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Having problems with your Vivitar ViviCam 3350 Digital Camera ?
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If you mean the shutter inside the camera stays open while you have the camera on, this is how you're able to see what you're shooting on the screen.
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Here are some highlight from the fishing report that will appear in Saturday's Sports section.
Cowlitz: The summer-run steelhead fishing has been slow, but it is expected to pick up in the next couple of weeks as more fish move into the system.
Sol Duc: The river wiil close to all fishing in the vicinity of Sol Duc Hatchery Saturday. The closure, in place until further notice, extends from the Sol Duc Hatchery outfall creek upstream to the concrete pump station. The return of spring/summer chinook salmon to the hatchery are well below egg take needs. The closure is needed to protect these chinook until broodstock needs are achieved.
Skykomish: The river is still producing chinook. There are plenty of bright fish willing to put up a fight. Anglers also are catching a few big summer-run steelhead. The action has been best from Sultan down river to Monroe. Try sidedrifting eggs.
Yakima: The fly fishing has been good this week. Try caddis, yellow Sallys and terrestrial pattersns. Also look for summer stoneflies hatching. Flows have steadily risen during the week, reacing 4,000 cubic feet per second Friday morning.
Salt water
Fly fishing: The action for searun cutthroat through remains good in Puget Sound with some big fish being caught consistently. Anglers also are finding some small schools of resident coho salmon close to shore.
South Sound: The chinook action has improved in the last week, with fish being caught at a number of locations around Tacoma. Trolling flashers with hoochie and spoons has been effective. In Marine Area 13, an angler landed a 24-pound chinook.
American: Anglers are catching a mix of rainbow trout and kokanee. The best action has been trolling with a pink dodger trailed by a pink hoochie or lure. Reports indicate the fish are holding about 30 feet deep. One angler reported catching a 3-pound kokanee.
Mineral: Anglers have been catching some nice rainbow trout, including a 6-pound fish. Try trolling a black woolly bugger with red flash material. Fishing pink Power Eggs off the bottom also is an effective method.
Offut: The trout fishing has been fair to good. The fish have been hitting garlic Power Eggs, nightcrawlers or spinners tipped with a nightcrawler. Some of the trout are weighing up to 2 pounds.
Silver: The action has been best for warmwater species like catfish in the shallows, largemouth bass hanging in the weeds and crappie in the evening. The trout are hanging in the cooler water on the bottom.

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verb dispute, question
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- confrontstar
- defystar
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adj. requiring great effort, ability
adj. disobedient, disregardful
adj. hard on someone; hard to do
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Williams hopes residents will take advantage of the screenings offered at the health fair, to "make sure there is nothing medically wrong; and if there is, it will give you a heads-up so you can get further medical attention."
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In the tradition of Murder on the Orient Express, Jim Lehrer brings together a cast of characters as fascinating as the historic train that will carry them from Chicago to Los Angeles. In its heyday, the Santa Fe railroad's famous Super Chief was so replete with wealth and celebrity that it became known as "The Train of the Stars." And so we find it in April of 1956, embarking from the Windy City for its trip across the Plains to the West Coast.

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So how can a person acquire Swiss Citizenship?
Damn. The Swiss really have it right. I'll also bet their violent crime rate is one of the lowest in the developed world.
America should be headed in the direction of adopting the Swiss model - not toward disarming the law-abiding public.
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Free seminar on Rural Energy for America Program set Wednesday
Published 6:00 am, Sunday, December 5, 2010
USDA Rural Development, in conjunction with Plainview Main Street/CVB/PEGA, will hold a community-wide discussion for those interested in the Rural Energy for America Program, which provides financial assistance to rural businesses and agricultural producers interested in pursuing renewable energy or energy efficiency projects. The meeting will take place at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Fair Theater.
The Rural Energy for American Program offers competitive grants, guaranteed loans and combination grant/guaranteed loans to help agricultural producers and rural small businesses purchase and install renewable energy systems and make energy efficiency improvements in rural areas. The program also provides competitive grants to rural small businesses and agricultural producers to help them pay for the cost of a detailed, professional, independent feasibility study of their prospective renewable energy projects. Assistance is limited to $50,000 or 25 percent of the cost of the study, whichever is less.
"We're excited to offer this program to those who want to save money and conserve energy, but are unable to do so without financial assistance," said Paco Valentin, Texas state director of USDA Rural Development. "As we continue to find ways to make America more energy independent, the projects this program supports will become more and more important."
According to program details, renewable energy is defined as energy derived from a wind, solar, biomass or geothermal source; or hydrogen derived from biomass or water using wind, biomass or geothermal energy sources.
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Emphysema is a chronic lung disease involving damage to the lungs air sacs which effects breathing. There is progressive destruction of alveoli and the surrounding lung tissues. With advanced emphysems the large air cysts develop where normal lung tissue used to be. Air is trapped in the lungs due to a lack of supportive tissue, which in-turn decreases blood oxygenation.
An important area of emphysema research involves the surgical procedure called lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS), though a major national study concluded that it only helps certain subgroups of patients. LVRS is invasive, and the benefit rather modest, so demand for it in the last few years was lower than expected.
A less invasive alternative, bronchoscopic lung volume reduction, is now being pursued. It involves placing one-way valves in the bronchial tubes to help reduce areas of overinflation within the lungs most severely affected by emphysema (as opposed to removing damaged tissue from the lungs by means of LVRS). Several companies are working on such devices, which are in various stages of development.
Quitting smoking -the single most important factor for maintaining healthy lungs.
