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Chair and presenter, Identifying and Tackling Key Challenges to Holding Corporate Actors Criminally Accountable, Amnesty International and International Corporate Accountability Roundtable, Expert Workshop with Select Legal Experts on the Investigation and Prosecution of Corporate Crime, May 18, 2016 (New York, NY)
Treaties That Regulate Transnational Business Activity: A Critical Appraisal, American Society for International Law, Business and Human Rights Roundtable, Mar. 29, 2016 (Washington, DC)
Shared Responsibility in Supply Chains: A New Paradigm?, University of Cincinnati College of Law, 29th Annual Cypriote Law Center Symposium, Mar. 18, 2016 (Cincinnati, OH)
Panelist, State-Based Mechanisms for Access to Remedy, United Nations, Fourth Annual Forum on Business and Human Rights, Nov. 16, 2015 (Geneva, Switzerland)
Panelist, Corporate Capture and Company Ownership Transparency, United Nations, Fourth Annual Forum on Business and Human Rights, Nov. 2015 (Geneva, Switzerland)
Is There a Right to Be Free from Corruption?, University of Washington School of Law, Installation Ceremony for Anita Ramasastry as the UW Law Foundation Professor of Law, May 1, 2014 (Seattle, WA)
Invited lecturer, University of Yangon Faculty of Law, Faculty Development Seminar on Challenges of Globalization and the Rule of Law in Comparative Perspective, Nov. 25, 2013 (Myanmar)
Expert, United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Roundtable on Issues of Corporate Accountability for Gross Human Rights Abuses, Nov. 2013 (Geneva, Switzerland)
Oregon State Bar Association, Human Trafficking Symposium, Oct. 15, 2013
Invited participant, World Economic Forum, Roundtable on ICT and Human Rights, Jun. 2013 (Geneva, Switzerland)
Moderator, University of Washington School of Law, Asian Law Center, Inclusive Development in Burma — What Are the Legal Challenges?, May 13, 2013 (Seattle, WA)
The U.S. Government's Approach to Business and Human Rights, United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Working Group on Business and Human Rights and the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable, Civil Society Consultation for US Country Visit, Apr. 23, 2013 (Washington, DC)
Panelist, Disclosure in Speech, Washington Law Review, 2013 Symposium: The Disclosure Crisis, Feb. 28, 2013 (Seattle, WA)
Panelist, Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights Sector Guidance, ICT Sector Roundtable, Information and Communication Technology Sector Roundtable, Jan. 31, 2013 (Brussels, Belgium)
Legal Responsibility of Businesses for Violations of International Human Rights, University of Utah College of Law, 2013 International Law Colloquium, Jan. 25, 2013 (Salt Lake City, UT)
Efforts to Unify State Law and the Uniform Law Commission Drafting Project on Prevention and Remedies for Human Trafficking, American Bar Association, Annual Meeting, Human Trafficking: Modern Day Slavery on a Global Scale, Aug. 3, 2012 (Chicago, IL)
Panelist, Successor States, Sovereign Concessions and Corruption, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business, Public Sector Corruption and Private Business Firms, Jun. 28, 2012 (Philadelphia, PA)
Transnational Corporations and the Incongruity of Their Rights and Responsibilities under International Law, University of Washington, College of Arts and Sciences, Simpson Center for the Humanities, Cosmopolitan Rights and Responsibilities, May 12, 2012 (Seattle, WA)
Human Trafficking 101: Efforts to Unify State Law, University of Washington School of Law and Seattle University School of Law, Human Trafficking, Forced Labor and Corporate Responsibility, May 11, 2012 (Seattle, WA)
Business and Human Rights, University of California, Irvine School of Law, Business Law as Public Interest Law Symposium, Apr. 13, 2012 (Irvine, CA)
Corporate Accountability for Overseas Activities: Lessons from Civil Litigation in the United States, National University of Ireland Galway School of Law and Irish Centre for Human Rights, Ireland and the United Nations Framework for Business and Human Rights, Mar. 24, 2012 (Galway, Ireland)
The Future of Corporate Liability for Human Rights Violations in the United States: Kiobel, the Ruggie Framework and Other Emerging Trends, Lewis & Clark Law School, Global Law Lecture, Mar. 5, 2012 (Portland, OR)
Electronic Transactions and Electronic Commerce, U.S. Department of Commerce and National College of Judicial Studies (Egypt), Mar. 2012 (Cairo, Egypt)
Putting the Business and Human Rights Agenda in Context: Lessons from the Anti-Corruption Sphere, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, the South African Institute of International Affairs, the University of Johannesburg, and the University of Hong Kong Law Faculty, The "Protect, Respect and Remedy" Framework: Charting a Future or Taking the Wrong Turn for Business and Human Rights?, Jan. 24, 2012 (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Licensing & Contracts in Post-Gaddafi Libya, Libya Transparency Roundtable, Dec. 2011 (Tripoli, Libya)
Moderator, Is Corruption Hampering Asia's Development? If So, What Can Be Done to Stop It?, Asia Society, Asia 21 Young Leaders Summit: Worlds Apart Together: Shared Values for an Asia-Pacific Community, Nov. 19, 2011 (New Delhi, India)
Participant, Expert Only Roundtable, International Catalan Institute for Peace, Companies in Conflict Situations, Oct. 20, 2011 (Barcelona, Spain)
Panelist, Access to Justice and Justifiability, International Seminar on Business and Human Rights: Global Challenges of Our Time, Dec. 2008 (Paris, France)
How Does a Company Know It Is Complicit?, Copenhagen Business School, International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Responsibilities for Human Rights, and International Law: Where Do We Go after the Final Report of the SRSG on Human Rights and Business?, Nov. 6, 2008 (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Participant in Asia Society Asia 21 Leadership Forum in Tokyo,
Japan and Speaker on Panel on Governance, Transparency and Corruption
Rapporteur for Workshop sponsored by the World Bank Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative at the 13th annual International Anti Corruption Conference in Athens, Greece
Commerce, Crime and Conflict--Emerging Standards of Accountability for Economic Actors in Conflict, National University of Ireland , Irish Centre for Human Rights, Apr. 2008 (Galway, Ireland)
Presenter, at invitation only event on Role of states in effectively
regulating and adjudicating the activities of transnational
corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human
rights (November 2007) in Copenhagen sponsored by Danish Center for Human Rights and the United Nations Special Representative on Business and human Rights
Consultation on Business & Human Rights in Conflict Zones: The Role of Home States, Global Witness and the United Nations Special Representative on Business and Human Rights, Nov. 2007 (Berlin, Germany)
Corporate Complicity and International Law, University of Washington School of Law, Center for Human Rights and Justice, Human Rights Moment Series, Nov. 2007
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Rethinking Payments Law Symposium, Jun. 2007
University of North Carolina Law School, Odious Debt Conference, Jun. 2007
Panelist, Corporations and International Law, Hague Joint Conference on International Law on 100th Anniversary of the Hague Peace Conference, Jun. 2007 (The Hague, Netherlands)
Rule of Law on the International Agenda, University of Umea, Jun. 2007 (Sweden)
Business and Human Rights, University of Washington, Phi Beta Kappa/Honors Program, May 2007
Electronic Commerce and Online Contracting, U.S. Department of State and Qatar Ministry of Justice, Second Annual Commercial Law Conference, Mar. 11, 2007 (Doha, Qatar)
Seattle University Law School, Trina Grillo Public Interest & Social Justice Law Retreat, Feb. 2007
Corporate Accountability for Grave Violations of International Law, Brooklyn Law School, Jan. 2007
Secured Lending and Commercial Law in the Arabian Gulf, U.S. Departments of Commerce and State and Oman Ministry of Justice, Regional Conference on Commercial Law, Jan. 2007 (Muscat, Oman)
Impediments to the Electronic Delivery of Legal Services, American Bar Association Standing Committee on Technology, May 20, 2006
Keynote, Why South Asians Should Care about Civil Liberties, South Asian Bar Association of Washington, Annual Banquet, Apr. 27, 2006
Translating Unocal?, Amnesty International, Legal Network Conference: The Legacy of Nuremberg, Feb. 2006 (Seattle, WA)
Panelist, Digital Dossiers and the Protection of Personal Information, Santa Clara University Law School, Privacy in the Information Age, Jan. 27, 2006
Keynote, University of Washington, Model United Nations, Jan. 1, 2006
Convened invitation-only workshop on Commerce, Crime and Conflict to kick off major research study funded by Canadian government and Ford Foundation in Oslo, Norway; Invited guests included lawyers and academic from 15 countries engage in comparative legal research relating to business entities and international crimes. (Oct. 2005).
