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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Manuel Pardo was a decorated Florida highway patrolman and police officer who went horribly bad, slaying nine people during a three-month crime spree after he had been fired for lying.
Now, almost 27 years later, Pardo, 56, is scheduled to be executed Tuesday night at Florida State Prison in Starke barring a last-minute stay, fulfilling a request he made to jurors at his 1988 trial.
"I am a soldier, I accomplished my mission and I humbly ask you to give me the glory of ending my life and not send me to spend the rest of my days in state prison," the then-31-year-old Pardo told the panel.
Pardo's attorneys are trying to block his execution, arguing in federal appeals that he is mentally ill, something his trial attorney believed more than two decades ago.
"I think that anyone who would get up and ask a jury sentence him to death is insane," lawyer Ronald Guralnick said recently.
Regino Musa, the brother of one of Pardo's victims, said it's difficult to grasp that the execution will finally happen. He and his elderly mother plan to attend.
"It's about time. It's been so long, you just want to get it over with," said Musa, whose sister, Sara Musa, was killed by Pardo. "I still have nightmares and I don't have words to describe it. I can't believe that it's happening."
Pardo, a former Boy Scout and Navy veteran, began his law enforcement career in the 1970s with the Florida Highway Patrol, graduating at the top of his class at the academy. But he was fired from that agency in 1979 for falsifying traffic tickets. He was soon hired by the police department in Sweetwater, a small city in Miami-Dade County.
In 1981, Pardo was one of four Sweetwater officers charged with brutality, but the cases were dismissed.
In 1982, The Miami Herald reported that Pardo saved a 2-month-old boy's life by reviving him with CPR. Another story, written by famed South Florida columnist and novelist Carl Hiassen, noted that Pardo arrested a man for stealing valuable parrots and cockatoos to use as live sacrifices for a Santeria ritual. Pardo also spoke to the paper and said he was proud of other officers who earned certificates from a community college.
But he was fired four years later after he flew to the Bahamas to testify at the trial of a Sweetwater colleague who was accused of drug smuggling. Pardo lied, telling the court they were international undercover agents.
Then over a 92-day period in early 1986, Pardo committed a series of robberies, killing six men and three women. He took photos of the victims and recounted some details in his diary, which was found along with newspaper clippings about the killing in his home. Pardo was linked to the killings after using credit cards stolen from the victims. He had become fascinated with Adolf Hitler, collecting Nazi memorabilia. His dog, a Doberman pinscher, had a swastika tattoo.
"He was very cold," retired prosecutor David Waksman told the Herald recently. "He was doing robberies and went home and slept like a baby. He was proud of what he did."
Most of his victims were involved with drugs, officials said, and Pardo contended that he was doing the world a favor by killing them. One victim was a confidential informant who sold Pardo guns. Others, like Musa's sister, were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Guralnick thought Pardo was insane and tried to use that as a defense, arguing he couldn't tell right from wrong.
Over Guralnick's objections, Pardo insisted on testifying at his trial, telling jurors that he enjoyed killing people and wished he could have murdered more.
"They're parasites and they're leeches, and they have no right to be alive," he said in court. "Somebody had to kill these people."
The jury convicted him.
Guralnick said his client was not only a rigid, military-loving man, but also a product of the lawless, cocaine cowboys-fueled zeitgeist of 1980s Miami.
"I'm not admitting that he did any of that, but let's say he did," said Guralnick. "He was a victim of the time. The people he was dealing with were trash."
In a news conference following his conviction, Pardo said that instead of choosing to model himself after Hitler, he could have idolized Martin Luther King Jr. or John F. Kennedy.
"But they were pacifists," he said. "I'm an activist."
While on death row, Pardo placed ads in tabloid newspapers, looking for pen pals. He eventually corresponded with dozens of women and convinced many to send him money through the mail, collecting $3,500. Pardo was dubbed the "Death Row Romeo."
Guralnick said that Pardo was a "guy's guy" and that as an officer, he did some commendable things.
"You can do something wrong and do a lot of right things, too," said Guralnick.


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The mission of the Roots of Terrorism Initiative is to conduct innovative, policy-orientated research into terrorism. The initiative began in 2002 as a joint venture of the
Research Center for Group Dynamics (RCGD)
and the
Center for Political Studies (CPS)
at the University of Michigan's
Institute for Social Research (ISR)
include researchers from the fields of psychology, political science, sociology, and anthropology.
The Roots of Terrorism Initiative seeks to advance research into terrorism through two principal means. First, the group has developed several
research projects
to explore topics including the causes of popular support for terrorism, the dynamics of recruitment vulnerability, the causes of compromise and aggression in politically violent contexts, and the developmental consequences of youth exposure to political violence. This research draws on expertise in survey and experimental methodologies at the ISR to increase our theoretical understanding of the complex causes of terrorism as well as to provide policy-orientated recommendations regarding how we might best address the causes of terrorism and reduce its consequences.
Second, the Initiative organizes
aimed at bringing together scholars from the University of Michigan community and beyond to discuss research and to develop multidisciplinary approaches to issues relating to terrorism. For example, in March 2004, we organized a
on the strategic importance, causes and consequences of terrorism at which researchers affiliated with a wide range of University of Michigan schools and departments presented their research. In addition, we helped organize a
NATO conference
on Suicide Terrorism held in Lisbon, Portugal, in mid-June, 2004.

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ABLE - A Basic Lisp Editor
ABLE is an open source Common Lisp editor for Mac, Linux and Windows. ABLE's features include a listener with command history, syntax colouring, symbol completion, jump to definition, parenthesis mat...
ASDF is Another System Definition Facility.
An ASDF extension that makes it possible to specify where compiled Lisp binaries should go.
A tool for testing ASDF-INSTALLable Common Lisp software. It works by downloading packages, installing them and reporting any problems.
ASDF-Status generates reports that display the testing results collected by the ASDF-Install-tester tool, which checks ASDF-INSTALLable Common Lisp software.
A tool to connect ASDF system definitions in a way that supports auto-loading of systems.
As a project Alexandria's goal is to reduce duplication of effort and improve portability of Common Lisp code according to its own idiosyncratic and rather conservative aesthetic. What this actually m...
AspectL is a library that provides aspect-oriented extensions for Common Lisp / CLOS.
A modular and configurable environment for developing expert systems, which was created at the German National Research Center for Computer Sciences (GMD). It is a forward/backward chaining, hybrid sy...
BKNR Datastore
The bknr datastore is a persistence system based on transaction logging. Similar to Java Prevalence, it logs all changes to the persistent data to a transaction log file on disk. Snapshots can be wr...
Bordeaux Threads
Bordeaux Threads (Portable shared-state concurrency for Common Lisp) is an implementation of a portable multi-threading library based on the BORDEAUX-MP specification by Daniel Barlow.
A portable interface to Unix sockets functionality. It includes the CFFI-Grovel tool for automating FFI generation, and the CFFI-Unix interface to basic Unix functionality with a focus on networking.
A library that provides new container data structures (trees, queues, heaps, and more) and a standard interface for using them.
A library for "generating dot (a program in the Graphviz suite) output from arbitrary Lisp data". Graphviz is a graph visualization software.
A set of UFFI-based Common Lisp bindings to the FMOD sound library.
CL-Magick (Common lisp interface to ImageMagick library) is a set of bindings to the ImageMagick image manipulation C library.
A Common Lisp rewrite of the Markdown text markup language by John Gruber. Documents are written using an easy to write and read plain text formatting syntax, and are converted to HTML by the CL-Markd...
A collection of mathematical routines for combinatorics, statistics, functions, matrices, vectors, and more.
This very small Common Lisp library provides a way to add initialization files to ASDF systems. Every time ASDF loads <system>, one or several corresponding <system>.lisp files are loaded automaticall...