Bronchodilator drugs (prescription drugs that relax and open up air passages in the lungs) - may be prescribed to treat emphysema if there is a tendency toward airway constriction or tightening. These drugs may be inhaled as aerosol sprays or taken orally.
Antibiotics-if you have a bacterial infection, such as pneumococcal pneumonia.
Exercise -including breathing exercises to strengthen the muscles used in breathing as part of a pulmonary (the term "pulmonary" refers to the lungs) rehabilitation program to condition the rest of the body.
Herbs can be beneficial in relieving the symptoms of emphysema, helping the body to ward off infection, and easing the asthmatic symptoms that often accompany emphysema.


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text: So maybe not taking over just yet but I did just spend a week on the lovely caribean island. While the wife and I were in the locals market shopping this kid runs by my in a Titans #10, a second later another kid runs by in a longhorns #10. At this point I have to ask, so I catch them and ask them whats up, they say "we love American football" apparently one of their "school masters", I suppose that is a teacher, spent some time in the U.S. or went to school at UT, I couldn't get it straight, but anyways he is a big VY fan and has shown VY highlight tapes to the kids. BTY, I did my duty and explained that yes VY is "the best" and also started the Peyton is a whimp club in St. Lucia.:grrhee:


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Reid was Prince Charming, but we already knew that.
In order to catch a female unsub who believed her life was a fairytale, Hotchner asked Spencer to approach her in a way that Prince Charming would. That way, it would reduce the likelihood of Cinderella killing her captive or herself. Naturally, Reid played the part of Prince Charming perfectly. Swoon!
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Silver-Plate Lining? Romney Not The Worst From Immigration Patriot Viewpoint
Well, that settles it: Mitt Romney is going to be the next GOP Presidential nominee. GOP voters don't like him much, but Rick Santorum and/or Ron Paul needed a miracle to derail him, and they didn't get it, or at least not enough of a miracle. Silver (or at least silver-plate) lining: the ignominious fact is that Romney is the best of the three on immigration—which is not saying a lot, but it's something.
Two of the previous non-Romney Flavors of the Month, Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich, foundered in large part due to their weaknesses on illegal immigration, which Romney, perhaps tellingly, did not hesitate to exploit.
Of course, this has led the usual chorus of Hispandering Republicans, fee-hungry professional Hispanics and stereotype-struck Main Stream Media reporters to argue that he will not be able to win the mythical Hispanic Swing Vote. For example:
- Mario Lopez [email him] of the Hispanic Leadership Fund complained: "Romney's tin ear on this topic, on immigration, will hurt him should he be the nominee, is hurting the Republican Party and is hurting every conservative who cares about passing conservative legislation in the future."
- Alfonso Aguilar [Email him] of the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles claimed "It pains me to say this, but if we have a negative narrative on immigration, it's because of Mitt Romney."
[GOP wary of Romney's rhetoric on immigrants, By Peter Wallsten, Washington Post, December 16, 2011. VDARE.com links added]
As usual, nobody thinks about the white vote.
On immigration, NumbersUSA ranks Romney second to only Michele Bachmann—who, however, never did criticize legal immigration and passed up the chance to confront Romney on it and get the issue in play. Of course, this is more of a comment the overall GOP field: Romney only gets a C-.
For the most part, Romney's low NumbersUSA grade is due to his sins of omission. He has not said anything about refugees, birthright citizenship, the diversity lottery, chain migration, or overall legal immigration numbers.
The one area where Romney has committed a sin of commission: high-skilled immigration. He has repeatedly called for increasing skilled immigration, despite serious unemployment among skilled Americans. He stated in one debate:
"I`d staple a green card to the diploma of anybody who`s got a degree of math, science, a Masters degree, Ph.D."[America`s foreign-born scientists and engineers, CNN, November 23, 2011]
(Bachmann, incidentally, concurred).
Still, on amnesty, Romney has been fairly solid. He even recently stated that he would veto the DREAM Act. Romney's platform says: "I very firmly believe … that those people who have come here illegally do not get an advantage to become permanent residents, they do not get a special pathway." It also states that illegals "should be required to return to their home country."
Romney has come out strongly in favor of mandatory E-Verify, ending sanctuary cities, cutting off in state tuition, driver's licenses, and other benefits for illegal aliens. In an interview with the Arizona NBC affiliate, he said he would end the lawsuit against SB 1070 and said he supported Arizona's efforts against illegal immigration.[ Romney would end SB 1070 challenge by Brahm Resnik, September 16, 2011]
All these statements are good. But many Americans will wonder if Romney will flip-flop as soon as he gets the GOP nomination, and start promoting amnesty. And they can point to a 2006 interview with Bloomberg news in which Romney said that illegals"are not going to be rounded up and box-carred out." After creating the usual mass deportation straw man, Romney instead suggested that
"We should have those individuals who are here illegally begin a process either of returning to their homes—particularly those that are unable to be here without government support or those who are involved in crime—or beginning a process of registering for a citizenship, applying for citizenship and then carrying out the process necessary to get there."
[Romney in 2006 Backed Immigration Stance He Now Deems 'Amnesty', by Julie Hirschfeld Davis, Bloomberg News, November 28, 2011]
There is no reasonable way to interpret those words other than a call for amnesty. The best that can be said in Romney's defense is that, since he spoke, the debate on illegal immigration has moved decisively in the patriot direction within the GOP. There are many politicians who had supported amnesty in 2006 but who become reliably anti-amnesty over the last five years. In politics, this phenomenon is described as "he didn't see the light, but he felt the heat." See
- An Illinois Democrat Wonders When John Kyl Became Such An Ally
- GOP Establishment`s Epiphany on Birthright Citizenship—Be Optimistic AND Suspicious!
