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Ah, another knowledgeable gun owner/user.
They are vindictive assholes who don't want to reward a state that makes some of their products illegal to own in that state?
Do you all see the kind of bullshit rhetoric folks try to get away with in a debate like this?
http://www.nraila.org/gun-laws/armed-citizen.aspxPoint, Counter-Point. I'm sure these idiots, rednecks and ne'er-do-wells shouldn't have had these guns. They should have waited for the police to save them. Right?
Yes, and it is their prerogative to be vindictive.
Why continue to do business in a hostile state environment?
I think they should be more worried about the militarization of the police in the US.
I'm not sure what I said that makes you think I take you for something.
Fully automatic and burst-fire rifles are not available to the general public in the US. I stated that several times.
You actually believe teaching a mentally ill Adam Lanza how to use, and when not to use, guns would have prevented a mass shooting? That's a novel concept. Here's a better one. How about if his mom, who legally owned the guns, had followed the laws in place and not allowed her mentally ill son to have access to them?
It was the question, not a statement. Are they just making an emotional decision or is it really a business decision? If it is an emotional decision, then yes, they are kind of being vindictive assholes. If they are a national company, then it does not really matter whether their product is available in the state where they are made. It would not be a business decision. It would be spite.
I'm sorry you are so emotional about it that you are having trouble understanding the difference between statements and questions.
I looked at the first page of your link. It has 40 instances where gun owners have defended themselves or their property. It dates back to October 9 of 2012. That is a span of 28 weeks. So if those reports are conclusive, and given it is the NRA site I think they are, then guns save 1.4 people per week. The links I provided have reports of the antics of about 50 armed imbiciles per week. That is, 50 misfires, wounds and people accidentally killed per week. The data I linked in earlier posts confirms this anecdotal evidence. It shows that being armed does not make you more safe, but less safe and 4.5 times more likely to be shot than someone who is unarmed.
Odin, I would genuinely like to have a discussion with you. However, you seem to be going off half-cocked and projecting all sorts of assumptions onto me. It would help us to move forward if you stopped doing that.
Society has to decide whether that is an acceptable cost-benefit. I don't think it is. I think something needs to be done, I do not necessarily think that means all guns should be banned. Though, I would not have a problem with that.
Let's see, how about, "I don't think you have shot many semi-automatic guns, and you also have not thought this issue through, it appears to me." You obviously take me to be at least that, and probably more that you didn't actually say. I also found this to be a fairly insulting statement by you; while it's true that I haven't fired semi-automatic guns, I have studied them and how they work; and you suggested that I hadn't thought this issue through without explaining what caused you to come to that conclusion.
But, it was a question that pigeon-holed the possible reasons for moving. It was either a business decision, or if not, they are being vindictive assholes.
Even spite in this case can be a business decision. The MD withholding taxes on employee salaries, the real estate and personal property taxes paid by the business and it's employees, MD state income taxes on the profits of the business, and other taxes and fees paid to MD - they are all being paid to a state that does not support a portion of the business that Beretta does.
MD is creating a hostile business environment for Beretta.
It seems to me that the Beretta family is looking past "assault weapons" bans and magazine capacity limits to future hostile laws and regulations.
As you can see, it's not emotional at all.
http://rense.com/general76/univ.htmThis study estimates a much higher incidence of gun use to stop crimes in the US.
I used the NRA site to counter the gun fail link, that's all.
I just feel it necessary to respond to misinformation posted in the 16 pages of this thread. Why don't we limit the discussion to that?
On the issue of supporting the 2nd Amendment, you are a 1 or 2 out of 10, and I am about a 9. We will never see eye-to-eye, and you will never convince me that the country will be safer if I would just turn in my guns.
So in other words you are compeletely closed to the possibility that you might be wrong about anything regarding gun policy and there is no chance new information might change your mind. That is too bad. It saddens me to see an atheist so irrational.
You are not reading my posts, at least not with an open mind.
I already said that I believe that magazine capacities should be limited. That opinion places me in a group of traitors to the 2nd Amendment. The opinion is based on recent current events, where untrained individuals were able to cause significant damage because they had access to high-cap magazines.
There is nothing irrational about my 2nd Amendment position.
If you repealed the 2nd Amendment
but we have to learn to live with, and minimize, gun deaths the way we have learned to live with, and minimize, deaths involving automobile accidents.
Some 30,000+ folks die in the US every year from auto accidents. We've made them safer, and passed regulations, but we haven't tried to outlaw them. Hell, we haven't even tried to govern their speeds, which might save a significant number of lives every year.
If smaller mags helps reduce gun violence, then great, let's do it. If not, then don't ban them. I would be in favor of trying it out for 3-4 years and looking at the impact in a rigorous way and deciding what to do from there.
Actually it doesn't. One could conceivably be all-powerful but not exceptionally intelligent.
I highly recommend Radley's white paper on the subject:http://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/balko_whitepaper_2006.pdf
The prevailing legal standard states that if a police officer reasonably believes his life to be in peril, he's permitted to use deadly force to defend himself.252 Given the high-stakes, adrenalin-fueled nature of highly militarized drug raids, that standard allows police to shoot at suspects in such situations with virtual impunity, even in cases where it was clearly an error on the government's part that led police to the wrong residence. Grand juries and prosecutors have neglected to press criminal charges against police even in cases where they shot unarmed victims, much less victims who were armed but justifiably in fear for their lives.
...they've been far less forgiving of citizens—even completely innocent citizens—who fire at police who have mistakenly raided their homes. Victims who have used force to defend themselves from improper raids have been prosecuted for criminal recklessness, manslaughter, and murder and have received sentences ranging from probation, to life in prison, to the death penalty.
Victims of botched paramilitary raids are expected to show remarkable poise and composure, exercisegood judgment, and hold their fire, even as teams of armed assailants are swarming their homes. Victims of paramilitary raids have no training in how to act or what to expect as a raid transpires. The police officerswho conduct the raids, on the other hand, are usually required to undergo at least an hourof training per month. Yet civilians who fire back at police officers who wrongly conduct forced-entry raids on their homes are frequently prosecuted, whereas police who erroneously fire at innocents during botched raids are almost neverdisciplined, let alone fired or charged with a crime. Civilians are expected to exhibit extraordinary judgment. Egregious mistakes by raiding police officers are readily forgiven.
On page 35 is the really frustrating stuff - how the system is rigged against the victims.
makes me crazy. this is not justice. this is madness.
do you think there is anyone who should not be allowed to own a gun?
I forgot to ask Odin (for the third time) - do you think there is anyone who should not be allowed to own a gun?
With a 30-round magazine, I can fire 30 rounds with 30 trigger pulls. With six 5-round magazines, you would have to change magazines 5 times in order to shoot the first 30 rounds. You can't carry five 5-round magazines in one hand and use that hand to change magazines, so you have to store the magazines somewhere. Or, it would take two hands to change the magazines.
I could, without too much practice, carry two 30-round magazines in my left hand, use my left forearm to help aim an AR-15, and fire and reload twice very quickly. Shooting 90 rounds with two reloads of 30-round magazines would take something less than about 45 seconds (not very scientific, but I just simulated it using slower than maximum trigger pulls so that I could aim the theoretical AR).
