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They are locked away for years without having committed any crime.
They cannot choose when to wake up and go to bed, what to eat, and with whom they share their lives. They cannot choose when to visit family and friends, whether to get an education, or to hold a job. Without any power or recourse, they face abuse and neglect.
This is life for more than a million people with disabilities across Europe. They are segregated from their communities and confined to long-stay residential facilities known as institutions. Institutions control all aspects of residents' daily lives.
They are places of confinement.
The United Nations' Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities ensures the rights of people with disabilities to live in their communities with choices equal to everyone else, and to receive services according to their needs. When the European Union ratified this convention, it became law.
But some EU states in Central and Eastern Europe are spending hundreds of millions of euros intended for development and investments to make states more equal to each other—called Structural Funds—on building or renovating institutions for people with disabilities. In effect, they are spending public money illegally and violating human rights.
The Open Society Foundations Mental Health Initiative has presented a petition to the European Parliament supported by a range of disability rights and self-advocacy groups. We called on the Petitions Committee to press EU decision makers to correct the Structural Funds process, make it transparent, and ensure public money doesn't support institutions and deprive people of their basic rights.
During our presentation to the committee on March 20, we showed the above short video, Community not Confinement, by one of our grantees, filmmaker Tomislav Zaja. In this video you will hear directly from people who know all about institutions. Some are former residents themselves. They can tell you better than I what it means to be able to exercise choice in their own lives, and to live freely in their communities. There are community-based services that meet the needs of people with disabilities better than institutions, and they don't have to cost more.
I can tell you this—in my 18 years with the Open Society Foundations supporting the development and the replication of sustainable alternative community-based models, I have been to these institutions in every country of Central and Eastern Europe. Every time I visit, I am destroyed, watching people's humanity fade as they languish in these places for decades. They become shadows of themselves. For most residents there is no way out, except death. Many long-stay institutions even have their own graveyards, recognizing the appalling but real fact that many of them will live out the ends of their lives there.
Our presentation produced promising results. The committee recognized that this issue is of such importance that they have kept our petition active. They have requested that the European Commission provide further information how Structural Funds are spent, and they have asked other committees including Budget Control and Regional Development—which control how EU money is invested—to advise them.
As the parliament debates the next round of Structural Funds throughout this year, the EU has an opportunity to change course and ensure everyone's rights are protected. We hope they will seize it.
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There are so many parallels with our work with drug users here--it is amazing when the "cure" in closed institutions is advanced as a solution and community-based alternatives are shorted. The image of the institution with its own graveyard will stay with me.
Thank you for pressing the EU to move beyond "checking the box" and saying they've helped people with mental disabilities. And I look forward to applying some of these lessons to discourage EU support for drug detention centers, which also punish in the name of health, and lock people away for years rather than building their ability to participate in society and be recognized as rational actors who have the biggest role to play in the protection of their health.
Indeed "there's no place like home." How can the EU purport to uphold open society values when it invests in depriving people of their liberty -- whether they are people with intellectual disabilities or people who use drugs? Donors should be a force for values and justice, not an enabler of governments' worst instincts to shut away problems by shutting away people.
Great work! As the promoter of CBR (Community Based Rehabilitation) Approach, I am very curios to hear or read about the experience on any country who did cost calculation of institulization vs. community-based services for persons with disabilities. Please, share any source of such information. I have an intention to initiate such calculation in Uzbekistan.
Mirjahon- you should look at the DECLOC report- it is the largest study undertaken on community services and institutions in Europe. You can download it here: http://www.kent.ac.uk/tizard/research/DECL_network/
I have costs to compare CBR and institutional care for children with disabilities in Azerbaijan. You are welcome to contact me directly at [email protected]
A compelling plea - no, a compelling demand! - for deinstitutionalization. Excellently done.
As usual, each person picks a side to support in preference to working towards real solutions which unfortunately rarely fit in a box that may be simply ticked.
On one hand, there are many people with mental and physical disabilities who pose a threat to themselves and others if forced to live in the community whilst there are many for whom institutional life is imprisonment without crime.
The real solution requires constant support and realistic assessment of an individuals state without thought for cost efficiency or political correctness so the person and their family are best served by the community but not always within the community.
The people I refer to in this blog are people who are forced to live in institutions but present no danger to themselves or others- and none of them is 'forced to live in the community'. Of course people need support- let's not forget that we all do- regardless of ability-and when people have access to the right kind of support, they can indeed live and be included in the community.
Congratulations to the brave people in this video who have finally been given a voice to demand what is theirs--freedom. You are the voices of the many thousands of others around the world. God bless you in your work!
No matter what, the Idea of no institutionalization is excellent. Let all efforts be put towards assisting these people in their homes and communities in order to allow for proper development and sense of belonging for both the parent, family members and the person with a disability.
Bravo for all those who appreciate the new approach, At USDC - Uganda we work with parents in their communities to assist their children through the community based rehabilitation approach.
A great work you are doing, never stop we have to continued the theory has to change to practice.
I am working for the African countries as well.
No one should suffer injustice.
For another community-based approach with youngsters that have special needs, look up the Kyrgyzstani/United States Organization www.casamission.org. This school based system incorporates parents, community, education and health initiatives to support and sustain these exceptional people.
congratulate.i be live disability ib not shameful ,but it depend on people view,disability people with disability needs to be respected, appreciated as a human being and i am so happy for the voice which raised for JUSTICE
The community/society cannot be for all when some are institutionalized, imprisoned and deprived. Whatever strategies needed to liberate individuals with disabilities should be applied in urgency.
And now, congratulations! This is so important and it's important this is done with care and planning which will ensure success. Thank you! You rally us all!


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Did Marlon break his oath of chastity? Oh, hell yes. On tonight's "Real World," we saw the preacher's son involve himself in some not-so-saintly behavior when he let go of his religious convictions to sleep with a girl he'd just met. Because he'd made a promise to his father to remain celibate, Marlon was filled with shame the morning after, but in the "Real World After Show" clip below, Jessica, Jordan and Nia say he was entirely too hard on himself.
"He was going through a lot, and the house was hell at that point," Nia says, noting it was only a matter of time before Marlon sought sexual refuge. "Like I told him: 'You are a man, it's commendable that you would even try to [stay abstinent]. It doesn't make you a bad Christian.'"
While the trio thinks Marlon shouldn't have beaten himself up over that one indiscretion, fellow church-goer Jessica says she could empathize with Marlon's shame: "When he failed, I know that hurt him."