- Republican Senate Candidates Opposing Illegal Immigration—But How Will They Govern?
Moreover, that one statement appears to be Romney sole pro-illegal remarks during his otherwise-solid governorship. He threatened to veto a bill that granted driver's licenses to illegal aliens in 2004, which fortunately never made it to his desk. He vetoed a bill to give in state tuition to illegal immigrants that same year. In 2006, he signed a 287(g) agreement to deputize state law enforcement officials to fight illegal immigration.
I believe that Romney does not get enough credit for these stands. During his governorship—which occurred the height of George W. Bush's popularity—few Republicans—certainly not those representing blue states—even gave lip service to immigration control.
Nevertheless, Romney has certainly made a few statements that leave the door open to a future flip-flop on amnesty. Last month, Romney told the editorial board of the Washington Examiner
Virtually every Republican I know that`s spoken about illegal immigration says the same thing. I listened to Lindsey Graham the other day and he said, `secure the border, stop the flow of illegal aliens into the country, and then we can address the issue of what to do with the people who are here illegally today. `I do have my own thoughts on that. I actually have a plan in mind, I haven`t unveiled it. There are other people I`d like to sit down with and review it with me.
I went down to Florida and met with Jeb Bush six, seven months ago, laid out what I thought would be a complete plan to deal with permanent immigration policies with regards to our legal system to simplify it. Number two, how to deal with those who are here illegally today. And number three, how to secure the border.
[Romney`s secret plan to end illegal immigration, by Conn Caroll, December 7, 2007]
Of course, Romney is so vague, this could mean anything. I could answer his three questions in three words:
But the fact that Romney is talking about "the issue of what to do with people who are here illegally" with notorious immigration enthusiasts like Lindsey Graham and Jeb Bush must worry any supporter of patriotic immigration reform.
My view: Like it or not, Romney is going to be the Republican nominee for president. The upside is that he is miles ahead of George W. Bush and John McCain.
The downside: Americans still have many further miles to go before they can truly take their country back.
"Washington Watcher" [email him] is an anonymous source Inside The Beltway.


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US will be forced to meet JCPOA commitments: Larijani
Iran's Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani says the US has to to meet its obligations under a nuclear deal despite failing to honor them by keeping Tehran locked out of the international financial system.
"The Westerners are not trustworthy, but if they don't fulfill their commitments, we will force them to implement them by our own means," he told a forum in Tehran Wednesday, according to presstv.ir.
He said the US is seeking to hinder foreign investment in Iran, but suggested that certain attempts are also being undertaken inside the country to discourage foreign investment. "We should calm the atmosphere to attract investment."
Iranian officials have recently complained about continued hostility by the US toward the Islamic Republic even after the implementation in January of the nuclear agreement, dubbed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
On Wednesday, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said a US court ruling that authorized the deduction of around USD two billion in frozen Iranian assets amounts to "obvious theft" and "a big legal scandal" for the US.
On April 20, the US Supreme Court ruled that about USD 2 billion in frozen Iranian assets must be turned over to the American families of people killed in the 1983 bombing of a US Marine Corps barracks in Beirut and other attacks blamed on Iran. The Islamic Republic has denied any role in the attack.
Iran has denied any role in the attack, and the money confiscated under the US court ruling belongs to the Central Bank of Iran (CBI). The assets have been blocked under US sanctions.
President Rouhani said the US government will inevitably "suffer the consequences" of the move, adding, "Undoubtedly, the move is blatant aggression and hostility against the Iranian nation on the part of the America."
During a Tuesday session, the Iranian Cabinet tasked a working group, led by Minister of Economy and Finance Ali Tayyeb-Niya, with following up on the issue. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi, Justice Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi and Governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) Valiollah Seif are other members of the group.
Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council — the United States, France, Britain, China and Russia — plus Germany started implementing the JCPOA on January 16. The two sides signed the agreement on July 14, 2015 after some two years of intensive talks.
Under the JCPOA, all nuclear-related sanctions imposed on Iran by the European Union, the Security Council and the US would be lifted. Iran has, in return, put some limitations on its nuclear activities.


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I was invited to participate in a Haiku "competition" in an English class taught by one of my favorite people in the universe. His students all wrote about Henry David Thoreau, so this stuck out like a sore thumb, but I like it anyway.
Today they stand in
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Lions, and Tigers and Bears, Oh MY! Wolves, and bats, and sperm whales! What do they all have in common? Come and learn about this inspiring group of animals. There will be skulls, furs, and other artifacts on hand to see and touch during and after the presentation. If allowed, we also bring a LIVE Mammal or two, such as our Therapy Dogs, Gangsta and Bailey, and Herbie the Hedgehog.
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|Bird Brains Unite!
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Bird Brains Unite! Why do birds fly south for the winter? Why do they sing? Learn this and much more in this fun and lively presentation by Ranger Eric about our feathered friends. Plus there will be artifacts on hand such as skulls and nests! If you have a feathered friend at home please bring a picture to share with everyone!
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|Due North!
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Ever been lost in the woods? Students will learn the basic components of a compass and how to navigate using one. The lesson starts in the classroom and then head outside (or large indoor space) to learn our skills. For a greater challenge, a compass scavenger hunt will be established around the site. A field expedition to a local park is available upon request for an advanced experience. Grades 5-12, and adults.
