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A judge at the district court in the Hague on Friday rejected claims that Samsung had made against Apple regarding four patents.
Samsung wanted Apple to pay for licensing the patents in question, and the court to issue an injunction banning the import and sale of Apple's iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad, iPad 2, as well as upcoming products, until licensing terms are in place. But the latter won't happen at this point.
The patents are standards-essential, which means they are incorporated in internationally accepted technology standards—in this case 3G. Standards-essential patents are licensed under so-called Fair, Reasonable, and Non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms, which is what Samsung has to offer Apple.
But the judge felt that Samsung didn't go through the FRAND licensing process properly. The terms it offered Apple did not comply with FRAND terms, because the royalties were too high, according to a spokesman at the court. The likely outcome is that the two companies now have to go back to the negotiating table, he said.
The patents are related to methods of managing the data connection and speed between a mobile station, such as a smartphone or tablet, and a network base station.
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The ruling from the Dutch court ends a busy week in the legal battle between Apple and Samsung, and Apple has emerged as the big winner.
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A video game producer is the top person in charge of overseeing development of a video game.[1][2]
History Edit
The earliest documented use of the term producer in games was by Trip Hawkins, who established the position when he founded Electronic Arts in 1982. Hawkins said in 1983:
Producers basically manage the relationship with the artist. They find the talent, work out product deals, get contracts signed, manage them, and bring them to their conclusion. The producers do most of the things that a product manager does. They don't do the marketing, which in some cases product managers do. They don't make decisions about packaging and merchandising, but they do get involved ... they're a little like book editors, a little bit like film producers, and a lot like product managers.[3]
Sierra On-Line's 1982 computer game Time Zone may be the first to list credits for "Producer" and "Executive Producer".[4] As of late 1983 Electronic Arts had five producers: A product marketer and two others from Hawkins' former employer Apple ("good at working with engineering people"), one former IBM salesman and executive recruiter, and one product marketer from Automated Simulations;[3] it popularized the use of the title in the industry.[4] Hawkins' vision—influenced by his relationship with Jerry Moss—was that producers would manage artists and repertoire in the same way as in the music business, and Hawkins brought in record producers from A&M Records to help train those first producers. Activision made Brad Fregger their first producer in April 1983.
Although the term is an industry standard today, it was dismissed as "imitation Hollywood" by many game executives and press members at the time. Over its entire history, the role of the video game producer has been defined in a wide range of ways by different companies and different teams, and there are a variety of positions within the industry referred to as producer.
There are relatively few superstars of game production that parallel those in film, in part because top producers are usually employed by publishers who choose to play down publicizing their contributions. Unlike many of their counterparts in film or music, these producers do not run their own independent companies.
Types of producers Edit
Most video and computer games are developed by third-party developers. In these cases, there may be external and internal producers. External producers may act as "executive producers" and are employed by the game's publisher. Internal producers work for the developer itself and have more of a hands-on role. Some game developers may have no internal producers, however, and may rely solely on the publisher's producer.
For an internal producer, associate producers tend to specialize in an area of expertise depending on the team they are producing for and what skills they have a background in. These specializations include but are not limited to: programming, design, art, sound, and quality assurance. A normal producer is usually the project manager and is in charge of delivering the product to the publisher on time and on budget.[2] An executive producer will be managing all of the products in the company and making sure that the games are on track to meet their goals and stay within the company's goals and direction.
For an external producer, their job responsibilities may focus mainly on overseeing several projects being worked on by a number of developers. While keeping updated on the progress of the games being developed externally, they inform the upper management of the publisher of the status of the pending projects and any problems they may be experiencing. If a publisher's producer is overseeing a game being developed internally, their role is more akin to that of an internal producer and will generally only work on one game or a few small games.
As games have grown larger and more expensive, line producers have become part of some teams. Based on filmmaking traditions, line producers focus on project scheduling and costing to ensure titles are completed on time and on budget.
Responsibilities Edit
An internal producer is heavily involved in the development of, usually, a single game. Responsibilities for this position vary from company to company, but in general, the person in this position has the following duties:[1][2]
- Negotiating contracts, including licensing deals
- Acting as a liaison between the development staff and the upper stakeholders (publisher or executive staff)
- Developing and maintaining schedules and budgets
- Overseeing creative (art and design) and technical development (game programming) of the game
- Ensuring timely delivery of deliverables (such as milestones)
- Scheduling timely quality assurance (testing)
- Arranging for beta testing and focus groups, if applicable
- Arranging for localization
- Pitching game ideas to publishers
In short, the internal producer is ultimately responsible for timely delivery and final quality of the game.
For small games, the producer may interact directly with the programming and creative staff. For larger games, the producer will seek the assistance of the lead programmer, art lead, game designer and testing lead. While it is customary for the producer to meet with the entire development staff from time to time, for larger games, they will only meet with the leads on a regular basis to keep updated on the development status.[2] In smaller studios, a producer may fill any slack in the production team by doing the odd job of writing the game manual or producing game assets.[1]
For most games, the producer does not have a large role but does have some influence on the development of the video game design. While not a game designer, the producer has to weave the wishes of the publisher or upper management into the design. They usually seek the assistance of the game designer in this effort. So the final game design is a result the effort of the designer and some influence of the producer.[2]
Compensation Edit
In general, video game producers earn the third most out of game development positions, behind business (management) and programmers. According to an annual survey of salaries in the industry, producers earn an average of USD$75,000 annually. A video game producer with less than 3 years of experience makes, on average, around $55,000 annually. A video game producer with more than 6 years of experience makes, on average, over $125,000 annually. The salaries of a video game producer will vary depending on the region and the studio.[5]
Education Edit
Most video game producers complete a bachelor's degree program in game design, computer science, digital media or business. Popular computer programming languages for video game development include C, C++, Assembly, C# and Java. Some common courses are communications, mathematics, accounting, art, digital modeling and animation.[citation needed]
Employers typically require three plus years of experience, since a producer has to have gone through the development cycle several times to really understand how unpredictable the business is. The most common path to becoming a video game producer begins by first working as a game tester, then moving up the quality assurance ladder, and then eventually on to production. This is easier to accomplish if one stays with the same studio, reaping the benefits of having built relationships with the production department.[citation needed]
See also Edit
References Edit
- ^ a b c McKay, Brett; McKay, Kate (September 29, 2010). "So You Want My Job: Video Game Producer". The Art of Manliness. Retrieved May 30, 2014.
- ^ a b c d e "What Does a Video Game Producer Do? (with pictures)". WiseGeek.com. Retrieved May 30, 2014.
- ^ a b Lemmons, Phil; Robertson, Barbara (October 1983). "Shaping Consumer Software". BYTE. p. 94. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- ^ a b Maher, Jimmy (2015-04-16). "Defender of the Crown". The Digital Antiquarian. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
- ^ "Top Gaming Studios, Schools & Salaries" Archived 2013-07-19 at the Wayback Machine. Big Fish Games


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WASHINGTON — As COVID-19 cases surge in the U.S., many states have moved forward with restrictions to mitigate the spread of the virus. Several states have issued new orders for masks to be worn in public. Health officials say face coverings help to prevent person-to-person spread of the coronavirus. Some states are requiring face coverings for everyone, while others are limiting the order to only workers or just in certain locales.
There is no federal mandate to wear a mask, and as of the end of July, there were still states that did not have mask orders. Nationwide retailers have had a tricky time navigating the issue along with enforcement in their stores, in various locales and states.
Melissa Murdock, spokesperson for the Retail Industry Leaders Association said that retailers "feel like they have to act since some governors haven't."
Recently Walmart, along with other retailers like CVS and Walgreens, who have stores across the U.S., said they would not prohibit entry to customers who refuse to wear a mask. Walmart is training employees to offer a complementary mask, but not to engage physically with customers or try and block their entry into stores.
Some states have only issued suggestions that people wear masks in public. Others have allowed local areas to decide, and have not made them mandatory.
