the cancer and his liver has started to fail. We know it is in God's hands now.


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Box Office Report: 'Twilight' Leads Second Slowest Weekend of 2011 With $16.9 Mil
"Muppets" stays safely at No. 2 with $11.2 million; the dreaded NC-17 rating doesn't stop "Shame" from claiming the best location average of the weekend as it opens in five cities.
The post-Thanksgiving hangover was worse than usual for the domestic box office.
With no new wide releases this weekend, revenues came in at $78 million to $82 million, the lowest of 2011, save for the weekend after Labor Day, when the domestic box office took in roughly $81 million. The weekend was also down from last year by 4 percent to 7 percent.
Summit Entertainment's The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn--Part 1 had no trouble retaining the No. 1 crown for the third weekend in a row, grossing $16.9 million for a domestic cume of $247.3 million. The fourth installment is still pacing slightly behind The Twilight Saga: New Moon, which opened over Thanksgiving in 2009. At the same point in its run New Moon had earned $255.4 million domestically.
VIDEOS: THR's Awards Season Roundtable Series 2011: The Directors
Among the flood of Thanksgiving family films, Disney's The Muppets remained the top choice, grossing an estimated $11.2 million for a hearty domestic cume of $56.1 million to come in No. 2. Overseas, the pic grossed $1.8 million from three markets for an early international total of $4 million and world cume of $60.1 million.
However, Muppets fell off nearly 62 percent from last weekend in North America. There's always a fall off after Thanksgiving, but the movie's dip was more than expected and could reflect the deluge of family product. Last year, Disney's Thanksgiving entry Tangled fell 55 percent in its second weekend.
Sony and Aardman Entertainment's kids entry Arthur Christmas came in No. 4, grossing $7.4 million in its second weekend for a cume of $25.3 million. Sony insists the pic will have especially strong legs because of its holiday theme. One possible sign backing up Sony's claim--Arthur was up 111 percent from Friday to Saturday, the largest gain of any film in wide release.
Overseas, Arthur Christmas grossed $11.4 million from 53 markets for a pleasing international total of $45.3 million and global cume of $60.1 million. The 3D pic has done especially well in the U.K., where Aardman is based.
DreamWorks Animation and Paramount's 3D toon Puss in Boots also continues to prosper overseas, grossing $23 million from 26 countries this weekend for an international total of $89.2 million and global cume of $228.7 million. The pic has been a massive hit in Russia, where it's earned a record-breaking $50 million. It's also done well in Spain, despite widespread unemployment.
If there was any action at the domestic box office, it was among awards contenders--including the debut of Steve McQueen's Shame, rated NC-17 for its edgy sexual content.
PHOTOS: Films that Narrowly Avoided an NC-17
Despite the dreaded rating, Shame scored the top location average of the weekend, a notable feat. The film, distributed by Fox Searchlight and starring Michael Fassbender, grossed $361,181 from 10 theaters in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco for an average $36,118.
Even the top 10 box office chart included award hopefuls.
Paramount and GK Films' Hugo--Martin Scorsese's first 3D family friendly film--moved up the chart to No. 3 as it expanded into an additional 500 theaters after being named best movie of the year by the National Board of Review. Hugo grossed $7.6 million from 1,840 locations for a cume of $25.2 million.
COVER STORY: Martin Scorsese Talks 'Hugo,' How His 12-Year-Old Rules the Roost
Alexander Payne's The Descendants, headlining George Clooney, landed at No. 7, even though playing in only 574 theaters. The Fox Searchlight film grossed $5.2 million for a cume of $18.1 million--becoming the first platform release in history to cross $10 million in only 12 days. Also, Descendants is the top grossing platform release of 2011 after Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, which cumed $55.7 million domestically.
Sony Pictures Classics' Midnight in Paris, released in late May, made its own play this weekend as it prepares for awards season and the release of the DVD on Dec. 20, going back into more than 260 theaters. The results were tepid at best, with the film earning $274,518 from 305 locations for a location average of $900.
The Metropolitan Opera continued its successful live theatrical program with Saturday's broadcast of Handel's Rodelinda, starring Renee Fleming. The broadcast grossed $1.8 million from 850 screens at the domestic box office, while an additional 45,000 people saw the opera on 500 screens in 38 countries.
Domestic Box Office Dec. 2-Dec. 4.
Title/Weeks in Release/Studio/Theater Count/Weekend Total/Cume
1. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn--Part 1 (3), Summit/4,406, $16.9 million, $247.3 million
2. The Muppets (2), Disney/3,440, $11.2 million, $56.1 million
3. Hugo (2), Paramount/1,840, $7.6 million, $25.2
4. Arthur Christmas (2), Sony/3,376, $7.4 million, $25.3 million
5. Happy Feet Two (3), Warner Bros./3,536, $6 million, $51.8 million
6. Jack and Jill (4), Sony/3,049, $5.5 million, $64.5 million
7. The Descendants (3), Fox Searchlight/574, $5.2 million, $18.1 million
8. Immortals (4), Relativity Media/2,627, $4.4 million, $75.6 million
9. Tower Heist (5), Universal/2,404, $4.1 million, $70.8 million
10. Puss in Boots (6), Paramount/DreamWorks Animation/2,750, $3.1 million, $139.5 million