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Where does your food come from? Clothing? Students will tabulate all the things they use in a day to run their life, and then we will see what impact their choices have on the whole planet! I will teach them how to create a flying journey as we explore where all their daily things come from. Bring a USB storage device to save it and take it home to share with family and friends. Grades 5-12.
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|Wildlife Tracking
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Stalking a deer in the woods takes more skill than walking quietly! Learn more about the clues that animals leave us, and also what animal tracks look like. Lastly, you will make tracks out of plaster of paris to start your own track collection!!! $10 per person materials fee.
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|Live Reptile Show
Nature- Animals,
Although reptiles may seem creepy to some, to know them is to love them! Participants will learn the characteristics of a reptile and be able to identify members of the snake, lizard, turtle and crocodile families. Particular themes such as "The Class of Reptiles," Desert vs. Tropical Adaptations" or "Careers with Animals" are available. This program can be modified to suit mandated curricular needs. Call for details!
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Dig Into Reading...Dig Into Geology! Participants will learn about hte geologic cycle and how various types of rocks are formed. Ranger Eric will have his personal rock collection on display for you to look, touch, or maybe even hold! You'll get lots of ideas about starting your own rock collection. Lastly, we end with a Show-n-Tell session, so be sure to bring your favorite rock, fossil or gem to share or ask Ranger Eric a question. Participants can sign up to receive an identification sheet to start their own rock collection.
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Dr. Robert G. Hasty is the Music Director of the Kenosha Symphony Orchestra, Principal Conductor of the Highland Park Strings, Music Director of the Skokie Valley Symphony Orchestra, and the conductor of the Chamber Orchestra and the Philharmonia at the Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University where he also serves as the Associate Director of Orchestras. He is also Artistic Director of the International Schools Choral Music Society.
Dr. Hasty began his career teaching music in the public schools in Southern California; this included tenure in administration as the District Music Coordinator of the Capistrano Unified School District where he supervised the K-12 music education program and its staff of 39 teachers. He also served an elected term as Vice President in charge of String Education for the Southern California School Band and Orchestra Association.
A noted researcher in music cognition, Dr. Hasty has been an author for two publications delivered at the 7th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition in Sydney, Australia. A book on his research on conducting was published in 2005: "Critical Listening While Conducting". The European Society for Cognitive Sciences of Music invited him to speak at their conference in Portugal on these studies.
As a conductor, Dr. Hasty has appeared with the All-American College Orchestra at Walt Disney World, Beijing Youth Orchestra, Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra, Grant Park Symphony Orchestra, Irvine Youth Symphony, La Primavera Orchestra, Merit Symphony Orchestra, Metropolis Youth Symphony, National High School Music Institute Orchestra, Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra, NU Opera Theater, and the NU Contemporary Music Ensemble. His performances have been broadcast on WFMT radio in Chicago and on the Big Ten Network. Dr. Hasty's international engagements include two sold-out performances at the National Concert Hall of Taipei, Taiwan, the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing, China, the Shanghai Oriental Arts Center Concert Hall in Shanghai, China, and the Busan Cultural Center Main Theater in Busan, South Korea. He is sought-after as an honor orchestra conductor, conducting honor groups across the United States. He is a member of the conducting and music education faculties at the Bienen School of Music.
Dr. Hasty continues to perform as a freelance violinist and violist. The Aliso Viejo Symphony Orchestra, with whom he has served as concertmaster, the Capistrano Valley Symphony, and the Mozart Classical Orchestra are a few of the ensembles that have requested his violin services. Dr. Hasty was the violist on the world premiere of Kathy Henkel's Moorland Sketches, which was broadcast on KUSC-FM Los Angeles. Currently, he is living out a long-held musical fantasy as a fiddler playing in Chicagoland bands, including performing and recording with the band for singer-songwriter Christina Trulio (ASCAP).


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Columbia Pediatrics Medical Group is committed to serving the complete medical needs of infants, children and adolescents in the greater Long Beach region and surrounding communities.
Columbia Pediatrics is interested in providing quality care in an atmosphere that is comforting to children and their families. We believe that as a larger pediatric group, we have the ability to meet the needs of our patients and yet are still able to provide personal care and attention.
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Tahir, B.A and Ali, Jalil B and Rahman, R.A (2006) Fabrication of fiber grating by phase mask and its sensing application. Journal of Opteolectronics and Advanced Materials, 8 (4). pp. 1604-1609.
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This paper reports an investigation of a fabricated fiber grating device characteristics and its applications, using a phase mask writing technique. The phase mask technique used for writing fiber gratings has the advantages over the traditional holographic method because of its simpler writing setup and more reproducible characteristics. Specifically, the utilization of phase mask relaxes the strict requirement on the coherence of a UV light source. On the other hand, to photo induce an index change in the fiber core, light absorption must somehow occur. Alkins measured the absorption spectrum in a standard germanium doped mono mode telecommunication fiber to the wavelength as short as 200 nm. The results show that a light source in the UV spectral region 228 to 253 nm is most effective in photo inducing refractive index changes in such optical fibers. Therefore, we used a KrF excimer laser with wavelength ∼248 nm as light source, and applied the phase mask technique to writing fiber grating. This method has the significant advantage for its much less relaxed requirement on the spatial coherence of exposure light source. The device (i-e grating) characteristics especially, in sensing application, were investigated. In addition, the possibility of using such device as a temperature and strain sensors is also discussed in detail.
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Hundreds gather in London to protest against killing of two black men in US
Hundreds of demonstrators have protested in London against the killing of two black men in the United States.