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Subspecies II: Bloodstone (UK - BD RB)
Our Marcus heads back to hang out with the 80s rock video vampires again...
We rejoin Subspecies right after the closing events of the first film. A beheaded Radu (Anders Hove) is re-headed by his little stop motion finger monsters and then the entire film turns into a hunt for Michelle (Denice Duff) as she flees from the castle and heads to Bucharest with the Bloodstone in hand.
The first Subspecies sequel feels like a slicker film but it's only really because it's got some forward drive and a simple plot of 'catch the girl'. Yeah, it throws in some drama as Michelle isn't entirely all human any more but even that doesn't rescue the film from being more low budget silliness with fake fangs and a white painted face.
The presentation for Subspecies II is much warmer and much sharper affair than the original film was on Blu-ray. Colours are much better throughout, black levels much deeper and the haziness of the first film is all but gone. Subspecies II feels very much like a film of the 90s and other than the make up and costumes of the characters, had left the 80s looks of the original behind (for the most part).
Additionally, even the terrible effects don't quite seem so terrible in this sequel. The stop motion mini monsters look way better this time out and can even look pretty good with the power 1080p behind them (I said pretty good - not great).
Again, there are improvements over the original Subspecies Blu-ray here. This is a much stronger track thanks largely to the 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio overhaul. Dialogue is much clearer and balanced, the sound effects much more noticeable and even make use of the rear speakers in effective ways from time to time. Shockingly, even the score is tons more effective despite its terrible synthy elements.
The commentary track with director Ted Nicolou, Anders Hove and Denice Duff is quite fun. The trio very much enjoy each others company and spend most of the track pinpointing elements of the film and then expanding on them with stories from the shoot and the limited budget.
The 'Cast and Crew Interviews' (08:38 HD) is the same three from the commentary and the exact same interviews from the first Subspecies Blu-ray extras. The 'Killer Montage' (01:45) is also the same thing from the previous disc.
Videozone (20:01 SD) is thankfully something new, well kind of, it's a small featurette from the old Full Moon magazine video archives but it's nostalgically fun.
Lastly there's the film's trailer (01:44 SD) and as always the Full Moon Trailer Park which consists of the same seven trailers.
I'm all Subspecies'd out. I've never been the biggest fan of 90s B-movie horror and these two silly vampire flicks haven't done a whole lot to make me think I've missed out avoiding the straight to video nasties of 20 years ago. This sequel is a marked improvement, presentation wise over the first film but most of the extras are the same, so it's really only the commentary that's the big sell here.
Review by Marcus Doidge
Suitable only for persons of 18 years and over
Disc Details
Release Date: 18th March 2013
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.77:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS HD Master Audio 5.1 English, DTS HD Master Audio 2.0 English
Subtitles: None
Extras: Commentary, Interviews, Vidzone, Killer Montage, Trailers
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Ted Nicolaou
Cast: Anders Hove, Denice Duff, Kevin Spirtas
Genre: Horror
Length: 86 minutes
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What does former Supervisor Chris Daly think of labor union boss Larry Mazzola's proposed boycott of the Buck Tavern? He's seemingly basking in the attention.
"Larry Mazzola hates San Francisco," Daly said, calling the Buck a "special place in the lore that is San Francisco" and an "up-and-coming establishment."
Daly said Mazzola's boycott call was "so f------ great" he went to a print shop and asked them to print it up as big as possible. "I posted it in my bar," Daly said. "My partner, Teddy [Strawser] wants to print up T-Shirts."
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Avocado replaces butter in guiltless brownies
Today everyone wants a piece of the baking pie, so to speak; with bloggers to celebrity chefs coming up with recipes for everything from decadent treats and those boasting a better-for-you spin. While I applaud the spotlight on healthier desserts, respect for the food science often gets lost in the ingredient shuffle.
We love our desserts and search for new ideas to keep the sweets on a healthy menu. Some recipes, such as cakes and quick breads, easily handle ingredient exchanges without significant damage to flavor or texture. Healthy oils step in for butter or shortening on a moment's notice.
Look to makeover cookies or brownies and the swaps get a little trickier. In both these dessert categories, butter and sugar play dual roles: they create signature textures and infuse flavors. Significant changes occur when substituting oil for butter or artificial sweeteners for sugar and the new dessert often turns out too sugary and texturally unappealing.
Dessert makeovers with the goal of reducing fat, sugar and calories need to focus on ingredient substitution. While this is vital, most bakers miss the other issue: resetting expectations, in a positive way, of what a revised dessert may taste like. If guests walk away from the table disappointed, how do you sell the next healthy dessert?
Recently I spotted an advertisement for healthy brownies that swapped all the butter out for avocado purée. Who doesn't love brownies, and who wouldn't love them more if they could be almost guilt free?! Yes I was suspicious about the facts, I wondered if someone played fast and loose with the baking science in this dessert makeover.
The instructions called for an even swap of avocado (ripe and pureed) for butter or oil in your brownie recipe, no adjustments to oven times or temperatures. So I pulled out a standard brownie recipe; the resulting batter felt stiff after mixing and baked into a rubbery bar.
Suspecting this avocado-for-butter idea may not apply to from-scratch recipes, I did something I haven't done in 20 years: purchase box brownie mixes. After two different bake-offs, the results from the mixes produced results similar to my homemade brownies. Time to consult the food science.
Baking a great brownie poses challenges even with heavy-hitter ingredients such as butter and chocolate on board. Over mixing and too much heat toughen texture after cooling. Too little oven time and brownies feel like under baked mush. So how do you hold the butter and fit avocado purée into that tight window of success?
While avocado does boast healthy fats, it falls short of being an equal substitute for butter in a brownie recipe. Avocado brings fiber that smooth butter lacks and this distinction makes a world of difference on your taste buds. For this makeover to succeed, other ingredients need to take a more prominent role in creating that signature brownie texture.
The secret to success lies in using a two-step mixing process for the sugar. Beating half of the sugar with the eggs creates a light mixture that blends seamlessly with the avocado purée. Less flour and mixing the remaining sugar with the dry ingredients prevents rubbery texture. Coffee liqueur loosens the batter and enhances the cocoa flavor.
These brownies pack great cocoa flavor with moist texture yet it doesn't give away the secret ingredient. I did disclose to everyone sampling that this recipe contained only avocado purée for the fat, no butter or oil. We agreed that for about 100 calories per serving, this brownie exceeded our expectations of a healthy dessert makeover.
