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PHITSANULOK, Thailand (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Air's young body bears the scars of her five years as a child slave. Wounds crisscross her neck, chest and back, while scalded, melted skin runs the length of her left arm.
The daughter of Karen migrant workers from neighbouring Myanmar, "Air" - whose name has been withheld to protect her identity - was abducted in 2008 when she was seven.
She was held at a home in Kamphaeng Phet province in central Thailand and beaten almost daily. Her kidnappers, a couple she once considered friends, threw boiling water over her and snipped off part of her left earlobe. She finally escaped in January 2013.
Last month, a court in Thailand awarded $143,000 in compensation to Air, now 13, but her abusers were granted bail and have since disappeared.
At a shelter where she is staying in Phitsanulok province, Air told Thomson Reuters Foundation her story.
"It was around 4 o'clock when this couple came to my house and said they had something to tell me. I was alone. I came back to cook dinner while my parents were working in the sugarcane field.
"I can't really remember their names, but my parents knew them and I'd been to their home.
"They took me to their house in their car. After a while, I asked them to take me back to my mother's house and they refused.
"I started crying and kept asking them to send me back to my mum. But they said 'no' repeatedly and I became afraid. So I just sat still and kept quiet.
"I can't remember how long exactly, but I was with them for a long time.
"I had to wake up at 6 am every day. I would clean the house before having breakfast. Sometimes they would take me out with them to their dog grooming business. I wanted to run away then but I was scared, and I also didn't know which direction was home.
"If I didn't clean the house well, they would beat me up.
"They didn't pay me. They did not buy me any clothes or candies either. I had to wear the wife's clothes.
"I managed to run away once, after I had finished cleaning the house one morning. I asked a neighbour to send me back to my mum, but I couldn't say where my mum was beyond that she worked in a sugarcane field.
"The neighbour called the police, but by the time I got to the police station, the couple was already there waiting for me. They had reported me missing. They tried to take me home right there, but I said, 'No, I don't want to go back with you'. So the police told them to let me stay at the station and they went home. But later, the police sent me back to their house.
"They were furious I tried to run away and the woman snipped my left ear with scissors. Since then, they never let me out ever again and started to beat me up even more frequently, like everyday. Usually it was the woman who hit me. The man yelled a lot.
"One day the woman told me to clean the house. It was late at night and she told me to stop before I had finished. They got angry because they thought my cleaning was slow. The man threw boiling water from a kettle over me.
"It was so painful I cried the whole night, until the morning.
"I was given some kind of gel to put on my injuries afterwards. No doctors.
"Every single day, I thought of how I could escape from this house. Then one day, on 31 January 2013, I was feeding the cat and the cat ran away. I was scared the couple would hit me so I followed the cat by climbing through the fence and realised I was outside the house.
"I came across another neighbour who called a teacher. The teacher recognised me because I used to be her student and sent me to the government shelter.
"I'm now studying to be a hairdresser at another shelter. My favourite part is to curl the hair because it's easy. I've been curling many of my friends' hair.
"I can't remember how long I've been here. I now sleep in a dorm room with many other girls. It's nice.
"I don't know what happened to the couple. They never really told me why they kidnapped me. When I asked them to send me back to my mum, they said, 'You'd better stay here because your parents are so poor. You have a better chance if you stay with us.'
"I want to tell other children not to listen to strangers, not to trust them.
"There were other people who knew I was with this couple, but they didn't help.
"I want to be a soldier when I grow up … I think it's good to be a soldier because you can help and protect the people.
"I'm happier now and I feel safer but I haven't really been thinking of the future. All I know is that when I'm ready to get out of this place, I want to go and stay with my family. I have three other sisters.
"We don't get to see each other often, but we speak on the phone. I get to see her (my mother) when I go to the hospital for treatment.
"I miss my family, especially my mum. I just want to hug them when I see them."
(Editing by Belinda Goldsmith and Alisa Tang: firstname.lastname@example.com and email@example.com)
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US carrier smartphone sales slip
Android in decline?
Interesting stats have been published by US finance house Morgan Keegan and with then comes a warning for makers of Android handsets: be prepared for a tough Q4.
The figures in question tally smartphone sales made by US network operators AT&T and Verizon. Android sales, while higher than those of the Apple iPhone have been sliding since Q4 2010 - despite, notes Morgan Keegan analyst Tavis McCourt, a huge influx of exciting new Android smartphones from HTC, Samsung, LG and Motorola in the interim.
iPhone sales have been rising through that period and might have surpassed Android handset sales but for Q3's dip, caused by iPhone 4 demand stuttering on the back of iPhone 5 expectations.
Source: Morgan Keegan
The upshot: in Q3 2011, the two networks sold 5.9m Android phones, down from a peak of around 7.1m in Q4 2010. And they sold 4.5m iPhones, down from a peak of 5.9m in Q2 2011.
Both types of handset experienced rising sales from Q4 2009 up to their peaks, though Apple sales dipped in Q4 2010 in the face of Android's peak.
Can Android pull its apparent decline around? It seems unlikely given demand for the iPhone 4S - 4m of which sold globally in its first weekend.
"We believe slowdown in Android, Blackberry [and Windows Phone] sales at AT&T/Verizon likely indicates a reasonable number of customers choosing not to upgrade in Q3, but rather waiting to switch to the iPhone in Q4," McCourt said, BGR relays.
"The strong initial sales figures for iPhone 4S would seem to back up this assumption."
Indeed, bank UBS separately said this week iPhone sales could hit 42.5m globally during the current quarter as Apple quickly rolls the handset out to 70 countries. Apple sold 17.1m iPhones in Q3.
Of course, if Apple does sell a shed-load of phones in Q4, almost certainly to Android's detriment, it may well come at the cost of sales through subsequent quarters, giving Android opportunities aplenty to retake and extend its lead. ®
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While respondents to CEE News' 2002 ElectroForecast survey were not particularly optimistic about this year's business prospects, most weren't singing the blues either. More than half of the electrical contractors surveyed see their sales growing, but at pedestrian single-digit growth rates.
