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NASA's Mars Exploration Program (source images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems)
With its rover named Curiosity, Mars Science Laboratory mission is part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the red planet. Curiosity was designed to assess whether Mars ever had an environment able to support small life forms called microbes. In other words, its mission is to determine the planet's "habitability."
This panorama was released 23.08.2012 and updated 30.08.2012
I have enhanced colors to be corresponded with colors used by NASA:
This is very hi-resolution panorama 30000x15000 pixels. I used to stitch it 138 source images (1200x1200px) from the 34-millimeter Mast Camera on NASA's Curiosity rover.
The planet Earth has proven to be too limiting for our awesome community of panorama photographers. We're getting an increasing number of submissions that depict locations either not on Earth (like Mars, the Moon, and Outer Space in general) or do not realistically represent a geographic location on Earth (either because they have too many special effects or are computer generated) and hence don't strictly qualify for our Panoramic World project.But many of these panoramas are extremely beautiful or popular of both.So, in order to accommodate our esteemed photographers and the huge audience that they attract to 360Cities with their panoramas, we've created a new section (we call it an "area") called "Out of this World" for panoramas like these.Don't let the fact that these panoramas are being placed at the Earth's South Pole fool you - we had to put them somewhere in order not to interfere with our Panoramic World.Welcome aboard on a journey "Out of this World".


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John's support of Mitt Romney is implicit in his comments on Rick Santorum, as it was in his comments on Newt Gingrich. John thinks that Romney presents Republicans with the best chance of beating Obama in November. He is therefore frustrated that they haven't lined up behind Mitt in service to the cause.
Mitt is an inspirational candidate. The problem is that what he inspires is intense apathy among a substantial number of conservatives and Republicans. They (we) resist him. Santorum is the recycled non-Romney who now benefits from this resistance. He may be the last non-Romney standing. Among the previous beneficiaries of the resistance to Romney are Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Santorum, Gingrich and now Santorum again. The logic of a Romney candidacy has been insufficient so far to wear down the resistance of a large share of conservatives and Republicans.
I understand the resistance, but I am lukewarm on the non-Romneys as well. If I had to choose a candidate among them, I would choose Romney. I think he is the least bad of the lot.
The resistance to Romney among a large part of the base of the Republican Party, however, suggests to me that Romney himself would be less than a stellar candidate against Obama. He's got problems that the non-Romneys have successfully exploited. Romney's defense of Romneycare in the debates has been a recurrent thumb in the eye to the not inconsiderable number of Republicans for whom repeal of Obamacare is a priority along with fiscal and economic issues.
Romney himself must know he is not long on passionate supporters. His claim has been to superior electability against Obama among a weak field of GOP candidates. But the failure to inspire affection if not passion itself reflects a weakness in a candidate for high elective office.
There are other weaknesses in Mitt's candidacy; Ben Domenech explores them in "The trouble with Mitt." The attack by Romney and his surrogates on Santorum for having voted to increase the debt limit when he was in the Senate reflects some of these other weaknesses. Mitt must think we're really, really stupid.
The inclination of Republican primary voters and caucus goers to support Gingrich or Santorum is not the sign of a character flaw or mental defect on their part. It is a sign that Romney is a problematic candidate for the party whose standard bearer he seeks to be. Decrying the failure of Republican voters for failing to fall in line behind him seems to me something less than a winning argument.

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Custom Diecut Wedding Invitations
Whenever designer Priya Patel, of Pomegranita, brings us a design to produce we know it's going to be stunning (remember this?), and this invitation suite is no exception. Clean typography, a limited color palette, and a dash of pattern all show off the sexy custom diecuts. An important design detail to note is how the thin gold border on the invitation is a decent distant from the diecut edge, allowing for minuscule shits in registration during production without the border looking completely off kilter on the finished product. A single gold ink was letterpress printed on French Poptone Pink Lemonade 140C before the pieces received the final diecut.
All projects produced in our shop are custom. If you are interested in obtaining a quote for printing or design services, please use the request an estimate feature on our website.


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This is the web home of the Historic Howell Theater an art house movie theater in Howell Michigan. First constructed in 1928 it has been the home of movie goers in Howell Michigan for generations. We look forward to continue serving our friends and neighbors for years to come.
General Admission: $8.00
Students $7.00
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Tickets can be purchased online here on our site, or at the HHT concession stand.
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Doors open 30 minutes prior to the first showtime of the day.
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Archive - Feb 16, 2012
ACC Blog
Player of the Week
Austin Rivers
What? Were you expecting somebody else here? This week's top player just made a huge mark on perhaps the greatest rivalry in sports; a mark that will be remembered and replayed years into the future. Hmmm... Where should I start? So Duke was playing at North Carolina last week. Like many teams before them, the Blue Devils were having a tough time dealing with Tyler Zeller and Harrison Barnes. It looked like the duo was starting to pull the home team away after Barnes connected on yet another mid-range jumper, giving his team a 10 point lead with just over two-and-a-half minutes left in the game. But Duke hit a couple triples and UNC kept things interesting by missing some free-throws and turning the ball over. Eventually, everything came down to the last possession. Duke was down by two with about ten seconds left. Austin Rivers (who was hot all game, with 26 points at that point) rose up for a three-pointer with Zeller's arm right in his face... Swish! Everything cultivated into as exciting a finish as we've seen in college basketball this season. Of course that intensity didn't seem to faze the uber-confident Rivers, who really appears to thrive in high-pressure situations. Duke and UNC will face off again at Cameron Indoor Stadium on March 3rd. I'm sure the Tar Heels will be eager to set the record straight, but it's hard to bet against Rivers after a performance like that.


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The Post Office: First-Class Dilemma for Taxpayers
Would you invest the Post Office? Sales volume and revenue has shrunk, and it lost $15 billion last year. But if you're an American taxpayer, you own it. Economics editor David Wessel reports.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Multi Dog/Cat Glitter Party Bow Tie
Multi Dog/Cat Glitter Party Bow Tie
Bow Ties Are Cool!
Has your dog been invited to a special occasion? What on earth are they going to wear? Why a fabulous glitter party bow tie of course.
Simply slide the elastic loop at the back of the bow tie onto your dogs collar and hey presto, one super dapper pooch.
Cats can also rock the bow tie and we all now they love to party.
Available in two sizes:
Cat/kitten/puppy measures approximatley 10cm x 6cm
Dog measures approximately 12cm x 6cm
Handmade in London.
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Wherever you like to ski or ride, chances are good that your local resort is equipped with the RECCO Rescue System.
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More than 800 resorts and rescue services around the world use the RECCO® Rescue System, and the system is part of their immediate response. With such a large number of rescue teams already equipped and more new teams integrating the system every year, chances are very good that your local rescue team utilizes the RECCO® Rescue System.
Wherever you like to ski or ride, chances are good that your local resort is equipped with the RECCO® Rescue System.
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RECCO® partners with resorts, their ski patrols and mountain rescue teams to provide advanced rescue technology to improve the security for mountain visitors. For more than a quarter of a century RECCO® has forged special relationships around the world with these rescuers and avalanche professionals creating a global network of experts. The connections provide unique opportunities to share and learn from the world's best rescue experts.
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Ski resorts have sophisticated programs to manage and minimize mountain dangers; however, the dangers cannot be entirely eliminated. The RECCO® Rescue System gives resorts a search and rescue tool that is fast and easy to use that can pinpoint a person's precise location. The system reduces dangers to their staff while making the search and rescue more efficient. When bad luck strikes, the RECCO® Rescue System enables rescue teams to search faster, increasing the chances of finding the person in time.
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gaganp needed a new print or packaging design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 147 designs submitted by 25 freelance designers.
Chirply is building a community of artists and design lovers that want to make better stuff through better design! Initially we are trying to make better greeting cards. We all know greeting cards are tacky & sappy - and Chirply is going to change that with your help!
The audience includes hipsters and young moms! basically, people like us :) We want to create greeting cards that speak to us - we care about awesome illustration and design, paper quality, and overall aesthetics. They are the same folks that are part of Threadless.com and Etsy.com! Like I said, people like us!
The mission is simple: Create an awesome greeting card - something you wish someone would give to you, rather than the crap that the big corporations sell to you.
The design is open-ended, so just be creative! You can make a valentines card, mothers day card, birthday card, thank you card, congratulations card, or just make an amazing art card with no event theme so it can be used for anything! Just make it artistic, fun, beautiful - just make it awesome!
You can choose to write your own message inside the card, or you can choose to leave the inside blank.
You can download the template we would like the card done in here:
http://www.chirply.com/contests (the template is in the left hand margin).
The dimensions of the card unfolded are 9.75 x 6.75 inches, and folded it is 6.75 x 4.875 inches. You can choose to make a landscape or portrait card - both the templates can be found in the above link.
One caveat: please don't make a holiday card - unfortunately it's a bit too late to get everything ready in time.