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Windows in some organizations is a free-for-all -- users have local administrator rights, install software to their hearts' content, never update it and generally are susceptible to running bad stuff on good machines. Fortunately for Windows administrators, there is a way to stop that.
Controlling what applications run in your environment sounds like a herculean effort, and make no mistake -- it is a lot of work. Setting up policies that restrict software installation and execution, and using the tools that make that possible, is not just a "check and refresh" type of administrative task. It takes trial, some error, most likely a pilot, and then a gradual rollout. But once you get on the other side, you experience benefits including:
- Malware being virtually eliminated. Applications that you do not approve, or whitelist, simply fail to execute.
- A reduction in desktop support issues related to users installing noncompany-approved applications, like iTunes and Dropbox.
- Enhanced protection against data leakage, since users cannot circumvent other security policies by using applications that, for example, do not recognize Group Policy settings.
In this piece, I will take a look at the various options for controlling software installation and execution on Windows client computers. Everything I talk about here is included at no extra charge with Windows Server 2008 and up, so there is no extra licensing cost that would typically be associated with third-party tools. And I'll profile some advantages and disadvantages of each approach.
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When doing "anything for this baby" means doing nothing.
More than 700,000 moms-to-be per year in the U.S. are put on some level of bed rest, experts say. While bed rest during pregnancy is one of the most often prescribed interventions, it is also one of the least studied. Women are highly motivated, obviously, because their biggest concern is their unborn children.
Such is the case of Melina Watts. In a moving essay in The New York Times, this California mom shares her experience of spending two months "on strict and anxious bed rest" while pregnant with her third child, a son.
In the Times piece, she talks about how humbling it is to ask for help. She has a career, two other children and a household to run. But Watts says it took everything inside of her to have the strength to hand-off all of these duties to someone else—all while, as she puts it, "I lie here."
The good news is that her son is now home after two months in NICU and doing well.
Remember, each case of bed rest differs from woman to woman, so follow your OB-GYN's directions and advice closely. Bed rest may be prescribed for such factors as threatened preterm labor, spotting, bleeding, hypertension and, frequently, carrying twins or more. In most cases, bed rest helps your body rest and de-stress.
Bed rest does have its downsides for your mind and body. But researchers say it could also have an upside. And our experts say that there are safe exercises you can do while on bed rest. Take a look at our Bed Rest Workout for moves you can do on your couch or bed to help stay in shape, both physically and emotionally.


