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Indian calendar offers a complete list of the important dates of a particular year. From Indian festivals to Indian Holidays , this calendar provides you detailed information about the important occurrences in a year. Apart from being one Indian Festival Calendar, it also features all the Government and Indian National Holidays. Also, Indian National Calendar which is the Saka Calendar is the official calendar recognized by the Government of India along with the Western Gregorian Calendar. The Saka Calendar is determined on the basis of Hindu months or tropical Zodiacs.
India is a nation where people with diverse cultures and lifestyle reside together and celebrate every important day with happiness and enthusiasm. So a detailed Indian Holidays Calendar proves to be a quick reference when one wants to find out which festival or important occasion is falling on what date. Through this you can find out about the important days of every religious community including Sikhs, Hindus, Jains, Muslims and Christians.
Indian Festivals List 2017
The date for Indian Festivals are ruled by the Hindu Calendar depending upon the 'Tithi', Lunar Months, fortnight and several other factors. Indian National Holidays fall on the same date every year including
26th January – Republic Day
15th August – Independence Day
2nd October – Gandhi Jayanti
As per 2017 Indian Calendar, the dates of some important upcoming festivals include
25th August: Ganesh Chaturthi and Ganpati visarjan
29th September : Maha Navami
30th September : Dussehra
8th October : Karwa Chauth
When is Diwali 2017 19th October : Diwali 2017
21st October : Bhaiya Dooj
25th December : Christmas
There are dates of some occasions which are governed by certain external influences such as the appearance of moon especially in case of Islamic festivals.
For a detailed Indian calendar providing all the necessary information , visit MPanchang and get an update on all the important dates of 2017 (the current year) with one click.
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Stephen Gordon at The Globe's Economy Lab blog bemoans the phenomenon of good policy falling prey to disappointing public reactions. He cites the HST in British Columbia and the carbon tax in Canada as two examples.
Gordon continues: "Indeed, it's hard to think of a policy issue where the best advice of economists played an influential role in forming public opinion. (The 1988 free-trade election was won on mercantilist themes of increasing exports, not on economists' arguments based on the benefits of cheaper imports.)"
He's absolutely right.
The problem with good policy is that its proponents come to understand the idea and believe in its merits, and then think everyone else should. They tend to be policy wonks who get the vagaries of the tax system or medical insurance and use terms like "stochastic distribution" at lunch.
There are huge benefits in an "earned income tax credit" or "value added tax" but those terms are either neutral or negatively loaded. Their advocates often fail to realize that good policy needs to be marketed and sold.
So how do you do that?
Language is critical. What you call a policy and how you contextualize it is critical to its success. Personally, I'm a fan of neologisms. These are new words or terms invented to describe something.
"Death tax" is a great example, as it takes something most people support – a tax on inherited wealth – and describes it as something automatically unappealing – a tax on the act of dying. The old terms of "estate tax" or "inheritance tax" were difficult to campaign against, as they can conjure up images of wealthy robber barons having to pass a little less of their ill-gotten gains to idle grown off-spring.
How the term "death tax" took off is a good example of political marketing:
"It took five years to get Republican lawmakers and lobbyists to use the words 'death tax' consistently. Jack Faris, the president and chief executive officer of the National Federation of Independent Business, said he remembered his Rotary Club members complaining five years ago that the estate tax felt more like a tax on death.
Mr. Faris took the phrase ''death tax'' back to his trade group and made everyone in the office use it. Those who slipped paid $1 into a pizza fund, he said, adding, ''The fund grew pretty large.''
The pizza fund idea spread to Capitol Hill, where Mr. Gingrich and others instituted it. Soon, everyone was using the term."
Franklin Roosevelt was a master of using neologisms to define his policy. He leapt on the term " pump-priming," because he knew no Kansas farmer would support "deficit-financed counter-cyclical stimulus spending."
Finding folksy ways to describe complex ideas was part of Roosevelt's genius, so much so that his terms like "brain trust" and "New Deal" remain in our vernacular. But "pump-priming's" agricultural connotations left it a bit dated.
As the population grew more urban following the Second World War, the term fell into disuse except among economists. When the latest round of stimulus spending was described as "pump-priming" it was strictly jargon for most of us who get our water from gravity-fed mains.
The struggle over language in politics is seen in neologisms like "pro-life" and "pro-choice" or the terms "illegal alien" or "undocumented worker." Each term attempts to frame a debate in a context that is appealing toward one side.
If you want to get technical, the phenomenon of language influencing the way the user perceives the world is linguistic relativity or the "Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis."
Linguist George Lakoff has done tremendous research on the role of metaphor in political imagination. His book, Moral Politics, argues that liberals and conservatives hold two different conceptual models of morality and the relationship of the individual to the state. He employs family metaphor to describe the relationships between the two, and focuses extensively on the use of terminology to influence political debate.
Written in 1994, Lakoff argued that liberals failed to understand this "country as a family" metaphor, and thus failed to use language to frame arguments successfully. In contrast, the conservatives messages of that zeitgeist were stronger: "family values," "tax relief for families," and – of course – the "death tax."
Lakoff wrote: "Words don't have meanings in isolation. Words are defined relative to a conceptual system. If liberals are to understand how conservatives use their words, they will have to understand the conservative conceptual system."
Proponents of the HST in British Columbia did a lot of things wrong. One of them was spending a lot of their time debating the way the tax itself worked, in isolation from their overall economic policy.
In contrast, in Ontario, the government focused on an overall package of tax reform – income tax cuts, business tax cuts, tax harmonization – designed to create jobs. Because it's a lot easier to support "job creating tax reform" than "a harmonized sales tax."


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Welcome to the murder mystery of Mr. Ken! In this classic "Who Dunnit?" Brad reads a series of uninformative One Star reviews about one particular inc...View Details
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Brad ampersand Jay read stupid one star Facebook reviews and try to guess what the reviewer looks like.
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Jay tells Brad about Mr. Jaunderful and the deaf girl. Brad tells Jay about the funnies thing Steve has ever said in his life
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From The Couch: Round 9 2017
From The Couch: Round 9
City-Country Disgrace: I grew up in the country. I was born in Cowra and then spent most of my formative years in Orange. I obviously love Rugby League. And I always loved the City-Country match. One of my earliest footy memories was Ricky Walford dominating for Country one game. He kicked one from the sideline. I think it was to win. Maybe it was to tie. Either way, it was something I've always remembered despite watching more Rugby League than is healthy and potentially even humanly possible. The game went to Orange a few years back. I was a Rugby League writer by that stage but went back as a fan. It was a blast. The town was hit hard by Rugby League fever. Players attended school camps and autograph sessions and mingled at pubs. After the game I got blind with Luke Patten. I can't think of too many more fun nights I've had in footy. The town was abuzz. It was great and I can only imagine it is the same when the match went to Mudgee, Tamworth, Wagga, Albury and wherever else it lobbed.
