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ALA/ERT Author Forum Friday, January 11, 2008, 4:00-5:15 pm Pennsylvania Convention Center Room 204 A/B The Author Forum will feature discussions with and readings from two best-selling authors.
GERALDINE BROOKS was a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal for eleven years, where her beats included some of the world's most troubled areas, including Bosnia, Somalia and the Middle East. Her fiction debut, Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague, was published in 10 countries and was a 2001 Notable Book of the Year for the New York Times, Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune. For her second novel, March, Brooks was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. She is also the author of two acclaimed works of nonfiction, Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women, and Foreign Correspondence: A Penpal's Journey from Down Under to All Over. Born and raised in Australia, Brooks lives with her husband, Tony Horwitz and their son in Massachusetts and was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University in fall 2005. Sponsored by Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
DR. MARY DORIA RUSSELL taught human gross anatomy at Case Western Reserve University in the 1980s, but has been a full-time writer since 1992. Her novels The Sparrow and Children of God are science fiction classics, recognized with nine national and international literary awards, including the American Library Association Readers Choice Award. In 2005, A Thread of Grace - about Jewish survival in Nazi-occupied Italy - was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. In March 2008, Random House will publish her second historical novel, Dreamers of the Day, about the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference when T.E. Lawrence, Winston Churchill and Lady Gertrude Bell invented the modern Middle East. Russell is currently at work on her fifth novel, set in Dodge City in 1878. She is also collaborating with the poet Gary C. Wilkens on the libretto for an opera by the Puerto Rican composer Raymond Torres-Santos, which will be based on her first two novels, The Sparrow and Children of God. An engaging speaker, Mary is in demand for public events, and her books are frequently chosen for library programs and college courses. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio. Visit www.MaryDoriaRussell.info for more information. Sponsored by Random House
Spotlight on Adult Literature
Saturday, January 12, 2:00-4:00 pm
Exhibit Hall
Sponsored by FOLUSA and ALA
Participating publishers will feature book signings and some will give away free books or galleys. Register at the FOLUSA booth (#611) for prizes. Flyers listing participating publishers will be distributed at the entrances to the exhibit hall. Please check the Meeting Guide for a full list of participating publishers and events.
TDNet Educational Sessions, Booth # 1225
TDNet Inc. will be offering a series of educational sessions in our booth (#1225). The sessions are designed to be short in length, and instructional, so attendees can quickly learn about TDNet's e-resource access and management solutions. After each session, attendees will be given the opportunity to enter a drawing to win the new Apple iPod Touch[1].
Join TDNet's Educational Sessions at ALA Booth # 1225
- Not Satisfied with Ordinary Search Results? Introducing Federated Searching with Searcher Analyzer.: Find out how TDNet's powerful federated searching and analysis tool can help your users achieve improved search results by generating "on-the-fly" subject clusters or topic categories. Session times: Saturday at 9:30 am and Sunday at 9:30 am.
- Enhance Current Awareness through eResource Management and Access.: This session will focus on TDNet's Journal Manager, Searcher Analyzer, Table of Contents and new RSS services. Learn how having a central access point for your journal collection allows you to make the most of your library's paid-for and free resources while simplifying and streamlining workflows. Session times: Saturday at 11:00 am and Sunday at 11:00 am.
- NEW! eBook Manager.: Learn about the industry's first e-book management and access tool, featuring a customizable interface, A to Z listing of e-books, and full integration with TDNet's Journal Manager. Session times: Saturday at 1:00 pm and Sunday at 1:00 pm.
- British Library and TDNet: Another Perfect Linking Solution[2].: Powered by TDNet's Searcher Analyzer, British Library Direct Plus enables users to search the library's internal and external resources, and order full text through British Library's document supply service. Session times: Saturday at 2:00 pm and Monday at 9:30 am.
