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Brussels, 2 December 2010
Avila wins first-ever European award for disabled-friendly cities
Avila, a Spanish city known for its medieval walls, today won the first-ever European award for improving access for people with disabilities. The European Commission awarded Avila the Access●City Award 2011. The annual honour aims to award efforts to improve accessibility in the urban environment and to foster equal participation of people with disabilities. The Commission praised Avila's plan, developed since 2002, to improve accessibility to public buildings and to give incentives for private initiatives. It has also developed accessible tourism facilities and improved job opportunities for people with disabilities – working directly with disabled and elderly people's organisations. Commission Vice-President Viviane Reding, the EU's Justice Commissioner, and Her Royal Highness Princess Astrid of Belgium presented the award at a ceremony in Brussels on the occasion of the European Day of People with Disabilities (3 December). It is one of the actions under the Commission's new strategy for a barrier-free Europe for disabled people (see IP/10/1505).
"I would like to congratulate Avila and the other finalist cities for their commitment to a barrier-free urban environment," said Vice-President Viviane Reding, the EU's Justice Commissioner. "People with disabilities have the same rights as everyone else, but accessibility is a precondition for them to enjoy those rights. That is why we have placed it at the centre of our strategy for building a barrier-free Europe. The Access●City Award gives recognition to those cities which have shown the most effort to improving accessibility. This honour should inspire and motivate cities that still have more progress to make."
The Access●City Award aims to promote accessibility initiatives in European cities. It recognises efforts and achievements in improving accessibility in four main areas: the built environment and public spaces; transport and related infrastructures; information and communication (including information and communication technologies); and public facilities and services.
The European jury selected Avila because of its comprehensive plan, the high level of political commitment, the progress achieved so far, and the effective involvement of people with disabilities in the process.
The Commission launched the competition for the first Access●City Award in July 2010. EU cities with over 50,000 people, of which there are just over 1000, could submit applications. The Commission reviewed 66 eligible applications from 19 Member States.
A Europe-wide jury then selected four finalists: Avila, Barcelona (Spain), Cologne (Germany) and Turku (Finland). The other three finalists have also developed comprehensive plans to address accessibility in the competition's four areas:
"Accessibility" means that people with disabilities have access, on an equal basis with others, to the physical environment, transportation, information and communications technologies and systems, and other facilities and services.
Improving accessibility for people with disabilities is one of the key actions under the European Disability Strategy for 2010-2020, adopted in November 2010 (see IP/10/1505 and MEMO/10/578).
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — An effort to free whales from SeaWorld by claiming they were enslaved made a splash in the news but flopped in court Wednesday.
A federal judge in San Diego dismissed an unprecedented lawsuit seeking to grant constitutional protection against slavery to a group of orcas that perform at SeaWorld parks, saying the 13th amendment applies only to humans.
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Miller stopped the case from proceeding two days after he became the first judge in U.S. history to listen to arguments in court over the possibility of granting constitutional rights for members of an animal species.
"As 'slavery' and 'involuntary servitude' are uniquely human activities, as those terms have been historically and contemporaneously applied, there is simply no basis to construe the Thirteenth Amendment as applying to non-humans," Miller wrote in his ruling.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals filed the lawsuit in October and named five whales as plaintiffs. PETA says the wild-captured orcas are enslaved by SeaWorld because they are held in concrete tanks against their will and forced to perform in shows at its parks in San Diego and Orlando, Fla.
SeaWorld called the lawsuit baseless and a waste of the court's time and money.
"We cannot hope that this is PETA's last publicity stunt but we can now refocus our energy in more positive and constructive ways: delivering high quality education experiences to our guests and providing the highest possible standard of care to our animals," spokesman Dave Koontz wrote in a statement.
Legal experts say it opened an interesting debate about the expansion of animal rights.
PETA attorney Jeffrey Kerr says his organization does not plan to give up the fight to protect the orcas, but he did not specify the next action.
PETA is known for its provocative anti-fur and pro-vegan campaigns to engage the court of public opinion.
"Today's decision does not change the fact that the orcas who once lived naturally wild and free, are today kept as slaves by SeaWorld," Kerr said in a statement. "PETA will regroup and determine how to continue to work for the legal protection they deserve."
SeaWorld denies any mistreatment of the animals and says its parks have raised awareness that has helped conservation efforts. It also says it has rescued orcas injured in the wild.
(© Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)
Make peta pay all the court and legal cost x100.
Peta is a bunch of commie slime!
All you can do is prepare yourself for the decline of America and pray to God it doesn't happen.
Glad this is over. I ran over a frog this morning… just knew I would end up in court over it.
Unfortunately the government covers all PETA court costs with OUR $$$.
I am sick and tired of PETA. I do love animals but these kooks push any rational thinking American away.
I suppose they think the horse they rode in on needs "freed" also? Sick puppies all.
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They will collect more money from their followers and appeal to the 9th district court, and will have a much better chance of wining there. If they do next is horse racing,
then the circus, pet ownership and finally the end game all meat, poultry and fish. Vegan here we come!
The only thing PETA is good for is as an outlet for hot chicks to take off their clothes.
Amen bro. Also jail the lawyers for contempt.
PETA members should be able to use insanity as a plea for any crimes they might commit. Clearly these wackos just aren't all there.
Midge, cows are as intelligent as whales, but taste better.
Neocommie whacknuts like you should be put on display for normal folks to see and laugh at.
What a bitter little hypocrite you are.
SpuerDad, the disease you suffer from is projection. Fear not the cure is to sit in your car with the engine running and the garage door closed. Please, give it a try.
In this universe, you yourself are less than an atom. IS the universe paying you to make these comments? Did you ever graduate middle school? Can you even DEFINE the term "universe"? Child playing in sandbox and calling the sandbox "the world". You call those who disagree "degenerate". I call you BRAIN DEAD. You need help, guy.
You seriously need to refocus your life. I'm an animal lover but, I still like them on my plate too. And, that will always be until Jesus rules the earth. We may or may not do something different then. But, for now, you and your crowd will be stuck with us meat eaters. Man will keep messing up the planet but, primarily through nuclear and chemical warfare which, by the way, could start this year. You should be more concerned about that than whether or not the whales like or don't like doing lazy laps in a tank and getting all the food they want. Sounds a bit like most leftists sitting in their mom's houses.
They have with their posts.
Midge…. wake up and smell the coffee already. Where would this fiasco stop?
Would people not be able to own pets next? no horses? no dogs/ no cats?
how about snakes, hampsters, gerbils… the list could go on and on.
The first time I see a "highly intelligent mammal as whales" do anything other than swim in the ocean… I will get behind PETA…. but what pray tell… do they do… that makes you think they are advanced in their intelligence?
Trying to explain advanced subjects to a low grade moron as you is not my job. Obviously you are a product of the public schools, watch TV hours everyday and probably go to Hollywood movies. Ipso facto, you are the lower life form and about as contemplative as a door stop.
My, my, such hate and discontent from a pea-brained liberal. But what is one to expect?
@jim Not a liberal jim, in fact you're so fricking uneducated that you have no idea about anything. You on the other hand probably went to public schools, watch TV and I bet you go to Hollywood movies. The definition of liberal is not the one that TV watching idiots as you think. It actually was the same word for book and has nothing to do with your distorted, uniformed opinion. Go look up the real definition … if you can really read.
@spetsnatz- Hi, I am, spetnutz, a college freshman who just discovered that the word liberal has been used before by other societies so, in my petulant college freshman way, I am going to mock and deride you for using it in the traditional American connotation, because that will serve my desire to both denigrate someone else and prove myself the superior intellect. Unfortunatley, because I am really only mentally 5 years old I will only end up making myself look petty, vulgar, and ignorant.
Oh, I will also make fun of the public school system, even though they have been controlled by liberals for the past 40 years.
Don't you know they're "intelligent" because they can "communicate"? That's the lie anyway. Fact is, most EVERYTHING that is alive has a means of commuication. That includes single celled animals. So, stop stepping on my firends. Stop breathing in my friends. We're trying to communicate here. (have you sensed the sarcasm yet?) Bottom line is, all the commenters to you are pretty much challenged mentally and do not understand much. Cows communicate, monkeys communicate, mice communicate, and the list goes on. God gave us this place to live in and to subdue. Not necessarily to exploit but, to head cheese (below Him). Just because something is living, it does not mean that it should be "free". How would you PETA types like a lion wandering your house and eating on the kids? Don't want the kids anyway? Well, how about if it ate "fluffy"? Bottom line is man is to dominate, not exploit, nature. I'll agree we don't need to be erradicating species intentionally. But, don't get wrapped up around the axle if something "dies off". Science often finds out, years later, that it didn't REALLY die off. It just started hiding better.