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If you'd like to eat some fresh rockfish or lingcod, you have only a couple days to go out and get some. The recreational groundfish season ends after Sunday. It will resume again in April or May at the discretion of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. After Monday, anglers may fish for rockcod and lings from shore, but not from the boat.
Luckily, rockfishing remains particularly strong right now, with great quality fish being caught in a number of Monterey Bay areas. The coming weekend will also feature excellent fishing conditions, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecast. NOAA predicts: "Tranquil weather anticipated through the rest of the week and into the weekend as high pressure dominates the region. Winds will remain light or moderate out of the northwest, with northwest swell generally between 3 and 7 feet through the first half of next week."
Captain John Thomas from Go Fish Santa Cruz enjoyed comfortable conditions last weekend on his crab combo trip. San Jose anglers Allen Sansano and Tom O'Dell took the Saturday morning trip. Both returned to the dock with limits of fat Dungeness crab and personal limits of lingcod. The duo released a good number of smaller sized rockfish while working the reefs near Davenport. They each retained an impressive array of jumbo-sized vermilion, canary and grumpy brown rockfish for the filet table.
Ed Burrell at Capitola Boat and Bait reported a few Dungeness caught in 90 feet of water outside Capitola last week. Most crabbers are still heading to deep areas to fill their pots. Following a typical early-season pattern, the biggest, firmest and most numerous Dungeness continue to be pulled from 180-220 feet of water off West Cliff in Santa Cruz or Wilder Ranch and similar depths on up the coast to Davenport. Mid-bay crabbers usually work the flats just off the deep canyon edges for success. Monterey crabbers are finding the Dungies in similar depths, utilizing a broad area outside of Point Pinos and south toward Carmel Bay.
Burrell also reported a barred sand bass caught near the Sponge Bob Buoy just outside their moorage area. This is a Southern California fish, and a strange catch for our area. Todd Fraser chimed in with other unusual fish news, reporting, "There is a school of nice bonito being caught down near Point Sur."
Fraser also provides us a bit of hope for the immediate future, now that rockfish season is closing. "There have been some halibut caught east of the Mile Buoy. The anglers are catching some nice halibut trolling the bounce ball set up. The perch were on the bite near Manresa. There are some nice striped bass being caught in the Pajaro River."
Allen Bushnell also operates Santa Cruz Kayak Fishing and Surfcasting Guide Service. Please send your reports, pictures or questions to firstname.lastname@example.com


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J.B. Williams
February 16, 2011
During Barack Obama's first two years in office, he and his Democrat controlled congress drove this nation from a whopping $10 Trillion in debt to over $14 Trillion in debt. A forty percent increase in national debt and almost none of the many ObamaCare federal spending mandates have even kicked into effect yet.
If we attempt to actually fund all of the Obama spending bills passed during unbridled Democrat reign in DC, the nation would end up more than $100 Trillion in debt over the next ten years.
To do that kind of mindless spending, you must have one heck of a sugar daddy. Yet, according to the latest reports, the good ole USA has just about run out of sugar daddies willing to keep funding this insanity, though that seems to have had no real impact on DC decision making.
Obama has proposed a $3.7 Trillion annual budget, roughly 26% of the entire US GDP. Obama proudly boasts that this budget is a reduction from his prior spending intentions, to the tune of about $1.1 Trillion over the next ten years, or about $100 Billion a year less than he would actually like to spend.
Republicans in the House are not much better, proposing only another $100 Billion a year in budget cuts, rejecting Obama's budget on arrival in pursuit of that extra "savings."
When Republicans and Obama reach their compromise, the annual budget will pass at or around $3.55 Trillion - give or take a few billion to cover Mrs. Obama's upcoming vacations with friends and family.
Now, after all of the left and right spending cuts being proposed at present, the budget calls for yet another annual budget deficit of $1.65 Trillion… Let me be very clear here – After the proposed budget cuts, all of them, they are planning on spending $1.65 Trillion more in 2012 than they expect to take in – or add another $1.65 Trillion to the $15+ Trillion debt we will have at the end of 2011 – bringing our debt to above $16.65 Trillion by the end of 2012.
Republicans are fighting to cut that number to only $1.55 Trillion in deficit spending in 2012. Listen closely…. NOBODY plans on balancing the federal budget anytime soon, if ever.
But who's our sugar daddy? Who is going to keep loaning our federal government money to run deficits as far as the eye can see?
"China, Russia, even the United Nations have suggested it is time to replace the U.S. dollar as the world reserve currency. On Thursday, CNN reported the IMF is now joining the bandwagon."
What, our sugar daddies want to replace the US dollar as the world reserve currency? Why ever would they do that? Why have they lost confidence in the dollar?
"Apparently, with the current worldwide financial crisis, all of the bailouts and the high debt load that the U.S. is carrying, the leaders of many countries are losing confidence in the dollar and want to see something that is more globally oriented."
So, our DC leaders, both Democrat and Republican, think that the best answer is to spend some more? Run that debt up to what? Based on today's proposals, we will have to keep raising our debt ceiling to above $30 Trillion before 2020. Who wants to loan us that money?
How are they going to do it with no sugar daddy?
Even the president's bi-partisan debt commission projects to continue deficit spending through the year 2035. But nobody is addressing the question of who is going to continuing loaning the USA that money and at what expense?
Some things never change – The borrower is always a slave to the lender. The federal government has been deficit spending for more than seventy-five years now, enslaving every American in those debt chains. Andrew Jackson was the last president to pay off the national debt and the federal budget has been balanced only once since then, by congressional Republicans during Bill Clinton's second administration.
Democrat Woodrow Wilson is the grandfather of US deficit spending and Democrat FDR single handedly created the nanny state we have today. Democrat Jimmy Carter was world renowned as America's worst president ever, until Barack Hussein Obama came along and made Jimmy Carter look like a frugal genius.
Now that social spending exceeds sixty percent of the federal budget, there is no denying that it is the socialism which is breaking our national piggy bank and Democrats are wholly responsible. But let's face it -- Republicans are not serious about ending deficit spending and addressing the mountain of national debt either.