Did I not say, "it appears to me...?" And, I was correct, it also appears. Don't be insulted, put on your big boy pants, and let's have a discussion. I believe that limiting magazine capacities would help prevent mass shootings like Sandy Hook, or at least minimize the damage. I believe that because it takes more skill to shoot and reload multiple times. That's why I said, in the post above, I am a 9 out of 10 on a scale of 2nd Amendment supporters, instead of a 10.
The question is, how do we close Pandora's Box, now that there are a multitude of high-cap magazines in the general population?
I should state that I am in favor of background checks for everyone buying a firearm. To satisfy me, all you have to do is make sure there is no database created that could lead to easy registration. I know this will place me in the lunatic fringe element, but a database could lead to registration, which could lead to confiscation or prohibition.
And unless you're talking about shooting a room filled with dozens of people, this is not relevant. When you're talking about something like the Sandy Hook shooting, or even something like the Virginia Tech shooting, being able to shoot 90 rounds in 45 seconds is pretty meaningless.
If you want to have a discussion, then lose the asinine, self-important attitude. You sound like one of my younger brothers, who has an extremely high opinion of his own intelligence and competence, to the point where he sounds like a pompous fool when he talks about himself. That's how you sound, especially when you pull out remarks like "pull on your big boy pants", and act as if I shouldn't take exception to your attitude. In other words, you need to act in a manner consistent with wanting to have a discussion, instead of expecting people to just shut up and ignore your attitude.
I think gun folks who think guns are supposed to be used to revolt against the government and who think the government is trying to steal their guns are... misguided.
I think they should be more worried about the militarization of the police in the US. I believe I've linked to articles about that in the past (at TomDispatc.com) but here is a recent editorial on it.
But that is EXACTLY what the current debate is about. (I know the debate was softened to merely a vote on universal background checks, because everyone knew that an outright ban of assault weapons and large-cap magazines was impossible.) "Assault weapons" are being vilified because, when equipped with large capacity magazines, they can fire round after round in a short amount of time.
PS - When I ran "Spell Check" on this post, it suggested "Einstein" for "Feinstein." Now that's one of the funniest things I've ever seen!
The others I agree with.
...but a database could lead to registration, which could lead to confiscation or prohibition.
What impact, exactly, do you believe limiting mag capacity would have? And, where, exactly, would you make the maximum allowable?
I don't believe it would have any significant impact on the 30,000 or so lives lost to firearms each year in the US. A very small, insignificant percentage of those deaths are caused by those types of weapons.
Not everyone in the US lives in New York, Chicago, Washington DC, Los Angeles, etc. Some ranchers out west have problems with wolves and coyotes. If you owned cattle or sheep, and were faced with a pack of these animals attacking your stock, how many rounds would you want in your AR-15 magazine? There are legitimate uses for these guns beyond military and paramilitary uses.


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New on DVD/Blu-ray: 'Sound of My Voice' Is a Sci-fi Gem; 'Cinderella' Puts on the HD Slipper
New Releases
Best of the Week
Sound of My Voice - 20th Century Fox - Blu-ray, DVD
Release Date: Apr 27, 2012
Director: Zal Batmanglij
Cast: Christopher Denham, Nicole Vicius, Brit Marling,Davenia McFadden, Kandice Stroh. Full cast + crew
Odd, horror-movie-looking cover art aside, Sound of My Voice is one of this year's hidden genre gems. It's a sci-fi movie in the most intellectual sense, which isn't to say that it's pretentious or boring, just that it trades elaborate effects and set pieces for ideas and dialogue. This is a seemingly simple movie about a couple that decides to infiltrate a cult with the plan of outing their leader as a fake, but the more time they spend with her, the more they buy into her story of being a time traveler from the future. Then things get weird...
It's a brilliant, understated film that's all about writing and performance. If you like sci-fi movies like Primer or The Man from Earth, you will love this. Even if you're not already a fan of those films, give Sound of My Voice a shot. It'll make a convert out of you before too long.
Special Features: Three featurettes about the making of the film.
Better Than the Bad Buzz
Dark Shadows - Warner Home Video - Blu-ray Combo, Blu-ray, DVD
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter,Eva Green, Jackie Earle Haley. Full cast + crew
Special Features: Warner Bros.' very familiar Maximum Movie Mode, which injects 37 minutes of making-of materials as you're watching the movie. Of course, those featurettes are all available separately, as are five deleted scenes totaling about six minutes.
Everything Else
What an odd mix of new releases we have this week. There's surely something to satisfy everyone out there, but this is hardly a week filled with hidden gems (aside from Sound of My Voice above). If you like grungy horror movies, Jennifer Lynch's kidnapping-with-a-twist movie Chained hits. If you like your horror more family friendly, Joe Dante's The Hole finally arrives on home video after a few years. It's no return to form for the Gremlins director, but it's an enjoyable enough film about kids who discover something impossible in their house. It'll play best the younger you are, so if you've got kids in the nine-to-fourteen range, this might be a new favorite.
Then there's The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate, Headshot and Iron Sky, which respectively fill any need you have for new Asian fantasy action, Thai thrillers and wacky sci-fi comedies about Nazis on the moon.
Luc Besson is best known for his sci-fi and action movies, which is why he's an odd pick to direct a biopic about a political dissident, but something clearly attracted him to The Lady, a film about Burmese democratic symbol Aung San Suu Kyi. And speaking of unexpected directorial projects, People Like Us, a family drama, is the directorial debut of Transformers and Star Trek screenwriter Alex Kurtzman.
If for some reason you want to make a double feature out of movies featuring Elisabeth Olsen this week, you can thanks to Red Lights (the latest from the director of Buried) and Peace, Love & Misunderstanding. And lastly we have The Road, which is not a new adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's tremendous novel, but a new horror movie from director Yam Laranas (The Echo).
Catalog Releases
Another Beautiful Disney Classic
Cinderella - Disney - 3-Disc Blu-ray, 2-Disc Blu-ray, DVD
Release Date: Mar 04, 1950
Director: Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi
Cast: Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Claire Du Brey, Luis Van Rooten, Don Barclay. Full cast + crew
Special Features: There are a few different versions of Cinderella on Blu-ray hitting today, but the difference between them all is primarily packaging. If you want to go all out for the princess in your life, there's a limited edition Cinderella trilogy box set that comes with its own little vanity. As for what's on the disc, there's a pretty robust feature set of both new and old goodies. On the new front, there's a trio of featurettes about 10 minutes each focusing on the creation of some of the film's most iconic elements: the Fairy Godmother, Fantasyland and the glass slipper. And for those who dig new Disney animated as much as old Disney animated, the short film Tangled Ever After is also included.
A trio of very different but equally fan-friendly '80s movies arrive today: Pet Sematary, Masters of the Universe and The Princess Bride. The latter has already made its debut, so today's set is just another anniversary edition, while the former are BD debuts. Pet Sematary still holds up very well today thanks to its excellent source material. If watching old VHS tapes of this Stephen King classic as a child freaked you out, wait until you see it in HD. The flashbacks with the sister or more disturbing than ever. Masters of the Universe, on the other hand, isn't exactly going to win over an entirely new generation of fans now that it's on Blu-ray. If you already love this space/time-traveling fantasy/adventure/toy seller, the Blu looks and sounds great. Of course, that does nothing to change the silliness that's packed into every line of dialogue and every frame of this movie, but hey, long live the '80s!