I love whale burgers!
For the love of animals Midge, turn off your computer and go outside for some fresh air…
PETA needs to be treated as a domestic terrorist group, jailed and put away for life. The more we let these terrorists have access to our courts, the more resources they will take up.
Furthermore, by freezing thier assets, and the assets of their membership, we could use their money to pay down on the deficit. A win-win.
I would have to agree. They're seriously more of a "terrorist group" then are Christians or conservatives but, both are labled by DHS as "terrorists". How about we start calling the real terrorists by their name, "TERRORIST"?
This was less about saving whales are more about setting precedent. Making use of a high-functioning mammal, Peta felt it could get support for their side. It goes like this; First a whale, then horses, then dogs, cats, etc. Before you know it, we have publicly payed universal healthcare for all domesticated animals.
That said,I'm boycotting PETA until they stop their discriminative practices and hire a dog as their CEO.
Ummm, orcas are dolphins NOT whales. I think everyone here needs to do research and stop listening to what the lame stream medi areports!
Ummm, actually, dolphins are a subcategory of a subcategory of a whale. This makes all dolphins whales. Maybe YOU should do some research.
The whales are PROPERTY, if the owners want to make burgers out of them they have a right to do so.
Ergo, leftist nuts like you should either BUY the whales with YOUR money and do with them as you wish, or shut the H*ll up!
Hello, fellow libertarian (at least, your response is very libertarian. He who owns it, controls it. )
So if this would have stood then wouldn't PETA need to be tried for genocide and crimes aganst humanity? They are the ones that always push for the mandatory sterilization of dogs and cats. Using this logic then the dog or cat would have to give consent before they could be spay or neutered.
Pretty funny. But the People Eating Tasty Animals will be annoyed.
It's also called 'Eugenics', and being pushed by the UN and some very wealthy American liberals, like Ted Turner under the cover of over-population control.
Turner is a typical cattleman … he just wants to improve the breed.
Not only is your logic spot (no pun intended) on, but how did PETA discover that the Five Whale plaintiffs were being held against their will?
PETA is a frivolous organization and they prove it with frivolous law suits … Time for the IRS to revoke their charitable status.
"but how did PETA discover that the Five Whale plaintiffs were being held against their will? "
Seems one of the orcas managed to smuggle a note out between two license plates. At least that's what Flipper told me.
They don't seem to think they are prisoners, slaves, involuntary servants, or that their constitutional rights are being violated. They don't seem to be staging a coup or trying to break out of Sea World to pursue their own hopes and dreams of a more natural, free life.
But, but… they have no Spartacus to lead them out of bondage!
[I am Spartacus]
[NO, I am Spartacus]
Carl Parsons got it right. Well done sir.
Ridiculous waste of time – 60s hippies still trying to save the whales….get a life.
Save The Whales – Collect the entire set!
People Eating Tasty Animals
Kill the unborn babies and save the whales and sea cows. What a bunch of sickos.
Hi Midge! Remember, you cant hug your children with nuclear arms!!!!! Did you accidentally make yourself high; poking yourself with a needle while darning your hemp socks?
Does your mommy think you're funny?
Your mommy starts giggling as soon as she hears the zipper
Thank God this took place in San Diego and not San Francisco, those loony toon morons would have ruled in favor of PETA. This is another example of why many of us in Southern California want to split the State into Northern CA and Southeastern CA, the split starting at Los Angeles and up, you see,the majority of sane conservative people live to the East and South of LA. Not all of California and Californians are whacked out loony lefties.
Why not just petition to give San Diego County to Mexico?
Sad part of all this is Peta has wasted Seaworld's money. Seaworld uses that money, in part, to help wildlife. Seaworld has done more to help whales, wildlife and conservation than Peta ever has or will. Just Google 'Peta kills dogs'. Just as typical libs believe abortion is somehow a humane form of birth control, Peta believes killing tens of thousands of dogs is somehow 'The Ethical Treatment of Animals'. A crock of typical convoluted left-think, which is equivalent to a crock of something else…
This should have never made it to court. This is one of the things in this country that is broken.
This story is incomplete without details of the lawyer's billable hours and fees. After all, we who donate to PETA do not wish to see our dollars go out the back door of the charity and into the back pockets of lawyers.
Our country would be much better off if we deported all PETA members. Its time to track down these fringe radicals and start protesting in front of their houses.
So if whales are slaves, then what are unborn babies? This group makes me sick. They don't give two hoots about these animals. They demand everyone else follow their ridiculous demands while the same guidelines don't apply to them. They are a bunch of selfish, disgruntled, angry and bitter people who just want to pass their misery on to everyone else. The whales in Sea World are far happier than any of these PETA whackos are, and they are free!
I don't care what the PETA strategy is, here, nor do I care. The fact is this is nothing more than a gross example of a frivolous lawsuit. It not only wastes valuable time and finacial resources, but mocks our nation and it's system of laws.
With our nation drowning in debt and huge problems, the last thing the people need is such trivial and.s wasteful nonsense! What should follow is a punitive financial ruling against PETA that would serve as a message to it and others who engage in such frivolity.
What I find sad is that PETA isn't trying to demonstrate how smart some animals can be, they're just showing how stupid some humans can be.
These whales are treated like slaves and should be freed.
Theyare not even whales. Orcas are dolphins. Understand this beore you jump on a bandwagon you know nothing about!
Not what the judge said.
ANd who picks up the tab for this nonsense? Can you say "Taxpayers"? Sure you can.
I could use some whale oil for my lamps so I'm prepared for Obama's "necessarily skyrocketing electricity rates."
The decaying plant matter used to make coal comes from "pre-enslaved stationary life forms." Thank The One, or you'd be hearing from PETAL (People for the Ethical Treatment of All Life) very soon.
Orcas are not whales! They are dolphins. Boy we have a bunch of intelligent PETA morons and judges. Kind of like how everyone calls the USA a democracy when we are a Republic ( thank Goodness our founding fathers were intelligent enough to do that).
Another activist Judge in action!
Why?, because he ruled against against a bunch of stupid people and their frivolous law suit, this Judge did the right thing, wish there were more like him.
Wow. Now it's official. SAVE THE WHALES ! COLLECT THE WHOLE SET !
It took TWO DAYS for the judge to dismiss the lawsuit?
What is wrong with this picture???
Took too long.
Well, it takes a day to get whale meat shipped from Japan. Then you have to find a recipe and fire up the grill. I mean, you don't want the judge to rule on this unwittingly, do you?
This is why I ignore PETA. If you want animals treated humanely but aren't a nut-job…. give to the ASPCA.. these folks get the job done and don't wear tin foil hats
Save the whales but kill all unwanted babies… amazing isn't it.. we have shelters and rescues for dogs, cats etc when they are no longer wanted but human babies that are unwanted… they get murdered in the womb and now, under this vile President, I have to pay for it too
oh yeah… a woman has right to kill the innocent human life she carries but if she kills a dog or bagful of puppies… she goes to jail or pays a fine
What do you xpect when you have cASS Sunstein promoting the idea that anilams should be able to sue people.
I am going to start a new food stand. I will call it EAT A PITA!
What do you expect when cASS Sunstein is promoting animals being able to sue people in court.
This is one of Obama's czars.
Because the 1% in Mexico does not want San Diegans moving there buying property and improving their country. They would rather live in seclusion on their ranches away from the slums of Tijuana and Ensenada etc.
It's not over yet. Notice the article said ""As 'slavery' and 'involuntary servitude' are uniquely human activities, as those terms have been historically and contemporaneously applied, there is simply no basis to construe the Thirteenth Amendment as applying to non-humans," Miller wrote in his ruling." Just like so many things, just because historically a word meant one thing, I can guarantee you someone in PETA will work to have the definitions of these words changed, then it can be brought before the court again. This is the way it works. The group will bring this up again and again until they find a judge who will agree. That is the current American way. Common sense and logic are not used. Rather the loudest and the longest voice wins.
I once had an ant farm. Was I a slave plantation owner?
Were they black ants or red ants?
must not have read that story
Yes, you were. And in about a trillion years the creatures who evolve from ants will be back to sort you out. Start saving now, because the way our legal system is going, you'll need some cash when the time comes.
Membership in PETA requires medical certification of brain damage.
The crazy thing is, in the modern US of A this could probably have gone either way. Probably woud've gone in the whale's favour in San Fran…..
God I wish we had a loser pays system. Because after Obama, there's not a bigger bunch of losers than PETA. Well – OK – Pelosi is an even bigger loser than Obama, but that's it. No… wait a minute… I forgot – Holder. We can't leave him out since he's not as bad as Pelosi, but quite a bit worse than Obama. I don't know – maybe we could just feed the lot of them to the whales. No… that would be cruelty to animals. Darn it – what can we do with the losers? I'm open to suggestions.