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Cable Firms Don't Have to Share Networks, Court Rules
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
The Supreme Court upheld cable companies' right to restrict rival Internet service providers from their networks, prompting telephone companies yesterday to argue that they should be relieved of a similar regulatory obligation.
Phone companies are required to share their lines with Internet providers, an outgrowth of an era when such rules were deemed necessary to foster competition. But the phone companies argue that the rules put them at a disadvantage compared with the largely unregulated cable industry.
The high court's 6 to 3 ruling affirmed the Federal Communications Commission's authority to decide which services it needs to regulate.
Sources familiar with FCC discussions said the agency is likely to consider whether to ease the regulatory burden on phone companies in the coming months, a move supported by new FCC Chairman Kevin J. Martin. The sources spoke on the condition of anonymity because the agency has not yet decided to formally take up the issue.
Companies such as EarthLink Inc. and Brand X Internet Services -- the Santa Monica, Calif.-based company that brought the original suit against the FCC -- do not own their own networks and depend on network operators to provide the connection to their customers. They argued that the FCC was misclassifying cable service as a data service, making it exempt from rules that apply to telecommunication providers, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit agreed.
The Supreme Court overturned that ruling. Writing for the majority, Justice Clarence Thomas said the FCC originally regulated Internet service over phone lines as a telecommunications service because that is the way people primarily accessed the Internet, by dialing their provider over the phone companies' lines. By contrast, cable-modem service grew up in different market conditions, with plenty of competitors offering high-speed access, he wrote.
Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the dissenting justices, said cable-modem service includes a telecommunications component and therefore should be regulated. "When all is said and done, after all the regulatory cant has been translated, and the smoke of regulatory expertise has blown away, it remains perfectly clear that someone who sells cable-modem service is 'offering' telecommunications," Scalia wrote.
In their response to the case, the regional telephone giants yesterday made their pitch for changes that could extend the National Cable & Telecommunications Association v. Brand X Internet Services decision to their benefit.
The "FCC and Congress should act promptly to finish the job. The Commission should update its rules to ensure that all broadband services, including those offered by Verizon and other telephone companies, are not subject to old policies," Thomas J. Tauke, executive vice president of public affairs and policy for Verizon Communications Inc., said in a statement.
In that vein, phone companies already successfully argued that new fiber-optic networks should not have to be shared with rival network operators that do not own their own lines.
Phone companies such as Verizon and SBC Communications Inc., which are planning to offer Internet-based television service, also are hoping to win exemption from local franchise agreements that cable companies must obtain.
Giving the network owners such great control over what rides over their networks could set technology on a dangerous course, opponents of the court's decision said.
"If [the phone companies] are successful, Brand X will stand as the trigger that reverses a century of communications policy and undermines the bedrock principle of democratic media, which is nondiscriminatory access for all," said Ben Scott, policy director of Free Press, a nonpartisan media policy group.
A key concern is that phone and cable companies could potentially use their power over the network to act as gatekeepers of the Internet, discriminating and limiting consumers' access to certain services so that some Web sites and online services are favored. Opponents of yesterday's ruling said they would push the FCC and Capitol Hill to codify rules ensuring the "network neutrality" on the Internet.
"The ballgame becomes now how each of the two industries that controls a wire can determine what content, what access, at what speed consumers and technologists can offer and retrieve services over those networks," said Gene Kimmelman, senior director of Consumers Union.
Newer services such as Internet-based telephone service, for example, could suffer if cable companies are able to degrade the quality of Internet service or deny service altogether, he said.
An industry controlled by two big players cannot be trusted to police itself without clear rules, said Jason D. Oxman, senior vice president of legal affairs of Comptel/ALTS, the industry association that represents competitive telephone carriers and Internet service providers. "Network neutrality without regulation to back it up is an empty promise."
Cable companies, however, denied they have any incentive to control what their customers can access on the Internet.
"There is no problem today -- the customer can go anywhere they want on the Web," said Kyle E. McSlarrow, president and chief executive of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association.


