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Leaks of observations by Kevin Rudd and others will have a long-lasting impact.
Rather than a leak, this is a gusher - a Victoria Falls of once-secret documents. It's no wonder people are struggling to come to terms with what the WikiLeaks disclosures mean. And it's natural enough to try to sort out what is immediately new and ignore the rest.
For example, we discover from one cable that Kevin Rudd called China's leaders ''paranoid''. So what? We already knew he'd complained about a Chinese ''ratf--k'' during the Copenhagen climate summit last year. Why does this latest insult matter? Because it fills out a picture and offers context. It takes some explaining, but this leak is extremely damaging to Rudd and - given he is now Foreign Minister - Australia's ties with China.
When Rudd made his colourful analogy about the fornicating rodent, it was a background briefing with a bunch of Australian reporters late one evening during the summit. In Canberra circles, a ''ratf--k'' is typically used to refer to a double-cross in a tough political negotiation.
The abrasive tone no doubt rankled, but once the translation became clear, few in Beijing would have minded greatly that Rudd saw China as sticking up for its own perceived interests, instead of the outcome Australia wanted.
But the leaked cable detailing Rudd's luncheon conversation with Hillary Clinton is entirely different. This wasn't a cosy chat over a beer to try to shape journalists' thinking about Australia's role during international negotiations. This was the then prime minister meeting with the US Secretary of State.
And Rudd didn't merely call the Chinese paranoid. He went much further, dismissing the entire Chinese leadership as ''sub-rational and deeply emotional'' in their attitude about Taiwan.
Imagine he'd made such a sweeping generalisation about Africa's leaders and their view of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe. Rather than being seen as a ''brutal realist'', as Rudd described his position towards China, this would be regarded as simple prejudice.
In Rudd's defence, this conversation from March last year was never meant to be public. Everybody says things behind closed doors that take on a different hue when dragged into the open. Comments can be over-interpreted.
But China now has an extra insight into Rudd's character, and it's hardly flattering. Claims that the controversy will be subsumed and forgotten in a kind of jolly diplomatic camaraderie - ''every country talks like this'' - amount to wishful thinking. This leak has hurt.
Combined with the sour opinion the Americans took of him, as a leader willing to ''aggrandise himself at the expense of Australia's most important relationship'', Rudd comes off as two-faced.
That reputation will follow him, and perhaps the effects are already being felt.
As events unfold, these cables will provide crucial background that people will return to and judge what political leaders have to say.
Consider Rudd's exchange this week with Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit, widely seen as a shrewd operator when he was the Egyptian ambassador to the United Nations. During a joint press conference in Cairo, a reporter asked if the WikiLeaks disclosure had increased mistrust in American diplomacy.
''Talk about your friends the Americans,'' Aboul Gheit said to Rudd.
''But the Americans are friends of the Egyptians, too,'' Rudd responded.
''I'm not denying it,'' said Aboul Gheit. ''But you have noticed that the cables that are coming out of Cairo or about Egypt from abroad, all of them are indicating that what we say in the meetings, we say publicly.''
This may have been a friendly barb, but it certainly carried a point. With the deluge of information included in these cables, it is going to take time to sort through the ramifications. For Australia, it might take even longer, given they come when people are exhausted after a tumultuous year in politics and run into the Christmas break.
As we jump from one revelation to the next, the impact is not immediately obvious. But as events unfold in the years ahead, these cables will provide crucial background that people will return to and judge what political leaders have to say.
Even less willingness to take pronouncements at face value is an obvious consequence.
Public scepticism about the war in Afghanistan, for example, has been reinforced by the disclosure of official assessments that local Afghan security resembles a ''wobbly three-legged stool''. When Defence Minister Stephen Smith responds by stating ''in the last six months or so we have made progress'', people will wonder if this is merely another of his ''very legalistic approach'' to questions, as American diplomats described his work habits in cables back to Washington - a preference to use ''time-consuming analysis … to defer making decisions''.
Such observations may have echoed political commentary at the time, but that America's envoys in Canberra adopted such a view should not be underestimated.
Decision-makers in Washington do not have the luxury to trawl through thousands of pages of media clippings to keep on top of events in Australia. They rely on their professionals posted to the country to keep them informed. What goes into official assessments matters.
Australian leaders have every right to be angry at Washington over this breach, compounded by the decision not to share the relevant cables with Canberra before they were released.
But this should also be seen as a chance to properly assess the quality of relationship and bring mutual interests out from behind a veil of secrecy.
Daniel Flitton is Age diplomatic editor.
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Memoto: This tiny, wearable camera wants to capture your day in photos, taking lifelogging mainstream
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Lifelogging – the idea of carrying a tiny camera around with you and recording images from your entire day automatically – is nothing new, and yet it's failed to catch on as yet. A new device and online service from Swedish startup Memoto that has just launched a campaign on Kickstarter, could change that.
Measuring just 1.4 x 1.4 inches, the Memoto clips on to your clothing. It takes a picture every thirty seconds throughout the day via its 5 megapixel camera, timestamping and geotagging each shot. Once you connect to your computer via USB, it will begin uploading your images to the accompanying Web service.
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Now, there are 1,440 minutes in 24 hours, so that means Memoto is going to be taking up to 2,880 photos per day. Most of them are going to be worthless and repetitive shots. To counter this, the Memoto service automatically identifies different parts of the day and divides them into 'moments' so you can easily find the interesting parts of the day.
Most people won't use Memoto all day every day, although with a promised 2-day battery life, it can certainly be a tool for hardcore lifeloggers. It should work just as well for capturing a fun day out or a vacation though.
Memoto is the new project from Martin Källström, the former CEO of blog search and media monitoring company Twingly (The Next Web Award contenders way back at our 2008 conference). The Kickstarter campaign begins today, and the startup says that it's weeks away from having final working hardware in the final form factor. Launch is planned for early 2013.
The unit will be available in grey, white and orange colors for $279. However, if you back the Kickstarter campaign to the tune of $199 or more, you'll receive a camera and 1-year Web service subscription when Memoto becomes available.
Now, some people will no doubt argue that lifelogging isn't of mainstream interest, but Memoto and Google's Project Glass look set to commoditize it like never before. With the likes of Fitbit and the Nike+ FuelBand, the idea of wearable computing is entering the mainstream. Memoto might have timed its arrival on the market just right.
UPDATE: The Kickstarter campaign has reached its $50,000 goal already, in around 5 hours, although there are still plenty of the initial batch of 1,000 devices available. It's important to note that it is our understanding that the company has some degree of angel/seed funding from elsewhere too, although we're currently clarifying the details of this.
