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Anyone opposed to cash shops is an idiot
These days we've finally moved past the absurd notions of patience and so-called "experience". We know now that it's not the journey that matters, it's where you end up. We go for success. Who would go for failure? Idiots. Complete idiots.
And yet, when people oppose cash shops that give in-game advantage, that's exactly what they are: idiots. Cash shops should give advantages within the game. Not merely time-savers like XP potions or gold. Definitely not just cosmetic items. That's frivolous Communist feel-goody money-hating anti-market nonsense.
Imagine that you're starting a business. What do you do? I'm guessing you think up some great product or service. That's because you're stupid. The first thing to do is get money. Then use that money to generate hype and marketing advantage. The product, we can get to that later. First step: money. Only an idiot would say "but you're supposed to complete on the quality of the product and service, not advertising." That's an idiot talking. First thing to complete on: profits. Well you need money to make money, so if you want profits you'd be an idiot to not get some investment capital.
Similarly, if we're saying that our goal is to down a boss, why would we not use a cash shop? If an item helps kill the boss and the cost/benefit ratio is satisfactory, we should buy it and be glad to have the opportunity to do so.
If our goal is not to down the boss, then what the hell are you doing? Do you join raids just to waste time with friends? Ever heard of instant messaging? Phones?
Cash shops should give competitive advantage. If they don't, they're failing to help advance player goals. That makes them worthless.
If you're opposed to a cash shop, it means you're opposed to success. If you're opposed to success, then you're wasting everyone's time and should quit. Anyone opposed to cash shops that give competitive advantage is a cheap, lazy, time-wasting idiot. It's a good thing when you all cry about it and leave: no one wanted you anyway.
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- scrusi said...
Capitalism, ho!
(Also, I'm apparently an idiot ;)) - May 27, 2011 at 9:55 AM
- Sven said...
Cash shops are socialist nonsense. If you have a shop, it has a standard price for every item, which means that everyone who buys it buys equal success. There can be no winners and losers when everyone is equal first.
What we need is unique items, that are auctioned for the highest cash bid. That way the person with the most money wins and the poor are exposed as the exposed as the losers they really are! - May 27, 2011 at 10:06 AM
- Caramael said...
Tobold is wrong. Every single mmo has a cash shop. It might not always be run by the MMO publisher, but it'll be there.
So MMO publishers who don't run the shop themselves are the idiots here, they're missing out on loads and loads of cash.
If you don't want cash shops, remove any form of character progression, currency and trade features from your game. - May 27, 2011 at 10:21 AM
- Klepsacovic said...
@scrusi: Knowing is the first step.
@Sven: Those auctions would only be creating artificial rarity and subverting the efficiency and profit-maximization of supply and demand. But there are still rewards for the patient: sales, allowing companies to get full price from those who are too impatient to budget properly.
@Caramael: There's the free market in action. - May 27, 2011 at 10:46 AM
- Nils said...
The thing about communism was my favourite part ;)
Wonder how much a virtual concentration camp would cost ? - May 27, 2011 at 11:21 AM
- Imakulata said...
Are you claiming that saving time is not a competitive advantage or helping to advance player's goals?
They will still buy non-unique items, won't they? They make less on a single item but sell more of the items, so they might earn more that with the auctions. - May 27, 2011 at 11:59 AM
- Anonymous said...
Actually, I find the idea that everyone has to agree on this issue or they are an idiot communistic. People will pay for what they like and withhold money from what they dislike.
Are you going to take your ball and go home now? Lmao - May 27, 2011 at 1:42 PM
- Klepsacovic said...
@Imakulata: It is, which only helps to show the absurdity of opposition to cash shops. It's a double-standard that people use to hide their attraction to failure.
@Anonymous: Good point, some people wouldn't buy anything from cash shops because they clearly dislike success. - May 27, 2011 at 1:45 PM
- Anonymous said...
You work for a cash shop game in their manipulation dept? Just as they are interested in taking my money, I am interested in keeping it. It is really that simple - well for some of us. I do realize there are those opposed for other reasons. Maybe they are not so much opposed to success as much as they dont have the income for it.
- May 27, 2011 at 2:26 PM
- Klepsacovic said...
"Maybe they are not so much opposed to success as much as they dont have the income for it."
That's just fine, and so the rational response would be to not spend money in a shop. But opposing the existence of the shop is an opposition to success, it is them saying "Money should not matter." Which is a fundamentally anti-market, anti-success attitude. - May 27, 2011 at 2:34 PM
- Syl said...
I don't care for capitalism, as long as I get all the money.
(I just realize how very Swiss hat was of me, oh boy) - May 27, 2011 at 4:51 PM
- Gx1080 said...
Problem with your theory is that many, many "Free-to-Play" games tried to do that and they discovered that, well, there's isn't a point on playing a game if you can straight up buy power on said game.
So, is a short-term money grab, but online games are a long-term investment. Same with Life-time suscriptions.
Besides, is a lost of bragging rights about in-game skills. Which is one of the major hooks of online games, like it or not. - June 1, 2011 at 12:07 PM
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Pittsfield Police Investigating Armed Robbery
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Pittsfield Police Department is investigating an armed robbery that occurred at the Convenience Plus, located at 185 Linden St.
According to police, units were dispatched the location on Sunday, June 12, at approximately 2:59 p.m. in response to an alarm. Upon arrival, responding units were met by store employees who reported that the store had been robbed.
According to the clerks, an unidentified man approached the counter, apparently wanting to purchase an item. While the clerk was in the process of completing the transaction, the suspect displayed a handgun and started taking all of the money out of the cash register. After removing the money, the suspect exited the store and ran west on Linden Street.
The suspect was described as black, possibly in his 30s, approximately 6 feet tall, with black hair and a beard. The suspect was described as wearing all black, with black lettering on the top. The weapon was described as a black handgun.
Detective Diane Caccamo has been assigned as the lead investigator in this case. Anyone with any information about this incident is asked to contact the Detective Bureau at 413-448-9705.
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Four Arrested in MCLA Armed Robbery
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Investigators have made several arrests in connection with a home invasion and armed robbery that took place on the campus of the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in December.
Joshua E. Jadusingh, 18, of West Main Street, pleaded not guilty Friday morning in Northern Berkshire District court to single counts of home invasion and armed robbery. Judge Laurie MacLeod ordered that he be held at the Berkshire County House of Correction on $25,000 cash or $250,000 surety bail.
Jadusingh will be back in court for appointment of counsel on Jan. 24.
Police also arrested and charged a 15-year-old, whose identity was not released because of the individual's juvenile status, in connection with the incident.
The charges stem from a reported armed robbery at the one of the college's townhouse dormitories on the evening of Dec. 14, 2010. Campus, state and North Adams police were called to the scene but law enforcement authorities refused to provide further information on the incident although there was speculation drugs were involved.
Both arrests stem from search warrants executed at 3 Secor Ave. and 105 West Main St. late Thursday morning by state police detectives assigned to the district attorney's office, MCLA campus police, North Adams Police and members of the state police Violent Fugitive Apprehension section, Crime Scene Services and the Berkshire County Drug Task Force.
As a result of the execution of the search warrants items were seized from both locations.
Police say two other juveniles ages 15 and 16 were arrested in late December in connection with the robbery. The investigation is continuing and other arrests are possible.
Investigators are asking anyone who may have information about the robbery to call them at the MCLA Office of Public Safety at 413-662-5284.
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MCLA Investigates Armed Robbery
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — An armed robbery at one of the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts' Townhouse dormitories on Tuesday is under investigation.