As an attorney, I would like to know who are the "legal experts" who say that the suit "opened an interesting debate about the expansion of animal rights." No frivolous lawsuit presents an "interesting debate." PETA should be required to pay all attorney's fees associated with Sea World's defense of the case. Then we might eventually see an end to this abuse of the judicial system.
As a person with common sense, I would like to know how attorneys allowed our legal system to get to the point where this judge — and dozens of others in cases brought by PETA — did not find this entire organization in indirect contempt of his court.
It's time for judges to stop tolerating this kind of nonsense. They have the means at their disposal to deal with abuse of process and they need to do so.
Damn, I was raised on a farm where we ate our animals that didn't perform a specific task. Good thing the whales have a specific task.
That's funny. I was also raised on a farm, and my mother often said to me, "It's a good thing we need you around here in the summers…"
I'm for hunting PETA members with dogs, who's with me? Tally Ho!.
That's Enslaved Human Companions, chum.
[Remember you have to dress and eat what you shoot.]
Mmmm, long pig.
Now fine PETA a few million dollars for wasting the courts time.
Now fine PETA hundreds of millions of dollars for wasting EVERYBODY'S' time on a routine basis.
i am a member of PETA: People Eating Tasty Animals
Here's the real headline:
Federal Judge West of the Sierra's Actually Shows Common Sense in Ruling.
But fear not. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will no doubt soon weigh in…
Don't you mean the Ninth Circus Court?
PETA, isn't that the flat bread stuff you can stuff meat into and eat it? I wonder if they would use the same meat that troubled Jonah so much?
I did like the comment that the lawsuit would be a waste of the Court's time. But I would like to add that PETA is a total waste of everyone's time.
"PETA attorney Jeffrey Kerr says his organization does not plan to give up the fight to protect the orcas, but he did not specify the next action."
As it appears they have WAY too much time on their hands, I'd suggest a circle jerk for the male members and a brain search for ALL members.
Judge Miller……send a message to these frivolous attornies and
organizations like PETA.
They are responsible for court costs and defense cost of Seaworld.
There is no free lunch….when you can be dragged thru the legal system
and not have such groups pay the price.
I used to work with a guy who is married to the Comptroller for PETA. This poor PW SOB would wait until his wife left town to feed their dogs REAL dog food! And she always seemed to find out about it when she returned from her lavish junkets all over the world. Then this ex-Navy Nuc would catch hell! Refer back to PW. He came into work one day all stressed out and concerned that his wife might get naked and actually join in one of PETA's demonstrations near their Norfolk HQ's location. I told him that if there was a guy dressed as a kangaroo there, video camera in hand, well, that would be me! He refused to give me any more details…………these people are recognized as fools even on their own turf!
"Legal experts say it opened an interesting debate about the expansion of animal rights." Interesting? Really? Why?
Free the whales! PETA is right on this one.
Here is my take on PETA's thinking. Blacks in the 1800's were captured "in the wild" and were later deemed to have been slaves. So PETA says – look the same applies to whales.
If I were a black, I would be outraged.
The moron judge that listened to 2 days worth of arguments should be removed from the bench.
Guess I shouldn't make those 3 whales I captured pull my boat around anymore.
Save the Whales, collect the whole set.
Wow am I glad they cleared that up for me.
It will be overturned by the ninth circuit on appeal
The only thing more useless than PETA is the UN.
I'm a member of PETA, People Eating Tastey Animals!!! As a lifelong hunter I feel there is a place for all Gods creatures, right next to the potatoes and gravey!!! Go eat some grass and hug a tree liberals idiots!!!
Liberals get almost everything wrong. They believe 51% of a legislature or a judge can decide to make veritable slaves out of other humans for purposes of wealth redistribution, but 95% of us are wrong if we consider ourselves owners of the animals in our care. Liberals believe they have a right murder unborn children, but once they are born, it is child abuse to spank them.
I would love to see you insensitive morons locked in a cage on Zeta Reticuli unable to communicate to the locals who came to see you in a zoo that you were an intelligent being that wanted and deserved to be free. There is a very good chance this is how these orcas feel about their situation. I certainly would not just laugh off this PETA challenge in spite of some of their more ridiculous claims.
I perfer my verson of PETA better People Eating Tasty Animals
Good to see a lucid decision from the federal bench for a change!
BTW – PETA is more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than it is motorcycle gangs.
BTW – PETA is more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than it is motorcycle gangs.
+1 on this!!!
Bhatnagar provides the nollowifg quote from the Ramayana: "Rama was born on the Navami tithi of Shukla Paksha of Chaitra masa (9th day of the increasing phase of the moon in the lunar month of Chaitra). At that time, the nakshatra was Punarvasu, and Sun, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter and Venus were in Aries, Capricorn, Libra, Cancer and Pisces respectively. Lagna was Cancer and Jupiter & Moon were shining together. — Ramayana 1.18.8,9The conditions can be summarized as follows, according to Bhatnagar:1. Sun in Aries2. Saturn in Libra3. Jupiter in Cancer4. Venus in Pisces5. Mars in Capricorn6. Lunar month of Chaitra7. 9th day after New Moon (Navami Tithi, Shukla Paksh)8. Moon near Punarvasu Nakshatra (Pollux star in Gemini constellation)9. Cancer as Lagna (Cancer constellation rising in the east)10. Jupiter above the horizonAccording to the Planetarium software, it provides the nollowifg date: Sri Rama Navami 10th January 5114 BCE Birth Day of Rama, Observation at 12.30 p.m.Bhatnagar continues: "By using a powerful planetarium software, I found that the planetary positions mentioned in Ramayana for the date of birth of Lord Ram had occurred in the sky at around 12.30 p.m. of 10th January 5114 BC. It was the ninth day of the Shukla Paksh of Chaitra month too. Moving forward, after 25 years of the birth of Lord Ram, the position of planets in the sky tallies with their description in Ramayana. Again, on the amavasya (new moon) of the 10th month of the 13th year of exile the solar eclipse had indeed occurred and the particular arrangement of planets in the sky was visible. ( Date comes to 7th October, 5077 BC). Even the occurrence of subsequent two eclipses also tally with the respective description in Valmiki Ramayana. (Date of Hanuman's meeting Sita at Lanka was 12th September, 5076 BC). In this manner the entire sequence of the planetary positions gets verified and all the dates can be precisely determined."
First, we should grant constitutional rights to apes. Oh, wait….
I never got the whole PETA thing. They are called "People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals." I think it should be PFTETOA; pronounced ff-teh-toe-ah (the 'p' is silent).
Once the whales were set free, Al Sharpton and the usual cast of clowns would have demanded 40 acres and a mule for reparations! What's PETA's stand on the rights of the mules?
They may not be slaves, but they ARE delicious!
Isn't jumping the shark also a form of animal cruelty? PETA = GUILTY!
I am going to McDonald's and free a fish filet today!!
How does PETA know the whales are there involuntarily? Did the whales say that? If not, then we should assume the whales are there of their own free will.
(Special thanks to my monkey slave, who is taking down my dictation and typing this).
In the article, it says that PETA is suing because the whales are "being held against their will". My question is how does PETA know this? Did they depose, i.e. ask them?
Every time PETA makes headlines, I go rabbit hunting.
Despite this ruling, I would never ever have Michael Moore, Oprah, Rosie, Whoopie, Moochelle, Rosanne or John Goodman as my slaves…
The truth of the matter is this – peta and their ilk want to make the human race slave to BIG GOVERNMENT – preferably BIG WORLD GOVERNMENT, controlling our lives, telling us what to eat, what to think, how to live under their conception of living. The real slave masters are LEFTISTS. Fascism comes from the left. That's the truth.
SAVE THE WHALES! Collect the entire set.
PETA is a joke. I remember when they were trying to stop fishing because the fish were in pain. I'm all for chopping up a PETA member and using them for chum.

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According to Red Boiling Springs Chief of Police Terry Tuck, officers arrived at 203 Sunset Drive to execute an arrest warrant for 33-year-old Chester Leroy Loudy.
"We knocked on the door repeatedly and received no response," Chief Tuck stated. "So we proceeded to walk to the back of the house and located a meth lab inside a truck tire on the back porch."
After gaining entry into the house, officers discovered Mr. Loudy, 22-year-old Rachael Elisabeth York and the couple's two children – a 2-year-old and a 5-month-old.