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Wild & Free
Wild & Free
"All good things are wild and free" -- Henry David Thoreau
This 8x10 print was hand painted and hand lettered with love, by moi! This print is a digital download. Once you have paid, a link to download will be emailed to you.
While I love for customers to print as many of the prints as they'd like for personal use and to give away as gifts, I ask that you do not share the file via email and that you do not make any money off of the printed product (i.e. craft fairs or reselling in any form)
All images are copyrighted and must not be altered in any way. Print may be resized for specific use by customer if needed.
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CanadaPharmacy.com also uses affiliated international pharmacies and fulfillment centers located in the United States, the United Kingdom, Turkey, Malta, Australia and New Zealand that are approved by regulatory authorities in their respective countries.
These affiliated facilities dispense medications which they acquire in their home countries or internationally from countries like Australia, New Zealand, India, Turkey ,UK, Germany and other European Union member states.


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Australian carjackers hate circles, which may explain why this young thief separated the wheels from a Porsche Boxster and a pickup truck in a single car chase.
The thief in this video was driving around in a stolen Boxster when he smashed the car into a guardrail, breaking the front-right wheel from the car. Did he stop? Of course not! He had to prove his keen mastery of car control, forging on despite fire bursting from the rear of the car. Was he distracted by these flames? Probably! But this man-on-the-lam managed to plow the Porsche into a fence, flee the wrecked vehicle, steal another automobile (a Nissan truck), and soldier on.
The guy continue the chase much as any other, by tearing off another wheel and continuing his three-wheeled run from the authorities. There's no telling how many more cars he'd have turned into trikes had it not been for the local constabulary spritzing him with some O'de Pepper.
Hat tip to K. and Mr. Quick!


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Published by Mary Beth's Considerations
Hi! I am a woman who loves to do a lot of things. I am very adventurous because I love trying new things! When I go to a restaurant I don't mind ordering something new at all. I mean my new favorite dish may be on that menu somewhere just waiting on me to try it! I also love to travel. I have been to a lot of different places and I love to take photos and tell about my journeys. While on my journey of trying new things, or traveling to new places, or just living my life; I occasionally want to jot some things down. This is my jotting down spot. I consider a lot of things, and hopefully you will enjoy reading about them. If you don't then just move along. No need to comment and be all ugly. I mean this is my place, not yours. Mama always says, "if you can't say something nice, then don't say anything at all." So let's just keep that in mind!! I do welcome feedback and encouragement though. If you have something that will help my blog out then please leave me a comment. Thanks, and it is so good to meet you!! View all posts by Mary Beth's Considerations


text: Every year, thousands of sea turtles, dolphins, whales, seals, and manatees become sick or injured, often due to human-related reasons. The National Aquarium is part of the Northeast Stranding Network, and is responsible for responding to live sea turtle and marine mammal strandings along the nearly 7,000 miles of coastline in Maryland, including the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic coasts. Since 1991, the National Aquarium Animal Rescue has responded to more than 480 animals in distress and has rehabilitated and released nearly 100 marine animals back to their natural environment. Many of these animals are endangered or threatened, so every individual introduced back into the natural environment has the opportunity to add to the genetic diversity of the species. Research, satellite tracking, and outreach education are also significant components of Animal Rescue. Every animal that is rehabilitated and released is an opportunity to raise awareness and get the public involved in helping to conserve and protect our marine resources. Learn more about Animal Rescue Back to the Top


text: "Recovery Wednesday" Bike Ride Wednesday, November 16, 2016 6:00 PM 8:00 PM 18:00 20:00 Riverbend Cycles 1 Station Avenue Conshohocken, PA, 19428 United States (map) Google Calendar ICS Meet every Wednesday evening at Riverbend Cycles in Conshohocken for the 'Recovery Wednesday' group bike ride, leaving the shop at 6:00pm. The rides are approximately 20 miles and end with a beer at Conshohocken Brewing Company. Year round, weather permitting. To check to see if a ride is happening or for more information, contact Riverbend Cycles at 484-539-9006


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Clothing blog, The Art of Apparel, has an interesting post up that is allowing visitors to vote for their favorite (young) indie tee brands of 2008. The Art of Apparel admin, MadeByMAS, has stated that many of the brands that he chose for voting are ones that frequent the tee site Emptees and doesn't include oldies and more established brands like Johnny Cupcakes.
The poll consists of 15 different brands including: AlrightOK, Dekay, Electric Zombie, Fuzzy Ink, Linty Fresh, Mediocore Clothing, Prestigious, Rethink Clothing, Slugabed Clothing, Snakes & Suits, Suffoca, The Horror Project, Word! Apparel, Zombie Liquorice, and 410BC.Â
Congratulations to all the brands that made this list – it surely must be an honor to be recognized by one of your peers! Keep up the great work.


