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Say no to drugs, kids! Whilst my own experience with them consists almost solely of daily insulin and caffeine hits, The Wire and Breaking Bad – the two cultural cornerstones around which we can all agree our twenty-first century lives should be built – have taught us resoundingly that they fuck up your life and lead to naught but utter despair.
It's therefore imperative that you absolutely DON'T listen to the unambiguously-titled Doobie Wonderland the latest addition to the absurdly extensive Acid Mothers Temple discography.
The band has released 45 albums to date under various similarly-named guises: this, under the Cosmic Inferno brand is their third of 2013. As with the other albums released under this moniker, Doobie Wonderland is closer to hard rock territory than those as The Melting Paraiso U.F.O., almost as if someone told Sunn O))) to lighten up a bit. It remains though an indisputably fun album; the opening track is 'Do You Remember Doobie Wonderland?' and the band are insisting that you really wish you did. Hell, even the album cover above or Holy-Shitsnacks-THIS- Artwork should be enough to let the casual buyer know that this is an album that's letting itself go.
Despite only containing five songs, Doobie Wonderland still manages to clock in at around an hour and a half. The length of the individual songs is evidence enough that the band is being a bit self-indulgent, but wisely they don't spend 20 minutes on a song trying to force the listener's mind to work overtime with a plethora of challenging and introspective ideas. Instead each number here is built around a central premise – squalls of guitar noise on the opener and 'M.J. Love 666', frothy synth lines on 'Planet Golden Love' and 'Shining O and Jupiter ?' (the latter reminiscent of Ed O'Brien's beautiful little fill on Radiohead's 'Airbag'), a surf rock riff on 'Dance With Space Gypsy Queen' (a song that oddly sounds a bit like Wild Nothing's 'Ride') and so on – and enjoy messing around with it for a while. It's to band leader/guitarist Kawabata Makoto's credit that it sounds as though the band are welcoming you to the party rather than playing the obnoxious neighbour.
Makoto has proved over the years that he's a quite brilliant guitarist and proves to be again here; although he's often happy to let tracks devolve into extended jam sessions, they're more reminiscent of Michael Karoli's raw, fucked up squalls than, say, Joe Satriani's wanky guitar equivalent of an The Voice contestant hitting twelve notes when one will do. Interestingly though the album shows the most ambition when it drops the guitars and goes for an ocean of synthesisers on 'Planet Golden Love' and 'Shining O and Jupiter ?'. On these occasions it's like an extreme Animal Collective, taking neat little pop songs and ripping them apart into cacophonous, brilliant absurdities. Wherever Doobie Wonderland is, it sounds fucking great.
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Bay of Islands - Where New Zealand Was Born
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The spectacularly beautiful Bay of Islands was where the first missionaries and settlers established and where the Treaty of Waitangi was signed. But there is so much more here. Explore the sights and sounds of one of New Zealand's most popular tourist destinations.
A chain of 144 breathtaking islands and secluded bays – this maritime reserve, teeming with penguins, dolphins, gannets and myriad other rare aquatic species is a real treat for nature aficionados.
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This boutique hotel is located just a short stroll from the waterfront and is perfect for a relaxing holiday. Well-appointed rooms ensure your comfort and in the Oasis Restaurant on-site you can enjoy Volcanic Hot Rock Dining, an interactive dining experience thats very popular with guests and locals alike. A swimming pool with poolside bar, spa and sauna is a great spot for some relaxation and a bit of fun. Plenty of local knowledge amoung staff will ensure you experience all that the Bay of Islands has to offer.
Surrounded by attractive native bush and just 400 metres from the shopping centre and waterfront, the Tanoa Paihia Hotel is located in the perfect setting. The hotel offers 67 rooms with all facilities and spacious bathrooms. A 2-bedroom apartment also available. Restaurant and swimming pool on-site and the friendly staff would be delighted to assist in booking sightseeing and other activities.

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Wow, things have been really calm and quiet around here! I think it must be the calm before the storm as patch 3.1 looms on the horizon with promises of new content, ability and talent tweaks, and of course, new things to talk about!
While we have been a bit quiet here on TankHard, many around the net are still keeping up their tankly duties in keeping us all thinking about what is good for tanking!
Over on TankingTips.com, Veneritio writes about Tanking Stats. In addition to talking about tanking here, Vene also reminds us of an important consideration.
If you've already got some really nice tanking boots, you should be passing them to another tank with ugly tanking boots first before picking up a 2nd pair for your Avoidance set or your Threat set.
Always work with your fellow tanks to build each other up!
TankSpot brought to our attention that Blizzard is thinking over how rage mechanics work, specifically with regard to Heroic Strike usage.
The other approach is to let HS be a toggle or something else that can bleed off rage without requiring the player to hit the button virtually every 1.6 sec (or faster).
Personally, I would not having to spam my HS key every white hit. I guess we'll see if anything ever comes of this one.
The new website, WoWRaid.com brings a nifty new Blue Tracker to the table.
Of Teeth And Claws posts about owning up to your mistakes.
I am a huge advocate of this and it really irks me when people do not own up to their mistakes. Like for example, when the Tenebron tank on our last Sarth kill was too busy worrying about everyone else being in the Void Zone (or whatever they are called in this encounter!), not noticing that he himself was in a blue swirly, promptly dieing and wiping the raid (OOPS! Did I do that?). Ah well, that's how it goes sometimes =)