Chief Tuck stated that officers requested to search the vehicle parked outside the home, but Miss York refused their request, and Macon County Sheriff's Department drug K-9 Gordy and his handler Michael Veatch were called to the scene.
"The dog hit on the vehicle, and we were able to locate a second meth lab inside the trunk of the car," Chief Tuck remarked.
Loudy and York were arrested on charges of promotion of meth manufacture, intent to manufacture methamphetamine and aggravated child abuse/neglect of a child under 6 years of age. Bond was set at $50,000.
The Department of Children's Services arrived on the scene to take custody of the two children and the Tennessee Methamphetamine Task Force was called in to assist in the clean up of the 'shake-and-bake' labs.
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Canadian passports are being upgraded to include chip technology and watermark images.
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird says the new passports will have computer chips embedded in them; it's technology that's already used in many other countries.
Each blank page of the document will also contain watermarks depicting iconic images from Canadian history. The images include sports scenes and Canadian landmarks.
The changes are designed to deter counterfeiters and make the passport more secure. People will also be given an option to renew their passports for either five or 10 years.


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The Most Valuable Player Award went to Christian Colon of Canyon High School in Anaheim Hills, CA. Colon had an impressive stat line for the game, as he went 2 for 3, walked twice, had three stolen bases and scored three runs. The West team also featured the 2006 Home Run Derby Champion Cameron Rupp. Rupp put on an impressive hitting display, as he launched seven homeruns, into the street well behind the left field wall during the finals.
The East squad was led offensively by Jason Heyward of Henry County High School in McDonough, GA. Heyward's stat line included two hits, two walks, four stolen bases, two RBI's and two runs scored. The 2006 Jackie Robinson Player of the Year Award was presented to the East team's Michael Burgess of Hillsborough High School in Tampa, FL.
• MVP Award: Christian Colon
• Jackie Robinson Award: Michael Burgess
• Home Run Derby Champion: Cameron Rupp
• Hits: Josh Vitters (3), Christian Colon, Jon Gilmore, Jason Heyward, Nick Noonan (2)
• Runs: Christian Colon (3), Kentrail Davis, Jason Heyward, Josh Vitters (2)
• Runs Batted In: Josh Vitters (3), Jason Heyward (2)
• Home Runs: Robert Stock, John Tolisano (1)
• Stolen Bases: Jason Heyward (4), Christian Colon (3), Kentrail Davis (2)
• Strikeouts: Michael Main, Rick Porcello, Robert Stocks (3 in 1 inning)
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As the Seahawks celebrated their stirring Sunday night win over the 49ers at a Bellevue bar with more than 600 people present, a shooting claimed the life of a 30-year-old man and wounded another.
"From what we know our guys were in a separate area and nobody was involved at all," coach Pete Carroll said Monday, via the Associated Press. "It was an awful thing that happened."
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Kind of a novelty signing from a fan perspective. Not that is the reason why we signed him (or likely will), but there isn't much to get excited about an undrafted, rookie FA that 29 other teams passed on. He'll soak up some PT in the D league and maybe get a shot at the bench late in the season.
Also read that he chose us over playing in Barcelona citing our D league program's knack for getting guys to the league. I never thought about it like that, but I'd guess the reason why we have such a high graduation rate is just as much due to us lacking depth and playing D-leaguers.
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I am intrigued by the signing. Also Warriors are close to signing Machado. Are these guys going to be D-league exclusive, and just be called up when the actual team begins to experiencing injuries? I feel like our roster is already set.
I'd say Machado has more of an opportunity to get some PT with the Warriors than Seth. He was called up last year and he was a day away from signing a multi-year deal with the Rockets before they canceled it.
I think we have some exclusive rights to these guys, but I'm not sure. It might work like NFL practice squads - anybody can pick them up, but they have to sign them to their 53-man roster.
I think we have some exclusive rights to these guys, but I'm not sure. It might work like NFL practice squads - anybody can pick them up, but they have to sign them to their 53-man roster.
Blackfoot wrote:Nepotism
And that's literally all there is to it.
A young, black, tall kid who looked like a student sold me a couple slices of pizza at the Oracle last year. He was stationed next to our typical seats at like 4 or 5 different games and he just towered over the rest of his co-workers (must have been about 6'6"). I think his name was Jamarr?
Anyway, Jamarr could prolly take Seth Curry in a game of one-on-one. Dude has a famous brother, a father with NBA accolades, and STILL played 5 years of college ball cause nobody ever put him up on the scouting board. Seth Curry makes Harvey Grant, Drew Barry, and Jarron Collins look like hall-of-famers.
Was Mychael Thompson II unavailable? Answer: no, he's still sobbing and wiping his faces with the pink slip the God-awful Cavaliers hit him with a week before Valentine's Day.
I put the over/under on Seth Curry getting canned 10 days before training camp starts... and I'm taking the under.


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The Lexus IS family includes something for everyone, with offerings ranging from conservative all-weather, all-wheel-drive sedans to sunny convertibles and serious track-duty sport sedans. The IS sedans ride and handle well and offer some of the tech options of larger luxury models, while the IS C models have excellent packaging with a tight-fitting, quick-folding automatic hardtop that stows away without taking up the entire trunk. While Lexus makes an ES 350 model that's roomier and more comfortable, the IS is considerably sportier in every way.
Wide range of models; choice of rear- or all-wheel drive in sedans; sporty driving feel; high-tech features and options; nicely appointed interior
The Lexus IS is offered in two different body styles, sedan or convertible, both available in IS 250 or IS 350 guise. IS 250 models come with a 204-horsepower, 2.5L V6 engine while IS 350 models get a 306-hp, 3.5L V6. Both engines come with variable valve timing for responsiveness as well as fuel efficiency--the IS 250 is quite economical with EPA ratings of up to 21 mpg city and 29 highway. While the IS 250 comes standard with a 6-speed manual transmission, a 6-speed automatic (and steering-wheel paddle-shifters) are optional. All IS 350 models come with the automatic.
In all Lexus IS models, a double-wishbone suspension design in front and a multi-link rear setup help reduce weight and increase responsiveness. The suspension in the IS is tuned to be quite firm, yet there's enough give to maintain ride comfort for most.
The IS has rather compact exterior proportions, which means that backseat space is tight for the tallest adults, especially in IS C convertibles. However it's quite comfortable in front. Leather upholstery is standard, with black-metallic accents in the sedan. Additionally, the IS sedan has a reasonably large trunk.
Although the Lexus IS C convertibles bear a strong likeness to the IS sedans from the front and back, their fast-opening retractable hardtop setup, made of lightweight aluminum, is an excellent way to enjoy open-air motoring without compromises the rest of the year. The top opens or closes in just 20 seconds, and wind buffeting is almost non-existent with it down.
A full roster of airbags is of course standard, but IS models also include anti-lock brakes and brake assist, an advanced electronic stability control system called VDIM. It incorporates the electric power steering to help maintain control in an emergency maneuver.
Standard features on the IS include power front seats, dual-zone climate control, rear seat vents, a power moonroof, a telescoping steering wheel, a HomeLink universal remote and an auto-dimming rearview mirror. A premium audio system with 13 speakers, Bluetooth hands-free calling and audio streaming, satellite radio and a CD changer is also standard. The IS 250 AWD and IS 350 AWD add heated seats.
Options across the lineup include a navigation system that incorporates a Mark Levinson premium surround sound system, which has 14 speakers and 300 watts. The Lexus Enform with Safety Connect feature is an extra for the navigation system, bringing direct emergency operator-assisted service as well as access to information from XM's NavTraffic, NavWeather and Sports and Stocks services. HID headlamps and LED running lamps are available on the IS 250 sedan and standard on the IS 350, while other high-tech options include rain-sensing wipers and radar cruise control with a Pre-Collision System. The available navigation system includes a rear backup camera; another option is Intuitive Park Assist, which employs ultrasonic sensors to indicate proximity to other vehicles.
A performance-oriented IS F sedan stands at the top of the IS lineup; it gets an 8-speed Sport Direct-Shift transmission with paddle shifters plus Brembo disc brakes, 19-inch wheels and a performance suspension--plus a 416-horsepower, 5.0L V8 engine. Altogether, the IS F can get to 60 mph in just 4.6 seconds, according to Lexus.
An F Sport Package for rear-wheel drive models adds many of the features of the IS F, including a sport suspension and special steering tuning, along with dark-finish 18-inch wheels, front and rear spoilers and an Ultrasonic Blue exterior hue.
2013 sees the introduction of the F sport package available across the IS 250 and IS 350 model range. The F sport package takes cues from the ultra-high performance IS F and integrates them into the more restrained IS models. The F sport package includes sport tuned suspension, 18-inch wheels with dark superchrome finish, heated and ventilated front seats, a leather interior, unique badging and a front chin spoiler.