Commentator, with Rountable on Commerce Crime and Conflict, Fafo Applied Institute of International Studies, Oct. 2005 (Oslo, Norway)
Guest Lecturer, United States Agency for International Development, Oct. 2005 (Washington, DC)
Moderator, Central European University Legal Studies Department, rights of Individual and the State, Jun. 1, 2005 (Budapest, Hungary)
Moderator, Computer Freedom and Privacy Conference, May 2005 (Seattle, WA)
USA Patriot Act, University of Washington School of Law, ACLU Student Chapter, Apr. 2005 (Seattle, WA)
International Commercial Law Standards, U.S. Department of Commerce, Commercial Law Conference, Mar. 2005 (Bahrain)
Commercial Legal Reform in the United States, University of Washington School of Law, Afghan Law Deans Conference, Feb. 19, 2005 (Seattle, WA)
Convener, Association of American Law Schools Section on Consignor Financial Services, Annual Meeting, San Francisco (Jan. 2005).
Panelist, Emerging Electronic Payments, Association of American Law Schools, Section of Financial Institutions and Commercial Financial Services, Jan. 2005
Brooklyn Law School, Corporate Complicity in Comparative Context Faculty Colloquium, Nov. 2004
Formalizing the Informal?, University of Miami Law School, Informal Payment Systems Faculty Colloquium, Nov. 2004
Guest Lecturer, U.S. Agency for International Development, Oct. 2004 (Washington, DC)
Panelist, Getting Paid in the 21st Century, American Bar Association, Business Law Section, Cyberspace Committee, Annual Meeting, Aug. 2004 (Atlanta, GA)
E-Money in Comparative Perspective, World Bank andInternational Montetary Fund, Seminar on Current Developments in Monetary Financial Law, Jun. 1, 2004
Convened major conference, on Access to Justice and Technology in cooperation with Shidler Center, Washington Law Review, Washington Access to Justice Board and Information School (Feb. 2004).
U.S. Agency for International Development, Legal Training Seminar on Commercial Legal and Institutional Law Reform, Dec. 2002 (Washington, DC)
Invited expert, Roundtable on Defining Priorities for Legal & Policy Action: Unpacking Private Sector Complicity, International Peace Academy, Nov. 2002 (New York, NY)
Invited expert, Roundtable on Legal Responses to Private Sector Activity in War Economies, Fafo, Oct. 1, 2002 (Oslo, Norway)
Online Activism, Electronic Privacy Information Clearinghouse, Jul. 2002 (Washington, DC)
Multinational Corporations and Human Rights, Central European University, Jun. 2002 (Budapest, Hungary)
The Prospects of ODR for Transition Economies, United Nationals Economic Commission for Europe, Forum on Online Dispute Resolution, Jun. 2002 (Geneva, Switzerland)
Corporate Complicity in the Global Context: An Examination of Multinational Enterprises and Their Potential Liability for Human Rights Violations, University of Washington, Institute for Transnational Studies, Law, Transition and Globalization Series, May 2002
Cybercrime, with Charles Nesson, Harvard Law School, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, May 2002
Panelist, Panel on Activism and Online Protest, Harvard Law School, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Cybertree 2002, May 2002
Panelist, Internet Activism Basics: What Works, What Doesn't and What Will Get You Arrested,, Computers Freedom and Privacy Conference, Apr. 2002 (San Francisco, CA)
Panelist, Legislative Changes after September 11, Washington State Appellate Judges Conference, Apr. 2002
Panelist, Task Force on E-commerce and ADR Update: New Vistas in Dispute Resolution, American Bar Association Section on Dispute Resolution, Annual Meeting, Apr. 2002 (Seattle, WA)
Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Violations, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Mar. 2002
Corporate Complicity in the Global Context, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program on Human Rights & Justice, Mar. 2002 (Cambridge, MA)
Keynote, Fulbright Scholars Seminar on Civil Liberties after September 11, Feb. 2002 (Seattle, WA)
Regulatory Practice in the United States, European Commission, European Payment Systems Observatory Conference on Consumer Online Payments: Trends & Challenges for Europe, Feb. 2002 (Brussels, Belgium)
"Hacktivism", Harvard Law School, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Jan. 2002
Multinational Corporation and Human Rights, Roger Williams University, Ralph Papito School of Law, Law Faculty Workshops, Jan. 2002
Invited expert, Roundtable on Online Dispute Resolution: State of the Art and Issues, University of Geneva Faculty of Law, Nov. 2001
Plenary presentation, Comparative Approaches to Internet Privacy, Alaska Privacy Summit, Sep. 2001 (Anchorage, AK)
Panelist, Law and Technology Forum, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic, Sep. 2001 (Berkeley, CA)
E-Commerce and Online Dispute Resolution: Views of the ABA Task Force, American Bar Association, Annual Meeting, Aug. 2001 (Chicago, IL)
Perceptions of Commercial Law Reform: The EBRD's Legal Indicator Survey, University of Washington, Asian Law Center and the University of Melbourne, Conference on Law Reform in Developing and Transition Economies, Jul. 2001 (Ulanbataar, Mongolia)
The Problems of E-Money and Incompatible Regulatory Regimes, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, Cross Border E-Finance, Jun. 2001 (London, England)
ADR and the Internet, Seattle University School of Law, Access to Justice Institute and the Washington State Access to Justice Board, Conference on Technology: Are We Creating Additional Barriers or Additional Means to Access to Justice?, May 2001 (Seattle, WA)
Recent Developments in Global Ecommerce and Internet Law, Harvard Law School, Berkman Center for Internet & Society and the National Association of Attorneys General, May 2001
The Implications of the UNOCAL Case and Lawsuit, Global Source Education, International World of Corporate Accountability Workshop on The New World of Corporate Accountability: The Case of UNOCAL in Burma, May 2001 (Seattle, WA)
Licensing as a Jurisdictional Mechanism, Internet Law and Policy Forum Conference, Jurisdiction II: Global Networks/Local Rules, Sep. 2000 (San Francisco, CA)
Internet Panel, Annual Conference of Solicitors General, Jun. 2000 (Seattle, WA)
Keynote, National Association of Attorneys General, Conference of Chief Deputies, May 2000
Hacktivism: Virtual Dissent and Global Organizing via the Internet, Internet Political Economy Forum and Trinity College, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Internet & Power: A New Revolution in International Relations?, May 2000 (Cambridge, England)
The Proposed Money Services Act of NUUSL, Money Transmitters Regulations Association, Annual Meeting, May 2000 (Philadelphia, PA)
Co- Convener, Regulating the Internet: EU and US Perspectives conference sponsored by the University of Washington Center for Law, Commerce & Technology and School of Communications and the European Union Center (Seattle, April 2000).
Discussant, Emerging Economies, Internet Trade and the WTO, University of Washington, Institute of International Policy and the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, Conference on the WTO and the Developing World in the Millennium Round: Beyond the NGO Din, Nov. 1999 (Seattle, WA)
Commentator, Commercial Law Reform in Russia and the New International Financial Architecture, University of London, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, New International Financial Architecture, Jun. 1999 (London, England)
Invited participant, U.S. Department of State, Washington Conference on Holocaust Era-Assets, Apr. 1999
Forced Labor Claims and the Second World War, Erasmus University, Institute of Globalization, International Economic Law and Dispute Settlement, Colloquium on the Liability of Multinational Enterprises under International Law, Apr. 1999 (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Swiss Banks and International Human Rights, University of Manchester, Law Faculty Workshop Series, Mar. 1999
The Initial Screening Procedure and the Claims Resolution Tribunal, Swiss Arbitration Association, Annual Conference, Jan. 1999 (Zurich, Switzerland)
Response to Ambassador Thomas Borer, panel on Assets of the Holocaust: The Swiss Perspective sponsored by Whittier Law School (Costa Mesa, CA, November 1998).
Panelist, The Lawyers Speak - - Actions Against Swiss Banks and European Insurance Companies in U.S. Courts, conference on Nazi Gold and Other Assets of the Holocaust: The Search for Justice, Whittier Law School (Costa Mesa, CA., October 1998).
Panelist, conference on The Holocaust: Moral and Legal Issues Unresolved Fifty Years Later sponsored by Cardozo Law School (April 1998).
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Ice Age Climate Changed Quickly
Short, sharp fluctuations in the Earth's climate throughout the last ice age may have stopped trees from getting a foothold in Europe and northern Asia, scientists say.
According to a new study, warm spells were so brief that trees were unable to establish themselves before the temperature shot back down again.
'The warm events were so short-lived that ecosystems weren't able to respond in full,' says Professor Brian Huntley, of Durham University, who led the study.
'But at the end of the last ice age, about 10,000 years ago, when temperatures were sustained at 5°C or so warmer, whole ecosystem patterns shifted, trees became established and a large number of species became extinct,' he adds.
The research, published in PLoS ONE, could give clues about how rapid changes in today's climate will affect the world's ecosystems.