The district attorney's office released a brief statement late Wednesday saying no one was hurt during the 6:30 p.m. robbery the day before. MCLA campus police and state police detectives assigned to the district attorney's office are requesting that anyone who was in the area at the time or who may have information about the incident contact the college's office of public safety at 413-662-5284.
Fred Lantz, spokesman for the district attorney's office, and Bernadette Lupo, MCLA's spokeswoman, both said they could not provide any additional information because the investigation was ongoing.
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Iconic pinup photographer and model Bunny Yeager dies at 85
Bunny Yeager, a model turned pin-up photographer who helped jump-start the career of then-unknown Bettie Page, died Sunday, her agent said. She was 85 years old. Yeager died at a North Miami hospice where she had been for about a week, her agent, Ed Christin said.
Yeager's legacy is her cultural impact, from pin-up photography and fashion, helping to popularize the bikini, and influencing other artists such as Cindy Sherman, who read Yeager's guides on photographing nudes and making self-portraits, Christin said. "Anyone in Miami in the 1950s who wanted a bikini would come to her, and she'd make one," he said.
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Yeager became famous for making everyday women, from stay-at-home mothers to airline attendants, feel comfortable enough to bare it all. Her photos of Page in a leopard-print bathing suit standing next to a real cheetah are still well-known today. "They all wanted to model for me because they knew that I wouldn't take advantage of them," Yeager told The Associated Press during a 2013 interview. "And I wouldn't push them to do nude if they didn't want to do nudes. It wasn't a day when nude photography was prevalent."
Linnea Eleanor Yeager was born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, on March 13, 1929, and in the 1940s became one of the most photographed models in Miami during her early career. She later turned the camera on herself, posing in bathing suits she handmade for her 5-foot-9 frame. Her self-portraits were turned into a book, "How I Photograph Myself," in 1964.
She began taking photos of Page in 1954 as she began her career behind the camera. She published about a dozen books and her work has been displayed in art galleries across the world. Besides the iconic Page photo, Yeager also shot stills of the Swedish actress Ursula Andress, who starred in the 1962 James Bond film "Dr. No" in a white bikini, a knife sheathed at her side.
Yeager said she had few requests when several magazines began to struggle or went out of business over the last decade, but her career returned to the spotlight in 2010 when the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh held an exhibition of her work. There was also an exhibition in Miami in 2013. "And I still get that little tingle when I see the photos on the wall," she said of the latter-day attention.
In her studio, Yeager kept a stash of photos no one had seen in cabinets. They will be included in a new book Yeager was finishing, scheduled for publication in September, celebrating the 60th anniversary of Yeager's first photo shoots with Page, Christin said. "I'm still feeling like a little child and excited over everything new that comes along in my life," Yeager said in 2013. "I don't know where it will lead to yet, but it sounds good to me."
Bunny Yeager was set to make a guest appearance at the past STC Miami seminar but due to her health issues it was not possible. She may be now gone, but never forgotten.
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Sarrita King was born in Adelaide, South Australia on the 5th March 1988. She is the younger sister to fellow artist, Tarisse King and daughter to the late highly regarded artist, William King Jungala (1966 – 2007).
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After 3 years living and painting in Canberra, Sarrita has returned back to Darwin, where she spent most of her childhood. At only 27, Sarrita King has many personal achievements but it is her desire to visually communicate her inspiration and the land, which keeps her ancestral narrative alive and provides a new way of looking back while looking forward.
• 2013, Channel 9 TV Show "The Block – All Stars". Large format "Earth Cycles" artwork purchased by Dan and Dani for the kitchen / dining area
• 2014, AFL Indigenous Round, Sarrita was commissioned by the North Melbourne Football Club to paint their 2014 Guernsey. It was so popular that the team wore it again the week after the Indigenous round.
Major Exhibitions
• Sarrita & Tarisse King, Japingka Gallery, Perth
• Sarrita King: Pop Art, Ngarru Gallery, Port Douglas
• The King Sisters: Pop Art, Red Desert Dreamings, Melbourne
• Artist in Residence, Ngarru Gallery, Port Douglas
• The King Sisters, Japingka Gallery, Perth
• Country of Kings, Red Desert Dreamings, Melbourne
• Art Expo, Singapore
• Collaboration, Gallery 577, Melbourne
• Aboriginal Art, Butler Goode Gallery, Sydney
• Contemporary Art, Art Curial, Paris
• Language of the Earth: Sarrita King, Japingka Gallery, Perth
• Connections , First Solo Exhibtion,(Gallery 577, Melbourne)
• Contemporary Auction, (Art Curial, France)
• Rising Stars, Tarisse & Sarrita King, Aboriginal Art Galleries, Sydney
• The King Sisters, Mason Art Gallery, Darwin
• In Our Father's Eyes: works by sisters Tarisse and Sarrita King, Aboriginal Dreamtime Art Gallery, Los Angeles
• Contemporary Auction, Art Curial, France
• Fire & Lightning: Sarrita &Tarisse King, Central Art, Alice Springs
• The King Sisters, Red Desert Dreaming Gallery, Hilton, South Melbourne
• Divas on the Cusp, Art on Hastings, Noosa Heads, Queensland
• Canterbury Art Exhibition, Canterbury, Victoria
• Art Curial Auction and Exhibition (Art Curial, France)
• William, Tarisse & Sarrita King, Aboriginal Art Galleries, Sydney
• Kaminabend mit Tarisse & Sarrita King, Aboriginal Art Galerie, Brit's Art, Übach-Palenberg, Germany
• The King Sisters, Blue Gum Gallery, QVB, Sydney
• The 3 Kings, Bennelong Gallery, Sydney
• The Three Kings, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
• The Kings, Firstlook Gallery, Melbourne
• The 3 Kings, Ulladulla Aboriginal Gallery, Sydney
• Aboriginal Art Auction, Customs House, Sydney
• Canterbury Art Exhibition, Canterbury, Victoria
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• Katherine Art Exhibition, Katherine, NT
• Jungarra Exhibition, Cairns, QLD
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A TV commercial for the skin-lightening product, Clean and Dry "Intimate Wash," promises Indian women protection, "fairness" and freshness down there.
The ad depicts an unsatisfied young wife concerned that her husband is more interested in his daily paper than in her, presumably — as the ad would have you believe — because her vagina is too dark. But after a quick wash with the pH-balanced skin-lightening cleanser, the couple is frolicking on the furniture with renewed lust.
Not surprisingly, the ad and the product have started a media storm both in India and in the U.S. Jezebel deemed the product "insane" and Mumbai Boss writer Deepanjana Pal noted:
It's interesting that according to the ads we see on TV, whitening is a problem that is increasingly faced by women who are modern and independent.
Nowadays, the person who needs fair skin is the woman who wants a job, the athlete who wins a tournament, the consummate professional that stands on her own two feet. The woman in a sari, on the other hand, appears in the advertisement for a moisturiser that promises softer skin. It's almost as though we're so uncomfortable with the idea of a liberated, independent woman that we feel the need to slip a few insecurities into her psyche. Preferably something that reminds a woman that no matter how short her shorts are or how good she is at her job, she is ultimately an object, something that men and other women see and judge.
(MORE: Why France Pays for Postpartum Women to "Re-Educate" their Vagina)
So it shouldn't be surprising that the vagina-whitening phenomenon is alive and well in the U.S. too. "The desire to lighten these areas is not limited to Indian women. There's quite a bit of demand for products like this in the U.S.," says Dr. Jessica Wu, a Los Angeles dermatologist and assistant clinical professor of dermatology at USC School of Medicine. "Many of my female patients ask me about lightening their private parts."