UPDATE 2: Memoto tells us that the Kickstarter campaign is definitely no mere publicity campaign. The startup has raised €500,000 ($651,000) from early stage venture fund Passion Capital and angels Peter Read and Felix Petersen, but this does not cover production costs – so if you want to help this interesting device get off the ground, they'd still appreciate your backing over the remaining 37 days of the campaign.
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Exhibit: NDSU Graduate School Fair
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The NDSU Graduate School invites you to the Graduate School Information Fair. Tuesday, November 6 NDSU DCE staff will be at this event. If you are interested in an online degree program, stop by the NDSU Distance and Continuing Education booth for more information or use the Twitter hashtag #ndsuonline to ask questions. We'll be answering your questions via Twitter all day long. NDSU DCE will offer information about our online graduate and undergraduate degree programs as well as information about online graduate certificate programs. Come find out why online graduate certificates are becoming a useful tool in career advancement. At this event you will learn more about the graduate programs offered at NDSU. Faculty and current graduate students will share information about research opportunities and graduate assistantships. Presentations will be held each hour. During these presentations, if you have questions specifically related to online degrees, use the hashtag #ndsuonline. 10 a.m. – Is graduate school right for me? If you cannot make it to this event but would like a Distance and Continuing Education staff member to come speak to your employees at your office, at your organization's event, or through a Skype conference call, contact Connie Jadrny to schedule a visit.
10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Memorial Union Great Room
11 a.m. – How do I pay for graduate school?
Noon – How do I write a statement of purpose?
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By Kenneth Jost Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson of the Wisconsin Supreme Court is well known not only at home but also across the country as an advocate for judicial independence. But when Abrahamson learned she would face an opponent for reelection to a fourth 10-year term, she pulled out all the political stops. The 75-year-old Abrahamson hired a veteran political operative to head her campaign, collected endorsements from across the political spectrum and raised more than $1.3 million. "She came into the race prepared," says Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Abrahamson had reason to take seriously the challenge by Randy Koschnick, an outspokenly conservative circuit court judge in Milwaukee. Just a year earlier, a conservative challenger had knocked off one of Abrahamson's fellow liberals on the bench with a hard-hitting, multimillion-dollar campaign financed in part by the state's business lobby. Michael J. Gableman's election as justice in April 2008 gave conservatives a 4-3 majority on the Wisconsin court. One year later, however, Abrahamson's political efforts paid off on April 7 with a 59 percent to 41 percent victory over Koschnick. "I ran a good race and kept it clean," Abrahamson told Milwaukee's Journal Sentinel afterward. But she added that her financial advantage over Koschnick – who spent only $180,000 – was critical. "That makes a big difference in how you can get your message out." For most of the world, Abrahamson's victory would not be as remarkable as the fact of the election itself. Except for Japan and Switzerland, the United States is the only country that requires judges to face popular election to gain or hold office. Even though federal judges serve life terms after nomination by the president and confirmation by the Senate, 39 out of 50 states use some form of election for judgeships either at the trial or appellate level or both. The elections vary from traditional partisan contests to nonpartisan races to so-called retention elections in which incumbent judges run without an opponent and remain in office unless a majority votes to remove them. Today as in the past, most judicial elections attract little attention. Most vacancies are initially filled by gubernatorial appointment, and virtually all incumbents remain in office whether they face "contestable" or retention elections. Over the past 30 years, however, judicial elections in a handful of states have become high-cost, bare-knuckle political battles. In particular, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's decision in 2000 to dive into state judicial politics in a big way has led to multimillion-dollar campaigns like Wisconsin's 2008 contest that have succeeded – as in Wisconsin – in tilting some state supreme courts toward business interests on civil litigation and some other issues. The Chamber – which now generally avoids direct comment on judicial election issues – said at the time it wanted to counteract political influence in the judicial selection process by trial lawyers' groups. Business groups like the Chamber, the National Association of Manufacturers and the American Tort Reform Association blame the plaintiffs' bar for a history of favorable rulings on personal injury suits only recently being cut back in some states. The increasing cost and the deteriorating tone of judicial election campaigns worry many bar associations, traditional court reform organizations and liberal advocacy groups. "Over the last 20 years, and especially in the past seven years, we're seeing a race to the bottom with respect to financing and campaigning in judicial elections," says Seth Andersen, executive director of the American Judicature Society, a 95-year-old court reform organization that created the retention-election systems now used in 19 states. "Judicial elections are now posing the single, greatest threat to fair and impartial courts," says Tommy Wells, a Birmingham, Ala., lawyer and president of the American Bar Association. The ABA along with state and local bar associations has been the major interest group supporting retention-election plans. Wells and others fear that campaign contributions from businesses and from lawyers with cases before courts are undermining public confidence in judges' impartiality. "There's a real fear that money alone can be tipping scales of justice," says Bert Brandenburg, executive director of Justice at Stake, a Washington-based coalition of liberal-leaning legal advocacy groups. Judicial elections are strongly defended, however, by an assortment of Republican officials and leaders, business lobbies and conservative advocacy groups and experts. They emphasize that judges, especially state supreme court justices, have the power to make law in their respective jurisdictions – in some cases with no effective review by the federal judiciary. "Judges are making law, and it's only appropriate for the people to choose judges," says James Bopp, a lawyer in Terre Haute, Ind., who has represented Republican and anti-abortion groups among others in campaign-speech cases at the U.S. Supreme Court and in lower federal courts. "The whole idea of popular sovereignty supports judicial elections." Bopp and others profess little concern about the impact of increased campaign costs and spending by businesses and other interest groups. "If you are going to elect your judges, then you pretty much have to allow much of the same trappings that you do for any other election," says Sean Parnell, president of the Center for Competitive Politics, a Washington-based organization critical of campaign finance regulations. Michael DeBow, a law professor at Samford University's Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, Ala., and a member of the conservative-libertarian Federalist Society, says the public supports judicial elections despite concerns about the impact of contributions on judges' decisions. "They don't want to let go of judicial elections," DeBow says. The debate over the impact of campaign contributions and spending is now pending at the U.S. Supreme Court. The justices are being asked to decide whether constitutional due process may require judges to step out of a case – in legal parlance, to recuse themselves – because of campaign contributions or spending by a party, lawyer or other individual with a stake in the outcome. The issue reached the justices in a case brought by the president of a now defunct coal company in West Virginia who says state supreme court justice Brent Benjamin should have recused himself from ruling on the $50 million award the company won against a rival coal business. Benjamin refused to recuse himself even though the president of the rival company had spent more than $3 million to help Benjamin during his successful campaign for the supreme court seat in 2004. Benjamin eventually cast a critical vote in the 3-2 decision in March 2008 overturning the award. Stricter standards on recusal are among the reforms the ABA, Justice at Stake and other public-interest groups are urging to try to counteract what they see as the negative effects on public confidence in the judiciary due to judicial elections. They also express interest in public financing of judicial campaigns – a system now on the books in two states, North Carolina and New Mexico. From the opposite perspective, judicial election supporters say stricter recusal standards may undermine elections by deterring campaign contributions or spending. They similarly argue that public campaign financing – accompanied by overall limits on candidates' spending – will reduce the amount of information for voters in judicial contests. The arguments over judicial elections are drawing only limited attention from state legislators, who would have to be involved in making any changes in selection or election methods or campaign finance regulations. The general public also is largely unengaged on the issue. Indeed, despite public support for judicial elections in general, voter turnout is traditionally low in judgeship races. Wisconsin's relatively high-profile supreme court race in April 2008 drew 830,000 voters – fewer than one-third of the nearly 3 million state voters in the presidential election in November. 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Exceptional game on so many levels.