- Affordable ERM Data, Easy Data Loads and MARC Updates.: Learn about TDNet's one-step solution for loading MARC Records and keeping e-resources up to date. Session times: Sunday at 2:00 pm and Monday at 11:00 am.
- Advanced Access and Identity Management via Athens. TDNet partners with Eduserv[3], a not-for-profit, professional IT services group, to offer Athens Access Management System to US libraries. Athen's advanced solution simplifies access to e-resources to which a library subscribes. Session times: Saturday at 3:00 pm and Sunday at 3:00 pm.
Attendees, Please Note: Seating is limited. If you are interested in attending the above sessions, you must pre-register by e-mailing firstname.lastname@example.com. In your e-mail, please include your name, your library or organization name, the session title and time.
'While at the TDNet booth, don't forget to enter our drawing to win the iPod Touch'[4]. - Apple's newest iPod that features the same multi-touch screen technology as the iPhone.
TDNet - One Interface, One Solution, One Knowledge Base!
TDNet develops and markets advanced solutions for libraries and information centers that require minimal effort from library staff, but enable their users to easily view, manage and access e-resources. Key partnerships with industry leaders complement TDNet's completely integrated suite of services which include: Searcher Analyzer federated search service; Full Text TOUResolver; Journal Manager; eBook Manager, and Holdings Manager. Additional Web services, integrated statistics, authentication and reference tools are available. TDNet's unique service solution is based on a premier Knowledge Base of metadata for over 260,000 unique titles coupled with extensive experience in the information industry. For additional information about TDNet and its services, please visit www.tdnet.com [5].
WebFeat Client Showcases Booth #1561
Join us as some of our clients demonstrate their customized WebFeat systems.
Live Client Demonstrations - Approximately 30 minutes with Q&A opportunity - WebFeat Exhibits Booth #1561
Bowdoin College Library: Saturday, January 12, Time: 11am - 11:45am - featuring Sherrie Bergman, Librarian; Judy Montgomery, Associate Librarian
Access Pennsylvania - Power Library and University of Pittsburgh Libraries - Pennsylvania Library Showcase : Saturday, January 12, Time: 2:30pm - 4:00pm - featuring Cindy Pitchon, Access PA and Jeff Wisniewski, Web Services Librarian, University of Pittsburgh (WebFeat is used by over 3,000 libraries across Pennsylvania!)
Dartmouth College Library: Sunday, January 13, Time: 2pm - 2:45pm - featuring Mary LaMarca, Library Communications & Web Manager
Princeton University Library: Sunday, January 13, Time: 3pm - 3:45pm - featuring Nancy Pressman-Levy, Librarian Donald E. Stokes Library
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Seven years on, massively multiplayer online space drama EVE Online is still going strong. Over the course of the next three months, the universe of EVE Online will change with the Incursion expansion(s).
EVE Online, with its space piracy and interstellar wars, certainly has its share of real-world and in-game theatrics, but this mood-setting teaser for EVE Online: Incursion does its job well—it may make even the MMO-fearing, EVE Online noob want to dip their toe in the dangerous waters of CCP Games' deep and broad space sim.

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First, this screenshot shows the dangers of having your site truncated by browser software:
Next we have this snack bar:
I think I'll just have the plain cheese pizza, hold the toppings.
And here's a fine example of (probably artisanal) coffee:
It might be really good, but if I were at a coffee place and a guy said to me "Hey! Would you like to taste mysore nuggets?" I'd probably run. Fast.
Next is a beer that believes in truth in advertising:
Here's an ad for a resort's play facility:
They apparently have a higher opinion of 6-week-old human motor skills than I do.
This is from an interview with a Best Buy executive, describing company plans. I don't understand this, which is why I guess I'm not an MBA. In fact, it sounds like a story from the Onion.
To show yet another irritating overuse of the word "artisan" we have this mass-produced vinyl barbecue cover:
And finally, since it is April 1, here's one of my favorite pranks ever:


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 49 diseños de 19 diseñadores freelance.