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Queen's University's Roel Vertegaal says thinfilm phone will make current smartphone obsolete in 5 to 10 years.
KINGSTON, ONTARIO, May 8 2011 – The world's first interactive paper computer is set to revolutionize the world of interactive computing.
"This is the future. Everything is going to look and feel like this within five years," says creator Roel Vertegaal, the director of Queen's University Human Media Lab,. "This computer looks, feels and operates like a small sheet of interactive paper. You interact with it by bending it into a cell phone, flipping the corner to turn pages, or writing on it with a pen."
The smartphone prototype, called PaperPhone is best described as a flexible iPhone – it does everything a smartphone does, like store books, play music or make phone calls. But its display consists of a 9.5 cm diagonal thin film flexible E Ink display. The flexible form of the display makes it much more portable that any current mobile computer: it will shape with your pocket.
Being able to store and interact with documents on larger versions of these light, flexible computers means offices will no longer require paper or printers.
"The paperless office is here. Everything can be stored digitally and you can place these computers on top of each other just like a stack of paper, or throw them around the desk" says Dr. Vertegaal.
The invention heralds a new generation of computers that are super lightweight, thin-film and flexible. They use no power when nobody is interacting with them. When users are reading, they don't feel like they're holding a sheet of glass or metal.
Dr. Vertegaal will unveil his paper computer on May 10 at 2 pm at the Association of Computing Machinery's CHI 2011 (Computer Human Interaction) conference in Vancouver — the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction. An article on a study of interactive use of bending with flexible thinfilm computers is to be published at this conference, where the group is also demonstrating a thinfilm wristband computer called Snaplet.
The development team included researchers Byron Lahey and Win Burleson of the Motivational Environments Research Group at Arizona State University (ASU), Audrey Girouard and Aneesh Tarun from the Human Media Lab at Queen's University, Jann Kaminski and Nick Colaneri, director of ASU's Flexible Display Center, and Seth Bishop and Michael McCreary, the VP R&D of E Ink Corporation.
Video – PaperPhone demonstration
Video – Snaplet wristband computer
To arrange an interview or for a copy of the papers, please contact Michael Onesi at (613)533-6000 ext 77513 email@example.com, News and Media Services, Queen's University.
Lahey, B., Girouard, A., Burleson, W. and R. Vertegaal. PaperPhone: Understanding the Use of Bend Gestures in Mobile Devices with Flexible Electronic Paper Displays. In Proceedings of ACM CHI'11 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM Press, 2011, pp. 1303-1312. [PDF]
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Gucci Mane, OJ Da Juiceman & Wooh Da Kid - Bought A Chicken
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PAINESVILLE, Ohio-- Lake Erie College Athletic Director Reid Guarnieri announced Thursday (June 26) that Steve Gartelman has been named Head Coach of the Lake Erie College men's lacrosse team.
Gartelman will be become the second head coach in program history after serving as the team's graduate assistant coach the past two seasons after a decorated playing career.
"It is a tremendous honor to be the head coach of the Lake Erie College men's lacrosse program," said Gartelman. "I am thrilled to have the opportunity to keep the growth of the program on a path towards consistently competing on the national level. In addition to the success of the team, continuing our bond as a family is a priority because that is what has made this team so strong in such a short time. I can't wait for the team to return to campus and start working towards our goals."
"It is with great joy that Lake Erie announces the promotion of Steve Gartelman to head coach of the men's lacrosse program," said Guarnieri. "Clearly Steve's presence on our staff the last couple of years has had a substantial influence on Storm student-athletes and their families. During his time as an assistant coach, he helped bring Storm lacrosse to national prominence with his mind for the game, restless commitment, and upbeat attitude"
In his two years as a graduate assistant, the Storm has emerged as one of the top teams in Division II. In 2013, the Storm peaked at number nine in the national rankings and earned the first bid to the NCAA Championships while three players earned All-American nods.
The Storm won 10 of their final 11 games in 2014, capturing their first ECAC Championship. The Storm defense finished the season allowing just 7.57 goals per game- sixth best in the country. Midfielder Reagan Harding (Saskatoon, Sask./Bishop James Mahoney) and defender Justin Goodwin (New Westminster, B.C./New Westminster Secondary) earned their second-straight All-American honors.
A Seaford, N.Y native, Gartelman played goalie for Division-II Limestone College for three years after transferring from Division-I St. John's University. During his time at Limestone, the Saints made it to the semifinals of the NCAA tournament each season, finishing as the runner-up in 2012. Gartelman earned a pair of All-Conference and Conference Carolinas All-Tournament Team selections and finished his career with a 44-6 record.
In addition to his collegiate career, Gartelman has served as the Director of the Cleveland Region for True Lacrosse and coached for True Lacrosse in their Pittsburgh Region. He also served as a volunteer coach at Seaford High School.
Gartelman graduated from Limestone with a degree in strength and conditioning in 2012 and earned his MBA from Lake Erie in 2014.
"We have every confidence that Steve will keep Lake Erie highly competitive for years to come and more importantly, continue to positively impact the lives of our student-athletes," concluded Guarnieri.


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The New York Times Magazine had a cover story a few weeks ago that posed the question: Does college basketball matter? In answer to this rather existential question, I thought, well, it depends to which college basketball they are referring.
Are they talking about the game that's "all about the Benjamins," including exorbitant coaches' salaries and shoe contracts (why, for heaven's sake, should the coaches, not the schools, profit from these deals?), the sponsors of every item or space that could be sold, and the television contracts?
Are they talking about the shady recruiting practices that serve the coaches, the bottom-dwelling and predatory scouts, AAU coaches, summer camps, and boosters?
Are they talking about the fans who, in my view, care far too much about something that is really just a game?
Are they talking about the universities that seem to worry little about the graduation rates of its players (other than those enforced by NCAA rules and regulations), yet have tremendous concern for their piece of the conference and NCAA revenue pies?
Are they talking about college basketball that is about the one-year visit to a college campus by a wannabe NBA superstar because the NBA no longer allows players to turn pro out of high school, unlike every other sport, I might add (these players, who may have prodigious talent, but often lack the technical and tactical fundamentals of the game, are akin to the 40% of incoming college students who need remedial classes because they lack the basic skills to succeed in college)?
In other words, are they talking about a system that cares little about the student-athletes who actually play the game?
If that's the college basketball that the article is referring to, then my answer is: Never has, never will. That game of college basketball doesn't deserve my attention or interest, much less my fanatical absorption, even during March Madness. To devote my time and energy to such a corrupt game would be to legitimize and validate its worth in a world where my time and energy are needed elsewhere.
Or, are they talking about the game that allows young basketball players to pursue their dreams, whether a career in the NBA or a seat at the end of the bench on 68th team to make it to the Big Dance.
Are they talking about the mid-major conference teams, such as Butler and VCU, that have been crashing the party and sending the big-name, much-hyped teams home with their tails between their legs?
Are they talking about the unsung heroes, such as Matt Howard, who show that fundamentals and selflessness can trump solo ball and ESPN highlight slam dunks?
Are they talking about the heart-stopping misses (and makes), the come-from-behind victories, the overtime wins, the nail-biting finishes that keep college basketball fans on the edge of their seats?
Are they talking about the wonderful experiences, powerful challenges, and life lessons that college athletics can add to students' university lives (I can speak first-hand about its tremendous value)?
Are they talking about college basketball that understands its place in the grand scheme of life as a sometimes-compelling, though ultimately unimportant, form of entertainment and vicarious involvement that can be appreciated and enjoyed by anyone who chooses.
If that's the college basketball that the article is referring to, then my answer is: always has, always will. That game of college basketball deserves my interest and attention. Though as someone who would rather participate than spectate, that interest will only be periodic and short-lived. But for real fans of this game of college basketball, more power to them and may the best team win.