Loved the way Dion Rogers came out looking to set the tone for his team — whether he admits that's what he did or not — and you have to appreciate the way McCarrick fought back in the second half. Zero of Marques Townes' 21 points came easy, and his supporting cast, especially Alonzo Hamilton and Mo Alli, came alive after the break.
Each team's newest acquisition played solid minutes.
McCarrick's new starting point guard from Perth Amboy, J.D. Rodriquez, heated up in the second half and hit the biggest trey of the night for the ball club. North Brunswick's Keon Rankins, a transfer from the Hun, provided some physicality and a spark off the bench; grabbed few boards and patrolled the paint well during his time on the floor.
Numbers don't lie
- Dion Rodgers and Iverson Flemming combined for all 18 of North Brunswick's points in the fourth quarter.
- Fleming shot 7 of 11 overall and 4-for-5 from downtown.
- North Brunswick was 9 of 18 from 3-point range and 10 of 13 from the charity stripe.
- McCarrick was 12-for-22 free-throw shooting.
Cardinal McCarrick | 15 | 8 | 19 | 23 | — | 65 |
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BAUMATIC BT10.3GL Chimney Cooker Hood - Stainless Steel
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Featuring a modern stainless steel and glass design, this cooker hood is the perfect addition to a 100 cm range cooker or large family kitchen.
Three speed setting let you select the right speed for the conditions while two halogen lamps provide plenty of lighting so you can see exactly what you're doing whilst cooking.
The BT10.3GL can be installed as either an extraction or recirculation hood depending on your requirements.
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Cook in a clean and odourless environment with the Baumatic BT10.3GL Chimney Cooker Hood.
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Maximum extraction rate | 500 m³/h (kit sold separately) |
Maximum recirculation rate | 500 m³/h (carbon filter sold separately) |
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Filters included | Metal grease filter |
Noise level | 66 db(A) |
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On reaching the group stages...
"We finished the job well by scoring an early
goal and after that of course it took a little bit of edge out of
the game. We kept good focus, there's not a lot more to say. In
the two ties we did not concede a goal, we scored five, two late
goals in the second half today. You felt always that if needed we
could put our foot on the gas and score."
On Walcott's performance...
"I feel that the confidence is there, and that
in every game he can reproduce some good performances. We changed
many players tonight, and he still can have a good link in the game
and be dangerous. He had a good first half, yes. Theo is quality,
he can be decisive, you know? He's very direct and quick, a
good finisher, has good crosses. I feel he's improving his link
play and he's more aggressive, I think he has assets in his
game, when he uses them well he can be dangerous for
On his Champions League hopes...
"This team has already been in the Final, we
are now in the group stage. Let's get out of the group stage
first and then we shall see."
On Eduardo...
"He was the opposite of Theo, I found him more
at ease on the left flank, where he had tricks of a winger, and
then through the middle. He's a great striker, you know, and
you could see that. We did not always have the drive to find our
strikers because we were more concerned with keeping the ball than
finding our strikers, but if you find him he will score goals.
That's what he has, you know? He's a box player."
On keeping a clean sheet...
"I expected not to concede a goal and we
managed that. I felt last year we wanted to improve our defensive
record and at the moment that is looking pretty good."
On Fabregas' black-band tribute to Antonio Puerta...
"He played with the guy in the Under-21s and,
of course, it was a big shock."
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Toon Boom Animation CEO Joan Vogelesang, and CTO Francisco Del Cueto, will present "More for Less with Toon Boom." As the animation software global leader, Toon Boom acts as the glue that binds content creators, producers and educators together. Come and learn about the current state of the animation industry, and discover the role animation plays in all levels of education. Let us present the benefits of implementing a solid pipeline using a self-servicing technology, one that opens a new world of possibilities.
Francisco will demonstrate the new Toon Boom Harmony 10 solution running on 64-bit, along with Toon Boom Manager, Storyboard Pro 3D and Redboard. Starting in pre-production with boarding within a full 3D stage and pre-visualizing concepts, and moving onto production with drawing with textured pencil lines, deforming vector and pixmap images, and applying particle effects, come and discover all the outstanding capabilities the Toon Boom pipeline brings to your productions.
Drinks and light bites will be served prior to the event.
Attendee Raffle Prizes Give Away to be awarded at the end of the event
- One copy of Toon Boom Harmony stand-alone valid one year
- 10 copies of Flip Boom Cartoon
Time: 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
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Estancia High School play selected as the top show
The Estancia High School play, "Letters to Sala", received first place honors in the California Educational Theatre Association's (CETA) Orange County awards program. For more info, see:
MESA instrumentalists perform with the Disneyland Band
On Jan. 24th, four Costa Mesa H.S. band students had the privilege of performing with the Disneyland Band at the Henry & Renée Segerstrom Concert Hall. The students were included in one of the annual performances that the Disneyland Band gives for 2nd graders, county-wide, courtesy of the Orange County Philharmonic Society. The four students were Nancy Le (alto sax), Anna To (trumpet), Zaid Batarseh (clarinet), and Terry Crowley (trombone.)
O.C. Music and Arts Administrators Awards
Tamara Fairbanks and Kirby Piazza were honored at the 2016 O.C. County Music and Arts Administrators Awards on Wednesday, May 4 at the Samueli Theatre at the Segerstrom Center for the Performing Arts. Miss Fairbank's work in elementary music at Mariners and other schools, during the summer and with the Pacific Chorale Academy has led to this well deserved honor. Mr. Piazza is a leader in visual art instruction at CMHS and across the district and spearheaded the establishment of a district-wide art showcase which happens every spring at OCC.
District Band Festival
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NEW YORK - The Port Authority expects more than 1.5 million passengers will use its airports over this holiday weekend that signals the start of the summer travel season.
The estimate, based on travel between Friday and Tuesday, represents a 1.4 percent increase over last year.
The Port Authority has assigned additional customer care representatives to ensure travelers have ready assistance at the airports.