We are looking for a fresh, modern logo for our company The Learning Bar. The design should be crisp, clean and professional, but not overly corporate.
We have not had a logo before, so this is a great chance for you to come up with some creative ideas of your own.
We will be using the logo on our website, business cards and other collateral, so your design could be the inspiration for our whole range of marketing materials.
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The Learning Bar provides an online school survey solutionused by students, teachers and parents, although we will be moving to othermarkets, so the logo should notrelate strictly to the education sector. The survey is based on internationallyrecognized research on school effects, so it is cutting edge but built on solidfoundations.
Our website is http://www.thelearningbar.combut the logo does not have to be based on the design of the website. Anyforthcoming marketing materials will be designed around the logo.
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Uncertainty Roils Commonwealth Venue
"We have important concerns about the state of governance in Uganda, particularly with respect to the independence of the judiciary, political space for the opposition and recent incidences of violence,� McCartney told the House of Commons. "We are working with the Government of Uganda to resolve these concerns.�
Adding fuel to speculation about the venue for this year's Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, a Labor Party parliamentarian has pressed a UK minister about contingency plans for an alternate location. Meanwhile a Uganda lawmaker spoke by telephone out gruesome tortures the outside word was "unaware" of.
Reports that British security services were reluctant to okay the trip to Uganda of Queen Elizabeth II for the summit appeared in The Times and The Guardian, April 26.
David Drew, Labor and Co-operative Party MP for Stroud, Gloucestershire asked Ian McCartney, Minister of State Trade and Investment and Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, about contingency plans. The summit is slated for Kampala, the Ugandan capital, November 2007.
"We have important concerns about the state of governance in Uganda, particularly with respect to the independence of the judiciary, political space for the opposition and recent incidences of violence," McCartney told the House of Commons. "We are working with the Government of Uganda to resolve these concerns."
McCartney added: "We continue to stress that CHOGM presents a historic opportunity for Uganda to demonstrate that it is building an inclusive and pluralist society and we will continue to press for progress on the issues of concern."
The minister also commented on the recent violent protests against the Uganda government's plan to give away vast areas of Mabira forest to the Mehta family, Ugandan Asian investors—three people died, including one Asian.
"We are particularly disturbed by the racially motivated aspects of the violence by some demonstrators during street protests in Kampala on 12 April. We also condemn all such violence and call on all sides to show restraint and respect the rule of law during demonstrations," the minister said.
"We are talking to the Ugandan Government about developing a 'Code of Conduct' for running and policing demonstrations," said McCartney. "We have expressed our concerns to the Ugandan Government about the importance of responsible and proportionate policing during demonstrations. Our high commissioner in Kampala raised this most recently with Foreign Minister Kutesa on 25 April." Foreign minister Sam Kutesa previously has already denied that plans were afoot to switch venue—blaming saboteurs who want to wreck the summit.
Separately, in a telephone interview with this reporter, Ugandan member of Parliament Hussein Kyanjo (MP Makindye West), who recently spent time in jail after he was arrested by Uganda security agents, said it was a learning experience.
"It was good to detain me, because I have discovered a lot that has been happening behind the scenes," he said. "Many people are tortured with all sorts of cruelty and then dumped to rot in jails. The outside world doesn't know the acts of this regime. This was a very good change for me, because all along I have been demanding access to prisons and denied any a chance."
Kyanjo, who is Uganda's shadow Minister of Internal Affairs and Human Rights was arrested April 16 with another opposition figure, Forum for Democratic Change's (FDC) Beatrice Anywar Atim (Kitgum Women MP). The duo was detained at Luzira Prison on alleged charges of inciting violence and participating in the Mabira protest.
Kyanjo said while behind bars he discovered people held for even more than one year without being produced in courts or charged with any offense. He said he learned of a man named Emmanuel Karangwa who has been detained at Kampala Central Police Station (CPS) for seven months without being charged, and of a Congolese national, