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N.Y. Group Applies To Build Satan Statue At Oklahoma State Capitol
OKLAHOMA CITY (CBSNewYork/AP) -- A New York-based satanic group has made a hell of a request.
The Satanic Temple unveiled designs Monday for a 7-foot-tall statue of Satan it wants to put at the Oklahoma state Capitol, where a Ten Commandments monument was placed in 2012. The group formally submitted its application to a panel that oversees the Capitol grounds, including an artist's rendering that depicts Satan as Baphomet, a goat-headed figure with horns, wings and a long beard that's often used as a symbol of the occult. In the rendering, Satan is sitting in a pentagram-adorned throne with smiling children next to him.
"The monument has been designed to reflect the views of Satanists in Oklahoma City and beyond,'' temple spokesman Lucien Greaves said in a statement. "The statue will also have a functional purpose as a chair where people of all ages may sit on the lap of Satan for inspiration and contemplation."
The Satanic Temple maintains that the Oklahoma Legislature's decision to authorize a privately funded Ten Commandments monument at the Capitol opened the door for its statue. The Ten Commandments monument was placed on the north steps of the building in 2012, and the Oklahoma chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has sued to have it removed.
Similar requests for monuments have been made by a Hindu leader in Nevada, an animal rights group and the satirical Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
In response, the Oklahoma Capitol Preservation Commission recently placed a moratorium on considering any new requests.
"Anybody can still make their request, but we'll hold off on considering them until the lawsuit is adjudicated," commission Chairman Trait Thompson said.
The push by The Satanic Temple has rankled elected leaders in this conservative state known as the buckle of the Bible Belt, who say such a proposal would never be approved by the commission.
"I think you've got to remember where you are. This is Oklahoma, the middle of the Heartland,'' said Rep. Don Armes, R-Faxon. "I think we need to be tolerant of people who think different than us, but this is Oklahoma, and that's not going to fly here.''
While Greaves acknowledges the Satanic Temple's effort is in part to highlight what it says is hypocrisy of state leaders in Oklahoma, he says the group is serious about having a monument placed there.
The group already has raised nearly half of the $20,000 it says it needs to build the monument.
"We plan on moving forward one way or another," Greaves said.
Another Oklahoma legislator, Rep. Earl Sears, called the group's effort "an insult to the good people of the state."
"I do not see Satanism as a religion, and they have no place at the state Capitol," said Sears, R-Bartlesville.
On its website, The Satanic Temple explains that it "seeks to separate Religion from Superstition by acknowledging religious belief as a metaphorical framework with which we construct a narrative context for our goals and works.
"Satan stands as the ultimate icon for the selfless revolt against tyranny, free & rational inquiry, and the responsible pursuit of happiness," the website says.
According to the group's website, it also applied to adopt a highway in New York City, hoping to have a sign added to the road bearing The Satanic Temple's name and "helping promote a message of Satanic Civic pride and social responsibility."
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A Rhine river cruise is probably the most popular of all European river cruises. Combining it with a Moselle (Mosel in German) river cruise is especially spectacular as you can travel through five countries – The Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg, France and Switzerland.
Rhine River Cruise
Most Rhine-Moselle cruises take a basic Rhine cruise and add in a return trip down the Moselle River to visit Trier and Bernkastel. So you start off the same way as a normal Rhine river cruise, e.g. you might start in Antwerp and travel through Germany as far as Coblenz or Koblenz . That means you pass the famous Rhine castles, see the legendary Loreley Rock (yes, that is the correct spelling), and visit Cologne with its UNESCO World Heritage Gothic Cathedral.
Koblenz Split-off
At Koblenz, you would then split off into the Moselle (Mosel) river valley for Cochem, Bernkastel and Trier, with perhaps an excursion to Luxembourg. After that you return up the Moselle, turn east into the Rhine again, perhaps explore the village of Rüdesheim with its Siegfried's Musikkabinett, drink "rauchbier" (smoked beer, smells like ham-infused dark beer) in Bamberg, possibly visit Heidelberg on an excursion from Speyer, then sample the French-German ambience of Strasbourg on the way down to Basel over the border in Switzerland.
Moselle River Highlights
Highlights of a cruise on the Moselle River would be visiting Trier, Germany's oldest city, founded in 16 B.C. by Roman Emperor Augustus, where you can see the landmark Porta Nigra and a wide range of Roman, Gothic and Renaissance monuments and churches all in one place. Other options available might be exploring the Reichsburg Castle in Cochem, or the U.S. Memorial Cemetery in Hamm, Luxembourg, where General George Patton is buried.
Naturally, sampling some of the Moselle region's fine wines (although sometimes a little sweet for me) is a given. Forget red, it's white that's the name of the game here. See if you can try a "Bernkasteler Doktor", claimed by some to be the world's best Riesling, but be warned: it ain't cheap!
Some Moselle cruises, especially independents and tour aggregators chartering smaller boats get further into France, e.g. to to Nancy, a medieval city in Lorraine where you can visit La Place Stanislas and tour a chocolate factory. There are also excursions, like one to St. Etienne's Cathedral in Metz to see a famous Silbermann (early 18th C) organ (one of Bach's favourites).
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The second big fat lie of the Gay movement is that once Gay always Gay. The fact is that:
[Most of those who]…consider themselves homosexual or have same-sex experiences…will eventually change and stop having such experiences.
This quote is from Satinover (page 16), referencing the major study by Laumann and Laumann's colleagues.
Reminder: Gays do not exist. So-called Gays are actually Gay-perverts.


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Transforming Classical Studies Through Cyberinfrastructure
Digital Humanities Quarterly, Winter 2009: v3 n1, A special issue in honor of Ross Scaife
Editors: Gregory Crane and Melissa Terras
Front Matter
Acknowledgements and Dedications
Gregory Crane, Tufts University; Brent Seales, University of Kentucky; Melissa Terras, University College LondonThis collection of essays represent a wide range of perspectives on the work being done in digital classics. It honors the life of Allen Ross Scaife, who was instrumental in advancing digital scholarship in the field of classics.
Ross Scaife (1960-2008)
Dot Porter, Digital Humanities Observatory
Cyberinfrastructure for Classical Philology
Gregory Crane, Tufts University; Brent Seales, University of Kentucky; Melissa Terras, University College LondonNo humanists have moved more aggressively in the digital world than students of the Greco-Roman world but the first generation of digital classics has seen relatively superficial methods to address the problems of print culture. We are now beginning to see new intellectual practices for which new terms, eWissenschaft and eClassics, and a new cyberinfrastructure are emerging.
Technology, Collaboration, and Undergraduate Research
Christopher Blackwell, Furman University; Thomas R. Martin, College of the Holy CrossIn this article, two professors of Classics present their experiences in incorporating into their professional activity a model of undergraduate research that reflects Ross Scaife's ideals of collaborative, open scholarship, informed by traditional values, and taking advantage of advances in digital humanities
Tachypaedia Byzantina: The Suda On Line as Collaborative Encyclopedia
Anne Mahoney, Tufts UniversityThe Suda On Line (SOL) is a collaborative translation of a Byzantine Greek encyclopedia. It makes this difficult but useful text available to non-specialists and, with annotations and search facilities, makes the Suda easier to use than it is in print. As a collaboration, SOL demonstrates open peer review and the feasibility of a large, but closely focused, humanities project.
Exploring Historical RDF with Heml
Bruce Robertson, Mount Allison UniversityThe Web, though full of historical information, lacks a means of organizing that information, searching on it or visualizing it. The Historical Event Markup and Linking Project (Heml) was begun six years ago to explore how disparate historical materials on the Internet can be navigated and visualized, and for the past four years has used an XML data format defined in W3C Schemas. This format aims for conforming data that can be quickly parsed but provide a variety of facets on which to search for historical materials. While the project's graphical visualizations are in some respects successful, they have revealed some deficiencies in the underlying data format: it ought to provide for nested events, it ought to represent relations of causality between events and it ought to express the varieties of scholarly opinion about the attributes of events. By encoding the Heml data in the Resource Description Framework (RDF) it is possible to undertake these improvements. Moreover, an RDF-encoded Heml process provides easier access to CIDOC-CRM data into Heml events. Finally, a historical RDF language would simplify the discovery of references to historical events in digitized texts, thereby automating a growing network of historical information on the Web.
