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Stewart's OT tally lifts Blues past Ducksby Louie Korac
ST. LOUIS -- Chris Stewart had so much time once he got the puck, he had nearly had too much time on his hands.
But fortunately for the St. Louis Blues, with Stewart on an unbelievable hot streak and showing the deft touch of a goal scorer, the power forward was able to cap off a terrific play by teammate Vladimir Sobotka.
Stewart scored 45 seconds into overtime to give the Blues a 2-1 win against the Anaheim Ducks on Saturday before 19,593 at Scottrade Center.
Sobotka was able to pick off a Teemu Selanne pass near his own blue line and take off on a 2-on-1 with teammate Roman Polak. Stewart, who was trailing on the play, got the puck from Sobotka, who ever-so-patiently dangled the puck around a sliding Selanne and Cam Fowler, fed Stewart in the slot, who in turn out-waited Ducks goalie Jonas Hiller, pulled it to his backhand and roofed the winner.
"He's arguably one of our best players 4-on-4," Stewart said of Sobotka. "His skillset, his patience, it was all him. I went to the net with my stick on the ice and he looked off about three guys there. l think by the time he passed it to me, no one knew what was going to happen. I like to get the puck in tight, make a nice power move and put her home.
"I got it I looked up and I was like, 'I'm gonna shoot it,' but Hiller was still there, gave him a little fake, cut back to my backhand and got lucky."
Stewart now has five goals in the past three games, 14 points [seven goals, seven assists] in the past seven and 24 points [10 goals, 14 assists] in the past 18 contests.
Kris Russell scored his first goal of the season, and Jake Allen continued to roll, improving to 8-1-0 on the season after making 27 stops to see the Blues win their fifth in six games. They improved to 16-10-2 on the season playing without injured stars Andy McDonald (knee), T.J. Oshie (upper-body) and top defenseman Alex Pietrangelo, who was a late scratch with the flu.
"Guys have been dropping all year and guys have been stepping up," Stewart said. "Petro goes down with the flu and you look at Ian Cole, who's been out the last four or five games, he steps up and he has a great game for us. It's going to be scary when we do get healthy. I think we're going to be getting healthy around the right time of the year. We're going to be a team to be reckoned with."
Saku Koivu netted a goal, the 798th point of his career, and Hiller stopped 19 shots as the Ducks (20-3-4) saw their five-game winning streak snapped, but they still took five of six points on a three-game trip. They also set a franchise record for most points in a 17-game stretch in which the Ducks collected 29 points.
"It was a very well played game," Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau said. "Sometimes the well-played games aren't the most entertaining games. They got the break at the end of the game. We make an error, they capitalize on it. What are you going to do? Bobby Ryan had an open net and the puck rolls off his stick. We had chances to score. It didn't go our way tonight."
The Ducks grabbed the lead late in the first when Koivu netted his eighth of the season. The Ducks kept several attempts at clears by the Blues in the zone, Fowler found his defensive partner with a cross-ice feed to the left side of the blue line. Bryan Allen's shot had eyes, deflected off Koivu in the slot and beat Allen top shelf with 19.5 seconds remaining in the period for a 1-0 Ducks lead.
The Blues had their best chance three-plus minutes into the game when Matt D'Agostini's check on Koivu forced a turnover, and David Perron's shot from the high slot had Hiller beat but rang off the left post.
Russell's first goal since April 7, 2012 [the final day of the regular season] tied the game 1-1.
The power-play goal, which saw the Blues score for only the fourth time in their last 40 attempts, came after Vladimir Tarasenko, who returned to the lineup after missing 10 games with a concussion, reverse a pass to Russell. He skated to the middle of the point and ripped a shot over Hiller's right shoulder at the 12:42 mark of the second period.
"I think my main focus is trying to get pucks to the net for the forwards," Russell said. "We've got a skilled bunch up front. If we can do a good job of getting it through the lane on that first guy, we're going to get some chances. Stewy did a great job on the screen. I don't think [Hiller] seen it at all. It's tough for the goalies to stop what they don't see. That goal doesn't happen if Vladi doesn't make that play off the wall and Stewy's obviously a big part of that with the screen."
Both goalies made their share of stops on the period, with Allen coming up with the best one, as he robbed Andrew Cogliano with a terrific left pad save as Cogliano tried flipping in a backhand from a sharp angle into an open side. Allen also robbed Fowler after Anaheim won an offensive zone faceoff and Fowler ripped a shot from the slot that saw Allen flash the leather. Allen also made a nifty right kick stop on a breaking Matt Beleskey with 7:24 left in the third period.
Hiller also had a couple key stops, thwarting back-to-back attempts from Ryan Reaves and Wade Redden before flashing his glove on Tarasenko late in the second period.
"He had about four of them in the third period, and then pick them," Blues coach Ken Hitchcock said of Allen. "When you've got goaltending like this and it gives you a chance to win every night ... he makes hard saves look routine, which calms everybody down on the bench because as good as he was against Phoenix, he was way better than that tonight. He was excellent tonight. This was the best I've seen him play was tonight, and we needed him badly. Both goalies were really good."
The Ducks brought pressure in the third period, and the Blues didn't register their first shot of the period until 9:24 left on a turn-around shot by Tarasenko.
Ryan had the terrific chance early in the third period, but the puck rolled off his stick wide of an empty side that would have given the Ducks a 2-1 lead.
"I thought I did everything right on the play except put it on the net," Ryan said. "The pass was great. I put [Allen] in the other corner, I just didn't finish. Hindsight's one thing. I'm not going to worry about it too much."
In the meantime, Allen keeps trucking along for the Blues. He lowered his goals-against average to 2.18 and now sports a .920 save percentage.
"It's still a bit of a whirlwind, but just enjoy it tonight, relax tomorrow and come back and prepare on Monday," Allen said. "I know I had some big saves there, but that's my job. I'm just happy to get the victory now and have a day off tomorrow."


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Parker found Anderson's decision to shun his own mother rather humorous, but there was nothing funny about being powerless, after just her second stop of the day on the first day of the tournament, when attempting to crank-up and run further north on expansive Table Rock.
"On my second location, I caught a keeper, but the fish were not really cooperating, so I decided to make a run further north, but my boat wouldn't start," explained the Little Elm, Texas angler. Thank goodness she listened to her inner voice at the mandatory angler registration meeting the night before, and signed up for a BoatUS Angler membership with representatives who were on site.
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Morgan definitely tell us how the testruns turn out! I've actually been thinking that it would be good to have experience with something like KASL firsthand, just for making comparisons. Did you order directly from King Arthur? what was the shipping like?
For sure! You might also be intrested of this Fazer dough balls: http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,23178.100.html
wow excellent developments Morgan! I should test out the fazer dough, even though the reason I am here is because I find most pizzeria pizza crusts in Finland to be very sad compared to what I miss from NY
Im pretty sure you wont find this in Fin, you have to make it by yourself of go back to NY Reminding though that you know what your searching for and that makes it lot more easier. You can order differend flours etc. I never had NY pie so for me it would be impossible to even try to succeed
Flour 100%Water 60%IDY 0.25% Salt 1.75%Oil 3%Sugar 1%
That looks totally NY-style to me who has never seen the real deal exept in the photos. What is the dough weight and diameter for that pie ?What cheese are you using ? I like the way you cut one BIG slice out of that pie
Thanks Morgan, I've started cutting out a big "Ny style slice" everytime now - for the feel of the real deal I didn't weigh the doughball (sorry I'll do this in the future) Ingredient weights were calculated for 2x12" doballs at 643g, so about 320g per ball? The pizza is about 11" (hard to make anything much bigger due to peel/oven size restrictions).I used Allerum Svecia 14 mo. old cheesehttp://www.lindahls.fi/tuotteet/skaanemejerier-juustot/allerum-svecia-28-450g.aspxwith a some slices of Mozz from this big 400g "log" of Castelli mozzarella I found today at S-market - it's a little dryer than the little-balls-in-liquid plastic baggies you can get
320 grams dough for a 12incher is not really to be considered "a lot". You do want to get it spread/opened as evenly as possible across the skin.
Is it? Maybe I'll test scaling down abit and calculate for an 11" pie, I do feel I end up having alittle too much dough to work with for the 11" I can do.
11" young padawan 11" Not sure about Ny-style, but i think 320gr is big dough for 11".
I didn't weigh the doughball (sorry I'll do this in the future) Ingredient weights were calculated for 2x12" doballs at 643g, so about 320g per ball? The pizza is about 11" (hard to make anything much bigger due to peel/oven size restrictions).
Well exchuuuuse me Mr. Incorrecto! I don't know if the pie had a lot of shrink back or what...just saying that if you start out with 320 and intend it for 12in you should be a Golden Grasshopper.