A set of UFFI-based bindings to the SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) and OpenGL multimedia libraries.
cl-store is an asdf-installable portable library for serializing and deserializing Common Lisp objects to and from streams. It currently runs on SBCL, CMUCL, CLISP, ACL, OpenMCL and Lispworks.
A portable random number generator that produces the same results regardless of platform, and provides additional random distributions such as Poisson, exponential, and more.
CLIM text style selection dialog
An implementation of a simple CLIM dialog box for interactively selecting a text style, i.e. a combination of font family, face and size. It demonstrates a way of creating modal dialogs that return va...
A dataflow, constraint-management extension to CLOS. It allows the creation of classes whose instances "have slots whose values are determined by a formula", like cells in a spreadsheet. Arbitrary Com...
ChanL is a portable library for easy thread-based synchronous concurrency.
Closer to MOP
Closer to MOP is a compatibility layer that rectifies many of the absent or incorrect MOP features as detected by MOP Feature Tests in a growing number of Common Lisp implementations.
Web browser that supports HTML 4 and CSS 1, and some CSS 2 functionality. It is able to display PNM, GIF, and PNG images in pages. It has a GUI based on McCLIM with the CLX backend.
Common Lisp User Space File System
A simple file based file system. Use mkfs and mount to take clufs file system into use. Use it with mkdir, create, open and close to read and write files. Open returns a stream to file in clufs file s...
ContextL is a CLOS extension for Context-oriented Programming.
Crypticl (A Common Lisp cryptographic library) is a library of cryptographic functions with the goal "to provide flexible, high level cryptographic abstractions on top of a kernel of core cryptographi...
FTD - The Flexi-Trivial Dired
A Dired-style file manager with a [Mc]CLIM-based GUI.
FUCC is universal parser generator for Common Lisp. Currently LR0, SLR, LALR, LR1 and LL parser generators are implemented, and GLR, CYK and other algorithms are planned.
A framework for writing games in Common Lisp. It is initially planned to provide libraries for 2D games with a tile-based background and a 3D wire-frame library. It uses CLX for graphics output.
Hypertext documentation system for Lisp source code. It provides mappings from (package-name, symbol-name, documentation-type) triplets to documentation URIs.
Ironclad is a cryptographic toolkit that includes several block encryption algorithms and hash functions.
LIFP (Lisp Interactive Fiction Project) is "a Common Lisp environment for playing and developing Interactive Fiction games". It provides a language extension that implements the functionality of inter...
A library for manipulating dates and times, based on the paper "The Long, Painful History of Time" by Erik Naggum.
A set of UFFI-based bindings to the PVM3 (Parallel Virtual Machine) message-passing communication library for parallel computations. Some functions have optimized CMUCL-specific versions.
Lavlet Lisp HTTP server and server pages
An HTTP server and dynamic pages engine modeled after JSP/Servlet/Tomcat and ASP/IIS.
MOP Feature Tests
This package provides a test suites for checking what CLOS MOP features a Common Lisp implementation supports.
A collection of miscellaneous utilities for container data structures, binding, user interface, dates and times, I/O, symbols, sequences, string manipulation, and more.
MoDisc is a Bayesian-based application for identifying the most probable model that best matches experimental data. It is suited for biological and chemical phenomena. It requires LispWorks CAPI for i...
A full text search engine. It is a port of the Ferret search engine in Ruby, which is in turn a port of the Lucene Java engine.
A compatibility layer on top of various CLOS MOP implementations, with some additional reflection capabilities.
Osicat is a lightweigh operating system interface for POSIX-like systems. It provides facilities for directory walking, access to environment variables, symbolic links, file permissions and identifica...
Pantzer is a "wire-frame `shoot tanks' game" with a CLX-based user interface.
Practical Common Lisp code
All the source code from the book "Practical Common Lisp" by Peter Seibel.
Regression testing framework described in a paper by Richard Waters titled "Some Useful Lisp Algorithms: Part 1".
CLIM front-end for the RT regression testing framework.
CLIM frontend to the SBCL sb-sprof statistical profiler.
Screamer is an extension of Common Lisp that adds support for nondeterministic programming. Screamer consists of two levels. The basic nondeterministic level adds support for backtracking and undoable...
A series is a data structure much like a sequence, with similar kinds of operations. The difference is that in many situations, operations on series may be composed functionally and yet execute iterat...
Sheeple is a delegative prototype-based object system inspired by CLOS. It is designed with the purpose of providing the goodies of CLOS programming, but in an object-based environment. As such, it ...
Storable Functions
Storable Functions implements transformations of functions (including closures) from and to CLOS instances of some specific classes. It contains a set of macros for making this transformation possible...
The Alias Method
An implementation of the Alias Method for generating a function that returns the value of a random variable with a specified probability. It is described in "On the alias method for generating random ...
Trivial Shell
An operating system and Common Lisp implementation independent interface for accessing command shells. It is based on, and is a fork of, the KMRCL utilities.
A simple library for performing client HTTP operations (GET and POST) over a socket interface. trivial-http has been superseeded by Drakma.
Highly customizable graphical IRC client with support for multiple channels, nickname focusing and highlighting, clickable and rewritable URLs, and more.
B-Tree implemented in Common Lisp. Stores key/value pairs onto disk based data structure. Current implementation has been tested with SBCL.
An interface to the CrackLib C libary, which checks passwords for robustness and suggests how to improve it.
A client library for accessing a Creek workflow server.
IRC client library featuring partial support for DCC, CTCP and related commands from RFC 2810, RFC 2811 and RFC2812. cl-irc uses usocket for implementation independent socket access. It uses FLEXI-ST...
A parser and generator for the JSON data-interchange format.
Portable localisation package for Common Lisp.
cl-migrations is a port of the database migrations feature of Ruby on Rails to Common Lisp. cl-migrations is intended to provide a simple way to version-control your database changes.
A set of CFFI-based Common Lisp bindings to the PLplot scientific plotting library, which can produce several kinds of 2D and 3D plots.
Bindings to PortAudio crossplatform library.
Collection of small games, such as Hasami-Shogi.
Interface to the syslog Unix logging facility.
A client implementation of XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol), which is the set of core protocols created by the Jabber messaging system.
Library for controlling a last.fm stream web service, with a graphical CLIM GUI.
An application for colorizing Common Lisp, Emacs Lisp, Scheme, C, C++ or Java source code.
command line arguments
Open-sourced project from ITA, part of QITAB.
defclass* and defcondition* that automatically generates accessors other things that are schematic for most defclass declarations.
A compatibility layer for system definition tools, which also provides a foundation for building higher level tools. It currently supports ASDF and the EKSL Generic Load Utilities, and will eventually...
Dyslexia is a spelling and grammar checker.
Tests, stress-test and performance-tests for Common Lisp object-databases and persistence libraries.
A library for "encoding text in various web-savvy formats". It takes care of processing text for inclusion in HTML PRE and TT elements, and managing long text lines.
A library for encoding and decoding (HTML/SGML/XML) entities in Common Lisp.
Hyperspec-lookup is a documentation system for Lisp software. It provides an interface for mapping from Lisp symbols to documentation URLs for the Common Lisp HyperSpec and the CLOS MetaObject Protoco...
jwacs - Javascript With Advanced Continuation Support
A program transformer for web development that translates code from an extended Javascript syntax to standard Javascript. It supports client-side continuations.
A simple to use, modular unit testing library designed for beginning programmers. It supports test-first programming, the redefinition of functions and macros without reloading tests. Lisp-unit can te...
Metabang-bind provides a binding construct that generalizes MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND, LET, LET* and DESTRUCTURING-BIND.
A toolkit for specifying how to make copies of CLOS objects.
A client library for the 9P2000 file system protocol used by the Plan 9 operating system and the wmii window manager.