Digitizing Latin Incunabula: Challenges, Methods, and Possibilities
Jeffrey A. Rydberg-Cox, University of Missouri-Kansas CityIncunabula, or books printed before 1500, are extremely difficult and expensive to convert to digital form. The primary challenges arise from the use of non-standard typographical glyphs based on medieval handwriting to abbreviate words. Further difficulties are also posed by the practice of inconsistently marking word breaks at the end of lines and reducing or even eliminating spacing between some words. As such, these documents form a distinct genre of electronic document that poses unique challenges for conversion to digital form. From 2005-2007, the Preservation and Access Research and Development Program at the National Endowment for the Humanities funded a study to explore methods for digitizing these difficult texts. This paper describes some of the results of that project.The work described in this paper was completed by the Approaching the Problems of Digitizing Latin Incunables project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access. The material in this paper is drawn from the project application, internal technical reports, grant project reports and the project description included in . A version of this paper will also be published as part of the project web site.
Citation in Classical Studies
Neel Smith, College of the Holy CrossCitation practice reflects a model of a scholarly domain. This paper first considers traditional citation practice in the humanities as a description of our subjects of study. It then describes work at the Center for Hellenic Studies on an architecture for digital scholarship that is explicitly based on this model, and proposes a machine-actionable but technologically independent notation for citing texts, the Canonical Text Services URN.
Digital Criticism: Editorial Standards for the Homer Multitext
Casey Dué, University of Houston, Texas; Mary Ebbott, College of the Holy CrossIn this article we argue for the necessity of a digital edition to most accurately represent the textual tradition of the Homeric epics and to better understand the oral performance tradition that created the poems. We demonstrate how such a digital criticism would differ from the traditional textual criticism as practiced for editions in print and suggest how a digital criticism might open new avenues for the interpretation of the poetry. In defining our needs and goals for a digital edition, we discuss what our project has in common with other digital editions of literary works, but how the oral, traditional nature of the poetry creates special requirements as well. In addition to elaborating the editorial approach for the project, we reaffirm the principles of collaboration, international standards, and open access that we have learned from Ross Scaife, the founder of the Stoa Consortium.
Epigraphy in 2017
Hugh Cayless, University of North Carolina; Charlotte Roueché, King's College London; Tom Elliott, New York University; Gabriel Bodard, King's College LondonEpigraphy as a discipline has evolved greatly over the centuries. Many epigraphists in the last 20 years have been investigating how to use digital technology to advance their research, but until the present decade, these undertakings were restrained by aspects of the technology. The late 1990s will be seen as a watershed moment in the transition from print-based to born-digital epigraphic publication. At present, the majority of new editions are still published solely in print, but by 2017 we believe this circumstance will change drastically. The history of epigraphy makes it quite clear that such transitions are natural to the discipline.
Digital Geography and Classics
Tom Elliott, New York University; Sean Gillies, New York UniversityThe authors open by imagining one possible use of digital geographic techniques in the context of humanities research in 2017. They then outline the background to this vision, from early engagements in web-based mapping for the Classics to recent, fast-paced developments in web-based, collaborative geography. The article concludes with a description of their own Pleiades Project (http://pleiades.stoa.org), which gives scholars, students and enthusiasts worldwide the opportunity to use, create and share historical geographic information about the Greek and Roman World in digital form.
What Your Teacher Told You is True: Latin Verbs Have Four Principal Parts
Raphael Finkel, University of Kentucky; Gregory Stump, University of KentuckyWe describe two different strategies for generating the morphology of Latin verbs. First, we hand-code default inheritance hierarchies in the KATR formalism, treating inflectional exponents as markings associated with the application of rules by which complex word forms are deduced from simpler roots or stems. The high degree of similarity among verbs of different conjugation classes allows us to formulate general rules; these general rules are, however, sometimes overridden by conjugation-specific rules. This approach allows linguists to gain an appreciation for the structure of verbs, gives teachers a foundation for organizing lessons in morphology, and provides students a technique for generating forms of any verb. Second, we start with a paradigm chart, then automatically remove common parts and redundant morphosyntactic property sets (columns), combine similar conjugations (rows), and generate the KATR theory that produces a complete table of forms for a set of lexemes. This second approach automatically determines principal parts (for Latin, we verify that there are four), groups inflection classes into super-classes, and builds full paradigm charts.
Computational Linguistics and Classical Lexicography
Gregory Crane, Tufts University; David Bamman, Tufts UniversityManual lexicography has produced extraordinary results for Greek and Latin, but it cannot in the immediate future provide for all texts the same level of coverage available for the most heavily studied materials. As we build a cyberinfrastructure for Classics in the future, we must explore the role that automatic methods can play within it. Using technologies inherited from the disciplines of computational linguistics and computer science, we can create a complement to these traditional reference works - a dynamic lexicon that presents statistical information about a word's usage in context, including information about its sense distribution within various authors, genres and eras, and syntactic information as well.
Classics in the Million Book Library
Gregory Crane, Tufts University; Alison Babeu, Tufts University; David Bamman, Tufts University; Thomas Breuel, Technical University of Kaiserslautern; Lisa Cerrato, Tufts University; Daniel Deckers, Hamburg University; Anke Lüdeling, Humboldt-University, Berlin; David Mimno, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Rashmi Singhal, Tufts University; David A. Smith, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Amir Zeldes, Humboldt-University, BerlinIn October 2008, Google announced a settlement that will provide access to seven million scanned books while the number of books freely available under an open license from the Internet Archive exceeded one million. The collections and services that classicists have created over the past generation place them in a strategic position to exploit the potential of these collections. This paper concludes with research topics relevant to all humanists on converting page images to text, one language to another, and raw text into machine actionable data.
Conclusion: Cyberinfrastructure, the Scaife Digital Library and Classics in a Digital age
Christopher Blackwell, Furman University; Gregory Crane, Tufts University


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After strong rumors for well over a year BMW has finally lifted the veil on a higher performing M5 and M6. The competition package adds power (up to 575 hp) and a better spec suspension and brakes.
Official Release: They are high-performance sports cars, each with an individual character and all sharing the claim of turning superior performance attributes into an incomparable driving experience. In the BMW M5 and in the BMW M6 Coupe, BMW M6 Convertible and BMW M6 Gran Coupe models, race track technology is brought to the road. The ensuing hallmark M driving characteristics now present themselves in an even more intense, concentrated and impressive guise. From July, BMW M GmbH will be offering the Competition Package as an option for the four most powerful automobiles in the model portfolio. Its features open up a new dimension of dynamics in customary BMW M style.
The Competition Package was specifically conceived to enhance handling properties, in adherence to the principle applied to the development of all BMW M automobiles: fine-tuning the suspension technology to the performance curve of the engine to bring maximum performance in line with consistently superlative responses that are precision-controllable even in highly dynamic driving situations.
The Competition Package boosts output by 11 kW to 423 kW/575 hp in the high-revving V8 engine with M TwinPower turbo technology that powers the BMW M5, BMW M6 Coupe, BMW M6 Convertible and BMW M6 Gran Coupe models. At the same time, the developers at BMW M GmbH have applied extensive modifications to the chassis set-up. Along with the suspension and damping systems, the stabiliser bars have also been more tautly tuned. In the BMW M5 this adjustment has resulted in a lowering of the car by around 10 millimetres. The potential inherent in the rear axle design – based on the race-derived principle of the rear axle subframe being bolted to the body – and the even more precisely calculated elastokinematics for the front axle are exploited to the full in the models featuring the Competition Package, with the aim of enhancing driving precision.
The Active M Differential on the final drive – standard on all models – is also issued with its own control unit in conjunction with the Competition Package. In combination with the modified set-up for the suspension, damping and stabiliser bars, this results in further improved traction. The new hydraulic rack-and-pinion steering with the M-specific Servotronic function, moreover, has more direct mapping to enable firm and secure contact with the road while further increasing the agility of the vehicle during cornering.