It is an utter disgrace that this game – 106 years old – was the first game scratched from the schedule. It is appalling that it will be farewelled in such an embarrassing, completely undeserving manner. The league has allowed a jewel in the Rugby League crown – a minor one but a jewel nonetheless – to be rendered worthless. It has spat on and shat on the history of the match. And that is to say nothing of Canterbury, Canberra and North Queensland – and to a lesser extent Cronulla, who at least caved and allowed their players to participate – who again showed why clubs need to have their powers curtailed.
This great game has met a sad end. And sadly it is something that is classic Rugby League.
The Diver: There are fewer bigger scourges on the game of Rugby League than diving. It is what separates us from less masculine sports where that carry-on has so infiltrated the game it is expected. Paul Gallen has been doing this for over a decade. He should have been suspended for his weak-as-piss carry on against the Tigers.
2017 Field Goal Update- 10: Mitchell Pearce added a one-pointer in a losing effort, the second week in a row Pearce has hit one after not slotting one since 2011.
Fun Fact #1: Andrew Ettingshausen, Paul Sironen and Steve Menzies hold the record for the most appearances in City-Country Origin with eight
Fun Fact #2: Hazem El Masri holds the record for most points with 32
Fun Fact #3: Bill Harrigan has refereed the most City-Country matches with three
Betting Market of the Week: If Josh Papalii breaks the law again, the Raiders will:
$3.50: Find a big fluffy teddy bear and make him hug it
$3.00: Name him captain
$2.20: Offer his a 10-year contract extension
Rumour Mill: The Wests Tigers are going hard at Alex Johnston and look set to win him over by offering him the vacant No.1 jersey. Josh Dugan has been linked with Canterbury but how the Bulldogs can afford him is probably a question for Gary McIntyre and Punchy Nelson. Boyd Cordner is expected to be named NSW captain. Te Maire Martin is expected to sign with the Warriors in 2018 and could be granted an early release to move there.
Robbie Farah Anger Level – High: His performance against the Sea Eagles could best be described as putrid though he wasn't given much of a chance, getting on the field when the game was all but over.
What I Like About … Billy Slater: One of my favourite players to watch, seeing him back to near his best against the Dragons was one of the most heartwarming moments of the year. Slater was at one stage being talked about as a potential Immortal. While that would seem unlikely, he is legitimately one of the top two or three fullbacks to play the game. Hopefully we still have him for another year or two and that Queensland and Australian honours are not behind him.
Game of the Year Nomination, Round 9: Canterbury – Canberra, 16-10. The Bulldogs pulled off one of the grittier wins of the year against a Raiders team going very well. Will Hopoate's comeback game was arguably his best game as a Bulldog.
The Coaching Crosshairs: Michael Maguire's days at Souths appear to be numbered after another embarrassing loss, this time going down 46-8 to Manly. His players appeared to put very little effort in. There was no discernible game plan. South Sydney's defence has conceded at least 18 points in every game this year including Newcastle. Maguire has been on the nose for a while at the Bunnies and with Souths a long way from winning anything there could be a change coming up.
Moronic Coaching Decision of the Week: Nathan Brown's idea that Jaelen Feeney is a first grader is laughable. Feeney looked like he did an ACL when he just had a cramp and then got annihilated by Konnie Hurrell. The decision to drop Trent Hodkinson is nothing more than an attempt by Brown to stall his inevitable firing.
Beard Watch: After Paul Gallen dived, the referee should certainly have trusted the player with the beard in Aaron Woods and not the player who has a history of embarrassing the game.
Correspondence Corner: Gus, I'd love to have Boyd Cordner cloned and signed at the Bulldogs.
George Treweek, it was Canterbury's stupidity that cost them, not the refereeing.
Hospital Pass, Gal would have to get off the floor to knock anybody out.
Davey G, gutless stance from the Raiders on Papalii.
Watch It: This week we go back to 1988 and one of the early City-Country affairs that was highlighted by a brilliant try to Terry Lamb. Watch it here.


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Download Firecast apk 1.08 free for Android smartphone
Posted by Appestry in Entertainment | Oct. 2, 2016 | 66 Comments
Apk file size: 1.4 MB
Cast online videos from your Android device to Amazon Fire TV or Fire TV Stick! This app is intended to help cast videos embedded in websites that are not directly accessible in Fire TV.
Install "Firecast Player" in your Fire TV or Fire TV Stick and then install this "Firecast" app in your Android device. Once you connect the devices to the same Wi-Fi network, this app will detect the Fire TV.
Browse the web for videos in the Firecast app and cast them to the Firecast Player in your Fire TV or Fire TV Stick. It's that easy!
Please note that not all videos can be cast (like Flash videos, live streams, etc). Videos in the web that are not in high definition, might not look the same on your HD TV as they look in a small screen.
UPDATE 7/30/14: YouTube videos will not cast in Android 4.4 devices, please use the YouTube app.
Quick Start:
* Install Firecast Player app in your Fire TV or Fire TV Stick: http://amzn.to/1mvySW4
* Install this Firecast app in your Android device
* Connect your Android device to the same Wi-Fi network as your Fire TV
* This app will detect the Fire TV in your network
* Browse the web for your favorite entertainment
* In Android 4.3 or earlier, play videos in full view for the cast menu
* In Android 4.4 or later, just start videos to launch the cast menu
* Select the Fire TV to cast and voila!
* Enjoy videos on the big screen!!
Upgrade to the FLAMIN' edition to watch videos longer than 10 minutes. The upgrade removes the ads at the bottom of the browser. It doesn't remove the ads hosted by the websites you visit.
Firecast app only works with the Firecast Player in Fire TV or Fire TV Stick.
Amazon Fire TV: http://amzn.to/1ilU0yl
Amazon Fire TV Stick: http://amzn.to/1GyEQBL
Firecast Player: http://amzn.to/1mvySW4
Help & FAQs: http://www.appestry.biz/firecast
Whats new
• Upgraded Google Play Services
• Detects the latest Amazon Fire TV Stick when Firecast Player app is installed
Appestry part of our Entertainment and have average installs from 10000 to 50000. Last Update Oct. 2, 2016. Google play rating is 59.6907. Current verison is 1.08. Actual size 1.4 MB.
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66 Comments
Beverly Garrett
I paid for this? Paired with fire TV fine. Asks if you want to cast to fire then 'unable to play video'. After that, it asks repeatedly, starts and then fails. Meanwhile, you can't see your video due to the pop ups, can't stop the app.
Jeremy Welch
Works Great! Works fantastic with my Fire TV stick! I was looking for something that could cast individual videos as opposed to screen mirroring. This works perfectly. The only thing that could be changed is that, when I choose casting, it still begins to play on my phone. Not a major issue... I just have to stop it. But it would be nice if I didn't have to. Great app! Thanks!