More than half of U.S. states have implemented some kind of mask requirement. President Trump also offered his strongest endorsement yet of masks on Tuesday.
Here is a brief look at which states have issued statewide orders for masks. In general, mask requirements have made exceptions for people with medical conditions and children younger than 2 years old.
It's important to note that states and particular jurisdictions are updating their coronavirus rules often. Be sure to check with your local government to find out its current requirements.
The rule requires a mask for anyone older than 6 who's in public and within 6 feet of someone who's not a relative. Businesses are not required to prohibit people from entering if they lack masks, but they are allowed to refuse admittance.
Gov. Kay Ivey announced the mask rule, which took effect July 16. She said violators could face fines of $500 and jail time, but added that enforcement would be difficult and penalties weren't the goal.
Face coverings were required statewide starting July 20, Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced. They'll be required in all indoor environments where exposed to non-household members and 6-foot distancing cannot be assured. They're needed outdoors too unless the distancing guidelines can be maintained or people live within the same household.
A statewide order requires people to wear masks when inside or in line for any indoor public spaces, in health care settings like hospitals and pharmacies, while waiting for or riding public transportation and in outdoor spaces where it's not possible to stay 6 feet apart from others.
Gov. Jared Polis said he's issuing an executive order requiring face coverings in indoor public areas. Polis said his order overrides local decisions, applying to people older than 10 and allowing for several exemptions like eating at a restaurant and exercising alone. He said police officers, firefighters and EMTs also are exempt from the order because masks could hinder their ability to communicate.
Residents are required to wear cloth face coverings in public spaces if they can't maintain safe social distance. The mask must cover their nose and mouth. It must also be worn while in taxis, ride-sharing or similar services, or other public transportation.
Those over the age of 12 are required to wear face coverings in public when social distancing cannot be maintained, such as grocery stores or public transportation. Coverings are recommended but not required for children ages 2-11. Businesses must require employees to wear face coverings while working in areas open to the public or if they are likely to come within 6 feet of other staff.
Gov. Brian Kemp filed a lawsuit against the city of Atlanta to block it from enforcing its mandate to wear a mask in public and other rules related to the pandemic. Kemp and Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr argued that Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms overstepped her authority and must obey Kemp's executive orders under state law.
The lawsuit came a day after Kemp clarified his executive orders to expressly block Atlanta and at least 14 other local governments from requiring people to wear face coverings.
Kemp says he strongly supports mask-wearing. He traveled the state this month to encourage face coverings. But he's maintained for weeks that cities and counties can't require them in public.
Cloth face coverings are required except for when doing permissible outdoor exercise activities and as long as social distancing requirements are maintained.
Gov. David Ige issued an order that customers of essential businesses and employees who have contact with customers or products must wear masks.
Gov. Eric Holcomb said Wednesday that Indiana will have a statewide face mask mandate starting next week. The order will take effect Monday and apply to anyone ages 8 and older in any indoor public or business areas, and at outdoor public spaces when sufficient distancing can't be maintained.
Gov. Laura Kelly issued an executive order mandating the use of masks in public starting July 3. Kelly's executive order requires every Kansan to wear a mask if they're around other people, where individuals aren't able to maintain 6 feet social distancing. Children under age 5 and people with medical conditions are exempt from the mask requirements.
Gov. Andy Beshear mandated wearing face coverings since July 10. They're required inside or waiting in line, and when difficult to maintain 6 feet of distancing from others who aren't members of the same household. People who are sick should wear a face covering while at home if they cannot keep distance from others, and at all times whenever they leave home.
Gov. John Bel Edwards announced a mandatory mask requirement for the state effective July 13. It allows for parishes without high COVID-19 incidence to opt out if they choose.
People must wear, at minimum, homemade, non-medical grade face coverings when they enter enclosed public spaces. Employers must provide at least cloth face coverings to their employees.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer strengthened her previous order requiring masks inside and among crowds. The new order clarifies that businesses may not assume an unmasked customer cannot medically tolerate a face covering, though they can accept a customer's verbal representation to that effect.
A mask mandate is effective July 25 in public spaces across the state. Masks will be required in indoor settings like stores and restaurants, and violation could lead to a $100 fine for individuals, according to Gov. Tim Walz's executive order.
As part of Gov. Janet Mills' stay home order, the people of Maine are required to wear cloth face coverings when they're in public places and social distancing can't be maintained.
People older than 9 have had to wear masks or cloth face coverings in retail spaces and on public transportation since mid-April.
Gov. Charlie Baker has ordered the wearing of masks and advised visitors to Massachusetts to quarantine for two weeks — except for several states nearby.
Gov. Steve Bullock's statewide mask mandate applies in counties with four or more active cases of COVID-19 and requires masks indoors and outdoors when social distancing can't be observed.
Gov. Steve Sisolak announced last month that Nevada will mandate the use of face coverings in public places in an effort to stem an increase of coronavirus cases that has hit the state as casinos, restaurants and other businesses began reopening. "No shirt, no shoes, no mask, no service," Sisolak said, distilling the policy down to a tagline.
New Jersey
The state requires people to wear a mask over the nose and mouth in public spaces and anywhere unable keep 6 feet of distance from others. Face coverings are required in both indoor and outdoor public spaces and where social distancing is difficult to maintain.
New Mexico
In New Mexico, everyone is required to wear a mask in public except when drinking, eating, or under medical instruction. The state's mandate has been in effect since May 16. It also requires people to wear face coverings while exercising, including at indoor gyms and fitness centers.
New York
People must wear face coverings in public situations where they're unable to maintain 6-foot distance or in a public or private transportation vehicle. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has issued executive orders that direct employers to provide essential workers with masks for free if they're in public and authorize businesses to deny entry to individuals not covering their faces.
North Carolina
As phase 2 continued on at the end of last month, the governor said the state would continue to require face masks while in public places. Gov. Roy Cooper announced on June 24 that masks were mandatory in public spaces and that North Carolina would remain in a safer-at-home order for several more weeks.
Ohioans will be required to wear a mask in public or where they're unable to social distance. Gov. Mike DeWine announced that the mask mandate takes effect Thursday evening for everyone age 10 and older. It will also not include anyone who has a medical condition that keeps them from wearing a mask.
Gov. Kate Brown announced people throughout Oregon will be required to wear face coverings in indoor public spaces starting July 1 to slow the spread of the coronavirus. The guidance applies to businesses and members of the public visiting indoor public spaces, she said in a news release.
Required when entering any business in all counties in the yellow and green phases of reopening. The yellow phase eases some restrictions on work and social interaction, but closures of schools, gyms, salons and limitations around large gatherings remain in place.
Rhode Island
An executive order is extended to August 3rd for face coverings to be worn in public, both indoors and outdoors, where 6 feet of social distance cannot be maintained. Exceptions are made for children under 2 and anyone whose health would be negatively impacted by covering their face.
People are required to wear a face covering over the nose and mouth inside a public space or outside when it is not possible to keep 6 feet of social distancing from another person not from the same household. Children younger than 10 and people with a medical condition that does not allow them wear a mask are exempt.
With an executive order, Gov. Ralph Northam has made wearing masks mandatory inside public buildings throughout the Commonwealth. Under Virginia's mandate, people must wear masks inside stores, barbershops, restaurants, city buildings, on public transportation or anywhere where people can congregate.
People don't have to wear a mask while eating and drinking at a restaurant, while exercising, if they have trouble breathing or if health conditions prohibit wearing face coverings.
Washington, D.C.
The District requires face coverings be worn by everyone in essential businesses. Mayor Muriel Bowser has ordered that masks need to be worn when going out to grocery stores and public transit.
Washington State
Washington implemented a statewide requirement for people to wear facial coverings in public settings on June 26. The order requires face coverings when people are indoors in a public area, and outdoors in a public area when 6 feet of physical distancing can't be maintained.
West Virginia
Gov. Jim Justice issued an executive order last week mandating face coverings when people are inside buildings, though he has declined to impose a penalty for noncompliance.