Beyond this, the configuration of the chassis control systems has been adapted to the specific suspension profile. With the Competition Package, the M Dynamic mode of the DSC (Dynamic Stability Control) system is even more acutely geared to sporty handling characteristics. The package additionally includes exclusively designed 20-inch M light-alloy wheels along with a sport exhaust system featuring customary M twin tailpipes in black chrome that lend an unmistakable sporty note to both the look and the sound of the car.
The further enhanced high-performance profile of the engine, chassis and sound experience courtesy of the Competition Package also has a positive impact on the vehicle set-up, which can be configured at the press of a button by selecting the Comfort, Sport or Sport+ modes. This makes for an even greater range between a supremely relaxed driving style and emotion-laden sportiness in the overall set-up of the relevant model. This more pronounced differentiation is most noticeable when spontaneously switching the set-up with the help of the M Drive buttons on the steering wheel.
The contents of the Competition Package make for optimised performance characteristics in all models, as demonstrated for example by 0.1 seconds being shaved off the standstill to 100 km/h (62 mph) sprint time and 0.2 seconds when accelerating from zero to 200 km/h (124 mph). Cornering dynamics and elasticity are also enhanced – something that is noticeable in everyday driving but most powerfully experienced on the race track. In particular in conjunction with the optional M carbon ceramic brakes, all the driving dynamics attributes associated with BMW M automobiles are experienced at the highest level.


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My mom is a thrift store junkie – you need something and dont want to pay retail? Tell my mom and she'll find it at a thrift store for a fraction of the price. It might take her a few months, but she'll find it – or something that will work.
I was at her house last week and she handed me 3 striped cotton napkins and said, "Make me a tote bag for my trip to Branson in May." Ummmmm ok….. I've stated before I am NOT very good at sewing – and my patience is a bit lacking – so this actually scared me a bit.
First I had to get over the fact that I didnt have enough fabric to line the stripes up – it was just going to be imperfect. Then she said, "oh – and I want box corners in it." Um…box corners? What the heck are those? We had a discussion with some pinning and "pretend sewing" while she told me how to sew them – and I went home.
Luckily – it worked just the way she explained it.
The nice thing about starting with napkins is you dont have to worry about frayed edges, you put right sides in, sew around 3 sides and "voila" you have a bag. I actually folded the top over a bit and added a button an button hole so she can close the bag if she wants. The third napkin is going to be a little bag to put inside the large bag – that will be a different post.
Here are the materials:
- 2 napkins of same size
- metal grommets and tool to install them
- cording for shoulder strap
- white thread
- button (optional)
Here's how I SHOULD HAVE put it together – I mixed up a few steps since I didnt have a pattern. You'll notice in the pics I didnt sew across the top – and i put the grommets in AFTER I made the bag
- Fold the top of the napkin down from the top about 2 to 2.5 inches
- Sew across the top to create a thick seam
- Figure out where you want your button hole, likely in the center, and make your button hole in one side. Pay attention to right and wrong sides.
- Put your grommets in both tops – measure in from the sides your desired distance on each piece and trace the inside of the grommet eyelet – cut that circle out and follow the directions on your grommet tool. then sew your button on
- Put the right sides in and pin around 3 sides.
- Sew around the 3 sides and remove your pins.
- In the bottom corners – flatten your seams and measure in about 2.5 inches from the corner and mark or pin the spot. Sew STRAIGHT ACROSS the corner so you hit that 2.5 inches straight on. This will create your box corner.
- Fold the flaps in your box corner in and tack them down so they dont flop around inside the bag.
- Measure your cord and add shoulder straps.


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We uncorked the mystery of what goes into a durable and dependable wine opener.
Published Mar. 1, 2014. Appears in America's Test Kitchen TV Season 16: Why Not Add Wine?
Until recently, we'd been uncorking bottles of wine with the Oggi Nautilus Corkscrew, a lever-style model that operates like a pump and makes the task effortless, even for novices. But when we noticed that this corkscrew wasn't holding up—some copies in the test kitchen cracked even after moderate use—we decided to seek out a new, more durable favorite. Those criteria helped us narrow our focus to the type of corkscrew that wine professionals use day in and day out: the "waiter's friend," an ungimmicky style that is simple to use once you master the technique and slim enough to stow in a kitchen drawer. We rounded up five openers in a surprisingly broad price range: from about $13 all the way up to almost $230, the latter evidence that corkscrew manufacturers are trying to remarket this historically cheap tool as not just handy but also supremely engineered.
Fifteen cases of wine later, it was clear that more money didn't buy a better opener. Two models fetching triple-digit prices lacked hinges on their fulcrum—the metal arm that swings out from the body and grips the lip of the bottle—which limited their leverage. The last-place model also had a sloped (instead of notched) ledge, so it constantly slipped off the bottle. And despite being made from surgical-grade stainless steel, the worm on another model was not attached well; it loosened slightly by the end of testing.
More user-friendly were the two corkscrews that featured ergonomically curved bodies and hinged fulcrums that made easy work of pulling the cork. Either is a solid addition to a bar collection, but what makes our winner worth the extra $25 is its Teflon-coated worm, which considerably reduced friction as we twisted.
If you're looking for an easier way to open bottles, read our review of electric wine openers.
The mission of America's Test Kitchen Reviews is to find the best equipment and ingredients for the home cook through rigorous, hands-on testing. We stand behind our winners so much that we even put our seal of approval on them.


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Reader Walt Bischoff and his spouse—like all good couples—would like to share more of their lives with one another. He writes:
My wife and I have separate Apple IDs and would like to share contacts via iCloud. How should we set up iCloud to achieve this? Right now we never seem to be able to access all of our contacts.
I can offer a couple of solutions. We'll start with iCloud.
iCloud doesn't allow you to share contacts between accounts. You can't, for example, create a group of contacts within your iCloud account and then tick off a little box marked "Make these contacts available to my spouse as well." What you have to do is create an additional iCloud account that you share.
To do that you go through the usual rigmarole to create an iCloud account. On an iOS device simply navigate to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars; and tap Add Account. Tap iCloud and create a new Apple ID. Once you've obtained that ID, add it to every device you intend to use to share contacts.
On the Mac, go to System Preferences > Mail, Contacts & Calendars; click the Plus (+) button at the bottom of the window, click iCloud, and click Create Apple ID. (Or, if you've already established that new ID on another device, just enter the Apple ID email address and password and click Sign In.) Again, make sure that you've added this new iCloud account to all your devices.
In each case, enable contacts syncing for the new account. Now when you open the Contacts application on your Mac or the Contacts app on an iOS device, you'll see your new iCloud account listed. Any contacts that you want to share should be added to this account. In cases where you don't want to share particular contacts, simply leave them in (or add them to, when creating new contacts) the account tied to your personal iCloud account.
Gmail contacts is another option. And it works similarly. Create a Gmail account that the two of you will share. On your iOS devices go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars; tap Add Account, tap Other, and tap Add CardDAV account. Configure the sheet that appears to read:
Server: google.com
User Name: The email address for your shared Gmail account
Password: That account's password
Description: Something along the lines of Shared Google Contacts
You'll then want to import your shared contacts into this Google account, which you can do on your Mac by launching Contacts, selecting the contacts you want to add to Google, and dragging them to the Gmail account you've created. Do the same with your wife's contacts. If you like, just click on the Plus button next to the Google entry in the All Contacts area to create a new group, which you can use to help manage your shared contacts—Our Friends and Our Relatives, for instance. Your contacts will be uploaded to Google and synced with other devices that you've configured to use this account.
Note that when using this method, any new contacts that you create on an iOS device will, by default, be added to your iCloud account, not Gmail. But you can rectify that. Go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars; swipe down to the Contacts area, tap on Default Account, and in the resulting screen, tap on your Gmail account. Until you change this option back to iCloud, any new contacts you create will be added to your Gmail contacts.


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Welcome to Sagar Guest House which is located inside the Golden Fort of Jaisalmer City Around ten minutes walk from the first gate of fort, Gopa Chowk, Jaisalmer.