Electrical distributors who responded to the survey weren't nearly as optimistic. Only the most bullish were looking at anything approaching 5% sales growth, and most of the distributor respondents were either hoping to hold even with 2001 or expecting sales declines of up to 5%.
As one might expect, contractors and others in the electrical construction field saw fallout from the recession and the 9-11 events as the two biggest obstacles that they face this year. While the general tone of the respondents was that business would pick up some time around mid-year, several respondents said if terrorists attack the U.S. again in 2002, it could cripple an economic recovery.
None of the electrical contractors, electrical distributors, electrical manufacturers or independent manufacturers' reps who responded to the survey believe the economy is in a freefall. Many see the current state of economic affairs as a traditional economic downtown that was made worse by the 9-11 attacks.
The fact that auto companies have cut down on construction has affected one Midwest electrical contractor, who also said his company's backlog was dropping, work had slowed down and there were more bidders per job.
One Illinois-based rep said the downturn actually started in the fourth quarter of 2001, and that his company's industrial business was hit hardest. "If the interest rates continue going up and employment doesn't improve, residential will continue decreasing, which will not allow a rebound in 2002."
Another rep, Richard Osborne, president, Richard Osborne Enterprises Inc., Lebanon, Maine, agreed that this business cycle isn't unusual, but that after the 9-11 attacks, "It was like we froze for two weeks."
Despite their concerns about the economy, on the contracting side, CEE News' readers seem to be aggressively exploring new avenues of business such as datacom, and more specifically, home networking. A surprising number of survey respondents saw alternative energy sources such as photovoltaics, wind energy and fuel cells as new market opportunities.
Other electrical professionals were exploring these new markets, too. Jimmy Jones, president, JJ Electric Agent Inc., a rep agency in Amarillo, Texas, said sales to wind farms developed into a nice piece of business for his company during 2001. "We were able to sell wire, cable, insulators and steel poles," he said.
While electrical contractors had different ideas on the new market opportunities that offered the most potential, they were in agreement on two areas of the business: the need for electrical distributors to get back to basics in how they service the needs of electrical contractors and the role of e-business in the electrical world.
Distributor relations
In one sense, the contractor-distributor relationship has changed over the years because e-business technologies and communication tools like Web-based ordering; online product specifications sheets, computer-to-computer links, e-mail and job-site ordering from personal digital assistants (PDAs) have allowed distributors to offer 24/7 service. But when asked for ideas about what would most improve their distributor relationships, electrical contractors were strictly back-to-basics:
- Offer better pricing;
- Deliver materials faster and more dependably;
- Stock a broader array of products in more depth;
- Have knowledgeable salespeople.
While some of these suggestions would seem like Servicing Contractors 101, they were the most common responses for improving contractor-distributor relations in the 2002 ElectroForecast survey. H.J. Druhl, owner, Guardian Electronics, Lexington, N.C., said, "Distributors need sales personnel who are knowledgeable of the products and can get prices and availability information to me promptly. Many times second and third calls are necessary to get this information."
When asked what he would tell all of the electrical distributors that he buys from if he had all of them in the same room for 30 minutes, Edmund Yahn Jr., Yahn Electric Co., Inc., Wheeling, W. Va., would ask for their best prices upfront. Other electrical contractors were more concerned with local inventory levels. Thomas North, owner, Miami Cove Electric, Garibaldi, Ore., would tell his distributors to, "do a much better job of managing your inventory to put an end to back orders."
Pricing and new product information were two key concerns for Dennis Kornel, owner, K&S Sales & Service, York Neb. "Do more showing of new products," he said. "Keep prices as competitive as possible and provide more help for contractors on warranty parts."
One residentially-oriented California electrical contractor kept his suggestions short-and-sweet: "Get competent sales staff, know your products and keep plenty of inventory," said Bob Ludecke, owner, Bob Ludecke's Electrical Services, Big Bear Services, Calif.
Respondents were almost universally skeptical about the impact that e-business now has on the electrical business. Douglas Powell, president, Powell's Electric Service Inc., Hatboro, Pa., said, "We've seen too many (dot-com) companies skyrocket and then plummet…We use local vendors who supply the local area. Nothing worldwide is going on here."
Guardian Electronics' H.J. Druhl isn't interested in e-business. "I need to have personal interactions with 'real' people who understand business problems. E-business is too impersonal and a waste of time."
While the contractor respondents to the 2002 ElectroForecast survey were underwhelmed with e-business, some of their business partners in other areas of the electrical business saw its potential in certain areas. The chief operating officer of one of the largest electrical manufacturers in the U.S. said because some of his company's customers had been "burned" by their past experiences in e-business, they are cautious about getting back into it.
"One has to be patient, as many are not ready and progress will not be as fast as desired," he said. "But the e-world clearly presents a significant opportunity to be more efficient and effective. We are committed to be there and to be ready as the world evolves."
There seems to be a perception in the marketplace in this admittedly unscientific sampling of respondents that larger companies are more interested in e-business than smaller companies. Vernon Bishop, president, Excelite Inc., Altoona, Pa., a lighting manufacturer, said his smaller customers have a "wait-and-see attitude" on e-business, while bigger customers were more interested.
Russell Leonard, vice president of sales and marketing, Federal Pacific, Bristol, Pa., is excited about e-business, and said while his customers have mixed feelings about e-commerce, the electrical world will be touched by the Web more in the future. "I view our e-business system as another tool, not a means to eliminate people of processes along the chain," he said.
One large New Jersey distributor agreed with Leonard's evaluation that the Web will be part of the industry's future. "It has a place, but it has not materialized to any extent. The Web had disappointed many, but all see an eventual future," said Richard Cooper, president, Cooper Electric Supply Co., Tinton Falls, N.J.
