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We know what you are thinking. Why should I pay more for pewter hardware? Well there are quite a few reasons why pewter hardware is your better choice. First Premier's pewter cabinet hardware is not mass produced. You will not be walking by a hardware display in your local hardware store and see our hardware in bins in little plastic bags marked "Made in China". Most of our designs are truly exclusive to our company and not found anywhere else. Design Journal Magazine thought that our new Florentine Collection was so original it was awarded a Platinum Design Award. See it here: https://adexawards.com/products/detail/1611-pull-knob-collection/322019-florentine-cup-pull
Second, when we say our hardware are miniature works of art, we are telling the truth. Our pewter items were first scuplted by hand by custom jewelry designers or sculptors. These pieces were then used to make the molds from which your items are produced. Our casting is now done by an art foundry in California. This foundry is used by artists from all over the US to make museum quality castings. We also use the highest quality pewter available. You will not find lead or other junk metal in our pewter. This assures a high quality casting and a better finish. After they are cast, each piece is inspected, then finished by hand and inspected again before being shipped to your door.
Since every pewter cabinet hardware item or wall tile is done by hand, each piece is going to be a little unique. This hand made quality means that every order is going to be a little different than the one before so you can be assured that your order is definitely one of a kind. Nothing mass produced in a factory overseas and shipped here by the boatload.
Since our hardware is finished by hand, we can also offer a number of different finishes. We don't limit you to just to 2 or 3 finishes that we stock, we have just about every designer finish you can think of: antique copper, antique brass, antique bronze, oil rubbed bronze, natural pewter, shiny pewter, satin nickel, polished nickel, and black. Need a finish that is not listed, give us a call and we will work with our factory to see if we can provide you with the finish you are looking for.
So if you are looking for something that will make your kitchen cabinets stand out from all the others, add a truly hand made touch to your kitchen, support American workers and factories, and show everyone your great taste then pewter cabinet hardware from Premier is for you.
Because each knob, pull, appliance pull and wall tile is done by hand, please allow for some variation in size and finish!!


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Summer 2013
New class raises bar: Ohio State's new freshman class is the most impressive in university history with an average ACT score of 28.5 and 92 percent coming from the top quarter of their high school classes.
Great finish for Pelotonia: With fundraising to continue until October, Pelotonia projects this year's totals will surpass $18 million. The total amount raised since 2009 is expected to exceed $60 million, with all proceeds going to cancer research at Ohio State.
Ohio State among top places to work: Ohio State was recognized twice for its positive culture this summer: fifth among large schools in The Huffington Post and one of the "Best Places to Work in Academia" in The Scientist.
Alumni anchor strong fundraising year: Nearly 230,000 alumni and friends contributed more than $374 million to the But for Ohio State Campaign in 2012–13. Total number of alumni donors grew by nearly 9 percent, and alumni giving increased by more than 31 percent.
Researchers identify drug to target leukemia: Clinical results show the drug ibrutinib has real potential as a safe, effective, targeted treatment for adults with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and mantle cell lymphoma (MCL). Trial results showed an overall response rate of 71 percent in CLL and 68 percent in MCL.
Record crop of Fulbrights: In 2013 the university had a record number of Fulbright Scholars, with 16 students earning the award.
Teacher prep makes honor roll: The National Council on Teacher Quality recognized the College of Education and Human Ecology for its teacher preparation. EHE's secondary program received a perfect 4.0, and its elementary program earned a 3.5. Only one university received a higher rating than Ohio State.
Student-athletes top Big Ten: Ohio State placed a conference-high 74 student-athletes representing 28 sports on the 2013 Big Ten Distinguished Scholars list. Student-athletes must be letter winners in at least their second year at their school and earn a minimum grade point average of 3.7 or higher.
Construction process saves $26 million: A competitive review process helped the university save $26 million on the North Residential District project, which will be home to Ohio State's Second-year Transformational Experience Program (STEP) to enrich the sophomore student experience.
Wexner Medical Center recognized for LGBT care: Ohio State's Wexner Medical Center was recognized for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender patient-centered care by the HRC Healthcare Equality Index.
Ohio State receives international stem grant: The university received the Obama-Singh 21st Century Knowledge Initiative grant, which will allow Ohio State to partner with India's Aligarh Muslim University to strengthen STEM teaching and research. The project is led by Anil Pradhan, a faculty member at both universities.
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On June 18, 21-year-old Carly Goeller caused a two-car crash because she was texting. Although this accident fortunately resulted in no deaths, an unidentified woman was taken to St. Vincent's Medical Center in Bridgeport for treatment. Police charged Goeller with both distracted driving and failure to drive in the proper lane, according to an .Learn More »
With a large number of statistics reporting on the impact of texting while driving, it's clear that there are massive risks involved. Although many people are becoming aware of the dangers, they might not realize that they're putting themselves at risk. by the University of Michigan revealed that drivers might not be aware of their actions in the car.Learn More »
Distracted driving is a growing problem in jurisdictions around the globe, with the incidences of accidents cause by drivers using their cellular devices skyrocketing. of the much-anticipated iPhone 5 last week saw a massive response from consumers, with several million of these devices being ordered within a few days' time. Some experts are concerned that the new device could encourage distracted driving more so than ever before, thanks to the turn-by-turn directions offered to driving using Apple's proprietary Maps app.Learn More »


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From the moment that I began working in libraries in around 2007, I was not a fan of Summer Reading programs and the themes they were generally packaged around. They were boring, cookie cutter, and out of date. The themes seemed to be 1-2 years behind what was popular at the moment. As a teen librarian, my job was to take these themes and put some excitement around them. I found it to be a difficult task that took energy away from what I consider to be the most important part of any public library: the community that uses the library services. Why spend energy on something that doesn't reflect your community? I've been asking myself this question throughout my career. It's taken awhile, but as time has passed the answer has become clearer and clearer: summer reading programs should not be catch all, cookie cutter programs. They need to be crafted and designed to meet the needs of the community.
My early research into summer programs at libraries turned me onto the Summer Game at the Ann Arbor District Library, a remarkable game where library patrons can earn points, badges, prizes, and more for participating. I loved this approach. However, I knew that at this moment my library and the community did not have the means to achieve something like this. This is ok! Instead of saying "oh well, we can't do this, so let's just do what we used to do" we said "NOPE! Let's keep moving ahead!" And ahead is where we went with MAKE. PLAY. READ. LEARN.