The property maintains historic Jaisalmeri charm whilst providing modern service and comfort. The Style of our building goes back to the traditional stone architecture found in Jaisalmer Over the centuries. The building gives an impression of old jaisalmer, which has beautiful Carving works on the stone and balconies (Jharokhas).
Staying at Sagar Guest house WIll Give you A feeling About How The Maharaja Were Stayng Inside Fort.
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Meet the Nissan Brain-to-Vehicle, or B2V, Technology
From technology that reads a driver's brain waves to the world's best-selling electric vehicle, Nissan will give visitors to CES 2018 a glimpse of its vision for the future of mobility – a future with more autonomy, more electrification and more connectivity.
Among the highlights will be Nissan's pioneering Brain-to-Vehicle (B2V) technology. B2V interprets signals from the driver's brain to assist with driving and to help the vehicle's autonomous and manual systems learn from the driver. The technology promises shorter reaction times and systems that adapt to maximize driving pleasure.
Also to be featured are the Nissan IMx concept vehicle and the all-new Nissan LEAF. Making its regional debut, the IMx promotes a stronger connection between car and driver. It has a full suite of autonomous driving capabilities, seating for four, and an electric powertrain with more torque than the Nissan GT-R.
The new generation of the Nissan LEAF, the world's best-selling electric vehicle, combines the excitement of 100% electric driving with advanced technologies such as ProPILOT (ProPILOT Assist in the U.S.), e-Pedal and enhanced connectivity. This icon of Nissan Intelligent Mobility went on sale in Japan in October 2017.
Nissan's stand is at booth 5431 in the Las Vegas Convention Center's North Hall. Executives from Nissan and the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance will also join panel discussions during CES:
- Nissan Executive Vice President Daniele Schillaci will join a discussion titled "Self-Driving Cars: the Future of Personal Transportation," from 10-11 a.m. on Jan. 10 at Tech East, Las Vegas Convention Center, North Hall, N257.
- Alfonso Albaisa, Nissan's senior vice president for global design, will join a discussion titled "Design Thinking for Your Business," from 10-11 a.m. on Jan. 11 at Tech East, Las Vegas Convention Center, South Plaza, 62000.
- Christian Ledoux, director of mobility and connected services for the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance, will join a panel titled "Autonomous Vehicles in the Cities of Tomorrow," from 9:30-10:15 a.m. on Jan. 10 at Tech East, Westgate, Level 1, Pavilion 9.
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The price of rooftop solar systems for residential and small business continues to drop precipitously, and consumers are increasingly choosing to buy their systems rather than lease them to reap the full financial benefits.
Rooftop solar systems that used to cost as much as a luxury car five to 10 years ago now cost about the same as an economy car, or about $15,000 or $18,000 on average. And, the return on investment for a solar system is now estimated to be from three to five years, depending on government rebates and tax incentives and the region in which they're installed.
In 2014, 72% of residential solar systems in the U.S. were owned by a third party, such as SolarCity, Vivant Solar and Sunrun, according to a report by GTM Research.
That means most consumers leased their systems or were under a power-purchase agreement (PPA) with a solar provider.
But by 2020, direct ownership of rooftop solar systems 46% of the forecasted 5.2gW (gigawatt) market, GTM's report stated.
"Our data and others are showing that consumers are trending away from the leasing option in favor of owning their solar systems, either with a loan or with cash," said Vikram Aggarwal, CEO of solar system marketplace EnergySage.
Creating a market with PPAs
Founded in 2009, EnergySage is similar to Expedia or Kayak in that it's a free online service that allows users to input their information and retrieve standardized quotes for a service -- in this case, the installation of a rooftop solar system. EnergySage makes money from fees paid by solar suppliers and is part of a nascent industry that includes other, smaller players such as Geostellar Inc.
"From our perspective, we don't care what the customer selects. We get the same revenue if you select a lease or PPA or take out a loan for the system," Aggarwal said. "We're agnostic toward your decision."
In 2015, 93% of EnergySage users chose to own their system, compared to the national average of 37%, according to Aggarwal.
The U.S. residential market has grown in 15 of the last 16 quarters, largely due to financing solutions like leases and PPAs, according to GTM Research. Last year, residential solar was once again the fastest-growing sector in U.S. solar, with more than 2gW (gigawatts) installed for the first time ever and growing 66% over 2014.
Ten years ago, the rooftop solar power industry got a tremendous kickstart through PPAs, which allowed a consumer to pay nothing for the installation and ongoing maintenance of a system while still reaping cost savings through lower energy bills.
How power-purchase agreements work
PPAs are typically 20-year contracts where the solar system provider covers the system costs but receives the federal or state renewable energy incentives and sells the power generated at a fixed rate back to the consumer.
On average, a PPA agreement will save a consumer 30% of the per-kilowatt price charged by the solar system provider, which is lower than a standard utility rate. For example, SolarCity charges customers about 13 cents per kilowatt in Massachusetts, while the average utility rate is currently about 19.5 cents.
While PPAs allow rates to rise over the term of a contract, those increases have typically been lower than those charged by utilities. Retail electricity prices are expected to continue to rise over the next few years, according to a report from Deutsche Bank, as they have in the U.S. every year since 2002.
Aggarwal argued that while signing a 20-year PPA may eliminate upfront installation costs, the solar system provider gets 80% of the financial benefits from the system.
Even if consumers borrow money to pay for a solar system instead of buying one outright, they'll still reap 40% to 80% of the cost savings while paying off the loan, Aggarwal said.
Cost of solar systems
As retail electricity costs continue to rise, the cost of solar has plummeted. For example, solar panels saw steep price reductions from 2008 through 2012 and were a primary driver for cheaper installations. In 2008, solar modules cost a little more than $5 per watt of generating capacity. In 2012, they were below $1 per watt.
Since 2012, however, module prices have remained relatively flat -- about 50 cents per watt of capacity -- and price declines for installed systems have been driven primarily by reductions in other hardware costs, such as inverters that transform a solar panel's direct current (DC) into usable alternating current (AC) electricity.
Over the next few years, the industry is likely to see the final piece of cost reduction -- customer acquisition costs or "soft costs" like include sales and marketing. Soft costs are expected to drop by 50% over the next four years, according to Deutsche Bank.
Taken together, tremendous drops in hard and soft costs has lowered the installation price for rooftop solar panels to about $3 to $4 per watt of installed capacity; the average installation today is 5kW (kilowatts, according to a report by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. That puts the cost of a typical system at between $15,000 and $20,000.
Financing takes off
The uptick in purchases has also spawned new financing model -- loans for solar systems.
"The solar loan market has exploded," said GTM Research solar analyst Nicole Litvak. "Every...financier has introduced or is planning to introduce a loan, and an entirely separate group of pure-play loan providers has emerged."
Tyler Ogden, a solar analyst with Lux Research, said consumers are aware that the installation price for solar has fallen through the roof and see an opportunity to get all the financial benefits from installations, from tax incentives to free electricity.
A typical solar system installed today can pay for itself in electricity savings in anywhere from a couple of years to 10 years -- with five years being the average ROI, Ogden said.
There are, however, pros and cons to owning a solar system, Ogden said. For example, while owners get the full benefits, they also inherit full responsibility for maintenance.
That doesn't mean consumers are without a safety net, as solar systems are typically warrantied to perform with up to 85% of their original efficiency for 25 years. After 25 years, they can still generate electricity, but at a rate typically far less than 85%, Ogden said.
Additionally, more and more solar system installers and other third parties now offer supplemental warranties to cover items such as maintenance or damage repair. Solar provider Anaphase acquired Next Phase Solar, a provider of system operations and maintenance, last year with that in mind.
Those warranties typically cost a few hundred dollars per year, according to Aggarwal.
As the cost of solar systems continues to decline and their efficiency continues to rise, owning becomes more viable compared to leasing or signing a PPA, Aggarwal argued.
Even if a consumer or small business decides to upgrade a system half way through its warrantied life in order to get more efficient solar panels, the cost would only be a few thousand dollars. And the more efficient panels would repay the owner as more energy is produced that can be sold back to a utility at commercial rates.