If you look at the presidents proposed 2012 budget, there are huge increases in every department where you find public sector unions. But with a sputtering economy and high unemployment expected to create record low tax revenue, the president whacks the Commerce (job creation) budget by forty percent. Despite projected food shortages, Obama is slashing farm subsidies. He's taking care of his union buddies in transportation and education though…
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This is no time for political compromise. This is a time for serious leadership. Congress has no real choice but to slash federal spending, not by $100 Billion, but by the $1.65 Trillion projected deficit. They are out of time to balance the federal budget, because nearly every state is equally broke and we are fresh out of sugar daddies!
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was right, socialism is a great idea until you run out of other people's money – and Democrats have officially run out of other people's money.
House Republicans must take the lead here…. Or we will all follow Obama right off the cliff!
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SAN FRANCISCO - Three early adopters of IBM's new SmartCloud for Business were on hand at Big Blue's Cloud Forum event April 7 at the Westin St. Francis to explain in some detail how the new offering is adding to their IT production capacities.
The companies were scientific systems integrator Illuminata, health-care provider Kaiser Permanente and insurance and financial services specialist ING. The common thread among all three is "big data" and their need to employ more computing and storage capacity than on-site systems can muster.
IBM launched its first public-cloud service offering for production purposes at the event. See eWEEK Senior Editor Darryl Taft's news story for the details; read this story about what it means for potential users.
Illuminata Analyzes Genome Data in the Cloud
Further reading
Nashua, N.H.-based Illuminata, which focuses on large IT and communications infrastructures and large user bases, ran the IT for the Human Genome Project. This was a major-league big-data initiative coordinated by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health that took 13 years (1990-2003) and more than $3 billion to produce a mere one human genome.
Primary project goals were to identify all the 20,000 to 25,000 genes in human DNA, determine the sequences of the 3 billion chemical base pairs that make up human DNA and store this information in databases.
Even though the HGP shut down its information-gathering phase eight years ago, analyses of the data will continue for years to come. That's what Illuminata is doing.
"We've come a long way since then [in computing workload methods]," said Scott Skellenger, director of Global Information Services for Illuminata. "It took 13 years [using 1980s and '90s IT] to produce just one genome. Now, we've really had to get creative with the way we process the data coming off the instruments.
"Three years ago, you could go up to Fry's and put together your own architecture to handle that data coming off the instruments. Then, about 18 months ago, you could go to a very purpose-built HPC architecture. Now where we're at the point where most of our customer base isn't going to be able to support enough computational and storage capacity on site to support even a single instrument."
Now that's really big data. Illuminata is now doing its genome analysis using only the IBM public cloud.
"Some of the main areas of concern for us are around the regulatory and security spaces, and getting our problems solved without compromising our business. We've felt that IBM's experience here as compared to the competition has given us confidence and an on-ramp to the cloud that we might not have been able to enjoy as quickly," Skellenger said.


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This represents part of a bigger trend in which parent companies make the links between their portfolio of products clearer to consumers, who are often unaware of these – Unilever, P&G and Nestlé all put their master brand icon on many of their products. This (at lest in theory) enables the master brand to become a positive force in consumers' lives, and secure loyalty across the portfolio. For Coke this is important, since US soft drinks consumption has been falling for a while – it's now at 1996 levels. Some have linked to the obesity ads and argued that Coke is simply doing 'damage limitation', but there's something more complicated going on here. The world's most valuable brand can spread some of its equity into other beverage categories, even while its core is declining.
It also avoids some of the difficulties of balancing increasingly pressing health and sustainability messages with the more pleasure-focused messages that are at the heart of individual brands. Instead of garbling the message, the sub-brands can focus on the needs of their category, (such as pleasure seeking), while the master brand can reassure consumers around more substantive issues such as health and sustainability, which are less front of mind when choosing products. The end game here is that the master brand becomes the decision making shortcut that manages anxiety, allowing consumers to focus on the positives of the category.
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Roasted Chicken with Warm Spices, Ginger Greens and Potato Rösti
Fragrant roasted chicken legs are paired here with golden potato cakes. Greens infused with garlic and ginger round out this hearty meal.
1⁄4 cup curry powder
1⁄4 cup coriander seed
2 tbsp. cumin powder
2 tbsp. five spice powder
1 tsp. paprika
1 tbsp. sea salt
12 chicken thighs and legs (whole)
Vegetable oil, as needed
1 egg
1 tbsp. flour
2 large potatoes, peeled
1 tsp. mustard seed
2 lb. mustard greens, chopped
1 tbsp. garlic, minced
1 tbsp. ginger, minced
- In a small bowl, combine curry, coriander, cumin, five spice powder, paprika and salt. Rub chicken pieces with oil and spice mixture; roast at 450° F. 30-40 min. until brown and crisp.
- Meanwhile, in a separate bowl whisk egg and flour. Grate potatoes and rinse in cold water. Squeeze potatoes dry and combine with mustard seed and egg batter; season.
- In a large skillet over high heat, fry approx. 1⁄2-cup portions of potato mixture in oil until brown and crispy; drain.
- In a separate skillet, sauté mustard greens, garlic and ginger in 1 tbsp. oil 3-4 min.
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I just let myself be lured into buying a Netbook for my daughter. It was a good deal actually and I love the machine. The only problem is that it came with no OS and no optical disc drive (it has two USB ports, though). The only option to get it up and running – without the need to buy (or borrow) an external optical drive – is to install the OS via a USB thumb drive.
Armed with my faithful MacBook, an internet connection, and a 2GB USB flash disk; I set out on an adventure to bring my daughter's future netbook alive.
Deciding on the OS
It didn't take long for me to decide to install Ubuntu on the netbook. Free would be the first reason and familiarity is the second. I've tried Ubuntu before and I have the installation CD with me.
As naive as it sounds, some people still think that you can just copy and paste the content of the CD to the USB drive and boot the machine with it. That's why my first quest is to find out how to transfer the installation ability of the CD to USB as a portable Ubuntu installer – the Mac way of course.
The search ended up with an unexpectedly different result. I found something more interesting: there is a netbook version of Ubuntu called Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR for short) which is designed for the small screen and Intel Atom processor (as most netbooks are). The minimum requirement is 384MB of RAM.
So I choose the nearest download location for me and hit the "Begin Download" button.
Note: If you are wondering whether your netbook is compatible, you can check their list of tested and compatible models, but in general, it should work with most netbook models. Mine is not listed but I've discovered no problem so far.
Creating the Portable Ubuntu USB installer
The Ubuntu site has a page describing how to create the USB installer. Basically, you have to get an .IMG version of the Ubuntu installer (UNR is already in IMG format), and then convert it to the USB drive.