Passengers are encouraged to sign up for the Port Authority's free, mobile notification service at airportinfoalerts.com.
The service provides real-time information about weather and AirTrain delays and parking availability.
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Curious to learn and understand more about dementia? Hulme will teach real-life strategies for coping with dementia. She will describe her "Three Laws for Living with Dementia" and will highlight the importance of humor, creativity and experimentation in staying connected to anyone suffering from this illogical and vexing disease.
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GAGGENAU RF461301 Vario Freezer with 1-door
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Main facts:
Stainless steel interior
Generous lighting concept
Integrated ice maker with fixed inlet water connection
Solid aluminium door racks
Net volume 321 litres
Energy efficiency class A+
Electronic temperature control with digital display.
Dynamic cold air distribution.
Automatic defrosting with defrost water evaporation.
Energy-saving vacation mode.
Open-door and malfunction alarm.
No-frost technology with fast freezing.
Temperature adjustable from -14 °C to -25 °C.
4-star freezer compartment.
Freezing capacity 18 kg/24 h.
Storage time after a malfunction 13 h.
4 solid metal shelves, 3 of which are manually adjustable.
2 fully extendable drawers with transparent front, 1 of which large, 1 regular.
Bright interior lighting with light pillars.
4 height-adjustable door racks, 1 of which is extra deep.
1 door rack with transparent front flap.
Ice maker:
Integrated, with fixed inlet water connection.
Can be switched off.
Ice cube production approx. 1.4 kg/24 h.
Removable ice storage container with approx. 4 kg capacity.
Product rating:
Energy consumption 357 kwh/year.
Noise level 41 dB (re 1 pW).
Total connected load 0.421 kW.
Connecting cable 3.0 m, pluggable.
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Sitting on the sand shooting gulls... Look closely at this one and you will see fishing line on its legs. We must be more aware of how we impact our world...
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A fun weekly race/ride series for all mountain bikers.
Mark your calendars and start NOT training (those caught training are disqualified...kidding...but training is highly frowned upon). Go hard and compete for the bragging rights or just come and enjoy the fun with like minded bikers. These are typically more enduro style and the emphasis is on having fun. Prizes and titles up for grabs!
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7 postsWindows forms controls dont use XP look
I am wondering why the windows forms controls don't obtain the look and feel of XP? I have recently started doing a lot of desktop development vs. my usual web/server development, and it is a little disheartening to see that the "widget" problem that affects linux desktops is also affecting windows forms.
Can anyone from MS provide any insight into why basic controls like buttons, checkboxes, input fields, etc. all have a look from nearly 10 years ago? I am hoping that it is my ignorance and not a limitation of win forms. -
Nevermind.. answered my own post.. yes it was indeed my own ignorance..
Found an article on MSDN -
I built a quick VS add-on which enables visual styles for winforms. You may find it helpful as well.
Awesome, thanks! Not sure why MS left this out of the product. Would seem that they would want devs to show off XP where possible. Luckily they made the plugin architecture =)
In the recent screenshots of win form 2.0 controls, they addressed this issue. Glad to see it =D
http://www.windowsforms.net/WhidbeyFeatures/default.aspx?PageID=2&ItemID=6&Cat=Runtime&tabindex=4 -
I posted this is another thread regarding XP visuals and controls but I have yet to receive a straight answer regarding the following:
The MSDN article talks about adding in a manifest file and all that other stuff but I can get XP visual styles to work in a much easier fashion and I've gotten it to work in multiple machines.
Using VS 2003, create a new Windows Application, find void Main() and right before Application.Run(new Form1()) type in Application.EnableVisualStyles(). Add some controls to the form and run the program. As long as your controls have the proper flat style value (FlatStyle.System), they should render using Windows XP's control style.
I have yet to see why you should NOT use this method. You can also check that the user is running XP by checking Environment.OSVersion.
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I just tried it.. and as you said, everything renders as it should using the XP visual styles. I copied the binary over to my 2003 server and it ran there without incident using the "classic" widget look. So you pose a good question. Is it possible that the article recommending adding the manifest was pre- VS.NET 2003?
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Project: | Anjuta OE SDK Plugin |
Scope: | Cross development and OE IDE integration |
Contributors: | Florian |
Started: | 2009 |
Status: | active |
This plugin enables the Anjuta IDE to make use of cross compilers easily. It supports standalone toolchains as well as OpenEmbedded working trees. Its heavily based on the Poky SDK Plugin and follows its release numbers.
On Debian or Ubunty systms (i386) you can simply install the deb packages proviced below. In order to bild the plugin on your own you need to have the Anjuta development files installed. Compiling an installing is easy:
tar xzf anjuta-plugin-sdk-0.6.tar.gz cd anjuta-plugin-sdk-0.6 ./configure make sudo make install
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May 11, 2012 WATERTOWN, N.Y. — Mary E. "Betty" Boomhower, 89, of Brookside Drive, Burrville, died Thursday, May 10, at home where she was under the care of her daughter, Mary Bull. Born April 20, 1923,in Albany, the daughter of Herschel and Elizabeth Lockrow Van Buren, she attended Roesselville School and graduated in 1940 from Vincentian Institute in Albany where she was NYS Shorthand Champion. She graduated from Albany Business College with highest honors. She married Harold A. Boomhower Sr. of South Bethlehem on June 11, 1949, at Our Lady of Mercy Church rectory, Colonie. The couple owned and operated the family dairy farm near South Bethlehem until 1971 when they relocated to Rutland Center and continued farming until 1981. Mr. Boomhower died April 20, 1990. Mr. Boomhower was instrumental in the founding of Farm Family Life Insurance Company in the early 1950s. Mrs. Boomhower was employed as Senior Stenographer at F. C. Huyck & Sons, Rensselaer until her marriage and Farm Family Life Insurance Company's main office in Glenmont until 1971. She was legal secretary to Watertown Attorney Lewis G. Spicer III, until his death in 1981 and retired from the State Dept. of Correctional Services, Watertown Correctional Facility, Dry Hill in 1991. Surviving are five sons and two daughters, Harold Jr. and Colleen Boomhower, Watertown, Charles and Linda Boomhower, Summerville, S.C., David and Mariellen Boomhower, Amsterdam, William Boomhower, Port St. Lucie, Fla., Douglas Boomhower, Dexter, Jean and Meredith (Buddy) Machia, Feura Bush, and Mary Bull, Burrville; 17 grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren; a brother, H. D. Van Buren, Lake George; a life-long best friend, Freda Reineck (Mrs. Edgar) Hartmann, Altamont. Besides her husband, a son-in-law, Roger E. Bull, predeceased her in January. A funeral Mass will be said 10:30 a.m. Monday, May 14, at Holy Family Church, 129 Winthrop St., Watertown. Burial will be in Maple Hill Cemetery, Rutland, following the mass. There are no calling hours. Arrangements are with the Reed & Benoit Funeral Home, Inc. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Holy Family Church 129 Winthrop St., Watertown, Bishop Maginn High School Alumni Fund (Vincentian Institute class of 1940) 99 Slingerland Street, Albany, NY 12202 or Hospice of Jefferson County. Online condolences may be made at www.reedbenoit.com. Information provided by Reed & Benoit Funeral Home and Newzjunky, Watertown, N.Y.


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Watch exclusive complete video Chammak Challo by Akon from movie Ra One starring Shahrukh Khan, Kareena Kapoor & Arjun Rampal releasing on 26th October 2011, *ApniISP is official Media Partner in Pakistan*.
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Watch promo of Karachi Auditions from upcoming season Risk Taker of Living on the Edge starting from 2nd day of Eid.
Rog fame Falak is coming back
Falak, who gained fame with the release of his debut song "Rog" in 2007. Later with the release of his other songs like "Tera Saath" and "Mandiyan" he became a prominent artist of Pakistani music industry.
This season Falak is coming back with another video song "Soniye" which has been shot in London. This video is directed by Asad and Saqib and the music is composed by Shajar Fakhar and Falak himself has done the styling in this video.
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Ali Zafar has announced his 3rd Bollywood movie
Few minutes ago Ali Zafer has announced his third Bollywood movie "London,Paris,New York". His first Bollywood movie was "Tere Bin Ladin" and after the success of Tere Bin Ladin he got another movie in Yash Raj Films "Mere Brother Ki Dulhan" which is releasing on 9th September 2011.
London,Paris,New York is being directed by Anu Menon and Produced by Rose Movies & Fox Star Studios. In this movie female lead will be played by Aditi Rao.
Ali Zafar is currently shooting in London for this movie and he is also doing the music for the movie which is set for a tentative early 2012 release!
Adeel Chaudhry shot the video of new song Ajj Raat
Adeel Chaudhry, MTV Award winning singer, who released his debut song "Mere Haniya" in early 2007 and then his first album "Koi Chehra" in 2009, who has also sung a song "Move Your Body" in a bollywood movie "Kismat Konnection" starring Shahid Kapoor & Vidya Balan and another song "Kise Awaaz Doon" in movie "Juggar" starring Manoj Bajpai.
Now he is coming back with his second album along with a sensational number "Ajj Raat Ruk Ja", the video of the song has been recently shot in Bangkok and directed by Haris Qadeer.
We have seen the preview of the video and it seems to be expensive one.
The song has a Punjabi touch in it and the video features UK's Rapper Marlando. The music is done by well known Pakistani music composer Shani and we will also see him in the video.
It also features models from Brazil, America and Romania and is expected to release in 2nd week of September 2011.
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I strongly dislike any kind of cooked tomato. Tomato sauce, ketchup, tomato soup, you name it. But I love fresh tomatoes. S hates fresh tomatoes, but loves any kind of cooked tomato. It's great when he gets a salad and I can eat a few extra tomato slices, but it's a nightmare for me when we have pizza. In fact, I don't really like pizza because of the tomato sauce. So when I made a pizza the other night that we both loved, I knew I found a keeper.
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Seafood Pizza with White Sauce
for the dough:
1 3/4 - 2 1/4 c. of flour
1 envelope Fleischmann's Pizza Yeast
2 t. sugar
3/4 t. salt
1 t. garlic powder
1 t. onion powder
2/3 cup of very warm water (120 degrees F)
1 T olive oil
for the white sauce:
1 T butter
1 T flour
3/4 c. milk
2 cloves garlic, smashed or 2 t. garlic powder
salt & pepper to taste
6 T grated parmesan cheese (fresh is best!)
for the pizza:
1 1/2 pounds medium to large shrimp, thawed and peeled
fresh crab meat (optional)
2 T green pepper, chopped (optional)
salt & pepper to taste
2 c. shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese
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In a stand mixer with the dough hook attachment combine 1 cup of flour and remaining dry ingredients. With the mixer on low add warm water and olive oil. Mixture will be very sticky. Slowly add 1/2 c. flour until dough becomes smooth. Knead with the mixer on medium low for 4-5 minutes. Turn mixer off and let dough rest while you make the white sauce.
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Broadcast and cable news coverage of ruinous economic policies rolled out by the White House last week was overwhelmed by the president's false accusation that his predecessor illegally wiretapped Trump Tower during the 2016 election.
On March 13, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported that up to 24 million Americans would lose access to health insurance over the next 10 years if the Republican plan to repeal and replace Obamacare goes into effect. On that same day, the Trump administration unveiled an overlooked executive order that encourages cabinet secretaries and agency directors to create a plan to completely reshape a federal bureaucracy of over 2.8 million employees. And on March 16, the Trump administration unveiled its budget outline for the 2018 fiscal year, featuring proposed "massive cuts" to nondefense spending. The proposed cuts, which would offset an increase in spending on military programs and a border wall, would hit almost every facet of the federal government, but they would come down particularly hard on funding for small programs including Meals on Wheels, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and PBS.
Yet according to Media Matters research, from March 13 to 17, President Donald Trump's false wiretap claim dominated TV news coverage, overshadowing discussion of these important policy moves. While Trump's lie certainly merits extensive media coverage, it's also crucial to share details of his policymaking with the public.
Trump ignited a media firestorm in early March when he repeatedly accused former President Barack Obama of illegally wiretapping him in the midst of last year's election. Right-wing media, led by Fox News, sprang to his defense even though the president offered no evidence to support his claim. Meanwhile, legitimate reporters exposed the bizarre accusation's source as "the right-wing fever swamps" of fringe media and reported that it was pushed by a Russian state-sponsored news network. During March 20 testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, FBI Director James Comey put Trump's wiretapping lie to rest, telling the committee, "I have no information that supports those tweets."
Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017
I'd bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017
How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017
Yet nearly two weeks after Trump initially made the claim, his smear of Obama still had such an influence on television news coverage that it overshadowed every other discussion about Trump's policy agenda last week. Media Matters identified 226 segments from March 13 through 17 that focused on Trump during evening programming on CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC and major news programs on ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS. Of those segments, 64 focused on Trump's wiretapping allegations -- a figure that dwarfed every other major issue Media Matters identified. Coverage of Trump's health care plan came in a distant second place, with 37 segments, and stories related to the portion of Trump's 2005 tax returns obtained by Rachel Maddow ranked third (26 segments). Trump's proposed budget outline was discussed in just 14 segments, and his executive order to reshape the federal workforce registered just four mentions.
With television news forced to dissect and debunk Trump's outrageous claims, coverage of pressing economic issues was eclipsed. Coverage of the efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act -- which health care experts have said would be particularly harmful to low-income Americans, seniors, and people dealing with illnesses -- could not overtake that of Trump's wiretapping tweet, even with the Trump administration attempting to smear the CBO numbers in the press. The executive order, which was described by CNN reporter Stephen Collinson as part of Trump's larger goal to "dismember government one dollar at a time," barely registered in news coverage at all. And Trump's budget cuts, which would decimate social safety net programs, were discussed 14 times during evening news coverage on March 16 and 17, while Trump's lie about wiretapping was discussed 35 times on those two days.
Trump's promotion of a discredited lie accusing his predecessor of illegal conduct while in office merits extensive media coverage, but the policies he has enacted or plans to enact can be just as destructive as the misinformation he spreads. Media cannot afford to let Trump's misleading claims dominate the news cycle, drowning out crucial coverage of the pain his policies may cause the United States.
Media Matters conducted a Nexis search of transcripts of evening news programming (defined as 6 p.m. through 11 p.m.) on CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC, as well as the major news programs on ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS, from March 13, 2017, through March 17, 2017. We identified and reviewed all segments that included any of the following keywords: Trump or executive order or federal government or federal employ! or federal worker or federal workers or civil service or government workers or government worker or federal government or budget.
The following programs were included in the data: ABC's World News Tonight, CBS' Evening News, NBC's Nightly News, and PBS' NewsHour, as well as CNN's The Situation Room, Erin Burnett OutFront, Anderson Cooper 360, and CNN Tonight, Fox News' Special Report, The First 100 Days, Tucker Carlson Tonight, The O'Reilly Factor, and Hannity, and MSNBC's For The Record, Hardball, All In with Chris Hayes, The Rachel Maddow Show, and The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell. For shows that air reruns, only the first airing was included in data retrieval. This survey includes CNN's second live hour of Anderson Cooper 360 during the 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. time slot.
For this study, Media Matters included only those segments that contained substantial discussions of Donald Trump. We defined a "substantial discussion" as any segment where a host dedicates a monologue, or portion of a monologue, to Trump, his activities, or the policies he is pursuing as president of the United States, or any segment where two or more guests discuss Trump, his activities, or the policies he is pursuing as president of the United States. We did not include teasers or clips of news events, or rebroadcasts of news packages that were already counted when they first aired in the 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. survey window.
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CNN moderators Dana Bash and Wolf Blitzer should aggressively fact-check Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price during the network's March 15 town hall, given the Trump administration's penchant for spreading misinformation on health care. The town hall format amplifies the need for follow-up questions by the moderators who are informed enough on the issues to actively fact-check misleading claims.
CNN is holding a town hall featuring Price that "will focus on the GOP's health care bill." This is just one of several special events CNN has held about the Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Given that the network has a new emphasis on "showcasing special events," it is particularly important for CNN moderators to fact-check participants so these events don't simply turn into platforms for conservatives to spread misinformation.
CNN has a unique opportunity during this town hall to hold the Trump administration accountable for the predicted effects of its proposed bill, the American Health Care Act (AHCA), particularly given that this is will be Price's first prime-time cable appearance outside the friendly confines of Fox News. (Price has done the rounds on Fox, giving interviews to Bret Baier, Neil Cavuto, and Trump sycophant Sean Hannity).
Given Price's history of pushing disastrous health care policies and the tendency for Republican politicians to push misinformation about their health care agenda during CNN's special events, Bash and Blitzer must utilize this opportunity to ask follow-up questions and fact-check the secretary. Here are the five ways that Price is most likely to spread misinformation given his history and the Trump administration's official positions:
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reviewed the AHCA and reported that it would increase the number of uninsured Americans by 14 million in 2018, and 24 million in 2026. A consistent theme in the conservative reaction to the CBO review revolves around attacking the credibility of the organization as a mechanism for undercutting its predictions. Price echoed these attacks, tweeting that "the CBO report defies logic" and issuing an official statement claiming that the "assumptions" of the report "do not translate to the real world."
Despite these attacks, the CBO has a long history of making accurate predictions about health care reform legislation. Vox's Andrew Prokop notes that the CBO's influence derives from its "reputation as a politically neutral arbiter" and that it is viewed as "the gold standard." In contrast to the GOP's claims that the CBO made inaccurate predictions about the ACA, the Commonwealth Fund emphasized that the CBO was "reasonably accurate" and that its "projections were closer to realized experience than other prominent forecasters' estimates were." FactCheck.org's Brooks Jackson debunked the anti-CBO talking points, illustrating that "the CBO actually nailed the overall impact of the law on the uninsured pretty closely" and "got the big picture right" on coverage estimates. Bash and Blitzer should be ready to correct attempts by Price to smear the CBO to salvage the AHCA's chances of passage.
Price has consistently misled the public during interviews about the AHCA's impact on insurance coverage. When asked by Cavuto if he thought it was "inevitable" that "some" people who gained insurance through the ACA marketplaces would lose it, Price said, "No. I just simply don't believe that." He went further during a Meet the Press interview, claiming that "we have a great opportunity to increase coverage over where we are right now." His remark echoed misleading claims made by Trump about providing "insurance for everybody."
In reality, the CBO report predicts that "in 2018, 14 million more people would be uninsured" and that that number would rise to "24 million in 2026." Vox explained that the AHCA's provision to end Medicaid expansion in 2020 "would contribute to one in five Americans being uninsured." The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) emphasized that "all of the historic coverage gains expected under the ACA would disappear and the uninsured rate among the non-elderly would be at or above its 2010 levels." The CNN moderators must be aggressive in holding Price accountable for the real impacts the proposed legislation will have on millions of Americans who are currently benefitting from Obamacare.
The AHCA would eliminate the ACA's means-tested subsidies and replace them with age-rated refundable tax credits. During Meet the Press, Chuck Todd asked, "Can you say for certain that once this bill is passed, nobody will be worse off financially when it comes to paying for health care?" Price initially ducked the question but when Todd pressed him again, he declared, "I firmly believe that nobody will be worse off financially."
Despite Price's bold claims, the CBO report shows that the AHCA will increase premiums for older, low-income Americans by "more than 750%." Families USA noted that "lower income families could see their deductibles increase by as much as $5,500." The Washington Post's Max Ehrenfreund explained that the AHCA "is a mass transfer of income" from working-class and middle-class Americans that cuts taxes for the wealthiest Americans while cutting federal benefits for the middle and working class." Bash and Blitzer should expect Price to try to spin his previous statements and must be ready to push back on any false characterizations of the AHCA's impact on health care costs.