Wall Street Journal writer Rupa Subramanya reasoned that the intimate skin-lightening phenomenon in the U.S is simply a corollary of the larger fairer-is-better ethos. Indeed, data show that darker-skinned people do worse in the job market:
To round out this picture, Joni Hersch, a professor at Vanderbilt Law School, documents that the fairest skinned immigrants earn an average of 16-23% more than comparable immigrants with the darkest skin tone. This is over and above any difference due to education, ethnicity, race, or anything else which influences labor market outcomes. Her conclusion is that there's "persistent skin color discrimination" affecting immigrants in the U.S. labor market.
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The Clean and Dry ad director, Alyque Padamsee, thinks the media response is overreaction. He wrote: "It is hard to deny that fairness creams often get social commentators and activists all worked up. What they should do is take a deep breath and think again. Lipstick is used to make your lips redder, fairness cream is used to make you fairer — so what's the problem? … The only reason I can offer for why people like fairness, is this: if you have two beautiful girls, one of them fair and the other dark, you see the fair girl's features more clearly. This is because her complexion reflects more light."
Beyond exacerbating women's potential body image insecurities, skin-lightening products can be harmful to health if used in excess in the delicate genital area. For her patients, Dr. Wu recommends over-the-counter skin-brightening products containing botanical ingredients, and on occasion, prescription-strength hydroquinone — but not without caution.
"I warn patients that if they decide to use these products, they have not been tested on mucous membranes, which are more sensitive than the face and rest of the body, so they must use them sparingly, no more than a few times a week, and they must stop if there's any itching or irritation," says Wu. "Generally, brightening treatments made in the U.S. for over-the-counter use are safe to use as directed and in moderation. The problem is, some imported skin-lightening creams have been found to contain mercury, steroids and other potentially toxic ingredients." These products should be avoided, and Wu recommends that patients be wary of buying any such products online.
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This is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. I'm Michel Martin. Coming up, leading Republicans have been making news lately talking about outreach to African-Americans, Latinos, and LGBT voters, but what about women? They've also been trending Democrat for decades. We're going to speak with a diverse group of women writers and commentators about this. That's later in the program.
But first we want to talk about an issue that has bedeviled the Obama administration and the previous. It's the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. You may or may not know this, but it has been months since a large group of prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp began a hunger strike. This issue got renewed attention this week when the New York Times ran an op-ed from a prisoner who's been participating.
He writes, quote: I will not eat until they restore my dignity. But a new study from the bipartisan think tank the Constitution Project shows that Guantanamo is just one piece of a bigger puzzle. Their main finding is that since September 11, 2001, it is indisputable that the United States engaged in the practice of torture. We wanted to talk more about this and we're speaking with someone who finds himself at the apex of a number of important issues in public policy lately.
He's the co-chair of this study. He's the former Republican congressman Asa Hutchinson. He's also been in the news for his work on a school safety group sponsored by the NRA. So we hope we'll talk with him about that briefly as well. Thank you so much for joining us. Welcome.
ASA HUTCHINSON: Delighted to be with you, Michel.
MARTIN: Your study begins with a very bold - some might say damning - statement that it is indisputable that the United States engaged in torture. I know it's a complicated question. I know that you spent, what, two years working on this study, but if you could just give us the main points of how you arrived at that finding - and do you agree with it?
HUTCHINSON: I do agree with it and it's one of the most difficult studies I've engaged in, because of the topic of it and because of the fact that no one wants to point a finger at the United States of America and say that we made an error. And the fact is, though, that whenever you look at the conclusion that our personnel did engage in torture, that is not a passive conclusion.
It's not a subjective conclusion. This is based upon really the findings of court cases that have determined this conduct is torture. It's based upon our own State Department that has criticized other nations for engaging the same conduct and calling it torture in other nations. And it's based upon, you know, the standards that we have set, both the United States, by law, and in the international community.
MARTIN: Does the feeding tube issue constitute torture in your view? That's the issue that's before the public now, this question of force feeding prisoners who have been engaging in a hunger strike to protest their conditions and also in some cases to protest the fact that they're still there when they believe that it should have been proven by now that they don't belong there.
HUTCHINSON: Well, Dr. Thompson was part of the taskforce, an extraordinary medical expert. And this is - one of the findings relates to this. And I believe the language of the report is that was - it is certainly degrading. It is very harmful conduct, the way that we are treating in the forced feeding venue, and it is contrary to how our bureau of prisons handles those who are on hunger strike.
It is different than the international standards. And so it's very problematic and it's certainly subject to criticism under the report.
MARTIN: The report makes the case that a variety of factors caused prisoners to be treated the way they have been treated at Guantanamo, but I'd like to ask you what's your understanding of the primary reason for this? Is it that people are just not well versed on better methods of extracting information from people? Is it that some of these people really do not know anything and therefore would never be able to provide useful information? Was it vengeance?
HUTCHINSON: Well, no - clearly, and that's very important to emphasize, because I was present in the post-9/11 environment and the whole motivation of our leaders, the motivation of our men and women in uniform and the CIA, was to prevent another attack. That is the entire motivation. And so we, as someone said, took the gloves off. And that word went down the chain. And whenever the leaders say take the gloves off, it is applied in many different ways.
And then you've got the lawyers who says, well, these methods of interrogation - they called them enhanced interrogation - is acceptable and - but the way that it was applied was maybe different than how it was represented. And in the application of it, it clearly constituted torture. So the motivation was obviously to extract information.
But what you're neglecting in the course of that is that we have tried and true means of extracting information and that is through usual interrogation methods that have proven successful. Secondly, people say, well, we did get information but you also got false information. So you can have the efficacy debate. For me personally, I come back to the fact that that's against the character of our nation and what we stand for.
MARTIN: Well, speaking of the other question that the report says is against the character of our nation, the detainee who wrote the New York Times op-ed that I think many people will have read by now, if they're not familiar with any other aspect of this debate, he's been held for 11 years. He's 35 years old now. So he's been locked up since his mid-20s. He says that there's just - he went to Afghanistan looking for work.
And he says there's never been any credible evidence that he belonged there. Your report says that, quote, Although never stated explicitly, senior officials thought it better to detain any number of innocent people than to run the risk of setting free anyone who might be a threat. And the report says that this turns the traditional notion of justice on its head, at least justice as it's understood by the people of the United States. So what should happen now?
HUTCHINSON: We've got a problem. I mean, here you've got someone who's been there 11 years. Charges have not been filed. They have - we're having a hard time finding another nation to accept these individuals. So what do you do with them? And, you know, generally whenever you have a conclusion of combat under the usual rules of war, you return them, you release them.
But we have different rules on the war on terrorism. But it's fundamental that you don't detain people indefinitely and forever without giving them an opportunity to confront charges against them. Part of our report - I actually did interviews myself. And I met with two former detainees of Guantanamo that really have a very similar story to the gentleman who wrote the op-ed.
And they wanted a day in court. They wanted to be able to confront charges against them. Ultimately they were released after a couple years without any charges being filed. And they actually understood that in a war environment you do arrest people. You seize people that you're not sure of their level of culpability, but the system usually works its way out so that eventually someone will make a decision there's nothing here, there's no evidence, let's let him go. And that decision-making process in some instances broke down.
MARTIN: If you're just joining us, we're speaking with Asa Hutchinson. He is a former congressman from Arkansas. He's the co-chair of a recent study detailing conditions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. So what should happen now, Congressman? And I'm wondering how you want the American people to receive this information. There have been people for years saying that this institution is a blight upon our good name as a people.