'If warming is sustained, then it could result in a shift to a new ecological state, and then we can expect a similar loss of species,' says Huntley.
'But if we can make sure that it's just a blip, by bringing temperatures back down quickly, perhaps within a century or two, maybe the consequences for ecosystems won't be so awful.'
Tundra landscape image via Shutterstock.
Read more at Planet Earth Online.

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Replaces stock clutch hose and produces a more precise clutch action. Stainless steel mesh covering helps inhibit expansion and distortion of clutch hose.
Fits: 2002-2005 Subaru Impreza WRX
***Sold ""as is"" without any warranty coverage. Intended for off-highway application only. May bring vehicle out of compliance with safety/or emissions standards. Can only be lawfully installed by end user.


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zara top, asos skirt, belt bought in brazil, h&m bracelets and bangle, zara sandals, kate spade ring.
When sharing some of my spring fashion secrets with Refinery29, I mentioned how much pastels have enchanted my heart this season. And I was not playing "seasonably correct". It is totally true (documented and sealed in the closet re-pagination post). As if owning one piece of each spring hit color wasn't enough, I had to have the whole sequined rainbow. In an itty bity, "better-suck-it-in" mini skirt, paired with a classic lace top. Risky piece but again, sometimes a girl has got to have her fun.


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Many people don't know the difference between Google's search box and the browser's address bar. This confusion is accentuated by the fact that the address bar is also a search box in some cases and Google, like most search engines, steal the focus from the address bar.
So people type URLs in the search box. Google changed the way it treats those queries last year: instead of showing information about a URL, it returns standard search results and the top result should be the page that corresponds to your query. This is a great way to avoid typosquatting sites, like flicker.com or twiter.com.
But what happens when Google doesn't find a page from a site included in the index? Until recently, it returned the standard "Your search did not match any documents." Now it returns more helpful information: results from websites with similar addresses, suggestions for queries and a way to identify the page by restricting the search to the domain/subdomain from my initial query.
October 16, 2007
Google Tries to Fix Broken Links
Posted by Alex Chitu at 10/16/2007 03:37:00 AM
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I think this is way cool :). Thanks for posting about it.ReplyDelete
Too bad it ain't working the same with "www.google.com/job" (no http:// in front).ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 16, 2007 at 1:30 PM
OpenDNS does a similar thing. When you mistype a URL, it shows Google search results for the URL. Details here.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 6, 2008 at 4:09 AM
This is so obnoxious. Any idea how to prevent this behavior?ReplyDelete
ok the idea is good and can help those if they are looking for similar sites.ReplyDelete
Heeeeelp! I have 88 404 errors and 120 restricted by Robots according to googles webmaster (I am using blogger) but with all my massive? brain power I can not figure out how to fix them! If some one was to put an idiots guide on youtube that would be fantastic.. failing that do you have any ideasReplyDelete
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Watery eyes means you have too many tears draining from the eyes. Tears help keep the surface of the eye moist. They wash away particles and foreign objects in the eye.
Epiphora; Tearing - increased
Your eyes are always making tears. These tears leave the eye through a small hole in the corner of the eye called the tear duct.
Causes of watery eyes include:
Increased tearing sometimes happens with:
One of the most common causes of excess tearing is dry eyes. Drying causes the eyes to become uncomfortable, which stimulates the body to produce too many tears. One of the main tests for tearing is to check whether the eyes are too dry.
Treatment depends on the cause of the problem. Therefore, it is important to determine the cause before treating yourself at home.
Tearing is rarely an emergency. You should seek help right away if:
Also, contact your health care provider if you have:
The provider will examine your eyes and ask questions about your medical history and symptoms. Questions may include:
Your provider may order tests to help determine the cause.
Treatment depends on the cause of the problem.
Hurwitz JJ. The lacrimal drainage system. In: Yanoff M, Duker JS, eds. Ophthalmology. 4th ed. St. Louis, MO: Elsevier Saunders; 2014:ch 12.15.
Olitsky SE, Hug D, Plummer LS, Stahl ED, et al. Disorders of the lacrimal system. In: Kliegman RM, Stanton BF, St Geme JW, Schor NF, eds. Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. 20th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; 2016:chap 625.
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World Refugee Survey 2008 - European Union
|United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
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|19 June 2008
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|United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, World Refugee Survey 2008 - European Union, 19 June 2008, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/485f50d2a8.html [accessed 23 January 2018]
|This is not a UNHCR publication. UNHCR is not responsible for, nor does it necessarily endorse, its content. Any views expressed are solely those of the author or publisher and do not necessarily reflect those of UNHCR, the United Nations or its Member States.
Refoulement/Physical Protection
In March, France forcibly returned a Chadian asylum seeker whose claim its Ministry of Interior rejected as "manifestly unfounded." Upon his return, Chadian authorities arrested, forcibly interrogated, and imprisoned him.
In general, European countries followed the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR) recommendations not to return rejected Iraqi asylum seekers to the southern and central parts of Iraq and to return Kurds only to the Kurdish areas in the North if they had family links there. In April, however, Sweden returned to Baghdad one rejected Iraqi asylum seeker from northern Iraq.
In November, the UK's House of Lords approved the forced return of non-Arab Sudanese from Darfur, reasoning that, even if they could not return to that province, the internally displaced persons squatter camps around Khartoum were "not ... unduly harsh," as the London Court of Appeals had found. In December, Sweden's Migration Board allowed the Government to return Somali asylum seekers to Mogadishu unless they could show specific targeting for persecution, reasoning that the rebels in Mogadishu held no territory and that the situation there did not amount to armed conflict.
The Greek coast guard systematically forced boatloads of potential asylum seekers out of its national waters and back into Turkish territorial waters, sometimes deliberately damaging their boats to prevent their return or attempting to swamp them with waves, and, occasionally abandoning migrants on uninhabited islands. On Chios
Island, authorities subjected one migrant to serious beating, mock execution, and electric shocks and pushed his head into a bucket of water. Greek border guards arrested migrants upon arrival, issued all of them automatic deportation orders, and detained them incommunicado without registration for several days before returning them to Turkey. In March, authorities transferred 41 Iraqis they apprehended on Chios Island to Thessaloniki transfer center for return to Turkey. Officials did not permit them to apply for asylum and beat several who refused to board the bus for Turkey. In August, in the strait between Chios Island and Turkey, the coast guard opened fire upon one boat it claimed would not stop, killing its captain. All three men on the boat, however, turned out to be Greek citizens who said they did stop and the coast guard shot their captain anyway.
In July, Ukraine detained, reportedly beat, and sought to extradite an ethnic Chechen refugee to the Russian Federation on charges of robbery, but the Human Rights Commissioner requested a hearing for him. In September, the Kiev City Court of Appeal stayed the extradition and he remained in detention at the end of the year. In October, UNHCR strongly advised states to refrain from returning asylum seekers to Ukraine, as there was no assurance that it would give them fair refugee status determinations, treat them in accordance with international standards, or protect them from refoulement. There were 17 violent attacks on asylum seekers in Kiev alone during the year and, in January 2008, assailants stabbed a 19-year old asylum seeker from the Democratic Republic of Congo to death. In September 2007, three Chechen girls died of exhaustion and exposure after spending four days on a mountain, seeking to cross from Ukraine to Poland with their mother and another sister.
Asylum grant rates varied widely, with newer EU members on the periphery generally being lower. While Austria granted 80 percent of Chechen cases, for example, Poland granted only 20 percent and Croatia and Slovenia none at all. Until July, while Sweden deemed 90 percent of Iraqis to merit protection, Greece granted it to almost none. In France and Germany, the EU's Qualification Directive expanded the scope of grounds for granting protection, in particular for Somalis in Germany, but the Directive did not establish a common standard for internal alternatives to asylum. France, for example, did not apply the concept of internal protection to Chechens in any of about 60 cases UNHCR reviewed whereas Germany and Slovakia considered most of the territory of the Russian Federation acceptable for return. In December, Sweden's Migration Court of Appeal rejected an Iraqi applicant who could show only a specific threat against his brother, adding that Iraq was merely experiencing "difficult circumstances."
While the number of asylum seekers in the EU halved over the past five years, they increased in Greece to 12,300 in 2006 and more than 25,100 in 2007, about a quarter of them from Iraq. Greece granted 8 people refugee status in the first instance, 138 on appeal, and 23 humanitarian protection. Between October 2006 and April 2007, Greek officials denied every one of more than 300 applicants from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Sri Lanka, and Sudan. Their files showed no reference to facts of the cases or legal reasoning; instead, each had a paragraph saying the applicant sought employment and better living conditions. Authorities granted neither asylum nor subsidiary protection in the first instance to any of the nearly 5,500 Iraqis who applied in 2007. By year's end, more than 19,000 appeals were pending and waiting periods varied from two months to four years.