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November 9, 2012—As big flakes of icy wet snow fell on streets still muddy from last week's storm surge, Peter Vasquenz carried another black trash bag to the curb outside his mother's home on Staten Island. In it were pieces of ripped flooring and soggy drywall from the modest house that is decades old.
"I grew up in this house," Vasquenz, a Brooklyn firefighter, said. "My mother grew up here."
He said that when Hurricane Sandy roared into this working-class neighborhood in one of New York City's five boroughs on Oct. 29, the storm filled his mother's home with at least three feet of water. It chased her to the second story, where she waited for her sons to rescue her the following day.
Now a sheet of clear plastic covers the way to the second floor, Vasquenz's attempt to concentrate what heat remains in the house so he can work at removing the waterlogged pieces; nine days after the storm, electric power still had not been restored.
"I don't know what my mom's going to do with the house now," Vasquenz said, working diligently amid diminishing daylight, his breath visible in little puffs of smoke.
Even with the flooring and furniture gone and a neat line of sheetrock stripped away from the base of the walls, it was clear the home had been warm and well cared for. A cheerful wreath of twigs and dried flowers still hung on one wall; on another, the wood and glass face of a built-in curio cabinet hinted at family history.
"This is one of the neighborhoods where we will deploy volunteers," Rev. Joseph Ewoodzie, disaster-response coordinator for the New York Annual Conference, explained to UMCOR's Rev. Tom Hazelwood, as they toured the Midland Beach area of Staten Island.
While a sharp wind whipped through the street just a few blocks from the ocean, and construction vehicles scraped and pushed debris and at least some of the rust-colored mud to the side of the road, Ewoodzie shared his plan to multiply relief efforts by combining local volunteers with UMCOR-trained Early Response Teams (ERT).
Hazelwood praised the effectiveness of this model. "It emphasizes my strong belief in neighbors helping neighbors. People with a good heart and good hands can accomplish a lot when they have some trained folks with them to direct the effort," he said.
Many of those volunteers and ERTs will be deployed from Bethel United Methodist Church, where Rev. Matthew Schaeffer has served as pastor for just over two years. He is working with other Methodist congregations on Staten Island to gather information about the needs in the communities.
"Right now the most pressing need is for mucking out," Schaeffer said. His church already has hosted an ERT training, conducted needs surveys by phone and by foot, and set up a small table with two vats of hot soup for neighbors as they began to go through their ruined possessions.
The soup table quickly turned into a "dry-goods store," Schaeffer said, as those who could, added to the provisions. "Everyone wanted to help, but didn't immediately know how," he said.
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WASHINGTON – Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell says it's time to discuss allowing school officials to carry firearms on campus.
"If people were armed, not just a police officer, but other school officials that were trained and chose to have a weapon, certainly there would be an opportunity to stop an individual trying to get into the school," McDonnell said on WTOP's "Ask the Governor" show Tuesday.
"I know there is a knee-jerk reaction against that, but I think we should have a discussion about it."
McDonnell became the most prominent national Republican figure to speak in favor of gun rights since the shooting massacre that left 27 people dead at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., on Friday.
In the days since, pro-gun camps have remained quiet on the topic — most notably the National Rifle Association — and several Republicans who formerly supported gun rights have come out in favor of increased gun control.
"If a person (like Sandy Hook's principal) was armed and trained, could they have stopped the carnage?" McDonnell posed. "Perhaps."
McDonnell's comments on WTOP elicited a strong reaction from Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va. who says the governor's comments "blame the victims." (To hear Connolly's full interview listen to the audio to the right.)
McDonnell said he is still stunned by Friday's mass shooting and believes the immediate aftermath of such events is not the right time to make policy changes. However, a larger discussion about the related issues is appropriate.
"The key is don't over-react. Don't react when you're emotional because your policies might not be right. The key is looking at what works," he said.
Currently, laws in Virginia ban anyone from having a loaded gun while walking on school property. Residents with concealed carry permits may drive onto school property with their firearms loaded as long as they don't exit the vehicle, says Philip Van Cleave with the Virginia Citizens Defense League.
Those who don't have a concealed carry permit, or permit holders who will need to exit their vehicle, are required to unload the firearm and put it into a separate, closed container before driving onto school property.
Law enforcement officers are exempt from such regulations.
McDonnell says he has ordered an audit of school safety policies, is reviewing current procedures and has created a task force of school officials, police, safety experts and parents to review school safety.
Virginia employs unarmed school resource officers to help at its public schools, McDonnell says. The number of these officers and their efficacy is one of the elements the newly-created task force will look into.
"My hope is that we're not at the point where when a little first- or second- grader comes into school, the first thing they see is a police officer with a gun," he said. "But obviously, we're going to do, first and foremost, what's right for children and what's right for public safety."
Focusing solely on gun control is not a comprehensive solution to this problem, McDonnell said several times during his one-hour interview. The health of our culture as a whole, access to mental health care, personal responsibility and Christian charity play a role in curbing America's violence, as well, he said.
"How are we going to be a more just and fair and compassionate society so people don't act out like this?"
In Virginia, people who have been deemed mentally unstable by a judge are automatically disqualified from purchasing or carrying a firearm, McDonnell said. He does not support "prior restraint" laws that he says prohibit law-abiding citizens from exercising their civil rights, such as owning guns or high-capacity magazines.
"We punish people for violating the law after the fact," he says. "We have our cherished 1st Amendment. We don't generally favor prior restraint."
Further, McDonnell does not believe that mandatory gun registration is an effective response to Friday's tragedy.
"A lengthy system of registering firearms, I don't know if that would work. It's really hard on me to comment on the multiple suggestions that are coming out," he said. "I can't tell you whether gun registration would work. It might make people feel good and feel safe, but I'm interested in what will work."
McDonnell talked about funding for mental health care in Virginia, the proposed budget amendments and transportation funding on Tuesday. Below is a live blog of the full interview.
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Halogen minerals is a lecture from the school of geology and the radiation astronomy department. It is about solid, crystalline substances that occur in and compose astronomical objects including the Earth. It focuses on materials containing large amounts of halogens that may occur on the surface of or associated with some astronomical objects.
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RAW VIDEO: Another tree falls victim to giant Louisiana sinkhole
GRAND BAYOU, LA (WAFB) - Less than 12 hours after the giant Louisiana sinkhole in Assumption Parish swallowed a section of land covered in trees, another tree has fallen victim to the slurry.
Work was ceased at the sinkhole site after a burp was reported Wednesday night.
Burps occur when air and gas from deep in the sinkhole bubbles up. It can cause debris to float to the top and, in the past, has caused more trees to be swallowed into the slurry.
Just hours after the burp, the sinkhole swallowed about a dozen trees. Some of the best video showing the destruction the sinkhole is capable of was captured and shared by the Assumption Parish Office of Emergency Preparedness.
Then Thursday morning, around 9 a.m., another video captured one more tree being sucked into the slurry. It was in the same area as the previous slough in.
According to Assumption Parish OEP, the slough in did not disturb Highway 70. Full time monitoring by DOTD continues on Highway 70 and no impact has been seen.
Crews had to halt all operations Wednesday in the area after the increase in seismic activity. The sinkhole, now more than a year old, is roughly 24 acres in size.
The monitoring and alert status has been heightened to Code 3, meaning the seismic activity has elevated to a point similar to what has been seen in past monitoring prior to a sloughing on the shore or movement beneath the sinkhole.
On August 18, about 25 trees were swallowed by the sinkhole in an area measured at 50' x 25'. The previous burp and seismic activity was reported on August 8, 2013.
On August 2, Gov. Bobby Jindal and Attorney General Buddy Caldwell announced the state will be suing Texas Brine for environmental damages caused by the failed Texas Brine cavern.
After a year, residents said they hoped the situation would be resolved. During a meeting, they expressed anger at the way they feel they have been treated. Several residents asked why no state officials were present during the anniversary ceremony.