Daniel Tenebrion
Had some problems but works fine now. Edit: I finally came back to using Firecast to try it using HTML 5 videos and it seems to work just fine there. Before I was doing 1080p download links that would open a video player in another tab to stream and it would often pause for a few seconds every 5 - 10 minutes. Chromecast didn't do that so I was a bit confused. But I feel it's still preferable to enjoy my streamed shows with a remote to skip through certain content. It's definitely worth it if you often watch video streaming sites.
Austin E.
Nice on Asus memo pad HD7 tablet. It plays videos well for the most part. It doesn't play all videos but there's a lot to choose from on the net. I like how you can block the pop ups which is really helpful when there are too many. I would have to say though that it occasionally has some stability problems. Videos just won't load that well and it'll randomly back out of a video and stop playing all together. If it wasn't for that I'd give it 5 stars. Overall a great app though, glad I bought it. :-)
Thavon Phou
Better than allcast This is the only app that can stream Google drive videos with sound no matter the audio codec. Allcast stream Google drive but audio has to be compatible with firetv.
Nathan Dann
Exactly what I needed Awesome quality... Flawless no skips! This is the only app I've ever submitted a rating for so I'm pretty impressed
Quelsplace Quelsplace
Firecast It's ok, you have to use their browser to watch instead of being able to mirror what's on your cell
William Kilvington
Great App!! Works exactly as described with both my phone (note 4) and tablet (tab 3) using Fire TV stick. Open the app find a web video and play it by selecting the device from the pop up.
Johnson Doan
READ REVIEWS BEFORE BUYING!!!!! just downloaded it. its their own browser you use to view content. BUT went to 10 different sites.... tv network sites, news sites, etc. NONE WORKED! MY CONNECTION IS PERFECT BUT NOT A SINGKE SITE WORKED. all other sites that work ALREADY HAVE a compatible FIRE TV app available anyway. So tired of these false promise apps! Dont do it!
John Crisp
Free worked, Paid didn't! What a disappointment! I tried the free version and it worked great for the advertised 10 minutes. Bought the app and it won't go to the big screen anymore. On the same network as the Fire Stick. UPDATE: Can I not play live stream events on this? It appears to play recorded events but not live streaming.
Stockton Sam
Doesn't work with all websites
Tony Alldis
Great app for casting everyday web video content to your TV via the FireTV. Had no issues with is at all. Nice to find a useful app that just works!
Alex Solis
Works Its basically a browser that casts whatever video you fullscreen, but it works.
khoi tran
It work but do u have ios version
s petro
Worked when initially purchased, now will not load plugin to play movies..... Oh well
Todd Nochomson
Didn't work for me. See's my Fire Stick but Error Casting.
kranthi kiran
Won't open the Web pages properly and waste of my money spent on purchasing this crap
Jiwook Kim
Great tool Love this tool
Alethea Hamilton
Good bones Works well. Got the paid version. Customer service is also great for any bumps in the road which so far are minimal.
jaehong park
Good It works now. So good, but youtube contents doesn't work in this app.
Ben Philips
Galaxy S3 & S4 - works perfectly!
G Duvall
10 Minute Limit for free Uninstalled. Not free with ads and a 10 min limit. My S4 has mirroring built in but not currently supported on fire stick. Oh well.
Jonathan Vilela
Didn't work Downloaded app on phone and FireTV, won't play any videos
Lee Keller
Sucks All it does is advertise blip TV. Totally worthless except to practice the uninstall process.
Jorge D. Alvarez
Not good.. Ate my battery in record time, had to uninstall.
Vernom Tyrell
It's ok It would he better without having to fix the bug were it doesn't know if I payed and some stuff I cast I have to constantly ex out pop ups
Jory Andre
Paid for full version The app works maybe 10% of the time, usually when I try to cast a video it'll play the ad overlay and then crash on my fire stick. It wont play the video
Breanne Mayen
Some days are better then others.
im Batman
Not working It said error every time I try to play a video
John Koeck
Don't Read Negative Reviews ...because this thing works wonders. The people saying it doesn't work must not know anything about technology. Finds both my Fire TV and Fire TV stick. Love it!
Dan Clarke-Hall
Works great Only have the free version currently but will upgrade later today. Watch a lot of webcasts and have yet to find a video this cannot stream. Using Galaxy S4
Jennifer Butler
When I play a video The app asks where I want to cast. I'll select my fire tv then a pop up ad comes. It won't cast. I'm not paying for the app unless I can actually test it first
tony kiesel
Unable to play or error every video Every video says either error casting or unable to play. Free trial worked just fine. Do not upgrade.
DaVette H
Yea it is awesome When I will play one video. And it wont do that
Brian Saltzman
Doesn't work Unless u want no functionality and a lot of ads skip this app
J.C. Stein
Fast & dependable Works great with fire stick. Smooth streaming. Highly recommend. Paid version well worth it.
Tyler Simpson
It is a great app, everything you need from it, it provides. The only thing I don't like is how you lose your spot in your video if you leave the app on your fire tv. But, other than that it is a great app.
Bobbi ray
Does not work with Galaxy Note edge
Gaurav Pandey
I liked it but need help... Hi Developers, I have been pretty happy with the app and it works as promised. But lately I have been having issue with some of the videos as it seems the browser inbuilt in the app is old and the websites I am trying to play the video need an updated browser. Request you to please update the browser and once again become the awesome.
Sail J
Didn't work I tried casting vimeo video and I get error casting please try again. I tried 5 times and I get same message.
Harry Mumma
Almost gave it 1 star Worked great on fee version so i upgraded. Then it wouldn't let me play what i had already played. As i was rating 1 star it started playing and has been fine since.
Zoey Dog
Didn't Work Tried it with two phones..nope and nope. Neither worked. Got an error message several times.
Marsiella B. Dennis
Works awesomely! I love this app it's works extremely well with Amazon Fire tv (2015 version). If are looking an app to stream videos from your browser, look no further.
Justin Willison
Doesn't always work.. even in paid version I bought this for use to stream swearnet to my fire tv stick.. it works.. most of the time.. some times it won't pop up asking "play here" or "play on fire stick 1" or 2 or 3... etc... and sometimes exiting fixes it, sometimes refreshing does, and sometimes it just won't play.. I guess I expected more from it. But 3 stars bc it's not consistent.
Krystal Price
Doesn't work. Kept saying error casting.
Louis Cook
Utter garbage Doesn't work. Don't waste your time.
Phong Dam
Keep getting error while casting Error while casting
Liveit untiltheend
Good appp You have to pay but it works great.
Joel Diaz
No worth the price I tried using this app with a few sites. Either it loaded the wrong video or it would start then stop. I really wanted this to work.
J. Shreve
Awesome However, I don't like how sometimes it'll drop the video have to reload it and it starts at the beginning. You should be able to control from where it was playing or is playing at in the video you watching on your phone, while its streaming to your TV.
keith horn
Terrible, I think I'm tech savvy and can 9.5 times out of 10 get these things to work Put app on stick and phone synchronised once and then everytime after it failed. Wasted £3 thinking upgrade might sort it but, no .. Russian roulette with your cash ...