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James Ciuffo finished his 12th season as an assistant coach for the Cal State Northridge women's tennis program in 2010.
During his time at Northridge, Ciuffo and the Matadors have posted an overall record of 164-124. In 2001, he helped lead the Matadors to the Big Sky Conference Championship and a spot in the NCAA Tournament. Teaming with Coach Victor, Ciuffo has been instrumental in the development of numerous All-Big West players in both singles and doubles action.
Along with his coaching duties, Ciuffo assists in organizing practices and recruiting.
Ciuffo attended Cal Lutheran University, where he was a member of the men's tennis team from 1994 to 1996. He earned his bachelor's degree in business from CLU in 1996. Prior to attending Cal Lutheran, Ciuffo attended Pierce College in Woodland Hills, Calif. and graduated from Taft High School in 1998.
He is also a member of the United States Professional Tennis Association.
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Two driver's license repeal bills fail in NM House committee
By: Milan Simonich
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SANTA FE — Five Democrats in the House of Representatives flexed their political muscle Tuesday night, blocking two bills that would repeal a driver's license law for illegal immigrants.Republican members who sponsored the repeal proposals argued that the bills should be kept alive so they could be decided by the full 70-member House of Representatives.But Democrats on the House Labor and Human Resources Committee disagreed. They used their majority power on the committee to table both bills on 5-4 party-line votes.
At issue is a 2003 law that enables illegal immigrants with proof of New Mexico residency to obtain a driver's license. Groups that favor the law say it has served immigrants and businesses well.
But Republican Reps. Paul Pacheco and Bill Rehm, both retired police officers from Albuquerque, said the law makes New Mexico a magnet for fraud. They sponsored separate repeal proposals.
Their expert witness, Demesia Padilla, secretary of the Taxation and Revenue Department, said people living illegally somewhere in the United States travel to New Mexico to obtain a driver's license. She said with it, they legitimize themselves, and then can move about the country.
Rep. Candy Spence Ezzell, R-Roswell, argued for both repeal bills. She said Democrats on the Labor Committee had defied the will of the people by keeping the licensing law alive.
Ezzell said the licensing law could take away her freedoms, namely that she might need a passport to fly domestically because a New Mexico driver's license would become worthless as identification.
Ezzell stirred proponents of the licensing law when she said "illegals" could threaten the way of life her family members fought for in wars.
Rehm repeated some of her concerns. He said New Mexicans would need a passport to enter a federal building or an airplane.
These statements were rebutted by Marcela Diaz, executive director of the immigrant group Somos Un Pueblo Unido.
She said New Mexicans are in no peril because of the driver's license law for illegal immigrants. The federal REAL ID Act provides inclusion for states that issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.
House Speaker Ken Martinez said more states actually are moving toward a licensing system such as New Mexico's.
Illinois, for instance, on Monday approved a law similar to New Mexico's. Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn, a Democrat who signed the measure, said public safety was the reason.
"This common-sense law will help everybody, regardless of their background, learn the rules of the road, pass a driving test and get insurance. As a result, our roads will be safer, we will create more access to job opportunities and our economic growth will be strengthened," Quinn said.
Many advocates of the New Mexico licensing law said it has kept families together and enabled hardworking immigrants to drive to back-breaking jobs on farms, in oil fields and in hospitality businesses.
Pacheco's bill simply would have repealed the law. It was a near duplicate of a bill that former Rep. Andy Nunez, an independent from Hatch, introduced the last two years.
Rehm's proposal would have repealed the law and revoked the licenses of foreign nationals. They would have received a refund for the unused portion of the license, some of which are valid for eight years.
New Mexico has issued 94,000 driver's licenses to foreign nationals, meaning the payback program could have cost millions.
Padilla said of those with foreign national licenses, only about 16,000 filed tax returns last year. She said this was a good indicator that most illegal immigrants who obtained New Mexico licenses have left the state.
Rehm in 2011 sponsored a bill to grant illegal immigrants driving privilege cards that would have been good only in New Mexico. He said he changed to an all-out repeal because that is what the people of his district and the state want.
Democrats in the Legislature still may offer a compromise bill that would issue illegal immigrants driving privilege cards. But the preference of many Democrats is to leave the existing law as is.
Pacheco's repeal proposal is House Bill 132 and Rehm's is House Bill 161. The five Democrats who blocked their bills were House Speaker Ken Martinez of Grants, Rep. Phillip Archuleta of Las Cruces, and Reps. Rick Miera, Miguel Garcia and Sheryl Williams Stapleton, all of Albuquerque.
Milan Simonich, Santa Fe bureau chief of Texas-New Mexico Newspapers, can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or 505-820-6898. His blog is at nmcapitolreport.com.


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Update: This is George Dolenz, the father of "Monkees" star Micky Dolenz, in a publicity photo for "Vendetta."
Just a reminder on how this works: I post the mystery photo on Monday and reveal the answer on Friday. To keep the mystery photo from getting lost in the other entries, I move it from Monday to Tuesday to Wednesday, etc., adding a photo every day.
I have to approve all comments, so if your guess is posted immediately, that means you're wrong. (And if a wrong guess has already been submitted by someone else, there's no point in submitting it again.) If you're right, you will have to wait until Friday. There's no need to submit your guess five times. Once is enough. The only prize is bragging rights.
The answer to last week's photo: Norma Crane.
Update: Dolenz in "Vendetta."
Here's another photo of our mystery fellow. Please congratulate Don Danard for identifying him.
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Update: Dolenz and Faith Domergue in "Vendetta."
Here's a photo of our mystery guest and a mystery companion. Please congratulate Paul Cardinal for identifying him!
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Update: Dolenz on "The Restless Gun," 1958.
Here's our mystery fellow with another firearm. Please congratulate R. Ahuna, Gregory Moore, Dru Duniway Michael Ryerson, Alexa Foreman, "Laura" fan Waldo Lydecker, Lee Ann Bailey, Cinnamon Carter, Cynthia Keillor and Anne Papineau for identifying him!
Dolenz, right, visits Jane Russell and Victor Mature on the set of "The Las Vegas Story."


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What is your favorite element of your Small & Cool home? After 4 years of living in a constrained 140 square-foot room with a conventional coffee table/futon/queen-sized bed taking up every inch of floor space, I had had enough. So I designed and built "the loft" inspired by the Swiss Family Robinson. Now I feel like I really do live in a treehouse. It has quadrupled the usable space in my apartment…
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…I now have stairs that float and hold some of my books. All the stereo equipment is hidden way in the 30 cubic feet of built-in storage space in the unit that is still half empty. Every part of the design has two functions: platform and storage; headboard and magnetic key rack; stairs and bookshelf, etc. Installing the loft created a whole new space to furnish below. Having no budget, I raided my grandmother's basement where I picked up a few very special items: out with the futon, in with the cool 70's couch, old drafting table, and 50's club chairs. The loft is made of welded blackened-steel square tube and furniture-grade birch plywood. Not only does the loft maximize the usable space, but also minimized cleaning time. Cleaning and dusting the entire apartment now takes a mere 30 minutes. Mission accomplished!
What was one of the biggest challenges you faced in furnishing your Small Cool home? Funding it was the hardest part. In the midst of starting up a new industrial design firm I have little extra spending money for my own projects. So in these tough economic times I jumped at opportunities to improve the apartment in exchange for money off my rent. In the past I had cut deals with my landlord to put in new cabinets in the kitchen in exchange for a month and a half off of rent. I just had to hope and pray that my landlord would love my design and execution of the loft. A month's rent didn't quite cover all the materials, so to build the stairs I used salvaged steel. I painstakingly cleaned off all the rust to restore its original beauty so it could be welded by a great friend with a metal shop, Adam Apostolos. Once built in the shop the loft was designed to assemble from five sections and we installed the frame in just half an hour. It only took an allen key, 7 lag bolts, and three concrete anchors to assemble and mount the frame to the walls and ceiling. Cutting the plywood and installing it to the frame took an extra couple of days.
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This is the Way The World EndsMay 26th, 2011 – by Laura Lehman Amstutz
Probably most of us weren't surprised when the world didn't end on May 21 at 6 p.m. I watched the Rapture chatter prior to Saturday with bemusement. Facebook featured everything from jokes about people whose spouses hadn't been seen in a while, to the "post-Rapture looting" event scheduled for an hour later, to the slightly more serious post from one friend who said, "I'm amazed at all the people who are making fun of the May 21 rapture who believe the Rapture actually will happen someday."
I have to admit, I have my own doubts about the Rapture ever happening. I am tired of it being used as a plot device for salvation narratives. Films and books like "Left Behind" and "Thief in the Night" are overused. Fear as a basis for salvation is just not appealing.
One the other hand, maybe it's the idea of judgment that really gives me pause. I am significantly less cynical about world-wide apocalyptic destruction than I am about the Rapture. Eschatology deals specifically with divine judgment and the destruction of evil. An apocalyptic scenario, however, does not assume God-driven action, but sees it caused by humanity or the natural world. Earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, wars, greed for oil and environmental crises seem close at hand. Most of us don't equate any of these things with the judgment of God. As my friend Amy (who wrote her dissertation on the rhetoric of dystopias and post-apocalyptic literature) says, we can rationalize the end of the world much easier than we can rationalize God's judgment of the world. Our technological culture does not like things we can't rationalize.
But it does make me wonder – how do we recognize God's judgment? Perhaps the Rapture is an obvious sign of God's action, which may be why people like Harold Camping hold on to it so tightly. But is that any worse than what I do, which is to deny God's judgment of the world? Is my own ambiguity about God's ability and willingness to judge humanity any less limiting than the conviction that the Rapture will happen?
My tendency to imagine a human or environmental apocalypse and yet deny divine judgment means that my image of God is limited to those "nice" qualities I like about God– love, peace, etc. And yet, that is not the entire biblical witness of God's existence. Belief in the Rapture and in God's ultimate power to judge humanity, stretches my image of God beyond my rational box. Perhaps that is the real test of my faith and understanding of salvation. Why should not an all-encompassing God include the ability to destroy evil in the world?Read the rest of this entry »