The idea is simple: what are the themes we can organize library programming around? What is our community interested in? Using ideas for STEAM and Every Child Ready to Read, we came up with 8 themes to focus our efforts around: Design, Drama, Tinker, Technology, Music, Writing, Science, and Art. We (myself and Children's Services Coordinator Lee Hope) then assigned our staff to a certain theme and tasked them with coming up with 5 simple programs focused around that theme. 20 staff members contributed and came up with amazing program/lesson plans, supply lists, budgets, and more. Everyone who created these themed programs in a box got a $150 budget. These "theme programs in a box" will travel throughout our library branch locations this summer and serve our kids, tweens, and teens with two programs every day (one for kids, one for tweens/teens) over the course of 8 weeks.
There are two big parts I like about MAKE. PLAY. READ. LEARN. First up is how we had all of our staff involved in the planning. Coming from a strictly youth services background, I always try to remember how important it is to have the youth services voice at the table. Youth Services traditionally drive library circulation, programming statistics and more. Simply speaking, kids, tweens, teens and families love libraries. It is easy to say "yes, we will do this and that for the kids". Those kind of initiatives will work out in the end but I find it far more rewarding and successful at the core if you involve as many of the youth service staff that you employ. Youth Services staff have a treasure trove of ideas in their head. Why not create a program and give that program the structure and support to unleash staff creativity? I'd like to think that MAKE. PLAY. READ. LEARN did that for our amazing Youth Services team at the Chattanooga Public Library.
The other big part I'd like to finish with is the branding. To me, a successful program has to reflect the community it serves. What do Chattanoogans enjoy from the library? They make, they play, they read, and they learn in our libraries. With that in mind, we are trying to tie it all together into one package that the community can identify with.
The final step in our story is unwritten. Throughout May 2015, we'll prepare for MAKE. PLAY. READ. LEARN at our library locations. June and July will be the months where everything happens. It's super exciting and a whole lot of scary, but you know what? We'll make it through and we'll give some kids, tweens, and teens and amazing summer.
MAKE. PLAY. READ. LEARN images and logo design by Chattanooga Public Library Web Developer/Designer Kyle Gordy.
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Can you believe this? In 2006 as United States Patent (7020621) was issued with the following purpose:
A method for determining the total cost incurred per user of information technology (IT) in a distributed computing environment includes obtaining base costs and ongoing costs of an IT system and applying those costs to a series of metrics. The metrics are compared against benchmarks to evaluate and assess where cost efficiencies can be achieved.
In one embodiment, the invention includes a method for determining the cost per user of an information technology system. The method includes obtaining base costs, ongoing direct costs, and ongoing indirect costs. The method further includes gathering information relating to user profiles and organizational characteristics. These costs and information are input into a computer program to determine the cost for each user.
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Guidance needs to change and planners need to stop meddling and micromanaging areas outside their expertise, says Piers Taylor
At present, the British planning system is predicated against any development that doesn't conform to a ubiquitous homogeneity and sit in a banal middle- ground. It is a fundamentally flawed system that wastes a vast amount of time, money and resources writing misconceived and half-baked design guides. These discriminate against anything that doesn't fit into an unbelievably narrow pigeonhole. How on earth do we go from here to a system that allows architects to do what they are trained to do - imagine the future?
Architects are locked in a seemingly never-ending battle with local authorities over design - an area, it should be remembered, where planners have no training. It is easy to imagine a system where planners do what they're trained to do - plan - and leave the rest up for grabs for architects and individuals to act as they see fit.
The only thing that really matters in housing is the big picture; the infrastructure, the streets, the relationships between buildings, the open spaces, the mix, density and use, and local demand. I've no doubt this should be highly controlled, but everything else should be determined by architects, developers and self-builders.
A diverse, dynamic new local character that genuinely reflects place and context in an immediate way could evolve from this. Local character as defined by local authority typically means 'as it was historically' rather than 'as it could be'. Local character only ever truly evolved through an architecture of circumstance, an architecture where individuals used materials, skills and techniques as appropriate for them. It is this, a new architecture of circumstance that I am arguing for - an architecture where true local character and individual expression has a place.
For this to happen, planning guidance needs to change. Planners also need to stop meddling and micromanaging areas outside their expertise. The planned city of Almere in the Netherlands (pictured left, compared to Staffordshire, right) is an extraordinary example of how planners can get it right. Almere is a dense city with inherent flexibility at its core, and importantly, the city has a straightforward planning process for the easy bit; the buildings. Each plot comes with a 'passport', which is effectively a permit to build, and outlines the key restrictions, such as the gaps between houses, the relationship to the street and overall maximum height. Everything else is unrestricted. Homebuilders and architects are free to decide for themselves what the building can look like.
It's mind-boggling to imagine how much time and money we'd save in the UK if we adopted this type of system. It could work not just for new towns, but also for infill sites in any city, irrespective of conservation area or world heritage status. For example, each vacant site should be submitted for an outline consent specifying mix, density and use and the entire next step (that of detailed planning) omitted. Architects would be trusted to design buildings with no petty micromanaging from mealy mouthed planners. A new - and true - vernacular would begin to emerge, an exciting and diverse one where individual expression was valued and unregulated.
The irony is that most of the interesting urban areas of the UK were developed in this way up until the introduction of the planning system 70 years ago. Yet, under the current system, it is impossible to imagine that any comparable new-build development could exist.
Piers Taylor is the founder of Invisible Studio
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Shooter: The Official Movie Game – takes a shot at the others
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February 21, 2009
Filed under Daily App Reviews, Games
With other sniper based games already in the app store, Shooter comes out and takes a shot at them all. Shooter is a new movie based sniper game by Paramount Digital Entertainment and is probably the best first person shooter style game for the iPhone today. As the sniper, you start each level with a mission briefing. From there you pick your weapon and what attachments you want on it. Then you proceed to the mission site and are ready to begin.
Bob Lee Swagger was accused of attempting to assassinate the President of the United States. Now he is trying to earn back his reputation and clear his name by completing dangerous tasks and taking out his enemies.
To start out the level you go into binocular view and follow the indicators to the set location. Once you have found the location, you then press a button that will bring out your gun and zoom into the enemies. From there you try to eliminate all of the enemies as quickly as possible. To steady your gun for a limited time, you can press a button to hold your breath. To reload your gun, just slide the bar located in the bottom right of the screen. Your health indicator is on the right side of your scope. If your health gauge hits the bottom then you fail the mission, and have to restart from the beginning of the mission. There are two modes, story mode and arcade mode.
In story mode, there are 30 detailed missions with fantastic graphics and moveability. The level terrains include the desert, the city, the forest, the mountain, and the snow. Besides just sniping enemies, you also defuse mines, and even destroy heavy artillery such as military jeeps. There are even nighttime missions that are played using night vision. As you get farther in the game there gets to be bosses. Each time you defeat a boss you get a reward or medal.