V Sco
Firecast works for me It does what I need it to do, when I need it to do, in conjunction with what I need it to work with. Thank you and good deal.
David Justice
It's just okay Doesn't always work properly and have to close app and try try try again. There's gotta be a better way to watch prawn on my tv. Lol
Liza Lara
Works great! I can finally cast my anime from my phone!
Steve Harrison
Absolute frustration When this app works, it is pretty cool. However, each time I use it I find that I have to engage in a ritual to get it to work again. The only two times I've been able to get the paid version to work is by uninstalling and reinstalling both apps (receiver and cast). And I swear by all that's holy if you come back and say "make sure both devices are connected to the same network" I will invent a way to email you a sack of flaming poo. I have one network, both devices operate on it fine.
Edder Orozco
Useless POS brand app Why does it say it supports firestick when it doesn't?!
Ian Pritchett
Half awesome, have fah q When it works is magic. Dies not work with youtube most the time, though. You know, the app you're most likely to need it for. Fix thos and you'll get 5 stars. Reply to me "we'll give your money back and you'll lost that one, and I'll glitter bomb you to oblivion
Simone Jamaica
Works as it should Great app to cast content to my TV. The only issues I have are that sometimes it asks for me to upgrade even though I already have and also sometimes doesn't recognize my firestick. Both resolved with refreshing the page.... So really not issues in the real sense.
Gabrielle Williams
Was Hopeful Very temperamental. More often than not, it shows my Fire Stick but won't cast the video. It will then it won't, won't, won't, won't, will. Evidently, it's not the user since this happens from video to video, not day to day. And all videos I'm attempting to cast are from the same site.
andrew ingram
Wont work with (paid to) Amazon fire tv latest version if i can even get it to pick up my amazon fire tv it will only play video for few seconds PLEASE FIX
Jennifer Ford
Sucks Won't let me cast from apps and when I tried casting a simple youtube video from the browser it says it couldn't do it
Thomas DiSilva
Did not work
Mark O'Connor
Has potential.... but.... finds the Fire Stick twice. Casts for 7-10 seconds then stops. All the while still asking where to cast to. Have to kill the app to try and use it again.
Justin Troupe
Garbage There's no interface just a web browser. It'. unusable.


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Contentious Maybell development wins approval
A proposed development by the Palo Alto Housing Corporation would bring 60 units of housing for low-income seniors and 12 single-family homes to a former orchard site at 567 Maybell Ave. The original proposal, illustrated here, featured 15 single-family homes. Rendering by Dahlin Group.
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Jackknife bias reduction in autoregressive models with a unit root
This paper is concerned with the application of jackknife methods as a means of bias reduction in the estimation of autoregressive models with a unit root. It is shown that the usual jackknife estimator based on non-overlapping sub-samples does not remove fully the first-order bias as intended, but that an 'optimal' jackknife estimator can be de- fined that is capable of removing this bias. The results are based on a demonstration that the sub-sample estimators converge to different limiting distributions, and the joint moment generating function of the numerator and denominator of these distributions (which are func- tionals of a Wiener process over a sub-interval of [0,1]) is derived and utilised to extract the optimal weights. Simulations demonstrate the ability of the jackknife estimator to produce substantial bias reductions in the parameter of interest. It is also shown that incorporating an intercept in the regressions allows the standard jackknife estimator to be used and it is able also to produce substantial bias reduction despite the fact that the distributions of the full-sample and sub-sample estimators have greater bias in this case. Of interest, too, is the fact that the jackknife estimators can also reduce the overall root mean squared error compared to the ordinary least squares estimator, this requiring a larger (though still small) number of sub-samples compared to the value that produces maximum bias reduction (which is typically equal to two).
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Book Review: The Noise of Time
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Paul Simon reviews The Noise of Time, by Julian Barnes.
A Pravda editorial early in 1936, possibly written by Stalin himself and more probably merely with his knowledge, is the hinge upon which Julian Barnes's imaginings of Dmitri Shostakovich's interior life turns. In this ruthless appropriation of the great Soviet composer for his own anachronistic liberal fantasies Barnes, in the book's opening section, has the composer at his Leningrad apartment, suitcase packed, as he awaits a visit to take him to the "Big House" after Pravda's criticism of his opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtensk District.
The second section starts in a plane returning from New York, where the rejuvenated composer muses upon his experiences as part of a Soviet cultural delegation to the US in the 1940s and the third is prompted by a car journey some 25 years later as the elderly Shostakovich reflects upon the tumultuous musical and political times through which he has lived.
Any reader familiar with David Pownall's anti-Soviet theatrical travesty Masterclass, or the numerous biographical texts based on Solomon Volkov's Testimony, should give The Noise of Time a wide berth. Like those works, this is a novel without subtlety, nuance or context. Every Shostakovich work in a major key is sarcasm, while those in a minor one are a criticism of the Soviet system.
Its enervating Manichaeism presents on the one hand a composer in all his glorious, pure individualism and doubting integrity and on the other the bureaucratic, relentless and unyielding presence of "Power" — the Communist Party. In this cartoonish universe, detached entirely from the achievements and challenges of Soviet life, Shostakovich is not the protagonist. It is Barnes himself, projecting his identity into a Soviet simulacrum in which the Barnes-Shostakovich incubus as a liberal hero struggles with the unreasonable demands of a society in the process of change, as well as his own interior demons.
Thus Barnes-Shostakovich laments his late father: "Had he lived any longer, he would have watched the Revolution turn sour, paranoid and carnivorous."
Even so, that persona acknowledges the need for composers, as engineers of the human spirit, to represent something more than their own immediate needs and vanities. Yet even at this point of collectivist realisation, Barnes-Shostakovich rages against the democratic hope of the Soviet system that miners could one day also become composers.
Barnes has it in particularly for Tikhon Khrennikov, head of the Union of Soviet Composers from 1948, yet the greater reputational mugging is reserved for Shostakovich himself. That the composer both prospered and suffered under the Soviet system is undeniable, as is the fact that he confounded and exasperated in equal measure. But Barnes in his alter ego guise seeks to appropriate this quintessentially Soviet citizen as one of his own — out of time, out of culture and out of reality.
The great composer is merely a useful vehicle for Barnes to revisit the tiresome concept of the mighty artist standing alone and omnipotent against collective imperatives, of which he is actually a part. Barnes is too worldly and experienced an author to have framed his novel in such a laborious and lamentable way by accident and it's thus difficult to view it as anything other than the bilious outpourings of a useful idiot for the anti-Soviet brigade.
The Noise of Time is published by Jonathan Cape, £14.99. This review was first published in the Morning Star.