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Dear Tom and Ray:
I want one more crack at a convertible, having had a wonderful Dodge Dart convertible in earlier years (it was stolen in Detroit when I left it with a company to replace the top and they parked it on the street -- boo hoo!). Background: I'm 93 years old, drive a 2000 Subaru Outback (also a great car but has high mileage and a roof). I have extensive driving experience -- across the country twice, 3,300 miles last summer (Mill Valley, Calif.; Durango, Colo.; Moab, Utah; across Nevada and back home). No arrests, no accidents, no problems (so far). What would you recommend for a secondhand, moderately priced, safe (air bags), serviceable and FUN convertible? Many thanks for your assistance. I've loved your column and radio show for many years. -- Anne
RAY: Well, first I have to ask if you'd accept a marriage proposal from my brother. He's been looking for someone like you ever since Wife No. 2 changed the locks.
TOM: I see you in a Porsche Turbo Carerra, Anne -- as long as I'm not making the payments. I've made enough "payments" already, if you know what I mean!
RAY: Actually, the car that first comes to mind for you is the Toyota Camry Solara. It's basically a Camry with two doors and a convertible top.
TOM: There are several things that make me think the Solara is the convertible for you. First, it's based on the Toyota Camry, which means it'll be durable, reliable, ergonomically practical and easy to service.
RAY: Second, it's a little bigger than some of the sportier convertible alternatives, like the Mazda Miata, the Mini Cooper or the VW Golf Convertible. And if you're driving across the country, it's nice to have a little room for your belongings and not feel cramped. Plus a slightly larger car will feel more stable on the interstate at high speeds. Not to mention that size often adds some measure of safety if you do have an accident.
TOM: Third, the Solara's a little higher off the ground than those other cars. That means you can get into it without having to "fall" down into the driver's seat, or rappel back out of the car with a grappling hook. That also means you'll see better when you're driving. I thought of the Mustang for you, too. But you sit pretty low in the Mustang's seat, and I don't know how tall you are (you didn't mention a playing career in the WNBA), but you may feel a little bit like you're sitting in a bathtub when driving the Mustang.
RAY: Finally, it's an easy car to drive. Yeah, it doesn't corner at 90 mph like a Porsche, but it won't require constant vigilance on your part to keep it in its lane, either. And with the top down on a nice day, any car is fun.
TOM: I don't know what you consider affordable, Anne, but for $15 or $20 grand, you can pick up a very nice used Solara. I recommend red. Send us a picture, and enjoy it!
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More Scans from "Order of the Phoenix" Sticker Book
May 28, 2007
Additional scans from a Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix sticker book are now online, showing some new scenes from the movies. Among the new are a glimpse of Ron and Hermione in Grimmauld Place (perhaps while cleaning the rooms), a look at Harry hugging Sirius while standing in front of the Black family tapestry at Grimmauld Place, as well as one of Trelawney teaching class with Malfoy, Crabbe and Pansy all at their tables. You can see all of these new scans (including other looks at young Snape in the Pensieve scene, slightly different views of Tonks, MadEye, Bella and more) here via Portkey.it.
Thanks Mirko!
Update: Mirko let us know there are some additional scans up now, including this one of Ron apparently being held by a Death Eater, and one of Harry in his room on Privet Drive.


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Hi folks...
After some back and forward i managed to install Puppy to my Android phones 8 gig SD card.
My first experience was that I could not just do a normal install as in making the SD card bootable. It made the SD card into FAT16, that my phone did not read. So it needed to be FAT32.
Here is a short description of my way of doing "IT".
First i take a backup of SD card by using "move" and not copy" after making all files viewable.
Android will make the folders it needs later to your SD card.
Then i run the bootflash USB installer, but STOP when it asks if I like to "INSTALL PUPPY"...
Then i transfer the files by using "copy" from a ISO that i mount and make a bootable file system, preferably Slacko(due to its wild "run in ram" ability i still look into)
Once this is done, I start my pc by using i live CD or another bootable USB device and then make it run pfix=ram. I have then taken out the HD of the laptop to concentrate my grub4dos installation to hit the SD card only.
Once laptop is booted i run Grub4dos and if the SD card is the only device present, it will install to the SD card.
Now once this works, you can have as many puppy versions on your SD card/android as you like.
I hope to trigger a discussion on how one can make a version that runs from the phone and gives most value for puppyland...
I assume a ram only system is the better as one can remove the phones USB cable and Puppy will just run.
Also because you then can use the USB internet connection from the phone to the PC your running. That is a very good choice if Wlan is not present on the PC or if your android does not support Wlan hotspot service.
Hell... let me be honest here... Would it not be nice to make a special Puppy for this and make a APP out of it? So one can download the app from Google Play and it makes the SD card bootable and installs Puppy right onto your phone????
Frisbee is very useful in the sense of being nice on users when it comes to picking up a IP via USB cable...
Any ideas or suggestions?
I will make my own version of a Slacko to use RAM ONLY and give a nice and useful PC session. Since its a RAM ONLY idea, I might need to look into getting a portable version of Firefox in order to have ability to remember history and passwords.
Also... this is a nice way to run a secure session for banking i think.
Also to spread Puppy as one does bring this android thing around and i never leave home without the USB cable:-)
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Nice. Did you notice this thread?
I did not before you notified, but its a rather opposite subject as its running Puppy ON the phone and not OFF. That's like really apart.
This thread is more like gathering information from other Puppy users that likes to bring a portable Puppy inside their Android that can be booted to most computers and also be installed if the new user loves the idea.
And of course serve as a useful tool that can have various puppy tools installed that fits into the concept of having a "Swiss Army OS" living inside their phone that are usually present more than any Live CD, USB drive or other.
Most people brings keys, money and mobile phone when they leave home... I hope to see others that also now brings a Puppy with them as well included in the "phone, key and money" basic "leave home" packet and maybe add a USB cable if intuition tells you to:-)
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In a lecture titled "Climate Change: A Threat We Can Beat," Charles Kennel told a packed lecture series audience that global climate change due to greenhouse gases is real and steps can be taken now to protect future generations.
In a lecture titled "Climate Change: A Threat We Can Beat," noted physicist and former NASA administrator Charles Kennel told a packed lecture series audience Tuesday night that global climate change due to greenhouse gases is real and steps can be taken now to protect future generations.
"It's a grim topic, but we are not entirely helpless," Kennel told the group of about 225 at the talk held at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition as part of an ongoing series.
IHMC is a Florida-based center for information and technological research with offices in Ocala and Pensacola.
Kennel explained that data collected "over 100 years" on global temperatures indicates an increase on track to be in the range of over eight degrees Fahrenheit when experts warn of dangers "in the area of two degrees."
"The real clear indication is the melting of the ice cap and glaciers," Kennel said. "It can be seen on satellite. It's the canary in the mine or early warning" of the change, Kennel said.
Kennel said he monitored melting glaciers via satellite as director of the NASA earth science project "Mission to Planet Earth."
In an interview before the talk, Kennel explained that 60 percent of greenhouse gas believed responsible for acting as a "blanket" and causing an increase of global temperature comes from carbon dioxide from the use of fossil fuels in operating, for instance, cars and coal-burning electric generating plants.
"About 40 percent of the greenhouse gas comes from other sources like methane, HFC refrigerants in aerosols and other sources and soot from bad diesel and millions of open fires" worldwide, Kennel said.
"It's a controversial subject. We can't just stop with carbon dioxide-producing items which produce the most greenhouse gas -- but we can buy some time and control the others," Kennel said.
Kennel said there was some offsetting effect by "sulfates," which are released into the atmosphere and act like "mirrors" bouncing heat away.
Kennel, who has served as the director and dean of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and senior strategist for the University of California at San Diego, said data collected by Scripps researcher Charles Keeling and others since 1957 on Hawaiian mountaintops shows the variances in global temperature but also unusual warming trends.
"Florida can look for big storms," Kennel indicated, if nothing is done to stem the increase in the climate changes brought on by the effects of greenhouse gas. "Desert conditions will worsen and (due to melting glaciers) there is a reasonable chance of a three- to six-foot rise in the ocean level."
"In Florida, that would have a (pronounced) land loss effect on South Florida and likely cause (increased) storm surges," Kennel said.
"We can do some things," Kennel said. "Hillary Clinton announced the Climate and Clean Air Coalition in February and President Obama introduced it at the G-8 economic summit in May." The coalition's mission is directed at "short-lived climate pollutants" such as soot worldwide.
"The initiative aims to transfer knowledge" globally about the issue and the "U.S. took the lead," Kennel said.
Kennel said carbon dioxide emissions would have to be reduced "80 percent by 2050" to see any impact on the situation "by 2100," and the figure could go "up to 90 percent to allow for population increases."
"In California, for example, we would need 30 new nuclear power plants, new building standards, 58-mpg cars using low-carbon fuel to get near this goal; there's no single magic bullet, but we can improve" for our children, Kennel said.
College of Central Florida president Jim Henningsen said he felt the topic was "timely" and "as an educator, I want promote sustainability." The college is co-host of the lecture series.
Paul Albats, of Ocala, a physicist, spoke with Kennel after the talk about natural gas power generation versus coal.
Lecture attendee Jerry Cheney, a former biological oceanographer, said he was pleased a "world class scientist" was brought to Ocala in the lecture series.
"I enjoyed the talk; I have seen a lot of climate science denial before this," Cheney said.