In arcade mode, you can skip the story line and immediately play your favorite levels. Before the arcade mode becomes available, you must complete the story mode for the level that you wish to play. In the arcade mode there are also two training levels to help you become more accurate in your shooting. This mode is perfect for those times when you just have a couple of minutes to experience some real fun.
If you like first person shooters, or the sniper based games already then you'll love Shooter.
Shooter is $1.99 in the iTunes App Store.
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Call me crazy, but I have a hunch Guadeloupe who qualified for their first ever Gold Cup could be dangerous in a somewhat weak group based in Miami. Costa Rica has a squad in transition and Haiti's team lacks depth and experience. I like Canada to win Group A, but believe that Guadeloupe could sneak into second place. Here's why: Guadeloupe has actually produced by way of lineage some of the best players in World Football, like Thierry Henry, William Galas, Louis Saha and Sylvian Wiltord. Now that Guadeloupe has its own national team, players that trace their lineage to Guadeloupe will be eligible to play for either the island or for France. (Guadeloupe is a principality of France.)
This Guadeloupe team could be good. They could also be quite bad having never played as a unit before. But if the number of players on a team that play in top divisions in Europe is any indication Guadeloupe will be far from the worst team in this competition. David Sommiel is a player I am familiar with from his time at Manchester City and he is a quality full back, and a good organizer which a team full of players that have never played together could use.
For Guadeloupe to have any chance to advance they need points in tonight's match up versus Haiti. It would also be helpful if Canada and Costa Rica draw. Though, for a tiny island like Guadeloupe they have already achieved success by advancing through qualifying to the Gold Cup itself.
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Workgroup Manager isn't included with OS X Server. When upgrading to OS X Mountain Lion or later, the installer removes Workgroup Manager.
To administer iOS and OS X systems, use Profile Manager included with OS X Server. Profile Manager delivers configuration profiles and Mobile Device Management (MDM) for Macs running OS X Mountain Lion, Lion, and iOS devices. Profile Manager allows for configuration and management of user accounts for mail, calendars, contacts, and chat, enforcement of restrictions, PIN and password policies, configuration of system settings, and more.
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Thursday, June 28, 2012
"The globalist elites are pushing hard for U.S. accession to LOST. Those concerned about U.S. sovereignty and fearful of transferring more power to unaccountable international organizations will have to work just as hard to ensure that if and when the treaty finally does come up for a vote, the Senate has the guts to tell the globalists to get lost."
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The Obama administration is pulling out all the stops in an effort to get the Senate to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), also known as the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST). The administration argues that the treaty offers the United States great benefits at no cost. LOST opponents maintain that the accord's few benefits — most of which are already enshrined in international law — are dwarfed by its price: granting an unaccountable, UN-created body control over 70 percent of the Earth's surface.
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Barack Obama set up housekeeping at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue determined to see LOST ratification through. As a candidate for President, Obama told the American Society of International Law that LOST was "clearly in the national interest" and that he would make it his "priority to build bipartisan consensus behind ratification" of it. As President, he has surrounded himself with LOST supporters, among them Vice President Joseph Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta.
The administration put LOST on the back burner for a while; but in 2011, it began pushing for ratification, aided by Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who started meeting with his fellow Senators to convince them to support the treaty. However, he did not schedule a committee hearing until May 2012. Capitol Hill staffers told Foreign Policymagazine that Kerry delayed the hearing to assist his Republican counterpart on the committee and fellow LOST cheerleader, Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, in his primary election battle against Tea Party-backed Richard Mourdock. Lugar lost just the same, but he is now free to back LOST to the hilt without fear of voters' wrath. (A Kerry spokeswoman denied the Lugar angle, stating that the hearing had been delayed because of Kerry's service on the deficit supercommittee and more urgent matters before the Foreign Relations Committee.)
The May 23 hearing demonstrated the administration's determination to move LOST through the Senate as quickly as possible. Clinton, Panetta, and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, three of Obama's heaviest hitters, all made impassioned pleas for the Senate to accede to LOST — the sooner, the better.
"I strongly believe that accession to this treaty is absolutely essential, not only to our economic interests, our diplomatic interests, but I'm here to say that it is extremely important to our national security interests as well," Panetta told the committee.
Dempsey, too, approached LOST from a national-security angle, saying that "being a member of the Convention would better allow the United States to exercise global security leadership." He argued that accession to the accord "would provide legal certainty to our navigational freedoms and legitimacy to our maritime operations that customary law simply cannot." In addition, he said, the United States becoming a party to LOST would enable it to counter "illegitimate expansionism" by foreign countries.
(Panetta and Dempsey had offered similar remarks at the Law of the Sea Convention forum in Washington a fortnight earlier, again proving how serious the administration is about LOST.)
Of the three, Clinton offered the most comprehensive defense of LOST.
"As the world's foremost maritime power," she remarked, "the United States benefits from the Convention's favorable freedom of navigation provisions." Though the U.S. military currently has freedom of the seas, such freedom is based on custom combined with military might. Commercial shipping is likewise at the mercy of informal customs rather than formal law. Ratifying LOST would codify the customs of international law and secure U.S. navigational freedoms in perpetuity, benefiting both the armed forces and the private sector, she argued.
"We have the world's second longest coastline," Clinton said, "so the United States benefits greatly from the Convention's favorable provisions on offshore natural resources." In particular, LOST grants to each coastal nation an "exclusive economic zone": Within 200 miles of its coastline the country has the sole right to determine who may extract natural resources and under what conditions. In some instances this "continental shelf" may be extended even farther — potentially as far as 600 miles off the northern coast of Alaska, she claimed.
"American companies are equipped and ready to engage in deep seabed mining," the Secretary averred. "But the United States can only take advantage of the Convention's provisions that accord security of tenure to mine sites in areas beyond national jurisdiction as a party to this treaty." There are no customs governing mining in international waters, she said, "and without such security of tenure, industry has told us that it will not risk the significant investment needed to extract these valuable resources." As long as the United States remains a non-party to LOST, she argued, America will lose out to other countries that are already staking their claims to mining sites under the treaty.
Joining the chorus of Panetta and Dempsey, Clinton maintained that ratifying LOST would enable the United States "to challenge other countries' behavior on the firmest and most persuasive legal footing."