While much of the solar installed today is under a lease or PPA, that doesn't mean the consumer can't get out of that contract. Many leases and PPAs have buyout clauses where, after a certain period of time -- say five to seven years -- the lessor can purchase their system from the installer at either their price or a fair market value, whichever is higher.
For those who haven't yet leased a solar system, Aggarwal said it's critical to make sure any contract includes a transferrable warranty. That way, if a consumer decides to buy out the contract, the product warranty will be honored by the manufacturer.
Even as the solar market experiences a boom, the tax incentives and government rebates that initially spurred it on have diminished. According to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, rebates and other incentives have declined from $5 to $7 per watt at their peak 10 years ago to less than $1 per watt of installed solar power in most major markets. They'll continue to decline as adoption grows.
As a result, purchasing a solar system in five years will likely bring with it fewer financial benefits. Even then, the system is still expected to deliver a 15% annual rate of return, meaning it would still save enough money to offset costs within five years.


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Ladies and gentlemen, make some NOISE.
After establishing a loyal following, many have come to embrace all that is Obsidian. And who can blame them? There's an awful lot to rejoice in. But now, after 2 years of tireless development, it's time to pull away the curtain and reveal the newest specimen to don the Obsidian name. Put your hands together for the highly anticipated follow-up to Obsidian, White Noise.
Obsidian White Noise was forged from a blank slate, to provide a fresh, exciting, and captivating experience. Dressed in a gorgeous, golden-brown Ecuador Habano-wrapper, each White Noise is simply stunning to eye. But don't be fooled, because beneath this velvet glove awaits a bevy of hearty long-fillers from the Dominican and Nicaragua. Selected from nutrient-rich primings, this core pairs exceedingly well with the sultry wrapper. The end result is a highly polished Cuban-esque profile containing cedar, cream, pepper, nuts, and coffee all backed by a toasty, slightly sweet note of tobacco. Beautifully balanced, this medium to full-bodied blend is exceptionally tasty. And by the time the burn reaches your fingers, you'll be dosing off in vision of another. Prepare to be mesmerized by Obsidian White Noise.
Decent stick. Didn't have any of the burn issues mentioned in some of the other reviews. Didn't like nearly as much as the black. Kept picking up a faint charcoal taste, but not enough to make me put it down & leave it. I'm usually a one cigar a day man. Toasted the foot on a Punch earlier in the day so maybe that had an effect on this stick. Not a bad smoke though. Not bad at all.
Enjoyable cigar, but poor construction. Though retaining moisture, the wrapping unwinds and flakes off....
I tried this cigar when they had the 5 pack specials. GREAT MOVE good tasting stick, full mild smoke to me. Have added it to my rotation. Even when they are not on sale they are priced right.
I was pleasantly surprised by this smoke. I had the regular Obsidian and was less than impressed. I got The Obsidian and the White Noise in the same sampler, so I sat on the White Noise for about 4 months. I regret that I waited that long! This cigar is very tasty! Right when the initial kick wore off, I started drinking Gold Peak blend coffee from Starbucks and they paired very well together, keeping the intensity up to a medium-full for the duration. I might just have to buy a 5-pack and age them longer!
I was always curious of this brand because I've studied runes and this one called to me with how much a gift this is. I picked up the mazo of double perfectos. WOW! Definitely full, as you are met initially with the effects of pepper and spice. Eventually it mellows out but retains a similar taste profile. Burn was even and quite a decent smoke! It's not my go to favorite just yet, but totally worth it. It's a shorter smoke than some, but great for a lunch hour treat!
Very tasty!
The Robusto - I'd like to see this cigar rated - Has to be a 90+! For the money, THE BEST cigar on the market today!!
The Obsidian White Noise is by far my favorite cigar. I just ordered a brick of the half coronas and they are absolutely perfect. This cigar is an unbeatable value and easily surpasses similar cigars that are two or three times the price. Try and Obsidian and you will be a believer. Obsidian Black or White Noise...both are awesome.
I am smoking the last Double Perfecto Obsidian White Noise I have. Therefore, I will be looking for a deal on any of the sizes, even though the normal cost is quite reasonable. Less than 4 bones for a 6" X 60rg vitola of this quality is more than fair. $2.50 for the corona is also good. A medium bodied smoke, White Noise is a wonderful follow up to the original blend. Draped with a habano wrapper that enhances its spicy profile, White Noise is a winner. Earthy & rich with pepper, anise & oak, volumes of smoke accompany each puff.... White Noise is very enjoyable, smooth & satisfying. For a fullhead like myself, it is a nice change of pace, that goes well with morning coffee or afternoon tea. Recommended to anyone looking for a solid medium bodied, economical cigar. 90/100
....Poor construction. Wrapper split in several places and completely unravelled before the end of the first 3rd. Not enjoyable whatsoever. I got the Obsidian White Noise in the Backyard Boogie Sampler (I believe it was a substitute for another stick that became unavailable.) To say the least, I'm glad I only had one to smoke...
When I first lit this cigar I thought, "not much going on here". But as I got into it I really got to like it and now it is one of my favorite go to cigars. A little pepper, nuts, cream. I really like what Pinar has been releasing over the past few years. IMHO, great quality cigars!
I tried these when they were still known as Blend Lab SD-5554's and I'm glad they made them into a full-time brand cigar. It is a night and day pairing with the regular Obsidian Black version. The white noise is a very smooth, creamy smoke cigar with almost none of the hit you get with its black counterpart. It is more meaty in taste than just an average Connecticut shade type cigar though and is well put together and smokes very long and very evenly throughout the stick.
Terrific stick, suits my taste to a T. At this price point I will always keep some aboard, and in the rotation.
If you've ever stared at white noise on your TV and felt light headed or intrigued; this cigar should evoke similar responses.
Picked up 10 double perfectos on a daily deal & I must say that this big peppery vitola is more full bodied than the mini coronas I ordered last year. The strength intensifies as the smoke progresses, so be ready for a full hour attack on your senses. Spices & pepper predominate the experience. I like the blend, although some may find it a bit aggressive for their taste. Well worth a try, especially if you can find a deal.
I received my White Noise Belicoso in a trade w/ one of my BOTL. Well constructed caramel brown wrapper. I had no issues with the band as others have. Ash not flaky in the least. Now to the flavors. Ummm..ok...NOW to the flavors...hmmm..what flavors? Aside from some pepper at the beginning, I'm not really experiencing much. It smells awesome...very creamy n sweet. Other than that, not much. Not even on the retrohale. Granted, I prefer a fuller smoke, so perhaps I just don't get it. I've got another one resting, so I wont totally give up on this stick. But for now, I'd give it a "EH"...
This is my second review. I actually like this cigar very much. Keep it moist and it is very smooth with a great flavor all the way to the nub.
Not a bad cigar. A little rough at first, but worth the purchase and smoke. The cigar is a good for summer smoke on a porch with a beer.
Got a bunch of these in a sampler recently and wow, very smooth smoke and full of body and a nice contrast to the darker Obsidian black version, which was also in the same sampler bundle.
Good med-full cigar, a bit inconsistent on the construction. One was ruined trying to get that full stubborn band off, thin wrapper tore....
I received the Obsidian WN in a sampler pack. Upon light up, the flavor was flat and a bit harsh on draw. After an inch or so it started to come alive with a full body of flavor. I didn't have any issue as some fellow reviewers with a flacking ash. The draw is one of the lightest I've ever had, which made this a relatively quick smoke. The band that encases 70% of the stick didn't peel off very easy and added to a premature tear of the golden brown skin. I plan on aging it for a while in hopes of bringing out the flavor sooner....
I just bought a 5 pack of these (Obsidian White Noise Double Perfecto), and I've smoked every last one of them. And to this moment, I don't understand the bad reviews these have been getting. I fell in love with the original Obsidian (the ones with the black label), and granted these are entirely different. But they are still a great smoke. Lots of flavor, definitely delivered on the medium to full body I expected from them. Good flavors, lots of smoke, and you will be happy if you expect the same quality as the original obsidian, but expect the different profile of flavors.