2013 Lexus IS models with navigation also get a one year subscription to Enform 2.0 and App suite, bringing significant updates to the interior entertainment system on the IS. Bluetooth and HD radio are also both available and newly updated for 2013.
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Frankfurt/Brussels, 9 October 2012
Winners of the 2012 European Union Prize for Literature announced at Frankfurt Book Fair
The winners of the 2012 European Union Prize for Literature, which recognises the best new or emerging authors in the EU, were announced today at the Frankfurt Book Fair. The winners are: Anna Kim (Austria), Lada Žigo (Croatia), Laurence Plazenet (France), Viktor Horváth (Hungary), Kevin Barry (Ireland), Emanuele Trevi (Italy), Giedra Radvilavičiūtė (Lithuania), Gunstein Bakke (Norway), Piotr Paziński (Poland), Afonso Cruz (Portugal), Jana Beňová (Slovakia) and Sara Mannheimer (Sweden). Each winner (see details below) receives € 5 000 and, more importantly, priority for funding from the EU Culture Programme to get their book translated into other languages.
"My warmest congratulations go to all of this year's winners. We hope that the Prize will increase their visibility and renown, both inside and outside their home countries. Ensuring that literature crosses borders is not only good for authors and publishers, who want to reach new markets; it is also great for readers who have more choice and are exposed to works which they might never otherwise have come across. Our new Creative Europe programme will enable us to provide even more support for writers and cultural diversity in future," said Androulla Vassiliou, European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth.
The European Union Prize for Literature is open to the 37 countries involved in the EU Culture Programme (27 EU Member States as well as Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Norway, Serbia, Turkey). Each year, national juries in a third of the countries nominate the winner authors, so that all countries in the programme are represented over a three-year period.
Since the Prize was launched in 2009, the EU Culture Programme has provided funding for 32 of the winners to have their books translated into different languages. To date, more than 100 translations in total, covering 19 languages, have received EU funding. The winners also benefit from extra visibility at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the London Book Fair and the Passaporta festival in Brussels.
This year's winners will be presented with their awards and celebrated at a ceremony in Brussels on 22 November, in the presence of Commissioner Vassiliou and leading representatives of the worlds of literature, culture and politics. This Prize is organised by the European Commission, the European Booksellers' Federation, the European Writers' Council and the Federation of European Publishers.
The European Commission invests €3 million a year on literary translation and more than €2.4 million on cooperation projects involving the book sector. The industry contributes €23 billion to the EU's GDP and employs 135 000 people full time. Books are the second most exported cultural goods in the EU, after works of art and antiques.
Book publishing is a significant part of the cultural and creative sectors, which account for up to 4.5% of EU GDP and up to 8.5 million jobs. Although these sectors have proved relatively resilient in the crisis, they also face considerable challenges stemming from the digital shift, globalisation and market fragmentation along cultural and linguistic lines.
The Commission has proposed a new programme called Creative Europe to strengthen the competitiveness of these sectors and to promote cultural diversity. The Commission envisages a total budget of €1.8 billion for Creative Europe in the period 2014-2020, which represents a 37% increase compared with current funding levels. The programme will provide funding for the translation of more than 5 000 books; it will also support 8 000 cultural organisations and enable 300 000 artists, cultural professionals and their works to operate across borders and gain international experience (IP/11/1399).
On 26 September, they Commission unveiled a strategy entitled 'Promoting cultural and creative sectors for growth and jobs in the EU'. The aim is to increase the export potential of these sectors, as well as to maximise their spill-over benefits for other areas such as innovation, ICT and urban regeneration. The strategy calls for measures to boost skills development, access to finance, promotion of new business models, audience development, access to international markets and improved links to other sectors (IP/12/1012).
Winning authors and their books
Anna Kim (Austria)
Anna Kim was born in 1977 in Daejeon, South Korea. In 1979, the family moved to Germany. She studied Philosophy and Theatre Studies at the University of Vienna. She has published several short stories, essays and poems as well as three novels, including Die gefrorene Zeit, which has been translated into English and Albanian. She lives in Vienna.
The narrator of Anna Kim's novel is a relatively inexperienced researcher working for a Red Cross agency assisting people from the former Yugoslavia in their search for lost relatives. In helping a man from Kosovo, whose wife disappeared during the war, she is confronted with the gruesome results of work by forensic archaeologists, medics and anthropologists. She is gradually drawn into the fate of her client on a personal level and accompanies him to Kosovo, where she sees the results of the conflict first hand.
Lada Žigo (Croatia)
Lada Žigo was born in 1970 in Zagreb. She graduated in Comparative Literature and Philosophy from the University of Zagreb. She has written literary reviews and essays for many newspapers and cultural and literary magazines and runs a literary panel for the Croatian Writers' Association. Her first book, Ljudi i novinari (People and News People) came out in 2007 and was shortlisted for two literary awards. Rulet (Roulette) is her third novel. Lada Žigo is a member of the Croatian Writers' Association and the Croatian Freelance Artists Organization. She lives and works in Zagreb.
Rulet is a novel exploring how gambling can become the only hope for people living in a society with no prospects. The main character is a soldier who starts to gamble after becoming disillusioned with Serbian and Croatian leaders, who he sees as criminals. At the same time, he blames the 'Americanisation' of culture and language for weakening his country's sovereignty and destroying people's jobs on the altar of liberal capitalism. He turns to playing roulette, a game that becomes one of destiny in which he can win or lose all.
Laurence Plazenet (France)
Laurence Plazenet was born in Paris in 1968. A former student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, she is a Classic Literature 'agrégée' and holds a PhD in literature. She started her career as a Sorbonne professor and studied at Princeton in 1994. She then worked as an academic for 10 years before publishing her first novel, L'amour seul. She has since written two other books, La Blessure et la soif, and Disproportion de l'homme. A lecturer in French Literature at Paris-Sorbonne, a member of the French National Centre for Scientific Research and the Institut Universitaire de France, and a vice-chair of the Societé des Amis de Port-Royal, Plazenet is currently writing her fourth novel.
Louise Catherine d'Albrecht is 15 when she meets her tutor Monsieur de Ramon. They become secret lovers until her father forces her to leave the city to return to the countryside. Later, back in Paris, she hopes her lover will find her again, but he fails to return. Full of anxiety and piety, she dedicates her life to her studies and writes her first book. De Ramon returns and they rekindle their love, but, feeling old and not worthy of his lover, he decides to leave her. She endures a one-way correspondence with him, ending her life in asceticism, sharpened by the ghost of desire.
Viktor Horváth (Hungary)
Viktor Horváth was born in 1962 in Pécs. Between 2003 and 2006, he studied for his PhD at the University of Miskolc. Since 2003, he has been teaching the theory of poetic structure and the history of form in medieval and late-medieval times at the University of Pécs. He translates texts into English, German and Spanish.
Török tükör takes the reader on an adventurous journey back to 16th century Hungary, when the country was still a new suzerainty of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent. The novel describes an unstable borderland situated between two empires, a colourful cavalcade of calendars, languages, sacred writings, kings and emperors, mighty sultans, Hungarian nobles and Ottoman beys, merchants, village magistrates, and - from time to time - even angels, 'djinns' and peculiar flying machines.
Kevin Barry (Ireland)
Kevin Barry was born in Limerick in 1969. He spent much of his youth travelling, accumulating 17 addresses by the time he was 36. He lived variously in Cork, Santa Barbara, Barcelona and Liverpool before settling in Sligo. He has written for many publications, including the Sunday Herald, the Irish Examiner, The Guardian, The Irish Times and The Sydney Morning Herald. His short fiction has appeared widely on both sides of the Atlantic. He was awarded the 2007 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for his debut collection of short stories, There Are Little Kingdoms, which was published by Stinging Fly Press, Dublin. He was the 2012 winner of the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award.
Forty years in the future, the once-great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is on its knees, infested by vice and split along tribal lines. There are posh parts of Bohane, but it is in the slums and backstreets of Smoketown, the tower blocks of the Northside Rises and the eerie bogs of Big Nothin' that the city really lives. For years, Bohane has been in the grip of Logan Hartnett, the dapper godfather of the Hartnett Fancy gang. But his trusted henchmen are getting ambitious, and his missus wants him to give it all up and go straight. And then there's his mother...
Emanuele Trevi (Italy)
Emanuele Trevi was born in Rome in 1964. He is a writer and literature critic. He was creative director of the publisher Fazi and has also edited an anthology with Marco Lodoli. Trevi has written many essays on poets and writers, including a work on the poet Pietro Tripodo which won the Sandro Onofri Prize. He is currently working for Rai 3 Radio on the programme Lucifer. He has written for magazines including Il Caffè Illustrato and Nuovi Argomenti, and national newspapers including La Repubblica, La Stampa, and Il Manifesto.