Dan Marlinga, president, Michigan Electric Supply, Flint, Mich., echoed the evaluation of many on e-business when he said, "The investment is too great and the return is too little and too long."
An electrical distributor in northern California has an interesting perspective on e-business because many of his customers are technical companies that one would think would embrace e-commerce. Yet Burt Schraga, president Bell Electrical Supply Inc., Santa Clara, Calif., said, "We are in the middle of Silicon Valley, yet our customers, even high-tech ones, are still using phone and fax."
One South Carolina manufacturers' rep, who requested anonymity, had several interesting comments on the biggest trends of 2001 and the danger signals that he sees for 2002. Along with the merger of electrical companies, and the ever-increasing importance of microprocessors, he said national pride was one of the biggest events of 2001. He said mergers and acquisitions will continue to have a major effect on the electrical business in 2002.
Yet one of his other comments on danger signals may be even more intriguing. As electrical professionals plot their courses of action for 2002 amidst the questions about economic recovery, potential terrorist attacks, consolidation, e-business and new markets, he cautions others in the electrical industry to not "mistake motion for action."
Home Improvement
The current recession and move by Americans to spend more time at home after the Sept. 11 attacks have sparked an increase in expenditures on household renovations — and the stock prices of some "home-and-hearth" stocks such as Lowe's and Michaels (arts and crafts).
Source: FMI Corp.'s 2001-2002 U.S. Markets Construction Update
Big Box Construction
With Big Box retailers cannibalizing each other and retail sales slipping in many markets, store construction is on a downward trend. During the 1990s, the construction of mega-stores by Home Depot, Wal-Mart and Best Buy dominated this market, and now that many metros are saturated, construction of these behemoths is tailing off.
Source: McGraw-Hill Construction Information Group's 2002 Construction Outlook
Office Construction
It's a turbulent time in the office construction market, with a dearth of demand for new space in tech centers like Silicon Valley, San Francisco and Boston's Route 128 corridor, following the dot-com crash. Boston's downtown office vacancy rates also have climbed to nearly 12% in the third-quarter of 2002. Industry observers aren't sure how many tenants will return.
Source: McGraw-Hill Construction Information Group's 2002 Construction Outlook
Utility Construction
The utility market has seen some wild swings in recent years, with a 17% surge in 2000, 32% growth from 2000 to 2001 and a double-digit dip forecasted for next year. Some pockets of the utility market still look prosperous, including the construction of smaller facilities and markets with tax incentives for alternative power sources.
Source: McGraw-Hill Construction Information Group's 2002 Construction Outlook
Single-Family Housing
With the average size of new single-family homes topping 2,200 sq ft, the sales-per-house for electrical contractors will continue to grow. The next few years look good for the continued health of the single-family home market, as NAHB is looking for a sharp spike in construction in 2003.
Source: National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)
Total Housing Starts
With mortgage rates expected to stay below 7% for 2002, the housing market should remain one of the strongest segments of the U.S. economy for the near future. "Upsell" opportunities in these new homes for electrical contractors include state-of-the-art dimming systems, home networks and surge-suppression equipment.
Source: National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)
Multi-Family Housing
Demographics play a huge role in the demand for multi-family housing, and with first-time homebuyers unable to afford single-family homes in some markets, empty nesters scaling down and moving into townhouses or apartments and the continuing popularity of condominiums and timeshares in resort areas, this market should remain healthy.
Source: National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)
Factory Construction
Although few factories are operating at or near capacity, McGraw-Hill's 2002 Construction Outlook sees a modest increase for the construction of factories in 2002. At press time, industrial capacity utilization was hovering near 73% — a double-digit drop from last year. The tech industries have been hit the most in the industrial market.
Source: McGraw-Hill Construction Information Group's 2002 Construction Outlook
School Construction
The demand for new classroom space at schools and colleges makes the educational market possibly the strongest segment of the entire construction market. With elementary school enrollment near its peak, the demand for high school and university construction should be even stronger in the future.
Source: McGraw-Hill Construction Information Group's 2002 Construction Outlook
Medical Construction
The construction of hospitals, medical buildings, outpatient care clinics and other health-care facilities is picking up again after softening for two years. The health of this market has become more dependent on the major health-insurance providers that control so many of the facilities.
Source: McGraw-Hill Construction Information Group's 2002 Construction Outlook
Developed by the editors of CEE News, Electrical Wholesaling and Electrical Marketing newsletter, the ElectroForecast 2002 survey is intended to offer a quick snapshot of the issues that will confront electrical contractors, electrical distributors, independent manufacturers' reps and electrical manufacturers during the next year. It's not intended to be a statistically verifiable piece of research, but it does offer some interesting insight into what's on the minds of electrical professionals. Here are the key issues that surfaced in the survey:
Lingering worries about 9-11 and the possibility of more terrorist attacks on U.S. soil.
Massive corporate layoffs.
Many of the survey's respondents now seem to regard e-business with the same skepticism of a street-smart New Yorker looking at a "genuine" Rolex watch being sold by a Times Square street vendor.
Unemployment and a lingering recession could sour the residential construction market, one of the few bastions of strength in the U.S. economy over the past year.
Electrical distributors have to focus more on service basics if they want to improve their business relationships with electrical contractors.
Most respondents think the recession will end by mid-year.
Despite the recession, the voice/data market continues to be good business for electrical contractors.
Some electrical contractors have found alternative energy sources such as wind energy and photovoltaics to be profitable avenues of business.
This forecast was developed from a CEE News survey and materials published by the McGraw-Hill Construction Information Group, New York, FMI, Raleigh, N.C., and the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), Washington, D.C.