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The Distance Between Lost and Found
by Kathryn Holmes
Release date: February 17, 2015
Available as: hardcover, Kindle edition, ebook
Pages: 304
Publisher: HarperTeen
Suggested tags: young adult, realistic fiction, contemporary
From Goodreads:
"Ever since the night of the incident with Luke Willis, the preacher's son, sophomore Hallelujah Calhoun has been silent. When the rumors swirled around school, she was silent. When her parents grounded her, she was silent. When her friends abandoned her … silent.
Now, six months later, on a youth group retreat in the Smoky Mountains, Hallie still can't find a voice to answer the taunting. Shame and embarrassment haunt her, while Luke keeps coming up with new ways to humiliate her. Not even meeting Rachel, an outgoing newcomer who isn't aware of her past, can pull Hallie out of her shell. Being on the defensive for so long has left her raw, and she doesn't know who to trust.
On a group hike, the incessant bullying pushes Hallie to her limit. When Hallie, Rachel, and Hallie's former friend Jonah get separated from the rest of the group, the situation quickly turns dire. Stranded in the wilderness, the three have no choice but to band together.
With past betrayals and harrowing obstacles in their way, Hallie fears they'll never reach safety. Could speaking up about the night that changed everything close the distance between being lost and found? Or has she traveled too far to come back?"
Since You've Been Gone
by Mary Jennifer Payne
Release date: February 17, 2015
Available as: paperbook, ebook
Pages: 224
Publisher: Dundurn
Suggested tags: young adult, realistic fiction, contemporary
From Goodreads:
"Is it possible to outrun your past? Fifteen-year-old Edie Fraser and her mother, Sydney, have been trying to do just that for five years. Now, things have gone from bad to worse. Not only has Edie had to move to another new school she's in a different country.
Sydney promises her that that this is their chance at a fresh start, and Edie does her best to adjust to life in London, England, despite being targeted by the school bully. But when Sydney goes out to work the night shift and doesn't come home, Edie is terrified that the past has finally caught up with them.
Alone in a strange country, Edie is afraid to call the police for fear that she'll be sent back to her abusive father. Determined to find her mother, but with no idea where to start, she must now face the most difficult decision of her life."
Other YA new releases for this week:
Middle Grade
Listen, Slowly
by Thanhha Lai
Release date: February 17, 2015
Available as: hardcover, Kindle edition, ebook
Pages: 272
Publisher: HarperCollins
Suggested tags: middle grade, realistic fiction, cultural
From Goodreads:
"This remarkable novel from Thanhha Lại, New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award-winning and Newbery Honor Book Inside Out & Back Again, follows a young girl as she learns the true meaning of family.
A California girl born and raised, Mai can't wait to spend her vacation at the beach. Instead, though, she has to travel to Vietnam with her grandmother, who is going back to find out what really happened to her husband during the Vietnam War. Mai's parents think this trip will be a great opportunity for their out-of-touch daughter to learn more about her culture. But to Mai, those are their roots, not her own. Vietnam is hot, smelly, and the last place she wants to be. Besides barely speaking the language, she doesn't know the geography, the local customs, or even her distant relatives. To survive her trip, Mai must find a balance between her two completely different worlds.
Perfect for fans of Rita Williams-Garcia and Linda Sue Park, Listen, Slowly is an irresistibly charming and emotionally poignant tale about a girl who discovers that home and culture, family and friends, can all mean different things."
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You now have two options for your First Class Tickets:
1. Buy through the store - activate manually through MyTrainz
2. Subscribe through MyTrainz > My Memberships from $3.99/mth (and your FCT auto-renews).
If you're a regular user of the Download Station, then here are some First Class Ticket benefits you should consider:
- There's no limit to how much or how often you download.
- You get priority Download Station access.
- Only 1 FCT is needed per account, not per Trainz product.
- Most of all, you get vastly increased download speeds!
Once activated, your account will be flagged as a FCT holder. With uncapped download speeds you have unrestricted access to as much of the Download Station as you can handle. And remember, you can store up multiple FCTs and just activate them when you are ready to download.
PLEASE NOTE: First Class Tickets are a VIRTUAL item. They are delivered directly into the MyTrainz Account that is used to purchase this item (probably the one you are logged into right now).
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51% Think Ambassador's Murder Will Hurt Obama At the Polls
Survey of 1,000 Likely Voters
Conducted October 13-14, 2012
By Rasmussen Reports
1* How closely have you followed recent news events in Libya?
2* How do you rate the way that the Obama administration has responded to the situation in Libya…excellent, good, fair or poor?
3* Will the circumstances surrounding the murder of the U.S. ambassador to Libya help or hurt the president in the election?
4* How confident are you that the murderers of the U.S. ambassador to Libya will be caught and punished?
5* Looking ahead, Who do you trust more to handle events in the Middle East…President Obama or Mitt Romney?
NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence


text: Hello all, We're having another meeting. If the Oscar Grant sentencing doesn't prevent you from coming in on BART, please join us! Quite a bit has been happening, some of which I announced previously. Michale Paric spoke at penlug.org on www.zentyal.com. Olpcsf.org had the summit Oct 22-24th. Some of the events coming up in our area this week include (respond with others if I missed any): * Felton LUG http://feltonlug.sturdywebs.com/ near Santa Cruz on Sat I am speaking about Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat and recapping my uds.ubuntu.com experience last week in Orlando, FL. * Geeknic http://geeknic.org/?p=139 Sat in Walnut Creek at Heather Farms * sf-lug.org meets Sunday from 11-1 * wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam has an IRC meeting Sunday night from 7 - about 8:30. * nblug.org meets Tuesday in Sebastopol, topic to be determined. * SF Ubuntu Hour San Francisco Wed, 6-7PM at The Roastery, 199 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco * SF Bay Area Debian Meeting, 7-9PM (or later!) at Henry's Hunan Restaurant, 110 Natoma Street, San Francisco * SF Noisebridge.net weekly Linux Discussion 6-8 PM. Next week looks interesting as well. Saturday has the monthly olpcsf.org meeting and the Fedora Release Party in Walnut Creek, then berkeleylug.com on Sunday. The three day Nonprofit Developer Summit http://www.aspirationtech.org/events/devsummit10 runs Mon Nov 15-17 and TEDxSF takes place on Tues the 16th. Our dvlug.org meetings still take place every week at Caffe La Scala, 1655 North Main St, Walnut Creek. As most of you know by now, www.dvlug.org meets every Friday from 6:00 PM regardless of the reminder emails. Cheers, Grant Bowman