Under the Dublin Regulation, which allocated responsibility to examine asylum claims within the EU and associated States, Sweden returned some 900, mostly Iraqis, to Greece. In October, Belgium halted the return of an Iraqi to Greece and, in December, one of its courts forbade returning an Afghan family there. In February 2008, the Norwegian Immigration Appeal Board decided against returning asylum seekers to Greece under the Dublin Regulation and, in April, UNHCR advised other governments similarly to refrain and to examine the cases themselves.
Italy did not recognize gender-based persecution claims under the particular social group ground of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (1951 Convention). Although its Constitution provided a right of asylum, Italy had not fully implemented it into legislation.
In January, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) unanimously rejected the Netherlands' claim that a Somali of a minority ethnic group had to show that persecutors would single him out.
Sweden revoked the expulsion orders it had issued to two Egyptian asylum seekers it had turned over to U.S. agents in 2001 after Egyptian authorities, contrary to their assurances, tortured them.
Spain complained to the European Commission about Malta's refusal in May to accept 26 Ivorians from the Spanish tugboat that had rescued them. Shortly after this incident, a Maltese boat refused to allow some 27 shipwrecked Africans to board and left them clinging to tuna nets in the water for at least 24 hours as Maltese and Libyan authorities disagreed about who should accept them. An Italian boat eventually agreed to pick them up and take them to Lampedusa. At the time, a technical mission of the EU external borders agency, Frontex, was in Libya discussing Libya's highly porous southern border and recommended that Libya play a leading role in maritime interdiction as well. Libya was not party to the 1951 Convention, had no cooperation protocol with the UNHCR, and reportedly had repeatedly exercised a tacit agreement at least with Eritrea to return its nationals.
In June, a Maltese boat captain defied the orders of the Armed Forces of Malta that he return some 20 African castaways to Libya. The authorities argued that he had picked them up in the Libyan search and rescue area but he countered that Libya was not an appropriate place to send asylum seekers. They threatened him with arrest for trafficking but relented when he still refused and eventually allowed them to disembark in Malta. In August, Italy arrested and charged seven Tunisian fishermen with aiding illegal migration for rescuing 44 migrants at sea and bringing them to Italy. After more than a month, Italy released them when members of the European Parliament protested their continued detention. Only four European countries – the Netherlands, Germany, Ireland, and Lithuania – responded to Malta's request that they receive some of the refugees who landed on its shores, accepting 36, 20, 13, and 6, respectively. (The United States agreed to accept 200.)
In September, Italy offered to grant protection to an Iranian lesbian whom the United Kingdom had arrested and planned to repatriate. The President of the European Parliament wrote to the British prime minister asking him to suspend her deportation to Iran "where she clearly faces execution" and to allow her to travel to Italy. By year's end, her status remained unclear. In October, Somali asylee cum Dutch citizen and Member of Parliament Ayaan Hirsi Ali returned to the Netherlands when the Dutch Government declined to pay the €2 million per month that her security in the United States cost. In response, the Danish Minister of Culture Brian Mikkelsen offered her asylum under the International Cities of Refuge Network for threatened writers, and the French newspaper Libération launched a petition denouncing the Dutch decision and calling for France to give her honorary citizenship and pay the bill.
In January 2008, Switzerland accepted the return of Stanley Van Tha, an asylum seeker from Myanmar whom its Federal Migration Office had found not credible and refused to hear in 2003 because he had a passport. After the Refugee Appeals Board upheld that decision, authorities had to gag and bind him to a wheelchair to refoule him in 2004. Myanmar authorities then arrested and sentenced him, without trial, to 19 years in prison for endangering peace and security, unlawful departure, and use of a false passport. Before admitting error, Swiss authorities had claimed his imprisonment was likely for criminal reasons, refusing military service, or participating in a film criticizing his government. In November, Myanmar authorities released him and he escaped again to India where Swiss authorities gave him a ticket to Zurich where his wife and son awaited him.
In April, the ECHR ruled unanimously against France's practice of holding asylum seekers in airport waiting areas and not allowing them to file claims until authorities decided whether they were "manifestly unfounded." Authorities made those decisions on the substance of the applications rather than simply whether they stated basic asylum claims and could deport applicants even while appeals of those decisions were pending. In the subsequent fortnight, judges released 40 asylum seekers from the waiting area of the Roissy International Airport in Paris. In response, France's new Aliens Bill granted asylum seekers at the border 24-hour suspensions of deportation to file appeals. In September, however, the National Assembly amended the bill to shorten the deadline for filing appeals inside the country from one month to 15 days, suspending deportation for the appeal only in certain cases.
Switzerland's 1998 Asylum Act allowed authorities to declare claims "manifestly unfounded" and refuse to hear them if applicants could not document their identity within 48 hours. In July, Switzerland's Supreme Administrative Court ruled that drivers' licenses and birth certificates would no longer suffice as proof of identity. Only documents that the country of origin used to establish identity were acceptable in order to facilitate repatriation upon rejection. In August, however, the Court ruled that authorities could not refuse to hear claims based on lack of identification. In November, the Committee against Torture criticized the Act and forbade the return of a Congolese asylum seeker to whom authorities denied a hearing even though, by the time of his appeal, he had the documentation. The Asylum Appeals Board had reasoned that he should have supplied it within 48 hours.
In January 2008, Slovenia passed the Asylum Act, which applied accelerated procedures without complete hearings to all applications for asylum except those it deemed "manifestly well-founded" or those filed by separated children or persons with special needs. It also allowed the Government to expel persons appealing negative decisions before the outcome.
In July, Denmark airlifted nearly 400 Iraqi employees directly from Iraq but the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office insisted that Iraqi translators who formerly worked for the British Army must travel to Syria or Jordan and apply for resettlement through UNHCR with all other Iraqi refugees. For the first time, Slovenia agreed to accept refugees from UNHCR for resettlement.
Detention/Access to Courts
According to the Jesuit Refugee Service, the countries of the EU had 224 immigration detention facilities with a total capacity of more than 30,000 people. They often held people for as long as 18 months and, in a number of countries, there was no upper limit on length of detention.
Greece systematically detained illegal migrants including asylum seekers, unaccompanied minors as young as ten, torture and trafficking victims, disabled persons, and pregnant women from countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia in substandard conditions. In June, a delegation of Members of the European Parliament found the detention center on the island of Samos to be overcrowded, understaffed, and lacking medical staff and interpreters and found regular detention of unaccompanied minors in solitary confinement. In July, UNHCR found unaccompanied minors detained with adults at the center in Mytilini. In October, UNHCR inspected the Samos center and found that it held 391 people, including women and children, despite a capacity of 120. Authorities in Greece's border areas generally released migrants who did not apply for asylum but held those who did for the maximum period of three months, often much longer when authorities could not deport detainees. Authorities issued deportation orders and other documents in Greek, but there were no professional interpreters on any of the islands where authorities held migrants and/or asylum seekers. Detainees had almost no access to legal advice. Authorities confiscated their mobile phones and provided no alternatives. In February, authorities prevented 16 stowaways (5 of whom were children and 2 of whom had serious medical conditions) from leaving their ship in Pireus for a week while they decided whether to accept their asylum claims.
A doctor with Medicare Services Limited testified that Malta isolated seven or eight detained asylum seekers with chicken pox in a windowless isolation cell where they had to eat and relieve themselves. The doctor witnessed at least one beating, widespread disease, poor hygiene, and overcrowding.
Malta and Cyprus did not require a court order to detain or prolong immigration detention, and in the Czech Republic, asylum seekers detained under the Dublin II Regulation did not have the right to challenge their detention. Lithuania did not limit the duration of immigration detention and, in Malta, the maximum for asylum seekers was one year. Cypriot law limited the detention of asylum seekers to 32 days but authorities held a Palestinian asylum seeker with a possibly torture-related disability since his May arrival without explanation or adequate medical care. The Czech Republic, Poland, and Spain all limited or completely blocked independent human rights organizations' monitoring of places in their major airports where they held potential asylum seekers. Austria did not allow persons in the expulsion facility at Vienna airport the use of a phone. Hungary kept persons for an average of two days in Budapest airport's official transfer room with only chairs. Detainees could not use public telephones without an official escort. In the Warsaw airport, there was no public telephone available or any information about the right or possibility to apply for asylum.
In January 2008, the ECHR found Belgium's more than 10-day detention in 2003 of two asylum seekers in the transit section of the Brussels airport without food, beds, or ability to wash themselves or their clothes or to apply for asylum to be unlawful and inhuman. Only the cleaning staff of the company that ran the airport gave them food.