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Remember how Navy SEAL Team Six caught the entire raid on Bin Laden's compound on helmet cams? Yeah, well, that may not have happened. It's just one of multiple unexplained discrepancies from the raid.
As Mother Jones notes, initial reports and follow up in-depth reporting all mentioned that the SEALS were wearing helmet cams. Yet in Nicholas Schmidle's gripping account in the New Yorker, helmet cams were notably absent. As Schmidle reports "The SEALs were not wearing helmet cams, contrary to a widely cited report by CBS."
While that may seem a minor detail, it's key to many others. If there is helmet cam footage, it can answer lots of key questions. Was Bin Laden armed? Did he use his wives or daughters as a human shield? What exactly went down? Like Mother Jones, I'm certain I'll never see that footage myself, but it seems important to know whether or not it exists and if so, who has (or has had) access to it.


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CCP, one of the world's largest independent game developers, and TransGaming Inc. (TSX-V: TNG), a leading developer of software portability products for the electronic entertainment industry, today announced the availability of EVE Online, a leading massively multiplayer online game (MMOG), on the Macintosh and Linux platforms. With this release, EVE Online is now available on the most widely used operating systems – Microsoft Windows, Macintosh and Linux.
CCP and TransGamingcollaborated to develop the Mac and Linux versions of EVE Online to allow users across platforms to play within the same perpetual online universe, enabling large-scale battles with thousands of players. Seamless integration ofEVE Online's original code for Microsoft Windows with Cider, for the Mac, and Cedega, for Linux, preserves the high quality of the game's performance on the new platforms. These engines allow the original code base to run on Mac and Linux and therefore deliver equivalent game play, as well as ensure that the game evolves congruently on all three platforms without delays.
"The explosive growth of EVE Online since its launch coupled with the strong demand from the Mac and Linux communities has encouraged us to make the game available on new platforms," said Thor Gunnarsson, Vice President of Business Development of CCP. "Together with TransGaming, we have now achieved an important milestone in our drive to make the EVE universe pervasive and available to anyone who wishes to play."
"The availability of EVE Online to the Mac and Linux communities extends the game to rapidly growing new communities who have been enthusiastically demanding the game on their platforms of choice," said Vikas Gupta, CEO of TransGaming Technologies. "We are very pleased to see the efforts of our partnership come to fruition with the release of EVE Online for the Mac and Linux platforms."
A free, 14-day trial for EVE Online is available for download at http://www.eve-online.com For full details of the CCP and TransGamingpartnership, please visit http://www.lewiswire.com/us/index.php?news_id=139&client=191