Rome, in the early Nineties. A writer in his 30s, cynical and naive, finds work in an archive, the Fund Pier Paolo Pasolini, where he meets a shrewish old woman called Laura Betti. The encounter with the mad heroine of this book is in a way an encounter with Pasolini himself. Meanwhile, a hidden story in Petrolio, the unfinished novel by Pasolini, becomes a guide to the disenchantment of our time and the mysteries of life.
Giedra Radvilavičiūtė (Lithuania)
Radvilavičiūtė is pseudonym for Giedra Subačienė, who was born in 1960 in Panevėžys, Lithuania. After finishing secondary school, she graduated from Vilnius University with a degree in Lithuanian language and literature. She initially worked as a school teacher in her native region before becoming a journalist in Vilnius. From 1994 to 1998 she lived in Chicago, where her husband Giedrius Subačius was teaching at the university. She now lives in Vilnius and works at a government institution as a language editor.
These short stories mostly deal with everyday occurrences, seemingly insignificant experiences and perceptions. Some of the stories focus on a middle-aged woman, living with her daughter in a small flat in the Old Town of Vilnius. One chapter, 'The Allure of the Text', lays out five criteria for a good literary work, which the author then goes on to illustrate in the unfolding story. Another story, 'Those Whom I Would Like to Meet Again: An Introduction', is a narrative reflection on a very diverse set of characters.
Gunstein Bakke (Norway)
Gunstein Bakke was born in 1968 in Setesdal, southern Norway. He made his debut as an author in 2000 with the novel Kontoret. All his novels have been well received, but with Maud and Aud he has finally been recognised as one of the most original voices among Norwegian authors. Bakke's thought-provoking book combines poetic language, polyphonic narrative and astute analysis. Bakke currently divides his time between Oslo and Gotland.
This novel alternates between narrative flashes and poetic descriptions, containing reflections on traffic and the physical aspects of human life in a society where technology has become an increasingly important part of our lives. At the centre of the plot is a family which is devastated by a car accident in which the mother dies and the father can only live with the support of artificial body parts; twin sisters Maud and Aud survive with physical and mental scars.
Piotr Paziński (Poland)
Piotr Paziński, born in 1973, is the author of three books: a monography on James Joyce's Ulysses, a subjective guide tracing the footsteps of Joyce's Dublin, and the novel Pensjonat, published in 2010 by the Nisza Publishing House. For this novel, he received the Paszport Polityki, the cultural award of the Polish publication Polityka. Paziński lives in Warsaw, where he works as the chief editor of the Jewish magazine Midrash, and is working on a book of short stories.
On the surface, the plot of Pensjonat is fairly straightforward, describing a day-trip by a young man to a boarding house outside Warsaw. As a small boy, he often spent time there with his granny, and he now encounters several aged guests who remember him as a child. But it is no ordinary boarding house: the residents are Jews who survived the Holocaust, so everything that occurs here is like a dream about the past, a summoning-up of ghosts, a resurrection of people, events, debates and ideological arguments from long ago.
Afonso Cruz (Portugal)
Afonso Cruz was born in Figueira da Foz in 1971. He works as a director of animation movies, illustrator, musician and writer. Cruz studied at the António Arroio Arts High School in Lisbon, at the College of Fine Arts and at the Madeira Institute of Creative Arts. His animation career includes several movies and series. In 2007, he recorded an album with his blues/roots band, The Soaked Lamb, for which he composed the music and lyrics, and played guitar, banjo and ukulele. He started his career as a fiction writer in 2008 with the novel A Carne de Deus (The Flesh of God).
This novel is a metaphor for a story of friendship, of how the Other is fundamental for our own identity. The characters include Isaac Dresner, a Jew who has developed a limp in his left foot after being traumatised by the memory of seeing his best friend killed in front of him during World War II. The reader is also introduced to Bonifaz Vogel, a man with a suspended conscience, Tsilia Kacev, an Orthodox Jew who gets stigmata, and a millionaire, Zsigmond Varga, who wants to weigh the human soul, measuring evil and sin with a hydraulic scale.
Jana Beňová (Slovakia)
Jana Beňová, born 1974, is a poet and prose writer, who graduated from the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Bratislava with a degree in theatre dramaturgy. She has written for the publications Dotyky, Fragment and Slovenské Pohľady, then as a journalist for the daily newspaper SME, writing under the name Jana Parkrová. Currently, she is an editor at the Theatre Institute in Bratislava. She debuted with a collection of poems, Svetloplachý. She is also the author of two other poetry collections, Lonochod and Nehota, a novel, Parker, and collection of short stories, Dvanásť poviedok a Ján Med.
Café Hyena is an unusual mosaic of short stories, observations, experiences and memories, amidst which emerges a relationship between a young woman and an ageing man. Its central character, Elza, lives in a huge apartment building in Petržalka, a Bratislava suburb, and decides to escape. Her journey brings captures the mood of present-day Bratislava through the viewpoint of an unusual heroine.
Sara Mannheimer (Sweden)
Sara Mannheimer grew up in Gothenburg, Sweden, and was educated in the United States, the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic. She now lives in Stockholm. In addition to writing, she runs a glassworks, Stockholm Heta Glas (Stockholm Hot Glass). In 2011 and 2012, the critically-acclaimed Come Rushing, a dance-theatre work on which she collaborated with the choreographer Birgitta Egerbladh, was staged at Stockholm's Stadsteater. Reglerna, her novel from 2008, was nominated for the August Prize and won the prize for debut writers from the newspaper Borås Tidning. Handlingen was nominated for Swedish Radio's prize for novels.
Handlingen is the story of a woman who is driven by a desire to conquer The Library, containing the entire global collection of literature. Underlying this neurotic need to control the world around her, and to master the theoretical complexity of Roland Barthes and Julia Kristeva, is her overwhelming grief over a failed pregnancy. Magic and realism are intertwined in Mannheimer's poetic writing, and she succeeds in depicting the often well-concealed fragility of everyday life, erasing the fine line between reality and imagination.
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Any suggestions on where to find examples, tutorials, and more thorough documentation on how to use the Google App Engine Datastore "Low Level Api" for Java?
I know this basic documentation page exists, but it just tells me whats in the Api and doesn't say much about how to actually use it: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/javadoc/com/google/appengine/api/datastore/package-summary.html
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The Pruning of Trees, Shrubs and Conifers (Second Edition, revised and expanded)
Quite simply, the book on pruning.
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How, when, and where to prune? The questions that beset every gardener never change, but the solutions do. The Pruning of Trees, Shrubs and Conifers recommends the best pruning techniques and practices.
This unique encyclopedic treatment details the best pruning methods for more than 450 genera of trees, shrubs, conifers, and woody climbers. The A–Z format covers several thousand species, yet remains a manageable and practical reference. Kirkham clearly explains the reasons behind pruning techniques as well as how to apply them.
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 340 pp.
- Book dimensions: 7 x 9 in. (230 x 180 mm.)
- Images: 48 color photos, 5 b/w photos, 55 line drawings, 3 tables
- Product code: 682613
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"Excellent updated edition full of color photos and 'how-to' drawings."
—Dale Langford, Rocky Mountain News
"Good pruning is known both as an art and a science, and this book helps the gardener accomplish both."
—Joanne S. Carpender, National Gardener
"Kirkham's revision is one the student will keep and refer to repeatedly as an easy to use reference. Well organized and lavishly illustrated."
—Linda J. Brewer, National Association of Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture Journal
"Like any good textbook, Kirkham's revision of Brown's 1972 text on pruning is one the student will keep and refer to repeatedly as an easy to use reference."
—Linda J. Brewer, College of Agricultural Science
"This recent edition includes all the latest in theory and technique."
—Marge Howard-Jones, California Garden
"This easy-to-use reference is more practical than ever for both professinals and amateurs."
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"George E. Brown's classic 1972 work has been extensively revised and updated by Kew expert Tony Kirkham, who describes fundamental changes in approach, such as "target" pruning, withholding wound sealant and pruning in ways that combat pests and diseases."
—Peter Surridge, Journal (Newcastle)
"This is a very useful book, especially during this season when many trees and shrubs do need pruning."
—Patricia A. Taylor, Trenton Times
"For the definitive answer on how, when and what to prune."
—Daily Mirror
"First published in 1972 and now thoroughly revised and substantially expanded, this classic work continues to be trusted and respected as an essential guide to pruning, incorporating major advances in the science of arboriculture."