Windows users have the luxury of an easy GUI way of converting the IMG with the help of Disk Imager . Ubuntu users has their own Ubuntu ImageWriter. But Mac users and other Linux users have to bear with the geeky command lines method.
The first thing to do to create the portable Ubuntu USB installer using Mac's Terminal command line is to make the process easier by moving the UNR installer file to the highest position of the folder structure and then changing the name to something shorter like "unr.img" (sans quote). Don't forget to make sure that there's no USB drive plugged.
Then follow these steps:
- Type : diskutil list in the Terminal and hit Enter
- Plug in your USB flash disk and repeat step 1
- Compare the result and you'll have the device node assigned to your flash media. Usually something like "/dev/disk2" (sans quote)
- Type : diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskN in the Terminal and hit Enter. You'll have to replace the /dev/diskN with the device node that you got from step 3. From the picture above you can see that the device node assigned for my USB flash drive is "/dev/disk1" (sans quote)
- Type : sudo dd if=/path/to/downloaded.img of=/dev/diskN bs=1m in the Terminal and hit Enter. But there are several things that you have to change here before you hit Enter:
– first the /path/to/downloaded.img is the location of the downloaded UNR installer file. As we've already taken care of this before, all you've got to do is to change the string into /unr.img
– second, the /dev/diskN is the device node which is the same as step 4
– and the last, if you see the error line: dd: Invalid number '1m' then you need to change the bs=1m into bs=1M (notice the capital 'M')
- Write your password, hit enter, and wait until the process is finished. Please be warned that all the data in the USB drive will be lost.
- Type : diskutil eject /dev/diskN in the Terminal and hit Enter.
- Unplug your USB drive.
Installing UNR in the Netbook
We now come to the climax of the story. I plug the USB drive into the Netbook's USB port and start the machine. During the booting process, I press the F10 button to go into the booting option, choose to boot from the USB drive, and….the prince and princess live happily ever after.
Every manufacturer might have different settings for this booting menu, so please refer to your machine's documentation. Another option is to look carefully at the bottom left part of the screen during the beginning of the booting process because usually the booting instructions are written there.
Now the netbook is alive and well, running UNR while my daughter has to continuously 'compete' with his father – yours truly – to use the tiny machine. :) As for me, I am now addicted to the concept of a USB Drive as the OS installation method and will surely try to find out more about it.
Have you tried UNR? Do you know any other method to create an installation USB drive for other OS's? Share using the comments below.
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Just a very short comment, cause everything else was well written and I do prefer using the command line instead of the Disk Utility GUI.
You don't need the trouble of moving the IMG file to a higher hierarchy level just to save you from typing long paths. Instead, just leave the file wherever you want and use the autocomplete with the TAB key, it really easy, just type the first letters, hit TAB and it will complete the whole path (or hit it twice for possibilities).
That's it. Hope it helps someone that didn't knew it...
this is a silly article.
You created an ubuntu for your eee on your mac?
So how to create a live ubuntu with your mac for your mac.
And NO rEFIt nor Bootcamp on your mac 'cause I want my stick to be bootable on every intel mac.
I got ubuntu to boot ( rEFIt on usb stick, ubuntu cd in drive ) but using the "create usb stick" removes the rEFIt...
has anyone managed to boot a macbookpro into UNR, Ubuntu Netbook Remix, via a usb-thumbdrive? am trying to do this, but haven't succedded yet. any directions will be welcome. i do have rEFIt installed on my macbookpro 5,1 and i have ubuntu 9.04.
How long do you have to wait for the file to load onto the USB? I entered the password when asked, but no characters went onto the sreen. When I pressed "enter" the cursor went to the LHS on the next line and stayed there.
2 questions; 1. for those claiming it is possible to use Disk Utility for this, please show us how. 2. I fail to use this guide due to: "type : sudo dd if=/path/to/downloaded.img of=/dev/diskN bs=1m in the Terminal and hit Enter. But there are several things that you have to change here before you hit Enter:
- first the /path/to/downloaded.img is the location of the downloaded UNR installer file." Could someone please describe the correct path? I.e. what am I supposed to put instead of "path/to"?
1. Maybe you could use this article as a reference.
2. If you've followed the suggestion to move the img file to the highest position of the folder structure and change the name to something shorter like "unr.img" (sans quote), then you can replace the "/path/to/downloaded.img" into "/unr.img"
There's also a neat way to get the full path and filename into the command window, and get it right every time - type the first part of the command up to the 'if=' and then drag and drop the image file from a finder window into the command window, and magically the file's entire path and filename are typed for you.
If you still need any plugins, check these sites: http://filesmixx.com (rapidshare search) and http://filesburner.com (using a torrent). Hope you'll find necessary soft there!
"...my daughter has to continuously 'compete' with his father..."
I think you meant that she has to compete with "her" father.
there is a utility called Unetbootin that can be used to download several flavours of linux and automatically create a usb bootable disk for you even if the image is *.iso. dont know if it has a mac version though.
I wish we had more netbooks with no OS or linux OS. Here in the US of A, system builders are peddling (or in some cases coerced to peddle) Microsoft's crappy OSs.
Very few options here. Sigh!
two weeks ago, i tried booting my apple macbookpro 5,1 with UNR, running off a usb-stick. i've already got ubuntu 9.04 installed on the macbookpro. followed all the steps to download, and using imagewriter, create the bootable UNR on the stick. Using rEFIT even managed to get the machine to sense it and to boot off it. however, rEFIT reports an error of not finding any bootable OS on it. what gives? has anyone got UNR to successfully boot on a macbookpro using usb?
UNR is 32-bit i think, MacBooks are 64-bit... but sometimes the 32-bit stuff works on them. Download the full Ubuntu 64-bit and try that, i find it more probable to work.
why didnt you just boot the livedisk on the macbook and then use that to create a USB install disk??
use the search function on your browser, it might help you determine if this question has been asked... he didn't know how to get a Mac to boot from CD.
While I've heard of the Ubuntu Netbook Remix referred to as UNR before, most people I know who use it (at least with the Asus EEE PC) prefer to call it Eeebuntu.
Two different things, i'm pretty sure.
Why didn't you just buy a netbook with Ubuntu pre-installed?
You referred to your daughter with a masculine pronoun, ROFL.
lol, i did notice something was off when i read this article... now i know, even if i didn't catch it.
why didnt you just boot the livedisk on the macbook and then use that to create a USB install disk?