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Safer, healthier, but what about less toxic? Why not ask the question the other way around… Are foods from chemically intensive farms worse for humans and the planet than organic alternatives?
An apple is an apple, and fortunately the way it's grown does not hugely transform its insides - its nutritional and molecular make-up, for instance. But while they might be nutritionally similar inside, the conventional ones are sometimes 'dressed up' with a sophisticated cocktail of chemicals used in growing them in chemically-intensive farms.
A new study that is making the media rounds found that conventional food is 30% more likely to have pesticide residues than organic foods [1]. But this is the interesting part: because the 'insides' are nutritionally similar, we get the headline that organic foods are not better than conventional ones.
But wait a minute, aren't they?
Think about a strawberry. The organic strawberry, compared to a conventional one, is better for the famer who grows it without toxic pesticides; better for the bees that thrive in her farm and can eat pollen uncontaminated with pesticides; better for the neighbours, both nearby and far away, who do not get exposed to pesticides or other chemicals; and surely better for the consumer who can trust this strawberry is grown without pesticides or chemical fertilisers.
Is this strawberry better nutritionally?
As it turns out, one prestigious study has shown that organic strawberries have a higher content of vitamin C [2], in addition to being sweeter and more favoursome.
Our health is fortunately not only reduced to a few 'nutrients' in our food – it is a whole lot more than that. I say 'fortunately' because it's also about the pleasure of knowing your food comes from organic farms that are less polluting, better for the environment, as well as farmers and rural communities. It is also about the pleasure of tasting a diversity of colours and smells, often much more intense in local markets coming from your neighbours' ecological farms.
But I could also say that human health is unfortunately not only reduced to 'nutrients' because health is as well about the other stuff they 'dress up' our food with in industrial farming: chemical pesticides, synthetic fertilisers, antibiotics, and hormones, for instance.
Nevertheless, the authors of the study found significant reasons to stick to organic foods:
"If you look beyond health [nutritional] effects, there are plenty of other reasons to buy organic instead of conventional," noted Dena Bravata, senior author of the paper comparing the nutrition of organic and non-organic foods [3].
And so do we!
Reyes Tirado, Greenpeace Research Laboratories, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
[1] Smith-Spangler, C., Brandeau, M. L., Hunter, G. E., Bavinger, J. C., Pearson, M., Eschbach, P. J., Sundaram, V., Liu, H., Schirmer, P., Stave, C., Olkin, I. & Bravata, D. M. 2012. Are Organic Foods Safer or Healthier Than Conventional Alternatives? A Systematic Review. Annals of Internal Medicine, 157: 348-366.
[2] Reganold, J. P., Andrews, P. K., Reeve, J. R., Carpenter-Boggs, L., Schadt, C. W., Alldredge, J. R., Ross, C. F., Davies, N. M. & Zhou, J. 2010. Fruit and Soil Quality of Organic and Conventional Strawberry Agroecosystems. PLoS ONE, 5: e12346.
[3] http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2012/september/organic.html
This "study" of studies was released at this time to influence a vote in California on whether or not to require companies to label whether ...
This "study" of studies was released at this time to influence a vote in California on whether or not to require companies to label whether their is any genetically engineered, or modified content in the food or if the vegetable or fruit is the product of GM/GE processes. If no difference between organic and DM/GE, then why bother labeling it? Politics pure and simple - no science.
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I strongly disagree with the findings of the study based on the available data... which I have outlined in my blog see link below.
I strongly disagree with the findings of the study based on the available data... which I have outlined in my blog see link below.
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Good article but in fact, organic IS conventional and was for centuries. Instead of opposing organic vs conventional, why not use the comparison conve...
Good article but in fact, organic IS conventional and was for centuries. Instead of opposing organic vs conventional, why not use the comparison conventional //chemical.
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The off-year elections Tuesday were highlighted by monumental wins in the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races, but voters across the U.S. were also deciding ballot initiatives on marijuana, casino gambling, genetically modified foods, gun control and other hot-button issues.
Voters in Katy, Texas, decided financing $69.5 million for a new, 14,000-seat football stadium was a bad idea. The project – if approved- would have given Katy the most expensive stadium in Texas state history. The remaining funds in the $99 million bond package would have gone towards a $25 million expansion of an agricultural sciences center and $4.5 million for a science and technology center.
Harris County voters decided not to approve up to $217 million in bonds to save the crumbling Houston Astrodome and turn it into a convention and event center. The world's first multipurpose domed stadium dubbed the "Eighth Wonder of the World" once hosted both professional baseball and football games, but will likely have to be torn down.
Texas voters backed a plan to use $2 billion in funds to help meet the future water needs of the state in the wake of its booming population and economy. The money would help pay the borrowing costs on large-scale infrastructure projects, which include creating reservoirs, laying new pipelines and replacing older ones.
Voters around the state approved a constitutional amendment that makes New York the biggest state to allow seven Las Vegas-style casinos on non-Native American lands. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget office said that the state will take in $430 million in new casino revenue, with $238 million to go toward education.
New Jersey voters approved raising the state's minimum wage by $1 to $8.25 an hour. The constitutional amendment, which goes into effect Jan. 1, would also provide for automatic cost-of-living increases as 10 other states already do.
In Sunnyvale, Calif., constituents approved a stringent gun control measure that requires the city's gun owners to report firearm thefts to the police within 48 hours, lock up their guns at home and get rid of magazines that hold more than 10 rounds. Gun dealers would also have to keep records of ammunition sales. The measure received the attention of outgoing New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and critics of the National Rifle Association.
Colorado set another new standard Tuesday when voters approved a 25 percent sales tax on marijuana starting Jan. 1. The hefty sales tax would come in addition to Colorado's 2.9 percent retail sales tax and would generate $33.5 million its first year and $67 million its second in state tax revenue., according to the Colorado Legislative Council. Fifteen percent of the tax would fund public school construction and the remaining 10 percent would go towards regulation of the state's new legal marijuana market.
Eleven rural counties in the northeastern corner of Colorado voted on whether to start the process of seceding from the state and become a 51st state. The measure passed by a large margin in six of the 11 counties, according to The Denver Post. However, secession would have to be approved by the state legislature and then by Congress. The effort is largely a symbolic move by voters in those counties who feel ignored by the state's governor.
Voters in Portland, Maine's largest city, approved a measure offering some legal protection to users of small amounts of marijuana. The ordinance allows people 21 and older to possess as much as 2.5 ounces of marijuana, according to the Portland Press Herald.
Washington voters rejected a measure that would have made the state the first to require labels for foods that were genetically engineered. The measure had initially garnered support of two-thirds of voters in early polls. But opponents - financially backed by Monsanto and other large agribusinesses - won out with one of the most expensive campaigns in the state's history, according to The Seattle Times.
In the city of SeaTac, a ballot measure to create a $15 an hour minimum wage – more than double the national average - took a slim lead, according to early returns. The proposal would raise the minimum wage for hospitality and transportation workers in and around the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
Voters in the small Utah community of Hyde Park will have to await the fate of a ballot measure to buy beer within the city's limits, according to the Herald Journal of Logan. Early this morning, about two-thirds of the votes had been counted, leaving a projection unlikely. Hyde Park is among a handful of dry cities left in the state and the proposal has divided the conservative, mostly Mormon town.
Voters in Lansing, Ferndale and Jackson approved measures to decriminalize marijuana and legalize possession, use and transfer of the drug by adults 21 years and older on private property, according to MLive.com.