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Cook Time: 15 minutes
Serves: 4-6
1 1/2 to 2 pounds cubed venison steak
2 eggs
1 C. milk
2 1/2 C. all-purpose flour
2 tsp. seasoned salt and black pepper to taste
1/2 tsp. garlic powder
1/2 tsp. onion powder
1/2 tsp. paprika
1/4 tsp. cayenne pepper
Additional salt and pepper to season meat
Vegetable oil for frying
Country Gravy:
1/3 C. flour
3 T. butter, margarine or pan drippings
1 chicken bouillon cube or base
4 C. milk
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. black pepper
What to do:
Tenderize your venison steak with a meat mallet, salt and pepper well.
Whisk eggs and milk in a shallow dish big enough to dip the meat. In another shallow dish stir together seasoned flour and the other seasoning.
Dreg steak into egg mixture then flour, then egg mixture then flour again.
Heat oil 1/4 inch deep in a nonstick skillet or wrought iron pan and pan-fry patties over medium heat until golden and cooked through about 3-5 minutes per side, this time will depend on the thickness of your venison steaks, then drain.
In a pan melt butter, margarine or take the pan drippings from your venison steak and add the flour. Stir on medium heat until slightly browned.
Add salt, pepper and bouillon, stir in milk. Bring to a boil and cook for 2 minutes, stirring constantly.
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The kind of sequel you can really sink your teeth into, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 2 is a great way to satisfy the kids' hunger for adventure these holidays. Much like its predecessor, the film features generous helpings of fresh comedy topped with extra cheese and sneaky servings of special sauce to entertain the adults. It's fun, it's chaotic, and, at times, completely bananas, but with a narrative that is fairly light on calories, it might leave you hungry for more.
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Just noticed this strange behaviour.... RolesLookupController not working with Firefox 7.0.1
The 'Search' action does not called when I click the 'Roles' multiselect button.
This all works fine when I run this from IE or Crome.
Any ideas?
well, the latest version of firefox is 8, probably 7 .0.1 is not the best
Just upgraded to Firefox 8, but still have the same problem.
Can you reproduce the problem?
it works on my ff, probably some plugins are stopping this,
I have Firebug, AdBlockPlus and some spellcheckers
I have just run the 'Awesome' project and it works fine with Firefox.
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We've been looking at ways in which to get more omega-3 in our diet and the ground flax seed has been a great addition to my recipes. Took me a while to realise that it was linseed in this country, so I'm super pleased with getting my hands on some.
When the weekend comes, we do like to splurge a little on pancakes and now that I have the flax, I thought I'd try some new mixtures to get some great breakfast treats. These pancakes are really filling as well and will keep you going until lunch time with no snack attacks hitting at eleven!
Not only will I be using this in my pancakes but I'm going to start using this in all my baking as well and see how I get on.
Whole-wheat and Oat Pancakes
(Makes 4 pancakes)
1 cup Whole-wheat flour
½ cup oats
½ tsp Baking Soda
2 tbsp ground Flax Seeds (mixed with 2 tbsp Almond (any non dairy milk)
1 cup of almond milk (milk of choice)
1 cup of water
1 tsp vanilla
To Garnish
2 tbsp sultanas
1 tsp sesame seeds
Maple Syrup to drizzle
1. First mix the ground flax seeds and milk in a bowl and set aside for 5 minutes
2. Mix the flour, oats & baking soda in a large bowl
3. Mix the rest of the almond milk with the flax seed mix and add in the vanilla (stir)
4. Add wet ingredients to the dry and whisk until smooth, add the water until you get a consistency you like (I like my batter quite thick so it makes quire fluffy pancakes – I tend to add in about ½ – ¾ cup of water .
5. Heat your non stick frying pan (I use vegan margarine to grease the pan the first time.
6. Using a ladel, spoon about a cup full of mixture into the centre of the pan – it should naturally just spread out into a nice pancake shape, but use a spatula quickly to shape to your requirements.
7. Cook for approx. 2 minutes on each side over a medium heat
8. Serve along with your favourite garnish
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There are many who practice "web design;" with an emphasis on "design." Whereas the main point of focus for an information architect is content. Your site could be the best looking site on the internet, however, without good content, visitors won't care how nice your buttons look. Think about how many of the sites you visit - the ones that are the most popular, focus on content.
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Does anyone know of any location where I can still download the old Mobipocket clients? I had had the Mobi client installed on my BB, but uninstalled it today because of a problem, only to discover that it is no longer available from mobipocket.com. All that is there is a "The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable."
Foolishly, I had never saved the install anywhere, figuring that I could just download it when needed.
I am perfectly happy using my Kindle for new purchases. However, I really liked the old Mobipocket Reader client for my PC, and would rather use that to manage all of the old, public domain books that I own in that format.
What's a "BB"?
Did you check filehippo? I think that's a site that keeps older versions of the software it offers.
I'm pretty sure I have a copy of Mobipocket for Windows, if you want to install to a Windows computer. I'm at work now, but I can check when I get home, if filehippo doesn't have what you need. I also had it for PocketPC, I believe, but I'd have to see.
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Can you use emoji in the names? Like THR_
The official THR sign up thread
Just tried on here… didn't work. Wont work ingame either.
But it works just fine in titles
Amazeballs dude. Nice.
I'd love to join. Not the fastest player, but not the slowest (that I know of), that counts for something right?
Current name is Thanael, pending name change to SomeGuy, but would love to make it THR_SomeGuy if you will have me.
That depends… can you finish Braap in less than two minutes?
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Tell me about it. Welcome!
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Join THR - Super Secret Public Page on Facebook. There is a thread where you can submit your pic to get it pinked the fuck up. But Colin is about as fast as the ACE on Braap
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wiggity219 is good to go. I cannot find a jcam97
Oh my bad its j97cam. Thank you bro
That worked way better haha. Good to go!
Thanks man!
@OnTheFrontLine can you change hannahlefler to THR_hannahlefler in game? @THR_Birdshaw …we have a girl now lol
I'm still not convinced girls exist, but awesome!
Her name, however, is 16 characters and we need it at 15 or under.


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The Nigerian military in its most unprecedented and spectacular air raid has fatally wounded ABUBAKAR SHEKAU, the self-acclaimed leader of Boko Haram, in his shoulders.
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Malaysia says Flight MH 370 ended in Indian
- All 227 passengers and 12 crew perish
- Nuclear Submarine joins the hunt
Kuala Lumpur. There seems to be no clue to the missing Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777-200 aircraft except
that somebody on board took it deliberately towards the depths of the southern Indian Ocean.
Why and Where and for What reasons, and many other questions are unanswered three weeks after the painful
and tragic loss of lives of 227 passengers and 12 crew on board, including possibly the person responsible for
the criminal diversion of the aircraft from its Kuala Lumpur-Beijing flight path on March 8, some 40 minutes
after takeoff.
About a dozen aircraft and several ships have been looking for the debris, here and there after different
satellites from different countries spotted unidentified debris at different places. On April 2, a report
from Perth, from where the Australians are leading the search, said that a British nuclear submarine, HMS
Tireless, was in the area now "with her advanced underwater search capability will be able to contribute
to the attempts to locate the missing plane".