There are other people who feel that it was just a necessary, if flawed, response to some terrible circumstances. What should we feel about this? As well as what should we do.
HUTCHINSON: Well, first you have some very bad people there and - in Guantanamo Bay, and they need to be tried. They need to be brought before a military commission. They need to be addressed. And if they have - are convicted, they need to stay incarcerated for - forever. But there's others that there's not sufficient evidence to charge or there is simply no place to return them. We have to work harder, this administration needs to work harder, to find places to return them, to their home country or to someone that will accept them.
That's an important criteria to reduce the population in Guantanamo Bay. Secondly, you've got to bring them before an Article III court or you've got to bring them before a military commission. That needs to be done and that's the findings of the taskforce. And so that's the process that needs to - we need to go through.
MARTIN: Forgive me for asking it this way, but I don't know how else to ask it. There have been times when our national leaders have apologized to citizens of this country, citizens of other countries, for wrongs that have been done in the name of the American people. Is this an occasion that calls for that?
HUTCHINSON: Well, I think the most important thing is that we're honest with ourselves and that we learn from any mistakes that have been made and that's the purpose of this report. It's not an apology. It is a statement of what we believe are incontrovertible facts and that it's important that we as a nation understand those facts, so that's the purpose of it.
As to how our policymakers act upon that is a different issue, and certainly, though, I hope we learn from this. You look back on World War II. Whenever we incarcerated Japanese-Americans, at the time, it seemed the right and good thing to do, but in hindsight it doesn't look very pretty and I think we need to learn from any mistakes that we've made.
MARTIN: But in the time that we have left, I mentioned that you find yourself at the apex of another very important story, coincidentally, I would imagine, because you've been working on this matter, the Guantanamo matter, for two years now. Right? And...
HUTCHINSON: Correct.
MARTIN: You also are the director of the National School Shield Taskforce, which was a group put together by the NRA in response to the terrible shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. That study caused a lot of controversy because it calls for armed guards in schools. This recommends a number of things, like allowing non-law enforcement officials to enter schools armed. This would be up to local restrictions, presumably. But can I talk to you about that? I mean many people just find...
HUTCHINSON: Sure.
MARTIN: ...the notion - if you don't mind my saying - ridiculous, particularly to a person, the people who had the major educational associations, the people who represent the teachers, find this ridiculous.
HUTCHINSON: Well, I hope they'll read the report. And let me make a couple of points. I mean, first of all, I don't believe teachers should be armed. Teachers should teach and others should protect. But yes - there should be someone in every school that has a capability of taking down an armed assailant that's going to hurt the students. We have school resource officers now, but some schools cannot afford that and so we're recommending a very extensive 40 to 50 hours of training, very similar to what a law enforcement person would receive, except it's for the delicate school environment, and so that there can be some protection there.
And I would encourage people, one, to read the report, and secondly, this is all about what the local school district decides. Nothing's a mandate. We're providing them more in additional tools that they can use to protect children, but it's up to every school district and leadership as to what they're going to do. These are our recommendations.
MARTIN: We are speaking with former Arkansas Congressman Asa Hutchinson. He is a Republican. He co-chaired a new study by the nonpartisan group the Constitution Project that examined the treatment of detainees worldwide. He also directed the National School Shield Taskforce that was funded by the NRA. We're asking him about the study that that group put out as well. I'd like to ask you to please stay with us as we take a short break. You're listening to TELL ME MORE from NPR News. I'm Michel Martin. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Democratic legislators put forth pre-K program and funding
Hartford — Democratic leadership announced a proposal Wednesday to spend $200 million over 10 years on enhancing pre-kindergarten programs at public schools throughout the state.
Half of the funds would come from bonding and half from the state's Tobacco and Health Trust Fund, which was created after a 1998 settlement with the tobacco industry over health risks associated with smoking.
The initiative, called Connecticut Smart Start, would give 50,000 children access to high-quality early education with the goal of closing the so-called achievement gap that leaves many children at an educational disadvantage.
"We know that the earlier we can get children, the better," said Karen List, superintendent of West Hartford Public Schools. "We know that the achievement gap starts at nine months old."
Public school professionals spoke of children who showed up on the first day of kindergarten full of joy and ready to learn only to feel humiliated because they are missing basic knowledge, such as how a book opens right to left.
This investment would help prepare more children for grade school, they said.
Towns and cities would have to apply for the funding to operate programs for five years, with the chance for renewal for an additional five years if benchmarks are met.
Municipalities would have to demonstrate an unmet need for preschool and show that they would give priority to students who are eligible for free and reduced-price lunch. Teachers would have to be certified and the preschool programs would have to obtain the National Association for the Education of Young Children accreditation within three years of receiving funding. The classroom size must also not exceed 16 children.
The funds could be used for capital costs such as classroom renovation, operating expenses such as hiring teachers and purchasing supplies and materials.
The program would build on the governor's proposed initiative to create 4,000 pre-K slots for children over five years at a cost of $51.1 million.
"This is an opportunity not just to improve children's education as they go through life but to lift them out of the achievement gap to give them a far better start so down the road we are lifting many of them out of poverty as well," said state Sen. Andrea Stillman, D-Waterford.
Senate President Pro Tempore Donald Williams, D-Brooklyn, said the proposal was the opportunity that Connecticut's children needed.
"Children who experience high-quality pre-K arrive at school ready to learn, are less likely to need remedial or special education services and have higher rates of high school graduation. Connecticut Smart Start will help level the playing field for tens of thousands of children — it's the best educational investment we can make."
State Rep. Andy Fleischmann, who is the co-chairman with Stillman on the Education Committee, thanked Stillman and Williams for leaving a legacy of supporting children's education. Both are not seeking re-election.
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IntroductionConstructionOperationsIcon Minimising an application to the system trayDefault message handlingExample of useNOTE on TrackPopupMenuHistoryLatest
CSystemTray is a conglomeration of ideas from the MSJ "Webster" application, sniffing round the online docs, from other implementations such as PJ Naughter's "CTrayNotifyIcon" ( http://indigo.ie/~pjn/ntray.html), and from the many contributions from other developers.
This class is a light wrapper around the windows system tray stuff. It adds an icon to the system tray with the specified ToolTip text and callback notification value, which is sent back to the Parent window.
The Old way:
The basic steps to using a tray icon via the windows API are:
Shell_NotifyIcon(NIM_ADD, &MyTrayNotifyStruct)
Changing the values of the fields in NOTIFYICONDATA and calling Shell_NotifyIcon allows you to change to icon or tool tip text or remove the icon itelf. All this messing around has been bundled in a class wrapper to make it easier and neater.
The Better way
The simpler way to add an icon to the system tray is to create an object of type CSystemTray either as a member variable or dynamically. Two forms of the constructor allow the programmer to insert the icon into the tray as the CSystemTray object is created, or by using the member function CSystemTray::Create. eg.
CSystemTray m_TrayIcon; // Member variable of some class ... // in some member function maybe... m_TrayIcon.Create(pParentWnd, WM_MY_NOTIFY, "Click here", hIcon, nTrayIconID);
This will insert an icon in the system tray. See the following section for details.
There are two forms of the class: MFC and Non-MFC. They are in the SystemTray.* and SystemTraySDK.* files respectively. The MFC version has been written to use MFC classes (CWnd etc) whereas the non-MFC will use HWND's. I may in future revise this so they both use HWND's for optimum compatibility.
Both classes have essentially the same functionality, excepting that the non-MFC version only supports a single tray icon per application. Because the non-MFC version is not derived from CWnd you need to be careful about the window you choose to receive the icon messages. If you set the parent of the icon as NULL, then the tray icon will handle it's own tray notification messages - but will also try and handle the menu commands sent from the context menu for the icon. To get around this you need to either:
Eg. For a non-MFC tray icon, do the following:
CSystemTray m_TrayIcon; // Member variable of some class ... // in some member function maybe... m_TrayIcon.Create(hInstance, NULL, WM_MY_NOTIFY, "Click here", hIcon, nID); // Send all menu messages to hMyMainWindow m_TrayIcon.SetTargetWnd(hMyMainWindow);
CSystemTray(); CSystemTray(CWnd* pWnd, UINT uCallbackMessage, LPCTSTR szToolTip, HICON icon, UINT uID, BOOL bHidden = FALSE, LPCTSTR szBalloonTip = NULL, LPCTSTR szBalloonTitle = NULL, DWORD dwBalloonIcon = NIIF_NONE, UINT uBalloonTimeout = 10); BOOL Create(CWnd* pWnd, UINT uCallbackMessage, LPCTSTR szToolTip, HICON icon, UINT uID, BOOL bHidden = FALSE, LPCTSTR szBalloonTip = NULL, LPCTSTR szBalloonTitle = NULL, DWORD dwBalloonIcon = NIIF_NONE, UINT uBalloonTimeout = 10);
The non-MFC version includes an additional parameter (parameter 1) that represents the applications instance handle.
Note that the destructor automatically removes the icon from the tray.
If the pWnd parameter is NULL then the function CSystemTray::OnTrayNotification will be called whenever the icon sends a notification message. See Default message handling for more details.
LRESULT OnTrayNotification(WPARAM wID, LPARAM lEvent) // Discussed below void MoveToRight() // Moves the icon to the far right of the tray, // so it is immediately to the left of the clock void HideIcon() // Hides but does not totally remove the icon // from the tray. void RemoveIcon() // Removes the icon from the tray (icon can no // longer be manipulated) void ShowIcon() // Redisplays a previously hidden icon void AddIcon() // Adds the icon to the tray void SetFocus( // Sets the focus to the icon (Win2000 only) BOOL ShowBalloon(LPCTSTR szText, // Shows the balloon tip (Win2000 only) LPCTSTR szTitle = NULL, DWORD dwIcon = NIIF_NONE, UINT uTimeout = 10); BOOL SetTooltipText(LPCTSTR pszTip) // Set Tooltip text BOOL SetTooltipText(UINT nID) // Set tooltip from text resource ID CString GetTooltipText() const // Retrieve tool tip text BOOL SetNotificationWnd(CWnd* pWnd) // Self explanatory CWnd* GetNotificationWnd() const BOOL SetTargetWnd(CWnd* pTargetWnd);// Change or retrieve the window to CWnd* GetTargetWnd() const; // send menu commands to BOOL SetCallbackMessage(UINT uCallbackMessage) // Self explanatory UINT GetCallbackMessage() const; HICON GetIcon() const // Get current tray icon BOOL SetIcon(HICON hIcon) // Change tray icon. Returns FALSE // if unsuccessful BOOL SetIcon(LPCTSTR lpszIconName) // Same, using name of the icon resource BOOL SetIcon(UINT nIDResource) // Same, using icon resource ID BOOL SetStandardIcon(LPCTSTR lpIconName) // Load icon from the BOOL SetStandardIcon(UINT nIDResource) // current application // Set list of icons for animation BOOL SetIconList(UINT uFirstIconID, UINT uLastIconID); BOOL SetIconList(HICON* pHIconList, UINT nNumIcons); // Start animation BOOL Animate(UINT nDelayMilliSeconds, int nNumSeconds = -1); BOOL StepAnimation(); // Step to next icon BOOL StopAnimation(); // Stop animation BOOL SetMenuDefaultItem(UINT uItem, BOOL bByPos); // Set default menu item void GetMenuDefaultItem(UINT& uItem, BOOL& bByPos); // Get default menu item static void MinimiseToTray(CWnd* pWnd); static void MaximiseFromTray(CWnd* pWnd, CRect rectTo); static void MaximiseFromTray(CWnd* pWnd, LPCREATESTRUCT lpCreateStruct); virtual void CustomizeMenu(CMenu*) // Customise the context menu before it's // displayed
SetStandardIcon can also take any of the following values (not available in WinCE):
The default CSystemTray message notification handler searches and displays the menu with the same ID as the tray icon. If you use this default handler then you can set the default menu item using SetMenuDefaultItem. The parameters uItem and bByPos are the same as those used in ::SetMenuDefaultItem.
The default menu item code was contributed by Enrico Lelina.
Two functions have been provided to allow you to easily "minimise" an application to the system tray:
static void MinimiseToTray(CWnd* pWnd); static void MaximiseFromTray(CWnd* pWnd);
where pWnd is the window to minimise or maximise (usually your main application window).
"Minimising to the system tray" means that the applications main window is minimised using the DrawAnimatedRects function to make it appear that it is collapsing into the system tray. The main applications window is then made invisible and the applications icon is removed from the task bar. To minimise an application to the system tray simply call MinimiseToTray. System tray minimisation was inspired by Santosh Rao.
If an application has been minimised to the tray, then it can be maximised again by calling MaximiseFromTray. For example, if you have a CDialog derived class that you display in response to a user double-clicking on the tray icon (or selecting a menu item from the popup menu), then override the OnDestroy and OnShowWindow functions in your CDialog class and add the following lines:
void CMyDialog::OnDestroy() { CDialog::OnDestroy(); CSystemTray::MinimiseToTray(this); } void CMyDialog::OnShowWindow(BOOL bShow, UINT nStatus) { CDialog::OnShowWindow(bShow, nStatus); if (bShow) CSystemTray::MaximiseFromTray(this); }
Icon animation can be achieved by specifying a list of icons using SetIconList(...), with either a range of icon resource IDs, or an array of HICONs and the size of the array. and calling Animate(UINT nDelayMilliSeconds, int nNumSeconds). The first parameter is the delay in milliseconds between each animation frame, and the second is the numer of seconds for which to animate the icon. If -1 is specified then animation will continue until StopAnimation() is called. Icon animation was suggested by Joerg Koenig.
Animate(UINT nDelayMilliSeconds, int nNumSeconds)
The parent window, on receiving a notification message, can redirect this message back to the tray icon for handling by calling CSystemTray::OnTrayNotification(...). Alternatively, if the CSystemTray object was created with a NULL parent, then this function will be called whenver the icon sends a notification. The default implementation tries to find a menu with the same resource ID as the tray icon. If it finds a menu and the event received was a right mouse button up, then the submenu is displayed as a context menu. If a double click was received, then the message ID of first item in the submenu is sent back to the parent window.
The new balloon tips rely on Shell32.dll to be version 5.0 or later, and for the the _WIN32_IE to be defined as 0x0500 or higher in your source code. There are two approaches you can use:
#define _WIN32_IE 0x0500
Use the DllGetVersion function to determine which Shell32.dll version is installed on the system. If it is version 5.0 or greater, initialize the cbSize member with: nid.cbSize = sizeof(NOTIFYICONDATA); Setting cbSize to this value enables all the version 5.0 and 6.0 enhancements. For earlier versions, the size of the pre-6.0structure is given by the NOTIFYICONDATA_V2_SIZE constant and the pre-5.0 structure is given by the NOTIFYICONDATA_V1_SIZE constant. Initialize the cbSize member with: nid.cbSize = NOTIFYICONDATA_V2_SIZE; Using this value for cbSize will allow your application to use NOTIFYICONDATA with earlier Shell32.dll versions, although without the version 6.0 enhancements.