Unfortunately for these residents, both parish and Texas Brine officials agree that this is far from over. While 3D seismic surveys conducted by Texas Brine seem to indicate that the sinkhole itself is beginning to slow and stabilize, the recovery has focused on a new danger: natural gas gathering underneath a nearby aquifer.
It has been a year since hundreds living near the giant sinkhole were forced from their homes.
Bubbles were spotted in Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou in June 2012. Two months later, the ground opened up and left what is now a 24-acre sinkhole. Residents were evacuated and the most affected residents began receiving weekly checks from Texas-Brine in the amount of $875 per week.
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LaineyGossip.com is an entertainment news and gossip blog co-founded by Elaine "Lainey" Lui. The primary voice of LaineyGossip.com, she is also co-host
of CTV's daytime talk show "The Social", and a reporter on CTV's "etalk", Canada's number one rated entertainment news show.
The site started as an email to small group of friends and colleagues in 2003 and spread by word of mouth to thousands of now loyal readers. It launched as a website in December 2004 and has since grown into an immensely popular entertainment destination visited by over 1.5 million monthly unique readers. Generating over 18 million monthly page views, it is now a leading international celebrity gossip source and a must read for well-read, educated females across North America.
Aside from securing hot tips and exclusive party access on its own, the site has benefited from the access associated with Lainey's role on CTV's etalk, which she joined in 2006 as a special correspondent. With etalk Lainey has covered the Red Carpet at the Oscars, SuperBowl XLII, Cannes and Toronto International Film Festivals, and other top tier events worldwide.
In April of 2014 Lainey fulfilled a lifelong dream when her first book Listen to the Squawking Chicken: When a Mother Knows Best, What's a Daughter to Do? A Memoir (Sort Of) was published (by Random House in Canada and Penguin in the USA).
Bored yet? If not, below is a selection of clippings from a handful of magazines and newspapers over the past few years.
Need more? See the our full bio here (PDF format) or email firstname.lastname@example.com for more information.
Toronto Star, February 10, 2023
Loved up couples share their date-night rituals and favourite Toronto restaurants
With Valentine's Day just around the corner, there's no better time to pay homage to a time-honoured tradition: date night. Thankfully, Toronto is a world-class city for dining out, offering tons of cosy local spots where you can share a plate or three and create memories to savour together. Here, food-loving couples share the local spots they've fallen for... Link to full article
Buzzfeed, April 2021
Perez Hilton And Lainey Gossip Were Famous For Their Mean Blogs. Now They're Trying To Change
Every day after I came home from high school, I'd run to my bedroom, turn on my enormous, whirring black Dell desktop, and read Perez Hilton — the up-to-the-minute celebrity gossip blog — for hours. Paparazzi hunting young famous women and bloggers updating their whereabouts by the second created the feeling that every It girl in Los Angeles was publicly spiraling... Link to full article
Toronto Star, Jan 2021
TV sensation Lainey Lui's dogs, Barney and Elvis, may the best-loved beagles in Toronto. You have to meet them
There are dog people, and then there's Lainey Lui. Along with husband Jacek Szenowicz, she's pet parent to Barney, 10, and Elvis, 5, a pair of brotherly beagles who The Social co-host, eTalk co-anchor and founder of LaineyGossip.com fully admits are beneficiaries of an ultra-spoiled situation... Link to full article
ELLE Canada, May 2020
15 Inspirational Asian Canadians to Know
All of our best gossip comes from Elaine Lui – or Lainey, as she is better known. The Toronto-born writer launched her eponymous blog, Lainey Gossip, in 2004 while still working at Vancouver's Covenant House. Two years later, she quit her job to preside over the site full time, and she's been a regular fixture in our pop-culture routine ever since... Link to full article
Chatelaine, Sept 2019
Elaine Lui On Aging: Some Women Want To Embrace Their Wrinkles, But That's Not Me
I'm on TV several times a week for The Social and etalk, and one of the things I'm constantly hearing from audience members or on social media is, "Cut that hair!"—that it's too long for my age. First of all: If you had my hair, would you cut it?... Link to full article
The Cut, Nov 2018
How I Get It Done: Elaine Lui of LaineyGossip
You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who understands gossip better than Elaine "Lainey" Lui, the Canadian maven behind LaineyGossip.com. She's been running the site for more than a decade, and parlayed it into a career as an entertainment journalist.... Link to full article
BBC News, Sept 2017
Canadian blogger Lainey Lui on why gossip is political
Elaine "Lainey" Lui is keeping a sharp eye on Colin Farrell. The Irish actor is a few tables over in the lobby of a downtown hotel being interviewed for a film he's promoting at the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff). The festival, which runs until 17 September, is a busy time for Lui.... Link to full article
The Ringer, October 2016
Lainey Is Yours in Gossip: How a 12-year-old celebrity blog became essential again
Elaine Lui has had her back to me for about 20 minutes, typing away on her Surface tablet. We're tucked into her broom closet of an office in Toronto's Bell Media complex, where Lui sits amid an immense but well-organized pile of stuff. A heap of designer shoes is stashed in a cubby; the walls are decorated in the style of collage-obsessed 19-year-old - there's a Slytherin banner on her front door... Link to full article
Slate, July 2016
A Celebrity Gossip Expert Explains the Summer of Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift is having quite the summer - from her breakup with Calvin Harris to the birth of Hiddleswift to Kim Kardashian's receipts-apalooza, plus or minus a Nils Sjoberg, she's been consistently dominating headlines. But what does it all mean? LaineyGossip.com is where many of the smart women I follow online turn for informed interpretation of the latest celebrity scandal... Link to full article
The Walrus, March 2015
IN DEFENCE OF LOW CULTURE: And praise of love, hate, discovery, jealousy, obsession, betrayal, and mean-girling
Elaine Lui is a Canadian television personality, reporter, blogger, and author. She runs the celebrity-gossip website laineygossip.com, reports for CTV's etalk, co-hosts CTV's daily talk series The Social, and wrote the mother-daughter memoir Listen to the Squawking Chicken... Link to see video
Toronto Life, November 2014
Toronto's 50 Most Influential: the people who changed the city in 2014
She's the quirkiest, funniest and most watchable member of The Social, CTV's answer to The View, and the active ingredient in its success. The show, now in its second season, reaches 2.4 million viewers weekly (up 300,000 from Season One) and has reeled in such high-watt guests as Katy Perry, Jessica Alba, Jane Lynch and Daniel Radcliffe. Her website, LaineyGossip, attracts... Link to full article
FLARE May, 2014
Mother Clucker
In her new "sort of" memoir, Lainey Gossip's ELAINE LUI divulges her most personal scoop yet: the inner workings of her insanely close relationship with her mom, semi-affectionately known as the Squawking Chicken. Over dim sum, MAUREEN HALUSHAK observes the dynamic. Read on for the full experience, plus an exclusive excerpt... Link to full article
Chicago Tribune April 17, 2014
Elaine Lui dissects the Celebrity Industrial Complex: Raising an eyebrow to celebrity image-making
Two weeks ago when Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin announced they were divorcing, many focused on the labored "conscious uncoupling" argot used in their announcement, which was posted on Paltrow's lifestyle website goop.com. Elaine Lui, the entertainment reporter and force behind Lainey Gossip took a different tack and analyzed the ever-shifting boundary... Link to full article
Huffington Post April 11, 2014