—Best of British
"This thoughtful and timely revision ensures that a new generation of tree and shrub enthusiasts will trust and respect "George's book" as the essential pruning guide."
—Andi Clevely, Garden (Peterborough)
"The authors explain the basic principles of pruning and offer insights into why we cut trees and how to care for them, and handle specific situations such as lightning strikes, wind, cavitites and wounds, crown reduction, training and other general pruning topics."
—Joel M. Lerner, Washington Post
"This revised edition continues to be a reliable learning text for those wielding cutting tools intended to assist nature in her work."
—James H. Flynn Jr., American Reference Books Annual
"This book is masterfully written and is a 'sophisticated' treatise on an important subject."
—George Graine, Virginia Master Gardeners Association Report
"It's a classic."
—Petra McLean, Plant Master
"Contains the most current information to serve as a complete pruning guide."
—Country Accents
"I can almost guarantee this volume will change your philosophy on pruning."
—Heather Club of the Redwoods
"For those wondering what to do with an overgrown azalea, camellia or oak, this is the guide."
—Lawrence Looks at Books
"[This] has to be the definitive guide and a must-have book for all enthusiastic gardeners and professional horticulturists."
—David Burns, Kew
"Quite simply, the book on pruning."
—John E. Bryan, Gardening Newsletter
"This new edition has been spruced up with color photographs, and it contains a good bit of current advice on the science of aboriculture. [It is] a fascinating and informative survey of the symbiotic relationship between the plants nature has but on the earth and the methods humans have developed to enhance and maintain many of these plants."
—Jean S. Wexler, Vineyard Gazette
"Thanks to the meticulous work and effort made by the author originally and in the last revision, useful information, particularly regarding each species, can be found in this book."
—Francesco Ferrini, Advances in Horticultural Science
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Health news from around the globe.
Duke medical researchers published a report in the Archives of Internal Medicine claiming that exercise can treat depression. After studying 156 elderly patients diagnosed with clinical depression, the investigators concluded that 30 minutes of exercise three times a week can be as effective as taking various anti-depressant drugs.
Children with juvenile arthritis who took part in an eight-week individualized program of resistance exercise improved their ability to function by as much as 200 percent, according to researchers at the University of Buffalo. Furthermore, the program decreased their pain, disability and use of medication. Researchers believe that the benefits came about as a result of a change that the exercise made in the immune response. Juvenile arthritis is a form of rheumatoid arthritis, a disease that causes the body's autoimmune system to attack joints and surrounding tissue.
Professor Will Winder, a researcher at Brigham Young University, has conducted a study that proves exercise can help prevent the onset of Type II diabetes. This is because exercise helps muscles absorb glucose, Winder reported.


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My Birthday Cake - Chocolate Orange Flourless Cake
Last week during my usual blog hoping I came across this recipe and I liked it. It has chocolate in it and thats more than enough reason for me to fall in love with it. The recipe was pretty simple and easy to prepare. Since it does not use butter I think its healthy too. I wasnt sure how it would turn out and was worried if it would turn out hard, more like a browny as it does not use both butter and flour. On the contrary it was very very moist and fruity.
After the first bite, I thought that it needed more sugar but after a few bites I fell in love with it. It tastes light, moist, fresh, fruity and yummy. For those of you who like your cakes real sweet you can add a ganache frosting or serve it with a creme anglais sauce.
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If the pun is the lowest form of humor, then the creative team behind "It's the Housewives!" are theatrical spelunkers of the most audacious sort.
A bit of history. It seems that many of the numbers in this cheerful new musical, now at the Whitefire in Sherman Oaks, were originally performed by the novelty rock 'n' roll group the Housewives, which had a fling with fame a few years back. The songs, co-written by original group member Hope Juber and her husband, Laurence Juber, all deal with various aspects of a housewife's domestic duties and travails -- for example, "Ironing Bored" and "In Sink and at Your Disposal."
Before you start groaning, be assured that the songs themselves are genuinely clever and almost surreally goofy. Kay Cole's lively and crisp choreography -- Motown funk as filtered through a Martha Stewart special -- augments the general wackiness, as does Sharell Martin's colorful, extravagantly silly costume design. Best, the Housewives themselves -- Jamey Hood, Corinne Dekker and Jayme Lake -- are bouncy, hugely appealing "domestic divas" who, under the solid musical direction of Laurence Juber, deliver the best harmonies since "The Marvelous Wonderettes."
The problem is Hope Juber and Ellen Guylas' book, a fictionalized, purely campy account of the housewives, their rise to fame, and their painful breakup (over a disputed guacamole recipe), as related by former member Rebecca (Terri Homberg-Olsen) to her plumber (Vince Cefalu). Obviously cobbled together to accommodate the Housewives' existing repertoire, the narrative provides sufficient excuse for the musical "flashbacks" but remains a leaky premise in need of plumber's tape.
Leaky, also, is Kelly Ann Ford's direction, which never quite incorporates the show's floundering subsidiary characters into a smooth flow. The shining exception is Roger Cruz as Hugo, the lovable laundromat owner who gives the Housewives their first big break. A layered performer, Cruz makes his caricature convincingly real.
F. Kathleen Foley
"It's the Housewives!," Whitefire Theatre, 13500 Ventura Blvd., Sherman Oaks. 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 3 p.m. Sundays. Ends Oct. 12. $30. (323) 960-5563. www.itsthehousewives.com/. Running time: 2 hours.
A satirical turn on the disco floor
If your idea of a good night out is watching five guys in suits dancing to disco classics, "Bouncers" at the Lost Studio has your number. British playwright John Godber's rapid-fire sampling of human traffic in and out of a Yorkshire disco is back in Los Angeles and having a ball in director-choreographer Cinda Jackson's spiffy new production. On a nearly bare stage, a nattily dressed, turbocharged cast of five (Chris Coppola, David Corbett, Mark Adair-Rios, Dan Cowan and Phillip Campos) quick-change into a range of night clubbers and bust some decent moves to '70s and '80s pop classics.
Godber's satirical collage debuted at the 1977 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and achieved cult status here in 1986 when L.A. Theater Works' production ran for 11 months. With its unapologetically pelvic emphasis, you can see how the show brought a much-needed whiff of sweat and stale beer into polite English theater. Thirty years on, it's less than revolutionary but still a winning showcase for actors and a sly compendium of people watching: Hail Mary hookups, loo gossip, sidewalk dust-ups and Brit drollery. One only wishes Godber had thoroughly pursued his conceit: Building a show around bouncers -- the ultimate doorkeepers -- is a brilliant idea, but we never get much insight into who these guys are or what they want.
This is the sort of freewheeling, drink-along entertainment that belongs in a cabaret setting, with the performers dodging waitresses as they break into Michael Jackson parodies. In the formal setting of the Lost Studio, the show's raucous fun has a slightly misplaced feel despite the terrific ensemble. Here's hoping someone will move "Bouncers" to a venue where you can liquor up, dance, flirt and applaud simultaneously.
Charlotte Stoudt
"Bouncers," the Lost Studio, 130 S. La Brea, Los Angeles. 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. Ends Sept. 27. $20. Contact: (323) 933-6944. Running time: 1 hour, 30 minutes.
Groundlings are good for guffaws
"The Groundlings, Your Body and You" has been running since July, which may account for its offhanded adherence to the sketches-and-ad-libs formula. With director Ted Michaels keeping his alternating cast of writer-performers in trim, this latest offering from L.A.'s premier improv troupe is generally representative mayhem.
As usual, the title is a catchall, less thematic than pragmatic, as are the interludes from music director Willie Etra and cohorts Howard Greene and Larry Treadwell. Physical humor plays a notable role in the evening. For instance, "Francisco Manor," where Andrew Friedman and Michael Naughton as hotel ghouls milk more howls from their "SCTV"-flavored inability to spook stalwart Steve Little than the premise does.
Topical humor is sparse, no political jabs, though Alex Staggs has a spastic blast in "50 Free," a unitard-clad riff on competitive swimming. Farther along the character-comedy scale, "Some of That" brings Staggs and David Hoffman into direct contact with a theoretical babe in the Venice rental they're scoping out, which fractures the house.
So does Larry Dorf, hilarious with Naughton and their future selves in "The Warning," a hoot as president of the Python-esque "Lodge." Whether tweaking radio-talk hosts as, um, specialist "Dr. Clark Edmunds" or upending the "Schoolhouse Rock" principal with Friedman in the title song that closes Act 1, Dorf is a prime nut bar among deranged equals.