That doesn't work the way you'd expect unless you trick the EFI into recognizning the disc as bootable. One way to do that is to use the Bootcamp Assistant and then, as your Mac restarts, swap your Windows install CD for the Linux live CD. Another is to use rEFIt (refit.sourceforge.net/) but I've had no success with that on Leopard.
Umm... yeah. I have a Macbook, and rEFIt is running fine. Plus, try holding down the 'option' key before the 'bong' sound is made when you turn on your Macbook and hold it for a second or two after. Now you have a boot menu (without rEFIt).
May I ask why you didn't just use Disk Utility? You essentially did everything using the Command line that Disk Utility does in a GUI. You can see partitions and image to the disk using disk utility.
Yep. Disk Utility is the business on OS X. It did away with all this crazy command line stuff years ago. I've used it to install Ubuntu Netbook Remix and Moblin onto USB sticks.


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There have been, in the intervening years between Frampton Comes Alive! and this anniversary set, two other FCA!-related live albums from Peter Frampton. Each, really, only underscored the idea that if you were one of the 17 million who bought the 1976 release, then you had all the live Frampton you needed.
Until now.
Put aside 1995's Frampton Comes Alive II, and the deluxe 25th anniversary set from 2001. Heck, FCA! 35 Tour: An Evening with Peter Frampton — issued on Tuesday via Eagle Rock Entertainment — might just replace the original.
I know. Bob Mayo is spinning in his grave. But hear me out: Not only does this two-disc DVD set include a complete retelling of Frampton Comes Alive!, presented talkbox note for talkbox note, there is also a just-as-interesting career-retrospective collection on Disc 2 — providing keen new insights into Frampton's underrated more recent releases like the Grammy-winning Fingerprints, his first-ever all-instrumental project.
[SOMETHING ELSE! REWIND: The riffs scattered about Peter Frampton's episodic triumph 'Do You Feel Like We Do' are considered standard fare today — but that's only because they've been emulated so often.]
Long-time fans will likely come for the old stuff, but don't skip Disc 2. You'd be missing some of the most vibrant music that Frampton has ever put out. That includes "Asleep at the Wheel," "Restraint" and "Vaudeville Nanna and the Banjolele," all part of his 2010 heavy-progressive, incredibly varied release Thank You Mr. Churchill. "Boot It Up," "Float," "Double Nickels" and Frampton's surprisingly effective take on Chris Cornell's "Black Hole Sun" were originally on 2006's Fingerprints. He offers a new version of George Harrison's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," which Frampton initially tackled on 2003's Now, as well as "Off the Hook," from his 1994 self-titled release.
Frampton also goes deeper back for scorching runs through Ida Cox's "Four Day Creep" and Ashford and Simpson's "I Don't Need No Doctor," both originally found on Frampton's final album with Humble Pie — 1971's gold-selling Performance Rockin' the Fillmore. Here, too, Frampton connects the past with the present, by featuring his son Julian on vocals.
Of course, the period immediately following Frampton's exit from Humble Pie would include a series of criminally overlooked studio recordings, though Frampton's focus on that period throughout the original FCA! belatedly turned many of these songs into new-found hits. If you remember his update of the Rolling Stones' "Jumpin' Jack Flash" at all, it's not from 1972's Wind of Change, which featured a trio of Beatles-related figures in Ringo Starr, Billy Preston and Klaus Voorman. Same with "Lines on My Face," originally found on the oddly named Frampton's Camel, in 1973.
The bulk of the tracks on FCA!, however, were culled from 1974's Somethin's Happening (four, including set-opening title song and "Do You Feel Like We Do") and 1975's Frampton (four, including the similarly named hits "Show Me The Way" and "Baby, I Love Your Way.") "Shine On," from 1971's Rock On, was the lone look back on FCA! to Frampton's time as a member of Humble Pie. This show wasn't conceived as a detailed retrospective, at the time, so much as another set filled with his newest songs.
They've since become something else entirely, of course. Yet FCA! 35 Tour doesn't treat them like curios, too precious to be handled. Instead, fast forever some four decades, and Frampton can be found adding fresh ideas to even the most familiar grooves. His hair is shorter — hell, it's white and almost gone — but he hasn't lost a thing on the guitar.
That's perhaps best heard through a grease-popping series of runs on the previously rather shop-worn "Do You Feel Like We Do," even as the crowd occasionally drowns Frampton out shouting back the now-familiar lyrics. It's impossible, of course, not to miss Mayo, who had such a memorable role at the keyboards on that track, but Rob Arthur's jazzy turn ultimately ends up inspiring Frampton past his early pyrotechnics into these thrillingly riffy, very Wes Montgomery-ish asides. (Mayo, by the way, isn't the only original member of Frampton's FCA! cast to have died in the intervening years. Drummer John Siomos has also passed, and this new project is dedicated to both.)
Finally, yes, Frampton does the talkbox stuff — both on "Show Me the Way" and "Do You Feel Like We Do" — but not before referencing both his memorable appearance in the "The Simpsons" on the latter, and then pretending to adjust his dentures. The crowd roars its approval, even as Frampton — once more — brilliantly marries the past and the present.
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Bigg Boss Season 7 10th December 2013 Written Episode Update
Bigg Boss Season 7 10th December 2013 Written Episode, Bigg Boss Season 7 10th December 2013 Written Update
With the most loved contestants surviving week after week inside the Bigg Boss house, the show is getting truly competitive. Early in the morning, Gauahar shares her worries about Ajaz's attention seeking behaviour with Kamya. Gauahar even goes on to say that she dislikes Ajaz because he keeps lying to her. Ajaz, on the other hand, reveals that he is only playing a game and does not harbour any real feelings for Gauahar.
Soon after, the task for the day is announced and it is called the 'Ticket To Finale' Task. The housemates are divided into two teams wherein they will be required to complete five different tasks. By the end of the tasks, there will be only one winner who will be given the unique advantage of being a part of the Grand Finale. After each task,
The teams are formed and Team A consists of Armaan, Andy, Sangram and Tanishaa and Team B consists of Gauahar, Kushal, Ajaz and Kamya.