Elaine Lui Opens Up About Her Chinese Squawking Chicken in Her Debut Book
Elaine Lui is the genius behind the ridiculously successful celebrity gossip blog Lainey Gossip, a correspondent on ETalk and most recently one of the hosts of the very successful CTV daytime talk show The Social. Lui now gets to add "author" to that list of accomplishments with the release of her first book titled Listen To The Squawking Chicken: When Mother Knows Best...Link to full article
Toronto Life April 2014
In Lurv With Lainey: Elaine Lui's rise to the top of the gossip pantheon
Elaine Lui is 40 but has the bearing of a 16-year-old, boundless and brash, her body language filled with aggressive eye rolls, giggles and wild gesticulation. Sitting in a green room at the CTV studios on Queen West, writing a post for her blog,- LaineyGossip, she takes a long drag from her e-cigarette, a bejewelled bauble that looks like a tube of lip gloss and emits a trail of vanilla-scented vapour...Link to full article
Toronto Star, April 10, 2014
LaineyGossip blogger Elaine Lui reveals all in her new book
No one will ever have to "out" celebrity gossip blogger Elaine Lui of LaineyGossip on her own life. The contributor to etalk and co-host of The Social has already dished it up - raw, spicy, unvarnished and uncensored - on a silver platter for everyone to digest and pick over in her new memoir, Listen to the Squawking Chicken...Link to full article
Vancouver Sun, April 9, 2014
Q&A: Elaine Lui loves her mom, but life lessons were hard
Elaine Lui is best known for her website: LaineyGossip, where she spills all about movie stars, royalty and other celebrities. She gave a TED (Technology, Education and Design) talk in which she said: "My name is Lainey and I talk sh-t for a living," and then proceeded to explain how gossip is really a more profound discussion about societal values....Link to full article
Ottawa Life, April 8, 2014
Gossip Girl: Lainey Gossip Teaches Celebrity Studies in Ottawa
Is there such thing as Celebrity Studies? Celebrity reporter for CTV's eTalk and co-host of the talk show The Social, Elaine Lui offered a convincing lecture at an intimate event in Ottawa bringing together media, bloggers and entertainment aficionados. Better known as Lainey Gossip, she certainly thinks the culture of gossip says a lot about who we are as a society...Link to full article
The (Georgia) Straight, March 31, 2014
LaineyGossip's Elaine Lui gets personal in Listen to the Squawking Chicken
A WEEK BEFORE the release of her debut memoir, Elaine Lui is understandably nervous. While she has gabbed about dozens of celebrities on her blog LaineyGossip.com for nearly a decade, Listen to the Squawking Chicken: When a Mother Knows Best, What's a Daughter to Do? A Memoir (Sort Of) (Random House Canada) marks the first time Lui has written in detail about herself and her family...Link to full article
The Grid, June 2013
Elaine Lui: Gossip Guru
A decade ago, Elaine Lui started LaineyGossip as an email blast among friends. Today, her blog is one of the most successful gossip sites in the world. Next week, she'll appear at the eighth annual SMUT Soiree (a one-night-only celebrity gab-fest), and this fall she'll be back in Toronto to co-host a daily talk show called The Social... Link to full article
MacLeans, March 4, 2013
Canada's gossip magnate
A vital player in the new Hollywood hype machine, Lainey Lui is building an empire out of 'smut'. On Feb. 24, the day the entertainment complex gathers for the lucrative popularity contest known as the Academy Awards, Elaine Lui will wake in her Los Angeles hotel room before 6 a.m. For Lui, who produces Canada's pre-eminent celebrity gossip website, laineygossip.com, this is a big game day ... Link to full article
Globe and Mail - Sunday, February 17, 2013
Lainey's secret to success? Hard work and a mom who didn't varnish the truth
A decade ago, Vancouver's Elaine Lui was fundraising by day and honing her gossip chops by night, writing e-blasts on topics like Britney or Jennifer Aniston's marriage prospects. Her cheeky take was so popular she launched LaineyGossip, which she's built into one the world's top celebrity gossip blogs. The Globe and Mail asked her what principles have helped her succeed... Link to full article
The Walrus
Gossip Girl
A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, CTV flew me from Victoria to Vancouver to shoot an interview for an eTalk special on the Scotiabank Giller Prize. A producer emailed me a week before the taping: Lainey (laineygossip.com/an eTalk reporter) will be hosting the special. Curious, I followed the link... Link to full article
Canadian Hairdresser International - Nov 2012
Gossip Guru
With more than one million readers and Twitter followers visiting LaineyGossip.com every month, it's fair to say that Lainey Lui is the voice of reason when it comes to celebrity (mis)conduct. We caught up with the ETALK reporter and self-professed gossip maven to talk some smut. ... Link to full article
Globe and Mail - Tuesday, July 10, 2012
How Vancouver's Lainey Gossip got the scoop on Katie Holmes
When it comes to celebrity gossip, bigger isn't always better.Some of the biggest news about the Biggest Celebrity Divorce Ever hasn't come from the weathered hordes of American celebrity bloggers and megasites such as TMZ.com, but from the Vancouver home of Lainey Lui, a Canadian blogger who has run her own site at laineygossip.com since 2005. Since her first big scoop ... Link to full article
NATIONAL POST, Saturday, August 6, 2011
"Girls just want to have fun!" was the collective battle-cry heard from the Evergreen Brickworks as more than 600 ladies gathered for the sixth annual Smut Soiree presented by The Society and Lainey Gossip. The beautifully appointed, openair venue surrounded by a lush ravine provided the perfect backdrop for the colourful crowd, who were coiffed, super-styled and ready to gossip ... Link to full article
Vancouver Observer, October 9th, 2010
Gossip queen Lainey Lui channels bitchiness into blogs
Which Vancouver-based blogger and self-proclaimed "opinionated bitch" has become a big-name in the world of celebrity gossip? To smuthounds around the city, the answer should be obvious. Elaine 'Lainey' Lui, is the writer and creator of LaineyGossip, a site that bills itself as the source for "advanced celebrity gossip". "Lovers, Cheaters, Homewreckers, Superstars, Famewhores ... Link to full article
LifeStyle Magazine, December, 2009
Q&A with Lainey
Lifestyle Magazine: Is TIFF the best or the worst time of your for you? Lainey: The best moments happen at TIFF, how about that? etalk has the most complete coverage, and it means that we basically handle everything and we're everywhere. So I can't say to you that the best time of my life is when I'm run down, but I can tell you that the best moments I have working as a blogger ... Link to full article
Globe and Mail, November 20, 2009
Hunted and haunted by the Twi-Hard hordes
Vancouver gossip blogger Lainey recalls the hormonal hurricane surrounding the making of The Twilight Saga: New Moon. Instead of spending quality time with my husband at a Vegas blackjack table, there I was in a bathroom at Caesars Palace, whispering with another manover the phone. There was a Twilight cast party going on back in Vancouver, and the man - an on-set source of mine ... Link to full article
National Post, September 18, 2009
On the Town: Lainey: Once a gossip, always a gossip
Lounging on the patio of the Park Hyatt hotel's rooftop lounge, sipping a $10 vodka soda, Lainey looks at home. The 35-year-old author of her own celebrity blog, Laineygossip.com, seems unruffled by the gown-clad crowd that murmurs about the candlelit party, and she's equally unfazed by the fact that in less than an hour she'll be on the TIFF red carpet with a mic in her hand ...Link to full article
MacLeans, July 24, 2009
The case against having kids
Elaine Lui was 29 years old and had been married for a year when she and her husband, Jacek Szenowicz, decided that they didn't want children. "Before that, we didn't give it a lot of thought," says the Vancouver-based eTalk reporter who writes the popular celebrity gossip blog LaineyGossip.com. "It was just an assumption, 'You get married, you have kids.'...Link to full article
Metro, April 2, 2008
Gossip going to blogs?