Brixton was brought to a standstill as a crowd chanting "black lives matter" and "hands up, don't shoot" took to the streets on Saturday.
The crowd of approximately 300 people gathered in Windrush Square before marching to the nearby police station, and then through neighbouring streets.
It followed a protest in central London on Friday after the shooting of black men by US police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and St Paul, Minnesota. Those deaths were followed by the reprisal shooting of five police officers in Dallas, Texas.
Demonstrators later brought traffic to a halt by staging a sit-down protest in the middle of Brixton High Street.
There was a low-key police presence as the crowd chanted "racist police, off our streets".
They sat down for around 10 minutes before getting up, but the crowd swelled until all traffic through the centre of Brixton had to be halted.
Dozens of buses and cars were forced to queue back along Brixton Road as the protesters blocked traffic outside the Ritzy Cinema. One bus driver said he had been stuck for more than two hours.
Scuffles broke out at one point after protesters said a bus driver made a derogatory remark towards them. He was punched by one protester after being ushered away by six or seven police officers. One officer told the Press Association he believed the driver had been arrested.
Officers then backed away from the crowd who remained in the road playing music.
Some protesters cheered as one man shouted through a loudspeaker "we have locked down Brixton".
Another man, Vincent Lee, 37, and his partner Jessica Osibona came to the march as a mark of solidarity of the events in the US over the past week.
Mr Lee said: "It is a mess. Predominantly it is happening in America with their gun laws but we came down to show we are united with them."
He added: "It is hard because I'm mixed. I've got white family members too. The officers who got killed in Dallas, they've got families too."
Ms Osibona said she felt "compelled" to join the protest having followed the Black Lives Matter movement over the past year.
She said: "I was looking for some kind of inspiration as to what we can do collectively."
She added it was her first such protest and had given her an "overwhelming feeling of unity".
One bus - seemingly abandoned by its driver - was boarded by a group of protesters who begun singing rapper Kendrick Lamar's song Alright - a track which has been associated with the Black Lives movement in the US.
Another bus driver said TfL buses through Brixton had been re-routed.
He said he supported the protesters, adding "they've given me a three hour break".
Groups of protesters remained in the area on Saturday night as a police helicopter hovered overhead.


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I think all 6 of the Pokemon should be banned. Allowing them will just create a lot of drama and complaints. Banning them won't hurt anyone as you would just choose different Pokemon. I think it's a lot easier to not allow them and have everyone satisfied.
I'm all for fairness, and if people have mixed opinions on certain Pokemon, I think it's safe to ban them right off the bat.


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|Various Artists - Reich Remixed
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|Tuesday, 02 March 1999
Would you believe that the sampling and tape loop revolution began back in the 1960's? Well, to a large extent it's true. Over a decade before the Bronx turned house parties on their ear with rap, and even longer before Electronica was a concept let alone a genre, Steve Reich was out in San Francisco becoming the world's original re-mixer. Today, four decades later, DJs from all around the world have taken his music and re-mixed it into what you'll find here.
Although none of the artists included were born when Reich began his experimentations with the 'sounds between the sounds' the essence of Reich's work is captured here. Found on this album is a past-meets-present sound that most fans of Ambient music should both respect and enjoy. The artists included range from DJ Spooky, Tranquility Bass, and Howie B. to Mantronik and Nobukazu Takemura. The recording, mixing and mastering quality are all impressive, and we recommend this album with little reservation.


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Are Anti-Choice Coalitions Starting To Break Up?
It's a new and disturbing theme when it comes to a women's right to choose. Suddenly, anti-abortion positions that were once considered somewhat reasonable — like exceptions in the case of rape, or saving a mother's life, are now a sign of not being "pro-life" enough. Allowing a rape victim to end an unwanted pregnancy used to be considered one of the few humane situations for an abortion, but now it's seen as "punishing the baby for the sins of the father." Aborting a fetus to save a mother's health and future fertility used to be a reasonable assumption, and now the idea of aborting a tubal pregnancy is unheard of in the Right to Life circle unless the fetus has ruptured a tube and put the mother's life in immediate danger.
Over the last year or two, the anti-abortion position has become more and more extreme, yet it still wasn't enough to cause a schism between anti-choice groups. Until now.
The New York Times reports on the drawn out feud between Ohio Right to Life and a Ohio ProLife Action, a splinter anti-abortion group formed by Janet Porter and her "heartbeat ban" supporters. As Ohio Right to Life refused to endorse or support the bill that would make abortion illegal from the moment a heartbeat is detected — about 4 weeks post conception — those who believed that the original Ohio anti-choice group was too timid moved off to start their own sect, as well as apply ample pressure to lawmakers to finally get a bill up for a vote in the senate.
Ohio Right to Life, fearing that the "heartbeat" ban would simply result in a costly court case that would in the end strengthen, not overturn Roe V. Wade, has refused to use their own clout to push the bill for a vote, focusing instead on the state's 20 week abortion ban. But ProLife Action, with the support of numerous presidential candidates, has fundraised hard enough to show their own strength, airing a targeted television commercial to garner public support to pressure the legislature into ending their stall on the bill.
The bill, which has already passed the state house, will now be voted on by the senate this week, and is expected to pass. That will leave the Ohio governor, also an abortion opponent, with the task of deciding whether or not to sign the bill into law, knowing full well that it will go straight to the courts for costly legal defense.