Freedom of Movement and Residence
The right of citizens of EU countries to freedom of movement and residence throughout the EU did not apply to refugees or asylum seekers. Even an EU Directive on long-term residents that granted freedom of movement to some categories of non-EU nationals did not grant such rights to refugees in general, although it did not require them to prove economic self-sufficiency or insurance coverage and counted their time as asylum seekers toward the duration requirement for longterm residence. It excluded beneficiaries of other forms of protection than asylum. The EU Reception Directive allowed states to restrict the freedom of movement of asylum seekers within their borders and Germany required those with "tolerated stay," including many Iraqis and non-Albanian Kosovars, to remain in certain regions of the country. Other countries had reporting requirements that restricted movement.
Under the EU Qualification Directive, refugees and beneficiaries of other forms of protection would have the same freedom of movement as foreigners generally. Refugees were entitled to residence permits and travel documents. Beneficiaries of other forms of protection were entitled only to residence permits, but they could receive travel documents if they could cite serious humanitarian reasons and could not obtain documents from their home country.
In January 2008, Germany's Federal Administrative Court ruled that the Government could no longer restrict the residence of refugees to the locality that issued their residence permits simply because they received public assistance.
Right to Earn a Livelihood
Countries of the EU normally allowed refugees to work freely, but restricted work rights for asylum seekers and persons granted subsidiary protection. Slovenia, however, restricted refugees' right to work for one year. Ireland did not let asylum seekers work but passed the Medical Practitioners Act in May, which had a training program for refugees and allowed refugee doctors to practice after passing an exam. Cyprus allowed asylum seekers with only subsidiary protection, many of them Iraqis, to work only on farms for the first year. Germany allowed asylum seekers granted "tolerated stay" to work only in limited and exceptional circumstances and, even when they found jobs, they were subject to checks by the Department of Labor as to whether any unemployed German or EU nationals could take the jobs instead. Western European countries often limited asylum seekers to seasonal work or for short periods.
Greece did not allow asylum seekers or persons with humanitarian protection to work unless they could show that citizens, EU nationals, refugees, or aliens of Greek origin were not interested in the position. Even refugees had to show employer statements that they intended to employ them and documents to prove the origin of necessary investment capital to get a permit for self-employment.
The EU Reception Directive and a Directive on refugee status and subsidiary protection allowed states to restrict work rights of holders of subsidiary protection based on the labor market. The Reception Directive granted access to the labor market only to asylum seekers who had not received a first decision within one year, and allowed states to give priority to EU citizens and citizens of the European Economic States.
Public Relief and Education
Refugees generally received public assistance on par with nationals. Poland, however, offered almost no public relief to Chechens because it granted them only subsidiary protection. Some reentered the asylum procedure just to be able to stay in reception centers, while others headed west.
The United Kingdom denied childless asylum seekers housing and health services if they applied 72 hours or more after arrival with few exceptions. EU law granted asylum seekers the right to subsistence-level public assistance, but actual reception standards varied widely. States could limit beneficiaries of subsidiary protection to core benefits. Children of refugees and beneficiaries of subsidiary forms of protection had the right to education on par with nationals. Adult refugees or subsidiary protectees had access to the general educational system on par with other foreigners.


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OCEAN CITY — Citing a recycling program that was moving too far into the red, the City Council unanimously axed its most well known green program on Tuesday.
Although officials say Ocean City is not totally abandoning the popular "reduce, reuse, recycle" mantra, but rather outsourcing the program in a "rethinking" strategy that will save the town upwards of $1 million, the fact of the matter is the town will be abandoning its traditional recycling pickup practices, rendering those little blue bins essentially obsolete for residents.
Public Works Director Hal Adkins and Public Works Deputy Director Dick Malone outlined to the Mayor and City Council on Tuesday the reasoning behind their recommendation to eliminate the recycling portion of the city's solid waste removal program, which will dissolve nine positions, internally relocate five employees and see one member of the 15-person recycle division opt for retirement.
"When I took over as deputy director, the first thing I did was look at all the budgets for the 12 divisions that I oversee, and when I got to recycling my mouth dropped open," said Malone. "But, with that said this was a very hard sell for me because I'm a huge advocate of recycling. But, when I looked at the numbers of what it was costing the town to continue this recycling program, I couldn't justify asking the taxpayers to pay almost two times more to put something in the recycling bin as they would to simply put it in the trash."
Malone said the program was costing the town $394 per ton compared to just $162 a ton for trash despite a little less than a quarter of a million in revenue brought in from the recycling program itself on an annual basis. In comparison, the budget for the FY2011 recycling program was at approximately $1.5 million. Simply put, the expense to run the program was just getting too high for the town to manage.
"No matter how desirable the program may be, it appears that it is no longer economically sustainable to continue in its current format," said Adkins. "We wanted to continue the recycling program in some way but we had to eliminate this massive cost."
Malone and Adkins said that rising tipping fees per ton for solid waste prompted the outsourcing of the town's 32,000 annual tons to a renewable energy incinerator plant in Chester, Pa. called Coventra, which is one of the largest of its kind in the country.
That move, according to Malone, saved the town upwards of $700,000 this year. He said the decision to essentially expand the scope of the town's agreement with Coventra to now include the town's recyclable materials would save the town an additional $1 million for fiscal year 2011, with about 60 percent of that sum being from payroll savings.
"This makes sense and it also makes dollars and cents, and if we don't look into it and make changes when we can, we aren't doing our job for the taxpayers of Ocean City", said Malone. "We want our residents to be green but we don't want to kill their pocket books in the process."
Although it may look at first glance that the town is simply recanting it's two decade long quest to educate residents and visitors on the merits of separating and recycling their materials, Malone argues the end result of the trash and now the recyclable materials that are being shipped to the huge incinerator plant outside of Philadelphia is clean and renewable energy.
Malone said that the only negative he sees with this program is the initial perception of the change itself.
"The glaring negative I see in this is the fact that people will have to reboot their way of thinking concerning what they do with recyclable materials," said Malone. "Since the mid-80's we've been telling people to separate their recyclables, and now we are taking a step back and asking them to just throw it away and trust us to take care of it."
Simply put, when an aluminum can is thrown in the trash now, it will be sorted out by huge cross current magnets at the Coventra plant and will be recycled similarly to what people are used to, as will all metals, according to Malone.
However, as for other materials, as with solid waste, they will be incinerated and turned into renewable energy and sold back to the so-called grid, helping to power homes up and down the northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions.
Mayor Rick Meehan praised both Adkins and Malone in a move that will surely bring a bit of controversy to an area that has become increasingly environmentally conscious over the years.
Malone says that he's already received some angry phone calls, and he expects that may continue.
"If people can accept the fact that we aren't abandoning recycling and this is simply doing it a different way to produce clean renewable energy, then they will be fine with this move. If they can't get behind this new way of thinking, they will probably never be okay with what we are doing now," he said.
The last day for the recycling program in Ocean City will be April 26, when large recycling receptacles will be emptied and taken back by the town of Ocean City. As for the small blue bins that many residents were given to sort out their recycling, the city will not take them back unless residents wish to relinquish them.


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Marriott Welcomes Romney Back
By A.D. Pruitt
Mitt Romney didn't make it to the White House, but he is being welcomed back into a familiar room, the boardroom.
Marriott International said Monday that Mr. Romney has rejoined its board of directors after resigning in March 2011 to focus on his presidential bid against incumbent President Barack Obama.
Mr. Romney served on Marriott's board between 1993 and 2002 before he was elected governor of Massachusetts and then from 2009 to 2011. He received $193,357 in compensation for fiscal year 2010, of which about $83,000 was in cash fees and the balance in stock awards, according to regulatory filings. Mr. Romney's fiscal 2010 compensation was in line with what other Marriott's directors received in the most recent fiscal year.


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Marbury is the biggest idiot the league has had since he came to it. Even before he was drafted he was talking **** that he wouldn't play for the Bucks/Clippers. He quit on the T-Wolves because jealous of Garnett and his 126 million contract. He then quit on Nets because he hated Keith Van Horn. He quit on the Suns under D'antoni. He then quit on the Knicks for so many reasons and people on this site still worship him?
It is incredible to think that some here don't understand the value of being a true professional which Marbury was ever with any team. It was all about his 20/8 games and never sacrificing to make others better. All the talent he once had, because I would have chossen him over Iverson in 1996. The guy was simply incredible those first few seasons in Minnesota but everything went south when he wanted to play closer to home. He is a head case and the Mike Tyson of the NBA.


text: Not to mention, Ru'afo isn't necessarily a simple thug. Moving the Ba'ku to another planet without their knowledge, so they can die slowly while he enjoys the benefits of immortality strikes me as a pretty delicious (if complicated) revenge. I don't think he necessarily needed the Ba'ku to know he was the one who doomed them, just that they were doomed in the first place, and he would live on. Would he have simply used the collector to kill the Ba'ku if the Federation hadn't been involved? Possibly. But once they were involved and brought the holoship into the picture, I can see him being okay with the Ba'ku just dying "naturally," as long as he gets his Fountain of Youth.