Finally, she stated that the United States must accede to LOST in order to "steer its implementation." Failure to join the Convention means that other countries, not the United States, will make the rules pursuant to the treaty — rules that Clinton said "could create precedents, positive and negative," for the United States. "We need to be on the inside to protect and advance our interests," she declared.
Having laid out the case for LOST ratification, Clinton then took aim at opponents of U.S. accession, saying their opposition is "based in ideology and mythology, not in facts, evidence, or the consequences of our continuing failure to accede to the treaty."
As we shall see, however, many of the "facts" cited by LOST supporters are not quite as factual as they would have us believe; and the consequences of acceding to the treaty are far worse than the consequences of not doing so.
Socialism on the High Seas
LOST, wrote Jeremy Rabkin of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, "was largely drafted in the late 1970s, a period in which the then-new Third World majority in the U.N. General Assembly sought to recast international law to impose vast transfers of wealth from affluent to less-developed nations…. In its basic framework and underlying premises, it is a monument to the failed socialist thinking of a bygone era."
One needn't dig too far into LOST to see that Rabkin's assertions are accurate. The treaty's preamble declares that "the area of the seabed and ocean floor and the subsoil thereof, beyond the limits of national jurisdiction, as well as its resources, are the common heritage of mankind, the exploration and exploitation of which shall be carried out for the benefit of mankind as a whole, irrespective of the geographical location of States."
"The notion that the oceans or space are the 'common heritage of mankind' was — and is — a dramatic departure from traditional Western conceptions of private property," Jeane Kirkpatrick, President Ronald Reagan's UN Ambassador at the time LOST was completed (1982), told the Senate Armed Services Committee in 1994. "Most members at upper levels of the Reagan Administration were reluctant to put our foot on that slippery slope."
The Reagan administration also opposed LOST ratification for other reasons, such as the treaty's dubious constitutionality and its potential erosion of U.S. sovereignty. As a result, though 161 other countries and the European Union have ratified the pact, the United States remains the most significant holdout — and with good reason.
LOST, Kirkpatrick told the committee,
establishes a sweeping claim of jurisdiction over the seabed and all its mineral wealth. It creates an International Seabed Authority in which it vests control of two thirds of the Earth's surface. Under the LOS Treaty the power of the Seabed Authority would be vested in an Assembly made up of all participating states and an Executive Council of 36 members elected by the Assembly to represent investors, consumers, exporters of affected minerals, developing states, and all the geographical areas of the world. The formula for representation guaranteed that the industrialized "producer" countries would be a permanent minority. And they would have a majority of obligations. Most importantly, votes of the Assembly would be on the basis of one vote/one country, with a two-thirds majority binding on all parties.
The UN itself admitted how radical LOST is in a document celebrating the 25th anniversary of the treaty's completion:
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea … is perhaps one of the most significant but less recognized 20th century accomplishments in the arena of international law…. Its scope is vast: it covers all ocean space, with all its uses, including navigation and overflight; all uses of all its resources, living and non-living, on the high seas, on the ocean floor and beneath, on the continental shelf and in the territorial seas; the protection of the marine environment; and basic law and order…. The Convention is widely recognized by the international community as the legal framework within which all activities in the oceans and the seas must be carried out.
LOST, therefore, is clearly not some bland international agreement on navigational rights and deep-sea mining rules but an attempt by the UN to assume control "over everything, over, on, in, and under the oceans and seas of the world," in the words of Larry Greenley, director of missions for The John Birch Society. Yet according to pro-LOST forces, the treaty's critics, not its proponents, are the real radicals!
Sovereignty at Stake
What are the critics saying? For one thing, they are extremely concerned that LOST would jeopardize U.S. sovereignty, subordinating America to the will of all the other parties to the treaty, many of which are governed by corrupt, anti-American regimes.
LOST supporters claim that this fear is unfounded because the United States has been granted a "permanent veto" over the actions of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) much like the one it possesses over the actions of the UN Security Council.
Greenley called this assertion an "exaggeration," and he would certainly appear to be correct. First of all, this so-called veto only applies to the distribution of royalties from undersea mining and drilling under Article 82 of the treaty. Second, the ISA Assembly makes all decisions regarding the disposition of such revenue; and there the United States, while footing one-fourth of the ISA's budget, would have just one vote out of 163. According to the Heritage Foundation's Steven Groves:
Some UNCLOS proponents maintain that the United States, if it joined the convention, would have a "veto" over such decisions because the U.S. would hold a permanent seat on the 36-member Council, which is the executive organ of the Authority. In fact, UNCLOS empowers the Council only to make recommendations to the Assembly on the disposition of Article 82 revenue, which the Assembly may approve or disapprove. Any Council recommendation that is disapproved by the Assembly is returned to the Council "for reconsideration in the light of the views expressed by the Assembly." Therefore, in function and form, the Assembly makes final determinations regarding the disposition of Article 82 revenue….
By virtue of its seat on the Council, the United States might be able to hinder decisions to distribute Article 82 revenue for purposes to which it objects. Whether the United States would be steadfast in its objections to such distributions and whether the Assembly would make any such distributions without the consent of the Council are open questions.
Of course, even if the United States did, in fact, possess precisely the same kind of veto in the ISA that it does in the Security Council, it would, Greenley remarked, offer "scant comfort when our U.S. Executive Branch usually sides more with the interests of the UN than with the national interests of the United States."
LOST contains provisions establishing "institutions with executive and judicial powers that in some instances are compulsory," William J. Middendorf II, former Secretary of the Navy and former Ambassador to the Netherlands and the Organization of American States, told the Senate Armed Services Committee in 1994. By putting the entire marine area under the thumb of the ISA, Middendorf said, the treaty grants "executive powers to the authority that supersed[e] the sovereign power of the participating states."
"Of even greater concern," Middendorf continued, "Part XV of the Convention establishes dispute settlement procedures that are quasi-judicial and mandatory. Once drawn into this dispute settlement process, it will be very difficult for the U.S. [to] extricate itself from it."
How might these powers be used to thwart American interests? The possibilities are endless, but LOST opponents have cited several ways in which the treaty could threaten the United States.
First, they suggest that the other parties to LOST could well interpret the treaty in such a way as to interfere with U.S. military and intelligence activities.
A 2007 Heritage Foundation WebMemo stated that under LOST, "the U.S. would sign away its ability to collect intelligence vital for American security within the 'territorial waters' of any other country." "Furthermore," continued the WebMemo, "U.S. submarines would be required to travel on the surface and show their flags while sailing within territorial waters."
LOST also creates the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), whose job it is to adjudicate disputes between parties to the treaty. If, having joined LOST, the United States were to board and seize a ship on the high seas under the belief that it was being used to stage a terrorist attack against American interests, the state under whose flag the ship was sailing could appeal to ITLOS.