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Agave Recipes
Pumpkin Protein Drink Recipe
I think if he could, my husband would drink pumpkin pie. He already inhales it every Thanksgiving! So this pumpkin protein drink is about as close as it gets to making his dreams come true. It's an ultra easy breakfast to make when you're on the go, and it'll get you in the mood for the soon-to-be holiday season.
The drink is packed with vitamins, protein (I added soy protein) and calcium, making it markedly healthier than the real deal, and perfect for vegetarians like my husband Lulu.
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Seafood Crab Salad Recipe
I bought 2 fresh crabs from the seafood market and was planning on making my favorite dish: tamarind crab. But as I was prepping the ingredients, we had surprise guests for lunch. So I improvised a crab salad with what we had available in the kitchen. All the extra ingredients and flavors in the salad help stretch the number of servings you can get out of 2 crabs, which is perfect when you're entertaining.
To begin with, I boiled the crabs, removed the crab meat and drizzled it with lime juice. I added roasted green bell pepper, tomatoes, avocado and grilled eggplant. I served the crab salad with a flavorful wasabi-coconut salad dressing and toasted bread on the side.
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Grapefruit Salad (Pomelo Salad)
It's been raining so much this season in the Bay Area (California) that our garden has produced a lot of citrus. Our pomelo tree has been particularly prolific. I've been pleasantly surprised by their sweetness, and I knew I was on to something delicious.
Pomelos have a subtle sweetness that is greatly enhanced by the addition of certain spices. To make this salad, I gathered the pomelo segments in a large bowl and covered them with ginger, coriander, agave nectar, sesame oil and red Thai bird chiles. It's a refreshing way to begin or end a meal.
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Choy Sum with Oyster Sauce
Choy sum (also known as Chinese flowering cabbage) is a very quick and easy vegetable to cook. I pan-steamed the greens for only a few minutes to maintain a bright green color and paired them with an oyster sauce mixture. Of course, I also had to modify the recipe a bit for the strictly vegetarian diet of my husband Lulu, but the method is exactly the same.
You can serve them as is or with a sauce of your own. It's a healthy and flavorful way to open a meal. I've had it often that way at dim sum restaurants. In fact, it's usually one of the few vegetable dishes offered. With this recipe, you can have it at home, without the dim sum prices!
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Kale with Caramelized Kumquats
This side dish couldn't be easier to make. Onions and kumquats are slowly caramelized with ginger and agave nectar and added to slightly sautéed kale. What could be better than a dish that's delicious, healthy and simple?
I was inspired to make this dish by a reader. Chef Doreen T. Ross is a culinary artist and consultant from North Carolina. Doreen sent me a recipe suggestion using kumquats (I've asked for recipes using this ingredient) with wilted kale. I've adapted Doreen's recipe and added an Asian twist to it. Sunny and Lulu were my guinea pigs, and they loved it. Merci Doreen!
As I've said several times, I'm just a home-cook who is passionate about food and has had no professional training. Creating this site has really broadened my culinary horizons. I've received many lovely messages filled with kind words and a ton of tips and culinary tricks. Thank you all for your support, and please keep those messages coming.
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Freedom in the World
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Djibouti's president, Ismail Omar Guelleh, has continued to stifle political rights and civil liberties since his reelection in April 2011. In 2012, the government suppressed freedom of expression, including through regular arrests of independent journalists and union workers. The death of Djiboutian League of Human Rights chairman Jean-Paul Noël Abdi, the country's leading rights activist, was a significant loss for the advocacy community.
Djibouti gained independence from France in 1977. Its people are divided along ethnic and clan lines, with the majority Issa (Somali) and minority Afar peoples traditionally falling into opposing political camps. An Afar rebel group, the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy (FRUD), launched a guerrilla war against Issa domination in 1991. In 1994, the largest FRUD faction agreed to end its insurgency in exchange for inclusion in the government and electoral reforms.
President Hassan Gouled Aptidon controlled a one-party system until 1992, when a new constitution authorized four political parties. In 1993, Gouled won a fourth six-year term in Djibouti's first contested presidential election, which was considered fraudulent by international observers.
Gouled stepped down in 1999, but his nephew, Ismail Omar Guelleh, won the 1999 presidential poll with 74 percent of the vote. It was regarded as Djibouti's first fair election since independence. In 2001, a peace accord was signed with the remaining Afar rebel groups. A four-party coalition, the Union for the Presidential Majority (UMP), ran against a four-party opposition bloc, the Union for a Democratic Alternative (UAD), in the 2003 parliamentary elections, and won all 65 seats.
In 2005, Guelleh won a second six-year term. The only challenger withdrew from the election, citing government control of the media and repression of the opposition. Legislative elections in 2008 were also boycotted by the main opposition parties.
Unresolved grievances among the Afar led to a revival of the FRUD insurgency, with sporadic violence in 2010. In April 2010, Guelleh, a member of the Issa majority, pressured the parliament into passing a constitutional amendment that overturned the two-term limit for presidents; the change cleared the way for him to run for a third term in 2011.
In early 2011, a series of protests by university students against failures in the education system quickly broadened into antigovernment demonstrations. In the largest rally, several thousand people gathered outside Djibouti's national stadium to protest Guelleh's decision to stand for another term. At least two people were killed and another 100 were arrested, including the leaders of three political parties.
The 2011 presidential election campaign was marred by the harassment of opposition leaders and a clampdown on public gatherings. Soon after the ban on demonstrations, Democracy International, a U.S.-funded international electoral observation organization, was expelled from the country. Opposition parties argued that the restrictions made it impossible to fairly contest the election and chose not to select candidates for the presidential race. As a result, Guelleh faced only one challenger in the April election, independent candidate Mohammed Warsama, and won with 81 percent of the vote. An African Union observer mission declared the election process peaceful, fair, and transparent.
Guelleh has used Djibouti's strategic location on the Gulf of Aden to generate millions of dollars in state revenue by renting military bases to his allies. Since 2001, Djibouti has been home to large U.S. and French bases, and Japan opened a naval facility in 2011.
Although food insecurity in some regions of the country remains at crisis levels following a severe drought in 2011, conditions began to stabilize in July 2012. In February 2012, the International Monetary Fund agreed to loan Djibouti $14 million to help counter the effects of the drought. However, certain regions of the country remained in a food crisis during the year due to ongoing rainfall deficits.
Djibouti is not an electoral democracy. The ruling UMP coalition party has effectively usurped the state. The constitutional amendment passed by the parliament in 2010, in addition to removing the two-term limit for presidents, reduced presidential terms from six years to five, and specified that candidates must be between the ages of 40 and 75. The changes allowed President Ismail Omar Guelleh to stand for a third term in 2011.
The 65 members of the unicameral parliament, the National Assembly, are directly elected for five-year terms. The 2010 constitutional changes provide for the formation of a bicameral parliament comprising the existing National Assembly and a newly created senate, though steps to establish one have yet to be taken. Opposition parties are disadvantaged by the country's first-past-the-post electoral system, as well as the government's abuse of the administrative apparatus. In the last legislative elections contested by the opposition, in 2003, the UMP won 62 percent of the vote but captured all the seats in the National Assembly, because the election law stipulates that the winner of the majority in each of the country's five electoral constituencies is awarded all seats in that district.
Political parties are required to register with the government. In 2008, Guelleh issued a decree that dissolved the opposition Movement for Democratic Renewal and Development party, whose leader had reportedly voiced support for that year's Eritrean military incursion.
Efforts to curb corruption have met with little success. Government corruption is a serious problem and public officials are not required to disclose their assets.
Despite constitutional protections, freedom of speech is not upheld in practice. There are no privately owned or independent media, though political parties are allowed to publish a journal or newspaper. The government dominates the domestic media sector and monopolized the airwaves during the 2011 election. The government owns the principal newspaper, La Nation, as well as Radio-Television Djibouti, which operates the national radio and television stations. Strict libel laws lead journalists to practice self-censorship. While the government places few restrictions on internet access, opposition internet radio station and critical news website La Voix de Djibouti, run by Djiboutian exiles in Europe, is regularly blocked. In February 2012, La Voix de Djibouti journalist Farah Abadid Hildid was detained for 24 hours and was reported to have been subjected to physical and psychological torture. Hildid had been arrested and held twice in 2011 after participating in antigovernment protests. Another La Voix de Djibouti journalist, Houssein Ahmed Farah, was arrested in August 2012 and charged with forgery and evasion of judicial supervision. Farah was conditionally released in November after being held for three months.
Islam is the state religion, and 99 percent of the population is Sunni Muslim. Freedom of worship is respected. While academic freedom is generally upheld, higher educational opportunities are limited.
Freedoms of assembly and association are nominally protected under the constitution, but are not respected in practice. The interior minister placed a ban on public assembly during the during the 2011 election season. Local human rights groups do not operate freely. Djiboutian League of Human Rights chairman Jean-Paul Noël Abdi, the country's leading human rights activist, died of natural causes in April 2012. Prior to his death, Abdi had been arrested several times, including at least three times since 2007.
Workers may join unions and strike. However, the government discourages truly independent unions and has been accused of meddling in their internal elections and harassing union representatives. There were at least 117 arrests of strikers seeking unpaid wages in 2011, including the arrest and detention of 62 dock workers for two weeks in January as well as arrests against nurses and 55 railroad workers in April.
The judicial system is based on the French civil code, though Sharia (Islamic law) prevails in family matters. The courts are not independent of the government. A lack of resources often delays legal proceedings. Security forces frequently make arrests without a proper decree from a judicial magistrate, in violation of constitutional requirements. Allegations of politically motivated prosecutions surfaced in 2010 following the conviction in absentia of Djiboutian businessman Abdourahman Boreh on charges of terrorism. Boreh, who received a 15-year sentence, had been planning to stand against Guelleh in 2011 but withdrew his bid after the demonstrations turned violent. Though in exile, he continues to publically condemn Guelleh's administration; in October 2012, Boreh gave an interview to the BBC in which he accused the government of failing Djiboutians.
Following the arrests of more than 100 antigovernment protesters in February 2011, about 80 suspects were brought to court and charged with assault and demonstrating without a permit. According to Human Rights Watch, a judge dismissed 40 of these cases and was promptly removed by the justice minister. His replacement then proceeded to convict and imprison 25 defendants. Prison conditions are harsh, but have improved in recent years. The 2010 constitutional amendments abolished the death penalty.
Minority groups including the Afar people, Yemeni Arabs, and non-Issa Somalis suffer social and economic marginalization.
Women face discrimination under customary practices related to inheritance and other property matters, divorce, and the right to travel. The law prohibits female genital mutilation, but more than 90 percent of women are believed to have undergone the procedure. An estimated 50 percent of girls are now receiving primary education following efforts to increase female enrollment. While the law requires at least 20 percent of upper-level public service positions to be held by women, women still hold just close to 14 percent of legislative seats.


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If you're a Mac user and smoking is your crutch, you may want to leave the room the next time you light up. According to multiple users, as reported by the Consumerist, smoking in the vicinity of your Apple hardware is enough for Apple to deny you service, even if you are under warranty. In at least one instance, a customer challenged the decision by bringing it to the office of Steve Jobs, but without any success.
In the first case, a black MacBook was taken into the Jordan Creek Apple Store with overheating issues. After some time at the store, the customer received a call from an employee saying that the warranty had ben voided due to "health risks of second hand smoke." In another instance, an iMac brought to an Authorized Apple Service Center met a similar fate when it was labeled a "bio-hazard" by the technician. Apple responded to the customer's complaints by saying that nicotine was on OSHA's hazardous substance list; as a result, the company would not make an employee work on the machine. A third account, which also ended without service, also cited OSHA in the explanation.
Anecdote time: When I worked as an Apple Specialist about five years ago, we worked on nicotine-stained machines and it was rather disgusting—often they smelled up the entire shop. That being said, we never denied a repair due to cigarette smoke exposure. It seems that if you have a Mac that has been exposed to a large amount of second-hand smoke, you may be better off finding a privately owned authorized repair center. In that case, single parts will be removed from the machine and sent back to Apple (if it's a desktop, anyway), increasing the odds that you will get a repair under warranty.
If the machine is a portable, though, you may be out of luck. More often than not, Apple requires authorized dealers to send laptops in for service.
Is Apple within its rights here? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.