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"Breaking Bad" is expanding like Walter White's meth empire: Sunday night's midseason finale earned 2.8 million viewers, a 47 percent increase over the fourth season finale.
The episode was also up 37 for adults 18-49. It was down, however, from the episode a week before, which set a record for the series by scoring 3 million total viewers, 1.85 million million of them in the key demo.
"Breaking Bad" is splitting its final,16-episode fifth season into two parts, with the final eight episode airing next year.
The first eight episodes averaged 2.6 million viewers, up 39 percent over the season four average. The show also averaged 1.6 million adults 18-49, up 56 percent.
"Congratulations to everyone involved in Sunday's great success and for delivering episode after episode of television that is nothing short of remarkable. 'Breaking Bad' began 5 years ago with a pilot that was like nothing we had ever seen on television," said Charlie Collier, AMC's president.
"That 'Breaking Bad' continues to deliver at such a remarkable level creatively, now over 50 episodes later, is a rare accomplishment that begins with Vince Gilligan and the torch is carried by every member of the team on both sides of the camera. We can't wait to share the final eight episodes with our audience."
The show has grown despite Dish Network dropping AMC stations. More and more viewers have discovered its grim charms through word of mouth, critical praise, and Emmy awards and nominations — including 13 nominations for season four.


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Debra & PattyAired on Sep 10, 2012
Debra has filled her house with an avalanche of clothes and run up a $50,000 credit card debt. Fed up, her husband and children are threatening to leave her to wallow in the hoard by herself. Meanwhile, Patty has stuffed her house with so many floor-to-ceiling cardboard boxes that she's had to move to her son's apartment. But now she's filling up that place, too, and the situation has already forced her son's partner to say, "Keep the heap - I'm leaving!"
Doug & RuthAired on Sep 17, 2012
Doug, who suffered severe brain trauma and memory loss in an accident, hoards items he feels might trigger his memories. Ruth has turned her beautiful home into a shrine for the three members of her family who died there. She refuses to get rid of anything that belonged to them, and continually shops for more to fill her sorrow.
Charles & AlvinAired on Oct 01, 2012
Charles' house is filled with thousands of the nude paintings he has done. His obsession with women and painting is so extreme that it's destroyed his marriages and left his family worried that he may end up hurting himself. Alvin's hoarding is so out of control that he's been forced to put his TV and food cooler in his bathroom and spend his time there. To make matters worse, his frail mother has fallen in the hoard several times and is now confined to a wheelchair.
Shanna & LyndaAired on Oct 08, 2012
Shanna owns the worst hoard in "Hoarders" history - a house crammed floor to ceiling with bottles filled with human waste. Meanwhile, Lynda is hoarding stuff for the Armageddon. She believes she's going to be raptured, and she wants to leave plenty of stuff behind for those who won't be going to heaven with her.
Joni & MillieAired on Oct 15, 2012
Joni's hoarding drove her two sons to turn to drugs to cope, and it forced Child Protective Services to take her granddaughter away from her. She has one last chance to stop the vicious cycle of loss she has inflicted on her family. Millie has agreed to more than one clean-up, only to relapse and start hoarding again. Now her daughter, Chelsea, has given Millie one last ultimatum - "Clean up or lose me forever."
Manuel & CarlaAired on Oct 22, 2012
Manuel was living in his hoarded house with his four grandchildren, ages 5, 6, 7, and 9. They are the love of his life, but they were removed by Child Protective Services and Manuel won t get them back unless he cleans his act up. Meanwhile, Carla has had three failed marriages to men who cheated on her. As if to represent each husband, Carla has hoarded out three homes. Her family is trying to get her to at least clean out one of the houses so she can make a new start in life.
Susan & MichaelAired on Oct 29, 2012
Susan `s addicted to buying and selling cars and electronics, but she never manages to sell much. Recently, when Susan was out prowling for more stuff, someone broke into the house, bound and gagged her wheelchair-bound mother at gunpoint, and stole some of Susan's hoard. Michael's father was a Nazi SS member in Germany's Third Reich who ruled his son with an iron fist, even forcing him to eat his own pet rabbit to "toughen him up." Now Michael is a hoarder and he and his dog live like sardines packed in a can of clutter.
Terry/AdelleAired on Dec 03, 2012
Terry's fridge is packed with dead cats, and she has another 50 live ones. Her son thinks her problems stem from the time her father died of a heart attack right in front of her when she was just a small child, and she's felt guilty ever since that she couldn't save him. Meanwhile, decades of hoarding has left Adelle's house in such shambles that she's using a bucket for a bathroom and doing laundry in a kiddie pool in her backyard. But Adelle can't see the filth or the damage her hoarding has done to her family.
Lee & BG/ChrisAired on Dec 10, 2012
BG and Lee have filled their million-dollar Victorian home with hoards of stuff--and now are even competing to see who can bring in the most stuff. The two are locked in emotional combat--a real-life "War of the Roses." Chris has filled his house and eight storage units with worthless junk that he gets for free. His situation is so dire that he's gone without water and other basics just so he can continue to afford storage space for his garbage.
Jan/BebeAired on Dec 17, 2012
Jan is in denial about her hoarding--one of her daughters compares her to a venomous viper ready to strike if you dare talk about throwing anything out. Bebe was raised with servants and boarding schools, and her husband gave her everything she desired. But when her husband was murdered, Bebe s privileged life unraveled, and now her hoarding is so bad that she even steals stuff when she s at church.
Jeff/MerleneAired on Jan 21, 2013
Merlene had it all--an international supermodel married to the son of the inventor of the Lear Jet. But her storybook life fell apart when she got divorced and now her house is crammed to the ceiling with her dumpster dive finds. Jeff once had plenty of cash and women to fill his time. But it all came crashing down when he lost his shoe repair business, and he moved all the contents of the business into his home and started hoarding construction supplies to boot.
Diana/DoloresAired on Jan 28, 2013
A victim of abuse as a child, Diana's hoarding became so extreme that her daughter was forced to sleep in a recliner because the trash had overtaken her room. But now a neighbor has blown the whistle on the heap, and the house could be condemned if Diana doesn't clean up fast. Meanwhile, Dolores was once an antiques dealer with such a great eye for value that she even sold to Sotheby's. But her buying got out of hand, and now she's got a hoard that could catch on fire and burn her house down at any time.
Fuzzie & Fredd/NancyAired on Feb 04, 2013
A pair of former punk rockers, Fuzzie and Fredd are living like teenagers well into middle age, work at a porn shop, and have stuffed their home with records, toys, comic books, ghoulish masks and mannequins. Fuzzie's father works 10-hour days to support them, but now he's fed up and giving them an ultimatum--clean up or get cut off. Nancy's freezing, sludge-filled home is filled with empty dog food cans, heaps of dirty clothes, rat-chewed boxes, and cobwebs that hang like black drapes. Nancy's niece, Michelle, is the only family member willing to help, but now she fears that Nancy will die in the hoard if something isn't done soon.
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Scientists Discover Link Between Trees and Electricity
"Everyone knows trees give us all oxygen so we can breathe, but according to Australian scientists, they also affect the concentration of positive and negative ions in the air.
A team from the Queensland University of Technology's International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health ran experiments in six locations all over Brisbane and found that positive and negative ion concentrations in the air were two times higher in heavily wooded areas than in open grassy areas, such as parks."
Dr Jayaratne, who is also a member of QUT's Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation (IHBI), said that natural ions in the air were mainly created by ionisation due to two processes - radiation from the trace gas radon in air and cosmic radiation from space.
Radon is a by-product of the radioactive decay of radium which is present in minute quantities in rocks and is continually exhaled by the ground.
"Because radium is found in rocks and radon is soluble in water, ground water is particularly rich in radon," he said.
"Trees act as radon pumps, bringing the gas to the surface and releasing it to the atmosphere through transpiration - a process where water absorbed by the root system is evaporated into the atmosphere from leaves. This is especially prevalent for trees with deep root systems, such as eucalypts."
The QUT scientists estimated that, in a eucalyptus forest, trees may account for up to 37 per cent of the radon in the air when transpiration rates were highest.
"Although there is an established link between airborne particles and human health, the role of ions is largely unknown," he said.
"However, we do know that approximately one-half of the particles that we inhale during normal breathing are retained in our respiratory system and it has been shown that charged particles were more likely to be deposited in the lungs than uncharged particles.
"We do not believe that ions are dangerous - the danger comes from the pollutants. If there are no dangerous particles in the air to attach to the ions there is no risk of ill health."