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About TCOPS / TCOPS International: The Organization
TCOPS is a peer support network for transgendered law enforcement officers. Members are
patrol officers, deputies, federal officers, detectives, correctional officers, parole agents,
probation officers, constables, rangers, parks police, police officers, deputy sheriffs, state
special agents, federal special agents, special police officers, reserve officers, district
attorney investigators, forensic scientists, crime scene technicians, military law enforcement
personnel, corrections officers & CID officers, community service officers, college, campus,
and school police officers, latent fingerprint examiners, and other support staff, and retired
officers. Active, former, and retired transgender members from these law enforcement
agencies are eligible for membership in TCOPS.
There are currently plans to incorporate TCOPS into a Not-For-Profit Organization, to
advance the cause of transgender employee's right to be employed and/ or retain
employment, through advocacy, support, and education.
Having an employee transition genders in a law enforcement environment, is a management
challenge. Providing managers with training, education, and resource information is a vital
part of a successful transition. Good management required the administrator of an agency to
consider the welfare and interests of their department, the co-workers, as well as the
transitioning employee. Preparing the employee to "transition" genders is the other
component of a well-rounded and viable transition at work.
Issues such as name changes on credentials and employment documents, the employee's
presentation and appearance at work, grooming standards, concerns of co-workers,
restroom access, and locker room accommodations are all topics of interest and many times
contention. Specific policies, guidelines, or practices may have to be developed, to assure
that expectations are set forth for the employees, the affected employee, and management
alike. Information is power; the power to lead and the power to prosper.
Law Enforcement employees and especially credentialed officers or agents, are highly
trained and experienced professionals. Agencies spend huge amounts of money, to train an
employee throughout their career. Retention of these employees is in management's best
interests as well as the employee's. It allows the agency to save a vital resource for the
communities, which the officers serve.
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USTR Thinks A Non-Transparent 'Public Interest' Committee Will Mollify Critics; It Won't
from the not-going-to-cut-it deptWe've been pointing out for years how the US Trade Representative is creating all sorts of problems for itself by its insistence on secretly negotiating trade agreements, in which only industry insiders and lobbyists are a part of the process and have access to the documents. The USTR has ridiculously tried to argue that it's transparent because it will meet with anyone who asks, never acknowledging that hearing from people is quite different from sharing what the USTR is actually negotiating in our name. As we've said before, if the only way the American public can find out about what the USTR is negotiating in our name is because Wikileaks has released the documents, then the USTR is not being transparent. A few weeks ago, we noted some signs that the USTR was beginning to panic, as it realized that its bogus claims about transparency weren't sitting well with Congress, and its hope to tie Congress's hands via "fast track" or "trade promotion authority" is on life support.
For the first time, the USTR has kinda sorta admitted that its current process of only sharing the negotiating documents with industry lobbyists -- something that even the strongly pro-business Bloomberg referred to as a "corporatist power grab" -- isn't necessarily in the public interest. In a speech, USTR Michael Froman announced the creation of a new "Public Interest Trade Advisory Committee" (PITAC):
I'm pleased to announce that we are upgrading our advisory system to provide a new forum for experts on issues like public health, development and consumer safety.Of course, just the fact that they think they need a "public interest" advisory committee begs the question: are they admitting that until now, they just didn't give a shit about the public interest? Aren't they effectively saying that all of those other advisory committees they have, made up of big industry lobbyists, have been pushing them to screw over the public interest, in favor of short term protectionism and profits?
"A new Public Interest Trade Advisory Committee (PITAC) will join the Labor Advisory Committee and the Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committees to provide a cross-cutting platform for input in the negotiations.
"We are calling on NGOs, academics, and other public interest groups to submit their candidates to be founding members of the PITAC.
You'd think that the entire point of what the USTR does is that it should be negotiating agreements in the public interest, and yet as far as I can tell, they've now admitted that was never the case before, and now they seem to think that rather than being an overreaching aim of all trade agreements, that it's one of multiple "competing interests." In fact, this new proposal is actually exactly what the corporate lobbyists themselves had pushed for a few years ago, when the USTR started considering adding non-corporate representatives to the other advisory committees. The lobbyists balked at that suggestion, saying that, if anything, a separate second-tier public interest committee should be created. And that's what's now happened, with Froman pretending that this is some sort of huge move to benefit the public interest.
But, more to the point, this seems much more like a way to try to mollify critics by attempting to bring some of the most vocal critics of the lack of transparency "into the fold" (which will include strict confidentiality agreements), hoping that this shuts them up.
It takes an astounding amount of cluelessness to think that the proper response to a lack of transparency is to create another committee with secret access to the negotiating text.
While Froman also insists that he will be taking "new steps to broaden public information on the progress of negotiations," including "an update on the status of negotiations," that's not the transparency people are asking for. They're not asking for status reports. They're asking for transparency on what the USTR is negotiating in our name (though, as now admitted, without any concern for "the public interest").
Other parts of Froman's speech were equally problematic. In it, he quotes the ridiculous statistic that "Intellectual property-intensive industries account for nearly 30 million American jobs" -- ignoring, of course, that this number has been totally debunked multiple times over. The study this is based on lumped all sorts of jobs that have nothing whatsoever to do with intellectual property protections into the category of "intellectual property-intensive industries," such that the leading such employer is grocery store employees. And, sorry, but the kid putting your canned veggies into a bag doesn't have his job because of intellectual property law.
He also pretends that the USTR is supporting the exporting of fair use with the following statement:
... for the first time in any trade agreement, we are asking our trading partners to secure robust balance in their copyright systems – an unprecedented move that draws directly on U.S. copyright exceptions and limitations, including fair use for important purposes such as scholarship, criticism, news commentary, teaching, and research.That's misleading, at best. While it's true that this is the first time the USTR has included any such provisions in a trade agreement, the actual language shows that it's more about limiting fair use than expanding it.
He also tries to dismiss the concerns that TPP is somehow "related to SOPA." He's right. It's not SOPA, but this statement is again misleading in the extreme:
The United States will agree to nothing in TPP that goes beyond existing U.S. intellectual property law.Except... that Congress is currently debating major copyright and patent reform -- and while the leaked proposals are mostly (though not entirely) consistent with US law, they would effectively lock in aspects of current law that many have suggested should be changed. That is, while it may not change that much today, it clearly would serve to block Congress from fixing the massive problems in today's copyright and patent law. And the USTR doesn't seem to even understand this -- in part because the folks that it spends the most time discussing intellectual property with -- the intellectual property trade advisory committee (ITAC 15) are pretty much all copyright/patent maximalists.
The speech is more of the same from the USTR. It makes a bunch of false and misleading statements, either out of ignorance or with the intention of directly misleading the public. The inclusion of this new "public interest" committee is a cheap ploy to try to buy off some critics with increased access, but does nothing to address the fundamental problems with the process and the agreement.
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cousin pajamas
One of my favorite things we did for our reunion last year was make matching pajama bottoms for all the cousins. I always love seeing the cousins all together, but it's especially cute when they all match. We had each kid bring a white t-shirt they already had, just to keep things easy.
I decided to stick with a variety of red and white prints, with lots of dots and subtle stripes. Whatever we had leftover from one fabric became the contrasting trim on the next pair. I got all the fabric from Purl Soho, Joelle is a big fan of dots and stripes so I always know they will have a good assortment. I am lucky enough to live within driving distance of their warehouse in Southern California, which is open to the public several days a week. (You can call 1-800-597-PURL for hours.) They also have a great website, where you can search for things like dots and stripes.
I love the old ironing board we have up at the Midway house, why don't they make things like this anymore? My mom and I cut and sewed all ten pairs of pajamas the two days before the reunion, so I can make these pants in my sleep now. The pattern we used was the Bedtime Story pajamas from Oliver + S, which is now out of print (though you can still find copies if you hunt around online). Not to worry, Liesl just announced a new pajama pattern with a similar pant which is going to be released in early September (you can see it in these photos of their recent booth at Quilt Market).
Family reunions are great. Spending time with our extended family reminds my kids that there is a larger group of people that love them (aunts, uncles, cousins) beyond just their immediate family. I want them to know that we're going through life together, as a group. I think they really feel that at the reunions (and matching pajamas seem to help!).
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As the sequel to the surprise smash hit Taken, we probably could have expected that Taken 2 would have a big box office weekend-- but possibly no one could have expected it to be this big. Early estimates have Taken 2 making an estimated $18.5 million, which includes $1.5 million from midnight showings-- the highest midnight showings gross since the July shootings in Aurora, Colorado at a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises.
According to Deadline, Taken 2 is now on track for as much as $50 million this weekend, which would be close to the highest October weekend record belonging to Paranormal Activity 3's $52.6 million. Coming in a good bit further behind Taken 2 is the weekend's other new release, Frankenweenie, which brought in just $3.2 million on Friday, and is on track for around $12.3 million. Compare that to Hotel Transylvania's record-breaking $42.5 million opening last week, and you really get the sense of the huge gulf between the two animated children's offerings. Hotel will be #2 for the weekend, but right behind it is Pitch Perfect, expanding into 2,770 theaters this weekend and making a strong $4.8 million Friday.
We'll have a full box office report for you next weekend, including a postmortem on what on earth kept everyone away from Frankenweenie (it's really pretty good!). In the meantime, let us know in the comments what you're seeing this weekend and if any of these box office results surprise you!