ITLOS might or might not choose to adjudicate the dispute. The language in the treaty purportedly exempts military activities from ITLOS's compulsory arbitration process; but it is vague enough, says Rabkin, that "the only thing certain is that it will be up to ITLOS to decide how far it wants to intrude into U.S. naval strategy."
U.S. participation in LOST would also narrow Washington's options for adjudicating disputes over seizures of U.S. ships. A LOST party that seized an American ship could demand that ITLOS settle the dispute, leaving the United States essentially powerless to settle it in any other way, even if ITLOS ruled against America.
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Second, say LOST critics, the treaty gives the ISA the authority to collect taxes on a global scale. Clinton hotly denied this, telling the Foreign Relations Committee, "There are no taxes on any individuals, corporations, or anyone else under the Convention."
The Secretary's claim is true in the same sense that her husband's assertion that he "did not have sexual relations with that woman" was true, i.e., only by defining the term as narrowly as possible.
The ISA is authorized to collect royalties from oil and gas exploration on a nation's continental shelf beyond 200 miles from shore. In the case of the United States, those royalties currently go the U.S. Treasury; under LOST, a portion of them would be forfeited to the ISA. "Starting in the 12th year of production, about ½ of the revenue that would otherwise go to the U.S. Treasury would instead be sent to the authority," according to Groves. That could amount to "billions, if not trillions of dollars," the U.S. Extended Continental Shelf Task Force estimated.
Deep seabed mining in international waters also generates revenue for the ISA and another UN entity known as the Enterprise. A LOST party-based company wishing to explore a particular site for minerals must pay the ISA $250,000 for the privilege — and then hope that the Council approves its application. Furthermore, it must tell the ISA of a second, similar location that also has profit potential. The authority will then decide which site to exploit for itself and which one to let the private company mine. The company will have to pay a hefty annual fee to continue mining and share its profits with the Enterprise.
This all amounts to a forcible taking of wealth from producers the world over — which is to say it is a global tax.
And what does the ISA do with all these simoleons? It redistributes them to "developing" countries. After that, wrote Groves,
UNCLOS is silent on how UNCLOS nations that receive Article 82 royalty revenue should spend it. UNCLOS does not require recipient nations to spend the revenue on anything related to the oceans or the maritime environment. Nor does it require them to spend the revenue on humanitarian or development projects, even though most, if not all, of the eligible recipients are supposed to be poor, developing countries. Recipients are apparently free to spend the funds on military expenditures or simply deposit them into the personal bank accounts of national leaders.
In addition to the revenue it will generate, the ISA's permit process has come under fire for its provisions regarding trade secrets and intellectual property. A company obtaining permission from the ISA to mine the ocean floor could be forced to turn over its new technologies to the Enterprise for a pittance, whereupon the technology could be shared with all other parties to LOST.
This also has national-security implications. While technology that is strictly for military use is exempted from this provision, everything else is fair game. Thus, if the United States were to ratify LOST, technology that has military as well as commercial applications could be extracted from an American company and turned over to an anti-American regime.
If America's enemies can't get our sensitive technologies through the permit process, they may instead be able to get it by taking the United States to ITLOS on some flimsy pretext, notes the Heritage WebMemo:
The convention requires states to transfer information and perhaps technology to mandatory dispute resolution tribunals. Under the convention, parties to a dispute are required to provide a resolution tribunal with "all relevant documents, facilities and information." This amounts to a blanket invitation for unscrupulous foreign competitors to bring the U.S. and American companies before a tribunal for the sole purpose of obtaining sensitive data and technologies that would otherwise be unavailable to them.
Critics have also warned that U.S. accession to LOST will open a "back door" for radical environmentalists to impose their agenda on America. LOST, says the WebMemo,
states that convention participants must "take … all measures consistent with this Convention that are necessary to prevent, reduce, and control pollution of the marine environment from any source," (Article 194). This provision goes on to require that such measures address "all sources of pollution of the marine environment … including those from land-based sources, from or through the atmosphere, or by dumping…." Signatories are also required to "adopt laws and regulations to prevent, reduce and control pollution of the marine environment from or through the atmosphere." (Article 212).
That essentially grants the UN control over the environmental laws of every country that signs the treaty — a fact not lost on environmental activists, some of whom have already signaled that if the United States ratifies LOST they intend to use the convention to force America to comply with the Kyoto Protocol even though the Senate has never ratified that accord.
LOST also presents a constitutional conundrum. The Constitution requires the Senate, by a two-thirds vote, to ratify a treaty for the United States to become a party to it. However, the ISA Assembly, also by a two-thirds vote, can modify the terms of the treaty at any time. This, Kirkpatrick pointed out, makes LOST "an open ended commitment," which is certainly contrary to the spirit, if not the letter, of America's supreme law.
Bogus Benefits
U.S. accession to LOST, then, will have a significant number of negative consequences. But what about the treaty's alleged benefits?
LOST backers claim the treaty will secure certain navigational rights for U.S. military and commercial shipping. However, the United States already enjoys such rights as a matter of customary international law. Moreover, America has for decades been a party to the International Maritime Organization, which establishes international laws with regard to shipping. Thus, to the extent LOST codifies navigational rights, it is redundant.
The treaty's fans also argue that it will secure U.S. rights to extract natural resources from its continental shelf. As with navigational rights, the United States already exercises sovereignty over its continental shelf to a distance of 200 miles from shore; and other countries, after initially contesting the U.S. claim, adopted the policy themselves. America could similarly claim rights over its continental shelf beyond 200 miles and work out its differences with the individual nations affected by such a claim. By ratifying LOST, however, it cedes such authority to the ISA and, in addition, is forced to surrender half the royalties earned from mining and drilling in the extended continental shelf.
Although LOST supporters say U.S. accession to the treaty is necessary for American companies and their investors to feel confident that their claims to deep seabed mining sites will be recognized internationally, Rabkin observed, "It remains a fair question whether a complex U.N. regulatory bureaucracy — especially one that counts international wealth redistribution as one of its functions — is a reassuring presence for investors." Knowing that the seemingly profitable site in which they are considering investing stands a good chance of being stolen by the Enterprise and that any profits generated from the site the company is allowed to mine — not to mention any new technologies employed — may be similarly confiscated, why would investors take such a risk?
As to the United States' using LOST to challenge aggressive behavior by Iran (in the Strait of Hormuz) and China (in the South China Sea), it should be noted that those countries are already parties to LOST yet have proceeded with their aggressive behavior just the same. Why anyone thinks that American participation in LOST would somehow deter them is a mystery.