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Debra K. Johnson 4/10/2007 12:46:47 PMLove it! Nice work Marko. #635429
Mike D. Perez 4/10/2007 1:23:19 PMBeautiful image, Marko! Great job with the lighting. #4151160
Remi Trepanier 4/10/2007 1:52:17 PMAmazing shot Marko!!! #4151235
Chris Welch 4/10/2007 3:45:15 PMAgreed, stunning photo! #4151613
Jim Stringer 4/10/2007 3:52:58 PMAwesome shot Marco!!! Love the colors, composition, and lighting. #4151637
Michelle L. Frick 4/10/2007 4:17:54 PMGorgeous colors Marko! Stunning image with a lot to say! #4151723
Pranay Koka 4/10/2007 4:27:28 PMthis is a great shot...awesome lighting #4151773
Tamara K. Walker 4/10/2007 4:58:22 PMFantastic composition, terrific work. #4151894
Doug K. Herrman 4/10/2007 5:13:20 PMMarko, You've got an award winner here. Good job! #4151934
Nikki McDonald 4/11/2007 8:09:30 PMSaw this in Editor's Picks. From the color to the lighting to the composition, this is very effective. Good going. #4156610
Jayne Martin 4/13/2007 12:42:02 AMWOW, very artistic!! I love this #4160893
Lynn Haack 4/14/2007 5:47:09 AMThis I like. Very different and unique...which is not an easy feat to accomplish these days. Congrats! Lynn #4165304
Erica Murphy 4/14/2007 4:35:12 PMWOW Marko!!! WOW, WOW, WOW!!! This is so amazing and awesome!
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Shawn Jennings 4/15/2007 8:14:14 PMExcellent shot Marko! #4171276
Cesar J. La Rosa 4/23/2007 12:21:16 AMWONDERFUL photograph!!!
Donna La Mattino Pagakis 4/23/2007 12:34:33 AMSuperb colors and lighting, excellent choice for photo of the day!! Congrats! #4198295
Janine Russell 4/23/2007 12:36:07 AMMarko, excellent tones, clarity and lighting; congratulations on your POTD. #4198300
Helen N. McHugh 4/23/2007 1:25:05 AMA great shot, Marko! Congratulations on your POTD! #4198369
Dominick M. Dimacale 4/23/2007 1:26:52 AMCongratulation to you Marko for a well deserved POTD, this image is really stunning, love the reddish shadow you have created, well done...Dominick #4198371
Amal A. AlNuaimi 4/23/2007 1:42:33 AMCongratulations on this Great POTD Marco! Amazing colors and tones! #4198401
Pradeep K. Kaushik 4/23/2007 2:16:56 AMExcellent shot Marko!! :D #4198451
Bill Houghton 4/23/2007 3:26:20 AMThis is a stunning photo Marko. Just a great shot. Congratulations. Bill
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Nikki McDonald 4/23/2007 3:34:31 AMThis was a wonderful Editor's First Pick and now it's an equally striking POTD. Congratulations and good luck. #4198661
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Wendy Stevenson 4/23/2007 5:12:07 AMAbsolutely gorgeous and what a fantastic mood!!! Big Congrats on this most wonderful POTD!! #4199198
Susan Batiuk 4/23/2007 5:23:58 AMexcuse me while I pick my bottom jaw up off the floor!! wowowowowweeee! outstanding!! #4199251
Kathleen K. Parker 4/23/2007 5:26:15 AMWonderful image. Congrats on POTD!!
Susan Feulner 4/23/2007 6:48:52 AMI, too, love this photo. I have an idea, but would you please explain what is meant by "contralight".
Marko Domagoj Zic 4/23/2007 6:55:47 AM"I have an idea, but would you please explain what is meant by "contralight"."
Contra-light: most of the light is comming from oposite direction, I took photo aiming towards the Sun. That's where the all flare and low contrast came from.
To All: tnx for kind words! Appreciated! #4199544
Josselyne Klecanda 4/23/2007 7:35:48 AMFantastic! #4199682
Heather E. Lupo 4/23/2007 7:46:10 AMWOW! wow! W-O-W!
Wonderful - Eye Catching - Fantastic!
Great Work Marko!
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Allan L. Dy 4/27/2007 12:50:21 AMCongratulations Marko! #4219511
Shawn Jennings 5/23/2007 6:41:35 PMSo glad to see this again Marko! Congratulations on your finalist! #4319859
Nikki McDonald 5/23/2007 7:02:07 PMCongratulations and good luck in the next round, Marko. This is a wonderful finalist. #4320022
Lindley Johnson 5/24/2007 3:31:10 PMThe color and the backlighting make this an absolutely stunning image! Congratulations on your POTD and finalist, Marko! #4325732
Mirko Sorak 5/24/2007 10:36:37 PMJutro frajeru..Wll done ;-)..CU #4327067
Dominick M. Dimacale 5/25/2007 2:23:16 AMCongratulations Marko on your win...Dominick #4327448
Lindley Johnson 5/25/2007 3:15:35 PMHuge congratulations on your fantastic winner, Marko! #4330222
Janine Russell 5/25/2007 11:20:43 PMMarko, excellent tones and lighting; BIG CONGRATULATIONS on your SECOND PLACE WIN! #4331315
Donna Rowley 10/17/2008 3:06:34 PMThis is stunning Marko, and so too is your gallery. Well done. #6615635
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London: Supermodel Naomi Campbell says she once kidnapped her supermodel-friend Kate Moss and took her to Dublin.
"I was introduced to Kate. I kidnapped her and that was it. I kidnapped her, stopped in Paris to pick up Christy Turlington, and we all flew to Dublin together," dailystar.co.uk quoted Campbell as saying.
The 43-year-old also mentioned that she counts Moss as a member of her family.
"She is like my sister. No matter how old she is, I look on her as my little sister," she said.


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New kind of advertising to light up Buffalo's taxicab wheels
These wheels don't go round and round.
Or at least they are designed to look like they don't.
Buffalo will be the first city in the country to roll out advertising on taxicab hubcaps, launching a product its designers hope will spread to New York City, Las Vegas and, eventually, around the globe to London and Dubai.
"I do think Buffalo represents an interesting and an international market, with the proximity to the falls," said Daniel J. Brunell, president and CEO of Street Media Partners.
The hubcap covers will glow at night using power generated from the car's movement. They also are also designed to stay upright when the car is moving. But the lighted hubcaps won't flash, Brunell said.
The revenue generated by the lighted hubcap covers will keep cab fares affordable, Brunell also said.
In addition to serving as ads, they will give an extra measure of safety for travelers entering and exiting the cabs, as well as bicyclists peddling by, he said.
The advertising costs about double what a sign on top of a taxi would cost, or a "few hundred dollars," per cab every month, Brunell said.
The product doesn't have a name yet, but patent applications have been filed.
Liberty Cab, Buffalo's largest taxicab operation with 140 vehicles in its fleet, will begin sporting hubcap ads for McDonald's Premium McWrap sandwiches in the next week. The hubcap covers will feature the McDonald's logo, and a panel advertising the McWraps will be placed on lower sides of the car, between the wheels.
Street Media, a Florida-based company, approached Buffalo's Liberty about the hubcaps a year ago, said Liberty Cab President William G. Yuhnke.
"I fought for Buffalo," Yuhnke said. "A creative class is looking at Buffalo for the first time."
Street Media needed a city where the weather was varied to test the product. The company also liked Buffalo's proximity to Canada. Brunell also happened to have a staff member from upstate New York.
But the company was mainly drawn by Yuhnke's reputation, Brunell said.
"You have one of – if not the – best taxi fleet owners in the U.S.," said Brunell. He commended Yuhnke for his relationships with his staff and the city.
All of the product tests for the new hubcabs have already been done, including road tests over 2.5 million miles, according to the company.
The Common Council and Mayor Byron W. Brown just gave their approval for a 45-day trial.
"It's great to bring new technology to Buffalo, where it's been warmly received," Brunell said. "Not every city has the foresight to be the first one."
The printing for the hubcap covers and panels is being done at Underground Wraps in North Tonawanda, and Brunell said he would like to use the company for rollouts in other cities, too.
Though McDonald's is a national chain, a local franchisee is contracting for the advertising, and Brunell said he hopes other local companies will see the benefit of advertising on taxis.
The company has permission to enter about 66 new markets, and the hubcap covers – or "softly lighted orbs," as they are marketed – will pop up in Washington, D.C., next.
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This is really cool idea. very impressive web site.
A novel idea well implemented
Great website which is very user friendly.It gives a visual comparision which help us to take a decision easily..
One more thing it gives the comparission of all the product belonging to same segment in one graph in all aspects.
very good UI and specially the bubble chart which makes it very interesting and unique.
-Really an inovative idea
-Cool display of comparesion statistics
*A bit slow performence
Liked the Website, the way of presentation of statistics is superb !! Impressed...
Bubbles Bubbles everywhere ;)
We all agree that bubble view has been around for quite sometime, but this is first time I have seen it being used in comparison shopping. It gives a great perspective/visual angle to comparison shopping. good job.
This is great mashup that I have seen around shopping. Visual graph is really cool idea to represent the data.