Use the DllGetVersion function to determine which Shell32.dll version is installed on the system. If it is version 5.0 or greater, initialize the cbSize member with:
nid.cbSize = sizeof(NOTIFYICONDATA);
Setting cbSize to this value enables all the version 5.0 and 6.0 enhancements. For earlier versions, the size of the pre-6.0structure is given by the NOTIFYICONDATA_V2_SIZE constant and the pre-5.0 structure is given by the NOTIFYICONDATA_V1_SIZE constant. Initialize the cbSize member with:
nid.cbSize = NOTIFYICONDATA_V2_SIZE;
Using this value for cbSize will allow your application to use NOTIFYICONDATA with earlier Shell32.dll versions, although without the version 6.0 enhancements.
I currently use the lazy method. There is a define ASSUME_IE5_OR_ABOVE in the system tray header that determines whether or not version 5.0 or above should be assumed present. Comment this out for applications targeting Shell32.dll versions less than 5.0.
A good place to declare the tray icon is in your CFrameWnd derived class.eg.
#define WM_ICON_NOTIFY WM_APP+10 CSystemTray m_TrayIcon
Add a message map entry for the tray icon notification:
BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CMainFrame, CFrameWnd) ... ON_MESSAGE(WM_ICON_NOTIFY, OnTrayNotification) END_MESSAGE_MAP()
Create the icon (maybe in your OnCreate):
if (!m_TrayIcon.Create(this, WM_ICON_NOTIFY, strToolTip, hIcon, IDR_POPUP_MENU)) return -1;
where IDR_POPUP_MENU is the ID of a popup menu to display for the icon. You then need a handler for the tray icon notification message:
LRESULT CMainFrame::OnTrayNotification(WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam) { // Delegate all the work back to the default // implementation in CSystemTray. return m_TrayIcon.OnTrayNotification(wParam, lParam); }
The menu used (IDR_POPUP_MENU) looks like the following:
IDR_POPUP_MENU MENU PRELOAD DISCARDABLE BEGIN POPUP "POPUP_MENU" BEGIN MENUITEM "&About...", ID_APP_ABOUT MENUITEM SEPARATOR MENUITEM "&Options...", ID_APP_OPTIONS MENUITEM SEPARATOR MENUITEM "E&xit", ID_APP_EXIT END END
A single right click on the tray icon will bring up this menu, while a double click will send a ID_APP_ABOUT message back to the frame. (Note that in CE, ALT+Left button will bring up the menu, and ALT+Double Click will perform the default action).
Alternatively, you can m_TrayIcon.Create(NULL, ...) and leave out the message map entry for WM_ICON_NOTIFY. The default implementation of CSystemTray will take care of the rest.
m_TrayIcon.Create(NULL, ...)
Many people have had troubles using TrackPopupMenu. They have reported that the popup menu will often not disappear once the mouse is clicked outside of the menu, even though they have set the last parameter of TrackPopupMenu() as NULL. This is a Microsoft "feature", and is by design. The mind boggles, doesn't it?
Anyway - to workaround this "feature", one must set the current window as the foreground window before calling TrackPopupMenu. This then causes a second problem - namely that the next time the menu is displayed it displays then immediately disappears. To fix this problem, you must make the currernt application active after the menu disappears. This can be done by sending a benign message such as WM_NULL to the current window.
So - what should have been a simple:
TrackPopupMenu(hSubMenu, TPM_RIGHTBUTTON, pt.x,pt.y, 0, hDlg, NULL);
SetForegroundWindow(hDlg); TrackPopupMenu(hSubMenu, TPM_RIGHTBUTTON, pt.x,pt.y, 0, hDlg, NULL); PostMessage(hDlg, WM_NULL, 0, 0);
Refer to KB article "PRB: Menus for Notification Icons Don't Work Correctly" for more info.
I updated the class so it would work in CE. A CE demo project is now included.
Thomas Mooney helped make changes that allows the class to be used in an NT service. The problem occured when using CSystemTray in an application that runs as a service on NT. When NT starts, the application starts. Trouble is, there is no taskbar, no system tray, nowhere to put the icon until someone has logged on. This has been fixed.
Michael Dun added Windows 2000 support - namely those way cool balloon tips.
The class now supports the new Windows2000 features, as well as CE (including popup menus from the tray). Two new functions for minimising an application to the system tray have also been added.
21 Sep 2000 - Matthew Ellis has improved the minimise-to-tray functionality by providing an improved version of the GetTrayWndRect function that searches for the location of the system tray. He has also provided a function GetDoWndAnimation that checks if the system has been set to show window animation (for minimise/maximise), and if not, no animation will be shown.
There is also a non-MFC version.
Håkan Trygg has updated the class with the following:
Instead of always sending the menu messages to the Main window (AfxMainWnd) they get sent to another, specified window. It's called the target window. If there is no specified window then AfxMainWnd is used.
The new functions are
BOOL SetTargetWnd(CWnd* pTargetWnd); CWnd* GetTargetWnd() const;
Also: the creation flags of the tray icon are saved so that if the icon needs to be recreated (settings change, taskbar recreated etc) then the icon will be created properly.
16 Jun 2002 Added the ASSUME_IE5_OR_ABOVE define and fixed VC 7.0 compile errors.
3 Aug 2003 - added a bunch of small fixes as well as the CustomizeMenu method. Thanks to Anton Treskunov for this and the fixes.
BOOL SetMenuText(UINT uiCmd, LPCTSTR szText); BOOL SetMenuText(UINT uiCmd, UINT uiID); BOOL CheckMenuItem(UINT uiCmd, BOOL bCheck); BOOL EnableMenuItem(UINT uiCmd, BOOL bEnable); BOOL DeleteMenu(UINT uiCmd);
The updated class files can be downloaded here. They have not been merged into the main class yet simply becuase I haven't had time to test - but I felt them important enough that I didn't want to delay making them available.
This article, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)
BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CMyDlg, CDialog)
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MENLO PARK (AP) — Facebook is trying to make its privacy controls easier to find and understand in an effort to turn the world's largest social network in to a more discreet place.
The fine-tuning announced Wednesday will include several revisions that will start rolling out to Facebook's more than 1 billion users during the next few weeks and continue into early next year.
The most visible, and perhaps most appreciated, change will be a new "privacy shortcuts" section that appears as a tiny lock on the right-hand side at the top of people's news feeds. This feature offers a drop-down box where users can get answers to common questions such as "Who can see my stuff?" and "How do I stop someone from bothering me?"
Other updates will include a tool that enables individuals to review all the publicly available pictures identifying them on Facebook and suggestions on how to request that an embarrassing or unflattering photograph be removed. Facebook also plans to plant a privacy education page at the top of its users' news feeds within the next month or so to help them better manage their online identities.
This marks the most extensive overhaul of Facebook's privacy controls in about 15 months.
The new controls are an implicit acknowledgement by Facebook that the nearly 9-year-old service hasn't always done the best job providing its users with easily accessible ways to corral the information and photos being posted on the website.
Facebook's critics suspect the social network deliberately obfuscated its privacy controls as part of a scheme to expose as much personal information as possible to help the company attract more advertisers.
But that has never been the case, according to Samuel Lessin, Facebook's director of product management. "Our number one priority is to not surprise users with our controls," he said.