There have been unconfirmed reports of US and Chinese nuclear submarines also around there but as the movement
of nuclear submarines is nearly always secret due to strategic reasons, no confirmation can be obtained.
Twenty Six countries in fact had responded to Malaysia s call for help in Search and Rescue (SAR) and
India even sent one Indian Air Force C 130J Super Hercules and one Indian Navys highly advanced Boeing
P8-I to Subong at Malaysias disposal besides deploying other aircraft and ships in an area as advised
by authorities in Kuala Lumpur.
The Inmarsat Report
British satellite company Inmarsat deserves
huge credit for calculating the approximate
position of where the Flight MH 370 ended,
and what course it followed after switching
off transponders at the pilots' command.
Eight satellite pings were sent by a device
on the aircraft, which was not switched
off, between 1.11 am and 8.11 am
over seven hours after it officially lost
contact with air traffic controllers. The
satellite which picked up the hourly pings,
was a 20 year old system without the GPS.
Experts from the company followed a new
method to calculate the possible flight
path and concluded that the Beoing 777-200
ended its flight deep in the southern Indian
The new method "gives the approximate
direction of travel, plus or minus about
100 miles, to a track line", Chris
McLaughlin, senior vice-president for external
affairs at Inmarsat said, adding: "Unfortunately
this is a 1990s satellite over the Indian
Ocean that is not GPS-equipped.
Nonetheless, results produced by Inmarsat
have reasonably been corroborated by satellite
imagery given by half a dozen other nations
as also by pictures taken by Australian
aircraft. Till March 27th however, no debris
had been picked up due to the deterrent
and violent weather in the region, some
2,000 to 2,500 km from Perth.
Significantly, the Black Box in an aircraft
is also programmed to emit signals - or
pings - for 30 days. If weather impoves,
ships could float ping detectors to locate
it. Its by battery life would run out by
April 6 or 7.
After that, it would be very, very difficult
to locate and extricate this vital device.That
could also make it impossible to solve the
deadly mystery of the plane that went missing
on March 8.
The search is now conducted by ships and aircraft from Australia, Britain, US, South Korea, Japan and China.
Beijing is particularly perturbed as most of the victims of the missing flight were Chinese.
The aircrafts Black Box should be emitting a signal for about 30 days say till April 7 to 10 as per the
built in power specifications, and the US Navy has supplied a couple of Black Box detectors to the Australian
and British Navy. The system is towed underwater and is capable of picking up faint signals.
The biggest problem is finding the aircraft location even in approximate terms. According to Australian Vice
Chief of the Defense Force, Air Marshal Mark Binskin, "We are not searching for a needle in a haystack but still
trying to define where the haystack is."
The search has been moved a couple of times, hundreds of kilometers away and hundreds of thousands square
kilometers away, depending upon satellite imagery inputs from different countries. Then, there is the issue of
violent storms and undercurrents. The waters are described as deep, dark, turbulent, dangerous and mostly inaccessible.
Objects sighted once move miles away within hours in unpredictable directions.
Some pieces of debris, sighted by satellites, have been picked up but they had nothing to do with the missing
or any other aircraft.
In the absence of any confirmation, many rumours and preposterous stories have come up on the social media.
Families of those on board have declined to believe the finality of loss of lives of their kin and have accused
the Malaysian Government of hiding the truth.
Coming under a lot of pressure, Prime Minister Najib Razak himself took part in a flight on April 2 to search
the missing aircraft.
It may be noted that after reports from Inmarsat and British Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) officials,
Mr Razak had announced on March 24 that the flight had ended in the southern Indian Ocean and that there was no
hope of any survivors.
The reports were based on the periodic pings or signals that its global network of satellites picked up eight
times during the seven-hour duration of the flight.
"Based on their new analysis, INMARSAT and the AAIB have concluded that MH 370 flew along the southern corridor,
and that its last position was in the middle of the Indian Ocean, west of Perth," Mr Razak said adding that the
flight operated by Boeing 777-200 ended in the deep, dark and violent waters of the Indian Ocean with no possible
landing sites anywhere around.
He had to conclude with deep sadness and regret that there was no hope of any survivors. The families of those
on board had been informed, Mr Razak had said.
Significantly, the transponders of the aircraft were switched off, deliberately either by one of the pilots
willingly or under coercion as the aircraft was diverted from its northerly direction towards south-west in an
inverted V-turn. This is the conclusion of nearly every aviation expert.
Ground radars of several countries failed to register the aircraft but the London-based Inmarsat, a satellite
navigation company, said its satellites had picked up eight signals of the aircraft over a duration of seven hours
and after certain calculations, it could be concluded that the aircraft crashed deep in the southern Indian Ocean.
Notably, even if the Black Box, and the Cockpit Voice Recorder are recovered, the information may still not be
conclusive as they work in a loop, erasing data after a fixed time while loading new data. The aircraft flew for
about seven hours, and data available may only be of the last two hours.
The Boeing 777-200 is a sophisticated and reliable aircraft, and why it went up to about 45,000 feet, then low
to around 12,000 feet and then again to a steady height of 30,000 feet is not known. But it shows the hands of
somebody who knew how to operate a modern flying machine.
Most of the passengers on board the ill-fated airliner were Chinese. There were five Indians on board,
including parents of an expatriate son who is married to a Chinese lady and working in China. They were
going to meet the young couple.


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1.It's ____________ (二点过一刻),Let's hurry up.
2.I am ______ happy ______ you ________ the exam sucessfully.
3.He hurried ______ me without stopping.
4.Please ______ the message to him,will you?
5.Great changes ____________(发生) ____________ (在过去几年里)。
【当堂训练】 一、单项选择
( )1. He asked me _______.
A. who will kick the first goal in the World Cup
B. when was the APEC meeting held
C. when China became a member of the WTO
D. where the next Olympics will be held
( )2.You must remember _______.
A. what your teacher said B. what did your teacher say
C. your teacher said what D. what has your teacher said ( )3. I
don"t know ______ . which room I can live B. which room can I live
C.will find/ will arrive D. will find/ arrives
( )6. Please tell me ______ last year.
A. where your sister works B.where does your sister work
C. where did your sister work D. where your sister worked
( )7..She asked me if I knew ______
A. whose pen is it B. whose pen it was
C. whose pen it is D. whose pen was it
( )8. I would like to know _____.
A.when will he return my book. B.if has he received my email
C. that he has been busy D.if he' ll join us
二、句型转换。1. "Do you want to try it?" Tom's mother asked him. →Tom's mother asked him _______ _______ _____to try it.
2. I think she's an honest girl.(改为否定句) →I _______
_______________, _______ ?(反意问句) 3. Lucy hasn't decided which trousers to buy.(改为复合句) →Lucy hasn't decided ________________________ buy.