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Using one school's attempt to ban chocolate as a case study in the futility of "market suppression," Tim Harford's article opened up a classic conservative/liberal divide, with questions of personal choice vs. government intervention dominating The Undercover Economist Fray.
FBH echoes many readers in calling for more parental involvement. Father of two daughters, Ripley bemoans the bad nutritional choices induced by government-subsized lunch programs. Also a frustrated parent, Dayenu laments how "schools peddle this junk and then demand that we control our children if we don't want them to eat it… Meanwhile, they're suggesting that young kids, whose impulse-control skills when it comes to eating should hardly be expected to rival those of adults, should walk past junk food… How about paying a bit more, charging a bit more, and serving good, healthful hot lunches?"
Wary of yet more regulation headed her way, katbsd promises "during the next school year to take even more time away from teaching math to check lunches, snacks, and lockers for contraband candy!"
Of banning chocolate, AshleyMiller says "if the school systems are smart, they will focus more on nutritional education rather than ban sweets…just because candy is available does not mean that a person has to eat it."
As a matter of precision, RPC points out that there is a difference "between 'banning' something and not selling something. Should schools ban chocolate? I don't think so. If parents choose to send their kids in with chocolate, so be it. Should schools sell chocolate? No. But that is not a 'ban.' "
For his part, run75441 questions the implicit equivalence between the commodities Snickers = Chuckles = Heroin??? discussed in Harford's article.
texasman1 takes a more libertarian approach and moreover admires the entrepreneurial spirit of the young boy selling banned candies to his classmates. What could be more American than that? AC … 5:38pm PDT
Friday, July 21, 2006
Ross Douthat's appraisal of M. Night Shyamalan's directing career to date stirred up passions both for and against in Culturebox.
Sledgeh101 thinks Douthat, "in trying to defend M. Night's post-6th Sense movies, is trying a little too hard to see the silver lining in the blackening clouds." Read additional commentary here.
For amble, Shymalan's self-directed American Express commercial is demonstrative enough of his overly inflated ego:
Shymalan's self-mythologizing, and achingly pretentious American Express commercial was, quite literally, queeze-inducing, and is reason alone to dislike him.
As a counterpoint, it was such a relief–and a hilarious one–to see that Wes Anderson chose the exact opposite route and made a commercial making fun of pretentious directors. Just to re-iterate for those who didn't see it: in Shymalan's commercial he can't even eat at a super-fancy restaurant without being recognized and bothered–ha ha ha–by the staff, who all looooove his movies. And meanwhile, he is fanatasing about ideas essentailly ripped off from Rod Sterling because, as we mortals should know, his mind works differently than ours does.
Whatever we might think of his movies, Jaque notes how successfully the director has cultivated his own name as a brand:
Whether we like M. Night Shyamalan or not, he his already a phenom. Just look at all the posts on Slate. Just about everyone is able to not only recall all the movies made my him, but is also able to critique them in great depth! How many modern Directors have this effect?
Look at the this Summer's biggest block buster - Pirates. How do most people indentify this movie? Johny Depp. Or may be Disney.
Now contrast this with North By North West. Most people will identify this as a Hitcock movie inspite of the big name presence of Cary Grant!
The same is true for Sixth Sense and Unbreakable. Both with big name presence of Bruce Willis. But by and large we don't lable it as "Bruce Willis movie." That is what M. Night has achieved. A mark on the movie industry.
Cinematic history will be kind to Shyamalan, predictsS_MargaretPrima:
I believe that as much as Shyamalan is getting a critical flogging now, he's due to be re-evaluated in a decade or two. Don't get me wrong, I don't uniformly admire all of his movies and I can see why critical opinion has turned on him. He may have stretched the collective credulity by flogging the 'twist ending' too much, all the while allowing the marketing of his movies to turn him into a one-gimmick director. But at least for Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and yes, even Signs (I have not seen the Village nor Lady in the Water) I have never seen better character development or a more masterful setting of tone. His films are somber, suspenseful and yet profoundly sad, eliciting performances from his actors that you wouldn't expect.
Memo from hcd to Shyamalan, cc: studio executives:
The criticism M. Night is garnering is because he wants to be feted as a real live Homer, but there obviously isn't a conspiracy to deprive him of the money necessary to make his mostly enjoyable, always overreaching, possibly overly well regarded films. He's gotten a phenomenal amount of support already. If anything, his apparent inability to take the gentlest of hints is what will prevent him from closing that gap between his ambition and execution. But it seems foolish to fault the film industry in all this, as though they're preventing his dream movie that can only be done with just a little more fawning and a few more millions.
Off to see Lady in the Water myself. AC … 7:40pm PDT
Monday, July 17, 2006
Richard Ford's piece on gay marriage got an intense drubbing in the Jurisprudence Fray, with much scrutiny directed at his central claim that "a hunger for distinctive sex roles is just not the same thing as anti-gay bigotry."
In a lengthy diatribe, Rrhain explains how anxiety over gender roles is at the root—or at the very least, a displaced symptom—of homophobia:
Despite protestations to the contrary, "a hunger for distinctive sex roles" is precisely anti-gay bigotry and the reason why is that gays inherently cross those roles …And this connects directly to marriage due to the fundamental purpose of marriage: Legitimization of a sexual relationship. Marriage has changed quite a bit over the years, but the one thing that remains constant throughout its history is the sexual relationship that is created between the participants. To this day, one of the reasons you can get a marriage annuled is that the two have never had sex…And this is why we see the homophobes drawing the line at marriage even though they don't have nearly as much of a problem with employment, housing, education, military service, etc.: Marriage forces them to consider sexual activity between people of the same sex. Working at a job, paying the rent, going to school, serving in the military, none of those things are sexual in nature. But marriage? That's got sex written all over it. What is the symbol by which we show the world that the marriage has been solemnized and made legitimate? That's right, by an act of physical intimacy: The couple kisses. And then we send the couple off on a honeymoon so that they can have lots and lots of sex.
A self-identified straight woman who eschews conventional gender roles in her own marriage, Janessa lectures Ford on "Womens Studies 101":
Underlying homophobic attitudes is fear of divergent gender identities. It is impossible to consider sexual orientation without considering gender presentation and identity. This is like, Womens Studies 101 (but maybe Ford skipped that class in college since it was only for ladies).
Gay men and women have been discriminated against and subject to medical, behavior, and disciplinary intervention so that their gender presentation more explicitly matched their biological gender…Compulsory heterosexuality, exemplified by "one man one woman" marriage, is one of the stalwart elements of gender discipline…
It is completely befuddling why Ford thinks that some straight people's clinging to violently, legally policed gender roles is somehow more okay than hating gay people for some mysterious "other" way of hating gays. In fact, his description of straight anti-gay marriage activists' attitudes sounds like my definition of homophobia straight up – the belief that women should get f—– by men, and men should f— women, and anything else is icky and scary.
More to the point, badtequila asks why sexism is somehow more palatable or excusable than homophobia tout court.
For Catorce, Ford fails to appreciate the difference between government marriage and religious marriage:
Religious marriage is caught up in all manner of dogma and tradition detailing very specific gender roles for a husband and wife. When you accept religious marriage, you are supposedly also accepting the religion's version of the roles that come along with it. But Government marriage is only a distribution of the same exact benefits to two people. Your own sex is irrelevant. Your partner's sex is irrelevant. No government benefit of marriage is gender related. And you accept no gender "role" when you have the government sanction your marriage."
In a sentiment perhaps typical of fair-minded social moderates, OldGrouch expresses his slight revulsion at the idea of gay marriage but in practice argues for social tolerance.
kd1084 points to marriage as a historically malleable concept and institution. mallardsballard carefully outlines the historical origins of marriage and concludes that "if one rests purely on conservative tradition, the answer [for opposing gay marriage] is, because it has never been done that way before."
For those despondent over recent developments on the gay-marriage front, Peter Beinart of The New Republic offers a more uplifting take here. AC… 6:59pm PDT
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Ezra Klein's diagnosis on "the medical malpractice myth" and positive evaluation of a reform proposal by Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama brought medical professionals, public policy analysts, and consumer advocates all out of the woodwork.
courtgrunt, a civil-court clerk, scrolls through his county's database of pending cases and finds four medical malpractice suits (out of a random sample of 500), leading him to conclude "there aren't even close to as many medical malpractice lawsuits filed as the media (or extreme right wingers) would like us to believe."
By contrast, claiming that Slate "slants the whole issue as if malpractice were as mythological as unicorns," MomboMan-3 lists a series of points underscoring the very real problem facing doctors today.
Luchese laments that patients are now numbers:
In over two decades of Obstetrics I found that communication with the patient not only humane and professional but allayed questions and concerns about treatment and outcome. Most physicians do not communicate with their patients and hence suffer lawsuits because of feelings of abandonment or subterfuge on the part of the patient. The profession is now driven by technology, money and productivity. Patients are no longer people but numbers. Furthermore the burden to healthcare now and will be those illnesses and diseases caused by lifestyle; obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, smoking, and those resulting from society; stress, depression, anxiety, insomnia. All the technology, training and malpractice insurance cannot change this.
But antsi, an obstetrician "for almost ten years," attests to having "seen the pernicious effects of malpractice litigation first hand. Reading this article, I feel like a swimmer being told by someone standing on dry land that the water isn't wet." Read his objections here.
An indignant ShanCan blasts the lack of transparency in the medical profession:
Why is it that any Taco Bell has to be regularly inspected, get a letter grade, and have it posted for all the world to see but it is virtually impossible for me to find out the safety record of the cardiac surgeon who is going to slice me open and literally hold my heart in his hands? Why is it that I can lose my driver's license after a series of violations in which no one is harmed, but a physician can keep his medical license regardless of how many deaths s/he contributes to simply by paying a higher insurance premium, so long as the errors are deemed to be accidental and not negligent? Why is it legal for a doctor or hospital to cover up their lethal mistakes with a pile of money and a confidentiality clause? It is not a secret to anyone who actually reads the literature that the problem is not a rash of frivolous lawsuits but a rash of dangerous doctors and hospitals with no real accountability beyond their own consciences. Kudos to Clinton and anyone else who proposes an idea that may solve a legitimate problem in a way that benefits the public rather than a small interest group like - but good luck getting something so practical and potentially effective through the legislative process.
rcf broadens the debate on medical malpractice costs to include all the players: "Realize doctors are not the only medical providers who make errors. Nurses do, clerks do, aides do, lab techs do, PA's do. Such an error no matter who makes it can lead to a cascade of subsequent errors." Read his reform proposal here.
For Dayenu, the point of medical malpractice cases is "to make patients (or their survivors) whole again. They are not designed to improve health care. In fact, in some ways they fail to do just that, by convincing policymakers that a lawsuit solves the problem for the next patient, when it doesn't. In the first place, the problem isn't just paying claims, it's the cost of medical malpractice insurance. In the second place, is there any proof that malpractice cases do anything to improve health care to individual patients or even stop individual bad doctors from practicing medicine?"
michaeltwatson, author of America's Tunnel Vision—How Insurance Companies' Propaganda Is Corrupting Medicine and Law, writes in to make a plug for his book and deplore the prevalence of medical error.
You can add your two cents in Medical Examiner. AC … 7:30pm PDT