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By Ryan Ngala
[Harlem, New York] – What a gorgeous sunny day it was in the heart of the Harlem community many people gathered at the Fred Samuel playground located on 140th Street at Malcolm X Boulevard. I saw many of them wearing tee-shirts, both in black and white, that read "Faith Walk Twenty Thirteen: Promoting Awareness in communities of color," both in black and white as they registered online at EventBrite.com; their names were added to the list as they signed in.
People were representing their churches and organizations in the neighborhood including Abyssinian Baptist Church, Abyssinian Development Corporation, African-American Muslim Commission On HIV / AIDS, Bethany Baptist Church, Canaan Baptist Church of Christ, Church of the Intercession, Coalition On Positive Health Empowerment [Cope Health], Community Health and Awareness Ministry, Inc., Convent Avenue Baptist Church, East Ward Missionary Baptist Church, First AME Bethel Church, First Corinthian Baptist Church, FOY HIV / AIDS Ministry [Mt. Calvary Baptist Church], Iris House – A Center For Women Living With HIV / AIDS, Inc., Love Alive International Foundation, Inc., Masjid Sabur Worship, Educational and Referral, New Mount Zion Baptist Church, New Hope Community Church, New Testament Baptist Church, Paradise Baptist Church, Rivers of Living Faith Ministries, St. John's Baptist Church, and St. Luke's AME Church and Survivors Fountain of Hope Wellness Initiative.
When they were about to leave the park, many people were holding up their banners and signs with slogans such as, "Get Yourself Tested", "Engage, Educate, Prevent" and "Twenty Thirteen Harlem HIV / AIDS Faith Walk." The marchers also got wristbands with the words, "Know Your Status." This march was a major event being sponsored by The Harlem Hospital Center, NYC Council Faith Based Initiative, The National Black Leadership Commission Aids, Inc., and many more.
When the march began the participants walked throughout the streets chanting "HIV, Get Tested!!!" and "Wake Up Harlem." They also sang a couple of gospel songs along the way. I joined the marchers as they started to walk towards 125th Street to go to the Harlem State Office Building where the health fair was being held. We walked the red carpet to where there was a worship service with special guest speaker Bill Thompson sending a strong message that the disease of HIV / AIDS must come to an end! He raised awareness about young people in our communities getting the disease and not even knowing, If they are positive.
There are so many ways to get the disease: sexual contact, drug use, occupational contact with the virus. It is so important that young people should: Get Educated, Get Tested, and Get Involved. Many people decided to go to HIV Testing and get started with their National HIV Testing Day Health and Resource Fair Passport 2013, which they carried with them to each table to have to get the names and signatures of people who want more information on Diabetes, Hepatitis C, as well as information about the FDNY Application and Iris House. Those who were able to collect a total up to twelve signatures or more received a special gift. Refreshments including hot dogs, ice cream and bottled water were provided.
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– The US Supreme Court is set to consider the constitutionality of a provision of the 2002 McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law designed to "level the playing field" between candidates spending their own money to win political office and candidates relying primarily on contributions from others.
In oral argument Tuesday, the high court will examine whether the so-called "millionaires' amendment" violates the free-speech and equal-protection rights of self-funded candidates trying to win a seat in Congress.
The amendment applies only to candidates for the US Senate and House of Representatives. Different rules govern presidential campaigns.
The measure, also known as Section 319 of the McCain-Feingold law, requires candidates who are self-financing their campaigns to abide by stringent finance reporting requirements that don't apply to other candidates. In addition, once a candidate's personal spending in a House race crosses a $350,000 threshold, contribution limits are relaxed for all other candidates in the same race.
The other candidates may then accept three times the usual $2,300 limit from individual contributors and receive unlimited coordinated expenditures from political parties. The self-financing candidate, meanwhile, must continue to abide by the lower contribution limits.
Section 319 is designed to undercut the advantages of using personal wealth to wage a political campaign and to prevent wealthy candidates from monopolizing a race.
"Sometimes a self-financer is able to use their money to swamp an opponent and dominate the discussion – really make the campaign dialogue more of a monologue," says Jennifer Steen, a political scientist at Boston College and author of the 2006 book "Self-Financed Candidates in Congressional Elections."
The law is also aimed at countering a perception that anyone wealthy enough can buy a seat in Congress.
Opponents of Section 319 say it is an incumbent protection scheme passed by members of Congress to insulate themselves from challenges by wealthy opponents.
Supporters say tripling contribution limits is necessary to "level the playing field" in congressional campaigns, but campaign-reform laws do not offer similar benefits to candidates of modest means seeking to unseat incumbent members of Congress who have amassed sizable campaign war chests.
"Congress elected to go after the personal millionaires as opposed to the incumbent millionaires," says Andrew Herman, who is arguing the case at the high court on behalf of a wealthy businessman from upstate New York who is running for Congress.
Jack Davis twice ran unsuccessful campaigns to represent New York's 26th Congressional District. On April 15, he announced he is running again in 2008.
Mr. Davis, a Democrat, has pledged to pay his own campaign bills rather than seek support from special-interest groups. In 2004, he spent $1.26 million of his own money. In 2006, he lost by four percentage points after spending $2.27 million.
In contrast, Davis's opponent in 2006, Thomas Reynolds, a four-term Republican on the influential House Ways and Means Committee, spent $5.1 million. That total included a $1.15 million war chest that existed at the start of the 2006 campaign cycle. At the time, Representative Reynolds was chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), the party's campaign organization.
Despite these advantages, incumbent Reynolds is the one who qualified under the millionaires' amendment for campaign-finance law exemptions that could have yielded him an additional $1.46 million in multiple contributions. In addition, he could have received unlimited help from the NRCC, which he chaired.
Reynolds did not exercise his right to seek the extra funds. He didn't need to. Plenty of donors were willing to help him win reelection. But Davis's lawyer cites the episode as evidence of how the law is designed to benefit incumbents at the expense of self-financed candidates who do not enjoy similar access to a network of campaign donors.
"Section 319 is directly designed to discourage people from spending their own money, and if they do spend their own money it is designed to punish them for it," Mr. Herman said in a phone interview.
"The statute authorized the incumbent to receive over $1.4 million in extra-limit funds in the 2006 election, even though he had already outspent Mr. Davis by more than $3 million," Herman writes in his brief to the court.
Herman says the law is not aimed at creating a level playing field. Instead, he says, it is aimed at protecting incumbents in ways that violate core political-speech and equal-protection rights of self-financed candidates.
Government lawyers defend the measure as a "modest and constitutionally appropriate" attempt to decrease the influence of personal wealth in congressional elections.
Section 319 in no way burdens political speech, Solicitor General Paul Clement writes in his brief on behalf of the Federal Election Commission (FEC). It places "no restrictions whatever on a candidate's ability to spend personal funds in support of his own campaign," Mr. Clement says.
The measure's relaxation of an opponent's contribution limits does not unconstitutionally penalize a candidate's decision to fund his or her own election, Clement writes.
A panel of federal judges ruled earlier in the Davis case that because Section 319 does not limit a candidate's ability to use personal wealth to win an election, there is no unconstitutional burden on free speech. The provision merely provides benefits to opponents to correct a potential imbalance in resources among candidates in the same political race, the court said.
But offering a windfall to one's political opponents when a candidate spends more than $350,000 creates an incentive not to spend more than that amount, critics of Section 319 say. That is a government incentive that chills free speech, they say.
"Section 319 operates solely as a stick deterring protected self-financed expenditures rather than as a carrot encouraging participation in an alternative campaign finance scheme," writes Benjamin Wood in a friend-of-the-court brief filed for the Cato Institute.
He says the measure burdens political speech in a way similar to a direct limit on campaign spending. Campaign spending limits were declared unconstitutional by the high court in a landmark 1976 campaign-finance case.
The primary rationale for campaign-finance laws is to prevent corruption or the appearance of corruption by reducing the political influence of wealthy special interests. But opponents of Section 319 say there is no corruptive taint when a candidate uses his or her own money to run for office.
Supporters of the law say corruption isn't Congress's only concern.
"Congress carefully balanced its interests in preventing corruption with its concern that non-wealthy candidates were being driven from the political process," writes Seth Waxman in a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of four campaign-reform advocacy groups.
The public perception is that wealthy candidates are unstoppable. But political scientists say just because someone knows how to make money doesn't mean they can convince people to vote for them.
"Self-financers tend not to be very successful," says Professor Steen, who worked as a paid consultant to the FEC on the Section 319 issue.
She says the millionaires' amendment, rather than protecting incumbents, has been most useful to nonincumbents in primary elections. It helps them get noticed in a crowded field brimming with money, she says.
In 2004, in the Democratic primary for a US Senate seat, a young state senator in Illinois faced a wealthy opponent who poured $28 million of his own money into the contest. Under provisions of the millionaires' amendment, the state senator received $1.86 million in supplemental fundraising. He went on to win the primary and the general election to become the junior US senator from Illinois. Now he's in an even bigger race. His name: Barack Obama.


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Can the left fix it? (part 2)
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François Hollande has only been in power for ten months, but looking at the polls it can seem like a lifetime. Across the Alps, Pier Luigi Bersani's tenure as Italy's prime minister could be over before it has even started. François Picard's panel suggests that the left in recession-hit Europe make a pitch to loosen monetary policy. But will they sell that to the Germans in an election year?
- Francesco SARACENO. Senior Economist, OFCE;
- Nicolas GOETZMANN. Strategic Investment Advisor;
- Mark DEEN. Journalist, Bloomberg News.
Produced by Anelise Borges, François Picard, Claire Williams, Christopher Davis.


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text: 21 Oct 2013 11:00 Etihad Airways, the Abu Dhabi-based national airline of the United Arab Emirates, is supporting global and national initiatives for the early detection and treatment of breast cancer with a comprehensive programme of activity during Breast Cancer Awareness Month this October. The Etihad Airways 2013 breast cancer awareness campaign combines free mammography and screening for staff and the general public. The campaign involves awareness raising and fundraising activity, including the sponsorship of the 1st International Oncology Conference in Abu Dhabi. Selected Etihad flight attendants will wear pink uniforms and Etihad staff will support fundraising activities including pink ribbon pin, armband and bracelet sales and bake sales. Etihad Airways Medical Centre will provide free mammography and screenings for women over 40, as well as women who have a high risk or family history of breast cancer, in partnership with Burjeel Hospital. The screening will be available to female employees and employees' wives at Etihad's Head Office for two days during October, before transferring to locations in Abu Dhabi, where women from the general public will be invited to drop-in for free screenings. As part of its commitment to advancing medical understanding of breast cancer, Etihad Airways is also sponsoring the First International Oncology Conference which will take place in Abu Dhabi at Jumeirah at Etihad Towers Hotel between 24 and 25 October 2013. The two day conference brings together medical practitioners with academics, researchers and those working across the cancer field in the MENA region, as well as patients and families, to share knowledge and discuss controversial issues including prevention, risk factors, Imaging & Screening, diagnosis, clinical management and new approaches in targeted therapies. For the third year, Etihad is also sponsoring the annual 'Pink Polo' event at Ghantoot Racing and Polo Club on Saturday, 8 November 2013 from 2pm. This event is free to attend and raises awareness of breast cancer amongst the broader community in the UAE in a fun, family environment. Ray Gammell, Etihad Airway's Chief People and Performance Officer, said: "Breast Cancer Awareness Month is an important opportunity to educate and support those affected by or at risk of breast cancer. Every October, our campaign puts breast cancer front of mind amongst our employees, those flying with us and the local community in Abu Dhabi. This year, through Etihad's sponsorship of the 1st International Oncology Conference in Abu Dhabi we also aim to increase medical debate and understanding of breast cancer prevention and treatment." Dr Nadia Al Bastaki, Senior Medical Officer at Etihad Airways Medical Centre added, "Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer among women in the UAE, with one in eight women at risk. Raising awareness about the importance of regular self-examination for women of all ages, and biennial medical screenings for women over 40 is imperative in reducing the impact breast cancer has on our community." Proceeds from the Etihad Airways 2012 breast cancer awareness campaign enabled the purchase of a new ultrasound machine which was donated in March 2013 to the Red Crescent to assist the organisation's nation-wide efforts to promote early detection and treatment of breast cancer among Emirati women. Contact met Etihad Als wereldwijd opererende luchtvaartmaatschappij hebben wij natuurlijk overal ter wereld vestigingen. Lees hoe u contact kunt opnemen met uw dichtstbijzijnde Etihad-kantoor. Bekijk onze contactgegevens Feedback Als u een opmerking, compliment of klacht wilt doorgeven, of een vraag wilt stellen, klik dan hier Vind ons leuk Bezoek onze Facebookpagina! Bekijk ons Bekijk ons YouTube-kanaal! Volg ons Etihad Airways | Etihad Aanbiedingen | Etihad Help | Etihad Rewards


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Placebo effect
In most medical traditions, there is an awareness that patients need to trust the treatments being offered by their doctors. Since the early 1900s doctors have recognised that any treatment which the patient expects to work may bring some improvement in the patient's condition. This effect is known as the placebo effect (placebo is a Latin word which means 'I will please').
Similarly, a patient may get better, or feel better, having been given lots of attention from a respected practitioner. Most doctors are aware of the placebo effect when they carry out their diagnosis. A survey of doctors in Denmark in 2003 found that half of them had prescribed a placebo in the previous year.
So important is this placebo effect that it has to be taken into account for valid testing of new drugs: has the patient improved because of the new treatment, or just through taking part in the experiment? For this reason, new treatments are tested using what is known as a 'double blind' trial: some of the patients receive the drug to be tested, while others receive a chemically neutral, but similar-looking, drug. Records are carefully kept so that neither the experimenter nor the patient knows who received which. Those who received only the placebo form the control group.
Some historians have cited the placebo effect to explain the enduring support for belief-based medicine. Certainly, where both patient and practitioner believe a treatment will be effective, remarkable things can happen.


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Firestone was forced to Auschwitz concentration camp when she was just 16 years old. Before her family's capture in 1941, she was living in Hungary where she lived a comfortable life.
Through her speeches, Firestone paints a picture for the audience of the struggles that Jewish people faced while in Auschwitz. She recalls how her family was given 24 hours to pack one bag of belongings that they never received after arrival. Children and the elderly were sent straight to the gas chambers upon arrival at Auschwitz. The Nazi guards stripped female prisoners of their clothes, shaved their heads, and administered yellow paint from the front of their hair-lining up, across their heads, and down their backs. This was a way to create mass confusion, as the women became unrecognizable.
Throughout her time at Auschwitz, Firestone and her sister were able to remain close to each other until her sister suddenly disappeared. Firestone was released from Auschwitz at the age of 20. Years later while working on a film about Holocaust survivors with Hollywood director, screenwriter, and producer Steven Spielberg, she learned her sister had been tortured in one of the Nazi medical-experiment hospitals by the infamous Josef Mengele, and then gassed to death.
Firestone's experience at Auschwitz displays the true horror of Nazi torture that was experienced by both Jewish men and women. Through her deep personal stories, audience members will be able to gain a broad understanding of how race, class and gender work together to form social mechanisms that are the building blocks of oppression.
For additional information on the Holocaust Speaker Series contact Assistant Professor of History Allison McNeese at email@example.com.


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Book Title: The Car Thief
Author: Theodore Weesner
Publisher: Astor + Blue Editions
Reviewed by Michele Tater for The Coach Tater Review
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
― Leo Tolstoy
Alex Housman is a broken boy from a broken family. Nothing really shocking or unusual that he gets in trouble with the law for stealing cars, which he has no reasoning for doing other than he can. His home life consists of living in a small apartment with a father who is larger than life especially when he is hitting the bottle, although he doesn't physically hurt his son, is he hurting him in other ways? Alex's mom is not in the picture at all for she has started another life with another man and has taken his brother Howard with her. To say this young man's life has its ups and downs would be an understatement, but aren't most teenagers lives this way. It is all on how they handle these situations that will decide what kind of adults they become. This is story on how one such teenager makes his choices that will change his life either for the better or for the worst...you will just have to read the book and find out which.
I am not one to compare books with other books like some feel they need to. I prefer to let the book speak for itself on how the author wished it is to be translated. I also would not say this book is a "coming of age" read; labels like this don't give the book justice.
Although it is set in year where I wasn't even born yet, the childhood problems presented are the same as today. The overwhelming pressure for a young person to do something extraordinary with their lives when life has dealt them a not so great home life is a common theme in any year. Even though I am a female, I still felt that I could relate to the main character, even if it was partially from a mother's point-of-view. I felt pity and sympathy for him, wanting to grab him sometimes and ask him, "what the hell are you thinking?" as if he was one of my own sons. Maybe it could be a good book to show parents how their actions really do effect their children and what not to do. How being an alcoholic, even a non-violent one, can push a child to grow-up before they are ready and cause them to make wrong, sometimes, very wrong choices. Also how being an absentee parent may really make the child confused and feel unloved. {Coming off the soap box}. Okay back to how I feel about the book; I highly recommend it as a book that should be read as it is and not to be compared to any other book. I can see it being a great read for required reading in high school, especially as a teaching tool. Young and old alike, in my opinion, will find it a good read. Just let the book take on the life it was meant to.
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Never mind creation and dinosaurs, Torchwood is back!
There was an interview with Russell T Davies about Doctor Who and Torchwood on Front Row last night. And for three days this week, Radio 4's Afternoon Play (14:15-15:00) is running a sequence of 45 minute dramas featuring the regular cast.
- Wednesday 1 - The Torchwood team investigate after a strange teenage girl is arrested (Anita Sullivan)
- Thursday 2 - The Torchwood team go to Delhi on the trail of a dangerous energy field (James Goss)
- Friday 3 - Torchwood investigate when people start falling into coma -like trances (Phil Ford)
Update - the R4 plays are available to download as mono MP3s for three days after broadcast - easier to listen to on your MP3 player than online ... and there's a how-they-recorded-it post on the Radio 4 blog.
And then next week, Torchwood is striped across BBC One and BBC HD from Monday to Friday at 9pm (and repeated at 23:45 on BBC Three, 00:15 on Friday). The story arc follows is summed up in the press pack:
An ordinary day becomes a world of terror, as every single child in the world stops. A message is sent to all the governments of Earth: "We are coming".
But as a trap closes around Captain Jack, sins of the past are returning, as long-forgotten events from 1965 threaten to reveal an awful truth.
Torchwood are forced underground, as the government takes swift and brutal action. With members of the team being hunted down, Britain risks becoming a rogue state, with the mysterious and powerful 456 drawing ever closer.


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Australian Rugby
Light at the end of the tunnel
ESPN Staff
October 8, 2012
The presence and performance of Nathan Sharpe was a huge positive for the Wallabies © Getty Images
"It was one of the great victories for a patched up Wallabies side." These were the words of respected commentator and former player Greg Martin after Australia's 25-19 win over Argentina which secured second place in the inaugural Rugby Championship. It was maybe a little over the top but we commentators are prone to exaggerate and Marto does get excited.
The opening season of the Rugby Championship - sponsored by four different companies, in four countries - was a resounding yawn. It was a far cry from the 'whip 'em in, whip 'em out' style of the Tri Nations, which it replaced this year.
For the Wallabies, it was a case of six games, which produced three wins and three losses. It was probably a couple more than a few of us, including me thought they would get, after the less than impressive opening against the All Blacks, but credit where its due to this younger brigade of Wallabies. They played some good rugby towards the end, save the match in South Africa where they got hammered by the Springboks. In fact, Australia are realistically still the Tri-Nations champions (if we don't invite New Zealand to compete).
But the question on everyone's lips is, will this performance be enough to save coach Robbie Deans? Well judging by his reaction and that of the assistant coaches during the game then no.
Deans and his brethren were lacking emotion during the game - it was as if his fate was already sealed but the word on the street corner where the high end of town walks is that he is indeed safe. Not because of the outstanding year the Wallabies haven't had, but for the fact they can't afford to get rid of him. John O'Neill, the Australian Rugby Union CEO, openly said during the tournament that the 'dogs were circling' and with 12 minutes to go on the Gold Coast during their game against Argentina, he was gone. But they found a couple of tries, won the game and the dogs went back into their kennels again.
Last week when the Wallabies lost to South Africa, most of the country didn't care - the Sydney Swans won the AFL and Melbourne Storm took the NRL so it was the biggest weekend of the year in sport. Who cares if the Wallabies lost?
Deans' time is going to be up soon but the question is when? Ewen Mackenzie is patiently waiting in the wings. He hasn't got a team to coach and must've been told something otherwise why would he have stepped aside?
And when he does takeover, watch for an immediate turnaround in the Wallabies' fortunes because even someone like me, who never played a Test for anyone, can see there is some light at the end of the tunnel.
There is plenty to get excited about moving forward and maybe the best thing to get excited about is the fact a certain person isn't likely to be going with them. Quade Cooper's Twitter dummy spit in the middle of the tournament gave officials some much needed spine to fire back at his comment's and basically say, if you don't like it go away. It also gave the rest of the squad enough gumption to show that life isn't always about Quade and who he is dating, or twittering or whatever.
But that's enough about Quade, in fact for me that's about five lines too many on QC so let's talk about the Wallabies and the positives to come out of 2012.
Kurtley Beale should now have his name stencilled on the back of the No.10 jersey because he has it now for as long as he wants. He seems safe, secure and showing poise which was lacking when he wore the fullback shirt. Young flanker Michael Hooper backed up his previous performance in South Africa with another outstanding effort against Argentina - his 60-metre dash down field after grabbing an opposition lineout throw on the Wallabies' line in the second-half was a moment to cherish in a match that didn't produce a lot.
Nick Cummins was near mistake-free and more importantly his nickname 'The Honey Badger' is something legends are made of. Nick Phipps is now a terrific backup for a fit Will Genia at halfback, while young fullback Mike Harris proved himself again. Ben Tapuai, Digby Ioane, Pat McCabe all contributed while the forwards held their own against the Pumas in the less than friendly environment of the Estadio Gigante de Arroyito. Nathan Sharpe continues to perform and it was a deserving result in a historic match which saw him break George Smith's record as the most capped Australian forward (111 Tests) but I'm positive I was at his retirement announcement once before...or was it twice?
Kurtley Beale should stay at fly-half, according to Russell Barwick © Getty Images
So there you go, positives galore to talk about and not once did I mention Twitter or the twit that uses it too much.
In all 38 players wore the Australian gold jumper this year and 11 were debutants. Definitely a rebuilding year but at the same time the World Cup-winning All Blacks extended their unbeaten streak to 16 games, one shy of the world record and clearly the best team on the planet.
Australia and South Africa are two and three but let's face it if me, you and Usain Bolt were running 100 metres, you and I could also call ourselves second and third.
Away from the field, there are issues the game needs to address: the crowds were down, TV ratings were awful and off the back of a poor Super Rugby season for Australian franchises, this could've been the worse year for rugby for some time.
But despite all the gloom and doom and predictions of the wheels falling off I still believe all is not lost for the leather patch brigade and so I've come up with a Top 5 for 2012.
1. We won the Tri Nations (if we don't count NZ)
So yes, believe it or not there is some light at the end of the tunnel for Australian rugby, but perhaps the only bloke who won't be smiling is the train driver.
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Notepad++ 6.2 release - new User Defined Language system (UDL2)
09 Oct 2012 23:21:00
UDL (User Defined Language) is one of most important features in Notepad++.
In v6.2, much better UDL system (UDL2) is provided by Ivan Radic (aka Loreia). Not only many restrictions/limitations in UDL are removed, but also a lot of new features/enhancements are added in UDL2. In fact, you can almost define any language with it.
The key features of UDL2 are:
1. More keyword groups were added (more syntax highlighting can be defined):
- 3 folding groups
- 8 keyword groups
- 2 comment groups
- 1 number definitons
- 2 operators groups
- 8 delimiter sets
2. Multipart keywords are supported (for example: "else if" can be defined as a single keyword)
3. Whitespace is no longer mandatory as keyword separator: Operators, Delimiters and Folding keywords can be recognized with or without whitespace separators.
4. Numbers recognition support is greatly improved (prefix, suffix, range and extra symbols supported).
5. Operators and delimiters can be longer than one character.
6. The same characters can be used as comments AND operators.
7. Comments and delimiters support nesting (even within each other).
8. Improvments to Comments include:
- Comment folding
- Comment continuation
- Comment only start at the beginning of line
9. In the case of several comment pairs defined, comment open symbols match only with comment close symbols of the same order. (for example: /* C comment */, /+ D comment +/, but not /* mixed comment +/)
Thank Loreia for this new shining UDL engine, and thank Christian Cuvier for his multi-part keyword and number enhancement in UDL2.
I don't like RTFM usually. But this tutorial is really easy to read (with a lot of screenshots) and it will help you greatly to use UDL2:
Here you can find Notepad++ 6.2 Release:
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I love Mexican food. Give me burritos, tamales, frijoles y arroz, anything spicy. I even love Mexican candy- generally considered by most people I've talked to to be…odd. I grew up eating Mexican food for every major holiday and what can I say? Chipotle peppers and cilantro just have a way of cropping up in my cooking.
The thing I don't love about Mexican cooking is it's tendency to be heavy. Tonight I made burritos filled with spicy refried pinto beans, queso fresco (and cheddar for Andrew), greek yogurt, and salsa. I like multiple components on my plate because I like a variety of flavors and textures, so I threw together a little slaw of jicama, carrot, and red cabbage in a lively, limey dressing to accompany them.
1 carrot, shredded
1/2 medium jicama, peeled and shredded (about 1/2- 3/4 cup)
1/4 cup finely shredded red cabbage
1 scallion, green part only, thinly sliced
2 Tbsp. chopped cilantro
1 lime, zested and juiced
1 teaspoon agave
1 teaspoon olive oil
pinch of salt
Combine veggies and herbs in a medium bowl and toss to mix. In separate bowl, whisk dressing ingredients together and pour over veggies, tossing to coat evenly. Serves 2-4 depending on how big your burritos are.
Feel free to add some cayenne or other spicy pepper to make it hot. Our burritos were spicy so I decided against it. To make it a meal, you could add some cooked quinoa or rice and black beans and double the dressing. I'm not sure, but I bet a splash of tequila would be a tasty addition to the dressing…
Now that you have this quick and healthy little salad to add to your Mexican repertoire, stay tuned for a tamale tutorial this weekend 🙂


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S9 E19 Can't Fight This Feeling
Meredith has that motherly instinct. She knows when Zola is awake even if there's no evidence to support her feeling. Casey (guest star Sarah Chalke of How to Live with Your Parents (for the Rest of Your Life)) is another mom who has a feeling about her son, Parker. Jo diagnoses him with a virus, but Casey knows in her gut something else is wrong. She has a bunch of yellow notes from all the research she's done online. All tests say her son has strep throat. Only Meredith is willing to dig a little deeper. It's a mom thing.
A CAT scan on Casey's son shows that everything is normal. Meredith still is willing to listen to this worried mom's thoughts. She owns the hospital. If she wants to do more tests then she's going to do more tests. All signs again point to strep until Jo learns that the test was a false positive. Meredith realizes there is something seriously wrong with Parker. It happens to be Kawasaki's Disease, which is one of the possibilities Casey wrote on her yellow slips. This determined mom fought and fought. She never gave up. Meredith lets her know that because of her efforts she just saved her son's life.
A gas tanker slams into an SUV. Lots of casualties come pouring into the OR. They are covered in gasoline, so no open flames allowed. This goes especially for the patient who wants to grab smoke. Owen takes a young boy, Ethan, under his wing as the team works hard to save his mom and dad. Both are in pretty bad shape. BOOM! The tanker from the accident blows. More casualties are on the way. This includes the human fireball flailing around outside. It seems the patient actually did step away to grab his smoke.
Heather joins Derek and Shane as they work on Ethan's mom. She impresses with her quick hands. Derek continues to test her reflexes after the surgery. Shane isn't too pleased that his boss appears to have a new favorite intern. As for Ethan, he's upset when his mom wakes up but doesn't remember him. As for the boy's dad, Cristina repairs his aorta. When he starts to crash, she pulls a risky move that is questioned by Owen. But at the end of the day, they know they both want what is best for the patient.
April treats a pregnant woman whose baby is in distress. Alex helps push the umbilical cord back inside her. The baby needs to come out now. April is going to assist until she sees Matthew is one of the injured ER visitors. Jackson offers to check him out. As for April, she struggles to save the mom with Jason (aka Chest Pecwell). The worried dad arrives to hold his new baby, but he's in anguish because his wife is still fighting for her life. April witnesses his heartfelt plea for her to come back to him.
April believes the universe kept pulling her patient to with her husband. They were meant to be together. Unfortunately, it won't be forever. The patient crashes and can't be revived. April is hit hard by the loss. Jackson comforts her to the point where it looks like they might kiss. Alex wants Chest Pecwell break the news to the dad. This doesn't happen. C.P. says she wasn't his patient, so Alex does his job. These two guys really don't like each other. As for April, she's not sure what to do when Matthew says he loves her.
Everyone wants a genome map from Bailey's new lab. In other news, Callie has been selected to give a big speech on cartilage at a big conference. She's pretty nervous about it. She's also going to miss it because of all the patients rolling in. This may not be a bad thing, as Arizona leads her to believe her speech was a bit dry. Nevertheless, Richard sets up a camera so the speech can be given via video stream. Callie is nervous at first, but loosens up once she ditches her note cards. That's because she's speaking from the heart.
At the end of a long day, Jackson doesn't seem as happy as Stephanie is when they meet up at the bar. Alex is his typically ornery self as he orders a beer. Shane lets Heather know that he's not going to let her snake neurosurgery out from under him. As for Meredith, she wants Bailey to map Zola. She also wants her own map. She wants to know if she's going to get Alzheimer's. Meredith wants to know that she'll be able to fight for her kids like the other mom she met today did.


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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Today, Governor Rick Scott announced he has signed House Bill 977 that will enable foster children who are at least 16 years of age to obtain automobile insurance and a driver's license through state support.
This legislation is an extension of the "Normalcy Bill" Governor Scott signed in 2013, which reduced rules and regulations that limited the activities of children in foster care and allowed foster parents to give foster children permission to do daily, age appropriate, activities.
Governor Scott said, "Learning to drive is an important rite of passage for young adults and I am proud to have signed this legislation that helps Florida's teens who are in foster care be able to get a driver's license. Being in foster care should not restrict the abilities and experiences of our next generation. This legislation extends our efforts from last year and will help foster children thrive."
House Bill 977 creates a three-year pilot program at the Department of Children and Families (DCF) to pay the cost of driver education, licensure, and motor vehicle insurance for young adults in foster care so they can have the same opportunity as children who are not in foster care.
Both current statute and administrative code support the efforts of teens in foster care to engage in age-appropriate activities. DCF rules specifically require community-based lead agency service providers to support foster care teens that have demonstrated the appropriate level of maturity in their efforts to learn to drive, to obtain a learner's permit or driver's license, and to assist in obtaining automobile insurance for those children that are allowed to drive.
Senator Nancy Detert, Senate bill sponsor, said, "I thank Governor Scott for signing the bill that will help foster care kids obtain drivers licenses. We found that only 2 percent of the kids leaving our care had a driver's license due to the fact that they do not have a parent to put them on their insurance. I first filed this bill 15 years ago in the House but it didn't get done. But now, with the Governor's signature, foster care kids will have the tools they need to craft a better life for themselves. We cannot underestimate the importance of this legislation in the lives of foster care kids."
Representative Ben Albritton, House bill sponsor, said, "It was an honor to sponsor our Keys to Independence bill this year. We want our foster kids to know that we care about them and are fighting for them. I look forward to Governor Scott signing this great bill and watching the number of foster kids that are driving skyrocket. In signing this bill our Governor is saying to our foster kids and reinforcing the fact that…WE CARE DEEPLY ABOUT YOU!"
Representative Matt Hudson said, "Governor Scott increased the opportunity for youth in the foster care system to obtain driver's education courses and vehicle insurance through signing this bill. These changes will lead to a brighter future for foster children in the state of Florida."
Representative Matt Gaetz said, "It is imperative that our youth in the foster care system develop the skills and have the resources to become independent. I commend Governor Scott for signing this legislation today because it helps them do just that."
Representative Jose Feliz Diaz said, "This legislation creates an important pilot program and provides resources to the Department of Children and Families to help young adults in foster care obtain a driver's license. I applaud Governor Scott for continuing to make the needs of Florida's children a priority."
Representative Pat Rooney said, "Governor Scott often talks about investing in the next generation, and by signing this bill he yet again demonstrates that he means it. This is a small investment from the state that means a lot to our teens in the foster care system."
Representative Bill Hager said, "Today's youth are tomorrow's leaders and I stand with Governor Scott as he supports children who are in foster care. The Governor's commitment to bettering the lives of Florida's children is commendable."
Representative Sharon Pritchett said, "This legislation is a critical step in ensuring every child in the foster care system has the opportunity to become independent and successful. Signage of this legislation assures Florida's children remain a top priority."
Representative Ray Rodrigues said, "I am proud to join Governor Scott in supporting this legislation. By providing resources to youth in the foster care system, Governor Scott is reaffirming his commitment to Florida's children who are in the care of the state."
Representative Daphne Campbell said, "This legislation includes important provisions for addressing the needs of our youth in the foster care system. I commend Governor Scott for his strong commitment to Florida's youth."
Alan Abramowitz, Executive Director of the GAL Program, said, "Representative Ben Albritton and Senator Nancy Detert continue to champion the rights and responsibilities of young adults in foster care. Driving is a big responsibility, and right now, youth in foster care are not prepared. With Governor Scott signing the Keys to Independence Act will allow them to gain the skills they need to be safe drivers."
Geori Berman, Florida Youth Shine Coordinator: "Florida Youth SHINE members are so excited about the passage of the 'Keys to Independence' Bill. They came from across Florida to testify at committee meetings and met with legislators, because they know first-hand how difficult life is when you can't drive. They are so happy that kids will be able to get driver's ed, a learner's permit, driver's license and car insurance. This addresses an obstacle that our kids in foster care faced, and helps them in their journey to be independent and productive."
Chelsea Bramblett, Florida Youth SHINE Secretary of the Pensacola Chapter, and a youth formerly in foster care said, "The Keys to Independence Act is a great opportunity for youth in foster care to pursue normal lives, have independence and be employed. I had to wait until I was 18 to get my driver's license and couldn't practice driving until then!"
Kierra Perkins, Florida Youth SHINE Legislative Co-Chair of the Jacksonville Chapter, and a youth formerly in foster care, said "The Keys to Independence Act is a great thing. I wish it was around when I was in foster care. This gives kids in foster care the opportunity to find employment, go to school, better their lives and become productive citizens of society."
Department of Children and Families Interim Secretary Mike Carroll said, "We are excited to have the resources to implement this important initiative that allows foster teens to have the same opportunity as their peers. Learning to drive is not only an exciting and important developmental step in a young person's life; it is one of the first steps to independence."


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It all started in the mid-1990s with a defendant who passed a school bus. "I made them take a day off of work and ride with the school bus driver so they could see first-hand what happens when a car goes around a school bus, and what the dangers could be," Painesville Municipal Court Judge Michael A. Cicconetti recalled. That case was the accidental start to the judge's headline-making creative sentences. "We started small," he said. "It was more out of frustration because after a year or two years, we were seeing the same people come back, with the same offenses. I thought, 'There has to be a better way to do this.' Some people, let's face it, you're never going to deter their conduct. It took me awhile to figure that out, too. I can't be the savior of all, because some people don't want to be saved." So Cicconetti decided to start offering first-time offenders alternatives to jail. "We try to give them a sentence that's meaningful but also provocative enough so it gets everybody's attention and deters other people from doing the same thing," he said. Most of Cicconetti's creative sentences fly under the radar. For instance, he recently sentenced a college student who broke a Painesville resident's window during a prank to do yard work at the victim's house for six hours, in addition to paying for the window. By far, his most famous alternative sentence was the case of the Pig Man -- which got worldwide media attention.
In February 2002, the judge sentenced a Painesville man who shouted obscenities at police and called them pigs to stand on a busy street corner for two hours with a real swine and a sign stating, "This is not a police officer." Another well-known Cicconetti sentence was when he had two Fairport Harbor teens who stole and defaced a statue of the baby Jesus that was part of a church's Christmas Eve nativity scene to march through the village with a donkey and an apology sign stating, "Sorry for the jackass offense." Then there was the time he ordered a couple who had sex on the beach at Headlands Beach State Park to take out a newspaper advertisement apologizing to everyone who witnessed the act. Cicconetti has talked about his sentences on numerous TV programs, including "Dr. Phil," "Connie Chung" and "Good Morning America." Cicconetti said he sees very few repeat offenders with his alternative sentences, but occasionally it happens, such as in the Michael Logar case. Cicconetti ordered Logar, who fled from a trooper after he was driving with someone who was pulled over for speeding, to run from police in a more constructive way. Logar chose to run in The News-Herald Johnnycake Jog to greatly reduce his six-month jail sentence. But after running in the race, Logar again got into trouble for stealing a woman's purse and was sent to prison. "He was one of the very few that had a prior criminal record," Cicconetti said. "It was a gamble, and it was a bad gamble on my part." Cicconetti said another case that didn't turn out as well as he'd hoped was when he sentenced a woman who abandoned dozens of kittens at the Lake Metroparks to spend the entire night alone in a remote area of the park (with rangers hidden to protect her) on a cold November night with no food, beverage (other than water) or shelter. "That almost turned out to be a disaster," he said. "When I put her in the woods that night, the forecast wasn't that bad." Then, while home watching the news, Cicconetti saw the weatherman warning that a blizzard with up to 18 inches of snow was expected in some areas. "At midnight, I said, 'That's it. I can't do this anymore.' It was too treacherous and dangerous, so she had to spend the rest of the night in jail," the judge said. But many of the people who opt for jail alternatives express their gratitude to the judge for turning their lives around. Cicconetti saves their letters in a large scrapbook. Last year, a Geauga County couple was sentenced to stand in a kiddie pool for two hours in bathing suits and life vests at the International Cuisine Celebration in Painesville for entering the Grand River on an unregistered raft without life preservers during a severe flood. For the last four hours of the event, they walked around handing out water safety brochures. Grace Nash told The News-Herald that she and her boyfriend, Bruce Crawford, learned their lesson. "The appropriate punishment is this," she said at the festival. "The judge actually cut us quite a few breaks. Unintentionally we took up a lot of people's time." As for the Pig Man, who hasn't been in any trouble since, he and the judge have since developed a friendship of sorts. "The Pig Man comes in every once in awhile just to say hello, or he yells at me on the street hello," said Cicconetti. "He even calls me and wants to go to lunch, and I have. That's what makes the job worthwhile. People coming in 10 years later saying they turned their lives around."


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This procedure optionally uses the frozen mode feature. Frozen mode enables you to stop database updates on disk so that a file system snapshot can be taken safely. You can use frozen mode as an additional measure for ensuring a robust backup.
If the server instance is stopped, frozen mode does not apply.
Your server must not write user data on the disk while the file system backup is in progress. If you are sure that no updates will occur during a certain time frame, make your backup during this time. If you cannot guarantee that there will be no updates, put your server into frozen mode before making a backup.
A server in frozen mode continues to write to the access and errors logs. In a single-server topology, operations received when frozen mode is on result in an LDAP error being returned. The error message logged is the standard error for the database being offline. In a replicated topology, a referral is returned. For frozen mode to work correctly, no other tasks should be running on the databases.
Note that the databases of a server in frozen mode are more stable than those in read-only mode. Unlike frozen mode, read-only mode permits tasks to be created and configuration entries to be modified. When frozen mode is on, all configured databases are taken offline. Any internal operations in progress are notified of the database going offline. LDAP operations in progress are completed, and the database environment is flushed. Subsequent incoming operations, including searches to user data, are refused until frozen mode is set to off. You can, however, search configuration parameters while frozen mode is on.
Frozen mode can be active only when the server is running. Restarting the server instance will also reset frozen mode to off.
For parts of this procedure, you can use DSCC to perform this task. For information, see Directory Service Control Center Interface and the DSCC online help. Other parts of the procedure can only be done using the command line.
(Optional) Put your server into frozen mode.
$ dsconf set-server-prop -h host -p port read-write-mode:frozen
Back up your file system, using a tool appropriate to your file system type.
If your server is in frozen mode, make the server read-write again.
$ dsconf set-server-prop -h host -p port read-write-mode:read-write
If your server receives replication updates from another server, replication updates will start as soon as frozen mode is turned off.
For parts of this procedure, you can use DSCC to perform this task. For information, see Directory Service Control Center Interface and the DSCC online help. Other parts of the procedure can only be done using the command line.


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Fra Angelico: San Marco, Florence
G. Braziller, 1995 - Art - 127 pages
The cloister of San Marco was the home of on e of the greatest Renaissance painters, Fra Angelico. Betwee n 1440 and 1452, he and his assistants covered the entire co mplex with over 50 frescoes, designed within the traditions of the Dominican order. '
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Delivers 39 Highway MPG and 28 City MPG! This Nissan Altima boasts a Regular Unleaded I-4 2.5 L/152 engine powering this Variable transmission. STORM BLUE METALLIC, CHARCOAL, CLOTH SEAT TRIM, [L94] FLOOR MATS/TRUNK MAT/HIDEAWAY NETS -inc: dual trunk hooks.
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We're one of the few retailers who can honestly say our shipping exceeds that of Amazon Prime. If your order is placed before the UPS truck comes at the end of the day, Rack Attack ships same day for all in-stock orders. We have 17 locations around North America letting us ship from the store nearest to you*, keeping our average shipping times to under 2 days from the time you place your order.
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Thule 575 Snowboard Racks are the original angled two snowboard rack. Besides attaching to Thule car racks you can now attach it to factory installed and Yakima base racks with Thule Fat Mouth Clamp, included. Snowboards lock to carrier.
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This section describes step by step, how to access Oracle Portal from a mobile device:
Section 9.7.2, "Step 2 Configure mobile access for Oracle Portal"
Section 9.7.3, "Step 3 Make mobile content available on Oracle Portal pages"
Section 9.7.4, "Step 4 Configure a home page for mobile users"
Section 9.7.5, "Step 5 Contact Oracle Portal from a mobile device"
Although access to a portal from an actual mobile device is, in essence, identical to access from a mobile simulator (you just enter a URL into the device), the simulator option allows portal developers to see, more quickly, how Oracle Portal displays pages and portlets on mobile devices.
There are many reasons that the early phases of developing a mobile-enabled portal with Oracle Portal is best performed with the use of a mobile device simulator:
Lower access costs than full wireless access
More controlled access to the portal within company firewalls
Quicker response times over a local network
Less hardware to purchase and support.
Most major mobile device companies, keen to get developers writing mobile applications, offer free simulator software for their devices. For legal reasons this software should generally be downloaded from the suppliers' respective sites, for example, OpenWave.com, Nokia, Ericcson, Palm, and so on. Different suppliers require different levels of registration prior to downloading their simulator software.
Some simulators can be installed on a standard PC and operate over a local intranet. Some other simulators connect to a public server hosted by the supplier, which therefore requires public Internet access to your development portal. As mobile device companies regularly update their simulators in line with their available hardware, ensure that you check the latest simulator requirements for access to an intranet-only-accessible portal.
In a default Oracle Portal installation, mobile access to the portal is enabled. To prevent users from accessing the portal from mobile devices, your portal administrator can disable this feature. To verify the mobile access policy in your portal and check that OracleAS Wireless is properly configured, see Enabling Mobile Access in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Portal. You must be the portal administrator to do this.
Portal administrators can set other global options that impact mobile access throughout your portal.
Exclude the Login link displayed on mobile home pages.
Display page titles in navigation link text, instead of the text Home and Back.
Enhance page layouts for PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) and set PDA display options such as fonts, colors and banner images.
Enable mobile portlet content logging.
Specify the OracleAS Wireless Portal Service URL.
To test mobile access in your portal, start by creating a simple mobile page containing the mobile-enabled portlet MobileXML. When you create the mobile page, set the option Display Page To Public Users as described in Section 9.2, "Creating a Mobile Page".
The MobileXML Portlet is located in the Portlet Repository, under Portlet Builders, Additional Portlet Builders. If you are not sure how to add portlets to mobile pages, see Section 9.3, "Adding Content to a Mobile Page".
Edit the default content of the MobileXML portlet as follows:
Click the Edit Defaults icon beside the portlet.
Enter the following text as the actual content of the portlet, or enter your own OracleAS Wireless XML if you prefer.
<SimpleText> <SimpleTitle> Mobile Portlet Content </SimpleTitle> <SimpleTextItem> This portlet uses a short sample of the markup that can be used in a mobile portlet. The markup can be used to describe: </SimpleTextItem> <SimpleTextItem> Forms : <SimpleForm> </SimpleTextItem> <SimpleTextItem> Tables : <SimpleTable> </SimpleTextItem> <SimpleTextItem> Menus : <SimpleMenu> </SimpleTextItem> <SimpleTextItem> Links : <SimpleHref> </SimpleTextItem> <SimpleTextItem> Plus many more useful user interface items. However, unlike HTML this mobile markup is strict XML, so more care has to be taken when using it. </SimpleTextItem> </SimpleText>
Click OK to return to the page.
Click View Page to preview the mobile page.
This view provides a good indication of how the page will look when it is displayed on a mobile device.
Although it is not mandatory, we recommend that you specify a home page to be displayed when you access Oracle Portal from a mobile device. The mobile home page is independent from the desktop home page. See Section 2.1.4, "Choosing Your Home Page".
The Mobile Home Page setting is also a convenient way to access new mobile pages during testing.
To contact Oracle Portal using a mobile device, use the same URL that you would use to access the portal from a desktop browser, that is, use the form:
Oracle Portal detects the non-html access and redirects the mobile device to the OracleAS Wireless Service URL (specified on the Mobile tab of the Global Settings page). See also Section 9.7.2, "Step 2 Configure mobile access for Oracle Portal".
Some mobile devices and simulators do not properly support redirection. In these cases the mobile device may display some form of error. To work around this problem enter the OracleAS Wireless Service URL (mentioned previously) directly into the mobile device.
The mobile home page is displayed in the mobile device; the page title is shown, together with links to the portlets on the page. In the sample page you created in Step 3, there will be just one portlet link displaying the portlet's Short Display Name. Click the portlet link to view the portlet content in the mobile device.
As stated earlier, accessing a portal from a real mobile device rather than a simulator is a matter of network configuration rather than Oracle Portal or OracleAS Wireless server configuration. If the network is correctly configured (generally involving access from the Internet to some machine on an intranet), these steps remain the same.


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Programs as complicated as Pinnacle Studio Ultimate 12 wouldn't ordinarily merit a Reviewer's Choice designation because they might compare poorly to similar programs that are easier to learn. But the robust capabilities and advanced features of Avid Technology's software make up for its learning curve.
Pinnacle Studio Ultimate 12Pros: Powerful cutting-edge features with a sophisticated interface.Cons: Complicated and time-consuming to learn.
Performance: AFeatures: A+Ease of use: B-Value: A-Compatibility: B+Price: $130
For $130, you get a video-editing tool that could compete with professional programs that cost about $1,000. The main feature that sets this tool apart from its competitors is its ability to make complex and intricate templates via a composing tool that provides layering, title animations and animated graphics.
Pinnacle 12 is so advanced that it offers a two-hour tutorial to cover some basics and a lot of advanced features. Fortunately, the tutorial is intuitive and easy to follow.
The program has many of the same basic features as its competitors, including complete HD functionality for high-definition standards such as HDV, AVCHD and Blu-ray.
Lead story: Video-editing tools cut to the chase
Some of the small touches that set this tool apart include master volume control, which allows you to make overall changes to output without altering or influencing the mix between various audio tracks, and an intuitive image reference tool that lets you find where an image from an album is used in a video.
If you do a lot of video editing, one of the main issues you will encounter is making sure you have enough space for all your video footage. So it's nice to have a feature like Pause Export, which notifies you when a drive is becoming full when you try to export a video file. It will automatically stop the data transfer until you have had a chance to clear space on the destination drive.
Unfortunately, Pinnacle 12 does not come in a Mac OS flavor. However, with advanced features that seem to go on forever, it is still one of the best video-editing tools in this roundup.
Avid Technology, 650-526-1600, www.pinnaclesys.com
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Great Planes - PT-40 MkII Perfect Trainer Kit
Manufacturer: Great Planes Product Code: P118
PT-40 MkII Trainer kit
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Based on the Popular PT-40, Great Planes has Improved the Wing Construction and Instruction Manual for this PT40 MkII Trainer Plane.
FEATURES: Stable, self-correcting flight characteristics Precision-cut, interlocking parts naturally assemble straight and strong Detailed, easy-to-follow instruction manual features step-by-step photos, expert tips, and helpful hints on building surfaces, flying, and covering Interlocking "I-beam" construction builds the wing straight & strong All balsa & ply construction and comes w/extensive hardware package Wing is built w/ailerons, but they may be locked for 3-Channel use. May be built with a rubber band-to-wing or a bolt-on wing (bolts included, rubber bands are not)
INCLUDES: Adjustable engine mount, 3/16" landing gear, pushrods, full-size rolled plans, illustrated instructions, all balsa and plywood to build the trainer, and CA hinge strip.
REQUIRES: Radio: 4-channel w/ 3-4 servos (4th servo for ailerons) Engine: .35-.46 (2-stroke) or .40-.52 (4-stroke) Misc. items: fuel tank (8oz), wheels, wheel collars, fuel tubing, 2 1/4 " spinner, building and field equipment
SPECS: Wingspan: 60" (1520mm) Wing Area: 672 sq in (43.3 sq dm) Length: 52.5" (1335mm) Weight: 5-6lb (2270-2720g) wing loading: 17-21oz/sq ft (52-64g/sq dm) Airfoil: flat bottom, high wing


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advent: part one
I know I'm one day late to the party, but I finally finished my little advent calendar last night, just in the nick of time. Nothing like a deadline to get me moving.
When I was little, we had a similar advent calendar. Made of felt, with snaps.. I think. I've combed through the attic at my parent's house on several occasions looking for it, but no luck. So I had to improvise and make my own.
I love felt, especially the good stuff. I hope this calendar will be used for quite some time, pulled out year after year, so I didn't mind taking the time to stitch it by hand. (It also gave me a good excuse to watch a little TV and still feel productive.) Bee and C have been watching me make it, and are thrilled it is finally December at last!
The pockets were stitched using the number template I made for the Purl Bee (and Page's advent calendar is so bright and lovely). The buttons on the tree are a mixed bunch, all from a big bag of antique buttons I splurged on at Quilt Market. Here are the ornaments for week 1, more to come!


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Researchers with the Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS) reported in 2001 that a nutritional supplement called the AREDS formulation can reduce the risk of developing advanced age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The original AREDS formulation contains vitamin C, vitamin E, beta-carotene, zinc and copper.
In 2006, the same research group, which is based at NIH's National Eye Institute, began a second study called AREDS2 to determine if they could improve the AREDS formulation. They tried adding omega-3 fatty acids, as well as the antioxidants lutein and zeaxanthin, which are in the same family of nutrients as beta-carotene. The researchers also tried substituting lutein and zeaxanthin for beta-carotene, which prior studies had associated with an increased risk of lung cancer in smokers. The study found that while omega-3 fatty acids had no effect on the formulation, lutein and zeaxanthin together appeared to be a safe and effective alternative to beta-carotene.
Press Release:
NIH study provides clarity on supplements for protection against blinding eye disease, May 5, 2013
For Eye Care Professionals:
For the Public:
What the Age-Related Eye Disease Studies Mean for You
For the Media:
Questions and Answers about AREDS2
More Information:
Podcast with Dr. Emily Chew on AREDS
Results from the Age-Related Eye Disease Study 2, presented by the AREDS2 Research Team at the ARVO Annual Meeting, May 5, 2013 (Video)