An INI-file style configuration parser conformant to the Python configparser module.
Implementation of the RFC 2822 standard, which specifies a syntax for email text messages and superseedes RFC 822.
A portable object persistency library with support for persistent basic Lisp data types, parallel transactions, schema evolution, and more.
A library which provides an extremely thin compatibility layer for Gray streams.
A simple library for performing client HTTP/HTTPS operations (GET and POST) over a socket interface. It is a fork of Trivial-HTTP. Trivial-https has been superseeded by Drakma.


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DONETSK, Ukraine, July 27 (UPI) -- Data from a black box from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 indicates the airplane was shot down by a missile, a European air safety official said.
The data is consistent with the plane being hit by shrapnel from a missile explosion, the official, whose name wasn't reported, told CBS News.
"It did what it was designed to do," the official said of the suspected ground-to-air missile, "bring down airplanes."
The Boeing 777 was allegedly shot out of the sky July 19 over restive eastern Ukraine. The wreckage, including the bodies of 298 passengers and crew members, was strewn over several miles near Donetsk.
Investigators from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said Friday shrapnel-like holes were found in the fuselage debris of the jetliner.
Pro-Russian separatists in control of the eastern portion of Ukraine where the plane went down handed over the black box to Malaysian authorities last week.


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The downsizing conspiracy
At the risk of being impolite, I believe it is safe to say that most conspiracy theorists are well . . . nuts.
However, I find it difficult to refute that something is responsible for making Americans the fattest people on the planet. It could be a conspiracy. It appears to me that a clandestine technique cleverly designed to conceal the identity of a real enemy has been deployed. No matter how you look at it, someone wants the population of the U. S. A. to be fat.
Now, we all know that the number one rule for solving most problems of this nature is to follow the money. Figure out who benefits from making Americans fat. At first, I thought it was the food companies. The food guys were the obvious candidates.
They sold us convenience, saved us time, offered us instant gratification, and all kinds of goodies that we could never make at home that were indeed, quite tasty. The marketing biggie was when the fast food folks made it cheaper to eat out than to cook food at home.
Nonetheless, those of us who needed to lose a few pounds were well aware of the guaranteed rule for not gaining weight. If it tastes good, spit it out. Whatever you do, do not swallow anything that tastes good. The best policy is to not allow anything that tastes good to pass your lips. If we really wanted to, we could have just said no and not let the food guys take advantage.
Okay. Who were we trying to kid? We knew that was not going to happen. If any of us portly people got hungry and something tasty came our way, we ate it. You know it's true.
So the food guys won. The country bit into their taste and convenience program and they sent us on our way to creating cardiologist heaven. End of story, so you'd think.
But no - the food guys weren't finished yet. They wanted the majority of the market. So far, they only had a large slice of the food fortune pie. They wanted the whole thing.
They consulted with the fashion freaks and attacked with psychological warfare. Together, they did a media blitz and made it fashionable to be ultra skinny.
Attaining anorexic bodies like those of the beautiful and popular was next to impossible for us fluffy folks. Consequently, the campaign to make us feel inferior worked. It drove us to eating more. Food was the only road to happiness, or so we thought.
The methodology was successful for at least a few decades. Slowly, the nation grew fatter and food profits soared. Now that we had wet their palates, the food-marketing guys couldn't stop.
At this point, I should have suspected that the food guys were not alone in this devious plan to make the obese even fatter. But no - I didn't see it. I got sucked into the most underhanded of all their marketing trickery.
They cleverly downsized food packaging. A 64-ounce or half-gallon ice cream container suddenly showed up on supermarket shelves as a 56-ounce container called a scround. It was a square box with round corners.
Now here's the rub: The 56- ounce container of premium ice cream sold for the same price as the real half-gallon. The only difference was the shape and size of the package. The first to do this was Mayfi eld Dairies in Athens, Tenn. And they got by with it. There wasn't so much as a blip in sales figures.
Do you know why? The answer is easy. The ice cream addicts couldn't do anything about it. Instead of boycotting the market, they just caved in and continued eating.
It wasn't long before 12-ounce beer cans turned into 10-ounce cans, and fewer potato chips showed up in the big bags. Hershey's put out a Special Dark chocolate "giant bar" that was 6.8 ounces. It's not as giant as the previous 8-ounce version, which wasn't marked "giant." In many cases the size of the containers stayed the same, there was just less in them.
But making profits by shrinking the contents wasn't all that the food companies accomplished. Their methodology made us buy and eat more. You see, they only downsized the food that makes us fat. You didn't see cans of vegetables shrinking. Oh no! The ice cream, potato chips, candy, and beer — those were the items that shrunk.
When we bought a six-pack of 10-ounce cans, we got 60-ounces of beer. We were accustomed to 12- ounce cans that yielded 72-ounces in a six-pack. Sixty was just not enough. We could have just bought an extra beer. But no, we bought a convenient 12-pack and drank even more. The marketing guys didn't make a seven-pack or even an eight-pack. They stuck us with the 12-pack. And we bought it.
There just weren't quite enough potato chips in the downsized giant bag, so we bought two to satisfy our need for consistency. Anyway - I'm sure you get my point.
Now for the shocker. It wasn't just the food guys who wanted to fatten us up. Oh no. I got to the bottom of the problem and figured out who the real culprits were.
It's the space guys. They are here disguised as Earthlings. They are making us fat and we have to figure out why. The space guys showed the food guys how to get rich just to achieve their demonic goals. And I can prove it.
Watch Star Trek, Star Wars, or Lost in Space. You won't find a single fat guy in any of those movies or TV shows. I'm telling you, the space guys are here and they are making us fat for unthinkable reasons. Mark my words. It's a conspiracy. They play a major role in this system we can't understand.


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SOURCE: Brocade
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Integrated Solutions Provide Open, Validated Virtualization Stacks
Integrated Solutions Provide Open, Validated Virtualization Stacks
LAS VEGAS, NV--(Marketwire - Aug 30, 2011) - VMworld 2011 -- Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) and Avnet Technology Solutions, the global IT solutions distribution leader and operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), today announced the joint development of marketing and enablement support for a new set of multi-vendor, pre-tested and configured virtualization solutions to help reseller partners in the U.S. and Canada design and deploy open, efficient and scalable virtualization solutions.
This joint effort will focus on building virtual compute blocks, which are integrated, tested and validated solution bundles comprised of server, virtualization, networking and storage resources and an integral element of the Brocade® CloudPlex™ architecture. This open, extensible architectural framework will help end-user organizations and solutions integrators build the next generation of distributed and virtualized data centers in a simple, evolutionary way. Avnet will be providing integration services for these solutions, as well as other channel enablement and sales support.
At VMworld, Brocade will be introducing the first success of its joint development efforts with Avnet: a reference architecture and validated solution designed to cost effectively scale virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments to support thousands of clients (or desktops) per solution bundle. VDI technology offers IT managers a simple and highly effective way to manage operating system and application updates throughout their enterprise, one of the most complex and time-consuming tasks they face in today's highly distributed and mobile computing model.
However, to scale properly, enterprise-wide VDI deployments should be built on top of an open, multi-vendor-based architecture that can scale easily and quickly migrate desktops and user data between data centers when needed, all while simplifying the management and configuration processes.
Specifically, this new set of virtualization solutions will incorporate Brocade and VMware networking and hypervisor technologies in conjunction with a number of compute and storage platforms. All virtualization solutions are qualified through a multistage validation process conducted by Brocade and Avnet, enabling value-added reseller and solutions integrator partners to deploy these solutions with confidence and the assurance of interoperability.