I am smoking the first of five of these, which I received in the Summerfest sampler. Pretty good cigar, though like a previous reviewer mention, the ash is a bit messy. Flavor is good, and it has maintained a nice burn line throughout. Lots of spicy smoke and a great draw. Thing is, there is nothing exceptional about it. Maybe it's because I'm comparing it to the other smokes in the sampler. After all, the Diesel HOTD, Legado de Pepin and Ramon Bueso Odyssey are some pretty exceptional bedfellows. All in all though, I have enjoyed this stick and I am sure I will enjoy the other four as well....
These are certainly pretty, well made, and sport an interesting marketing technique. They draw smooth and easily. The wrapper tastes good, even while the cigar is not lit. However, the burn is somewhat hot and the flavor is not for me. A cigar for mowing the lawn or taking a scenic drive. Good with coffee or a cheap whisky.
Just purchased a box of the these sticks two weeks ago. A little impatient I lit one first night, first off there was no taste in first quarter to a half inch. got in a little more then it started to come alive a good amount of pepper and sort of a vanilla finish, stayed that way through the whole burn overall a good flavor. Letting them sit in the Humidor for two weeks made them even better the pepper mellowed out and was a nice smooth flavor all the way down. I would buy more without thinking twice .
A tug on an unlit white noise yields a strong grass (the lawn kind) flavor. This is usually the hallmark of a cigar I will not like. However, it wasn't bad once it got going. It was peppery but not in a harsh way. Though not a favorite, it is a good cigar and if someone gave me one, I would not refuse. My biggest complaint is it's like a Graycliff and drops hot ash all over. (I burned a hole in my pants).
I got this cigar for the insane price of 14.99/5pk...and for a 6x60 double perfecto no less...I was anxious to smoke this, because I enjoy the black Obsidian quite a bit...Lit one off the truck and it promised great things...After a week or so in my humidor, I broke out another one...Let me tell you, this cigar is every bit as good as the Black...Great construction...
Wonderful smell...and loaded with flavor...This is a great addition to the line...Don't be fooled by the down right cheap every day price on these sticks, they are worth much more...
Received a box of Obsidian White Noise mini coronas today & just had to open them to try one before putting away in the humidor. I wondered why 2 out of 3 reviews had negative comments, but was determined to give an impartial review. 1st thing I noticed was the full bodied flavor, with a hint of vanilla & sweet spices. A firm salt & pepper ash develops as the stick is consumed. Also, the smoke seemed to mellow after lighting, ultimately becoming medium/full bodied, with tons of flavor & scads of thick white smoke. I do like the flavor & the hearty dose of spice, that only a full bodied smoke can deliver. Ultimately, I consider this a good short smoke, that will go well with coffee or as a quick alternative to a robusto or larger, longer smoke. I am excited to try the freebie I received with this purchase. 14 toro sized Pinar Del Rio sticks. That made this a great buy at $1.50 per vitola.
For background, I immediately fell in love with the regular (ie black label) Obsidians and ordered five boxes immediately after wolfing down the sampler pack. I decided to order the 5-cigar pack of White Noise along with my cache (the double perfecto). I have to say that I was extremely disappointed. The White Noise is immature, harsh, and lacking flavor. It is harsh the way burnt coffee is harsh (just an analogy, this cigar does not taste like coffee). Although well constructed and producing a decent amount of smoke and an ash that held together, I could not make it through the stogie, even though I tried to stay with it. With some difficulty I made it to the half-way point with it only getting more acrid and unpleasant to the point that I had to lay it to rest. The two Obsidian lines are truly black and white and completely different. If you didn't like black, you may want to try White. If you like White, you may not like black. It seems they are catering to two different groups of smokers, so as they say, your mileage may vary. I will be interested in seeing more comments on White.
What a great smoke! I have smoked 100s of different cigars over the years and this one ranks right up there with the best of them. Don't let the price tag fool you; this cigar is easily well worth $10-$12 a stick. Nice medium body, perfect burn and draw, gentle spices throughout, flavors & strength pick up a tad towards the foot. Thoroughly enjoyed this cigar (with a cup of coffee after dinner). Wish I would have bought two orders instead of just one! Will be in my steady rotation.
Two .. issues with the my first Obsidian White Noise. Neither will stop be from buying more of them at some point. I think I'll buy a box next time. Issue number one. When I removed the band (if it can still be called a band when it covers 90% of the cigar) I found that the wrapper was showing signs of coming apart. Thankfully it held together. The second issue is the ash was ... flaky. I kept having to tap it on the ash tray to keep from getting little bits on me. Other than those two issues I enjoyed the cigar. It burned evenly and it tasted great. The two most important things to me.


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Messrs. Homer S. Cummings, Atty. Gen., and Hugh B. Cox, of Washington, D.C., for petitioner.
In September, 1933, the Federal Trade Commission charged respondent, the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, with the violation of section 2 of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. 13, 15 U.S.C.A. 13, in selling tires, tubes, etc., to Sears, Roebuck & Company at discriminatory prices. Respondent, invok- [304 U.S. 257, 258] ing the first proviso in section 2,1 contended that its contracts with Sears, Roebuck & Company for sales involving lower net prices than those charged to independent dealers were made because of the great difference in the quantities sold. After hearing, the Commission ruled that it did not consider a difference in price to be on account of quantity unless it was based on a difference in cost and was reasonably related to and approximately no more than that difference. In March, 1936, the Commission issued an order requiring respondent to desist from discriminations in prices as described.
Pending the hearing in the Circuit Court of Appeals of respondent's petition for review, the Congress amended section 2 of the Clayton Act. Act of June 19, 1936, c. 592, 49 Stat. 1526, 15 U.S.C.A. 13. The first proviso was amended to read as follows: 'Provided, That nothing herein contained shall prevent differentials which make only due allowance for differences in the cost of manufacture, sale, or delivery resulting from the differing methods or quantities in which such commodities are to such purchasers sold or delivered.'
Thereupon, respondent informed the Circuit Court of Appeals that in view of this provision respondent had ceased to manufacture tires for Sears, Roebuck & Company under the terms of its existing contract; that, to dispose of the stock on hand, the parties had made a new price arrangement designed to conform to the new law; and that within the year all transactions between re- [304 U.S. 257, 259] spondent and Sears, Roebuck & Company ceased and obligations were terminated by mutual releases. 6 Cir., 92 F.2d 677, 679.
Considering that there was no controversy between the parties as to the illegal character of respondent's practices under the amended Act, the Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that the case had become moot. In that view the court set aside the order of the Commission and remanded the case 'but without direction to the Commission to dismiss the complaint and without prejudice to its filing a supplemental complaint in the original proceeding if under section 2 of the amendatory act this may now be done' as to which the court expressed no opinion. 92 F.2d 677, at page 681.
Both the Commission and the respondent contended below, and contend here, that the case has not become moot. While they disagree in their reasoning, they come to the same conclusion upon this point, and both ask that the case be remanded to the Circuit Court of Appeals with directions to determine it upon the merits. We think that their conclusion is correct and that the remand should be made.
Section 11 of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. 21, 15 U.S.C.A. 21 provides that whenever the Commission has reason to believe that any person is violating or has violated the provisions of the Act, and upon hearing so finds, the Commission shall issue an order requiring such person to cease and desist from such violations. In case of failure to obey its order, the Commission may apply to the Circuit Court of Appeals for enforcement. And anyone required to cease and desist from a violation charged may seek review in the Circuit Court of Appeals, praying that the order be set aside. The provisions of the Act of June 19, 1936, show clearly that the orders of the Commission entered before its passage are to remain in effect. Section 2 of that Act, 15 U.S.C.A. 21a, provides that nothing therein contained shall 'affect [304 U.S. 257, 260] rights of action arising, or litigation pending, or orders of the Federal Trade Commission issued and in effect or pending on review, based on section 2 of said Act of October 15, 1914, (section 13 of this title) prior to the effective date of this amendatory Act (June 19, 1936).'