The first task to be re-launched is the Keeping the Time task. Team A's Armaan and Sangram, and Team B's Kushal and Gauahar decide keep a track of the time while the other contestants attempt to distract them. An hour later, the task comes to an end and Bigg Boss declares Team A as the winner adding a point to Armaan and team's kitty. Finding this unfair, Gauahar begins to complain and frustrated with her, the other housemates decide to ignore her. Irritated with Gauahar's behaviour, Armaan's team decides to eliminate her from the task. Shocked at being eliminated first, Gauahar fights back saying that the team has taken this step because they consider her a strong contender. Seeing her anguish, Armaan's team gets pumped and prepares to knock the rest of her team out from the run for a position in the Finale as well. Kushal's team, on the other hand, desperately awaits the next task because they want their revenge.
Next, the Shaitan Aur Farishtey task is re-introduced where the contestants are required to protect their medals. Now eliminated, Gauahar is asked to monitor the task. As the task kicks off, Ajaz effortlessly gives away his medal to the opposing team and rushes to Armaan to grab his. Surprisingly, though, Gauahar is assumed to appear biased towards Armaan's team. Aggravated by the behaviour of the contestants, Armaan orders Tanisha and Sangram to attack their opposing team and nab their medal. Both strive hard and successfully grab the medals thereby winning another task for Armaan's team.
With another victory under their belt, Armaan's team decides to eliminate Kushal. Gauahar gets annoyed at Tanishaa for picking on Kushal and starts yelling at her leading to a heated argument. Not one to sit back and get yelled at, Tanishaa makes some personal comments about Gauahar which upsets her further and Kushal has to step in to calm her down.
In the evening, Ajaz locks himself in the emergency toilet and overhears Kamya's nomination plans. Shocked by what he hears, Ajaz comes out and fights with Kamya. He also says that Kamya is a fake person who makes friends only to use them for her benefit in the game. Realizing that the fight is getting out of hand, Armaan steps in and calms Ajaz down.
To wrap up the day, the Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa task is reintroduced. The fate of the two teams seems evident because with two wins, Armaan's team has gotten stronger and only contestants remain in the opposition team. Ajaz and Kamya, in spite of their differences, fight back and give Armaan's team tasks which are difficult to perform. As a result of this, Ajaz and Kamya are able to beat Armaan's team and decide to eliminate Armaan from the game.
With two tasks remaining and Andy, Sangram, Tanishaa, Kamya and Ajaz still in the running for the 'Ticket To Finale' task, who will win that lucky spot in the Bigg Boss Grand Finale?
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January 28, 2013 at 3:03 am #19783
I am new to WordPress and just purchased the Velvet theme. For the most part, I'm getting the hang of it. I'm a UI designer and I'm using my website primarily as a portfolio, so I've created several portfolio-items and I like the way they look with the little card-style background. However, the sidebar seems to only point to "pages" and not "portfolio-items". The sidebar theme options asks which "page" do you want a sidebar on. My portfolio-items already have a sidebar (which is good), but how do I customize what goes in there? I want it to link to portfolio-items, not pages, categories, and archives.
What is the difference between pages and portfolio-items and does it matter which I use?
Currently can be seen at http://www.deannamccusker.com/wordpress. My ISP put it there and I'm planning to move it up to deannamccusker.com when it's ready. (Not sure how to create a sandbox environment.)
Thanks in advance,
DeannaJanuary 28, 2013 at 3:56 am #105013
Go Velvet > Theme Options > Sidebar > Select a PAGE that should receive a new widget area:, select your portfolio page. Next, go to Apperance > Widgets, you will see a new widget area for your portfolio page. Supply that with widgets.
IsmaelJanuary 29, 2013 at 2:54 am #105014
So I selected the Portfolio PAGE in the Sidebar options area, then went to Appearance > Widgets. (Individual portfolio-items are not in this list.) There I see an additional listing on the right called "Page: Portfolio". I added "Pages" to it and titled it "Projects". PAGES are displayed on my individual portfolio-item pages with the title "Pages" (not Projects) and the content contains only PAGES (Home, Blog, Portfolio, etc.) not PORTFOLIO-ITEMS. I tried creating a Custom Menu, but still, the default Pages, Categories and Archives are the only things displayed in my sidebar. This Portfolio page does not seem to be affecting the individual portfolio-items pages.
What I want is a sidebar on the individual portfolio-items pages that links to each other portfolio-item so that the user doesn't have to jump back to the portfolio page and back for each item.January 29, 2013 at 3:03 am #105015
Ah, I found the Velvet Latest Portfolio sidebar widget, which looks like the thing I want. I added it to Pages:Portfolio. Didn't work. I tried putting it in Sidebar Pages, but that didn't work either. Nothing I'm doing is changing my sidebar.
Thanks in advance for your help.
DeannaJanuary 29, 2013 at 5:10 pm #105016
Hi Deanna,
The portfolio items use the Widget area "Sidebar Blog". You can then use a plugin like http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-logic-visual/ to add additional logic to make it so only certain widgets show on the different post type pages.
Additionally, you could modify the theme files and create a new single template and widget area for the portfolio items but it isn't something we could walk you through.
DevinJanuary 30, 2013 at 12:40 am #105017
Thanks, that worked. Is this in the documentation somewhere? It would not have occurred to me to try that. I see that this means that the portfolio-items pages and the blog share a sidebar. That seems odd.
More importantly, because it is a blog sidebar, it seems to treat the portfolio-items as blog entries and posts the date they were published. Is there any way to remove this publish date from the sidebar? I don't want my static portfolio items to contain dates.
Another (somewhat) unrelated question – I now have 3 portfolio-item pages, 2 of which show the sidebar along the full side of the page (including the header image) and 1 shows the header image across the whole page with the sidebar starting below. I would prefer the first style (sidebar appearing along the full side of the page. I'm not sure why these are different, but can you tell me how to adjust them?
I'm getting very close to having this site look the way I want!
DeannaJanuary 30, 2013 at 7:24 am #105018
1) It seems like you already solved the date issue? I couldn't find any meta data (comments, date, etc.) on the portfolio pages.
2) Please check your slideshow options. Make sure that "Image slideshow?" – "Default Small" is selected and make sure that no dynamic template is used for the portfolio page.February 1, 2013 at 3:30 am #105019
No, I did not resolve the date issue. My portfolio-item sidebar contains a small thumbnail with the portfolio-item title and date it was published to the right of the thumbnail. I want the title, but not the date. In the widget area, it asks if you want a title only, or title and excerpt. It seems the date goes along with the title. I just want a title with no date. How do I do that?