But Ohio isn't the only state showing a collapse behind the unified front of anti-abortion groups. Wisconsin is also beginning to splinter, in their case over a proposed push to define life at the moment an egg is fertilized. undaunted by the failure in Mississippi last month, Pro-Life Wisconsin is fighting for an amendment to declare "personhood" at the moment of conception. But Wisconsin Right to Life is not enthusiastic about the idea at all. "'The U.S. Supreme Court has dealt with the personhood issue 23 times in various pieces of legislation regarding abortion, and every time they have rejected the notion of the personhood approach,' [Sue Armacost, legislative director for Wisconsin Right to Life] said. 'That would leave us with a constitutional amendment that has no teeth in it whatsoever. The real solution is that we would have a president who is going to appoint Supreme Court justices who will overturn Roe vs. Wade. That's what we have to concentrate on; (the proposed amendment) isn't the right approach.'"
While anti-choice groups splinter over whether or not they can truly go too far when it comes to restricting abortion and giving rights to embryos and fetuses that supersede those of the women carrying them, state and national candidates sadly will continue to pander to them, simply encouraging their quest to make the extreme mainstream.
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This isn't too surprising, but Carl Paladino has shifted his campaign into attacking Rick Lazio in the final push to the GOP primary.
The campaign designed and began distributing this flyer at Tea Party events and other rallies, attacking Lazio as a "liberal" and noting his endorsement this weekend by the New York Times.
"In a Republican primary, that's the kiss of death," Paladino's campaign manager Michael Caputo said by phone. "We want to make sure he gets as many kisses as possible."
The campaign has also re-tooled its initial radio ad to start attacking Lazio as a "former liberal congressman" who "voted for higher taxes and increased federal spending." It also says he took a $1.6 million bonus from J.P. Morgan — which I think is $300,000 off from the $1.3 million bonus Lazio actually took — which is described as a Wall Street bank that received a bailout.
Here's the ad: [podcast]http://preview.blog.timesunion.com/capitol/files/2010/09/Paladino-090310.mp3[/podcast]
Lazio has not recognized Paladino — the closest he came to going negative was to liken him to a "shock jock" — but, as Caputo notes, Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long has attacked him.
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The Carroll County rushing attack dominated the Pendleton County Wildcats 375 yards to just 1 yard as the Panthers rolled to a 48-11 season-opening road win Friday.
"Overall, I think we were able to run what we game planned for all week, and we were able to execute it," head coach Mike Weedman said. "There are still the details we're trying to fix that will make a difference on our team."
The Lady Panthers and new head coach Lynn Eaglin collected their first win of the season, defeating Lloyd Memorial at home Thursday, 3-1.
"It feels good to get the first win at home," Eaglin said.
Junior Kelly Layton led the team with 17 kills and four blocks, while fellow junior Karly Prosser followed with eight kills and five aces. Junior Sabrina Young also had five aces, while senior Emily Baker collected 22 assists.
The Lady Panthers fell behind early most of the match, but found a way to battle back and take the win.
The Panthers soccer team has started off the 2013 season on a positive note, showing they can both dominate a game as well as pull out a come-from-behind victory.
Carroll County opened the season Tuesday, Aug. 20, with a road trip to Covington Latin and came home with a 9-2 victory. Senior Michael Hall, freshman David Marshall and sophomore Alex Burns scored two goals apiece. Senior Taylor Byrd, sophomore Brett Hall and freshman Tyler Stewart each scored one goal.
Girls fall to Henry
The Lady Panthers golf team closely competed with Henry County at the Henry County Country Club Tuesday, Aug. 13, but fell just short. Henry won, 229-242.
The following are the Carroll County top four individual scores: Hannah McMahan, 52; Jadyn Bailey, 59; Natalie Bennett, 63; and Ciara Hamilton, 69.
Girls improve team score against Trimble
The Lady Panthers lost to Trimble County, 197 to 214, on Wednesday, Aug. 14. The match was held at Perry Park.
Peyton Devine, a fifth grader at Cartmell Elementary School, attended University of Kentucky's Coach Calipari's Pro Basketball two-day camp in Lexington July 31 and Aug. 1. Seven former UK basketball players — Nerlens Noel, Devin Johnston, Tawny Beckham, Julius Mays, Devon Rider, Archie Goodwin, and Anthony Davis — returned to their alma mater (as full-fledged NBA players) and worked with the kids both days. Every camper was offered the opportunity to get their items autographed.
Focus. That is the buzzword for this year's Carroll County High School football team.
The team will face a tough schedule this season, one that includes a renewal of the Carroll vs. Henry rivalry and four straight road games against quality opponents. But head coach Mike Weedman and his coaching staff have the Panthers prepared and ready to face the challenge as a team.
Cross country has become newly popular at Carroll County High School, as the team swelled to 33 runners this season.
First-year head coach Brian Crank said the student-athletes have been enthusiastic and are showing up to practice every day.
The Panthers will field varsity girls and boys teams, as well as a JV boys team. The team includes seven seniors: Michael Burns, Cody Cruz, Michael Hall, Sarah Hawkins, Sierra Martinez, Brad Osborne and Joseph Parker.
The Carroll County High School girls and boys soccer team held their alumni game Saturday, Aug. 3.
Expectations are high for the Lady Panthers volleyball team after winning their first-ever 31st District championship last season. But the girls are determined and more than ready for the challenge and to surpass it, aiming for an 8th Region championship, first-year head coach Lynn Eaglin said.
After a summer of practicing and playing pick-up games with friends, the Panthers golf team is ready to take on the competition.
Looking at the roster, the team may be young – the Panthers have just two seniors, Nick Aulbach and first-year player Gabe Kates – but it is full of talented players, head coach Josh Mefford said.