"The collaboration between Brocade and Avnet brings forth best-in-class virtualization solutions designed to address the challenges facing resellers and their end customers today," said Barbara Spicek, vice president of Global Channels at Brocade. "This joint effort underscores Brocade's belief that multi-vendor technology integration must take place in the channel. Whether it be through a world-class distributor like Avnet whose integration capabilities are second to none, or via a reseller that specializes in virtualization and cloud technologies, the channel is where the 'rubber meets the road.' Recognizing this, Brocade is committed to working with channel partners to deliver viable, compelling technology offerings that arm resellers with what they need to remain differentiated in an increasingly competitive marketplace."
As the use of virtualization technology becomes increasingly prevalent, end customers are looking to the reseller community to provide the guidance and expertise on how best to deploy and integrate virtualization technology into their operations. The creation of fully validated, pre-configured, open standards-based virtualization technologies presents an attractive value proposition to resellers looking to quickly and seamlessly implement these solutions in multi-vendor IT environments. In addition, resellers will benefit from the technical know-how and enablement resources available through Avnet's data center services offerings.
"While virtualization and cloud computing presents a world of opportunities to reseller partners, it also introduces new levels of complexity into their business and operations," said Scott Look, vice president and general manager of the Technology Infrastructure Solutions Group at Avnet Technology Solutions, Americas. "At Avnet, we are committed to fully supporting our reseller partners and have evolved our business to be able to meet their changing needs through vertical industry-focused integration services, partner enablement programs and go-to-market assistance."
In addition, Avnet's SolutionsPath® methodology provides resellers a wide range of tools to help them gain relevant technical skills and develop specialized solution-selling capabilities in vertical and technology markets. Avnet's SolutionsPath includes data center technology practices around mobility, networking, security, storage and virtualization, along with vertical market practices for the energy, finance, government, healthcare and retail industries. Avnet resellers also have access to value-added supplemental resources, such as hosting live, online demonstrations from virtually anywhere by connecting to the Avnet Global Solutions Center in Phoenix, Ariz.
Earlier this year, Brocade and Avnet introduced Avnet Accelerator, an invitation-only program designed to help resellers tap into the power of Ethernet fabric technologies to assist their customers in simplifying their network architectures and managing the growth of server virtualization and virtual machines inside their data centers. Today's announcement provides yet another opportunity for resellers to capitalize on the sale and deployment of virtualization solutions.
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The Brocade/VMware VDI solution will be available to U.S. and Canada resellers through Avnet this November. Additional multi-vendor, open standards-based virtualization solutions will be available in the following months.
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Some of my favorite flavors are Donut House, so I couldn't wait to try the Coconut Mocha! I'm not the biggest fan of coconut, but I really enjoyed this flavor. My husband didn't even get a chance to taste it before I drank them all.
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The process of resolving disputes by filing or answering a complaint through the public court system. The nature of this complaint (including the probable outcome for each side) becomes the basis for any settlement negotiatons.
In federal courts, litigation is governed by a number of federal rules: the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Proceedure, and the Federal Rules of Evidence. These are supplemented by the local rules of each court and the standing orders of judges.
The major steps in a civil case are as follows:
1. Plaintiff commences civil action by filing a complaint with the clerk of the court.
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Changing of the guard
We'd like to recognize the dedication and vision of two long-time board members who recently decided to step down. Both hail from Boulder, Colo. Felix Magowan, who joined in 2001, brought substantial publishing and financial expertise to High Country News; he was the founder of Inside Communications, which published Velo News and other outdoor titles until the company was bought out last year. Among many other contributions, Felix encouraged HCN to adopt the more modern color magazine format you now hold in your hands.
Dan Luecke's service to HCN has spanned two decades. An expert in water policy, Dan helped educate a long string of editors and interns on the intricacies of water allocation, endangered species and land use. At board meetings, he displayed the rare ability to take the many opinions and ideas expressed by staff and board members and synthesize them into a coherent, pithy statement, often with a deft touch of humor. We will miss them both.
In August, Marty and Jerry Borgelt of Prescott, Ariz., came by our Paonia office on their way home from a family reunion in Kansas. Marty's on the board of directors of the "world's oldest rodeo."
Some after-hours visitors left us notes: Paul and Tomi Moreno of Yuma, Ariz., wrote, "Thank you for the Aug. 17 issue (on western Colorado wineries). We visited them and made several purchases." Albuquerque resident Peter Rice's note said, "Of all the rotten luck! I plan my 600 mile bike trip to stop in Paonia so I can see my favorite paper close up, and I arrive on a Sunday when everything is closed!" And Lea Bonewell and Mark Hayes of Fort Collins, Colo., wrote, "We had a great time and caught lots of bats!" No, bat-nabbing is not a typical Paonia tourist activity -- the pair are biologists and took part in a bat survey in the nearby Gunnison Gorge.
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Anyone here been getting e-mails from so called "Chase Bank"?
for the past 2 days, ive gathered 4-5 domains. And i was hoping that its 1-3 servers just registered in many domains, however it isnt. each site has its own unique ip address. and the e-mails are properly scripted. The mail comes as html format with javascript embedded in the legit link.
once u click it, u will be reditected to 2 sites. the final site will have the phising page, but the address on the address bar is fake, its an image. u cant copy the text.
There are a lot of these Chase phishing e-mails, and the re-direction and phishing pages are more complex than the common ones you see.
below is a sample of the phishing scam, but the original format wont be in it.
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From: <firstname.lastname@example.com>
To: <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Subject: Message ID 93775419 IMPORTANT: Update Your Account
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:39:31 -0300
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Being Halle Berry requires a lot of multi-tasking.
As the star and executive producer of the new CBS drama Extant, the Academy Award-winning actress' schedule is packed with meetings with her fellow producers and quality time with her children: daughter Nahla, 6, and 8-month old son Maceo.
"I love having my kids there [on set] because I am nursing my baby. To have him there is great for me," Berry, 47, told PEOPLE at the Los Angeles premiere of her new show on Monday. "I love being involved all day."
And Berry isn't the only one who loves being involved.
"Every morning I can lose myself just by looking at my son," her husband, French actor Olivier Martinez, said recently in an interview printed in German Grazia magazine.
While Martinez, 48, says that becoming a father has been the biggest adventure in his life, he has different feelings when it comes to tabloid rumors that his marriage to Berry is going through a rough patch.
"That's bulls—," says the actor, who spent Monday evening arm-in-arm with his wife. "Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published, sometimes it's annoying, but in general I don't care."
Martinez insists that most of the stuff he reads about himself he never actually said. "That tells a lot about my life, doesn't it?" he says.
He insists that the view that the public has of him "isn't really me. Just being famous feels cheap to me," he says. "In Hollywood you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me."
"Except for those I love," he adds. "What I am trying to say here [is], I'm only traveling through, just like every other human being."
But Martinez isn't traveling alone. Though he will be spending the summer in Mexico filming the upcoming History Channel miniseries Texas Rising, Berry was overheard saying that she and the family plan to visit him.
RELATED: Halle Berry Ordered to Pay $16,000 a Month in Child Support
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About Sislej Xhafa
Sislej Xhafa works across mediums and dimensions in order to explore and, oftentimes, further obfuscate the social, political, economic, and quotidian complexities of modern life. "Reality is stronger than art," Xhafa says. "As an artist I do not want to reflect a reality, but I do want to question it." His research-based and participatory practice, which he has referred to as examining the "politics of interruption", has a humor that is tongue-in-cheek at its most docile and subversive in its extreme. Themes in Xhafa's works have included the arbitrary nature of the stock market, security and stability, poverty, tourism, and the legal status of his country of origin, Kosovo.
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SHELTON, Wash. (AP) — The Mason County sheriff's office says a 35-year-old Puyallup man has died in a skydiving accident at Sanderson Field in Shelton.