Heading back even further, we've got John Carpenter's Dark Star, which is a movie that, for as cheesy fun as it is, just does not need a Blu-ray upgrade under any circumstances (though that's some lovely cover art), and a big box set of classic Universal Monsters on Blu-ray for the first time. It's an elaborate set that looks to be a must-own for anyone who loves Frankenstein, Dracula, the Wolfman and the rest of the creature-feature gang, but it's also high priced in America. My recommendation would be to import the region-free U.K. version of the set, which is not only $50 cheaper, but it comes in a much cooler coffin packaging.
And speaking of monsters, Annie hits Blu-ray. But who cares about that adorable little orphan when there's also a hat trick of Jean-Claude Van Damme movies hitting Blu: Cyborg, Death Warrant and Double Impact. None are the best of JCVD's career, but oh how I want them all. And finally we have Wong Kar Wai's gorgeous In the Mood for Love, which gets the Criterion Blu-ray treatment today.
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Thousands of Men and No Groping!
Egypt's protests were a safe space for women. Until things turned violent.
Read more of Slate's coverage of the Egyptian protests.
This morning, the woman checking bags and body-searching demonstrators entering Cairo's central square had quite a job on her hands. As demonstrations in Egypt's capital entered their second week, she had volunteered to keep the rallying point safe. I'd encountered her at the same place yesterday, but today's search was a lot more thorough.
"We heard people would be bringing knives and weapons to the square today. Bad people would try to stop us," she explained, as she frisked women in front of a metal barricade. "They asked us to come. All of us are volunteers," she said, though she declined to tell me her name.
One woman waiting to enter puts up a fight, and the brisk, stout woman, who is a headmistress by profession, lays down the law: "I am here to protect you. The military wants us to protect you—they don't have women, so we are here for you."
Unfortunately, at the end of a long day in Cairo, the headmistress's body-search seems to have been for naught. The place where she stood a few hours earlier is in flames as I type this. Last night, President Hosni Mubarak spoke to the nation and said he would finish out his term but would not run in presidential elections scheduled for September. Protesters had been demanding his immediate resignation.
Today, pro-Mubarak rallies filled the city. And the conflict that followed marked a sharp departure from the peaceful protests of the days before. As I write, Mubarak supporters and anti-regime demonstrators are clashing in the streets below—throwing Molotov cocktails and rocks.
But whichever camp they find themselves in, this unprecedented moment in Egypt's history has also been a momentous time for Egyptian women, who I saw in droves at both the anti- and pro-Mubarak protests.
Over the last week, women joined men in the square and on the streets, calling for an end to the Mubarak regime. They brought their children—including young girls. Some even camped out in the cold.
Soheir Sadi was one of them. This morning, she sat in the square with her 14-year-old daughter. They had come every day since the protests started on Jan. 25. "I came seeking my rights, like any Egyptian. I rent my apartment, I don't own it, and I can't afford food. What kind of life is that? And for my children?" she asks. "I wasn't afraid for my daughter, because everyone is family in the square. We are all real men standing up for ourselves, even the girls. And now they have learned that they can protect themselves like men."
Egypt has a sexual harassment problem. In a 2008 study, 86 percent of women said they had been harassed on Egypt's streets—any woman walking through a crowd of men in Egypt braces to get groped. But in the square, crammed in shoulder-to-shoulder, men apologized if they so much as bumped into you. After wandering around the protests for days, it suddenly dawned on me that I hadn't been groped, a constant annoyance when I'm faced with large crowds in Cairo. When I pointed this out to other women in the square, we all took a moment to reflect. "I hadn't even thought of that," one woman in Tahrir told me. "But it's because we're all so focused on one goal, we're a family here."
Today's pro-Mubarak rallies were also attended by women, who screamed slogans like, "Don't leave, Mubarak." Many came from the poorer neighborhoods, prompting my taxi driver to suggest that many of them had been paid to join the crowd. But affluent women attended, as well. One of whom told me, "This isn't yes to Mubarak; it's yes to stability and no to the Muslim Brotherhood." Many secular liberal elites in Egypt worry that the Brotherhood, officially banned but still the strongest organized opposition to Mubarak, will come to power if he leaves.
Then there were the women who switched sides. Farah Mohammed had been in Tahrir Square for the last few days, demanding that Mubarak resign. Today, she came instead to show her support for the only president she has ever known. "We want to give him a chance," the 20-year-old with neon pink nails told me. "If he left now, there would be a gap. The economy would fail. We want to work, to go out, and to live like we used to." Many Egyptians have expressed concern about the economic woes that have come to the fore as the city gradually closed down over the last week as protests raged. Many activists worried that Mubarak's Tuesday night address had sinister connotations, signaling an attempt to pit citizens against one another.
But women like Farah stayed on the streets this afternoon as two rallies clashed on the entry channels into Tahrir Square. Many people inside Tahrir were wounded and were taken to a nearby mosque-turned-makeshift-hospital for treatment—where women also took up positions.
The scene was frantic, as bleeding men were dragged through the streets for treatment. "We've seen cuts, wood splinters from sticks, bleeding, very much bleeding from the head," one woman doctor called to me over the din. "I treated one woman," she says, "a brick hit her on the head." She was about to say more, but someone brought in a man with blood streaming down his face.
Back in the square, as we hear shouted reports that pro-Mubarak protesters armed with sticks are approaching, Samia, a young woman no older than 20, calmly smokes a cigarette. We can't see the clashes from where we are sitting. The last I checked, they were concentrated in one part of the square, but rumor has it they're heading our way. Samia has spent four nights sleeping in the square, and though she seems alert, she doesn't appear visibly shaken.
"I'm not leaving," Samia tells me. "I'd leave if I thought this was what the people really wanted. But they don't represent Egyptians. These are paid people—thugs. We are the majority."
As I try to find an exit point from the square, as the shouts of pro-Mubarak mobs continue to sound, Samia takes my arm and leads me to the nearest back alley. Then, she squeezes my arm, tells me to be safe, and returns to the center of the square.


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NEW YORK – What better way to deliver a crucial, final 30-minute presentation than to have the voice of Morgan Freeman as narrator?
The USA Bid Committee is going to do one better: It will have the Academy Award-winning actor in the flesh when it states its case to host the 2022 World Cup for the last time in front of the FIFA Executive Committee on Wednesday at 11 a.m. ET in Zürich, Switzerland (live stream at FIFA.com).
The USA will be the fourth of the five bids to present on Wednesday in the hope of landing the 2022 World Cup. The FIFA Executive Committee will then conduct its final vote on Thursday at FIFA House (8 a.m. ET), followed by the formal public announcement of the winning bid at 10 a.m. ET.
Freeman, who is already a member of the US Bid Committee's Board of Directors, will be joined for the presentation by US President Bill Clinton, US Soccer Federation president Sunil Gulati and Los Angeles Galaxy and American soccer star Landon Donovan. The presentations of each of the bidding nations will be streamed live on FIFA.com.