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Nutrition Facts
Ingredients and Preparation
- Preheat oven to 425˚F.
- Place fish filets on a baking dish. Season with ¼ teaspoon salt and the lemon juice. Cover with aluminum foil and bake for 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile, heat oil in a medium skillet over medium-high heat. Add garlic and sauté for 1 minute. Add in tomato and sauté for another 2-3 minutes. Stir in basil and cook for another minute. Season with ¼ teaspoon salt and freshly ground pepper to taste.
- Remove fish from the oven and top with tomato-basil mixture. Then sprinkle with shredded mozzarella and grated Parmesan cheese.
Bake in the middle of the oven for another 5-10* minutes.
*Total cooking time will depend on the thickness of the fish filets. The fish is ready when opaque throughout; check after 5 minutes to avoid overcooking.


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Daily Prompt: Circle of Five by michelle w. on December 12, 2012
A writer once said, "You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with."
If this is true, which five people would you like to spend your time with.
My son, because life would not be worth living if he wasn't in it.
My husband because he is my BFF and he's even my best girlfriend.
Hillary Clinton, 'cos she's totally brill and rad and tough and would be cool to hang with.
My mom,'cos there's lots I'd like to chat with her about that I didn't get a chance to while she was living.
Anne Frank, a tragic heroine that shouldn't have died after trying so desperately to live.
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- What Is Clarithromycin?
- Why Do People With HIV Take Clarithromycin?
- What About Drug Resistance?
- How Is Clarithromycin Taken?
- What Are the Side Effects?
- How Does Clarithromycin React With Other Drugs?
What Is Clarithromycin?
Clarithromycin is an antibiotic drug. In the US, its brand name is Biaxin®. In other countries it is known as Klacid and Mavid. Antibiotics fight infections caused by bacteria. Clarithromycin is also used to fight opportunistic infections in people with HIV. Abbott manufactures it.
Why Do People With HIV Take Clarithromycin?
Clarithromycin is used for mild or moderate bacterial infections. It works against several different bacteria, especially chlamydia, hemophilus and streptococcus. These bacteria can infect the skin, nose, throat, lungs and ears.
Many germs live in our bodies or are common in our surroundings. A healthy immune system can fight them off or keep them under control. However, HIV infection can weaken the immune system. Infections that take advantage of weakened immune defenses are called "opportunistic infections." People with advanced HIV disease can get opportunistic infections. See Fact Sheet 500 for more information on Opportunistic Infections. Some people with very low CD4 cell counts (below 50) take clarithromycin to prevent infections. See Fact Sheet 124 for more information on CD4 cells.
One opportunistic infection in people with HIV is MAC. This stands for Mycobacterium avium complex. See Fact Sheet 514 for more information on MAC. People who have a CD4 cell count of less than 50 may develop MAC.
Clarithromycin is often used with other antibiotics to treat MAC. It can also be used to prevent MAC infection. If your CD4 cell count is below 50, talk to your health care provider about using clarithromycin.
Some people are allergic to clarithromycin and similar antibiotics. Be sure to tell your health care provider if you are allergic to erythromycin or other antibiotics.
What About Drug Resistance?
Whenever you take medication, be sure to take all of the prescribed doses. Many people stop if they feel better. This is not a good idea. If the drug doesn't kill all of the germs, they might change (mutate) so that they can survive even when you are taking medications. When this happens, the drug will stop working. This is called "developing resistance" to the drug.
For example, if you are taking clarithromycin to fight MAC and you miss too many doses, the MAC in your body could develop resistance to clarithromycin. Then you would have to take a different drug or combination of drugs to fight MAC.
How Is Clarithromycin Taken?
Clarithromycin is available in tablets of 250 or 500 milligrams (mg). It is also available in granules to prepare a liquid form. The dose and the length of time you will take it depend on the type of infection you have.
The dose used to prevent MAC infection is 500 mg every 12 hours. The treatment continues as long as your CD4 cell count is low enough for you to develop MAC. If your CD4 cell count goes above 100 for 3 to 6 months, your health care provider may recommend stopping clarithromycin.
Regular clarithromycin tablets can be taken with or without food. There is also "Biaxin XL" which is an extended release version. Biaxin XL should be taken with food. Taking Biaxin with food can reduce stomach upset.
Take clarithromycin with a full glass of water.
What Are the Side Effects?
The side effects of clarithromycin mostly affect the digestive system. They include diarrhea, nausea, heartburn and pain in the abdomen. Some people get headaches or rash. Very few people who take clarithromycin get these side effects. However, most anti-HIV medications also cause problems in the digestive system. Clarithromycin could make those problems worse.
Clarithromycin can be hard on the liver. Your health care provider will probably watch your lab results carefully for any sign of liver damage. Let your health care provider know if your urine gets dark or your bowel movements get light-colored.
Antibiotics kill some helpful bacteria that normally live in the digestive system. You can eat yogurt or take supplements of acidophilus to replace them.
How Does Clarithromycin React With Other Drugs?
Clarithromycin is broken down by the liver. It can interact with other drugs that also use the liver. Scientists have not yet studied all the possible interactions. Clarithromycin probably interacts with all of the non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs), some blood thinners, heart medications, seizure medications, and other antibiotics. Be sure your health care provider knows about all the medications and supplements you are taking.
The protease inhibitors ritonavir (Norvir), lopinavir (Kaletra) and darunavir (Prezista) can increase blood levels of clarithromycin.
Clarithromycin may change blood levels of zidovudine (AZT, Retrovir).