Detective William Adam says authorities got a call just before 1 p.m. Sunday from Kapowsin Air Sports reporting that a skydiver had landed very hard and that CPR was in progress. The skydiver could not be revived.
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After two fatal Saltwater Crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) attacks on people in Australia in the last few months, calls have been made to cull the wild population of crocodiles in the Northern Territory.
In response, Professor Grahame Webb, Chair of the IUCN Species Survival Commission's Crocodile Specialist Group has written an opinion piece for "The Conversation" website in which he explains that while culling does have a place in the management of crocodiles it is not a simple solution for reducing crocodile attacks.
Exploring the issues surrounding crocodile conservation in Australia, Grahame provides a clear and interesting overview of the delicate relationship between crocodiles and humans and the benefits they can provide to local communities.
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The Hidden Life of Dogs
- Narrated by: Swoosie Kurtz
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- Release date: 16-12-99
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- D's Mom
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Disappointing and dangerously incorrect
Like several other readers, I was disappointed and concerned about the incorrect information about dogs conveyed in this book. Although the author contends that she made a careful and thorough study of dogs by doing 100000 hours of observation of her own pack of dogs, the book is primarily the author's own anthropomorphizing of her dog's behavior, with her making dramatic interpretations of what the dogs "must" be feeling. At best, it is treacle. At worst, it is dangerous. In several places she reports behavior by the dogs, only to add an interpretation which is astounding. She misinterprets dominance behavior as simply "greeting", assumes her dogs are getting along with another dog only to have to later rescue the third dog from being killed by her dogs, and so on. The danger in this book is that readers will believe her interpretations to the detriment of their relationship with their own dog, or, more concerning, believe her interpretations of dog behavior are real, not merely her opinions, and therefore fail to protect or properly control their own dogs, and suffer the consequences. Examples would include her failure to recognize the signs of and proactively deal with the above mentioned aggression by her dogs towards another dog, a heartwrenching story she blithely tells about having 2 dogs with litters at the same time and having one mother dog kill the puppies of the other (which she interprets as merely the way of the wild accepted by both mother dogs); and so on. Readers looking for information on how to work with and relate to their dogs should, in my opinion, look elsewhere. Or at least read several other books, make your own assessments and take this book for what it really is -- the author's own thoughts about what her dog's behavior means and nothing more.
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- dndlyon
- 27-02-07
Bad from the beginning
As a dog trainer I was really excited about this book. I thought it would carry some insight into multiple dog households with maybe a bit of science behind it. What I found was nothing of the sort. The author clearly does not understand dog behavior in the least and caused most of the heartbreak she writes of herself. The book is well written, but the story she tells is just too heartbreaking for me (especially when most of her troubles could have easily been avoided).
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- Denise
- 02-07-07
A portrait of human failure
There are so many good books out there about dog behaviour -- but this isn't one of them. This book, in essence, is the portraint of a neglectful dog owner who allows her dogs to roam, who routinely puts them and other pets at risk, who chooses not to spay or neuter her dogs and allows litters of unwanted puppies to appear and who fails to meaningfully work with any of her dogs. There is no science in this book, and absolutely no humanity. A lot of soppy language to justify her own appalling behaviour. Truly, can't publishers show a little more judgment?
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- Donald Frankenfeld
- 30-05-06
TomHutch is right--a very bad book
Treacley, self-indulgent, self-consciously cute and embarrassingly ignorant, this novel disguised as nonfiction is a disservice to dog lovers. You know you are in weird territory when the author refers to her dog's canine mate as 'husband.' A better choice by far is 'Cesar's Way.'
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- Jessica
- 08-08-09
dont bother
i was really looking forward to this one but its so subjective and offers little in comparing modern behaviour with ancestral traits. its really just one lady writing all about the behaviour of a few family pets but not explaining why they do what they do. it felt like her nerating her diary of observations but lacked her taking it to the next level.
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- Red_redred
- 30-03-15
Perfect bedtime tale
I absolutely loved reading this book. And listening to it. Beautifully, carefully written, executed like a science but with all the devotion writing of a new mother. Wonderful!
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- Catherine
- 05-06-10
To Love is to Spay/Neuter
Wish this author cared enough for the animals to have them neutered or spayed. Had a hard time listening to litter after litter being born under her care.
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- Sally
- 04-11-03
I found this book completely compelling and Swoozie Kurtz did a great job narrating it. Although there was much I didn't agree with in the author's approach to raising dogs, the book was very informative and entertaining. I certainly saw my dogs in a whole new light!
1 of 4 people found this review helpful
- Peter
- 10-06-06
Unbelievably rewarding.
Well after selecting this audible book. I was left with my mouth open. This book is a must have for all dog owners and lovers. Really starts making you understand the physchology of these companions.
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- N. Price
- 07-02-03
The Hidden Life of Dogs
This book made me cry; more titles by this author please.
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Knock on Wood
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Samuel Calderon, playwright and performer in Knock on Wood at The 13th Street Repertory Theater.
Israeli soldier breaks 20-year-silence
Writer/performer of one man show confronts the past
By Jerry Tallmer
Too many coincidences. Enough to block and then, many years later, to unblock memory. Memories of a war. Memories of what can happen in a war.
In the fall of 1973 a 23-year-old actor named Samuel Caldeeron Shmulik to family and friends is playing a soldier named Jonathan in a play by A.B. Joshua at the Haifa Theater in Israel. The play is called Final Treatments, and its really not about Jonathan (who comes to visit a friend in the hospital) but, as Calderon puts it these three decades later, about the words that you speak.
On October 6, 1973, the highest holy day in Israel, Egypt hurls thousands of troops across the Suez Canal in a surprise attack that launches in concert with Syria what will instantly become known as the Yom Kippur War. Shmulik Calderon, actor with Final Treatments a just-opened hit is drafted into the Israeli Army and into that war.
In the course of which, he guardedly at first, on both their parts becomes buddies with someone, a fellow soldier, hes never known before. The guys name turns out to be Jonathan. Jonathan, who will never see again after what happens on the battlefield.
One day our commander needs someone to go forward in an armored vehicle. Me or Jonathan. He chooses Jonathan. And I already knew, says Shmulik Calderon, in New York, in May of 2005. Knew his buddy would be hit. Did not know he would be blinded. Permanently.
Such a dirty war. So dirty that actor Calderon stopped acting and stopped remembering for more than 20 years.
What he does remember, when after years of therapy he did start remembering, he has poured into a play, a one-man piece called Knock on Wood, written and performed by him which, after a thousand shows throughout Israel, and some in England and Ireland, he has brought and does here, in English, not Hebrew, at the 13th Street Repertory Theater.
I was not a combat soldier, Calderon said the other day. But oh yes, sure, I shot at people. Twice. More than twice. I dont know if I hit anybody or not.
Awful, he said just that one word, instead of his usual torrent. You become an animal. You have to shoot first. Its a law of life. What can I do? The minute I put the uniform on, I become crazy.
And the minute he took the uniform off, or even before, he blanked out everything. What he says next summons echoes of Home of the Brave, a play by a young Arthur Laurents (followed by a visceral Mark Robson/Carl Foreman film) that came out of a considerable older and wider conflict, World War II.
For 10 years, said the Yom Kippur veteran more, 13 years, 1979 to 1992 I went to psychiatrists. They handled me, but it was not enough. They didnt want to go into the hard things.
At 43, I stopped working [at his profession] for two years I was a showman and producer because I heard of the art-therapy classes being given at [a branch of] Lesley College [of Cambridge, Mass.] that was then at Tel Aviv and is now in Natalia. I heard that things were happening there. That people were finding themselves in experiential learning.
You were supposed to take one course at a time. I took five courses all at once, said Shmulik Calderon with a grin that somehow reinforced his loose resemblance to Christopher Walken.