The official unveiling of the hosts of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups will be televised live on Thursday in the United States via ESPN, ESPN Deportes, Fox Soccer Channel, Univisión and CNN International (10 a.m. ET).
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Newport Beach
Beach Cities (Orange County) : Newport Beach
Newport Beach [8] is a city famous for its lavish lifestyle and beautiful surroundings. Television enthusiasts will recognize the resemblance to the show The O.C., and not just by virtue of its location in Orange County, California. The American city has its share of "beautiful people" often with wealth to spare. Yet it's very possible to enjoy life in Newport Beach amongst the millionaires on a low, low budget. The area code for all of Newport Beach is 949.
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By plane
By rail
Metrolink and Amtrak serve Santa Ana, Tustin (Metrolink only), and Irvine. A taxi would probably be the most convenient option. Local OCTA bus routes service Amtrak/Metrolink stations at certain times. Consult the OCTA website [9] for more information.
By car
Take CA Highway 1 or the I-405 freeway to the 55 or 73 freeway south. The former will take you to West Newport and the latter to the east side of the Newport Bay.
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True to its name, any visit to Newport Beach is incomplete without a trip to the beach. The city is nestled on the Pacific Ocean and is a favorite amongst surfers. The Wedge, at the end of the Balboa Peninsula, is famed for its challenging surf, but Newport's miles of wide beaches offer plenty of room for everyone, except on the busiest summer weekends. There is a concrete boardwalk running along the beach from the east of the Balboa pier to west of the Newport pier.
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By all accounts, 13-year-old Jahi McMath appears to be sleeping.
She has a pulse and continues to breathe. Her heart still beats. Her body is neither stiff nor cold.
Yet Jahi McMath has passed away � medically, legally and according to any other meaningful criteria by which we define death.
At least five physicians, including three independent doctors requested by the family, have declared the girl to be brain dead. Tests show no signs of electrical activity. She is able to breathe only because a machine is pushing air into her lungs. No hope exists that this poor young girl will ever recover.
Yet her family is hoping for a miracle, and the mind-set of her mother is an example of the sometimes harmful effects of religion and false hope.
"I believe in God, and I believe that if he wanted her dead, he would have taken her already," her mother, Latasha "Nailah" Winkfield told The New York Times. "Her heart is beating, her blood is flowing. She moves when I go near her and talk to her. That's not a dead person."
Jahi underwent a complex tonsil removal surgery at Children's Hospital Oakland Dec. 9 to treat her sleep apnea. She underwent cardiac arrest, lost oxygen to her brain and had extensive hemorrhaging. She was first declared brain dead Dec. 12.
This latest controversy over whether a family has the right to keep a loved one on life support when there's no hope of recovery has achieved somewhat ghastly overtones. After conceding to the wishes of a family steeped in denial, the hospital released Jahi Sunday night � to the coroner. The coroner then complied with a court order and allowed the family to reclaim her body, which is still connected to the ventilator. The girl is now at an undisclosed facility, where she is reportedly doing poorly.
Relatives and their advocates consider this latest move a victory, but over what is unclear. Science? Medical ethics? Reality? Public understanding?
"Jahi is FREE!!! Bye Children's Hospital," her uncle, Omari Sealey, wrote Sunday on Twitter, before joining the family's attorney, Christopher Dolan, for a news conference.
"Today is a victory for Jahi," Dolan said.
But if it's a victory for a dead girl, it's a defeat for countless ill patients whose lives could be saved by an organ transplant. It's a defeat for public education. And it's a defeat for those who value clear, expert consensus and science over magical thinking.
The courts have agreed that Jahi is dead. The coroner has issued a death certificate. The hospital refused to fit her with a feeding or breathing tube on the grounds that it was unethical to perform medical procedures on a dead person.
Yet the family refuses to accept the truth.
"Plaintiffs are Christians with firm religious beliefs that as long as the heart is beating, Jahi is alive," Dolan wrote in a court filing.
The family has received overwhelming support. More than $55,000 has been donated on a fundraising website. The Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network claims that the case "is only the latest example of government and hospital boards taking private medical decisions away from families."
No, it's not. It's only the latest example of a devastated family unwilling or unable to accept the inevitable. And Dolan's argument � that families, not a doctor, should determine death � is preposterous.
Anyone can understand the desire of a parent to keep a child alive, but Jahi McMath is no longer alive. It's terrible. It's tragic. And it's not the government's fault. I hope the teen's mother finds solace in her faith, but it should have no role in determining earthly matters of life and death.
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McDowell necesitaba un nuevo diseño de papelería y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 72 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
Need clean, artistic, attractive business card. Nothing that says come down to my new club and let's party. Something that is sleek and eye catching where they will be glad to put it in their pocket.
JR McDowell Homes, L.L.C.
Again, designing a business card here. I want talent behind my business card design. I want people to feel it when they look at it. I want it to express an energy. We have all seen cards that feel like 6' ft. under. Cast away the shadows and bring my business card into the light.
Personally, I like style, details, skateboarding (downhill, park, slalom), things done right the first time, and a zillion other things. I am an Atlanta native and this will be my first company I have ever started. Wish me luck! I build custom single-family homes and do high-end remodels. My homes are environmentally friendly Earthcraft Energy Star rated homes. I do not plan on being some mega builder. I plan on quality, not quantity. I have 10 years of business experience and I am ready to take it to the next level.
- Item 1...One side needs artistic application: (random pattern, abstract art, feng shui maybe, 50/50 split accenting one another, masculine enough, satin/matte finish)
- The informational side should have: (clean white background, or sherwin williams sea salt background, or possible other, black lettering, clean font, grammatically correct letter casing, company name, cell number, nextel number, fax number, company address, web address)
- Unsure if we should add a title to the card. (owner, builder, so on.....???)
- Item 1...Card will not have gloss finish.
- No sissy fonts.
- No need to place my name on the card since it is the brand.
- No goofy icons (hammers, nails, generic construction crap)


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Kevin Noreen is the Senior Manager for Dells HPCC, Linux, and Virtualization Global Alliance Team. His team is responsible for working with Dells partners in delivering jointly developed products, strategies and marketing offerings. Prior to this role, he was the Senior Product Marketing Strategist for Clustering at Dell Inc. He has been with Dell Enterprise System Group since 1998 where his responsibilities at Dell included managing both Dell's High Availability and High Performance Cluster Computing programs targeted at the Windows and Linux market. In this role, he was responsible for identifying emerging clustering markets, business analysis, setting Dell's clustering strategy, product requirements and definitions. Kevin obtained his BA degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Iowa. Prior to joining Dell, Kevin spent 15 years at AT&T with the last 10 years focused on high availability initiatives and the clustering market.
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If someone asks me which version or part of HxH I like more. I can tell them and why and if they agree or not is fine with me.
For the record, more often than not I like the artwork and animation(different things btw which people always mix up) of the remake more because it is clean and consistent. I can always tell what is going on whether it is brightly lit or a dark environment. That's something I can't say for the old series.
I'd honestly rather bring in new people to appreciate the story rather than convince 2 or 3 people who are pretty grounded in their opinions already. As the hundreds of comments on Crunchyroll for episode 52 show, the reception to the fight has been more positive while this thread, which is made up of more hardcore fans, is more often than not negative.