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Rosneft, ExxonMobil in venture to develop Black Sea resources
ExxonMobil Corp. and Russia's state-owned OAO Rosneft have reached an agreement concerning joint development of oil and gas resources in the Black Sea, to include an initial focus on oil exploration and production in the Tuapse Trough in the Russian Black Sea basin.
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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 11 -- ExxonMobil Corp. and Russia's state-owned OAO Rosneft have reached an agreement concerning joint development of oil and gas resources in the Black Sea, to include an initial focus on oil exploration and production in the Tuapse Trough in the Russian Black Sea basin.
"ExxonMobil technologies will effectively complement Rosneft's experience and resources," said Russia's deputy prime minister Igor Sechin, who added, "Development of this area will become the springboard for full-scale Black Sea basin development."
ExxonMobil Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Rex W. Tillerson welcomed the opportunity, saying, "ExxonMobil will bring its technology, project execution capabilities, and innovation to compliment Rosneft's strengths and experience in the region."
Tillerson added, "We will build on the successful relationship we have with Rosneft through the Sakhalin-1 project to help meet energy needs in Russia and the wider Black Sea area."
Under the agreement, the two firms contemplate a joint operating company to conduct exploration and production in the Tuapse Trough, an 11,200-sq-km deepwater area along the Black Sea coast of the Krasnodar region.
The agreement enables the two firms to consider additional opportunities to expand Black Sea energy sector cooperation, including additional exploration and production.
The two sides may also cooperate on oil sales to Rosneft's Tuapsinsky refinery and other Black Sea markets, development of regional transportation infrastructure, and deepwater technology research and development.
Analyst IHS Global Insight said that for ExxonMobil, "the Rosneft agreement marks a greater commitment to Russia as well as the Black Sea, where the company also has secured acreage and a commitment to explore offshore Turkey and Romania."
Last March, ExxonMobil Exploration & Production Turkey BV plans to explore off Turkey next year with Deepwater Champion, a Transocean Ltd. drillship.
The Hyundai Heavy Industries shipyard in Ulsan, South Korea, is building the ship, expected to drill in the Turkish Black Sea during the first half 2011 (OGJ Online, Mar. 19, 2010).
ExxonMobil is the second company in weeks to sign a major offshore oil exploration agreement with Rosneft.
Previously, BP PLC and Rosneft agreed to explore and develop the EPNZ 1, 2, and 3 blocks in the underexplored South Kara Sea basin in relatively shallow water on the Russian Arctic continental shelf (OGJ Online, Jan. 24, 2010).
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Seib & Wessel: Brownback Backs Immigration Reform
In an interview with WSJ's Jerry Seib, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback says Kansas's immigration workforce provides a boost for the state's economy and gives his thoughts on whether Washington can get a deal done on reforming the immigration system.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
the ... when she finally got another another issue one that touches on every state but that's ... the topic of debate this week in Washington which is immigration reform I think a state like Kansas up as much ... as a much greater Hispanic inflow last twenty years most people would realize ... um ... you consider that in in migration import to the state's economy in what would you might see on immigration national ... I considered very important and consider very important to the future the state ... we need people ... but it just under three million people and and the ... dome with big state ... so we need people to create economic growth and activity ... my hope is that they they do ... a deal with the immigration issue ... and then get people window of legal system ... when I think that's the end of the crying thing out there's that ... had a lot of people come in nine states that ... when we need to have a system that works legally one things I've support from long time to work visa program ... I did that that I think would be a ... very helpful flying on ... I'd love to see people work and look at how we can work with immigration to grow the economy the nine states cars were all immigrants some of the Native Americans ... and we need to grow ... in the U of ... U's cut their rating of possible integration for all while ... I think when you when you're a presidential campaign a few years ago you found your party ... the son of a hard message ... to convey he think the party is turned around a little bit on immigration is that more of a kind of open integration Reagan view this is good for the economy ... a place that was when you are trying to make the case was I it's the I think it's much more accepting but um I wouldn't say that everybody is there and there is a good strong lawn order one ... of the Republican party ... by the end of which I agree with nurse a new look you gotta follow the rules ... and you don't we're not going to reward you ... I think that's the real the rub point there is that people say well you gotta follow rules but we need to deal with the situation ... and understood the real crying need for growth ... in the yen the country and in the world and the nine states is the one the key drivers ... would you guess immigration reform happens with us ... looks like the Senate is setting up for it to pass a leisurely procedural vote which usually ... policy follows procedure in an a I would I would think that would ... house ... and you still can anybody's guess is because it's been this is a tough ... he gets to be a very personal issue ... for a lot of people ...


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Returning to Marcia Wood Gallery for their fifth Atlanta show, Julia Venske and Gregor Spänle present the myzot, the latest branch on the growing family tree of the sculptural genealogy that started with the Smoerfs. Myzots can be characterised by their suspicious movements toward people, objects, architecture and other trappings of humanity. The artists, who live and work in New York and Munich, began collaborating in 1991, and have developed a worldwide reputation for their enigmatic marble sculptures.
Venske & Spänle, in their works, "play with the ability of sculpture to accompany humans," as the artists themselves describe it. "Like a different species [the sculptures] live with people. They form a parallel universe, a species of 'organic' beings operating in groups poised to populate within society." Exhibiting their work worldwide, the artists are interested in the power of art to alter an environment, as well as affect the people who experience it. Using brilliantly pure white marble, the artists transform the material from hard blocks into sensuous shapes that melt, fold, dissolve, flow and wiggle. Light bounces off the highly polished surfaces of the biomorphic forms, emphasizing the inflated curving lines, folds and creases. In the spirit of surrealism the sculptures, while abstract, evoke living forms. The work references pop-culture as well, having been inspired by the cartoon characters they grew up with, the Smurfs, while the pristine play of form, line and light speak to minimalism. Working with a classic material expertly by hand, Venske & Spanle bring each piece to life with meticulous carving and labor intensive sanding and polishing. The artists subvert the expectation of the viewer by suggesting objects that are light, soft and malleable, while concealing at first their origins of weight and mass, The various species have to date, populated the globe from Atlanta to the Congo, India to Las Vegas, Bolivia to New York City, the Pacific Islands to Belgium, Peru to Australia, and other unexpected places, from urban metropolises to the most remote island.
Julia Venske and Gregor Spänle, born in 1971 and 1969 respectively, live and work in New York and Munich. They began collaborating on artwork in 1991. Their sculpture and installation work has been shown in museums, galleries and art fairs worldwide, including Bolivia, India, Italy, Germany, Spain, the Congo, Switzerland, Australia, Argentina, Japan, Belgium, Singapore, Hong Kong, and South Africa, as well as throughout the United States.