In every class, something from the Yom Kippur War was coming back to me. For instance, when I hear drums, its all the time like the sound of a .50-caliber cannon. When I do like an eagle he said, flapping his arms I imagine Im flying over my country, so small, and look down on the Sinai Desert. When Im in my mothers womb, its again, brump, brump, brump, the .50-caliber cannon.
Because of 55 years of war with Arabs, my language is Army language. I salute you, and so forth.
In my very first class Id just come in and sat down a student was [acting as] blind, and in that moment, it all came back to me. I went out of the class and phoned Jonathan. The real Jonathan. I hadnt seen him or been able to think of him since 1973, but you should know I called my own son Jonathan. I didnt mean it [the linkage]. My wife didnt know. My son is now himself just finished the Army, and goes in the fall to Hebrew University.
In that same class, a drama class, there was a woman named Sivan Joshua, the daughter of A.B. Joshua, who wrote Final Treatments. When I came back into the class from the telephone, I told her: Im going to see Jonathan [using his full name] and then the teacher said: When you see him, tell him hello from me. When he got hit, they took him out by helicopter. I was the nurse who took care of his eyes.
When I got home, the phone rang, and it was the teacher again. He said: I have a girl student in story-telling class. She said she had a brother who was blind from the war. I asked her which war. She said: The Yom Kippur War.
This, said Shmulik Calderon, here in New York, before heading back to his 13th Street Theater, this was too much for me. But later I met a Hasidic rabbi, who told me: This is a talmudic story. You were born to tell it.
He doesnt tell it in the show. Too many coincidences. Too much truth. I didnt change anything else. This is my life. Not only the words, but the feelings. He said feelings with considerable feeling, Christopher Walken look-alike or not.
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Yahoo's Code Of Ethics clearly prohibits things like falsifying biographical and resume information. Page 13 of that linked document, for example, urges employees to make sure that any information disclosed is clear, truthful and accurate. The legal department should be notified, it says, of any inaccuracies.
Yahoo takes this stuff seriously.
Not seriously enough to do a simple background check on an incoming CEO who fabricates a computer science degree, apparently, but seriously enough to have a really amazing "IntegrityLine" phone number and website to report violations of the code of ethics. Page 44 of the linked document:
And damn if they don't pick that phone up on the first ring.
"Hi, I'd like to report an omission, inaccuracy or falsification in Yahoo's business records filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Is this the right place to do that? Apparently the board of directors hired someone to be the CEO and didn't do a background check on him and now it looks like he made up this computer science degree? I thought that might be relevant since we're a technology company."


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From the church, to the studio, to the stage, don't miss The Slide Brothers at this Friday's Free At Noon.
Hear a Live Friday Free At Noon Concert at 12noon ET from WXPN and NPR Music Broadcast Live Fridays from the stage this week World Cafe Live in Philadelphia
Thanks to Robert Randolph, their biggest fan, these four legendary sacred steel players just released their debut album. True masters of their music, The Slide Brothers open for George Thorogood & The Destroyers at the Keswick Theatre on Thursday, March 14, and join us for a free at noon concert on March 15.
Revitalizing the Sacred Steel tradition in the modern era, The Slide Brothers have created a musical story that is 80 years in the making. The style, driven by the pedal steel guitar, was born in The House of God Church back in the 1930's and had never been heard outside of religious services. This new form of slide guitar began attracting a wide variety of blues fans. Carrying the genre to mainstream success, The Slide Brothers have helped cultivate a unique, American art form undisturbed by the commercialism that surrounds so many other types of music.
The band consists of Calvin Cooke, Chuck Campbell, Darick Campbell, and Aubrey Ghent. The quartet has traveled from Nashville to Chicago to Newark, developing their musical skills all along the way. Born in 1944 in Cleveland, Ohio, Cooke has been dubbed by Nashville steel guitarists as the "B.B. King of gospel steel guitar." Today, he is recognized as the most influential living pedal steel master in the Sacred Steel tradition.
The Slide Brothers released their debut album, Robert Randolph Presents: The Slide Brothers, on February 19. The band does a successful job of shifting between genres, incorporating both traditional gospel and secular repertoire. In addition, the group has been touring the U.S., which included a very special stop on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno this past February.
Recent Release: Robert Randolph Presents: The Slide Brothers
Release Date: February 19, 2013
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Weare elementary changes procedures in aftermath of Conn. shooting
On Tuesday, parents and students began a new dismissal system aimed to keep the kids indoors until their parents or caregivers arrive. Potter said the old system had kids heading out to meet their parents, who either walked or drove up to get them. But recently, parents, staff and administrators have been talking about security at the school and one of the suggestions that came out of those discussions was to develop a new procedure for after-school dismissals. After Friday's tragedy, it seemed like the right time to put that new plan into action.
The new procedure requires parents to display an orange star on their dashboard with their child's name on it. Students will be kept inside the building until their name is called to be dismissed. The dismissal staff outside will radio the names of the students to staff inside the building and the children will be escorted to their cars. Staff will also be requiring identification and notification from parents if someone new is going to be picking up a student.
"We thought this new procedure was going to take twice as long as the old one," said Potter, "but it only took about five minutes more, and I have some ideas for where we can save some time."
Potter said that still needs to be a change made to how visitors enter the building. Right now, all the doors to the school are locked when classes are in session and staff members man a desk in the hallway and check visitors in. But the process needs to be improved for safety, said Potter.
"This facility was not built with those recent events (Newtown) in mind," she said. "It was built to be a friendly, open, inviting place, but these days we need more security."
Potter said she and her staff are working with SAU officials as well as people trained to handle emergencies including the fire chief and police.
"We're taking advice from the experts on this," Potter said.
The goal for the school is to become safer for everyone without losing its warmth and comfort.
"We don't want to be complacent, but we also don't want to overreact," said Potter.
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How much did this morning's Golden Globe nominations shake up the Oscar race?
Eh … Let's just say that the primary beneficiary will be DVDs of a little Ewan McGregor comedy called Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, which very modestly came and went from theaters early last spring. That movie picked up three nominations in the best musical/comedy categories of picture, lead actor for McGregor, and lead actress for Emily Blunt.
Also, what the …? Nicole Kidman gets another supporting actress nomination for the critically lambasted The Paperboy after yesterday's nod from the Screen Actors Guild? Okay then.
I wouldn't say that Kidman and Salmon Fishing now have shots at the Oscars, but these mentions by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association — which has no crossover with the voting body of the Academy Awards, by the way — are fairly strong "for your consideration" recommendations. The quirk of having a separate category for drama means that the occasional offbeat comedy choice like Salmon gets some time in the Globes spotlight. (I'm not sure how to explain the Kidman thing, though.)
The other nods were what you might expect: Lincoln led the contenders with seven nominations: best drama, dramatic actor for Daniel Day-Lewis, director for Steven Spielberg, a screenplay nomination for Tony Kushner, a music nomination for John Williams, and supporting mentions for Tommy Lee Jones and Sally Field.
Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained and Ben Affleck's Argo were tied for runner-up with five nominations each, including best drama.
The influence of the HFPA, a group of about 90 journalists who report for international outlets, is always a little dubious, but because the event is telecast on NBC in the heart of award season it is considered a critical campaign primary for those seeking to win an Oscar.
But this year the Globes telecast takes place on Jan. 13 — three days after the nominations announcement for the Oscars. The HFPA had tried to shift its awards ceremony ahead a few days, before the previous cut-off for Oscar nominations voting, in an obvious bid to claim some influence over who got an Academy Award nod and who didn't.
But the Academy responded by leapfrogging them again with the current timeline. One could argue the Globes still play an important role in the overall awards conversation, but this jockeying of dates with the Academy has undoubtedly taken a little shine off the HFPA's trophy.
On the next few pages, let's look category by category at today's surprises and snubs.