Price has a history of discounting the importance of women's health care and has previously advocated legislation to roll back the ACA's birth control mandate and to defund Planned Parenthood. Trump administration officials have defended the provision of the AHCA that defunds Planned Parenthood by claiming that it's "not about denying women access to care" because they would reallocate the money to "federally qualified health care clinics."
Experts have debunked the conservative lie that Planned Parenthood can be replaced by community health care centers, calling it a "gross misrepresentation." A Guttmacher Institute study found that in 103 U.S. counties, Planned Parenthood is the only "safety-net health center" with accessible contraception services. Funding cuts to Planned Parenthood in Indiana and Texas resulted in severely negative impacts on community health, contributing to HIV outbreaks. The Washington Post reported that defunding Planned Parenthood "would leave many women without services to help them avoid pregnancy, resulting in thousands of additional births." The CBO report found that "15 percent" of people in low-income communities "would lose access to care" as a result of defunding Planned Parenthood. CNN should use this town hall as an opportunity to press Price on reproductive rights generally and on the detrimental impact the GOP's health care bill would have on women's health care.
The AHCA would dramatically alter Medicaid by instituting a per capita cap on federal Medicaid spending and ending the ACA's Medicaid expansion in 2020. During his interview with Cavuto, Price claimed that the AHCA would return "flexibility" to the states and allow them "the ability … to determine what is the right kind of program to care for their Medicaid population."
While conservatives often claim Medicaid caps -- also known as "block grants" -- will increase state "flexibility," in reality such proposals result in the loss of services and coverage for the most vulnerable. A CBPP analysis showed that a per capita cap would result in the "loss of health coverage and less access to needed health care for tens of millions of low-income Americans." The Kaiser Family Foundation explained that federal caps could lead states to "restrict benefits" and "result in eligibility restrictions and cost shifts to beneficiaries." Vox noted that the rollback of the ACA's Medicaid expansion would take "4 million to 6 million people off the rolls" and, combined with the per capita cap, would result in "a $370 billion cut to federal funding to Medicaid over 10 years." Given the devastating impact the AHCA will have on Medicaid, Bash and Blitzer must follow up on any general assertions of increasing state innovation.
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Trump's White House Is Reportedly Fighting Against James Mattis' Defense Department Undersecretary Pick, Anne Patterson
Fox News ran an anonymous front page story on its website alleging that Secretary of Defense James Mattis "wants the Pentagon's top civilian job to go to a one-time prominent supporter of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood." A similar charge against the pick , former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Anne Patterson, appeared on notoriously anti-Muslim activist Pamela Geller's website six days earlier, alleging that Patterson was "instrumental in [President Barack] Obama's backing of the Muslim Brotherhood Morsi regime in Egypt."
President Donald Trump immediately retweeted right-wing media praise for a strong February 2017 jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), which showed above-average job creation and a steady unemployment rate last month. Trump's willingness to embrace the BLS monthly jobs report is at odds with his past approach -- at least over the last four years -- of slamming the number as "phony" and as merely a political tool of the Obama administration.
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Following Fox host Sean Hannity's March 8 conspiracy theory that the CIA framed the Russian government for election interference, Hannity tweeted at WikiLeaks on March 9 asking them to confirm his suspicion. This tweet is just the latest example of Hannity's increasingly far-fetched attempts to defend President Donald Trump against any and all Russia-related allegations follows his months-long courting of WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange.
On March 9, Hannity tweeted at WikiLeaks, asking "Is it possible, likely or can you confirm instances where the CIA used Malware to 'Attribute' cyberattacks to other nations? Possibly Russia":
This is just the latest example of Hannity's embrace of WikiLeaks. Throughout the 2016 election, Hannity and WikiLeaks developed a relationship of mutual admiration and promotion of one another. Hannity, who called for Assange's arrest in 2010, had a change of heart once WikiLeaks started attacking Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. Hannity went on to host Assange for multiple interviews on his radio and television shows, and the Fox host has described Assange as "the modern day Woodward and Bernstein," a reference to the Washington Post reporters who broke the Watergate story. Hannity's newfound love for WikiLeaks led him to defend the organization's conduct, even after it was confirmed that the documents they published originated from Russian-backed hacking intended to interfere in the 2016 election, because WikiLeaks "reveal[ed] how corrupt the liberal media is." WikiLeaks, in turn, has promoted Hannity's Assange interviews several times and has twice recently tweeted a Hannity segment featuring right-wing talk radio host Laura Ingraham talking about the "deep state."
Though Hannity has always fervently defended Trump and lashed out at the president's critics -- including accusing the media of "purposefully distorting" Trump's request that the Russian government "find the 30,000 emails that are missing" -- Hannity's Trump defenses have become increasingly conspiratorial. Hannity decried the entire story of alleged ties between Trump and Russia as "politically motivated" "liberal fake news." He also called the consensus of 17 U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia attempted to disrupt the election "fake news," claiming that there are not 17 intelligence agencies (there are.) So far, Hannity's conspiratorial navel-gazing has culminated (in addition to the aforementioned CIA conspiracy theory) in the absurd allegation that former President Barack Obama's campaign database is proof of "a shadow government" undermining the Trump administration, a claim also made by several fake news purveyors.
Women accounted for just one-quarter of total guests discussing foreign affairs and national security in 2016 during prime-time programming on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and on the five major Sunday political talk shows. This stark disparity between women and men is actually a slight improvement over previously established trends for 2015 and 2014, but more work remains to be done to better include perspectives from women.
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On March 4, President Donald Trump accused former President Barack Obama of ordering his phones in Trump Tower to be wiretapped during the 2016 election. Trump's claim echoed points made by Mark Levin, a right-wing talk radio host with a history of anti-immigrant and anti-LGBTQ statements, climate denial, and racism. He also attacked Obama throughout his presidency, comparing him to dictators, accusing him of racism and anti-Semitism, and saying he had "planted the seeds of World War III."
In an attempt to downplay the swirling allegations around President Donald Trump and his ties with Russia, figures in right-wing media have found a new conspiracy theory, claiming that there is a "shadow government" of "invisible" bureaucrats attempting to undermine Trump. Despite the lack of evidence to support this claim, this conspiracy is gaining traction among the most popular right-wing media figures.
Representation Of Economists Remained High In Fourth Quarter As Surprising Election Result Forced Outlets To Scramble For Explanations
The final quarter of 2016 saw an increase in cable and broadcast news coverage of the economy from the prior three-month period. Yet the proportion of economic coverage that focused on economic inequality decreased sharply as attacks on progressive economic policies rose. Fox News led the charge in attacking progressive policies and health care reform throughout the fourth quarter of the year, while the leading defender of progressive initiatives, MSNBC, aired most of its economic coverage after Election Day. The relative proportion of economists booked as guests during economic news segments remained higher than in years past but dropped as a percentage from the third to fourth quarters of 2016. The proportional representation of women in cable and broadcast evening news discussions of the economy reached a record, but dispiriting, high in the fourth quarter at a mere 30 percent of all guests.