Discontinuance of the practice which the Commission found to constitute a violation of the Act did not render the controversy moot. United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Association, 166 U.S. 290, 309 , 310 S., 17 S.Ct. 540; Southern Pacific Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission, 219 U.S. 433, 452 , 31 S.Ct. 288; Southern Pacific Terminal Co. v. Interstate Commerce Commission, 219 U.S. 498 , 514-516, 31 S.Ct. 279; National Labor Relations Board v. Pennsylvania Greyhound Lines, 303 U.S. 261 , 58 S.Ct. 571, 115 A.L.R. 307, decided February 28, 1938; Guarantee Veterinary Co. v. Federal Trade Commission, 2 Cir., 285 F. 853, 859, 860; Chamber of Commerce v. Federal Trade Commission, 8 Cir., 13 F.2d 673, 686, 687. The Commission, reciting its findings and the conclusion that respondent had violated the act, required respondent to cease and desist from the particular discriminations which the order described. That is a continuing order. Its efficacy, if valid, was not affected by the subsequent passage or the provisions of the amendatory Act. As a continuing order, the Commission may take proceedings for its enforcement if it is disobeyed. But under the statute respondent was entitled to seek review of the order and to have it set aside if found to be invalid. The question which both parties sought to have the Circuit Court of Appeals decide was whether respondent's conduct was a violation of the original statute. Upon the conclusion that it was such a violation, the Commission based its order. Neither the transactions subsequent to that order nor the passage of the amendatory Act deprived the respondent of its right to challenge the order and to have its validity determined or the Commission of its right to have its order maintained if validly made. [304 U.S. 257, 261] The decree of the Circuit Court of Appeals is reversed and the cause is remanded to that court for a determination of the merits.
It is so ordered.
Reversed and remanded.
Mr. Justice STONE, Mr. Justice CARDOZO, and Mr. Justice REED took no part in the consideration and decision of this case.
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Have you ever seen a photo so striking that it brought tears to your eyes? For me, my tears came looking at the work of the phenomenal, great and funny Fola Adewole. I saw her work and blinked to hold back the welling emotion. I remember the very first shot I saw, a great and sassy couple on rocks at a beach, she was wearing a gorgeous blue bathing suit, he a cool pair of shorts and they were holding their initials, JB. I thought "WOW. What a cool shot. I love that, I wish I could have a photographer like that whenever I am married (insert sigh)". I then shrugged it off, no more daydreaming, I'm not yet engaged, but my clients were, I thought to myself.
I then emailed Fola asking if she traveled. I was astonished by her prompt response, her enthusiasm and her prices! I was very happy thinking to myself "Well, at least if one of my clients book her I can use her work for my own portfolio". Little did I know that six months later I would be able to book her for my very own wedding!!! I have a love affair with her artistry, her persona and her talent. To say I cannot wait to see what my pictures look like is an understatement. I honestly hope that my wedding lives up to her talent. For me Fola captures the essence of people, I feel as if I have been given a glimpse into someone's most intimate moments and yes ladies, she is booked, she is mine!!!!!
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Pretty sure we got the same feeling. Love the first one absolutely!
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Take control of the Hyperlight and burn your enemies faster-than-light in this innovative, psychedelic and super-fast retro arcade space shooter!
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* Universal App: runs in HD on high-res Android devices.
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* Stunning 2.5D neon-style graphics, effects and animated backgrounds.
* Arcade mode with 40 different levels.
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* Several huge bosses to face.
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* Google Play Games support with leaderboards and 24 achievements!
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U.S. EPA today strengthened the federal public health standard for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution, a limit that has been in place for nearly four decades.
The final rule introduces a new one-hour maximum standard for NO2 at 100 parts per billion (ppb), a level that EPA says will protect millions of Americans from peak short-term exposures. The agency is also retaining the existing annual standard of 53 ppb.
"This new one-hour standard is designed to protect the air we breathe and reduce health threats for millions of Americans," said EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson. "For the first time ever, we are working to prevent short-term exposures in high-risk NO2 zones like urban communities and areas near roadways."
The new standard also establishes new monitoring requirements to measure NO2 levels near major roads. Cities with at least 500,000 residents must have monitors near roadways, and larger cities and areas with major roads will have additional monitors. Cities with at least 1 million residents will continue with communitywide monitoring.
The revision marks the first time EPA has updated the national health-based NO2 standard in nearly four decades. The Clean Air Act requires the agency to set national standards for six "criteria" pollutants, including NO2, and to periodically review those standards. EPA has reviewed the health-based NO2 standards twice since the standard was first proposed in 1971 but both times chose not to revise the standards.
Short-term exposures to NO2, which occur primarily near major roads, have been linked to impaired lung function and increased respiratory infections, especially in people with asthma, according to EPA. NO2 forms from the emissions of cars, trucks and buses, off-highway equipment and power plants.
EPA's final rule falls within recommendations by EPA's scientific advisers but does not go far enough for some environmentalists and public health advocates.
The agency's Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) recommended setting one-hour limits at or below 100 ppb. EPA's staff scientists recommended a one-hour maximum standard between 50 and 200 ppb, with strong support for a level at or below 100 ppb.
But groups including Clean Air Watch and the American Lung Association called for EPA to set a one-hour daily maximum standard of 50 ppb or lower to protect vulnerable groups.
"This standard is a step forward for public health protection, but it is also a missed opportunity to do something better for the breathing public," said Clean Air Watch President Frank O'Donnell. "It suggests EPA may also do the bare minimum on other pending standards, including ozone."
The American Petroleum Institute, which urged EPA to forgo a one-hour standard, expressed concerns that the short-term NO2 limit is based on a faulty scientific record.
"There is no significant evidence that the short-term NO2 standard established today by the Administrator is necessary to protect public health," API said in a statement. "EPA is over-regulating this air quality standard for political -- not health -- reasons."
EPA expects to identify areas in compliance with the standard based on the existing monitoring network by January 2012. New monitors must begin operating by Jan. 1, 2013. The agency intends to redesignate whether areas meet the new standard when three years of data are available from the new monitoring network.
The final rule will take effect 60 days after publication in the Federal Register.


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TALLAHASSEE — This could be the ultimate legislative cat fight.
A House subcommittee Wednesday approved a controversial bill that could help clear the way for programs that involve capturing free-roaming cats, neutering and vaccinating them and turning them loose again.
Supporters say the bill (HB 1121) could help reduce the number of "feral" cats that get euthanized and, because of neutering, lead to fewer cats on the streets. But the measure is causing a stink because opponents say feral cats prey on birds and other types of wildlife and can be a nuisance to property owners.
Preston Robertson, a lobbyist for the Florida Wildlife Federation, said feral cats are "decimating our wildlife" and that lawmakers shouldn't put the state's "okay stamp" on programs that free the cats. Another major opponent is Audubon of Florida, which is worried, at least in part, about wild cats dining on birds.
But the bill, sponsored by Rep. Holly Raschein, R-Key Largo, has the backing of groups such as the Humane Society of the United States and the Best Friends Animal Society. Part of their argument: If neutering leads to fewer cats, that means fewer birds will be eaten.
"The idea is to reduce the number of cats that are out there,'' said Denise Lasher, of the Best Friends Animal Society, which touts a "no kill mission" on its website.
But Julie Wraithmell, director of wildlife conservation for Audubon, disputed that such trapping and neutering programs reduce the number of feral cats. She said people will abandon cats in the areas where the felines congregate and also said neutering efforts don't get to all cats.
The bill describes the free-roaming cats as "community cats" and focuses on setting up "community cat" programs. A person who provides food, water or shelter to cats in such a program would be a "community cat caregiver."
Some parts of the state already have programs to capture, neuter and return cats to the wild. But the bill, which was unanimously approved by the House Agriculture & Natural Resources Subcommittee, makes clear that cities and counties can approve ordinances to set up the programs and tries to remove a concern that releasing the cats could be considered illegal abandonment.
While the bill drew debate from groups on both sides, lawmakers also showed they could be playful.
"I'd ask that you hold your meows to the end,'' Raschein said, as she started discussing the bill — playing off a common legislative refrain to hold questions to the end of a presentation.
Before voting for the bill, Rep. Ray Pilon, R-Sarasota, acknowledged that it was not "purrrrfect."