"Amazing!!! I'm glued in my seat!"
"awesome!! I am hooked!! This is an Epic tale."
"I love this<3 Killua's family amazing "
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A quick note: Kurapika's line to Zenji in the 1999 series is different from the manga/2011 series.
Kurapika (1999): "Stop. Don't bother me as I am right now."
Kurapika (manga/2011): "Stop. I'm ready to lash out against the first person I see...and it might as well be you."
The 1999 series had many little line changes like this, for some bizarre reason. Another example, from the top of my head, is during the arm wrestling scene between Gon and Nobunaga. When Killua interjects into their conversation, Nobunaga in the manga and 2011 series threatens to kill the boy if he speaks again. In the 1999 series, Nobunaga's line is changed to "hurt" from "kill."
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As for Kurapika's line, it may not have mattered to you...but it did to me. Take that as you will. It's also worth mentioning that in the manga, Kurapika punches Zenji because the latter implies that the former is Nostrade's prostitute. A line about "sucking off your limp master" is changed to "lick your master's boots" in the anime.
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Kurapika's line was not much when translated into English, so it's easy to not be bothered by the change, but in Japanese, it sounded so absolutely awesome, I would have missed a lot if I didn't get to hear it.
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As far as I'm concerned, the OVAs were a definite step up from the original series in terms of image quality. There's not much to be said for Kurapica's characterization since the OVAs scenes match the manga more accurately, which is my prime criteria for judging a series.
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Thank you so much Shinobi for always doing these comparisons. I always look forward to them.
I kinda wish the Phantom Rouge movie were more about what was really supposed to happen with the Troupe if they weren't able to avoid the prophecy. Like, I would love to see how Shizuku, Shalnark and Pakunoda would die under the circumstances that they were supposed to be in.
Although I'm aware an alternative retelling of the Phantom Troupe arc would be boring to some, I guess.
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Given the height of her popularity around the time of the release of that chapter and that mole on her face, that's probably her. Probably just Togashi being a fan.
Togashi also mentioned another Japanese female alternative rocker called Jun Togawa (she started in the 80s, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jun_Togawa) in YYH before. The character Itsuki mentioned about looking forward to buy her new album...such remark stunned the then-Spirit detective Sensui and ended up not killing Itsuki. Here's the connection: Sheena Ringo was always criticized for ripping off Jun Togawa (both have wild singing voice, unhinged persona, playing with parody of 'Showa period" Japanese iconography/music with a scandalous twist, and of course the most obvious one is dressing up as a nurse). So you can kinda see where Togashi's type lies. Oh yeah Jun Togawa's debut album was Insect theme too (Insect Woman....inspiration?).
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Additionally, the company is slashing orders for other components, as well, letting their suppliers know over the last month.
If accurate, the news is a massive blow for Apple, who was banking on strong iPhone 5 sales to better compete with Samsung in the race for global smartphone dominance.
During the fourth quarter of 2011, Apple had a 23 percent market share of global smartphone shipments. That number fell to 14.6 percent by the Q3 2012. Samsung, on the other hand, rose to 31.3 percent in the quarter thanks to the popularity of their Android workhorses, the Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note II.


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Kronos wrote:It's good that these bikes come with a lifetime warranty. I'd like to know exactly what is considered a "lifetime" though, is it for the reasonable life of a bike (under Australian consumer laws) or is it your lifetime? Is it also transferable to someone else or not? Given I've seen some pretty catastrophic failures such as this one (on a seat post) and on my brother's BMC team machine, I second guess the purpose of carbon for a daily which is another reason why I'm going back to steel for my own commuter bike.
Glad to see you got a favourable result none the less.
Not transferable I believe, but I've read online of people claiming frame replacements 10 years down the track with no problems, provided they can show their proof of purchase.
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Fans of Square's Super NES RPGs have been patiently waiting for news of a Virtual Console re-release of Chrono Trigger for some time. Could the wait be over?
A rating for a Wii version of Chrono Trigger has appeared on the ESRB's website. Since the game has previously been announced for distribution via Virtual Console in Japan and Europe, it's fair to assume this means a North American version of the Super NES classic is coming soon to the Wii Shop Channel.
The rating for the Wii version carries an E10+ rating, the same as the Nintendo DS edition. It carries a single content descriptor -- "Mild Fantasy Violence" like the Super NES original -- as opposed to the DS version's "Animated Blood, Mild Fantasy Violence, Suggestive Themes, Use of Alcohol."
Joystiq recently reported that there was also a PSP and PS3 listing for the game, suggesting a PSN re-release (probably as a PSone Classic) but this seems to have disappeared from the ESRB site at this time.
There are mild, non-specific spoilers in the ESRB description, so don't read it if you've never played Chrono Trigger and were planning to. And if you weren't planning to? You really should.
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American Greetings Phony Site Serves Malware With A Smile
Sunbelt Software is reporting a virulent and convincing fake greeting card site and associated malware.
Like most malware these days, it is delivered through a rogue web site. The link to the site is in an e-mail spammed out to victims as a greeting card. When you click the link you are told you need to update your Flash player to view the card.
This attack is better than most. The fake American Greetings page is well done, and the ActiveX installer program is digitally signed. (It wasn't signed by a commercial certificate authority but by Comodo's UserTrust network, which gives the certificates and tools away.
Sunbelt says the actual trojan is a variant of the Monster Trojan and "a very nasty data-stealing trojan" which uses a rootkit to hide. Things may be better now, but when they reported it detection by security software was poor, with only 4 of 32 scanners detecting an attack in the file.


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Editor's Note: This story originally published March 9, 2014.
A family's painful burden, a city's helping hand and a State of Illinois Prisoner Review Board does its job and does it well!
We honor Joey Didier's memory today with 21,000 signatures that were compiled protesting the parole of Robert Henry Lower. With the passing of both our dear beloved parents, George (1999) and "Sue" Rosemary (2007) Didier, my four siblings and I vowed never to risk complacency! Every three years now I receive the dreadful letter (that was previously mailed to my mother), which comes between Thanksgiving and Christmas, stating that Robert Lower, once again, for the 19th time, was up for parole consideration. How would we manage? How would we cope?
It does not seem fair that celebrating Christmas and collecting petitions to keep a killer in prison should have to co-exist in our family. But, my mother taught us, "There are powers in numbers!" Sue Didier's promise of commitment, hope and courage lives on in each and every person who lent support to this worthy cause.
In the absence of both parents, we have asked the community as well as the citizens throughout the state of Illinois to step in to help ensure that Mr. Lower never lives as a free man. With hundreds of thousands of signatures, whether online with the Rockford Register Star, coupon signing with The Rock River Times, faxing or signing in businesses, stores or neighborhoods, people who never knew Joey Didier realized we cannot allow Mr. Lower to be unleashed as a sexual predator in our society or anyone's society. We have to protect our natural resources — our children!
The entire Didier family and I would like to express a deep, heartfelt thank you to everyone who signed our petitions, helped or supported us in various ways or even prayed for the success of the drive. It was only because of the wonderful, caring and giving people of this Rockford community that the drive was so successful! Thank you to The Rock River Times for its tremendous support, and a very special thank you to Joe Bruscato, our state's attorney, and John Hay, state's attorney for Jo Daviess County, for their unwavering dedication and commitment to Joey!