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Last month, at an event at Scripps College intended to educate students on activism, I learned the art of "solidarity"—helping undocumented immigrants circumvent our nation's immigration laws, and collectively shouting down opponents in student-led political protests.
Ever since the inauguration of Donald Trump as president of the United States, protests of his administration and other acts of resistance seem to be happening everywhere and every day, from the streets to the town hall meetings of members of Congress. Participation by my fellow college students in the "anti-fascist resistance" (or, in millennial speak, "anti-fascist #resistance") is the norm, yet I had been puzzled as to how my peers planned to resist and what exactly the #resistance entails.
I finally had the opportunity to find out when I attended the event held by the #resistance at Scripps College with the purpose of teaching the students of the Claremont Colleges how to "resist the fascist and white supremacist policies being espoused and enacted by our current administration" by "[roleplaying] solidarity actions." Walking in, I only had two questions that I hoped would be answered: Will the methods of resistance taught be legal, and how is this current administration fascist? I hoped that the former would be answered affirmatively, and that someone would at least attempt to explain the latter to me.
The event began with a discussion led by representatives from the labor union UNITE HERE, who explained that they hoped to teach students about the rights guaranteed by our country's rule of law. Besides the gimmicky antics of the speakers, who called each other "comrade" and urged "students and [the] community to fight capitalism" in one of their PowerPoint slides, the opening discussion addressed the Trump administration's deportation of undocumented immigrants and the legal rights of undocumented immigrants in a substantive way. The speakers explained, for example, the differences between administrative and judicial warrants, clarifying that only judicial warrants give Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents the authority to search private homes for undocumented individuals, and detailed the legal processes that undocumented immigrants face if arrested.
But this substantive discussion, which lifted my hopes, soon gave way to silliness—the roleplay simulation of ICE arrests, as well as a crash course on how to disrupt and protest in the streets and in the offices of politicians.
To simulate an ICE arrest, some participants (mainly students) were given roles as suspected undocumented immigrants; others were assigned to be ICE agents. When questioned by the ostensible ICE agents, the students who played suspected undocumented immigrants were instructed to pretend to be undocumented—staying silent in the face of ICE commands. This method saddened me; to set a precedent of undermining our rule of law is dangerous, and to expect the people of our country to buy into obstructing law enforcement belittles the decency and respect for the law Americans have. The organizers called this tactic "solidarity"; by pretending to not have documents, citizens and documented immigrants can make it difficult for immigration agents to find the undocumented individuals among them. However, teaching a group of presumably documented students who are mostly citizens how to pretend to be undocumented to show "solidarity" does not seem likely to solve the problems of illegal immigration. The change in content, from explaining the American legal system to obstructing the rule of law, struck me as another example of the organizers' unconstructive message—teaching students how to hinder the rule of law should not be the answer to perceived injustices—but this message did not end here; the speakers soon started criticizing dialogue, touting uninterrupted protest as a better alternative.
Changing course, the speakers moved to discuss how protests trump dialogue as effective and just means of resisting the Trump administration, even if they block the flow of traffic and affect local businesses. To help students understand how to protest effectively as a "delegation," the organizers initiated another roleplay scenario. I was assigned to be a member of the "herd," the backbone of the delegation the role of which is to project numerical superiority. Some students played the role of "speakers," who deliver the group's message to a "person of power," and others played "monitors" and "herders," who are supposed to keep the delegation together and lead chants whenever the speakers encounter any trouble, which the organizers defined as any attempt to interrupt the speakers from delivering their message, even if it was an offer for constructive dialogue. I was hopeful that my peers would not believe suppressing dialogue is a solution to their perceived problems, but their enthusiasm proved me wrong. Their enthusiasm discouraged me; dialogue, the very foundation of communicating and solving problems with people of different opinions, seems to be shunned now. We simulated storming into a politician's office and delivering a message, with the monitors leading a zealous chant of "Let them speak!" whenever the speakers were challenged by drowning out any voices of opposition.
After the event ended, I could not help but feel disheartened. Despite the commendable determination my radical peers displayed, it seemed they were willing to shut out dialogue to "deliver their message," avoid confronting any challenge to their ideas by simply drowning out opposition with chants, and obstruct the rule of law that has served our nation so well. They were willing to divide and label this nation which we all share into groups of "oppressors" and "resistors," all in an effort to challenge our democratically elected, though apparently "fascist" administration.
After almost two hours of indoctrination and "roleplaying oppression," I left discouraged with my fellow students' radical methods and misconceived ideas about the state of America—summarized by a souvenir in the form of a pledge card asking me to "fight back against the fascist policies of this new administration" and "engage in non violent civil disobedience." However, most importantly, even after those two hours, I still did not have an answer to one of my central questions: "How is this current administration fascist?"
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Research Interests
Language-based security, Information flow control, Program analysis, Distributed computing
Securing Virtual Machines using IDS
The goal of the project was to secure virtual machines using intrusion detection systems. It was done as part of an internship at the Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney. The key areas of the project included analysing the host for any intrusion and suggesting countermeasures to tackle it including any zero-day attacks.
Automatic Evaluation of SQL Select Queries
The project aimed at evaluating SQL Select queries written by trainees attending the course on database systems at Infosys Technologies Ltd. It automated the process of marking the queries written by the trainees as part of the hands-on examination during the initial training at Infosys.