DenanaFebruary 1, 2013 at 7:28 am #105020
To remove the date you can add this to your /css/custom.css file
a .news-time, a:hover .news-time {
display: none;
Sidebars vs. Widgets
The direction WordPress design is heading will have (in my opinion) only 1 sidebar/widget-area for each 'physical location' on the page for the entire site. So instead of having 50 different right sidebars there will be only one right sidebar shared among all posts/pages/archives. Within that single sidebar, there will be multiple instances of widgets , assigned to be displayed when certain conditional statements are met. ( http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags#Conditional_Tags_Index )
The deficiency of the 'custom sidebar/widget-area model' is already becoming a noticeable problem. It's redundant, static and not scalable. By its very definition, the only condition that triggers a sidebar or a widget-area is the type of page the end user is visiting. right-sidebar-portfolio-item and right-sidebar-blog-post only allow the developer to decide what sidebar (already prepacked with widgets) to display on what particular page.
Though at first glance that may seem dynamic, further examination reveals that the model is more on the static side. Its very likely that the two sidebars share at least one widget, that is needlessly repeated over and over again for every new sidebar. This goes against DRY design.
Factors such as whether to show the user the same or a different widget when the condition is true for: visitor is logged in/or not, visitor is from Malaysia, show one widget if its after 8pm in Malaysia and another if after 8am, if visitor's shopping cart has specific items in it… Such robust functionality is possible without redundancy when conditional statements determine which widget to display and not which sidebar to display.
All this is already possible now with Widget Logic (or competitor plugin). So a sidebar shared between multiple pages in a single site can (a) be overridden with a custom sidebar/widget area via a plugin or custom code (the past) or the widgets themselves can become dynamic based on conditional statements (the future). So when you see a sidebar shared among multiple page types, you are looking towards the future! :)
NickFebruary 2, 2013 at 3:28 am #105021
Thanks, much better! And thanks for the information, that's helpful.
I've had a lot of questions and I've been impressed with the quick responses you guys have been providing.
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Money Stolen From Imperial Sound, January Camp Cancelled
Due to the theft of bank information from the corps, January Camp is canceled. We are currently working with our bank to resolve a claim that, last week, thieves stole money, via an ATM, from our checking account. The dispute is being mitigated between the corps, Citizens Bank, and the ATM brand in question.
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Senator Lanza Condemns Outrageous Exploitation Of Virginia Tech Massacre
A new online video game called 'V-Tech Rampage' has recently been released and is modeled after the tragic events that occurred at Virginia Tech University in April. The goal of the game is to carry out the events of the day, killing students and then yourself.
"This video game is a blatant disregard and lack of respect for the victims, their families, the faculty and the students at Virginia Tech University," said Senator Andrew Lanza (Staten Island).
The game is rated Mature on the website, but because it can be downloaded onto a personal computer, it can be accessed by anyone. Moreover because the present rating system on video games is voluntary, there is nothing to prevent this and other inappropriately violent games from being sold to children. "This sick and twisted game which exploits the tragic events at Virginia Tech University further underscores the need to crack down on violent video games, and reduce children's exposure to violent and inappropriate materials within these games," said Senator Lanza. "Although this is an on-line game, I sincerely hope that the video game industry, wholesalers, retailers and web sites refrain from advertising, selling or facilitating this game, or any game which exploits such a devastating tragedy," said Senator Lanza."
Senator Lanza is Chairman of the Senate Task Force on Youth Violence and the Entertainment Industry. He will be exploring measures in the Senate to fight the escalating levels of violence and inappropriate materials in video games including:
Advisory Council: The legislation will establish a new Advisory Council on Media, Entertainment Software and Youth Violence, which will review and make recommendations on the effectiveness of the current Entertainment Software Ratings Boards (ESRB) ratings system in keeping violent video games out of the hands of youth. The panel, which will include parents, educators, experts in child psychology, child welfare advocates, concerned citizens and industry representatives, will also develop policies relating to public education and advocacy against youth violence, examine efforts being undertaken in other states, and develop recommendations for additional ways of regulating the exposure of youth to these games.
Rating System Labeling Requirement:
Under current State law, there is no requirement that retailers place labels on video games sold in New York. To address this shortcoming, the legislation to be advanced in the Senate would establish a new requirement that every video game sold in New York by a retailer or over the Internet, whether new or for resale, must have a clearly displayed rating indication on the game cover or elsewhere (such as on the website). Individuals who violate these provisions will face fines and penalties.
Parent-Teacher Anti-Violence Awareness Program:
The legislation would also establish a new Parent-Teacher Anti-Violence Awareness Program, which will empower parents and teachers to work with students and children on issues related to violence in video games. The program will also seek to increase awareness of the ratings system on games, and the importance of appropriate paternal supervision. The Anti-Violence Program would funded through fines on retailers who violate the new labeling law.
Senator Lanza said, "As the Chairman of the Senate Task Force on Youth Violence and the Entertainment Industry, I will be reviewing a broad spectrum of issues related to video violence, with a particular focus on additional steps that can be taken to curb children's access and exposure to such materials."


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London, UK -Brent Lakatos of Dorval, Que., won Canada's third track and field and Canada's 11th medal overall at the 2012 Paralympic Games. Day three of the track and field competition also saw two new Canadian records and three more top eight performances from Keira-Lyn Frie of Saskatoon, Sask., Alister McQueen of Calgary, Alta.., and Curtis Thom of Mississauga, Ont.
Lakatos took silver in the men's T53 classification wheelchair 400-metres crossing the finish line in 50.71 seconds. "The last 100-metres hurt a lot, my arms were burning. A silver medal means a lot." He adds, "It's great to be able to share this with my wife (Stefanie Reid)." Lakatos qualified for the final by winning his semi-final earlier in the day in a new Canadian record of 49.46 seconds.
In the men's F44 amputee javelin throw final Alister McQueen placed seventh with a new Canadian record of 49.32-metres. Alister surpassed his personal best and former Canadian record by more than 4 metres. "It was a lot fun; I was a little bit more relaxed (after competing in the T44 200-metres yesterday). Top eight was the goal and I achieved that. Hopefully there will be a lot more of these in my future." McQueen now shifts his focus onto the T44 classification 100-metres.
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Earlier in the day Éric Gauthier of St-Frautin Lac-Carré, Que., finished fourth in his heat of the men's T53 wheelchair 400-metres and did not advance to the final in which Lakatos won silver. "It was ok, I had some issues with my chair in my lane and then it was too late. I'll be ready for the next race."
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