This also goes to prove that working together, we can and have made a difference. Illinois will be a safer place for the next five years (when Lower will once again become eligible for parole).
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*Rihanna is offering not one but three different editions of her upcoming album, "Unapologetic," with one version carrying a price tag of $250.
The singer will release her 7th album on Nov. 16 in its standard form and as a deluxe version featuring bonus tracks. But on Dec. 11, she'll release what's being called the Diamonds Executive Platinum Box" on a limited basis.
For $250, you get the CD with every bonus track, plus collectible colored vinyl remixes of her single "Diamonds," an 11 x 17 handwritten personal note from Rihanna, a 2GB credit card-style USB flash drive, unisex shirt featuring a photo of Rihanna taken during her "Unapologetic" album shoots by famed photographer Michael Muller, seven 12 x 15 lithographs featuring photos by Muller, a Magnus Voll Mathiassen illustration and exclusive "Unapologetic" images.
The box is also set to include a bunch of stickers, a custom notebook, posters and up to 20 minutes of DVD footage.
If $250 is too steep, a $79 box set will become available on Nov. 19, described as a "limited edition genuine, conflict-free diamond bracelet." It features a black leather band and a brass disc with a 1pt diamond packaged in a signature R logo card, along with the deluxe version of the CD.


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It's mid-morning in the TransAlta Rainforest building at the Calgary Zoo, and it's difficult to concentrate.
It's not that the words of Axel Moehrenschlager, head of the zoo's Centre for Conservation Research, aren't interesting. He's talking local and global conservation, biodiversity and species extinction. These are critical issues.
The problem is the gorillas.
To be fair, they're just doing what Western Lowland gorillas do: hanging out, scratching, swinging from ropes. But there's something about a young gorilla waking up just a few feet away that captivates the imagination. It's not just the fascinated four-year-olds with their faces glued to the glass — this small piece of Africa offers children and adults alike the chance to watch a species they may never see in the wild, to begin to understand the animal and its place on our planet.
Despite its charm, however, this daily interface of humans and animals is just a small part of the zoo's mission. As Moehrenschlager explains, much of the Calgary Zoo's work happens far from view.
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"Fifteen years ago, this was a cool place to bring kids to — and that's great, because I bring my kids here, too — but now we're so much more," he says. "The endgame is actually to make a difference in the wild, and that's incredibly powerful."
Moehrenschlager starts with a troubling picture, of a world facing a mass extinction event not unlike the disappearance of the dinosaurs, losing upwards of three species a day.
"We don't even know how many species there are," he says. "We know less about the deep ocean than we do about Mars, but we do know that we're losing species at an alarming rate. Clearly, the conservation tool box needs to use anything from its arsenal to help."
For Moehrenschlager and his colleagues at the Centre for Conservation Research, that means partnering with universities, government, conservation groups, landowners and corporate funders such as Husky Energy to reintroduce endangered species into the wild, from whooping cranes to swift foxes, and black-footed ferrets to northern leopard frogs.
"If you think about it conceptually, the challenge is enormous, because the reason why the species is gone in the first place is that forces (were at work) that were powerful, impactful — so something has gone dreadfully wrong," he says
"You need to reassure yourself that those forces have been eliminated, reversed or mitigated, and then you have to hope you still have animals somewhere."
That often means zoo-based conservation breeding programs, such as the Calgary Zoo's work on breeding and releasing swift foxes into the wild. Considered extinct in Canada, swift foxes in the 1980s became the focus of a government, university and conservation partnership known as the Canadian Swift Fox Recovery Team – now co-chaired by Moehrenschlager, whose studies of swift fox reintroduction formed the basis of his doctoral work. In 2012, the recovering population improved the species' categorization from endangered to threatened, an unusually successful step on the wildlife conservation ladder.
What gets saved?
Moehrenschlager arrived at the Calgary Zoo in 1999, founding the Centre for Conservation Research there in 2003, to focus on species reintroduction and the science of community-based conservation. Currently, he also chairs the North American and Caribbean section of the Swiss-based International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
For several years, he says, the IUCN has been wrestling with creating new guidelines about when it's appropriate to move species around the world, amid increasing pressure as habitats become unsuitable and in the context of significant ethical questions.
"Do we allow (these species) to go extinct?" Moehrenschlager asks. "Do we move them to other places where conditions might become more suitable? What are the ecological, social, economic, political implications of that? To make a difference in the wild, it becomes clear that effective conservation needs to be guided by credible and tough scrutiny."
It's this scrutiny — the science of assessing which species remain viable, potentially successful in captive breeding and then in release to the wild — that the zoo is becoming known for.
"The Calgary Zoo has a tremendous record with reintroduction of species at risk back into the environment," says Wade Luzny, CEO of the Canadian Wildlife Federation. "There are very few organizations that have the capacity to do that. They have the staff, they have the expertise, so the role that they play is vital in terms of protecting wildlife and the habitat around it."
His organization is partnering with Centre for Conservation Research to study the northern leopard frog.
"It's one of those innocuous (amphibians) that I grew up with as a kid," Luzny says. "They were everywhere and you didn't think about it. Well, they're disappearing, so what's going on? . . . We need the work (the zoo) does to help manage our wildlife populations, the knowledge and understanding. Without it, you're just guessing."
Already, Luzny says, they've discovered the distances the frogs travel are greater than expected.
"As we develop other mechanisms of modernization, whether it's roads or irrigation ditches, we can be aware of the impact to a certain degree, and hopefully we can mitigate that impact," he says.
"This is the role of the zoo, that we live in an ecosystem and when one of the elements of that ecosystem isn't doing well, it will impact everything on down the line."
Making a difference
In Grasslands National Park in southern Saskatchewan, Parks Canada species conservation specialist Pat Fargey has worked with Moehrenschlager since the mid-1990s, co-leading the swift fox recovery team with him for some eight years, and now working with the Centre on the black-footed ferret and its primary prey, the black-tailed prairie dog.
"(It's) often described as the black-tailed prairie dog ecosystem," Fargey explains. "The same way the beaver changes a watershed, the prairie dogs do in the grasslands areas."
He describes prairie dog communities of 100 to 150 hectares controlling the grasses that grow there and the nutrients that are recycled, shaping the landscape by grazing and colonizing towns into neighbourhoods, attracting badgers, coyotes, bison, eagles and hawks, and even the endangered burrowing owl.
But with the prairie dogs reduced to two per cent of their original Great Plains range through habitat loss and poisoning, the black-footed ferret population also dropped, believed extinct until a ranch dog brought one home in Wyoming in 1981.
With six North American zoos now breeding the ferrets, Moehrenschlager says there are more than 7,000 of the animals, but adds breeding is simple; survival is not. The key question for scientists was whether there enough prairie dogs existed to sustain both ferret and prairie dog populations.
"In 2009, after five years of planning and scientific work, we reintroduced the black-footed ferret back into the wild," says Moehrenschlager. "It was a powerful moment that day out in the middle of nowhere. There were some colleagues who were in tears; it was just a very profound experience."