Information Flow Control for Event Handling and the DOM in Web Browsers, [PDF | Full Version]
In Proc. 28th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF '15), pp. 366-379, 2015
along with Vineet Rajani, Deepak Garg and Christian Hammer
OCaml Model of the DOM with IFC checks is available here (15 KB tgz)
Post-Dominator Analysis for Precisely Handling Implicit Flows, [Extended Abstract]
In Companion Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE Companion 2015), 2015
Generalizing Permissive-Upgrade in Dynamic Information Flow Analysis, [PDF | Full Version*]
In Proc. ACM 9th Workshop on Programming Languages and Analysis for Security (PLAS), pp. 15-24, 2014
along with Vineet Rajani, Deepak Garg and Christian Hammer
*The paper has been updated from the original version
Exception Handling for Dynamic Information Flow Control, [Extended Abstract]
In Companion Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE Companion 2014), pp. 718-720, 2014
Won the second prize at the ACM SIGSOFT Student Research Competition at ICSE 2014
Information Flow Control in WebKit's JavaScript Bytecode, [PDF | Extended Version]
In Proc. 3rd Conference on Principles of Security and Trust, LNCS, vol. 8414, pp. 159-178, 2014
along with Vineet Rajani, Deepak Garg and Christian Hammer
Security Architecture for Virtual Machines, [PDF]
In 11th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, LNCS, vol. 7016, pp. 218-229, 2011
along with Udaya Tupakula and Vijay Varadharajan
Proactive Fault Tolerance Technique for a Mobile Grid Environment, [PDF]
In Proc. 1st IEEE-MOTS International Conference on Advances in Computing and Communication, pp. 96-101, 2011
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A Survey on Issues in Mobile Grid Computing, [PDF]
In International Journal of Recent Trends in Engineering and Technology, vol. 4(2), pp. 15-19, 2010
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- January 2013 - present:
Ph. D. student in Computer Science at the Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany and the International Max Planck Research School for Computer Science, Germany (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christian Hammer)
- July 2009 - June 2011:
Master's student in Computer Science at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India (supervisor: Prof. Dr. R. C. Joshi)
Title of Master's Thesis: Tackling Faults on Mobile Devices and Security Issues in Grid Computing Environment
- August 2005 - June 2009:
Bachelor's student in Computer Science and Engineering at St. Peter's Engineering College, Chennai affiliated to Anna University, Chennai, India
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Research Intern at Microsoft Research India, Bangalore, India
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Summer Term 2013
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Russia Hires Goldman to Boost Investor Image Abroad
Russia hired Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) to boost its image abroad as the most corrupt country among the Group of 20 last year seeks to attract foreign investors.
The Economy Ministry and the Russian Direct Investment Fund have signed a memorandum with Goldman under which the New York-based bank will advise on issues such as communicating government decisions, according to Deputy Economy Minister Sergei Belyakov. State-owned banks including OAO Sberbank (SBER) and VTB Group will also assist, he said.
"We don't know how to communicate with investors," Belyakov told reporters today in Moscow.
President Vladimir Putin last year ordered the government to improve Russia's standing in the World Bank's Doing Business rating to 20th by 2018. It climbed eight positions to 112 in the latest study, issued in October. While that's better than BRIC peers India and Brazil, Russia is still the worst among major economies in terms of graft, Transparency International said last month in its annual Corruption Perceptions Index.
The world's largest energy exporter plans to raise a record $10 billion from asset sales this year, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said in an interview with Bloomberg Television this month. While corruption continues to be an issue, it's less of an issue for foreign investors who have already committed to Russia, Shuvalov said.
Stocks, Ruble
Russia's benchmark Micex Index (INDEXCF) has gained 6 percent this year, beating the MSCI's Emerging Markets Index's 0.7 percent advance. The ruble-denominated equity gauge was little changed at 1,563.37 by the close of trade in Moscow. The ruble, which has gained 1.3 percent against the dollar in 2013, fell 0.5 percent to 30.1920.
A working group will draw up a list of measures to bolster Russia's image next month, according to Belyakov. The group will include Economy Ministry, Goldman and state bank representatives, as well as Finance Minister Anton Siluanov and central bank Chairman Sergey Ignatiev, he said.
The death in custody in 2009 of Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer for Hermitage Capital Management Ltd. who accused officials of embezzling $230 million, is a symbol of Russia's failure to tackle corruption, according to Christopher Granville, managing director of Trusted Sources, a London-based emerging-markets research group.
Tax Charges
Magnitsky and Hermitage head William Browder are being tried in absentia on tax-evasion charges. Browder, who denies wrongdoing, has lobbied for U.S. and European legislation targeting Russian officials who he says are responsible for Magnitsky's death with visa bans and asset freezes. Hermitage was once Russia's biggest foreign equity investor.
"To say that Russia is equal only to this tragedy is not quite right," Belyakov said, referring to Magnitsky's death. "To some degree the work that we announced today is to ensure that all our actions won't be annulled by statements like those from Browder."
The U.S. in December imposed a visa ban and asset freeze on Russian officials implicated in Magnitsky's death. In retaliation, Russia banned the adoption of Russian children in the U.S.
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that Magnitsky's death has been "politicized" by investors.
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Uyghur Activist's Son Jailed In China For Subversion
(RFE/RL) April 17, 2007 -- A court in China's western Xinjiang Province has sentenced the son of a prominent Uyghur activist to nine years in prison on charges of "instigating and engaging in secessionist activities."
China's Xinhua news agency gave no further details on the charges against Ablikim Abdiriyim.
Abdiriyim's mother, Uyghur rights activist Rebiya Kadeer, formerly served as a top government official, but was jailed for five years and later went into exile in the United States.
Two other sons of Kadeer have faced tax-evasion charges.
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