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From Openmoko
The battery is a one 3.7V (nominal) cell. It has internal protection circuitry, and a capacity of 1200mAh.
On the battery, which has dimensions of approximately 53mm*38mm*7mm is written "FIC, First International Computer, Model: GTC-01/GTA-01, Standard Battery Pack, 1200mAh Li-ion, Rechargeable Battery: 3.7V".
It is apparently compatible with the Nokia BL-5C See this mailing list post These are available very inexpensively from ebay. Though quality will of course vary.


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RICHMOND, Va. – Less than two days away from tipping off the 2011-12 campaign, VCU senior forward Courtney Hurt continues to garner preseason recognition. In its annual season preview, ESPN.com ranked the Conyers, Ga., native as one of the five-best power forwards in all of college basketball.
Hurt joins Stanford's Nnemkadi Ogwumike, LSU's LaSondra Barrett, Tennessee's Glory Johnson and Notre Dame's Devereaux Peters in the rankings.
Earlier this fall, Hurt was named to the prestigious John R. Wooden Award Preseason Top 30 list, which represents the nation's best women's basketball players. She was also one of only 16 players in the country to receive votes on the Associated Press' five-player preseason All-America squad.
Hurt rewrote VCU's record books and gained national attention with a breakout junior campaign in 2010-11. She led the nation in rebounding (12.4 rpg) and double-doubles (25), while ranking second in the NCAA in scoring (23.2 ppg) last year. She set VCU's single-season marks in points (720), scoring average, rebounding (385), rebounding average, field goals (253), free throws (193) and double-doubles. Hurt, who was an Honorable Mention AP All-America selection, also set the Colonial Athletic Association's double-doubles mark and is one of 17 players in NCAA history to post 25 or more in one season.
Picked to finish second in the CAA, VCU returns four starters from last year's 19-12 squad, including a pair of preseason first team All-CAA players in Hurt and redshirt-senior guard Andrea Barbour. The Rams will look for their seventh-straight season opening victory Friday evening when they welcome High Point to the Verizon Wireless Arena at 4 p.m.


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I was helping a client with developing an iOS app that uses almost all of the time their API, hence requires a working network connection. Unfortunately, mobile devices do not always have that. So we needed to deal with situations where the connection would be down. A lot has to do with smart software, for instance retry after x seconds without bothering the user, or detect when network is available again and then try again. And of course not an app should never crash or show inconsistent results! However there will always be cases when you need to tell the user something is wrong, hence error messages.
Our goals were:
- Be understandable for a nontechnical user
- If possible, explain how to fix the problem
- Be humble. It is not the user's fault
- Be aware of the user's state of mind
Bear in mind, a difference with a web site is that a user has very little control over what URL is called (no browser bar for user caused 404's or DNS lookup errors). Another difference is that we control the client, so as a browser can detect connection problems.
HTTP status 404 (object not found)
Technical explanation: no resource found at url, very probably because of a programming error
Error title: Oops!
Error message: Sorry, we made a mistake and couldn't find <object> for you
HTTP 401 Unauthorized or HTTP 403 Forbidden
App is trying to access a secured resource that require some kind of authentication. User entered incorrect credentials
Error title: Login failed
Error message: Check your username and password and try again.
HTTP status 500 (server error)
Technical explanation: server error, caused by a server programming error or network/hardware failure
Error title: Oops, sorry!
Error message: Unfortunately our server had a problem. Please try again later when we probably have fixed this.
HTTP timeout
Technical explanation: very probably the connection is that slow that the request timed out. Small chance it was actually the server that was slow
Error title: Connection is too slowww
Error message: Unfortunately the communication broke down. Please try again when you have a better connection.
No network connection
Technical explanation: user could have no cellphone reception, be on a bad wifi network, or turned on Airplane mode
Error title: No connection 🙁
Error message: We couldn't reach our server. Are you in airplane mode? Try again when you have cell phone reception or wifi again.
No DNS entry for host
Technical explanation: probably hardcoded server name could not be resolved, might be due to a down or unreachable DNS server, very probably a network problem
Error title: Oops! Could not find server
Error message: We couldn't find our server, probably because of a bad connection. Try again when you have a better connection.
Also read this excellent post about error messages. What do you think? Do you like really funny messages like Mailchimp uses?