Fargey explains the Centre's work on assessing the prairie dog populations, and the effect of the ferrets, was key, as was an international workshop the Centre facilitated to bring together experts on the two species and their work in writing both the black-tailed prairie dog management plan and the black-footed ferret recovery plan.
But just as the ferret reintroductions began, droughts in 2009 and the first appearance of a plague-positive prairie dog in 2010 complicated the program.
"The science support to untangle all those things — the Centre's data and their systems for analyzing the data — were fundamental," Fargey says. "We would never have been able to do it without them."
Despite a challenging first few years, Fargey says the prairie dog population appears to be recovering. In 2012, the park recorded the first case of previously Canadian-born ferrets having young of their own.
"It's a good indication, but it's going to be a long road . . . success is not guaranteed," Moehrenschlager says. "If you try, my personal belief is that you have to be in it for the long haul."
We're distracted again by the gorillas, themselves part of a Species Survival Program managed by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, this time as one chases another around the enclosure, up over tree trunks and down into the straw.
"If we can't lead by example, we can't expect people in other areas of the world to protect the wildlife we treasure," Moehrenschlager muses.
"From a national perspective, we have to be leaders and we cannot accept the extinction of species from our country. . . . it comes down to the question, what do we care about and how much do we care and do we want to make a difference and do we want to put the time and resources and political will and public engagement toward it?
"When we engage to restore a species, it's not just about that species; it's about realizing that we have the potential to make a difference," he says. "If we just put our energy and time and resources toward it, there's hope, and hope is a very, very powerful thing."
Yvonne Jeffery's Heart of Calgary column connects social issues and community engagement. firstname.lastname@example.com
Western Canada species at risk
Northern leopard frog
Now and then: once one of North America's most common amphibians, the leopard frog has declined by 60 to 80 per cent in Western Canada over the past 30 years.
The problem: possibly related to climate change, disease, habitat loss and fragmentation, water quality degradation and poor water management.
What's being done: building on previous field research, the CCR is leading one of Canada's largest studies to understand the species determine whether captive breeding and movement corridors are needed.
Whooping crane
Now and then: from a low of 16 birds in the wild in 1942, the population now numbers over 500.
The problem: unregulated hunting and collecting in the late 1900s and early 2000s has given way to habitat loss, water contamination, human development and industrialization, extreme weather and disease.
What's being done: conservation breeding at the Calgary Zoo, along with CCR research into improving whooping crane egg-hatching success.
Swift fox
Now and then: extinct in Canada by 1938, re-introduced to the wild in the 1990s.
The problem: the fur trade, rodent poisoning and agricultural cultivation in the early 20th century, followed now by habitat loss and fragmentation and diseases such as canine distemper.
What's being done: the CCR has been an integral part of the swift fox conservation breeding reintroduction program, and continues to conduct health, genetic and habitat research.
Black-tailed prairie dog
Now and then: currently at only two per cent of its former distribution on the Great Plains.
The problem: habitat loss, persecution as an agricultural pest, disease and drought.
What's being done: the CCR is researching the factors that affect prairie dog colony size, density, diet and distribution.
Black-footed ferret
Now and then: thought to be extinct until 1981, the black-footed ferret has small populations in South Dakota and Wyoming, and is being reintroduced to the Canadian prairie.
The problem: habitat loss and fragmentation, decreasing black-tailed prairie dogs (its main prey), and disease.
What's being done: the CCR is part of the National Black-footed Ferret/Black-tailed Prairie Dog Recovery Team, the first joint species recovery team in Canada, aimed at both reintroducing the ferrets to the wild and managing sustainable populations of the prairie dogs.
Vancouver Island marmot
Now and then: in 2004, it was estimated that only 35 were left in one location in the wild.
The problem: generally believed linked to habitat modification, including clear-cut logging, and predation.
What's being done: the CCR has researched how best to pair and house the marmots, to develop more effective mating strategies and maximize captive breeding and reintroduction programs.
Burrowing owl
Now and then: once found across North America's Great Plains, now only in small pockets of natural grassland habitat in southern BC, Alberta and Saskatchewan.
The problem: believed to be habitat loss and fragmentation, decreased prey, increased predation, weather, vehicles, environmental contaminants and loss of other burrowing animals.
What's being done: the CCR is helping with assessment, pairing, release location selection and release of the owls into the wild, including researching artificial burrows and refining population recovery and management strategies.
Source: Calgary Zoo


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Now, here's why the study of children has been such a booby trap to all of our thinkingnesses. This is very important because it changes the whole basic concept, if you can see this, it'll change your whole basic concept of values as to what behavior is. —L. Ron Hubbard
In this classic statement on the application of Scientology basics to children, L. Ron Hubbard orients all Scientologists—both as parents and auditors—to the universe of a child. Contrary to some theories, children are not a "special category" of human being nor do they represent the "native state" of Man. Children are thetans occupying small bodies, a crucial datum that provides the only perspective from which they can be understood.
Having established the true data about what childhood is, Mr. Hubbard provides a complete technology both for living with and auditing children. Given they may not be able to verbalize their subjective experiences, he specifies the type of processes to use and how they are to be applied. Moreover, he reveals the crucial breakthrough that underlies the successful auditing of children and which is vital to the conduct of every session.
And beyond all of that, the conclusion of this lecture is in itself historic: the famous naming ceremony in which newborns are properly and appropriately introduced to their new life—a ceremony conducted personally by Mr. Hubbard.


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Go Industries Grille Guard Brush Guards 26639B
- Modular design
- Heavy duty construction
- Add-on brush guards
- Optional winch carrier
- Chrome and black powder-coat finishes
- Made in the USA - Richardson, TX
If you're an off-road enthusiast and want extra protection from the occasional sticky situation the Go Industries winch system grille guard is made just for you! Unique styling, strong steel construction, and two finishes set this winch mount grille guard apart from the rest.
The Go Industries winch mount grille guards have an original style all their own and will give you maximum protection for your grille. You can choose from three winch carriers that fit all major winch brands up to 16,500 lbs. The optional brush guards will give your truck the extra protection around the headlights for a true off-road look.
Heavy duty cross bars, laser cut uprights give this modular brush guard with winch mount unmatched front end protection. Direct to the frame mounting means these winch grille guards will be sturdy enough to handle your winching and off-road needs.
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Courtesy of Toy Industry Association
A new "Global Recalls Portal" was launched in Brussels, Belgium on October 19 to facilitate the exchange of information among government representatives, consumers and businesses about recalled products in jurisdictions around the world, according to a news release from TIA.
Developed jointly by the EU and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), including countries such as the U.S., Australia, and Canada, the portal was unveiled during International Product Safety Week. Paola Testori Coggi, director general in the Directorate General for Health and Consumers at the European Commission (SANCO); Rintaro Tamaki, OECD deputy secretary general; and Inez Tenenbaum, chairman of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission were on hand at the launch.
The portal will allow consumers to search products they intend to buy to see if any safety alerts have been issued, help businesses to track emerging hazards from around the world, and aid governments in removing unsafe products from the market.
To view the portal, visit www.globalrecalls.oecd.org.


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Michael Dell Ups Offer By a Dime, and More
What's News: Dell buyout group calls for changes in voting rules and ups its bid by ten cents per share. Police arrest headmistress in India school lunch pesticide poisoning case. Apple shares rally on better than expected results. Joanne Po reports.