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MONTREAL, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- Quebec officials said 10 selected restaurants around the province will be allowed in the fall to serve wild game dishes including beaver, moose and squirrel.
Yves-Francois Blanchet, Quebec's wildlife minister, said restaurant chefs have been asking officials for decades to allow them to serve wild game meats, but the rules currently do not allow for the sale of meat from animals hunted or trapped in the wild, the (Montreal) Gazette reported Monday.
"The hunt is intimately linked with our history and our food heritage and has been since the days of New France," Blanchet told a news conference at the Toque restaurant in Montreal.
He said the restaurants will be allowed to serve the meats this fall as part of a pilot program to boost tourism from international food fans. He said wildlife and agriculture officials will closely supervise the plan to ensure species are not endangered and the food is safe for human consumption.
Chef Normand Laprise, owner of Toque, welcomed the announcement. He said allowing businesses to sell wild game meat will both expand the food source for the area and reduce waste from unused game meat. He said figures indicate as little as 40 percent of meat from the 26,000 to 28,000 wild deer killed during the annual hunting season is butchered and cooked for food.


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Ms. Diane Layton
Director of Admissions/Registrar
Shelton State Community College
202 Skyland Boulevard
Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35404
Dear Ms. Layton:
This responds to your February 10, 1997, request for guidance concerning the release of information from a student's education records to the local deputy sheriff who presented a contempt order or warrant for the student's arrest. This office administers the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), 20 U.S.C. section 1232g and 34 CFR Part 99, and is responsible for providing technical assistance on the law to educational agencies and institutions. I apologize for the amount of time it has taken us to respond to your inquiry. Due to the large amount of correspondence this Office receives, we currently have a backlog that we are working to resolve.
You explained in your letter that the deputy sheriff came to your office seeking to locate a student that he wished to arrest on campus. The deputy sheriff presented you with "an order of contempt from a judge's office" for this student and explained that this was the same as "a warrant for the student's arrest." Nonetheless, because student class schedules are not listed as "directory information" at your campus, you declined to release the information and told the deputy sheriff that you would release the information only if he obtained a subpoena. You further advised the deputy sheriff that if he did not want you to notify the student concerning the subpoena that the subpoena should so specify. You asked this Office specifically whether "this order of contempt and . . . warrant for an arrest qualify as a judicial order" for purposes of releasing information to the deputy sheriff without the student's consent under FERPA. You also asked about having subpoenas served on students at school.
As you know, FERPA provides that an educational agency or institution may not disclose personally identifiable information contained in an eligible student's education records without the student's prior written consent except to the extent that FERPA authorizes disclosure without consent. See 34 CFR section 99.31. An institution's record of a student's class schedule constitutes an "education record" subject to FERPA rights and protections.
FERPA authorizes the non-consensual disclosure of information that has been designated as "directory information" in accordance with regulatory requirements. See 34 CFR section 99.31(a)(11). "Directory information" includes information such as a student's name, address, telephone listing, etc., and could include a student's class schedule as information that "would not generally be considered harmful or an invasion of privacy if disclosed." See definition of "directory information" at 34 CFR ' 99.3. However, if the institution has not complied with the notice requirements for directory information set forth in 34 CFR ' 99.37, then it may not disclose this information without the student's prior written consent.
FERPA also allows the non-consensual disclosure of personally identifiable information from education records if the disclosure is to "comply with a judicial order or lawfully issued subpoena." 34 CFR section 99.31(a)(9)(i). However, the institution must first make a reasonable effort to notify the parent or eligible student of the order or subpoena in advance of compliance, so that the parent or eligible student may seek protective action, unless the disclosure is in compliance with --
(A) Federal grand jury subpoena and the court has ordered that the existence or the contents of the subpoena or the information furnished in response to the subpoena not be disclosed; or
(B) Any other subpoena issued for a law enforcement purpose and the court or other issuing agency has ordered that the existence of the contents of the subpoena or the information furnished in response to the subpoena not be disclosed.
34 CFR section 99.31(a)(9)(ii)(emphasis added).
It is our opinion that the order of contempt or arrest warrant from a judge's office, as you described it in your letter, would not meet the requirements for non-consensual disclosure of information from education records as set forth above. It appears from the information you provided that the document was an order of contempt against the student that provided for the student's arrest. The exception for non-consensual disclosure to comply with a "judicial order or lawfully issued subpoena" applies only to orders or subpoenas issued to the institution for the purpose of obtaining information or records in the institution's possession.
First, the institution is not legally required to comply with a judicial order or subpoena issued to or against another party. More importantly, the privacy protections at the heart of FERPA would be severely undercut if institutions could release personally identifiable information from a student's education records on the basis of a judicial order or subpoena that was issued to any party for any purpose, rather than an order directing the institution to release specified education records. Otherwise, the deputy sheriff could present this contempt order and demand to see the education records of any student who might be useful in locating the student to be arrested. We do not interpret FERPA to authorize this broad type of non-consensual disclosure. Rather, FERPA contemplates a specific decision by the court or issuing authority to seek information from an institution's education records and not a generalized grant of authority to compel the release of desired information wherever it may be found. The requirement that institutions make a "reasonable effort to notify the parent or eligible student of the order or subpoena in advance of compliance" strongly supports the view that Congress intended this provision to apply only to orders directed at the institution for the purpose of obtaining information from education records.
For these reasons, we agree with the advice that you apparently provided to the deputy sheriff regarding what would be needed in order for the institution to release non-directory information without obtaining the student's prior written consent. You are also correct that the institution is relieved of its obligation to notify the eligible student of the order or subpoena in advance of compliance only if the court or other issuing agency has ordered that the existence or contents of the subpoena not be disclosed. See 34 CFR ' 99.31(a)(9)(ii)(A) and (B).
Finally, you asked about having subpoenas served on students at school. If a student's class schedule is listed as directory information, it would be permissible to disclose a student's class schedule to the individual serving the subpoena. If not, then the institution would presumably face the same problems in locating a student as occurred in the situation that prompted your inquiry. Note that FERPA does not prohibit the institution from locating a student for a law enforcement officer or anyone else if a staff member happens to know where the student is and, therefore, does not have to release or retrieve the information from an education record, such as the student's recorded class schedule, in order to do so. Otherwise, there is nothing in FERPA that would prevent law enforcement officials or other persons from serving subpoenas on students at school.
I trust that this responds to your concerns and appreciate the opportunity to assist you with these matters. Please do not hesitate to call upon this office again in the future.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – Embroiled in court cases on both sides of the Atlantic, Rory McIlroy has been visiting lawyers' offices instead of winning golf titles this year.
The Northern Irishman remains without a victory in 2013 as he returns to Dubai this week to defend his last victory, the World Tour Championship. He's slipped from No. 1 in the rankings to No. 6.
In the 12 months since, he has become tied up in legal wrangling with his former management company, Horizon Sports Management, and his former sponsor, Oakley.
''I've seen more lawyers' offices and more lawyers this year than I care to see in my entire life,'' McIlroy said Tuesday. ''It's not something I ever want to go through again, and I'm making sure that I won't go through it again.
''As a golfer, you want your mind as clear as possible, and it's hard for that to happen when you've got other things that are going on that, firstly, you don't want to happen, and secondly, you don't feel should be happening. It has been a distraction.''
McIlroy said he was taking some advice from Tiger Woods about how to handle his off-course issues.
''Sometimes you have to say 'no' and sometimes you have to put yourself first and say 'no,' and I need to do this for myself to maintain the level in my game,'' McIlroy said.
''It's something Tiger actually said to me last year. He said you have to remember what got you here in the first place, and you know Tiger, it's 'no' 99 percent of the time for him.''