Readers turning to websites for celebrity dirt: Is our appetite for celebrity gossip waning, spurred on by the mystifying fame of cookie-cutter reality stars and a preponderance of speculative stories that rarely come to pass? Some are suggesting that a 10-year tidal wave of Hollywood celebrity news has crested and is beginning to recede - though others counter...Link to full article
Globe and Mail, February 2008
Interview: Elaine (Lainey) Lui: Gossip Girl
While Hollywood wrings its expensively moisturized hands in frustration with the continuing writers strike, one group of tinsel- dependent workers are gleefully clapping their paws to red, raw stumps: gossip columnists. Stars with loads of money and access to the best vices are the bread and butter of scandal- mongers, but stars with all the above plus months of time off to misbehave?...Link to full article
InStyle UK, January 2008
What's HOT 2008
Celeb Blog: The new Perez. Forget Perez Hilton - here comes Lainey, right. Full name Elaine Lui, the Canadian TV reporter's daily, spiky musings on celebrity new are devoured by millions of fans worldwide. For every star she loves (Gwyneth Paltrow), there's another she just can't help poking fun at (like Posh). Sign up at Laineygossip.com...Link to full article
Chatelaine, March 2007
The Gossip Hound
Hungry for the latest Brangelina and Britney-Federline news, 150,000 readers a day flock to the Vancouver-based site www.laineygossip.com.Unabashedly catty, the gossip hub was founded in 2005 by webmaster Elaine Lui, 33, then a development officer at the child-welfare agency Covenant House. She's since quit her job to devote her days - and nights - to the project...Link to article
BC Business, December 2006
Celebrity Pay Dirt
Video killed the radio star, so the song by one-hit-wonder The Buggles goes. And bloggers, it seems, may just kill the entertainment magazine. Take Elaine Lui, a Vancouver-based celebrity gossip whose decidedly irreverent blog, Laineygossip.com, has garnered her thousands of fans across North America and landed her a regular TV spot on CIV's eTalk. It's not just Lui's unique brand...Link to full article


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- Queensland Youth Housing Coalition Inc will use Personal Information only for the purposes that you consent to. This includes
- provide you with products or services during the usual course of our business activities;
- administer our business activities;
- manage, research and develop our products and services;
- provide you with information about our products and services;
- communicate with you by a variety of measures including, but not limited to, by telephone, email, sms or mail; and
- investigate any complaints.
- If you withhold your Personal Information, it may not be possible for us to provide you with our products and services or for you to fully access our Website.
- We may disclose your Personal Information to comply with a legal requirement, such as a law, regulation, court order, subpoena, warrant, legal proceedings or in response to a law enforcement agency request.
- We may also use your Personal Information to protect the copyright, trademarks, legal rights, property or safety of Queensland Youth Housing Coalition Inc, https://www.qyhc.org.au/, its customers or third parties.
- If there is a change of control in our business or a sale or transfer of business assets, we reserve the right to transfer to the extent permissible at law our user databases, together with any Personal Information and non-Personal Information contained in those databases.
- Disclosure of your Personal Information
- Queensland Youth Housing Coalition Inc may disclose your Personal Information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy.
- If we do disclose your Personal Information to a third party, we will protect it in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
- General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for the European Union (Personal Information)
- Queensland Youth Housing Coalition Inc will comply with the principles of data protection set out in the GDPR for the purpose of fairness, transparency and lawful data collection and use.
- We process your Personal Information as a Processor and/or to the extent that we are a Controller as defined in the GDPR.
- We must establish a lawful basis for processing your Personal Information. The legal basis for which we collect your Personal Information depends on the Personal Information that we collect and how we use it.
- We will only collect your Personal Information with your express consent for a specific purpose and any Personal Information collected will be to the extent necessary and not excessive for its purpose. We will keep your Personal Information safe and secure.
- We will also process your Personal Information if it is necessary for our legitimate interests, or to fulfil a contractual or legal obligation.
- We process your Personal Information if it is necessary to protect your life or in a medical situation, it is necessary to carry out a public function, a task of public interest or if the function has a clear basis in law.
- We do not collect or process any Personal Information from you that is considered "Sensitive Personal Information" under the GDPR, such as Personal Information relating to your sexual orientation or ethnic origin unless we have obtained your explicit consent, or if it is being collected subject to and in accordance with the GDPR.
- You must not provide us with your Personal Information if you are under the age of 16 without the consent of your parent or someone who has parental authority for you. We do not knowingly collect or process the Personal Information of children.
- Use of your Personal Information and legal basis for collection under the GDPR
- "Personal Information" refers to any information relating to an identifiable natural person who can be identified directly or indirectly ('Data Subject') (Article 4).
- If you are an individual residing in the European Union (Personal Information), we collect and process Personal Information about you in accordance with the GDPR.
- When we collect or process your Personal Information, we do so as either a 'processor' or a 'controller' as defined in the GDPR. In some instances, Queensland Youth Housing Coalition Inc may be a controller and a processor.
- The legal basis for which we collect Personal Information from you depends on the products or services you use and how you use them.
Queensland Youth Housing Coalition Inc will only collect and use your Personal Information on the following legal bases: under the terms and conditions of our contract to provide you with our products or services, when you give us your express consent to use and process Personal Information for a specific purpose, for the satisfaction of a legitimate interest or to comply with a legal obligation.
- When we collect your Personal Information, we only collect what is necessary to the purpose for which the Personal Information is being collected.
- We will only share your Personal Information to third-party service providers where you have given us your express consent, and only for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
- Where we employ data processors to process Personal Information on our behalf, we only do so on the basis that such data processors comply with the requirements under the GDPR and that have adequate technical measures in place to protect Personal Information against unauthorised use, loss and theft.
- We only store your Personal Information while it remains necessary, or if the purpose of the processing could not reasonably be fulfilled by other means.
- We do not knowingly collect or process Personal Information of persons 13 years or younger. If you are under the age of 16, we request that you obtain and provide parental consent as required by the GDPR.
- Your Legal Rights under the GDPR
- If you are an individual residing in the European Union, you have certain rights as to how your Personal Information is obtained and used. Queensland Youth Housing Coalition Inc complies with your rights under the GDPR as to how your Personal Information is used and controlled if you are an individual residing in the Personal Information.
- These rights include the right to request access, correction, deletion, restriction, transfer, to object to processing, to portability of data and where the lawful ground of processing is consent to withdraw your consent.
- We comply with your rights under the GDPR (subject to the grounds set out in the GDPR) that permit you:
- to be informed as to how your Personal Information is being used;
- to access your Personal Information and to know specifically what information is held about you and how it is processed, where and for what purpose (we will provide you a copy of your Personal Information in electronic format free of charge if requested);
- to rectify your Personal Information if it is inaccurate or incomplete;
- to erase your Personal Information (also known as 'the right to be forgotten') if you wish to delete or remove your Personal Information;
- to restrict processing of your Personal Information;
- to retain and reuse your Personal Information for your own purposes (Personal Information portability);
- to object to your Personal Information being used; and
- to object against automated decision making and profiling.
- You can contact us any time to exercise your rights under the GDPR including as to:
- request access to Personal Information that we hold about you;
- to correct any Personal Information that we hold about you;
- delete Personal Information that we hold about you; or
- opt out of emails, marketing, and any other push notifications that you receive from us.
- Please contact us at any time to exercise your rights under the GDPR through the contact details in this Privacy Policy.
- We may ask you to verify your identity before acting on any of your requests.
- Data Retention under the GDRP
- We will only retain your Personal Information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
- Hosting and International Personal Information Transfers
- Information that we collect may from time to time be stored, processed in or transferred between parties or sites located in countries outside of Australia.
- We may transfer your Personal Information to countries that the European Commission have approved as providing an adequate level of protection for Personal Information or if we use US-based providers that are part of the Personal Information-US Privacy Shield as they have equivalent safeguards in place.
- If none of the above safeguards is available, we may request your explicit consent to the specific transfer. You will have the right to withdraw this consent at any time.
- Security of your Personal Information
- Queensland Youth Housing Coalition Inc is committed to ensuring that the information you provide to us is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure information and protect it from misuse, interference, loss and unauthorised access, modification and disclosure.
- Where we employ data processors to process Personal Information on our behalf, we only do so on the basis that such data processors comply with the requirements under the GDPR and that have adequate technical measures in place to protect Personal Information against unauthorised use, loss and theft.
- The transmission and exchange of information is carried out at your own risk. No method over the transmission or storage system is 100% private and secure. We cannot guarantee the security of any information that you transmit to us, or receive from us. Although we take measures to safeguard against unauthorised disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that Personal Information that we collect will not be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.
- Access to your Personal Information
- You may request details of Personal Information that we hold about you in accordance with the provisions of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), and to the extent applicable the GDPR. If you would like a copy of the information which we hold about you or believe that any information we hold on you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading, please email us at email@example.com.