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Green Innovations Expands Strategic Advisory Board - GNIN Adds Former Walgreens Category Manager to Advisory Team
Feb 11, 2013, 06:13 ET
MIAMI, Feb. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Green Innovations Ltd. (OTCQB: GNIN) (OTCBB: GNIN) ("Green Innovations" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has expanded its recently formed Strategic Advisory Board.
Second to join the Green Innovations Strategic Advisory Board is Mr. Mark DeFilippo, who brings with him to the Company over 20 years of Category Management experience with Walgreens, many in high profile categories, including candy, batteries, and over-the-counter products, such as cough-cold, pain and sleep remedies. Mr. DeFilippo currently serves as a sales and marketing consultant to the consumer products manufacturing and distribution sectors.
"With our planned distribution growth into major retail chains, including the drug store class, the addition of someone with intimate knowledge of drug store product procurement, marketing, merchandising, and inventory control is a very significant step toward gaining entry with these larger retailers," stated Bruce Harmon, Chief Executive Officer of Green Innovations.
"I am excited to be working with the Company as it strives to make Green Hygienics products a household name with consumers and retailers across North America," stated Mr. DeFilippo. "Expansion into the larger retail markets will be a very key component of their growth strategy going forward. With my twenty years of experience as a category manager for one of the largest drug store chains in the world, along with the approach of the Green Hygienics' management, we hope to garner the attention of the industry giants."
Mr. Harmon continued, "Mark's experience at Walgreens should provide our team with the insight and knowledge of what is needed to continue to build distribution of all Green Hygienics products at major chains across the U.S."
The Company anticipates making further complementary appointments to the Strategic Advisory Board over the next several weeks.
About Green Innovations Ltd.
Green Innovations Ltd., through its wholly-owned subsidiary Green Hygienics, Inc., is the exclusive licensed North American distributor of American Hygienics Corporation's 100% tree-free bamboo-based product line, including personal care and paper-based goods. The Company provides consumers the opportunity to enjoy high-quality and performance eco-friendly goods from dedicated experts that have been producing bamboo products for over a decade, along with the cost-benefit of local raw material manufacturing, and the satisfaction of knowing that by using these products they are doing their part to reduce their carbon footprint and to continue the movement towards a more healthy and sustainable planet.
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Norah's Girly Grey Abode
Name: Norah
Location: Chicago, IL
I wanted to make a room that was peaceful and girly (but not too girly) and also doubled as a playroom. I chose grey because I felt like it was a neutral color that I could add other brighter colors to and make the room pop.
As a former teacher I had a ton of books and didn't want to put them in boxes, so I decided to use the beautiful art covers as wall art and display them. The grey was a perfect backdrop for all of the different colors from the books.
My inspiration? PINTEREST! There were so many wonderful ideas out there it was hard to choose just one. I really like the contrast with grey and adding bits of pink, so I took that inspiration as the blue print for her room and also the book display at Barnes and Noble. I always thought that would be a cool idea to have a mini library in a child's room!
Source List:
Book shelves/photo ledges: IKEA
Photo frames: IKEA
Dresser: IKEA
White rocking bird: West Elm
Tassel garland: Handmade
Cardboard buck head: Safari cardboard on Etsy
Teepee: Houseinhabitat on Etsy
Animal rug: IKEA
Silhouette: Silhouettes by Erik
Thanks, Monique! Readers, you can see more of Monique by visiting her blog Project 52.
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EPA Proposes to Add the Unimatic Manufacturing Corporation site in Fairfield, NJ to the Superfund List; Soil, Water and Building Contaminated with PCBs
Release Date: 12/11/2013
Contact Information: Elias Rodriguez, (212) 637-3664, firstname.lastname@example.com
- (New York, N.Y.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today proposed to add the Unimatic Manufacturing Corporation site in Fairfield, New Jersey to its Superfund list of the country's most hazardous waste sites. Unimatic formerly used the site to run a metals molding facility and operated machines using lubricating oil that contained polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). The company's operations caused the soil, ground water and a building on the property to be contaminated with PCBs. Based on the PCB levels inside the building, state and federal health officials recommended that employees of a company operating on the site be relocated to protect their health.
PCBs were widely used in hundreds of industrial and commercial applications until they were banned in 1979. They are human-made chemicals that persist in the environment and can affect the immune, reproductive, nervous and endocrine systems and are potentially cancer-causing.
"The EPA has been working with New Jersey to gather information about contamination at this site and reduce people's potential exposure to contaminants," said Judith A. Enck, EPA Regional Administrator. "By adding the site to the Superfund list, the EPA can proceed with the extensive sampling and investigations needed to determine the best ways to clean up the contamination in the long-term."
Unimatic operated a metals works and metals molding facility at the site from 1955 until 2001. The company allegedly washed out PCB-laden lubricant through floor trenches to the facility wastewater pipes, which subsequently discharged into a tributary of Deepavaal Brook. The pipes allowed the wastewater to leak into the ground at the site, contaminating soil and ground water throughout the property. Operations inside the building lead to contamination of the interior building structure.
Since 2002, the facility has been used by Frameware, Inc., a metal frame parts manufacturer and distributor. In May 2012, at the request of the NJDEP, the EPA took samples both inside and outside the building on the site. Based on the results of EPA's sampling, the New Jersey Department of Health, in consultation with the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, recommended that employees of the facility be relocated. Frameware, Inc. moved its operations in July 2013 and removed approximately 20 workers from the contaminated work environment.
The nearest public drinking water wells are located less than one-half mile from the site. The water supply is monitored regularly to ensure the water quality meets drinking water standards and is safe to consume. The water meets federal and state drinking water standards.
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has issued numerous violation notices to Unimatic, which have resulted in the company removing some contaminated soil. High PCB concentrations, however, remain in soil and ground water as well as inside the building. The property was sold in 2002 after Unimatic ceased operations at the site.
The EPA has determined that proposing this site to the Superfund list is the best course of action to protect human health and clean up the contamination. The EPA periodically proposes sites to the Superfund list and, after responding to public comments, designates them as final Superfund sites. The Superfund final designation makes them eligible for funds to conduct long-term cleanups. The EPA received a letter from New Jersey supporting the inclusion of this site on the Superfund list. Today's addition of this site, along with the Troy Chemical Corporation site in Newark, NJ, brings the total of proposed and final sites on the federal Superfund list in New Jersey to 116.
The Superfund program operates on the principle that polluters should pay for the cleanups, rather than passing the costs to taxpayers. After sites are placed on the Superfund list of the most contaminated waste sites, the EPA searches for parties legally responsible for the contamination and holds them accountable for the costs of investigations and cleanups. The EPA is in the process of identifying those responsible for the cleanup of the Unimatic site.
To see the Federal Register notice and supporting documents for this site, as well as other proposed and final sites, on the day of publication, visit: https://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/npl/current.htm.
The EPA will take public comments in the proposal of this site to the Superfund List for 60 days after the proposal is published in the Federal Register, which is expected in the next few days. For instructions to submit comments, go to: https://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/npl/pubcom.htm.
To learn more about the Unimatic site, please visit: https://www.epa.gov/region02/superfund/npl/unimatic.
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