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East Tilbury in Essex, England, is a living museum of a phenomenon common on both sides of the Atlantic in the 20th century: the company town. Settlements built or largely taken over by a single company appeared to have gone the way of the job for life. But the needs of Silicon Valley might be reviving the model.
The "quasi-public municipalities" of a hundred years ago (CityLab) were owned wholly or largely by a single corporation, providing housing and facilities for their workers. Hundreds dotted the United States and Europe, built by companies as disparate as Hershey's, the chocolate manufacturer, (of Hershey, Pennsylvania) and soap-makers the Lever Brothers (which founded Port Sunlight, near Liverpool, England).
But today the company town has all but disappeared from traditional manufacturing industries. Visit a town like East Tilbury, and you're confronted with a former manufacturing utopia that was unable to resist the economics of cheap production in distant locations.
East Tilbury, a village since Saxon times, was adopted, virtually absorbed, by the Bata Shoe Company to house its workers in the 1930s. Bata was at one point one of the largest shoemakers in the world, its footwear manufactured in dozens of close to identical company towns all modelled on its Czech headquarters of Zlín. The company provided almost everything for its workers and their families, from housing to schooling to entertainment.
At its peak in the 1950s, 3,000 people worked for Bata in East Tilbury. But like company towns everywhere in the West, it suffered progressive decline. Bata closed the last of its East Tilbury factories in 2005.
Around the mid-20th century, the emergence of the consumer car, and mass transit more generally, made it unnecessary for workers to live within walking distance of their workplace, says Hardy Green, author of The Company Town. Later, companies like Bata stopped being able to afford to hire labor in the West anyway, and moved production to countries where costs were lower.
Mike Pinion grew up in East Tilbury. He joined Bata when he left school, and worked for the company until it definitively left England, in 2005. "We saw it coming," he says. Bata moved its manufacturing to Malaysia, where labor costs are around a quarter of what they are in England. One of his last jobs for Bata was installing the equipment he had worked on in the Malaysian factories.
running thought: is the thesis that the disappearance of company towns is a good thing or a bad thing? or just a thing? if so, what is the [unassertion] consequence for the workers? AL
Company town resurrected
For a time, the company town appeared a curious relic of the past. But in Silicon Valley, where an abundance of qualified and well-paid engineers desperately need homes, the model appears to have made a comeback.
Californian tech companies have long sought to attract highly prized employees with ever-more lavish amenities. Free meals, transport, yoga classes, gym memberships, laundry – all are common (AOL) for engineers and designers at top Silicon Valley firms. But as commutable accommodation becomes harder to find, some are branching out to provide housing, too.
Green says that tech companies' decision to start housing their workers is driven by necessity.
"Housing costs in Silicon Valley and the Bay Area have skyrocketed. If tech companies want to attract skilled workers they may have no choice but to build good, affordable housing for these workers, who of course have lots of alternatives."
Facebook, for instance, is building (New York Times) 1,500 housing units, mostly aimed at its employees, in its new Willow Village campus in Palo Alto. Last December, Google signed (Mercury News) an agreement with the city of Mountain View, where it is headquartered, to build close to 10,000 homes and apartments. Needless to say, both developments will be situated conveniently close to Facebook and Google's offices.
The office-sharing startup WeWork, for its part, is expanding with WeLive, providing studios and communal areas in the same building as WeWork office space. As one resident puts it: "You just roll out of bed, go down the elevator and get to work." Not unlike the company towns of the last century: Mike Pinion remembers choosing to work at Bata in no small part because he could walk to work.
You're not working eight hours a day any more … every part of your life is part of work. – Razvan Zamfira
There are undoubtedly differences, as Stephen Metcalfe, the British MP who represents East Tilbury, points out to WikiTribune. Well-paid tech workers "have huge amounts of choice," he says, contrasting with his constituents who used to work for Bata.
Metcalfe argues that tech workers tend to be in "high paid jobs and in high demand jobs". It is "in the employer's interest to make sure their staff stays with them," if necessary by providing them with amenities, he says.
Another side effect is that tech companies which provide housing can also have the additional benefit of helping incubate innovation in an industry heavily reliant on it, says Razvan Zamfira, a co-author of The Re-birth of the Company Town.
"If you create this vibrant urban environment where you start to attract people that don't only come from your company but come for the startups that grow around you, then you create new coalitions between different individuals and different ideas," Zamfira says.
Critics fear erosion of work-life balance
Naturally, when your employer is your landlord, and possibly providing you with transport, food, and other amenities too, the lines between work and time off become blurred.
"You can work from home, you can work in your bus, you can work in the public space that's also in the campus designed by Google. So you're not working eight hours a day any more. Basically every part of your life is part of work," says Zamfira.
To some, this is an unwelcome trend. "If your employer is also your landlord and maybe even your social-services provider, an employee may be thankful — or may have multiple reasons to be unhappy," Green argues.
A Facebook spokesman's response to request for comment was to provide a list of local and legislative measures he says Facebook supports, including efforts to provide housing at below market rates in Menlo Park.
The Facebook spokesman said: "On July 7, 2017, Facebook announced our next phase of expansion with the Willow Village, which will bring community benefits such as new affordable housing and retail to the Belle Haven neighborhood of Menlo Park. The Willow Village will include 1500 units of housing with 15% offered below market rate."
WikiTribune approached Google for comment, but at the time of publishing had not received any response. WeWork declined to comment for this story.


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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's leading prosecutor, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), is poised to charge more individuals in connection with a global investigation into the Libor interest rate rigging scandal.
To date, U.S. and British authorities have charged seven men and fined four financial firms about $2.7 billion in the investigation into the manipulation of the London interbank offered rate (Libor), used as a benchmark for more than $300 trillion of products from derivatives to home loans.
David Green, who has led the SFO since April 2012, said the inquiry into Libor, a central cog in the global financial system, remains the largest and most complex case on his books - and he expected to be judged by its results.
"I anticipate there will be further (Libor) charges this autumn," he told Reuters in an interview on Thursday. "Thereafter, there will be further significant developments ... We're not finished by a long chalk."
Green said relations with the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ), which has had a near three-year headstart in the Libor investigation, were "genuinely helpful and constructive".
Although the DoJ has been first to charge some British suspects in the scandal, Green said everyone understood that British suspects should be tried in Britain rather than extradited to the United States.
"So far as I'm concerned, alleged crimes committed by British suspects or banks should be tried here and that is the goal to which we would work," he said.
Green declined to divulge whether further Libor charges were likely to be announced before a London court hearing scheduled for the week of October 21, at which a list of alleged co-conspirators of former UBS UBSN.VX and Citigroup (C.N) trader Tom Hayes and two former brokers will be read out in court.
Hayes, who has also been charged by the DoJ, and former RP Martin brokers Terry Farr and James Gilmour are the first individuals to be brought to court over a scandal that has become a symbol for the financial industry's self-serving excesses.
U.S. prosecutors have also charged Swiss-based former UBS trader Roger Darin and three former staff at interdealer broker ICAP IAP.L; New Zealand-based Darrell Read, his British-based supervisor Daniel Wilkinson and cash broker Colin Goodman.
Libor and similar benchmarks, set every day in different maturities and currencies, are designed to reflect each bank's own borrowing costs. But traders allegedly encouraged bank submissions that benefited their trading positions.
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Nick Hirschman, now a third-year sophomore quarterback for Colorado, broke the fifth metatarsal bone in his left foot in practice last August. After surgery, he saw action in five games, mostly toward the end of blowout losses as Colorado finished 3-10. Hirschman had more surgery on the foot in the offseason, and last week was in a walking boot, hoping to compete with Texas transfer Connor Wood for the starting job when spring practice begins tomorrow. But over the weekend, Hirschman managed to break the fifth metatarsal in his right foot—"while walking and apparently misstepping," according to Colorado's football website.
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You'll have a hard time finding a bigger fan of Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy than me. I don't have Heath Ledger's face tattooed on my body or anything - because I'm not a complete moron - but I find it to be one of the most exciting and well executed trilogies in popular cinema, if not all of cinema. (And I realize some of you may still call me a moron for saying that.) But while I think The Dark Knight works extremely well as a stand-alone film, neither Batman Begins nor The Dark Knight Rises do, and they need to be viewed within the context of the whole trilogy in order to sustain their achievements. Which makes me repeatedly ask aloud to no one in general, "Where the hell is that Collector's Edition that was announced so many months ago?" (Since, you know, taking out three separate Blu-ray cases is such hard work and all.)
Well we may have gotten our first look at the set, if the above photo is in fact a legitimate piece of promotional material. It was posted by the Polish Batman site Batcave.com.pl (via Batman-On-Film), which took some of its information from a pre-order post on the French Amazon site. So it's not as if these are rumors being concocted by Internet trolls who want to want me to get excited for nothing. The French box set is pictured below, featuring the familiar Blu-ray box stripe that is noticeably absent from the all-black set shown above.
As described, the set will consist of all three films obviously, and each comes with two Blu-rays and a DVD version. Sadly, there's no description of what's included on the discs, and we're left still hoping that Nolan decides to add commentary tracks to the films, which would make this set a necessity to everyone. (Yeah, everyone.) The non-disc items would include a behind-the-scenes book, three prints of the films' central villains, a poster and three toy models of each of Batman's vehicles, including the Tumbler, the Batpod and the Bat. Check them out in the photo below.
The top picture does contain a couple of promo card looking objects that aren't mentioned in the description, but they don't look to be extraordinarily different or impressive, so we'll just call them promo cards for now.
Amazingly, the French Amazon site even has a release date of October 2, 2013, with a price set at €89.99. That's just over three months away, so we're right around the magic window for Warner Bros. to begin promoting the set, if this is in fact the one that they'll be putting out.
Let's all hope everything stated above is the truth and that this story ends better than Dark Knight Rises. See, even a fanboy can say things like that.