And ruthless Jill Matson-Sachoff, the sole female in the reviewed cast, retains a razor-edged aplomb that has few peers. Freaking out grade-schoolers Staggs and Friedman as a wildly inappropriate "Playdate" mom, cavorting through a pas de trois with Little's saturnine Messiah and a baby doll in the "Real Man" finale, Matson-Sachoff's sang-froid typifies this sturdy "Body." It seldom stretches past its comfort zone but finds reliable guffaws within ours.
David C. Nichols
"The Groundlings, Your Body and You," Groundlings Theater, 7307 Melrose Ave., L.A. 8 p.m. Fridays, 8 and 10 p.m. Saturdays. Ends Oct. 4. $15. (323) 934-4747 Ext. 37. Running time: 1 hour, 45 minutes.
It's well acted, but 'Roses' shows age
Frank Gilroy's "The Subject Was Roses" opened on Broadway in 1964 and won the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize for best new drama. While the years haven't necessarily been unkind to the play, the story noticeably creaks and groans today under the weight of time and critical baggage.
The West Coast Ensemble's revival at El Centro Theatre is an assuredly acted and directed production that can't quite conceal some of the play's arthritic contrivances. Just home from World War II, Timmy (Danny Araujo) receives the royal treatment from his parents (Peter Karlin and Ferrell Marshall), who dote on their only son with a competitive spirit that hints at marital tension just below the surface.
The family's dysfunctionality explodes in the second act, when Timmy attempts to declare his independence from his parents by rejecting their Catholic faith and then moving out of their Bronx apartment. Repressed feelings and resentment surge to the fore, throwing the fragile family trinity into disarray.
With its theme of Catholic guilt and alcoholism as destructive agents of the domestic fabric, "The Subject Was Roses" often scans like imitation Eugene O'Neill. The mother's self-sacrifice to her husband and son may have seemed virtuous decades ago, but today it just feels quaint. And the father's egomaniacal tirades merely come off as constipated, pre-counterculture machismo.
Director Claudia Jaffee and her admirable cast keep the play's emotional vectors clean and spare, rendering the family melodrama with pinpoint precision. But keeping Gilroy's old-fashioned rose garden in bloom is a losing battle, requiring more magic than any cast could possibly muster.
David Ng
"The Subject Was Roses," El Centro Theatre, 804 N. El Centro, Hollywood. 8 p.m., Tuesdays through Thursdays. Ends Sept. 18. (323) 460-4443 or www.westcoastensemble.org/. $15. Running time: 2 hours.
A state of dread in 'Chalk Boy'
The town of Clear Creek has been misnamed. There's a creek, all right, but it's far from clear. A toxic streak through a littered landscape, the creek hides a grim secret under its stew of hamburger wrappers and castoff tires.
A co-production of Company of Angels and the Management, Joshua Conkel's "The Chalk Boy," now in its West Coast premiere at downtown's historic Alexandria Hotel, is being simultaneously produced in both Los Angeles and New York. Perhaps the New York production will fare better than the one in L.A., which misses more often than it hits.
The plot revolves around the mysterious disappearance of a local youth, the Chalk Boy, whose uncertain fate holds a tiny Washington state community in a state of suspended expectation and dread.
Note the chalkboards flanking Brandon Sale's rudimentary set -- one scrawled with mathematical equations, the other with obscene graffiti -- and you'll get an idea of the theme. For the four angst-ridden teenage girls in the play, life isn't adding up. In fact, it's proving disturbingly evanescent. Lauren (Amy Patrice Golden) finds comfort in Christianity. Trisha (Claire Bocking) gets strength from unalloyed rage. Sad Penny (Sarah Rosenberg) casts Wiccan spells for some illusion of power. Meanwhile, Penny's best friend, Breanna (Sonora Chase), wrestles with her secret love for Penny.
Under the direction on Courtney Sale, the actors play to the outermost perimeters of their stereotypes, often to a fault. To his credit, Conkel tackles huge, potentially resonant issues, but his meaning falls through the cracks of his undisciplined story structure. The characters' knee-jerk nastiness seems designed more for the plot's expediency than from any understandable motivation. "Bad Girls" on Prozac, "The Chalk Boy" is as fervid and random as a hormonal teenage girl and as annoying.
F. Kathleen Foley
"The Chalk Boy," the Alexandria Hotel, 501 S. Spring St., 3rd Floor, Los Angeles. 8 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays, 7 p.m. Sundays. Ends Oct. 12. $15. (323) 883-1717 www.companyofangelstheater.org. Running time: 2 hours.


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🙋🏽♂ Carlo De Toffol
This is me, the De Benci b&b owner and manager.
Name: Carlo
Surname: De Toffol
Birth year: 1978
Height: 178 cm / 5.8 ft
Eyes: very azure
Hometown: Firenze - Italy
Known languages: Italian, English, HTML, CSS
Zodiac sign: Aquarius
Also known as: "Wise Ciarlz"
Something I still can't find on Google: time.
My superpower: thinking.
Interests: many... too many... many more!
About me
I love Ducati's, dogs, cinema, science, technology, design, travelling, theatre, airplanes, good wine and food, women. like taking pictures, I adore thinking, planning and concretizin my ideas. I like cooking: it is very funny and sometimes I experiment with recipes in the kitchen: I am greedy and I go crazy for desserts. I am very versatile and curios, a bit perfectionist and determinate. I love sports: free climbing, martial arts, yoga and running.
My secondary occupation/hobby: freelance designer.
I am NURBS 3D modeling specialized (I am able to use several CAD softwares), my main area of interest/knowledge/experience is automotive design, although I prefer the "2 wheels" area (motorcycles). I also deal with other areas such as photography or web design, for example this website has been created by me.


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Supercharge Your LAN With Condor, part 2
Submitting a Basic Condor Job
In the previous article of this 2-part series, you got your Condor client and server set up. Now let's test them out by submitting a job.
First, you'll need to set the CONDOR_CONFIG environment variable to the location of your condor_config file.
Next you have to create a Condor submit file. This tells Condor what your job is, how to run it, and what its requirements are. Here's a very basic example:
Executable = test.sh Log = test.log error = test.error Universe = vanilla Queue
This tells Condor to queue up one copy of test.sh for execution (a good test.sh for our purposes might be one that echos the date to a file, sleeps 5 seconds, and then echoes the date again to the same file). No platform is specified, so the default is to make it the same OS and architecture as the machine that the job was submitted from (so on the machine I'm writing this on, that would be i386 Linux). A log file is given, and somewhere to put stderror. No input or output commands are given, so stdin and stdout will both go to /dev/null.
Note that you should always provide a log file, so that Condor has somewhere to record the exit conditions of the job. It'll work fine without it, but you won't know what happened to the job.
This job is being run in the vanilla universe, since it uses a shell script -- see below for a discussion of universes.
To make your tests run a bit quicker (i.e. to avoid waiting for a machine to become free), you can set TESTINGMODE in the global config file. Find this line:
and replace it with
Repeat this with the other statements in this section (down to the line MaxJobRetirementTime) and restart Condor. Remember to change this all back when you go into production!
Now run condor_submit test (where test is the name of your submit file) and wait for it to run. Check your output file.
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text: What is the ideal way to manage memory consumption in HPC applications? For HPC applications, performance is everything. Next we all know about the famous performance-memory tradeoff which says that performance can be improved by consuming more memory and vice versa. Therefore HPC applications want to consume all available memory. But the performance-memory tradeoff as mentioned above supposes infinite memory and infinite memory bandwith. Because memory if finite, consuming more memory as physically available will result in swapping by the OS and therefore a big performance hit. And since BW is also finite and latency we have caching. But now we also need to be cautious not to loose time due to cache trashing. Knowing this we could say that HPC applications generally want to eat all available memory but not more. All available memory here means all physical memory minus the physical memory consumed by the system and its basic services because we suppose that HPC applications do not share their processor with other applications (to have the whole cache for itself). Well this is true for single-processor machines. On multi-proc machines (smp,numa) only a part of the physical memory can be consumed. So because the application does not know how much physical memory it is allowed to eat, it might be best that the user just specifies it when launching the application. But suppose now a single-proc machine has 8GB physical memory. Taking into account that the OS and its services will never take more than 500MB, the user might say to the HPC application that it can eat up to 7.5GB of the physical memory. But what does this number mean to the HPC application that is trying to optimise its performance? Should it try to never consume more memory as 7.5GB or should it only try to consume never more as 7.5GB in intensive loops (e.g. in the solver)? In the latter case, can we rely on the OS swapping out the inactive parts of our application to make space for the solver or would it be better that the application puts all data-structures that are not used in the solver on disk to make sure? OTOH if we want to limit the total memory consumption to 7.5GB, would it be best to allocate a memory-pool of 7.5GB and if the pool is full abort the application (after running for days)? toon