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Stomach making noises
My little 2 years old Schnauzer-Westie has occassional stomach problem during the night (once every 1-2 weeks). His stomach will be making odd noises, which sound like squirting or gurgling sounds, and he wants to go out to eat grass which we let him do.
Usually he doesn't poo until the end of the day and after that he's fine and he eats his food. He doesn't usually have diahrrea or vomit so I am not sure what could be going on... We will try changing his food gradually but is there anything to help is stomach when it happens? Winter is coming so no more grass ... Ive read that a little bit of yogurt or pepto-bismol can help... what do you think? |
Hey there! its funny you mention girgling tummies! kinda squishing rumbling noise? my boy does this approximately once a month! I have yet to figure it out?? he eats grass but doesnt throw it up and he doesnt eat grass every time his tummy is making these noises! He is almost 10 now and I have never been able to figure it out! It seems to bother me more than him because it will happen when he is sleeping too! If everything else seems normal I wouldnt change his food unless you think he needs a change??
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Those noises are normally there--just not as noticeable unless there's an intestinal upset. Some yogurt or probiotic may be very beneficial in preventing the upset so that would be a good route to go.
However, given that it's happening so frequently with your dog, I wonder if you shouldn't have a stool sample checked for him. He might have picked up some nasties over summer--our dogs are always picking up some parasite or other out in the yard from all the wildlife we have here. If the stool shows nothing, you might want to bring your guy in for a once-over by the vet to try to figure out what's causing the regular upset. Best to nip it in the bud if there's something going on.
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Thanks for your suggestions... We changed his food and give him 2/3 for breakfast and 1/3 for dinner and since then, no strange stomach noises.
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Saturday, October 27, 2012
a little getaway..
"don't be sad that it's over, smile because it happened.." or so they say.
It seems our photos's are minimal, we were too busy living the moments. I smile every time I look at the pictures from our brief little getaway. Short it may have been, but it certainly was all kinds of wonderful.
Our hotel was great, the simple joys of going up and down in the lift each day brought endless excitement. The weather was mostly kind, the theme parks were a blast, dinner's out, swimming every day..
We've come home completely and utterly exhausted and fulfilled.
...and, as all good things must come to an end, 3 out of 5 of us have now been struck with the gastro bug, so I'm spending my hours between the laundry, the bathroom and emptying vomit buckets, but boy did we have fun while it lasted!
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What a lovely time away....shame about the nasty germs on your return! Yay I found you. When I moved my blog I lost alot of the blogs I followed and I couln't remember you blog address!!! Hope all is well in your world and filled with wooly goodness. Steph :) x
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In what will have been the proudest moment of their careers, Howard Webb and his two linesmen Darren Cann and Mike Mullarkey were booed by Dutch supporters when they went up to receive their World Cup final medals on Sunday.
With the benefit of watching all 120 minutes of the final for the second time yesterday, one thing is clear: Webb had a very good game. In a match of 47 fouls, countless tricky decisions and two very argumentative sets of players, his percentage of mistakes was low. Graham Poll was right to give Webb "nine out of 10" yesterday, and Poll does not give praise lightly.
Detailed analysis of Webb's major decisions shows he did not get every one right. No referee ever does. Yet it is testament to his performance that he gave out 14 yellow cards and one red, and not one of them was unjustified.
Yes, Nigel De Jong's foul on Xabi Alonso was a red card. Yes, Mark van Bommel should have received a second yellow for a stamp on Andres Iniesta in the 78th minute. No, it was not a goal-kick when Wesley Sneijder's free-kick clipped Cesc Fabregas in the Spain wall on 115 minutes. But look at what Webb got right.
Sneijder said after the match "the goal was offside". Wrong. Iniesta was "not involved in active play" when, in an offside position, Fernando Torres' initial pass to him was cut out by Rafael van der Vaart. When, seconds later, Iniesta received the ball from Cesc Fabregas and scored he was a good few yards onside.
Sneijder also said that Iniesta kicked Van Bommel "when the ball was not there". He added: "I think if the referee saw it, it was a red card." Replays show that, at most, Iniesta's retaliatory barge on Van Bommel was a booking. What Sneijder did not mention was that, seconds before, Van Bommel had stamped on Iniesta and should have picked up a second yellow.
The problem for Webb is that the aftermath of big games is dominated by the views of the very famous and very biased players who participate in them. No one stands up for the ref.
Arjen Robben's claim that he was fouled by Carles Puyol on 83 minutes is not borne out by replays.
There were some exceptional split-second decisions by Webb and assistant Cann, who has called every big offside decision correctly this World Cup. Xavi Hernandez's appeal for a penalty at the start of extra time looked compelling in real time. It took me four HD slow-mo replays to recognise he had actually kicked Johnny Heitinga's foot and then his own standing leg.
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Did right-wing news outlets push Cuban propaganda in order to smear a Democratic United States senator?
Back in 2012, the conservative Daily Caller published shady claims the Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey, the only Cuban-American Democrat in the Senate, had contact with underage prostitutes in the Dominican Republic. Now the CIA has evidence linking the false claims to the Cuban government.
According to the Washington Post, Menendez's attorneys have sent a letter urging the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the claim. The CIA is said to have evidence, including Internet protocol addresses, linking efforts to plant the fake story in the media to Cuban operatives.
The CIA believes the Cubans concocted a fake tipster named "Pete Williams" who informed the FBI that Menendez had participated in poolside sex parties with underaged prostitutes at the Dominican Republican home of Salomon Melgen, a wealthy friend and donor of Menendez.
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The claims were eventually published in the Daily Caller, and came when Menendez was running for re-election and was slated to become the head of the Senate Foreign Relations committee. (Menendez won reelection anyway and assumed the post.) The FBI and traditional news outlets could never confirm the story, and eventually women quoted in the DC story admitted they had been paid to lie.
"It is deeply disturbing that a foreign government whose intelligence service is an enemy of the United States might try to influence U.S. foreign policy by discrediting an elected official who is an opponent of the Cuban regime," Menendez's attorney Stephen Ryan wrote in an April letter to the Justice Department.
Though, the Washington Post notes, there was "no indication that the information gathered by U.S. intelligence officials alleging Cuba's role in the Menendez case had been fully investigated or proved."
Whatever the case, it's certainly embarrassing for right-wing media outlets and Republicans pushing the story that they very well may have been trafficking in Cuban propaganda designed to bring down an anti-Castro hardliner.
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