All Is Not LOST
Although the Obama administration is putting on the drive to get the Senate to ratify LOST, its success is by no means certain. The House of Representatives recently voted to deny the administration millions of dollars in funding for LOST organizations, which suggests that the anti-LOST movement is strong and well-organized. Kerry has said he will not bring the treaty up for a vote before the November election because, according to The Hill, "some lawmakers 'on and off the committee' have candidly told him they'd 'be more comfortable' if they could avoid having to cast the controversial vote during the campaign season" — another indication that the treaty is widely unpopular.
Kerry will likely try to get LOST through the Senate during the lame-duck session after the election. That may not be easy: At least 27 Senators have signed a letter circulated by Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) stating that they will not vote to ratify LOST, and it only takes 34 Senators in opposition to sink its ratification.
If the vote is delayed until the next President is inaugurated, it could end up being opposed from the White House, which would likely prevent ratification. Obama's presumptive Republican opponent, Mitt Romney, has signaled his unease with LOST; and while the Libertarian Party's nominee, Gary Johnson, does not appear to have taken a stand on LOST, the party has in the past specifically praised U.S. refusal to join the accord.
America, by rejecting LOST, cannot stop the UN from claiming control over the oceans. But, wrote Greenley, "U.S. ratification would provide that final stamp of legitimacy for the UN's power grab over the oceans and seas and constitute a major step into world government."
The globalist elites are pushing hard for U.S. accession to LOST. Those concerned about U.S. sovereignty and fearful of transferring more power to unaccountable international organizations will have to work just as hard to ensure that if and when the treaty finally does come up for a vote, the Senate has the guts to tell the globalists to get lost.
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I am reading a file in from the hard drive. Here is what it looks like:
I successfully read in Dan Brown, and then "The_Davinci_Code into my linked listCode:Dan Brown The_Da_Vinci_Code This historical fiction thriller chronicles the adventures of Robert Langdon a Harvard professor who gets caught up in the mystery involving the Priory of Sion an organization reputed of keeping a secret with regards to the very foundations of Christianity END_BOOK_SUMMARY
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the reason the above 3 lines of code worked, is because they stopped reading at newline. I want to read in the description of the book (starting with: The historical fiction...) in from the file word by word, stopping at whitespace. With each word, send it to my binary tree function before looking at the next word.
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From the foreword to the book by Tim Keller:
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"Love is the most powerful apologetic. It is the essential component in reaching the whole person in a fragmented world. Tullian understands the deep yearnings of this generation and thoughtfully expresses how making a difference as Christians in this world begins with a willingness to engage this world differently."
–Ravi Zacharias, author and speaker
"Unfashionable is theologically careful, biblically grounded and culturally in touch. It will challenge you and point you to the radically Christ-centered life you were saved by God's amazing grace to live. Tullian Tchividjian hits us between the eyes when he says, 'Christians who retreat into a comfortable subculture are bad missionaries–it's that simple.' It is that simple, and this book will help you find the way out!"
–Daniel L. Akin, President, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, NC.
"With the right balance of reproof and encouragement, critique and construction, Unfashionable displays with succinct, vivid, and engaging clarity the relevance of the gospel over the trivialities that dominate our lives and our churches right now. The message of this book is of ultimate importance and its presentation is compelling."
–Michael Horton, J. Gresham Machen Professor, Westminster Seminary in California and host of The White Horse Inn
"Although the Ancient Israelites were called by God to be a 'holy nation' they failed to reach their world because they were so much like it. Today's church is succumbing to the same error. And this is what makes Tullian Tchividjian's book Unfashionable so prophetic and such a book for this day. May the church take note– and reach the world!"
–R. Kent Hughes, Sr. Pastor Emeritus, College Church in Wheaton
"It is not easy to stand athwart the tides of the culture and challenge them without sounding either terribly prissy or hopelessly out of date. How can a thoughtful Christian be genuinely contemporary while never succumbing to the merely faddish and temporary? The challenges are enormous–but they are also tied to the most elementary tenets of Christian faithfulness. Tullian Tchividjian is a helpful and engaging guide through these troubled waters."
–D. A. Carson, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and author of Christ and Culture Revisited
"Tullian masterfully articulates the importance of the 'both, and'–showing that in order for Christians to make a profound difference in our world we must both gain a full understanding of the Gospel and express it practically in our world."
–Gabe Lyons, Founder of Q and co-author of UnChristian
"Here's what we need–a young, fresh, outspoken voice, calling for renewal and reform in Kingdom language. With a deep appreciation for the Christian past, a powerful grasp of the Gospel, and a voice that resonates with those calling for renewal today, Tullian represents a breed of young church leaders who might just help us navigate our way through the stodginess of tradition and the silliness of much that is emerging as Christianity today. May his tribe increase."
–T.M. Moore, The Wilberforce Forum and author of Culture Matters
"In Unfashionable Tullian Tchividjian offers all of us a window into his own life, full as it is of reading the Word and the world at the same time. His vision is theologically rich and pastorally engaging, calling us to join him in thinking deeply about things that matter most, viz. the reality that faith always shapes vocation which always shapes culture."
– Steven Garber, The Washington Institute, author of The Fabric of Faithfulness
"Tullian Tchividjian persuasively argues that difference makers must be different. This book is an important and necessary reminder that Christians who strive to be relevant end up being redundant, while those who challenge our culture just may change the world."
– Michael E. Wittmer, Professor of Systematic Theology at Grand Rapids Theological Seminary and author of Heaven is a Place on Earth
"Unfashionable gets back to the heart of the Kingdom mission and the agenda of the gospel message. Striking a balance between being 'in' but not 'of' the world is not easy. Tullian, however, clearly and convincingly shows the way by telling how we can cultivate a Gospel-centered outlook and lifestyle."
– Ed Stetzer, author of Planting Missional Churches and President of LifeWay Research
"What does it mean to be in the world but not of it, a question Christians have wrestled with for years? To what degree should we conform to the culture or how should we differ and why? Unfashionable addresses these questions directly and helpfully, pointing the way to faithful discipleship in the Twenty-first Century.
– Luder G. Whitlock, Jr., President of Excelsis and author of The Spiritual Quest
"Fashion is but a phase. If Christians want to see lasting change as the kingdom of Jesus Christ expands, they will refuse to seek the world's acclaim. Tullian Tchividjian writes with a pastor's gift for admonition and encouragement as he discerns the church's failures and opportunities to represent Christ in this world."