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Consumers from all Illinois have always been complaining about the high credit card transaction fees of credit card companies, especially the ones who indulge in small time businesses. Finally the cries of these small time business owners have been heard. US Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) and US Representative Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) have combined their forces to help and support restaurants, charities, government agencies and other small time business companies who suffer from the high credit card transaction fees given by various credit card companies. The two lawmakers from the state of Illinois say that these fees have made these small businesses and other merchants go out of business and get buried in a large amount of debt.
Both Durbin and Gutierrez have posted an alternation to the Wall Street Reform Bill made by the Federal Reserve. This bill is currently being debated on Congress. The two lawmakers have asked the Fed to make sure that all credit card transaction fees must be reasonable and proportional to the amount of the processing cost on all the credit card companies in the country.
There is about a one to three percent credit card transaction amount that each merchant pay for and a minimum monthly fee is also added. Credit card companies have also increased its rate over the years to make sure that they have more income than they had the previous years. In fact in 2008, according to Durbin and Gutierrez, businessmen pay about $48 billion in both debit and credit card transaction fees. In this fee, a portion of the money goes to the businessman`s bank, another portion would go to the credit card company and the final portion, whatever is left, goes to the credit card network.
The credit card transaction fees have troubled a lot of merchants from Chicago over the past years. According to Gutierrez, Chicago citizens have paid about $7.5 million last year while in the CTA they paid about $1.8 million in the same year. Both the US House of Representatives and the Senate have passed completely different versions of the Wall Street Reform Bill. They, however, had the same theme, and that is to help merchants and common citizens of the country achieve lower interest rates, transaction fees and other fees involving banks and credit cards.
The bill is currently being debated by on the houses and the said alternation, strengthened by Durbin and Gutierrez, was only placed on the Senate`s version of the bill. The final version of the bill is said to be done soon.
Credit card transaction fees are otherwise known as the interchange fees. Visa and MasterCard get most of their earnings from these fees.


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How do I change or cancel a Fairphone Gift Card?
Change the email address of the recipient
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Cancel a Fairphone Gift Card
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When fourteen days have passed or the gift card code has been used, it is not possible to cancel the Fairphone Gift Card anymore.
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text: Asticou Terrace is worked back and forth from the center out. You may chose to work from the written or charted instructions. Designed using a four-color gradation of Acadia, each section is meant to use as much of each skein as possible. If you have more or less yarn, feel free to work additional or fewer rows of each color. Asticou Terrace Shawl Pattern


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Seeding Value to Reap Superior Performance
Founded in 2003, SRC Capital Management is a registered investment advisory firm located in the financial district of downtown Chicago, IL. We provide investment management services for corporate, public, endowment and foundation entities. We specialize in the management of mid-cap value equity portfolios.
Our primary focus is to seek long-term growth for our clients by investing in under-owned, under-researched equity securities. We look to construct a prudent well-diversified portfolio that would capture the attractive risk-adjusted return opportunities in the financial markets. We avoid short-term or "noise" investing to reap the long-term benefits of value investing.
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And so I am going to host MAKEOVER MONDAYS on this blog.
Today we have the iconic Air Stream for small pups. Just hitch your get-a-long to your favorite ride and start travelin' cutie!
Not sure yet what I am going to be on Tuesdays, or Wednesdays, or Thursdays yet. Let me know what you think about 'Makeover Mondays'.
If you haven't already entered for a chance to win an Up Country Inc dog or cat product of your choice, be sure to do that up at the top right of my blog.


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Dear our valued customers, network partners, agents, we are proud to announce that we have changed our company name from BuildNextWeb to NASAIMAGINE.
The change in name is due to significant expansion of our business activities with better team/set up to offer even better service to our clients.
You are invited to visit our new portal www.nasaimagine.com
May we take this opportunity to thank you for your continued support & look forward to delivering your continues wellbeing with this new branding.


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The world's fiat financial system is in uncharted territory. Think about this: global derivatives total $707 trillion. Global GDP is $63 trillion. The total wealth of the entire world is estimated at $200 trillion. So what happens when all these derivatives implode?
A month ago we presented the latest derivatives update from the OCC, according to which the Top 5 US banks held 95.7%, or $221 trillion of the entire US derivative universe (which in turn is just a modest portion of the entire $707 trillion in global derivatives as of June 30, 2011). And while the numbers of all this credit money, because that's what it is, and the variation margin associated with all these trillions in bets is all too real, appeared impressive on paper, they did not do this story enough service. So to present, visually this time, the US derivatives problem, we go to our friends from Demonocracy, who put the $229 trillion derivative 'issue' in its proper context. For those curious what a paper equivalent of bailing out the US derivatives market would look like, now you know.
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