4. I don't know how I can get to the hospital.(改为简单句)
5.I noticed him smiling at me.(改为复合句)
6. How does he get on with his new classmates? Could you tell me? (改为宾语从句)_________________________________________________
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We are adopting from Burundi, Africa.
The plan is to adopt a sibling set. While we have our hearts set on 2 children, we will NEVER leave an older sibling in the orphanage either. So truly, we are just open to whatever the Lord sees fit.
While the age is not really important, we are going to abide by our placement agency's suggestion of maintaining birth order. Our daughter will be the oldest sibling in the house upon the adoption finalization.
Our agency is All God's Children International, and they are AMAZING!
Once all of our paperwork is submitted (May/June 2017), we are looking at a 6-15 month referral wait time & then a 9-10 month wait before travel. So a total of 1.5-2.5 year wait from Spring 2017.


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Levine & Co.
(Critical Survey of Contemporary Fiction)
On February 20, 1987, Dennis Levine, a managing director of Drexel Burnham Lambert at only age thirty-two, was sentenced to two years in federal prison for securities fraud, income tax evasion, and perjury. His lenient sentence was a reward for betraying his entire network of co-conspirators, including the flamboyant arbitrager Ivan Boesky, who has been a key figure in most of the major hostile takeovers of recent years.
Levine had thought he was doubly protected from exposure. He was making his stock transactions through a coded account with a branch of a Swiss bank located in Nassau. Although Switzerland and the Bahamas have strict banking-secrecy laws, both countries finally yielded to American pressure and revealed the identity of the mysterious "Mr. Diamond." Evidently, they were afraid that a refusal to cooperate with the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Justice Department would smack of collusion and could lead to hostile measures to cripple or destroy the bonanza of offshore banking which has had such a strong appeal to many shy and self-effacing American entrepreneurs.
Dramatized accounts of true crimes have become standard fare since the publication of Truman Capote's IN COLD BLOOD in 1966, but LEVINE AND CO. is unique in being a dramatized account of a true white-collar crime. Douglas Frantz is an excellent writer who was an investigative reporter for many years in Chicago and Washington, D.C.; he is now a financial reporter for the LOS ANGELES TIMES. He limits his creative contribution to inventing a bit of dialogue and interpreting some of the principal actors' thoughts and feelings; but this is enough to make the book dramatic as well as highly informative. Dennis Levine is portrayed as a dynamic and charismatic young man who preyed on weaker people and seduced them into joining his network of insider informants.
Frantz's book makes it clear that insider trading is impossible to eliminate. Human nature is weak, the temptations are enormous, and there are too many insiders involved in big corporate deals, all the way down the hierarchy from the corner executive suites to the paralegals, secretaries, typists, printers, proofreaders, and messengers. The SEC can only hope to frighten the majority into staying straight by making examples of the few they catch red-handed. Perhaps the moral of LEVINE AND CO. is not "Do not do it!" but "Do not get too greedy!"


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text: > "If you touch my car I will kill you. Immediately." > > I fully realize that it simply isn't practical for *everyone* to do *ALL* > their own work on whatever they own, Or all their own killing. > but in my limited experience ..., in the vast majority of cases, if you let > anyone touch your car, they will not only fail to fix the original problem, > but make some new ones for you as well. Not to slander the decent techs out there (even they have bad days I bet) but, hear, hear! Very few people want to pay what it would cost to have a mechanic work on their car the way I/we would want our cars worked on. -- Huw Powell http://www.humanspeakers.com/audi/ 82 Audi Coupe; 84 4kq; 85 Coupe GT; 73 F250


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Birds & Exotics
Birds, Exotics & Wild Animals
– Selecting Birds
Selecting Birds
More and more people are discovering that caged birds bring color, song or vocalization, and amusement into their lives. Many birds form strong attachments to people and make excellent companions. Birds are often ideal pets for people with allergies to dogs and cats.
Birds are sensitive to sudden temperature changes and many household fumes, can develop life threatening diseases, and need a balanced diet, water, light, suitable caging, and proper sanitation. A bird won't sing or talk if it is lonely, malnourished, stressed, or confined in too small an area.
Investigate the needs of the bird you are interested in owning. Some birds may require special seeds, fruits, or vegetables, while others need large cages. All birds require social contact.
The cost, care, and time commitment required to keep birds vary as much as individual characteristics such as color, size, personality, and life span. First-time bird owners should avoid the more expensive species. Finches, for example, are relatively easy to care for and may live only five to eight years. Canaries and budgerigars (parakeets) have a life expectancy between five and 15 years and are easy to care for; large parrots may live more than 30 years. Costs increase with traits and rarity. The cost of a male canary, for example, may be twice that of a female because only males sing. Birds of the parrot family are highly social, trainable creatures; however, large species can bite and can be expensive, ranging from $150 for a conure (small parrot) to more than $6,000 for a macaw.
Exotic and Wild Animals as Pets
Exotic animals and wildlife (skunks, chimpanzees, poisonous snakes, raccoons, etc.) do not make good pets. They can be dangerous. It is illegal to buy or keep them in most states. Owning a young, exotic animal can be a passing fancy. As the animal matures, it can become aggressive and probably will be unhappy in captivity. Owners who find that they can no longer keep an exotic pet usually encounter great difficulty in placing their animals in a new home.
The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) recognizes that: a) wild animals are often maintained in captivity as companion animals, for breeding purposes, for research activities, and for exhibition, and b) certain species of wild animals, when maintained under responsible ownership, may constitute no significant hazard to human health, other animal species, the environment, or to the animals themselves.
Certain species, or individual animals of most species, when maintained under irresponsible ownership may, in fact, be a hazard to human health, other animals, and/or the environment.
The AVMA strongly opposes the keeping of wild carnivore species of animals as pets and believes that all commercial traffic of these animals for such purpose should be prohibited.
The AVMA also strongly opposes keeping as pets those reptiles and amphibians that are considered inherently dangerous to humans and believes that all commercial traffic of these animals for such purposes should be prohibited.
People acquire wild animals as pets because they like to possess unusual pets or regard them as status symbols.
Problems associated with wild animals include disease, diet, exercise, housing and traumatic injury.
Wild animals kept as pets are frequently subjected to various surgical procedures for the sole purpose of making the animal more sociably acceptable to its owner.
Disposing of a wild animal can be a traumatic experience for both the animal and its owner. Frequently, legitimate zoos will not accept them and they are "too domesticated" to return to the wild; therefore, euthanasia may be the only alternative.
Canine Hybrids As Pets
The AVMA recognizes that: a) wild canines crossbred with domestic animals (canine hybrids) are often maintained in captivity as companion animals, for breeding purposes, for research activities, and for exhibition; b) depending on the management and disposition of canine hybrids, they may constitute a significant hazard to human health, other animal species, the environment, or themselves; and c) there is much controversy with regard to the amount of genetic diversity between some wild and domestic canines and the suitability of canine hybrids as companion animals.