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BabyBjorn Travel Cot Light - Fitted Sheet
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Soft against baby's skin
The BABYBJÖRN Fitted Sheet for Travel Cot Light is a soft, organic cotton fitted sheet that provides a smooth, comfortable sleeping surface for your child. The fitted sheet is sized to fit the mattress measurements, keeping it stretched and in place.
The sheet is easy to fit and remove and is machine-washable at 60°C. The material is approved in accordance with the Oeko-Tex Standard 100, class 1 for baby products, which means that it is guaranteed free from hazardous substances, safe for your baby's delicate skin, and non-allergenic. Suitable for BABYBJÖRN Travel Cot Light mattresses.
Size 105x60 cms/24"x42".
Soft against your child's skin
The BABYBJÖRN Fitted Sheet for Travel Crib Light is a fitted sheet made from organic cotton. The fabric is guaranteed free from hazardous substances and will not trigger allergies. The sheet is tailored to fit the mattress and stays stretched and held in place by elastic bands. Easy to take off and machine-wash.
Comfortable for your child
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The BABYBJÖRN Fitted Sheet for Travel Crib Light is easy to take off and put on. Machine-washable, hot (60°C).


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Here's one of my beautiful grand-daughters - and her first larger quilt - done just before she turned 9.(we've done a couple of doll quilts) She picked the fabric from my stash, i cut, but she did all the sewing - then i SID quilted and bound. It was a gift for her Mom for her birthday. We had a great time, and she wants to do another, this time doing the SID herself. I'm very proud of her.
Thanks for looking.


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Sid Meier's Civilization III – Cheats
Build Wonders Faster
Normally the game would not allow the player to speed up the building of Wonders through hurry methods such as pay citizens and force labour. But it is possible to get around this by first selecting a building option (preferably one with a high production cost), speed up that project using a hurry method, then switch to the Wonder of your choice. Notice that the production shields brought from before the switching is still in place. This is fixed in version 1.29f.
Contributed By: coldhunter.
Efficient Trading
When another tribe ask you to trade something with them, they will often try and cheat you. Instead of accepting straigh away, propose a counter offer. Once the counter offer screen comes up, click the items they are offering so that the 'What will you give me for this' option comes up, then click that. Now they will offer a list of things that (very often) weren't there in the initial trade.
Contributed By: RaistlinMagius.
Reveal Map
When you go to save, name the save ''multi'' without the quotes.
This allows you to see the map and you can change what other civs are producing, among other things. (Does not work with patch 1.21 or later)
Contributed By: MC Grammar.
Know Something We Don't?
You can submit new cheats for this game and help our users gain an edge.
Have We Been Fooled?
You can submit a problem report for any non-working or fake code in the lists above.


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Hey everyone, Semester 2 of my University course and they have decided to give us an assignment involving returning values from a method without actually teaching us how to do it...brilliant.
Anyway heres, I won't bother putting the GUI code and such but heres the code for the buttons and what they are "supposed to do."
Any help would be appreciated and any links to reading material would also be appreciated.
This is the code for the Logic class, i'm not supposed to touch this.
import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import javax.swing.*; class Logic { private Counter counter = null; public Logic( Counter aCounter ) { counter = aCounter; } public long getValue() { return counter.getValue(); } public void process( String button ) { String info = null; if ( button.equals( "Inc" ) ) { counter.inc(); } if ( button.equals( "Dec" ) ) { counter.dec(); } if ( button.equals( "Zero" ) ) { counter.reset(); } } }
Heres the code for the Counter class, this is what i'm supposed to mess with but I can't figure out how to use the GetValue method to use the other methods to plus, minus and reset using a long num variable.
class Counter { //Return the value of the counter public long getValue(){ //ADVICE ON WHAT GOES HERE :S } //Reset the value of the counter to 0 public void reset( ){ long num = 0; } //Increment the counter by 1 public void inc(){ long num = + 1; } //Decrement the counter by 1 public void dec(){ long num = - 1; } }


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KTLA's Gayle Anderson was live in Anaheim with a preview of Saturday's Monster Energy AMA Supercross, an FIM World Championship, where some of the fastest riders on the planet compete. Gayle spoke with Supercross motorist Mike Alessi about his upcoming race.
SPEED will broadcast the race live from Angel Stadium Saturday, January 5 at 9:30 p.m. ET.
Tickets are available at the Angel Stadium Box Office, all Ticketmaster Outlets, or charge by phone at (800) 745-3000
For more information visit: Supercross Online or Ticketmaster


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Hilary Sharp
Book Details
Format: EPUB
Page count: 288 pages
File size: 7 MB
Protection: DRM
Language: English
Handy guidebook to mountain activities based in Chamonix in the French Alps. Selections of graded routes described for walking, trekking, mountaineering, mountain biking, road cycling, via ferratas, rock climbing and bouldering, with clear advice for novices for each activity. Adventures to fill an exciting trip for everyone to the Chamonix area.


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