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Lucas and Spielberg to Show Norman Rockwell Art at Smithsonian in 2010
"What'd you do, grow up in a Norman Rockwell painting?" Woody Allen sarcastically quipped in the movie Annie Hall, reacting to his newfound lady love's description of her blissful all-American family life. Whether or not you agree with the snarky attitude, that line is a testament to the fact that Rockwell created the definitive vision of American apple pie, a visual vocabulary to describe all the wonderful little things that make up a part of our cultural identity. But his artwork is much more than waxing nostalgic on our nation's values. In addition to being a consummate draftsman, Rockwell was an adept storyteller and his artwork dealt with topical issues of the day, highlighting the heroism of the average American life.
George Lucas and Stephen Spielberg—who ply their storytelling craft with celluloid instead of paint and brushes—have amassed a collection of Rockwell paintings and a selection of 50 of those pieces will be on display next summer at the American Art Museum from July 2, 2010 through January 2, 2011. "Lucas, Spielberg and Rockwell perpetuate ideas about love of country, personal honor and the value of family in their work," says Virginia M. Mecklenburg, senior curator and organizer of the exhibit as well as author of the catalog that complements the show. "With humor and pathos, they have transformed everyday experiences into stories revealing the aspirations and values that have sustained Americans through good times and bad."
("Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell from the Collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg," Smithsonian American Art Museum, July 2, 2010 through January 2, 2011.)


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LUSHER, ROBERT LANGHAM, Methodist minister, author, and newspaper editor; b. c. 1787 in London; m. Esther —, and they had at least one son and two daughters; d. 10 July 1849 in Montreal.
Robert Langham Lusher was attracted to the Methodist movement as a young man. In 1817, having been accepted as a probationer for the ministry, he was appointed by the British Wesleyan Conference to overseas missionary work. Lusher's first assignment was Montreal, where he arrived with his young family late in 1817. Except for a year in Quebec, from 1817 until the summer of 1822 he served the Montreal circuit; while there he was received into full connection by the British conference in 1821.
At Lusher's arrival in Montreal, the town's Methodists numbered probably fewer than 100 and were largely loyalists of the mercantile and artisan classes. They were divided in their allegiance to American or British church authorities, but by 1820 had united under the British Wesleyan Conference. Lusher's style of preaching soon began to make Methodism respectable in Montreal, overcoming the prevailing prejudice against Methodist preachers as what a letter in the Montreal Gazette termed "strolling enthusiasts." He was able to obtain civil registers for baptisms, marriages, and burials and the Montreal Methodist society increased in numbers and affluence so that a larger chapel was soon required. The Methodist Chapel, as it was called, was completed in 1821. Under Lusher's leadership Methodists cooperated with other denominations in establishing several religious and benevolent institutions such as the Montreal General Hospital and the Emigrant Society of Montreal. He was, however, disappointed by one development within his own denomination: the agreement of 1820 between British and American Methodist authorities [see Henry Ryan*] which left Upper Canada under the influence of the American preachers, many of whom, he believed, held the "[British] constitution and Government in the utmost contempt."
In 1822 Lusher was appointed to Halifax and in 1825 to Liverpool, N.S. On both circuits he travelled to isolated settlements along the southern shore. He returned to England in 1827 and served in Oldham, Halifax, Manchester, and Bath. At the request of the Montreal Methodist society, in 1838 he was once again assigned to the Montreal circuit by the Wesleyan Missionary Committee of the British conference and at the same time was appointed to preside over the Lower Canada District, a post he held for a year.
Relations between the British Wesleyan Conference, responsible for Lower Canada, and the Canada Conference, presiding in Upper Canada, were greatly strained. One of the chief points at issue was the policy of the Christian Guardian, edited by Egerton Ryerson*, who did not hesitate to criticize government policy on the disposition of the clergy reserves. In a letter to fellow minister Robert Alder*, Lusher perhaps reflected a typically British attitude in his horror of the Christian Guardian's "inflammatory character . . . calculated to promote dissatisfaction and disaffection to the Government" as well as its "anti-Wesleyan position in reference to the Church of England and its union with the state." In August 1840, immediately after the British Wesleyan Conference had officially broken its link with the Canada Conference (Lower Canada remaining as it had been, a district in direct connection with the British conference), a new church paper, the Wesleyan, appeared. It was published twice monthly in Montreal with Lusher as its first editor. The aim of the Wesleyan was to disseminate British Methodist news and opinion throughout the Canadas, no doubt as an antidote to the influence of the Christian Guardian. After a year Lusher gave up the editorship and in 1842 moved to Trois-Rivières. The paper resumed publication in Toronto.
Lusher's later years were clouded by ill health. After serving the Trois-Rivières circuit for less than two years, he retired in 1843 to live in Montreal among the members of his former congregation, who greatly revered him. Robert Langham Lusher's contribution to the social and religious life of British North America was conservative rather than creative or original. In upholding a British attitude of uncritical deference to authority he perhaps failed to appreciate the need of the colonial church to shape its witness within its own social context.
Robert Langham Lusher is the author of The last journey: a funeral address, delivered . . . July 8, 1838, occasioned by the death of the late Rev. John Barry . . . (Montreal, 1838); The laws of Wesleyan Methodism epitomized and arranged . . . (Manchester, Eng., 1834); Recollections of the outlines of a sermon, delivered . . . April 3, 1825, on occasion of the death of Mrs. Eunice Waterman . . . (Halifax, 1827); and A sermon, preached at the Wesleyan Chapel, Quebec, Sunday, March 26th, 1820, occasioned by the death of his late majesty George the Third (Montreal, 1820). He was the editor for the first volume of the Wesleyan, which was published at Montreal from 6 Aug. 1840 to 8 July 1841.
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SANTA MONICA, Calif. » Amazon.com Inc. unveiled four new Kindle Fire models today, including ones with larger screens, as the online retailer steps up competition with Apple Inc. ahead of the holiday shopping season.
Amazon unveiled the larger Kindle Fire amid expectations of a smaller iPad from Apple.
The larger Fires will have screens that measure 8.6 inches diagonally, compared with 9.7 inches for the iPad. The original Fire had 7-inch screens. The speculation on the mini iPad is that it'll have a 7.85-inch screen. Apple isn't commenting, but it has an event scheduled next week, during which it is expected to at least announce a new iPhone.
Amazon is hoping to make a dent in a tablet computer market dominated by Apple's iPad. Amazon has been selling lower-priced tablets at thin, if any, profit margins to boost sales of digital items from its online store. As a result, it has been able to compete with the iPad on price.
The basic, 7-inch Fire model will cost $159, down from $199 for the original model. It will start shipping next Friday. The cheapest iPad costs $399 and the most recent models start at $499.
Amazon is coming out with a high-end version called Kindle Fire HD. It will have two Wi-Fi channels for faster transfers. That will be crucial for high-definition movies and other large files, CEO Jeff Bezos said.
The HD model will also have more storage, starting at 16 gigabytes, compared with 6 GB for the old Fire. The iPad also starts at 16 GB.
A 7-inch model will sell for $199 and ship next Friday. An 8.9-inch model will go for $299 and start shipping Nov. 20.
That means a device nearly as big as the iPad will sell for at least $100 less. The Fire, however, won't have as extensive a selection of apps as the iPad. And while the HD models will have a front-facing camera for video chats, the iPad as one on the rear as well for taking photos and video.
Amazon also unveiled a premium Kindle Fire model, one with the ability to connect to the 4G cellular networks that phone companies are building. It will cost $499 and come with 32 gigabytes of memory and an 8.9-inch screen. A data plan will cost $50 a year.
Amazon also refreshed its line of stand-alone e-readers. Called Paperwhite, the new e-reader model has a black-and-white screen. It promises 25 percent more contrast. Bezos said "the whites are whiter, and the blacks are blacker."
The Paperwhite has a light source. Bezos says the device is "perfect in direct sunlight." Tablets such as the iPad and the Fire don't work as well in bright light because they are lit from the back. Bezos says the light on the Paperwhite is directed down at the display. The device promises eight weeks of battery life, even with the light on.
It costs $119 and starts shipping Oct. 1. Amazon says it will start taking orders Thursday. There's also a model with 3G cellular connections for $179. Amazon is also dropping the price of its low-end Kindle to $69, from $79. That will start shipping next Friday.


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