– Collin Hansen, editor at large, Christianity Today and author of Young, Restless, Reformed: A Journalist's Journey with the New Calvinists
"As Christians continue to chase relevance like a dog chasing its own tail, the world around us is quietly looking for something more–something deeper, something less self-aware, something unfashionable. With clear, crisp writing, Unfashionable challenges us to stop imitating the world and start working to renew her. Tullian makes it once again 'cool' to be uncool."
– Kevin DeYoung, pastor and author of Why We're Not Emergent
"The most wonderful thing happened to me as I read Unfashionable: I was helped. There are so many books that are interesting and informative, but few end up being practically helpful. Unfashionable is one of them. As I read this cogent call for the Church to live against the world for the world, I saw several ways that my thinking, affections, and actions needed to be prayerfully addressed. I trust the same will happen with anyone who dares to consider the contents of this book."
– Thabiti Anyabwile, Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church of Grand Cayman, author of What Is A Healthy Church Member? and The Faithful Preacher
"Unfashionable–unrelentingly orthodox and winsomely written–is a call to follow Christ in being so biblically different from the world that the world can once again see the attractiveness of the gospel. I hope it becomes fashionable for Christians to read and discuss Unfashionable. Reading it made me glad to be a believer."
– Denis Haack, editor-in-chief of Critique and founder of Ransom Fellowship
"If you are a Christian who longs to see the gospel shape every area of your life so that you make a difference in this world for the glory of the God, you will find Unfashionable a remarkable guide. With penetrating insight Tullian exposes the idolatry of our world and shows how the gospel creates a people who are both for and against the world in a way that makes much of the God who will one day make all things new."
– Dan Cruver, Director of Together for Adoption
"In Unfashionable, Tullian calls us to a holistic Gospel centered journey that invites us, in a fresh way, to be in the world but not of it. He shows us how to be God's peculiar people by displaying his Kingdom in the world around us."
– Rick McKinley, Founding Pastor of Imago Dei Community and author of This Beautiful Mess


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There is nothing official-official yet, but the rumors of Derek Anderson's demise seem to be gaining momentum. Anderson has been shaky since the beginning of the season and no longer showing the equine-like testicular fortitude that made him so immensely successful last year. Cleveland Browns' coach Romeo Crennel won't say he's benching Anderson for this week's Ohio battle with the Bengals, but did say Quinn will get "more reps in practice" this week. Quinn is entering his second season as an NFL quarterback and his coming out party was sidetracked last season after Anderson inexplicably emerged as a Pro Bowl quarterback. The Cleveland Plain Dealer's Terry Pluto suggests Anderson may be suffering a "crisis of confidence" which is not something any team that starts 0-3 is willing to work through. Crennel indicates Quinn will get a few more reps in practice [ESPN] QB Quandary: What's Wrong With Anderson? [Cleveland Plain Dealer]
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Tuesday, February 28, 2017
[Mixtape] Ray Louchie - Perfect Timing
Bigga Rankin took his Street n Greet tour to Tallahassee and linked up with Who Got Juice for an artist competition. Ray Louchie outperformed the others and came out on top winning a mixtape hosted by none other than Bigga Rankin himself, today we are proud to deliver "Perfect Timing". Support this independent artist by sharing his tape and comments are always welcome.
[Video] @itsvain "Hello"
Vain has dropped his much anticipated video for his Hit Single "Hello" which reached the Mediabase Top 100 Tracks with National Radio spins giving the single an audience of over 10 million. VAIN was a protege of the late great Big Kap aka "The Wardin," who is credited with helping to launch Biggie Smalls career and is best known for his critically acclaimed Mixtape "The Tunnel ," with Funkmaster Flex. Big Kap introduced VAIN and his song "Hello," on his Burnunit Legends Tour. Big Kap also performed live with Vain during the Tour and a clip of that final live performance is featured in the "Ain't No Nigga Like Me," video. VAIN and Big Kap callaborated on the single "Bottles In the Air" which features a rare vocal performance from "The Wardin" himself. VAIN's single "Throw It Back," was featured on Big Kap's final Mixtape "State2State." VAIN performed "Hello" when he opened up for the one and only Snoop Dogg at the Catalyst Club in Santa Cruz, California and at DJ Demp's Birthday Bash where Yo Gotti was also on the Marquee.
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Monday, February 27, 2017
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[Mixtape] Nario Da Don - From My Point of View Reloaded
Tallahassee Florida, Frenchtown Music Group's Nario did not know much more than the street life, yet he refused to let this stop him. Nario is now known as a business man rather than the dope man on 4th Ave. Currently Nario da Don teamed up with world renown DJ coalition, Cool Running Dj's for his second project titled "From My Point of View Reloaded" because he knew this project deserved to be pushed by the best of the best. "From My Point of View Reloaded" is co-hosted by the Streets A&R Bigga Rankin and one of Tallahassee's most prominent djs, DJ LooseKid. "From My Point of View Reloaded" does not have many features, although some of Nario's favorite tracks include industry pros such as Koly P, Ammi El, and Chyna.
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Unable to stop the sequester's job-killing spending cuts, President Obama now says he wants to move past the endless wars of budget attrition. Though he still wants a long-term deficit deal, he said last week, it is time to turn to immigration, gun control, universal preschool, a higher minimum wage and voting reform.
But Republicans are not going to allow that pivot. Most are unalterably opposed to all of those initiatives, and want to keep their focus on cutting domestic programs and fighting off tax increases. At a time when Republicans are divided on many social issues, the budget wars are one of the few things that unite them.
A variety of insidious new budget proposals are now emerging from the House. On Wednesday, by a 267-to-151 vote, the House approved a stopgap spending resolution to keep the government running for the last half of the fiscal year, replacing the one that expires on March 27.
Such "continuing resolutions," which fund the government at the previous year's level, demonstrate Congress's inability to do its most basic job of making spending decisions. But this new resolution is worse because it also includes the sequester's brutal cuts — except in a few crucial areas that are Republican priorities.
The House bill would give the Pentagon a brand-new budget, allowing it to make the cuts in low-priority areas, preventing the reductions in military readiness that generals have been warning about. It prevents staffing cuts in the Border Patrol, and adds money for Israel and embassy security. It makes health care reform a target for special cuts, and even specifies that no money is to be spent on the community group known as Acorn, though that group has not existed since 2010.