- We reserve the right to refuse to provide you with information that we hold about you, in certain circumstances set out in the Privacy Act or any other applicable law.
- Complaints about privacy
- If you have any complaints about our privacy practices, please feel free to send in details of your complaints to firstname.lastname@example.com.
We take complaints very seriously and will respond shortly after receiving written notice of your complaint.
- Changes to Privacy Policy
- Please be aware that we may change this Privacy Policy in the future. We may modify this Policy at any time, in our sole discretion and all modifications will be effective immediately upon our posting of the modifications on our Website or notice board. Please check back from time to time to review our Privacy Policy.
- Website
- When you visit our Website When you come to our Website (https://www.qyhc.org.au/), we may collect certain information such as browser type, operating system, Website visited immediately before coming to our site, etc. This information is used in an aggregated manner to analyse how people use our site, such that we can improve our service.
- Cookies
We may from time to time use cookies on our Website. Cookies are very small files which a Website uses to identify you when you come back to the site and to store details about your use of the site. Cookies are not malicious programs that access or damage your computer. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but you can choose to reject cookies by changing your browser settings.
However, this may prevent you from taking full advantage of our Website. Our Website may from time to time use cookies to analyses Website traffic and help us provide a better Website visitor experience. In addition, cookies may be used to serve relevant ads to Website visitors through third party services such as Google AdWords.
These ads may appear on this Website or other Websites you visit.
Please refer to our Cookie Policy for further details.
- Third party sites
Our site may from time to time have links to other websites not owned or controlled by us. These links are meant for your convenience only.
Links to third party websites do not constitute sponsorship or endorsement or approval of these websites. Please be aware that Queensland Youth Housing Coalition Inc is not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites. We encourage our users to be aware, when they leave our website, to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personal identifiable information.
- How can we help? Getting in touch – Questions, concerns or complaints
- If you have any questions, concerns or complaints about Queensland Youth Housing Coalition Inc's data practices or concerning its use of this Privacy Policy, we encourage you to get in touch with our appointed Data Protection Officer ("DPO").
- If you believe you have suffered harm due to a breach of your rights by Queensland Youth Housing Coalition Inc under this Privacy Policy, and Queensland Youth Housing Coalition Inc has not handled your complaint in a reasonably sufficient manner, please contact us at the details below.
- The contact information for Queensland Youth Housing Coalition Inc's Data Protection Officer is:
Maria Leebeek
17 Ross Street,
Paddington, QLD, 4064 Australia
Email: email@example.com
Updated: 22/04/2019
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Talat Hamdani
Special to CNN
Editor's note: Talat Hamdani is a retired high school teacher living in Suffolk County, New York.
(CNN) — More than a decade after that dreadful day, 9/11 memories are still fresh for me. The intense, flesh-cutting urgency of the pain has diminished. I am no longer a grieving mother. I have learned to live with the loss of my son, Mohammad Salman Hamdani. But I am still waiting for justice.
What I want is not complicated — a recognition that, when Salman died beneath the rubble that day, he died as a first responder. His name should be reflected that way at the 9/11 Memorial, properly listed among the other first responders who rushed bravely toward the flames.
On that terrible day, my husband Saleem and I could not know where Salman was. Nor could his brothers, Adnaan and Zeshan, know what had become of their Bhaijaan, the Urdu word for a beloved and revered elder brother. As anyone who lost a loved one on 9/11 knows, that uncertainty was cruel and crushing. We couldn't know it then, but what had happened to Salman that morning, along with the events of the following months, changed everything for our family, bringing unbearable pain into our lives and suddenly making us public persons.
In the months before 9/11, Salman had served as a cadet in the New York Police Department. He was also a trained emergency technician. At the time of his death, he was working as a lab analyst at Rockefeller University's Howard Hughes Medical Institute, on Manhattan's Upper East Side. He was working there because it was a path toward becoming a doctor. Salman was determined to keep trying to get into medical school. If he couldn't, he planned to join the NYPD and work toward becoming a detective, using his scientific skills. It was a momentous time of decision in his life.
On that crisp and glorious morning, I drove away from our home in Bayside, Queens. I dropped off Zeshan at Queensborough Community College, then continued on to Catherine & Count Basie Middle School 72, where I taught English. When Zeshan and I left the house, at about 7:15, Salman was still sleeping. He had been up much of the evening, first polishing up his medical school application, then providing medical care to his father, who was feeling ill. Finally, Salman went up to bed at 3 a.m. in the bedroom he shared with Zeshan.
After Zeshan and I had left, Salman would have pursued his usual routine, catching a bus and then the 7 train to Manhattan. As we have since deduced, he must have seen the flames at the World Trade Center from the elevated train, then rushed downtown to try to help. Clearly, he did not make that decision and take that fatal detour as a lab analyst, but as the first responder he was trained to be.
In the months that followed, in addition to uncertainty about Salman, our family had to endure suspicion pointed at him. Before anyone knew where he was, a flyer circulated around the city, saying that my son was wanted for questioning. And the New York Post ran a story with Salman's photo and this hateful headline: "Missing — Or Hiding?"
It wasn't until late March that the police told us that Salman's remains had been found beneath the pile — in 34 pieces. Ultimately, what we would get to bury was nothing more than a body bag filled with all that was left of our son.
At Salman's funeral, the many mourners included Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and our congressman, Gary Ackerman. The Patriot Act, enacted in response to the terror attacks, specifically refers to Salman as a 9/11 hero. Yet, at the 9/11 Memorial, his name is grouped among the miscellaneous victims, not among the first responders who sacrificed their lives, where it belongs.
Salman responded to the call of duty, transcending the barriers of race, faith and ethnicity. Yet, sadly, he is not getting his due place in history. Salman is not here to defend himself. But I will speak for him. He is my strength, and I am his voice.


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Yaya Toure claimed a hat-trick as title-challenging Manchester City swept aside 10-man strugglers Fulham 5-0 in the Barclays Premier League.
Toure struck twice from the penalty spot and curled in a stunning third before Fernandinho and Martin Demichelis completed victory at the rain-sodden Etihad Stadium.
City were not at their best but the result became a certainty after Fernando Amorebieta - who conceded the first penalty - was sent off for hacking down David Silva for the second spot-kick early in the second half.
From then on it became an exercise in damage limitation for Felix Magath's relegation-threatened side but they could do little to keep out Toure's sublime long-range effort and Fernandinho's piledriver.
Demichelis tapped in the fifth, his first City goal, two minutes from time.
Toure's goals made him the third City player to reach 20 goals for the season after Sergio Aguero and Alvaro Negredo, leaving Edin Dzeko, who missed the game through illness, behind on 18.
City rarely got into top gear in the first period although, aside from a couple of Fulham breaks, they were comfortably the stronger side.
Their pressure might have brought them two penalties inside the opening 12 minutes but each time Steve Sidwell, first for handball and then a possible trip on James Milner, escaped punishment.
Milner had City's first attempt on goal after a cross from Aleksandar Kolarov was blocked and headed towards him invitingly. The England international watched the bounce and struck his shot well but David Stockdale met it with a good save.
Fulham briefly caused a few problems and Kieran Richardson struck a free-kick into the wall.
Former Manchester United player Richardson then went closer to opening the scoring with a powerful left-foot drive that flew just wide after a Cauley Woodrow effort was blocked.
City finally got their penalty after Negredo chased a long ball from Milner and was kicked in the backside by Amorebieta.
Negredo may have made the most of the contact but referee Jonathan Moss gave his decision some thought before pointing to the spot.
Toure made no mistake as he sent the keeper the wrong way after Amorebieta was booked.
Fulham looked for a quick response but Sascha Riether spurned a good chance as he headed over from Richardson's cross.
City might have doubled their lead when the in-form Silva showed great footwork after being played in by Fernandinho and brilliantly lifted the ball over Stockdale, but Amorebieta headed off the line.