Facebook Inc., which is based in Menlo Park, Calif., began paying more attention to its privacy controls and reputation as it matured into one of the world's best-known companies. The scrutiny has intensified since Facebook became a publicly traded company seven months ago.
Some of the upcoming changes reflect Facebook's ambition to establish its website as a digital scrapbook that will contain key moments spanning many decades of its users' lives.
The new photo-reviewing tool is designed to make it easier for someone to flag old pictures that might not seem as cool as they once did. For instance, a Facebook user who didn't mind being shown quaffing beer from a keg as an 18-year-old in college might not feel comfortable having that image publicly available as a 30-year-old looking for a job or starting a family.
Facebook rarely will remove a photo on its own, but one of its new features helps users ask a friend who posted the image to take it down.
Facebook is reshuffling its privacy controls the same week that it revoked its users' right to vote on changes to the social network's privacy policies. Lessin said the timing is purely coincidental.


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I have a new found appreciation for cooking meats in sauces as the sauce helps keep the meat nice and moist and it also infuses the meat with its flavours as it cooks. The meats juices also drip directly into the sauce further enhancing the sauces flavour. It's a win win scenario that results in tons of flavour!
I while ago I came across this recipe for fish a la spetsiota or fish done in the style of Spetses, on kalofagas.ca which caught my attention because the fish is baked in a tomato sauce. The tomato sauce sounded nice and simple and I knew that after cooking with the fish they would both be wonderfully tasty! Topping the fish with bread crumbs also sounded good, though I could not help myself and I added some cheese in the form of grated parmigiano reggiano. I used some stale whole grained bread that I toasted and processed in a food processor for the bread crumbs for some extra texture.
While cleaning out my freezer recently I came across some basil pesto. I had made a bunch of the pesto in the summer when the basil was plentiful and I had frozen the extras to enjoy during the winter. I thought that serving the fish covered in the tasty tomato sauce on a bed of basil pesto rice would be nice and I decided to finish the meal off with some steamed spinach.
The fish a la spetsiota turned out really well! The sole fillets were nice and moist and so full of flavour! The bread crumb and parmigiano reggiano really finished the fish in tomato sauce off nicely. The spinach and basil pesto rice soaked up any excess sauce meaning that there was never a dull moment in the meal. I will definitely be making this again!
Fish a la Spetsiota
- 4 fish fillets (rinsed and pat dry, I used sole fillets)
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 1/2 cup canned plum tomatoes and their juice
- 4 cloves garlic
- 1/4 cup parsley
- 1 teaspoon oregano
- 1/2 cup dry white wine (optional)
- 1/2 cup breadcrumbs
- 1/2 cup parmigiano reggiano (grated)
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- Season the fish with salt and pepper and let them stand for 20-30 minutes.
- Mix the tomatoes, garlic, parsley, oregano and wine in a food processor and let stand for 20-30 minutes.
- Grease the bottom of a baking dish with the oil.
- Spread half of the tomato sauce over the bottom of the baking pan.
- Place the fish in the baking pan and cover with the remaining tomato sauce.
- Sprinkle the bread crumbs and parmigiano reggiano over the top.
- Bake in a preheated 375F/190C oven the sauce thickens and the top is golden brown.


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When you check Dodge Spirit car engine light came on code U1112 the reason should be Engine Light ON (or Service Engine Soon Warning Light). However Dodge manufacturer may have a different definition for the U1112 OBD-II Diagnostic Network (U) Trouble Code. So you should chech it on our car models.
U1112 Dodge Spirit engine diagnostic code is about in terms of how often you should get your tyres rotated, it's different for every vehicle and type of tyre, but having them rotated at every oil change is a good rule of thumb. Check with the tyre manufacturer for a more specific time frame. Remember that the more often you rotate your tyres, the more evenly they'll wear, and when you have the tyres rotated, you should also get them checked for balance and alignment.
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The Clemson University Department of Athletics strives to be an elite Division I institution in providing support to all areas of the student-athlete experience.
With an emphasis on academic, athletic, personal, professional, and social development and excellence, the Athletic Department will provide the support, environment and infrastructure to promote the mission of Clemson University.
1. Recruit and attract gifted individuals to best represent the University, who allow our teams to compete nationally both in the classroom and on the field.
2. Maintain a true commitment to enforcing the rules of the NCAA, ACC and Clemson University; and be fully accountable at every level as we promote success both on and off the field.
3. Provide each student-athlete with the appropriate academic resources to enable them to pursue and achieve their Clemson University degree and prepare them for their career after graduation.
4. Support the welfare and development of the student-athlete personally, professionally and socially through an integrated system of care and support through providing relevant, state-of-the-art, targeted programs, services, and guiding principles.
5. Embrace the diversity of our student-athletes, coaches and administrators by fostering a respectful culture that utilizes and celebrates those differences to achieve great success.
6. Recruit, develop, and retain a diverse staff committed to the growth of the student-athlete as a person, student, and athlete.
7. Create an exciting, fun, family atmosphere for fans and alumni to experience the best of Clemson University and support current student-athletes.
8. Expand and enhance athletic facilities which serve Clemson student-athletes and coaches developmental needs while creating unforgettable experiences for our fans.
9. Provide private financial support, through IPTAY and its over 15,000 members to fund the cost of athletic scholarships, academic support services, and facilities (both new and renovated).
10. Promote fellowship through the Tiger Letterwinners Association of all former student-athletes and recognize their accomplishments and contributions to Clemson Athletics.


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Huawei MediaPad T1- 701U Display Light Solution
Huawei MediaPad T1- 701U Display Light Solution LCD Jumper Problem Ways
If lcd light is not working in Huawei MediaPad T1- 701U, then we will not be able to watch any text on display.light may be low or may be blank. Huawei MediaPad T1- 701U LCD Display Light IC Solution Jumper Problem The ways can be solved In a few steps as stated in this post.
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Replace led if it is an lcd jack and if it is pasted then after removing check its prints value. Is the value is ok then replace lcd and if value is missing then check integer components like shown in diagram .check above all the paths and if one tracks of them are missing apply jumpers.
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I do not visit the huge hypermarket at our shopping mall very often. Most of the produce comes either from my organic store or my CSS box, while cheese, meat and other items on my grocery list are picked up at a smaller grocery store. However, recently I have been making regular trips to the hypermarket to get my hands on a very fine delicacy I first discovered on my travels to Norway last summer.
I chanced upon it quite by fluke and very unexpectedly here in Weimar. In need of a few specific items for our Christmas dinner, I made my way to the hypermarket. It was not packed as it usually is so I decided to take my time and ambled over to the cheesemonger. Usually they have a nice variety of cheese from all over the world and Tom and I always like to enjoy a selection of cheese with crackers as an after dinner treat on the weekend with a bottle of Tom's latest wine discovery.
My heart skipped a beat as I looked into the vitrine. It certainly stood out from the rest of the cheeses on display, with its deep caramel color. There was no doubt in my head, it had to be the delightful brown cheese from Norway.
Feeling extremely elated at having found Brunost in Weimar, I dropped all my shopping bags on the kitchen floor. Unwrapping the waxed paper carefully as if the contents were treasured jewels, I sliced a piece from the small block and savored the melting moment.
Brunost, which literally means brown cheese, is a Norwegian phenomenon and I am not exaggerating the truth one bit. The cheese is very much an icon in Norway and belongs to the country's rich heritage. And finally, it seems that the rest of the world has discovered a taste for this slightly unusual brown cheese.
What is Brunost exactly?