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DVD - the Physics of Crystals, Pyramids and Tetrahedrons
This is a wonderful duel DVD set lasting 2 hours and which presents one man's lifelong study of pyramids, crystals and their effects. Several of his original and very creative experiments are explained and diagramed out for experimenters. These experiments include;
1) transmutation of zinc to lower elements using a tetrahedron,
2) energy extraction from a pyramid,
3) determining mathematic ratios of nature in a simple experiment,
4) accelerating the growth of food,
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6) how crystals amplify, focus and defocus energy,
7) using crystals to assist natural healing,
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High Voltage & Free Energy Devices Handbook
This wonderfully informative ebook provides many simple experiments you can do, including hydrogen generation and electrostatic repulsion as well as the keys to EV Gray's Fuelless Engine. One of the most comprehensive compilations of information yet detailing the effects of high voltage repulsion as a driving force. Ed Gray's engine produced in excess of 300HP and he claimed to be able to 'split the positive' energy of electricity to produce a self-running motor/generator for use as an engine. Schematics and tons of photos of the original machines and more! Excellent gift for your technical friends or for that budding scientist! If you are an experimenter or know someone who investigates such matters, this would make an excellent addition to your library or as an unforgettable gift. The downloadable HVFE eBook pdf file is almost 11MB in size and contains many experiments, photos, diagrams and technical details. Buy a copy and learn all about hydrogen generation, its uses and how to produce electrostatic repulsion. - 121 pages
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KeelyNet BBS Files w/bonus PDF of 'Keely and his Discoveries'
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'The Evolution of Matter' and 'The Evolution of Forces' on CD
Years ago, I had been told by several people, that the US government frequently removes books they deem dangerous or 'sensitive' from libraries. Some are replaced with sections removed or rewritten so as to 'contain' information that should not be available to the public despite the authors intent. A key example was during the Manhattan Project when the US was trying to finalize research into atomic bombs. They removed any books that dealt with the subject and two of them were by Dr. Gustave Le Bon since they dealt with both energy and matter including radioactivity. I had been looking for these two books for many years and fortunately stumbled across two copies for which I paid about $40.00 each. I couldn't put down the books once I started reading them. Such a wealth of original discoveries, many not known or remembered today. / Page 88 - Without the ether there could be neither gravity, nor light, nor electricity, nor heat, nor anything, in a word, of which we have knowledge. The universe would be silent and dead, or would reveal itself in a form which we cannot even foresee. If one could construct a glass chamber from which the ether were to be entirely eliminated, heat and light could not pass through it. It would be absolutely dark, and probably gravitation would no longer act on the bodies within it. They would then have lost their weight. / Page 96-97 - A material vortex may be formed by any fluid, liquid or gaseous, turning round an axis, and by the fact of its rotation it describes spirals. The study of these vortices has been the object of important researches by different scholars, notably by Bjerkness and Weyher. They have shown that by them can be produced all the attractions and repulsions recognized in electricity, the deviations of the magnetic needle by currents, etc. These vortices are produced by the rapid rotation of a central rod furnished with pallets, or, more simply, of a sphere. Round this sphere gaseous currents are established, dissymetrical with regard to its equatorial plane, and the result is the attraction or repulsion of bodies brought near to it, according to the position given to them. It is even possible, as Weyher has proved, to compel these bodies to turn round the sphere as do the satellites of a planet without touching it. / Page 149 - "The problem of sending a pencil of parallel Hertzian waves to a distance possesses more than a theoretical interest. It is allowable to say that its solution would change the course of our civilization by rendering war impossible. The first physicist who realizes this discovery will be able to avail himself of the presence of an enemy's ironclads gathered together in a harbour to blow them up in a few minutes, from a distance of several kilometres, simply by directing on them a sheaf of electric radiations. On reaching the metal wires with which these vessels are nowadays honeycombed, this will excite an atmosphere of sparks which will at once explode the shells and torpedoes stored in their holds. With the same reflector, giving a pencil of parallel radiations, it would not be much more difficult to cause the explosion of the stores of powder and shells contained in a fortress, or in the artillery sparks of an army corps, and finally the metal cartridges of the soldiers. Science, which at first rendered wars so deadly, would then at length have rendered them impossible, and the relations between nations would have to be established on new bases."
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Hypnosis CD - 3 eBooks with How To Techniques and Many Cases
If you have a few minutes, you might want to read my page on hypnosis and all the amazing things associated with its application. Included is an experience I had when I hypnotized a neighbor kid when I was about 14. As well the hypnotic gaze of snakes, the discovery of 'eyebeams' which can be detected electronically, the Italian Hypnotist Robber who was caught on tape with his eyes glowing as cashiers handed over their money and remembered nothing, glamour and clouding the mind of others, several methods of trance induction and many odd cases, animal catatonia, healing, psychic phenomena, party/stage stunts, including my favorite of negative hallucination where you make your subject NOT see something...much more...if nothing else, its might be a hoot to read.
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U.S. National Parks > Glacier National Park, MT > Appistoki Peak (GNP) > Climber's Log
Appistoki Peak (GNP) Climber's Log
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|Snidely Whiplash
|Great Cross-Country Travel
Date Climbed: Aug 31, 2016
|Beautiful rambling in open country, past a waterfall, and into a huge desolate basin. Great summit.
|Posted Sep 1, 2016 9:55 am
|Appistoki Peak
Date Climbed: Jun 29, 2013
|Liked the variety in the views on this one. Tall jagged mountains on one side and rounded tamer ones the other direction, with views out to the plains a bit. Pretty cool.
|Posted Oct 28, 2015 6:41 pm
|Third times the charm
Date Climbed: Jul 24, 2013
|Have been planning on this one for some time but every attempt I've been chased off by rain or lighting.
Finally bagged it.
We continued on to Ellsworth then Never Laughs.
|Posted Jul 30, 2013 5:58 pm
|With Henry and Medicine
|Posted Apr 17, 2013 1:13 pm
|Appistoki Mt.
|2011 - solo, in combination w/ Scenic Pt., Medicine Peak and Mt. Henry.
|Posted Feb 24, 2013 6:34 pm
|4 of 4
|Summer 2012
The final summit of the "Scenic Point Ridgewalk" (should be called the Mt. Henry Ridgewalk). Climbed with Emily, Jose y Borja!!! After a long, beautiful day on SP, Medicine, and Henry the descent into the Appistoki basin was a treat! A very red sunset on a very red Mt. Henry!!
|Posted Jan 1, 2013 12:48 am
Date Climbed: Oct 21, 2010
|Posted Dec 18, 2012 10:39 pm
|Cool rock formations on the way up the ridge.
|Posted Mar 5, 2012 11:21 pm
|Scenic Ridge Loop
Date Climbed: Jul 28, 2011
|Fun day - Scenic Point, Medicine, Mount Henry, Unnamed Peak, Appistoki. One of the neatest hike/climbs I have done. Saw a little bit of everything.
|Posted Aug 23, 2011 11:16 am
|Aug 21, 2010 Scenic-Medicine-Mt Henry-Appistoki
|Posted May 12, 2011 11:24 pm
|Posted Oct 22, 2010 11:39 am
|An introduction to Glacier
|June 2003
Dropped a buddy off to work at East Glacier. He was new to the park so we headed into Two Medicine. Well, one thing led to another and before we knew it, we were standing on top this mountain. Ascended the west face and came down on Appistoki Creek.
|Posted Aug 18, 2010 11:06 pm
Date Climbed: Apr 29, 2006
|2006 with Jen, Ron, April, Bud and Martin
2004 with Bud via East Face
2002 with Bud and Martin
2001 with GMS from Henry
|Posted May 25, 2010 2:37 pm
|Second Time!
Date Climbed: Sep 15, 2009
|Climbed from the Appistoki Creek Drainage with Montanarendonk enroute to Ellsworth and Never Laughs.
|Posted Dec 2, 2009 1:15 am
|Climbed with G.M.S, a couple of times.
|Posted Jul 28, 2009 4:15 pm
|The Levitator
|Appistoki Peak
Date Climbed: Jul 15, 2009
|Climbed the Appistoki Creek Route with Rebelgrizz. Windy summit, but great views. Due to a late start Mt. Henry wasn't climbed.
|Posted Jul 15, 2009 11:29 pm
|Hiked to scenic point with my dad. Reaching the destination he said why not bag a few more peaks today so we hiked/climbed the loop around the valley.
|Posted Dec 11, 2008 12:17 pm
Date Climbed: Aug 13, 2006
|Made it up there with Brooks. Great climb in the Two Medicine Valley.
|Posted Oct 9, 2008 10:24 pm
|Appistoki Pk
Date Climbed: Jun 9, 1994
|Part of a loop after climbing Never Laughs with the OTHG. Several of us continued on to Ellsworth and then, Appistoki before heading back to the cars
Also, 6/20/96 with OTHG on a loop that went first to Appistoki than around and over Henry.