Kolarov then rattled the woodwork with a fierce drive, which Stockdale may have got his fingertips to, after being played in on the left by the impressive Milner.
City's next breakthrough came eight minutes into the second half as Milner cleverly slipped Silva through on goal and Amorebieta crudely brought the Spaniard down.
It proved the final act of Amorebieta's eventful afternoon as Moss brandished the red card.
Toure's second spot-kick proved a replica of his first and there was simply no way back for Fulham.
City applied more pressure and Milner shot narrowly over from the edge of the area after cutting onto his left foot following neat work by Silva.
Fulham could do little about Toure's hat-trick goal after Samir Nasri took a short free-kick.
The Ivorian, reprising his Capital One Cup final stunner, took aim from about 25 yards out sent a wonderful curling effort into the tiny gap between the diving Stockdale and the post.
Fulham could have been overwhelmed quickly as Kolarov tested Stockdale with a fierce drive and Milner saw an effort deflected wide after combining with Negredo.
Toure got a standing ovation as he was withdrawn after 77 minutes and Demichelis almost netted as John Heitinga cleared his effort off the line.
The fourth came six minutes from time as a well-worked corner found its way to Fernandinho and the Brazilian smashed home from inside the box.
The pressure continued and Milner shot saved before Demichelis tapped in a rebound after Stockdale blocked from substitute Stevan Jovetic.
Negredo, without a goal since January, might have scored in injury time but missed from close range.


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While Tomonobu Itagaki adores Grand Theft Auto IV, he totally despises Ninja Gaiden Sigma. And Itagaki's own Team Ninja made it! From an interview with website CVG:
What did you think of the PS3 game Ninja Gaiden: Sigma? I'm told you won't even sign copies of the game...?
Itagaki: It was no good.
Why's that? I thought it was pretty good.
Itagaki: All you need to do is play Ninja Gaiden II and then try and play Sigma afterwards and you'll see why. Despite the fact that it's on a 'next-generation' console there's no evolution whatsoever. That was made not by me, but one of my sub-ordinates who basically tried to copy the success of Ninja Gaiden.
Ouch. We thought it was pretty good! Elsewhere in the interview, Itagaki confirms that Ninja Gaiden II will never appear on the PS3, and if it ever did that would be "a loss of face for everyone involved."
Tomonobu Itagaki Interview [CVG] [Pic]


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Did you hear the latest news? Subscribers to The Gluten Free Insider Newsletter had a sneak peek. Don't miss out on the news.
I am very excited to share with you that I have created the ultimate cookbook. Wait until you hear how it works. This is a 2013 Cookbook Desk Calendar. That means it is a calendar and a cookbook that sits on your desk in the size of a CD case!
Each month features a color photo and calendar on the front and an easy recipe on the back. Every recipe is gluten and dairy free plus instructions on how to easily make it Vegetarian, Vegan and Paleo. How cool is that?
I don't know about your family and friends, but mine all have their own dietary needs. My oldest son is a vegetarian but can't eat soy, my husband eats Paleo, my youngest son thinks the word vegetable is a swear word and for me it's strictly gluten and dairy free. Having to juggle these needs and not cook 3 or 4 different main dishes for one meal has taught me how to take one recipe and make it work for everyone at the table.
This is what I've shared with you in the 2013 Cookbook Desk Calendar. Each recipe is coded and noted to make cooking a breeze. I even had my non-cook husband give some a try and he looked like a master chef! Check out the August photograph, that's his work.
Each cookbook calendar comes in a clear case that flips open to sit on your desk or your countertop as you are cooking from the recipe. I know, brilliant right? So much goodness in a CD case the size of your hand.
BONUS: Every calendar comes with a special code to a hidden page on The WHOLE Gang website that will include additional recipes, tips, tricks, tools and how to make each recipe suit multiple dietary needs at the same time. That means cook once and everyone eats!
This 2013 Cookbook Desk Calendar is not only great for you, but it makes a great gift for family, friends, teachers, hostesses, co-workers, employees, clients and that person who has everything. Each calendar comes in it's own gift/shipping box so you'll be ready to send them out as gifts. If you are giving them as client gifts there is a space in the back for you to place your business card so they'll know who to thank!
Pre-Order Special: I am offering you a special pre-order deal for ordering now. If you order this month you will receive $2 off the list price of $14.95 each. This discount will expire October 31st, 2012. Even bigger savings the more you order.
Here's what some folks are saying:
Hash in a Flash is a great one pot dish the whole family loved, including my 12 year old daughter. – Sara Nicole in Bellflower, California
This Vegan Tunisian Frittata has become a staple in my gluten free kitchen. Prior to making it, I wasn't convinced that I could make a decent tasting frittata without eggs, but this recipe completely changed my mind. It is beyond delicious and on the first and second day, the leftovers were just as delicious as when it came out of the oven. Try it, you'll be glad you did! – Ellen Allard, Worchester Massachusetts
We very much enjoyed the Vegan Tunisian Frittata. The recipe is very straight-forward and easy to follow for a quick prep meal. While it would make great leftovers, we're yet to have any left after a meal–it's a big hit! I would not hesitate to share this with egg eaters, the tofu is a slick substitute! We now keep a container of the easy harissa on hand so we can make this often. – Johnna Perry Kansas City, Missouri
12 months of great meals!
- January: Jicama Tacos & Tostados
- February: Little Lasagna Flowers
- March: Tunisian Frittata
- April: Garlic Roasted Asparagus with Poached Egg and Prosciutto
- May: Easy Layered Mexican Casserole
- June: Oven Roasted Pesto Vegetables Deluxe
- July: Can't Beet California Cobb Salad
- August: Summer Vegetable Rosettes
- September: Hash in a Flash
- October: Smoky Simmering Soup
- November: Cashew Cream Yam Cannelloni
- December: Mushroom Party


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Bourbon-Pecan Tart with Chocolate Drizzle Ingredients 1 cup packed light brown sugar 3/4 cup dark corn syrup 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour 2 tablespoons bourbon 2 tablespoons molasses 1 tablespoon butter, melted 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/4 teaspoon salt 2 large eggs 1 large egg white 2/3 cup pecan halves 1/2 (15-ounce) package refrigerated pie dough (such as Pillsbury) Cooking ... Read More »
Creamy Chicken and Broccoli Curry
Ingredients 1 1/2 pounds chicken tenders 3/4 teaspoon kosher salt 1/2 teaspoon pepper 1/4 cup all-purpose flour 3 tablespoons vegetable oil 1 large onion, coarsely chopped (2 cups) 1 1/2 teaspoons hot (madras) curry powder 1 (14 oz.) can chicken broth 1 (10 oz.) box frozen broccoli florets, thawed 1/2 cup sour cream Preparation Place chicken tenders in a large ... Read More »
Extra Cheesy Grilled Cheese
Ingredients 1/4 cup butter, softened 1 tablespoon grated Parmesan cheese 8 Italian bread slices 4 (3/4-oz.) provolone cheese slices 4 (3/4-oz.) mozzarella cheese slices Preparation 1. Stir together butter and Parmesan cheese in a small bowl. 2. Spread 1 1/2 tsp. butter mixture on 1 side of each bread slice. Place 4 bread slices, buttered sides down, on wax paper. ... Read More »
Individual Bacon-and-Egg Pizzas
Ingredients 4 slices bacon, cut into 1 1/2-inch pieces Cornmeal, for dusting 1 Pizza Dough, divided into 4 pieces, or 1 Whole-Wheat Pizza Dough, divided into 4 pieces 1 tablespoon plus 1 tsp. extra-virgin olive oil 1/2 cup shredded mozzarella 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan 4 large eggs 2 small scallions, thinly sliced 1/8 teaspoon pepper Preparation 1. Place oven rack ... Read More »
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The Super Bowl is the perfect night for two kinds of people: Those that love football and those who love to eat. Typical game day fare is a cheesy, meaty wonderland, but if those types of dishes aren't currently in your purview, for whatever reason, you need not take up the role of observer on the big night. We took to ... Read More »