Although labeled a "cheese", technically speaking it is not a cheese. While cheesemaking all over the world consists of separating the curds from the whey, and making some type of cheese from the curds, in Norway the whey is used to make Brunost. Traditionally, the whey of goat milk was used to make Brunost, however nowadays you will find a mixture of goat or cow milk and cream added to the whey.
The mixture is simmered and stirred for hours and as water begins to evaporate, the milk mixture thickens. The long hours of simmering and stirring also causes one of the most vital processes to take place, which is responsible for the distinct flavor and color of Brunost. The lactose sugars in the milk caramelize and turn the whey slightly brown. Eventually the mixture becomes a light brown paste, which is then removed from the heat and stirred continuously until the paste has cooled. Finally it is poured into rectangular or round moulds, allowed to set and then unmolded. Brunost needs absolutely no aging and is ready to be enjoyed as soon as it is unmolded.
A bit of Brunost History
For centuries, Norwegian farmers have made a variety of cheeses from cow and goat milk, using the leftover whey to produce several other food products. It is said that the initial creation of Brunost cheese is attributed to an Anne Haav, who worked in a creamery in the Gudbrands valley in Norway. In the summer of 1863, she experimented by adding cream to cow milk whey before bringing the whey to a boil. She ended up with a brown cheese, which was the most basic type of brown cheese and simply called Mysost, "whey cheese". As this product won in popularity, farmers used the same method using goat milk instead, as rearing goats was easier in the mountainous regions of Norway.
How does Brunost taste?
The distinct flavor of Brunost comes from the caramelizing of the lactose sugars. If you are expecting the typical cheese-y flavor you're in for a surprise. It has a wonderful sweet, slightly salty note to it, with an exceptional hint of caramel. The goat milk adds another incomparable taste level, which might take a little getting used to. Think of salted dulche de leche fudge made with goat milk. True, to some this idea might distort the entire conception of cheese, but remember, technically we're not talking about cheese.
Although the texture of Brunost is cheese-like, it is much stickier than most other real cheeses due to the high sugar content. That is probably why using a cheese plane is always recommended when slicing Brunost, as one would only get large chunky slices if a knife was used (this mind you does not bother me in the slightest).
Brunost offers a complex layers of flavors and provides a fantastic basis for several experiments. In Norway it is enjoyed with the famous sour cream waffles called Rømmevafler, or simply on a slice of buttered bread. A magnificent tip from Nordic Nibbler was to add slices of Brunost to the gravy for my roast beef - explosive! My favorite way is to enjoy it on simple spelt and sesame crackers with a few crunchy grapes.
There are many variations of Brunost, which is the generic name for the different of types of products available on the market today. Some of the main types are:
Ekte Geitost: is made with the whey, milk and cream of goats. It has the most distinct and pronounced flavor compared to other Brunost varieties. Ekte Geitost literally means Real Goat Cheese.
Fløtemysost: is milder in taste than both the Ekte Geitost and Gudbrandsdalsost. It is made from the whey, milk and cream of cows.
Gudbrandsdalsost: is named after the valley in Norway where it was first produced. It mainly uses whey, milk and cream from cows, with the addition of goat milk.
In North America one can find Brunost under the name Gjetost and I am told is quite readily available in the supermarkets. In the UK Ski Queen is the well known brand selling the cheese, whereas in Germany you will find the brands, Norgold and Gudbrandsdalen available at the larger supermarkets.
I would not be inquisitive me if I did not take this cheese and use it for a special experiment. The results of the experiment will be revealed soon!
Next week I'll take you on a lovely virtual trip through Vienna with me. Hope you'll join me then. Have a great week and weekend.
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Police in Central America have identified hundreds of cars as potentially stolen after conducting universal checks of their national car registration databases against INTERPOL's database of stolen motor vehicles.
More than 4 million searches have been performed during the first phase of Operation 'Huracan'. The hits underscore the global nature of vehicle trafficking, with more than 650 positive matches so far between cars reported stolen in the Americas, Asia and Europe and ones registered in participating countries in Central America.
It is the General Secretariat's first joint operation in the region with the INTERPOL Sub-Regional Bureau (SRB) in San Salvador, El Salvador; the INTERPOL National Central Bureaus in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama; and the motor vehicle units in these countries.
Mexican authorities also have committed to participate in the operation, which would nearly double the amount of searches being conducted. Mexico has not previously contributed any records to INTERPOL's stolen motor vehicles (SMV) database.
Officers working at INTERPOL's General Secretariat and SRB San Salvador are analysing the search results to establish links between organized groups which may have been involved in bringing the cars into the countries with false documents. Follow-up investigative work and police action will be conducted by national forces in the countries concerned.
Operation Huracan is expected to serve as a model for future INTERPOL activities targeting vehicle theft. It is being organized at the request of the Commission of Chiefs/Directors of Police in Central America and the Caribbean (CJPCAC). All previous INTERPOL joint regional operations targeting vehicle theft have taken place in Africa.
The Central American countries, after submitting their national stolen vehicle data to the SMV database, are providing SRB San Salvador access to their national car registration databases for comparison against INTERPOL's database.
The checks are being conducted using an adapted version of the Mobile INTERPOL Network Device (MIND), which was developed by INTERPOL to enable member countries to give access to its databases to officers in the field.
INTERPOL's SMV database contains 4 million records submitted by 116 member countries. This year , law enforcement officers have identified more than 2,400 vehicles a month on average as stolen using the database.


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"In the beginning, the best word I can use is that Google tolerated the project. Then, they gave it — support is too strong a word. They gave it some thought," said Chris Wetherell, the Googler who started the project. Jenna Bilotta, a former user experience designer at Google, has a slightly different opinion: "Everyone from Google used Reader, from Larry and Sergey to the newest engineers. It's such a beloved project. Still, it was just in this limbo space. It wasn't really supported, but it wasn't actively being harmed."
The difficulty was that Reader users, while hyperengaged with the product, never snowballed into the tens or hundreds of millions. Brian Shih became the product manager for Reader in the fall of 2008. "If Reader were its own startup, it's the kind of company that Google would have bought. Because we were at Google, when you stack it up against some of these products, it's tiny and isn't worth the investment," he said. At one point, Shih remembers, engineers were pulled off Reader to work on OpenSocial, a "half-baked" development platform that never amounted to much. "There was always a political fight internally on keeping people staffed on this little project," he recalled. Someone hung a sign in the Reader offices that said "DAYS SINCE LAST THREAT OF CANCELLATION." The number was almost always zero. At the same time, user growth — while small next to Gmail's hundreds of millions — more than doubled under Shih's tenure. But the "senior types," as Bilotta remembers, "would look at absolute user numbers. They wouldn't look at market saturation. So Reader was constantly on the chopping block."
iGoogle, a much more popular service, will be discontinued next year and Google Reader's infrastructure is used to show feeds in iGoogle. Hopefully, Google Reader will still be available for some time, but it's mostly wishful thinking.


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Rudy Tanzi, Chair, Cure Alzheimer's Fund Research Consortium comments here on the AP article appearing on this topic today:
Two new papers published in the New England Journal of Medicine report that very rare mutations in a gene called TREM2 increase risk for Alzheimer's in a tiny proportion (<1%) of patients. However, mutations in this gene have previously been linked to other forms of dementia that are distinctly different from Alzheimer's disease: Nasu-Hakola (rare early onset dementia with bone cysts) and frontotemporal lobar dementia. The Cure Alzheimer's Project Alzheimer's Genome Project is actively assessing whether the TREM2 mutations leads to rare form of Alzheimer's or the distinctly different forms of non-Alzheimer's dementia previously reported to be caused by mutations in this gene. Stay tuned.
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