The AVMA strongly opposes keeping as pets any hybrids of wild canines crossbred with domestic animals. The AVMA believes that all commercial traffic of these animals for such purposes should be prohibited.
Persons who own or are contemplating owning canine hybrids should be aware of the following:
- Laws in their state or community that may prohibit canine hybrids or require a permit for their presence.
- The existence of strong evidence from experts in animal behavior, animal control, animal welfare, and public health that canine hybrids can exhibit unpredictable behavior and pose a significant threat of severe attacks on humans.
- Public health officials may require euthanasia of canine hybrids after they bite a person or are exposed to a rabid animal, regardless of their rabies vaccination status, because presently there is no rabies vaccine licensed for canine hybrids and little scientific data on the pathogenesis of rabies in these animals.
- The need for special nutrition and housing, including secure fencing to prevent both escape and direct contact with humans and other animals.
- Owners or keepers of canine hybrids may be at increased risk for liability.
- The importance of establishing a good relationship with a veterinarian who has some knowledge of canine hybrids and is willing to provide appropriate health care through treatment and preventive medicine.
Recognizing that some states allow canine hybrids to be owned, the AVMA encourages the development and licensure of drugs and biologics that can be used on such animals.
The AVMA recognizes that ferrets (mustela putorius furo) are being kept as pets and for research purposes. In those states or areas where ferret ownership is legal, the AVMA recommends:
- Responsible ferret ownership: This includes knowledge pertaining to ferret husbandry (care, nutrition, housing, and the species' habits). It is also recommended that no ferret be left unattended with any individual incapable of removing himself or herself from the ferret.
- Proper veterinary care by a veterinarian legally authorized to practice veterinary medicine. This includes preventive medicine and, when needed, medical or surgical care including spaying, castration, and descenting.


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My sister, Alice, is in Dawson City, she told me about the Yukon Quest dog sled race:
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Yukon Quest dog sled race
My sister, Alice, is in Dawson City, she told me about the Yukon Quest dog sled race:
Oasis patent policy threatens openness of webservice standards
I strongly believe that true interoperability can only be achieved if interoperability standards are truly "unencumbered" and freely implementable by anyone. Seems that the OASIS organisation may be violating this principle. Read:
I am now 40
Oh. How did I get to be this old?
People have kindly told me that I don't look it, but its cold comfort when you consider how much less of my life I have left that I had when I was twelve.
Labels: milestones, personality cult
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
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I am considering what I want to do with this blog over the next year. I know that I want to give it more focus . . . though I'm not sure exactly on what at this point. So I thought I'd throw it out to you and see if any of my readers might have a preference of subject matter. To be clear, even while I hope to narrow my scope somewhat, I won't just do one thing here.
Let me know what you'd like to see more of (and you can vote for more than one category).
What should LtL focus on in 2010?
- Social & Political Information & Rants (33%)
- Personal Observations & Ruminations About Life, Love, etc. (17%)
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Cheating Could Get You Banned in Blizzard's New Overwatch
Tempted to cheat at Overwatch, Blizzard's new game property, when the game releases? Think again. Blizzard has already announced that they're offering a zero-tolerance policy on cheaters. The upcoming shooter game has attracted a ton of attention and features a large media push, so it's understandable that gamers may be tempted to cheat at the game, but the developer isn't having it. In a forum forst, they said "Play nice, play fair" is the value they seek over at Blizzard for their gamers, and that they will enact stiff policies for any cheaters found. That policy includes perma-bans.
Cheaters refers to any sort of software that provides an unfair advantage and is unapproved by the developers. In the past, these cheats have included bots, hacks, and third-party developed software to accomplish the unfair gains. Blizzard is against these practices completely and finds that they "undermine the spirit of play." Blizzard will be monitoring the game closely when it launches to determine whether players are compromising the integrity of Overwatch and cheating. Suspected hacks are to be reported to [email protected], but that's not all that's been put in place to watch the game for cheating.
The game developer has announced that Overwatch will feature in-game reporting systems designed to alert Blizzard to any suspicious behavior observed by other players. They also said that they already located players who were in the beta and who were discovered to be cheating, and thus, were removed from the game.
At the game's launch, players will have access to the report option in the game client. The option can be accessed through right clicking and then "Report." There are just a few things to note about spotting potential cheaters in Overwatch. The developers note that the game's camera doesn't always match the speed or quality of the real-time gameplay, so gamers may think that a player's aim is more fast or less fluid than it was in game, when viewed in playback. There were bugs in the in-game camera system that related to this, and thus, it may seem like players are cheating when they aren't. Finally, Blizzard says that some players have years upon years of first-person shooting experience and may seem like they're cheating, when they're just really good at the game.
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The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 75, July 1971 - April, 1972 Page: 254
This periodical is part of the collection entitled: Southwestern Historical Quarterly and was provided to The Portal to Texas History by the Texas State Historical Association.
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Union Pacific Country. By Robert G. Athearn. (Chicago: Rand Mc-
Nally & Company, 1971. Pp. 480. Illustrations, maps, bibliography,
index. $15.oo.)
Few people are as knowledgeable about the vast region beyond the
Mississippi-its geography, people, and history-as is Bob Athearn.
Many fellow historians who have known and loved this native son of
Montana (although, to know him is not necessarily to love him)
throughout the quarter of a century he has been associated with the
University of Colorado, have long respected his ability with the writ-
ten word and the explicit phrase. The present volume, Union Pacific
Country, is somewhat the exception to Athearn's usual writing style.
It is more concise, straightforward, and less replete with colorful meta-
phors and other figures of speech which one finds, for example, in
High Country Empire.
The author maintains in the Introduction that Union Pacific offi-
cials faithfully adhered to their promise that "no doors would remain
closed in my search for materials pertinent to the study." This is a
far cry from policies generally followed a few decades ago when "kept
historians" were often more skilled in cosmetology (ahl) than in ob-
jective research. (I still remember a review of a subsidized history of
a major American company published around 1950 in which the critic
observed that failure by the author to devote a single line to one of
the most prolonged and most violent strikes in the nation's history, a
strike which was associated with the particular company, was com-
parable to a biography of Christ which omitted any mention of the
crucifixion or the resurrection.) Union Pacific Country represents
solid, objective history and most railroad buffs will relish every single
one of its 387 pages of narratives and perhaps even a few of the 1,047
Rarely have previous studies of the development of the Union Paci-
fic gone much beyond "the champagne-drenched day at Promontory."
Athearn attempts to remedy this partly by the inclusion of a tightly
written chapter entitled "An Apple Tree Without a Limb." The
trackage of feeder lines acquired by 1883 represented more than four
times the original mileage of road between Omaha and Promontory.
The area served by the main core and its branches is what the author
defines as "Union Pacific Country." In an attempt to keep the narra-
tive as manageable as possible, he explains the necessity of restricting
the scope of the story to the pioneering period, or what he calls the
pre-Harriman era.
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