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Beyond the Box Score has a fun little post today that explores which teams' players got more All-Star Votes than their performances merited.
Surprisingly, the Braves' players all got way too much love. Perhaps less surprisingly, the Pirates' players all got too little love. Some things you don't need Science! for. [Beyond The Boxscore]


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PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y., March 19 (UPI) -- The United States has more than 500 million devices connected to the Internet, mostly due to increased smartphone and tablet ownership, a research firm says.
The NPD Group says the Internet-connected devices include smartphones, tablets, laptops, PCs, video-game consoles, HDTVs, Blu-Ray players and more.
Its analysis shows that in the last 3 months ago more than 9 million people moved up from regular cell phones to smartphones and 18 million more consumers have purchased a tablet device, Slash Gear reported Tuesday.
"It's hard to believe that tablets and smartphones are still somewhat in their infancy. But as we have seen in just the past few months, there is significant potential for this market to develop further," John Buffone, director of devices at NPD Connected Intelligence, said.
Multiple Internet-capable devices per household are the norm, the survey found, and the number of devices per U.S. Internet-connected household has jumped from 5.3 devices per home to 5.7 devices.
However, the PC still remains the most commonly used Internet-connected device in households, with over 93 percent of households reporting at least one PC.


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With Thanksgiving right around the corner, it's important to remember safety tips when it comes to turkey fryers. While this special day is one to spend with family and friends, it's also the peak day for home cooking fires. That's why Health First and Brevard County Fire Rescue teamed up to provide a unique demonstration at Health First Viera Hospital to show people how quickly a fire can ignite when a frozen turkey is placed in a fryer. Using a thawed one is the safe way to deep fry a turkey.
About Health First
Founded in 1995, Health First is a fully integrated health system. The not-for-profit employs more than 7,500 people and has four hospitals (including Holmes Regional Medical Center, Palm Bay Hospital, Cape Canaveral Hospital and Viera Hospital). Health First Health Plans also offers a wide variety of health insurance plan options for Brevard and Indian River Counties. In addition, Health First is home to Brevard County's only Trauma Center. Health First Medical Group is the largest multi-specialty physician group on the Space Coast. Health First offers numerous outpatient and wellness services, including four Pro-Health and Fitness Centers. Visit www.Health-First.org for more information.
About Brevard County Fire Rescue Brevard County Fire Rescue's mission is to meet and exceed the needs of our community through the highest level of emergency response and prevention services. The department provides fire suppression services for unincorporated Brevard County and emergency ambulance transport services for the entire county, a total response area of more than 900 square miles. BCFR operates 31 fire stations and has 29 ambulances. Last year, the department responded to 101,793 fire/EMS calls. BCFR operates the only state-recognized Specialized Response Team in Brevard County. The Ocean Rescue division provides for the safe swimming and beach protection to all Brevard County residents, visitors and tourists in designated areas of unincorporated Brevard County, and BCFR's Emergency Communications Center is fully operational 7 days per week, 24 hours a day providing 911 dispatch.


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France is a country of the utmost tourism attraction with the consistent increase in the number of tourist demanded every year that has increased the demand in France Tourist Visa also. Not everyone requires it, rather it depends on the nationality from which you belong.
France is a beautiful country situated in the western part of the Europe and surrounded by the amazing landscape throughout. France has not only contributed in the self with the literature and great architecture style but it has been well known throughout the world. The rich history has been an area of interest for the world since a long past duration. According to a recent survey says that France has been top destination for tourists. The number of visitors to Paris the capital city is being continuously on the verge of a consistent increase since long.
But visiting to this such an incredible country is not an easy task. With the increasing demand for visitors the France Tourist Visa is under a great requirement and so is the increase in number of queries by the applicants. A visa required for the short term basis by the travelers up to the maximum duration of 90 days is called as the France Tourist Visa. Through this visa the tourist can freely move in the France country only.
If you are planning to visit France in that case you need to first of all determine your status of residence of the country and also the nationality of the country. As France is the part of the European Union country (EU) therefore all the citizens of EU country are exempted from visa along with that the other countries like United States, Canada, Japan and Australia are also exempted from the France Tourist Visa and can stay for a general purpose or tourism purpose up to the maximum of 90 days tenure.
The application process is a simpler one and involves the following few steps:
- Download the application form for France Tourist visa from the internet and fill the form with the relevant details without any cutting or over writing.
- The next step involves the collection of all the necessary documents that are must to be attached with the application form at the time of applying
- Now you have to combine all the documents and the application form together and keep them handy for the submission.
- Schedule the appointment with the nearest France Embassy or the simpler one involves hiring a visa agency and provide them with all the documents so far collected.
- The visa fees has to be deposited along with the form and the other documents at the time of applying only (in both the cases with or without visa agent)
- Visa can be approved or denied at the day of final appointment (the appointment is not necessary in case of applying via agency).
- You will receive your passport later if approved along with the visa stamp and if denied without stamp.
the whole process is time consuming and since we deposit the fees well in advance we need to be more cautious about the documentation to be accurate and recheck before finally submitting it. Because once there is any error detected, the application will get rejected and the money will be refunded to you.