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Jaso's role at catcher will be limited
By Greg Johns / MLB.com
Fans have been eager to see more of Jaso after he went 3-for-8 with a triple, home run and four RBIs in his first two games after being acquired in an offseason trade from Tampa Bay for Josh Lueke. But Wedge is sticking with his plan of using veteran Miguel Olivo as the normal starter and working rookie Jesus Montero in several days a week.
Montero has been the DH nine times and started at catcher three times in Seattle's first 13 games. He got the day off Thursday, with Jaso at DH.
"Miggy is our starting catcher," Wedge said. "Jesus is going to get time as well. It's going to be tough to get Jaso back there. Not that I'm against it by any means, but right now I feel like we have to give the time to Miggy and Jesus. I still want to get Jaso's bat in the lineup from time to time, so that's what we're trying to do. He does a good job working and staying sharp."
Olivo was hitting just .125 going into Thursday's game, but Wedge believes the veteran will be fine. Olivo, 33, hit .224 with 19 home runs and 62 RBIs in 130 games last season.
"We're trying to get him going," Wedge said. "We've had conversations and I've been pleased with what he did this spring. He's working up the middle more, trying to go the other way, which is against what you've seen in the past from him typically.
"He did a nice job with it [in spring], but I think he's been a little anxious here early on. He's been pressing a little bit. But his confidence hasn't wavered, he still feels like he's going to hit and I do, too. But he just has to do some things from an adjustment period to make that happen."
Ichiro producing from No. 3 spot in order
SEATTLE -- Yeah, it's early. Two weeks into a six-month season, massive conclusions should not be drawn. But early returns on manager Eric Wedge's move of Ichiro Suzuki to the No. 3 spot in the Mariners batting order have been positive to this point, which is certainly encouraging for an offense in need of production.
Heading into Thursday's series finale with the Indians, Ichiro was leading the Mariners in RBIs with seven and his slugging percentage of .415 is well above his .335 of last year.
The 38-year-old right fielder hit his first home run of the season in Wednesday's 4-1 victory. And while he's not expected to blast a bunch of long balls, it never hurts to see your No. 3 hitter displaying some pop.
Wedge said all spring that he wanted Ichiro to define the No. 3 role in his own way and he's pleased how that's developed so far.
"I feel like that's exactly what he's doing and he's going to continue to get better," Wedge said. "He's off to a decent start, he looks comfortable in that role, he's produced in that role and I think he's only going to get better. There are so many balls he's hit hard that have been outs and other pitches that he's just missed. I like what I'm seeing."
For his part, Ichiro refuses to get caught up in any conversation about his new position. Asked if he's getting used to being in the No. 3 spot, he offered no clues.
"I don't know," he said through interpreter Antony Suzuki. "I'm just doing my role and that's all I can think of."
Wedge said Ichiro definitely seems to be hitting the ball with more authority.
"I do feel he's trying to drive it more," Wedge said. "I see him being a bit more aggressive at times and being more selective at times. That's the best of both worlds."
Ichiro now has 96 home runs in his 12-year Major League career, needing four more to become the 12th player in franchise history with 100 or more. His career high for a season was 15 in 2005.
Smoak back in lineup Thursday night
SEATTLE -- First baseman Justin Smoak was back in the Mariners lineup on Thursday after sitting out Wednesday's 4-1 victory over the Indians with a tight right hamstring.
"It feels good," Smoak said. "But I haven't done anything yet to test it that much. I'll still take it easy. I'm not going to go out there and turn the jets on. But I'm back in there today and hopefully it feels good."
The big man spent most of the day getting treatment and running in the pool to loosen up his leg. Manager Eric Wedge said he would "have to manage" the injury and will be monitored on a day-to-day basis, but jokingly noted Smoak isn't exactly known for his blazing speed in the first place.
"We've got him taped up pretty good," Wedge said. "He probably won't steal a base tonight. We'll just take him day-to-day."
Smoak is used to the speed jokes. Asked if he could score from first base on a double by Kyle Seager, who happened to be standing at the adjacent locker, Smoak just chuckled.
"I normally don't score on that anyway," he said. "I keep telling him, he's got to hit it over the fence."
Ichiro leads nine Mariners on All-Star ballot
SEATTLE -- Right fielder Ichiro Suzuki headlines a list of nine Mariners players on the 2012 American League All-Star ballot that was released on Thursday.
Ichiro, a 10-time All-Star, missed out on the All-Star Game for the first time last year.
This year's All-Star Game will be in Kansas City on July 10.
Rookie Jesus Montero is on the ballot for the first time at designated hitter, while second-year players Dustin Ackley and Kyle Seager debut at second and third base, respectively.
"That's unbelievable," Seager said. "I definitely did that stuff growing up. You watch your favorite players and everything and always vote for them. That's an extreme honor to even be mentioned. It's an honor just to be in the league. To be on that is an absolute honor."
Also on the AL ballot are catcher Miguel Olivo, first baseman Justin Smoak, shortstop Brendan Ryan and outfielders Mike Carp and Franklin Gutierrez.
Online balloting opens Friday on MLB.com and voting in Safeco Field will begin Sunday.
Worth noting
• Catcher Adam Moore underwent surgery on a torn meniscus in his right knee on Thursday and manager Eric Wedge said the prognosis is that he'll be out 4-6 weeks. That's positive news for Moore, who missed all of last season with a meniscus tear in the same knee and opened this season at Triple-A Tacoma after breaking a bone in his wrist during Spring Training.
"It went according to plan," Wedge said of the surgery. "Last year was obviously a much lengthier deal, but this is a different area of the meniscus."
• Mike Carp was scheduled to start in left field for Tacoma on Thursday night as he continues his return from a sprained right shoulder, but was switched back to designated hitter after taking batting practice before the game in Sacramento. Carp played DH for Tacoma the previous six games, batting .167 (4-for-24), and the Mariners want him to play a couple of games in the outfield before bringing him back to the Major League club.
• When Chone Figgins homered to lead off Wednesday's game, it snapped a string of 579 at-bats over 159 games (from 2005-12) without a home run for Figgins at Safeco Field. That was the longest homerless streak by one player in Safeco history.
Figgins did have two Safeco Field home runs prior to that streak while with the Angels.
• Brandon League was tied with Baltimore's Jim Johnson for the American League lead with five saves going into Thursday's games. League is five-for-five in save opportunities this year and 33 of his last 35, dating back to May 18, 2011. He has 50 saves in his career, including two with Toronto.
Greg Johns is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @GregJohnsMLB as well as his Mariners Musings blog. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Streetfighting sensation and UFC veteran Kevin "Kimbo Slice" Ferguson (0-0) makes his professional boxing debut Saturday, and Gary Shaw Productions today announced that recent "Super Six" participant Allan Green (29-3) is offering some high-profile support on the event's undercard.
Slice meets James Wade (0-1) in a four-round featured bout at the event, which takes place Aug. 13 at Buffalo Run Casino in Miami, Okla.
Wade made his professional debut this past January and suffered a third-round knockout loss to Carlos Torres.
Meanwhile, Green looks to rebound from back-to-back defeats when he meets Craig Gandy (7-4-1), who has lost his past three fights.
Tickets for the event, which range from $38 to $68, are available at BuffaloRun.com. Broadcast plans for the card have not been announced.
It was Gary Shaw who actually introduced Ferguson to the MMA world in 2007 as the head of the since-folded EliteXC organization. A former underground sensation who rose to fame thanks to his bareknuckle-fighting videos on YouTube, Ferguson won his first three MMA bouts, including the first-ever U.S.-network televised MMA headliner (against James Thompson at "EliteXC: Primetime"). Despite an eventual loss to Seth Petruzelli in the final major EliteXC show, UFC president Dana White took a gamble on "Kimbo" in 2009.
Ferguson was the featured fighter on a heavyweights-only 10th season of "The Ultimate Fighter," which shattered the reality series' ratings record. After an opening-round loss to eventual show champ Roy Nelson, Ferguson won his first official UFC fight with a lackluster decision victory over Houston Alexander at the show's live finale.
Surprisingly, though, he was dropped from the roster following a subsequent loss to Matt Mitrione at UFC 113.
The evening's full lineup includes:
- Kevin "Kimbo Slice" Ferguson (0-0) vs. James Wade (0-1)
- Allan Green (29-3) vs. Craig Gandy (7-4-1)
- Marteze Logan (26-47) vs. Abel Perry (14-5)
- Racquel Bailey (1-1) vs. Kerri Hill (0-0)
- Franklin Lawrence (15-2) vs. Marcus Rhode (34-42)
- Desmond Hubbard (0-1) vs. Carlos Torres (2-0)
- Haskell Rhodes (3-0) vs. Keith Collins (3-11)
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