McIlroy won last year's World Tour Championship at the Jumeriah Estates course when he birdied the closing five holes to overtake Justin Rose and end the year with money titles in Europe and on the PGA Tour.
He still has two more tournaments left in 2013, the Australian Open in Sydney and the Woods-hosted World Challenge at Thousand Oaks.


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Elis Preparing for Union on Saturday
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The dew on the grass glistened from the angle of the sun as the Yale football team warmed up for its second day of 7:30 AM practice on Clint Frank Field.
It was 57 degrees when Tom Williams (in photo), the Joel E. Smilow '54 Head Coach of Football, released the first screech from his airhorn, but the sweat had already started before he stepped on the field. Strength and conditioning coach Emil Johnson, with help from the upbeat clapping of the players, put the Elis through pre-practice preparation as the rest of the coaching staff moved through the tunnel under Derby Avenue.
Before the sun could dry the grass, quarterbacks were zipping balls to receivers, kickers were booming balls to return guys and everyone else was in their normal pre-practice mode. The rest of the practice looked like it could have been at any other time of the day.
It may not be easy getting out there, but the Yale team will soon realize how nice it is to have an afternoon like most college students.
Day two of morning practice was also the first day of classes, so the Bulldogs jogged back to the Smilow Field Center and got ready to head to breakfast and a day of checking out professors and courses.
The Elis are working toward Saturday's 1 PM scrimmage against Union College at the Bowl. It is likely to be run very close to game conditions with an option to simulate certain situations.
The Bulldogs open the season against a Georgetown team that will have played two regular-season contests. Game-like situations during practice and Saturday's competition are extremely important for a squad with a new coaching staff.
Here is a look at Yale football events leading up to opening-day kickoff.
Date Event Time
Sept. 1 Morning Practices Begin (T, W, R) 7:30 to 9
Sept. 5 Scrimmage vs. Union College 1 pm
Sept. 12 Photo Day at Yale Bowl 10-11 am
Sept. 14 WYBC's Yale Sports Monday, Landsdowne Bar & Grill 8 pm (every Monday)
Sept. 15 Galiette/Yale FB Press Conference at Yale Bookstore 2 pm (every Tuesday)
Sept. 19 Season Opener at Georgetown 1 pm
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Yes we got guns here, and you know why??? YOU NEVER KNOW when you might need to shoot a stranger, a family member, a neighbor---HELL I might even take the barrel and stick it in my mouth and pull the trigger!!! WE'RE AMERICANS, WHO KNOWS??!!
I guess this would be considered woofing on the tourist, and indeed, as a gun owner(my Southern father left me is arsenal), we are truly a gun-maddened culture; right up there w/ Yemenis & Columbians...
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If you have fond memories of cashing in your allowance for quarters and then plugging them into games at the local arcade, two recently opened bars are offering the chance to relive the past. Emporium Arcade Bar (1366 N. Milwaukee Ave. 773-697-7922) in Wicker Park and Headquarters Beercade (950 W. Wolfram St. 773-665-5660) in Lakeview both feature a bounty of classic video games—only this time around, you can play with a beer in hand and stay out way later than your parents would let you. I paid both bars a visit last weekend to face 'em off, Street Fighter-style.
Emporium: June 15
Headquarters: Oct. 11
Emporium: Danny Marks, who opened the bar in Wicker Park on June 15 with his brother Doug, previously worked as a manager at an arcade bar in Brooklyn called Barcade. Their family also operated arcades in the '80s.
Headquarters: Mark Kwiatkowski and Brian Galati run Lakeview bar Uncle Fatty's Rum Resort and remodeled adjacent bar The Coach House into Headquarters, which opened Oct. 11. They also have two more projects in the works.
Emporium: Danny thought Barcade's arcade bar concept would work well in his native Chicago and started plans for Emporium after he left Barcade in summer 2011.
Headquarters: The owners were also inspired by Barcade, which they visited while doing research in New York for an artisanal beer-focused bar project they're keeping quiet about.
Emporium: Danny said the bar uses tokens instead of quarters so that staff feels more comfortable doling out replacements, but also because "it's a classic arcade sort of thing," he said. "The games do eat tokens a lot."
Headquarters: The machines are equipped to take quarters but are currently free to play. "We were initially planning on doing it as a grand opening promotion, but we love the response, so it's indefinite," Kwiatkowski said.
Emporium: 60/40
Headquarters: 25/75
Emporium: The focus is on American craft beers such as Emmett's black IPA ($7) and Dirty Bastard Scotch-style ale from Founders Brewing ($6), though Emporium also serves PBR to cater to the hipster crowd. The owners are fond of whiskey and have stocked the bar with a serious selection of small-batch brands including Angel's Envy ($11) and locally made Few Spirits ($9).
Headquarters: No PBR here. The bar specializes in lesser-known brews such as Stillwater Kopstootje ale ($10) and Dark Horse raspberry ale ($7). "We're excited to see these quirky beers selling in volume," Kwiatkowski said. A cocktail menu developed by local mixology company Pour Souls capitalizes on the nostalgic vibe with odd but delicious drinks such as Who's Got the Mott's ($9), a blend of apple vodka, cinnamon applesauce and apple bitters served with a cinnamon stick.
Emporium: Little nooks between games provide a place to rest your drink from the bar—and your purse, in my case.
Headquarters: Servers will check in while you're playing to see if you're ready for refills and place your drinks on the nearest convenient surface.
Emporium: The bar sells some locally made snacks like Gunslinger Jerky ($7) and Bee's Nuts ($2) but you're welcome to bring in outside eats. There's a stack of menus in front for nearby restaurants such as Pot Pan Thai, and the whole place can smell mouth-wateringly good when there's a group chowing on grub from Harold's Chicken across the street.
Headquarters: Servers will bring you a book of delivery menus for eateries such as Panes, Pompei Pizza and Fogo 2 Go, and the bar also sells Dirty potato chips ($2) and beef jerky ($9) made by Etno Village Grill chef Chris Cason.
Emporium: A chalkboard listing high scores.
Headquarters: Video game-themed propaganda posters such as a Ms. Pac-Man version of Rosie the Riveter.
Emporium: 45
Headquarters: 37
Emporium: X-Men, Mortal Kombat and The Simpsons.
Headquarters: Street Fighter and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Emporium: The Simpsons is normally a four-player game, but it was only allowing two or sometimes one player at a time when I visited. And in Mortal Kombat, players couldn't compete against each other. Games are constantly rotating in and out at Emporium as they break down and get repaired. Danny said he maintains them "with great care, determination and frustration. It's a constant battle."
Headquarters: Area 51: Site 4 kept restarting after I cleared the first level, though other players seemed to have better luck.
Emporium: You can watch sports or movies ("Underworld" during my visit) on TVs around the bar.
Headquarters: Along with sports, the bar shows video-game themed films and TV shows such as "Street Fighter" the movie and "Pac-Man: The Animated Series."
Emporium has a better selection of multiplayer games, making your night out more social, and the small-batch booze selection is sure to win over any whiskey fan. It also draws bigger crowds, though it's easy to find a seat since most people are waiting their turn for a favorite game while watching other players show off their skills.
But it's Headquarters that nets the high score in my book. It seems like vintage arcade games were made to take as much of your money as possible, so the free-play policy that allows you to spend your cash on beer instead of tokens is a huge plus. While I was able to order drinks at Emporium's bar quickly, the service at Headquarters impressed, with servers checking back to make sure I liked my cocktail and a feedback section on every receipt inquiring what new games and beers customers would like to see. The dynamic might change as Headquarters gets busier, but for now it's my pick for a night of gaming and drinking.
Samantha Nelson is a RedEye special contributor and a video game reviewer for The Gameological Society. RedEye reporters visit bars unannounced and drinks are paid for by RedEye. firstname.lastname@example.com | @redeyechicago


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