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New York Jany 3rd 1843
Commander Mackensie
Although a personal stranger to you, I cannot
restrain the expression of my feelings to you, in this moment of
universal excitement—I am a very old soldier of the Revolution,
and was present at Head quarters (Tappan) when Major André
was brought into camp a prisoner taken in the full and faithful
discharge of his duty, to his king and his General, and his
country, a victim to the treachery and treason of that Arch-traitor
Arnold a name synonimous [sic] with infamy. From that
moment to the present it has been with me a fixed and
unalterable principle, and I trust will ever remain so, that,
treason on shore and Mutiny at Sea should upon satisfactory
evidence of its exsistence [sic] be instantly put down at all
hazards, be the consequences what they may—There is however
a marked difference between Treason and Mutiny[.] If André
had been kept a prisoner in strict surveillance until the close of
war—(a circumstance which would have received universal
assent) no possible injury could have effected [sic] either the
General the Army or the Public—The General in the bosom of
his camp, every individual of which was ready to shed his blood
and hazard his life for his fame, or his person. No
apprehensions could have been feared entertained, that André
would have been liberated by the associates of Arnold's
[guilt?]—No! Arnold had happily swept the camp, and I trust
the country of every spark of Treason to be found in them.—
But oh! how different how very different was your situation,
Cooped up in a small vessel in the
midst of a mutinous crew far very far more in numbers than the
little gallant band of brothers who fearlessly and heroisally [sic]
determined to stand by you to support you, to defend the ship
and the honour of her untarnished Flag, and save their country,
from consequences too shocking for reflection to share your
honor, or perish with you—
Who will venture to say, that the spirit of Mutiny which had
taken such full possessions of the chief or Elders of the crew,
would not at every hazard have stricken off the Irons from the
master spirit of the plot in the night? And then what pen can
describe—what tongue express—the appalling atrocities which
would have been the consequences of such a liberation! Headed
by a man who was as reckless of human life, as of the life of the
worm, which writhes beneath his his foot or of the animated
Insect that fluttered in the sunbeam—A leader in whose
character from his early youth to his death no redeeming virtue
to be found calculated to elicit a sigh of sympathy from the most
sympathizing bosom, if we except the universal sigh which must
burst from every pious christian heart on the reflection that a
youth just ripen'd into manhood of high promis [sic] improved
by education sprunging from an amiable respectable and
virtuous family, the son of a highly gifted cabinet maker
Minister in an honorable station with talents to fit him for the
most useful service of his country, with honor to himself and
credit to his family, should in despite of the counsels of his best
friends have plunged himself into such a Gulf of Guilt and crime
of the most
atrocious nature which man is capable of committing against his
fellow man[.] It is a crime engendered in the lowest pit of the
infernal regions—It is fostered and cherished by the Devil and
put into exercise by spirits as wicked as himself, which has
brought him to an untimela [sic] end, planted a dagger in the
bleeding bosom heart of the mother who bore him, which can
never be extracted until Time as to her shall be merged in
Eternity, and bring his Fathers grey hairs in [sorrow?] to the
grave—This it is which excites a sigh of sympathy and sorror
[sic] from every christian heart, who takes an impartial view of
this awful tragedy—
In support of this unhappy youth it has been
said and said with truth that this (your conduct) has been "a
highhanded act for which, there was no justifiable cause." To
the first part of this observation I readily assent, nay, I say it was
an exceedingly high handed act, but was there not an
exceedingly high handed necessity for it? Shall the spirit of
Mutiny be suffered to hatch to cherish, to perfect its plans? Is
the officer to whom his country has confided her defence the
safety of her people, the honor of her Navy, the glory of her flag,
and the lives of the few gallant spirits devoted to him and them
to wait supinely for its manifest effects? wait until the tocsin is
sounded, and the more than savage warwhoop proclaimes that
the work of devastation and death has begun and all hope of
resistance is cast off! God forbid—for this I hail you Sir as an
high minded high spirited prudent and gallant officer worthy the
trust committed to your care—I hail you as having performed
more for the security of your country, the honor of
her Navy, and the glory of her untarnished Flag than any one of
your predecessors has happily had an opportunity to perform[.]
You have at the manifest hazard of your life and what is of
infinitely greater value your honor, your fame, and your
character—you have preserved the honor of the untarnished Flag
of your Navy from a stain, which all the waters in the universe
could not efface, if once affixed—
May you long
enjoy the smiles of your country and the Gratitude of all good
men. yours sincerely
W. Popham
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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Hotels near airport? Visas? Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Hotels near airport? Visas? Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Taiwan View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message Link HJoined: 26 Jun 2003Posts: 14 Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2003 3:19 am Post subject: Hotels near airport? Visas? I'm planning on passing through Taipei on my way to Indonesia. I would like to spend a night in Taipei in a hotel in or near the airport. Can anyone tip me off as to where a good, low budget (e.g. $30 or $40) hotel is that would be decent for a family to stay in for a night? I need something near to the airport, maybe something with a shuttle. I don't speak Chinese, and I've never been to Taiwan. I'll be exhausted with a wife and infant. Does Taiwan allow people to stay for 14 days without a visa? Would that include non-US citizens like Indonesians, or is that a deal for Indonesians only? Back to top AristotleJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 1388Location: Taiwan Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2003 4:44 am Post subject: Here is a good place to start. You will get better rates if you book over the net well in advance. Follow that up with a fax and a telephone number and get the name of the person as well as a confirmation number. Toayuan is the name of the closest city to the airport. Taipei is an hour drive in traffic from the airport. You can get a 14 day landing visa at the airport if you have an onward plane ticket. Some nationalities may be able to get more time but I have not heard from anyone who has successfully done this. There is a fee for landing visas. The last I heard it was NT$ 1,500 dollars ( approximately C$75.00 ). http://www.canada-taiwan.org/english/service/landing.htm Hotels in Taoyuan, http://www.bookingsavings.com/asia_pacific/taiwan/taoyuan/index.shtml http://www.hotelsbooker.com/city.php?countrycode=TW&citycode=TAOY http://www.voyagenow.com/hotel/taoyuan.html http://www.abouthotel.com/hotel/tcity.php?countrycode=TW&citycode=TAOY http://www.traveltap.com/hotels/taiwan_hotels/taoyuan/ http://www.world-stay.com/en/tw/taoyuan/ http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=hotels,+Taoyuan,+Taiwan&spell=1 Hope it helps. Have you ever traveled with an infant before? Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Taiwan All times are GMT Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Where to Begin----------------General DiscussionNewbie ForumCurrent Events ForumTechnology ForumOnline Teaching Forum Africa Forums----------------General Africa Forum Asia Forums----------------CambodiaChina (Job-related Posts Only)China (Off-Topic)Hong KongIndiaIndonesiaJapanMalaysiaPhilippinesSingaporeTaiwanThailandGeneral Asia ForumVietnam Caribbean Forums----------------General Caribbean Forum Europe Forums----------------Czech RepublicFranceGermanyGreeceItalyMacedonia and the BalkansPolandRomaniaRussia & C.I.S.SpainTurkeyUkraineUnited KingdomGeneral Europe Forum Latin America Forums----------------ArgentinaBrazilChileColombiaCosta RicaMexicoMexico (off-topic)PeruGeneral Latin America Forum The Middle East Forums----------------BahrainEgyptIsraelKuwaitOmanQatarSaudi ArabiaUnited Arab EmiratesGeneral Middle East Forum North America Forums----------------General North America Forum Oceania----------------Australia/New Zealand You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Contact Dave's ESL Cafe Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved. Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group Teaching Jobs in China