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The Church's ban on women's ordination is نہیں a case of discrimination, but an affirmation that the priestly vocation is fundamentally paternal. "For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers," wrote the Apostle Paul. "For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel" (پولس کے دیکھیں کرنتھیوں کے لئے پہلا خط 4:15 اور Book of Judges 18:19). Women fill many leadership roles in the Church, such as the heads of religious orders and apostolates, school principals, and directors of religious education. A priest, تاہم, is not called to be merely a spiritual leader, but a spiritual father; and while a woman is free to be virtually whatever she wishes to be, the one thing she cannot be is a father.
The Church maintains that men and women are equal in dignity, having both been made in the image and likeness of God (دیکھیں Book of Genesis 1:27). While they are equal, تاہم, men and women are not identical but different; and they are called to fulfill fundamentally different vocations: fatherhood and motherhood, بالترتیب. Neither vocation is superior to the other, لیکن, پھر, equal in dignity. Pope Paul XI wrote, "For if the man is the head [of the family], the woman is the heart, and as he occupies the chief place in ruling, so she may and ought to claim for herself the chief place in love" (Casti Connubii 27). To continue the analogy, neither the head nor the heart is more essential to the body; the body needs both to live. The Church's model, پھر, is one of harmony, the complementarity of the sexes. اس کے برعکس, the secular world, mistaking equality to mean interchangeability, has established a battle of the sexes, in which men and women are reduced to the level of rivals.
On the question of dignity, no institution in the history of the world has exalted women to an equal or greater degree than the Catholic Church. The male writers of the Gospels, مثال کے طور پر, did not attempt to alter or conceal the fact that the first witnesses to the Resurrection, the foundational truth of the faith, were women. This went against the social norms of the day, as ordinarily a woman's word was given little worth in ancient Palestine (دیکھیں لوقا 24:11). The litany of holy women in the Church's tradition is long and impressive indeed, including three who have been declared Doctors of the Church, special teachers of the faith: Saints Catherine of Siena (D. 1380), Teresa of Ávila (D. 1582), and Thérèse of Lisieux (D. 1897).
Of all the great Saints the Church honors, the Blessed Virgin Mary is revered far and above the rest. اسل مین, as Pope John Paul the Great reasoned, the Church's unparalleled devotion to Mary who "received neither the mission proper to the Apostles nor the ministerial priesthood clearly shows that the non-admission of women to priestly ordination cannot mean women are of lesser dignity, nor can it be construed as discrimination against them" (Ordinatio Sacerdotalis 3).
Since the close of the Second Vatican Council in 1965, the Church has endured constant and increasing pressure from Western society to reverse her stance on women's ordination. Yet this is a defined teaching of the Church's ordinary magisterium, meaning it has been believed unanimously by the faithful from the beginning. چرچ, لہذا, is powerless to change it. Underscoring this point, John Paul declared, "In order that all doubt may be removed regarding a matter of great importance, a matter which pertains to the Church's divine constitution itself, in virtue of my ministry of confirming the brethren (سییف. لوقا 22:32), I declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church's faithful" (Ordinatio Sacerdotalis 4).
Some have argued that in choosing men to serve as the first priests of His Church Jesus was merely conforming to cultural standards. As the Gospels clearly show, تاہم, Jesus regularly disregarded social norms for the sake of the Kingdom of God (دیکھیں میتھیو 9:11 اور جان 8:3). مزید برآں, priestesses, being common to the pagan religions of Greece and Rome, were an accepted facet of ancient society.
The reservation of the priesthood to men directly follows the Lord's example and the teachings of Sacred Scripture; it "has been preserved by the constant and universal Tradition of the Church and firmly taught by the Magisterium in its more recent documents" (Ordinatio Sacerdotalis 4). "As in all the churches of the saints," wrote Saint Paul, "the women should keep silence in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be subordinate, as even the law says. … For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church" (کرنتھیوں کے لئے پہلا خط 14:33-34, 35; see also تیمتھیس کے نام کا پہلا خط 2:12). The Apostle, بلکل, did not mean to forbid women from "speaking in church" in the ordinary sense, but in the sense of preaching or presiding over the assembly. Those who interpret the Bible from the perspective of radical feminism have insisted Paul's words merely reflect the male-dominated culture in which he lived, and thus have no relevance for readers today. This point of view, اگرچہ, which begins to call into question the inspiration of Sacred Scripture, opens the door for individuals to dismiss as irrelevant practically any verse of the Bible which they find personally objectionable. This is why it is always best in these cases to fall back upon the constant guidance and teaching of the Church.
The early Christian historical writings show that women participated in consecrated religious life through the Order of Widows (essentially the first nuns). روم کے سینٹ Hippolytus, writing in about A.D. 215, noted that the women enrolled in this order were "not to be ordained … . Ordination is for the clergy because of the Liturgy; but a widow is appointed for prayer, and prayer is the duty of all" (The Apostolic Tradition 11).
For a time in the early Church there was also an Order of Deaconesses. The deaconesses, تاہم, did not receive ordination either, but were considered to be members of the laity. Mentioning deaconesses, مثال کے طور پر, the Council of Nicaea in 325 clarified, "We mean by deaconesses such as have assumed the habit, but who, since they have no imposition of hands [as in ordination], are to be numbered only among the laity" (Canon 19). اسی طرح, Saint Epiphanius explained around 375 that the purpose for the Order of Deaconesses was "not for being a priestess, nor for any kind of work of administration, but for the sake of the dignity of the female, either at the time of Baptism, or of examining the sick or suffering, so that the [female] body may not be seen by men administering sacred rites, but by the deaconess" (Panarion 79:3).


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Can India declare it's citizen terrorist on Pakistan desire, then why Hafiz Saeed
Lahore: A Pakistan court has said that it would end the house arrest of terrorist leader Hafiz Saeed, blamed for the 2008 Mumbai terror attack, if the government doesn't submit evidence against him, IANS has reported.
The Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief and his four aides were placed under house arrest in January under the Anti-Terrorism Act. The Lahore High Court (LHC) heard the appeal against Saeed's detention on Tuesday. However, the Interior Secretary who was expected to bring the documents related to Saeed's detention failed to appear before the court, ( was probably "ordered" not to appear or else....!) the Pakistan media reported.
Expressing annoyance over the Interior Secretary's absence, Justice Sayyed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi said: "No one could be detained for a long time merely on the basis of newspaper clippings."He said it was the obligation of the government to protect the basic rights of people. Are judges allowed to make comments like this . But this is Pakistan !!!
Saeed's advocate AK Dogar said the JuD leaders had been detained merely on the basis of allegations, without any substantial evidence against them, and the extension of the detention was illegal and a violation of basic rights. Requesting the court to declare the detention null and void, he contended that the JuD chief and other leaders had been detained because of pressure from the US government.In previous proceedings, the Punjab home department stated in a report submitted in connection with the petition filed by the JuD chief against his detention that if he was released, his activities would pose a serious threat to public safety and public order.
Saeed is accused by India of masterminding the Mumbai terror attack of November 2008 which left 166 Indians and foreigners dead. New Delhi has repeatedly urged Islamabad to punish him for the massacre. Now that he and his party have been "drycleaned" in a brand new incarnation by the Deep State, there is no reason for him to languish in jail


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T-Mobile backtracks on retrospective mobe data caps
But won't renew generous packages
Having announced a new fair-use limit on existing customers, and facing a huge backlash, T-Mobile has caved and will now only introduce the change for new contracts.
Existing customers will keep their existing limits, with for web browsing and media streaming lumped together, while new contracts will only get 500MB of general-use bandwidth after which they'll be welcome to browse and use email, but will be discouraged from streaming media.
Users have deluged the operator with complaints since the new cap was announced on Monday, and Ofcom has been busy telling people they need to complain to T-Mobile first, and then the Alternative Dispute Resolution scheme, before the regulator can get involved. But it was always going to be hard for T-Mobile to prove that the changes didn't involve "material detriment", which would offer customers a way out of their contracts.
So the new limits will only be imposed on new customers, and those renewing their contracts – achieving the same thing in a much more sensible way over a year or two. ®


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Our suggestions for issues the Lege should study before next session.
By now, we all know that Monday's CBO report estimated that the Senate health care bill ("BCRA") will increase the number of uninsured Americans by 22 million. And now we're starting to see some estimates of what that would look like in Texas.
Districts urged the Legislature to provide adequate and predicable funding for boosting pre-k quality.
Testimony to the Sunset Advisory Commission
Texans Care for Children, among other suggestions, recommends Establishing an Office of Learning at the Texas Education Agency.