But it allows no flexibility or extra money to prevent cuts to programs like unemployment benefits, nutrition aid, housing assistance and education grants. Republicans do not care about those programs and left the sequester cuts in place for them. Simple fairness demands that Senate Democrats call for equal flexibility and money for the most important domestic programs in their version of the bill, as Barbara Mikulski of Maryland, the new Appropriations Committee chairwoman, has vowed to do. (Mr. Obama already said that he would not use the threat of a government shutdown to fight the sequester cuts, rejecting the extortionate tactics Republicans regularly use.)
The Republicans have made it clear that the spending fight will never cease. They haven't promised not to abuse the next debt-ceiling increase, necessary in the next few months, to get further cuts. And Paul Ryan, the House Budget Committee chairman, will soon unveil his caucus's 2014 budget, which will start to make good on the party's ruinous plan to balance the budget in 10 years. To do so, he is reviving his discredited proposal to turn Medicare into a voucher program, and considered making it worse by cutting benefits for people who are now 56 and younger; an earlier plan cut benefits for those 55 and below.
Republicans are hoping to wear down their opposition with these eternal battles. But their proposals are too dangerous to allow that to happen.


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(Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider whether a suspect's refusal to answer police questions prior to being arrested and read his rights can be introduced as evidence of guilt at his subsequent murder trial.
Without comment, the court agreed to hear the appeal of Genovevo Salinas, who was convicted of murder and sentenced to 20 years in prison for the December 1992 deaths of two brothers in Houston.
Salinas voluntarily answered police questions for about an hour, but he became silent when asked whether shotgun shells found at the crime scene would match a gun found at his home. An officer testified that Salinas demonstrated signs of deception.
Ballistics testing later matched the gun to the casings left at the murder scene.
Salinas was charged in 1993 but evaded arrest until his capture in 2007.
His first trial ended in a mistrial. At his second trial, Texas was able to introduce evidence of his silence in the police station, over his lawyer's objections.
Salinas' lawyer argued that his client deserved a Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination, even though he had not been under arrest or read his rights under the landmark 1966 decision Miranda v. Arizona.
Last April, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the conviction but noted that federal appeals courts are split as to whether "pre-arrest, pre-Miranda silence is admissible as substantive evidence of guilt."
Texas opposed the appeal, saying that the protection against compulsory self-incrimination is irrelevant when a suspect is under no compulsion to speak, as Salinas was because he was not under arrest and was speaking voluntarily. It also said that any error was harmless.
A decision is expected by the end of June.
The decision is Salinas v. Texas, U.S. Supreme Court, No. 12-246.
Reporting by Jonathan Stempel and Terry Baynes in New York; Editing by Eric Beech


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Switching dialog boxes in a dialog-based application
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A dialog-based application is an application that uses a CDialog box as it's mainframe, rather than the familier mainframe-document-view architecture. Here is a nice simple trick you can use in programming such an application: Suppose you want to use two dialog-boxes in your application and you have to use both dialog-box in your main window. You can use only one CDialog class at a time as your main application, but you can switch it with the other CDialog box any time you want. Here is how to do it:
1. Create your dialog-application with the class-wizard. In step 1 - choose the third option "Dialog based". (In The other steps just use the defult options). Lets assume the name of the application is "Test".
3. Add a control Button, write inside "Switch" and set it's ID to IDC_SWITCH.
4. Create another Dialog box and add a control button there too. Name it "Switch back" and set it's ID to IDC_SWITCHBACK.
5. Now, start Class-Wizard (Ctrl-w) and look for class CTestDlg, which is the main CDialog box of the application. Find the IDC_SWITCH ID in the Object ID's table, than select the message "BN_CLICKED", and add the function "OnSwitch" to your application.
6. Go to the second dialog box, create a new class to associate with it (I'm calling it CSecondDlg), and perform step 5 to the IDC_SWITCHBACK button.
7. Now go to the file of the main Dialog application, TestDlg.cpp and add to your include lines - #include "CSecondDlg.h". Now, get to the function "OnSwitch" that you added previously and add the following code:
void CTestDlg::OnSwitch() { // First get a pointer to the main pointer - m_pMainWnd of the application CWnd* TheMainWindow = AfxGetMainWnd(); // Cancel the current dialog box CDialog::OnCancel; // Define a new class for the second dialog class CSecondDlg CSecDlg; // Set the pointer of the application to the second dialog box TheMainWnd = &CSecDlg // Run the second dialog box in the main application CSecDlg.DoModal(); }
8. Get to the file CSecDlg.cpp - the file of the second Dialog box, and do the same thing, just the other way around: Add the line #include "CTestDlg.h" in the inlude lines, get to the OnBackSwitch function and write:
void CSecondDlg::OnBackSwitch() { // First get a pointer to the main pointer - m_pMainWnd of the application CWnd* TheMainWindow = AfxGetMainWnd(); // Cancel the current dialog box CDialog::OnCancel; // Define a new class for the first CTest dialog class CTestDlg CFirstDlg; // Set the pointer of the application to the first dialog box TheMainWnd = &CFirstDlg // Run the first dialog box in the main application CFirstDlg.DoModal(); }NOTES:
1. You can do this with 3, 4 or as much Dialog boxes as you wish.
2. If you need to keep specific data that is relevent to one of the dialog boxes for latter use - I suggest you create data variables in the CWinApp class of your application and store there your specific data while the Dialog box is inactive, and restore the data again when it's active, by using AfxGetApp();
Good luck, Amir.


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Gemma Arterton might have been the hottie in "The Prince of Persia" and the Bond Girl in "Quantum of Solace" but that didn't make taking a long walk in short shorts any easier in "Tamara Drewe."
When PopcornBiz asked Arterton how hard it was filming her pivotal and very noticeable shorts scene from the excellent British film which opened Friday, she laughed.
"Anything like that is always hard," she told us. "Especially on a set filled with middle-aged men."
She did try to do some deflection that day on the set.
"That day I tried to get everyone to wear hot pants," she says. "Funnily enough, I was the only one that showed up in them."
But the scene is crucial for the movie based on the comic strip serial by the same name published in the UK's The Guardian newspaper (a serial which is a modern reworking of Thomas Hardy's novel "Far from the Madding Crowd").
"It is an iconic scene, but it's also an important scene in the story," she says. "It's on the posters and in the trailer. It's the scene that grabs everyone's attention."
As for preparation, she modestly points out, "there probably wasn't enough."
Arterton adds that the strutting shows a lot about her character, who is truly insecure at the time.
"She's still desperate (in the scene)," she says. "That's the reason she provocatively walks around in those shorts. She needs attention. She needs affirmation. That's what drives her. "
Arterton might be different on the inside. But on the outside she's hoping viewers see a similarity.
"I hope so," she says. "Tamara's fit. She's really hot in some scenes."