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I have not heard of Sencha coming out with the Air adapter but will ask.
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Will wait until then before starting looking at my own solution
Hi Ekambos,
actually I haven't developed a working AIR adapter for ExtJS 4.0 due to a lack of time during the last months.
I started some work some months ago, but had huge problems using ExtJS 4.0 with AIR.
Look at this post for some discussion regarding this topic: http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthre...ir-VS-Titanium
I've even thought about using Titanium with ExtJS 4.0, but compared with AIR, Titanium misses a lot of features and a good api documentation. AIR's problem is the sandbox concept because ExtJS4.0 uses a lot of XTemplates and so eval calls and Function constructors. And AIR still doesn't support SVG, that is necessary for all the draw components that start with Ext.panel.Panel's rbar/lbar/headerPosition:left or right features and so on.
For now you have to use the latest Air adapter with ExtJS 3.3. ExtJS 3.4 may work but I didn't test it so far.
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better ?diot-proof programs, and the universe striving to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning. (Rick Cook)
Enhanced ExtJS adapter for Adobe AIR
Well, I have not heard of it coming out with an air adapter but I just hope that they would, and soon. I have been trying to look at some points to possibly be able to get a link for it to work with extjs though I am running out of some resources to complete that task.
^ I hope that you could get some after market support to it so that we could use it rather well.


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By Ruth Hubenthal, CFCA Sponsor Services Representative
Sponsors always have questions about their sponsored friends and about how CFCA is helping make that connection between a good-hearted individual and a person brimming with potential but in need of help. Questions sometimes include inquiries about culture, benefits, why letters take so long, and what to write. It is a joy to see that curiosity and to pass on what information I can from the childís point of view.
It might come as a surprise to some sponsors that the children and the elderly have the same questions. Why do letters take so long? What is their sponsor's culture like? What kind of conditions do they live in? Why does my sponsor leave the program? And, the social workers do a great job in explaining the information they have to the children. But the best way to satisfy the curiosity of the child is through a letter.
Unfortunately, there is always a day when that relationship comes to a practical end, though in our hearts and prayers it continues for a lifetime. There are also questions about this, and it is hard to have to explain, but we can see Godís will allowing us to walk hand-in-hand with someone for a time, and then Him seeing fit to have us part ways.
Itís a tough subject to approach, but when, for some reason, a sponsor or a child leaves the program, a final letter makes the transition a little easier. Even if the sponsor has to stop because of loss of a job, loss of a loved one, or simply because they have other responsibilities, it is always so caring to write a letter letting them know.
The children, the elderly, or someone who knows them usually writes a final letter to the sponsor, and though it might not be satisfying, and it is bittersweet, there is closure. And just like the questions that the children have, a letter from their sponsor is also bittersweet, but it gives them closure.
I guess what I mean to say is that in Sponsor Services, we work so hard for you to see your sponsored friendís point of view, but I want to make you aware that they also want to see yours. They are the reason we sponsor; you are the reason they strive for a better future.


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Molten Salts and Ionic Liquids: Never the Twain?
Molten Salts and Ionic Liquids: Never the Twain?
ISBN: 978-0-470-94776-0 July 2012 250 Pages
DescriptionFor many years, the related fields of molten salts and ionic liquids have drifted apart, to their mutual detriment. Both molten salts and ionic liquids are liquid salts containing only ions - all that is different is the temperature! Both fields involve the study of Coulombic fluids for academic and industrial purposes; both employ the same principles; both require skilled practitioners; both speak the same language; all then that is truly different is their semantics, and how superficial is that?
The editors of this book, recognising that there was so much knowledge, both empirical and theoretical, which can be passed from the molten salt community to the ionic liquid community, and vice versa, organised a landmark meeting in Tunisia, designed to bridge the gap and heal the rift. Leaders from both communities met for a week for a mutual exchange, with a high tutorial content intermixed with cutting edge findings. This volume is a condensate of the principal offerings of that week, and emphasises the success which was achieved. Indeed, four future biannual meetings, under the title of "EUCHEM Conferences on Molten Salts and Ionic Liquids", have now been planned as a direct result of this meeting of minds.
Topics discussed in this volume include structure, dynamics, electrochemistry, interfacial and thermodynamic properties, spectroscopy, synthesis, and theoretical studies. Experimental and theoretical methods for investigating these data are elaborated, as are techniques for data collection and analysis. This book represents the first serious discussion on the transfer of these methods and techniques between the differing temperature regimes, and is a major contribution to the future of both fields.
1 Ionic Liquids in the Temperature Range 150-1500 K: Patterns and Problems (C.Austin Angell).
2 Conductivities of Ionic Liquid Mixtures with Organic Electrolyte Solutions (D. Bansal, F. Croce, J. Swank and M. Salomon).
3 How Hydrophilic Ionic Liquids Behave in Aqueous Solutions (Marijana Blesic, Kenneth R. Seddon, Natalia V. Plechkova, Nimal Gunaratne, António. Lopes and Luís Paulo N. Rebelo).
4 Mass Spectrometry Studies on Ionic Liquids Aggregates (R. Lopes da Silva, I. M. Marrucho, J. A. P. Coutinho and Ana M. Fernandes).
5 Study of the Sm-Al Alloys Formation in the Molten LiCl-KCl Eutectic (G. De Córdoba and C. Caravaca).
6 Alumina Solubility and Electrical Conductivity in Potassium Cryolites with Low Cryolite Ratio (Alexander Dedyukhin, Alexei Apisarov, Olga Tkatcheva, Yurii Zaikov and Alexander Redkin).
7 Ionic Liquids as Solvents for the Variable Temperature Electrodeposition of Metals and Semiconductors: A Short Introduction (S. Zein El Abedin and F. Endres).
8 Predicting the Thermodynamic Behaviour of Water + Ionic Liquids Systems Using COSMO-RS (M. G. Freire, L. M. N. B. F. Santos, I. M. Marrucho and J. A. P. Coutinho).
9 Metallic Inert Anodes for Aluminium Electrolysis (I. Galasiu, R. Galasiu and C. Nicolescu).
10 The Behaviour of Phosphorus and Sulfur in Cryolite-Alumina Melts: Thermodynamic Considerations (I. Galasiu, R. Galasiu, C. Nicolescu, J. Thonstad and G. M. Haarberg).
11 Ionic Liquid - Ionic Liquid Biphasic Systems (Dirk Gerhard, Friedrich Fick and Peter Wasserscheid).
12. Recent Developments in the Reprocessing of Spent Fuel by Catalyst Enhanced Molten Salt Oxidation (CEMSO) (Trevor R. Griffiths, Vladimir A. Volkovich and W. Robert Carper).
13 Plasma-Induced Molten Salt Electrolysis to Form Functional Fine Particles (Yasuhiko Ito, Tokujiro Nishikiori and Takuya Goto).
14 Liquid Electrolytes: Their Characterisation, Investigation and Divers Applications (Keith E. Johnson).
15 Protection of a Microstructured Molybdenum Reactor from High Temperature Oxidation by Electrochemical Deposition Coatings in Molten Salts (S. A. Kuznetsov, A. R. Dybrovskiy, S. V. Kuznetsova, E. V. Rebrov, M. J. M. Mies, M. H. J. M. de Croon and J. C. Schouten).
16 Molten Salt Synthesis of LaAlO3 Powder at Low Temperatures (Zushu Li, Shaowei Zhang and William Edward Lee).
17 Accurate Measurement of Physicochemical Properties on Ionic Liquids and Molten Salts (V. M. B. Nunes, M. J. V. Lourenço, F. J. V. Santos, M. L. S. M. Lopes and C. A. Nieto de Castro).
18 Molten Salt Physics and Chemistry in the Current Development of Spent Nuclear Fuel Management (Toru Ogawa, Kazuo Minato and Yasuo Arai).
19 An Organic Chemist's Perspective on High Temperature Molten Salts and Room Temperature Ionic Liquids (Richard M. Pagni).
20 Raman Spectroscopy of High-Temperature Melts (G. N. Papatheodorou, A. G. Kalampounia and S. N. Yannopoulos).
21 Thermodynamic Properties of LnI3-MI binary systems (Ln = La or Nd ; M = K, Rb, or Cs) (Leszek Rycerz, M. F. Butman and Marcelle Gaune-Escard).
22 Materials Informatics for Molten Salts Chemistry (Changwon Suh, Slobodan Gadzuric, Marcelle Gaune-Escard and Krishna Rajan).
23 A Novel Ionic Liquid-Polymer Electrolyte for the Advanced Lithium-Ion Polymer Battery (Daisuke Teramoto, Ryo Yokoyama, Hiroshi Kagawa, Tsutomu Sada and Naoya Ogata).
24 Solubility of Al2O3 in NaCl-KCl Based Molten Salt System (Y. Xiao, C. R. Mambote, G. A. Wierink and A. van Sandwijk).
25 Molten Salt Synthesis of Ceramic Materials (Shaowei Zhang, D. D. Jayaseelan, Zushu Li and William Edward Lee).
26 Fuel Cell and Electrolysis Studies with Dual Phase Proton and Oxide Ion Conduction (Bin Zhu, S. Li, X. L. Sun and J. C. Sun).


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Chambliss, a Georgia Republican, and Sen. Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat, were at the University of Georgia Monday to speak about leadership and public service as part of the Terry Leadership Speaker Series.
Chambliss announced frustration over partisan gridlock in Washington when he announced Friday that he wouldn't seek re-election next year.
Warner and Chambliss are original members of a bipartisan group of senators working to solve the nation's debt problems.
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The Orioles have made a number of significant roster moves to keep them in the pennant hunt this season.
But before all that, they made an addition that truly changed the look of the team.
The cartoon bird logo has been a hit with almost anybody you ask, and that includes ESPN's Paul Lukas, who has the O's at No. 27 in his rankings of the uniforms for all 122 teams in the four major professional sports leagues.
These rankings are only one man's opinion, but that man is widely believed to be the guru of uniform aesthetics.
Here's Lukas' take on the Orioles' uniform set.
Black and orange is a seriously undervalued color combination in sports design, and nobody uses it better than the Orioles. The home script is a thing of beauty, the road script has been nicely tweaked this season, and the return of the cartoon bird and the white-paneled cap has made the Orioles a really fun-looking team. So why aren't they ranked a bit higher? Because let's face it: No baseball team needs two different solid-colored alternate jerseys.
If you're wondering where that other Baltimore pro team ranks, Lukas has the Ravens at No. 93.
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Apple has aired a new iPad mini commercial featuring FaceTime and aimed at the holidays. It's called I'll be home, and features a girl and her grandfather sharing a musical "moment of holiday cheer".
This is the kind of commercial Apple does often, and does well, blending technology and humanity, the latest gadgets with timeless nostalgia. After some missteps in the middle of the year, Apple's playing it safe and going back to what's historically worked for them.
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By Virginia Sowers, Editorial Manager
I often say the best part of my job at ChildFund is collaborating with colleagues around the world, as we seek to better serve children who live in extreme poverty. So it was a real treat to spend last week with ChildFund's regional communications managers from Africa, Asia and the Americas, gathered with the communications team here in Richmond, Va., to share ideas and up our game for the coming year.
We asked each other lots of questions: What worked? What didn't work? Why? How can we better integrate? What are the stories we most want to tell about children who need help? How do we assist each other as colleagues? What's next, as we near our organization's 75th anniversary?
Yes, five days of questioning, brainstorming, deliberating and priority setting is enough to make your head spin by Friday afternoon. But we parted with a deep commitment to moving forward as a team.
And it was in that musing mindset that I moved into Friday night, attending the Richmond Forum's speaker series, featuring former president Bill Clinton, now head of the Clinton Foundation. I'd been looking forward to hearing him speak for months, but I had no inkling his message would help me with some dot-connecting.
"We need more community forums like this, citizens coming together to have a conversation," Clinton said. "We'd make better decisions as a people if we had more nights like this."
Allowing that the world we live in is increasingly complex, technologically sophisticated and highly interdependent, he asserted that we all "need a framework for thinking about the modern world," which has a global job shortage, economic inequality, a shifting climate and depleting local resources.
And then he started throwing out (oh, no!) questions for each of us to ponder: What would I like the 21st century to look like? What are the obstacles to shared peace and prosperity? What do you do? Who's supposed to do it?
The challenges are high, Clinton said, especially for the poor. "Half the world is living on less than $2 a day," he noted. "Kids under 5 are dying of malaria, dysentery and tuberculosis – diseases of the poor… almost 100 million kids don't go to school. We're killing off human potential left and right."
It's time to pursue a different strategy, with values that rest on human dignity, Clinton said. "That strategy looks different in poor places than in rich places; and in some countries like India and Brazil, you do both." Poor places like Haiti, where the Clinton Foundation is at work, need systems, he noted. "Haiti needs to build a system that rewards good behavior with positive results," referencing the need to invest in entrepreneurial businesses that lead to sustainable job creation.
"At some point when you stop investing in the future, you pay a terrible price," he said.
Across the world and at home in the U.S., Clinton called for a change in outlook, a change he believes is coming. "We have to revitalize the way we do things and engage in the prospect of renewal," he said.
But who's supposed to do it? "My answer is everybody," Clinton asserted. "The nongovernmental organization (NGO) is a gift America makes to the world." Yet, he pointed out that it's not just the large and well-known NGOs that are getting things done at home and abroad.
"The NGO movement is sweeping the world," he said, adding that the millennial generation, which has been raised to be service-oriented, is helping fuel this movement. And it's a movement open to all – community groups, citizens groups, churches and faith-based organizations. "If you contribute to the United Way in Richmond, you're part of an NGO," he said. "A lot of people doing a little together can have a huge impact…. When we work together, it works."


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Epiphany, observed
Traditionally the feast of Epiphany falls on January 6, the 'twelfth day of Christmas,' but in the United States, the celebration is moved to the closest Sunday. In some cultures, presents are not exchanged until Epiphany in remembrance of the gifts the magi (or kings or wise men) brought to Jesus. They didn't bring Him clothes or toys or gift certificates, but instead offered gold, frankincense, and myrrh. These gifts have great symbolic weight: gold for a King, frankincense for God (incense was burned to worship God, the rising smoke represented prayers and offerings rising up to Heaven), and myrrh for the man who would give his life as a sacrifice (myrrh was used in embalming corpses).
Epiphany also has another particular importance for us. Before the magi arrived, everyone else in the Christmas story (Joseph, Mary, Jesus, the shepherds) was Jewish. The Messiah was expected by Jews to save and restore the Hebrew nation. The magi were Gentiles (non-Jews) and thus showed that Jesus was born, died, and rose for all people (including us).


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The seaside French city of Cannes has banned burkinis, full-body swimsuits worn by some Muslim women, from its beaches, NBC News reported.
Cannes — home of an annual star-studded annual film festival — is located not far from Nice, where more than 80 people died in a July terror attack on the city's beachfront promenade.
Mayor David Lisnard cited that tragedy and subsequent attack on a northwest France church in an ordinance forbidding swimwear that doesn't respect "good morals and secularism."
A spokeswoman for his office confirmed that the ordinance — in effect through the month of August, peak tourist season on the French Riviera — applies to burkinis. Violators face a fine.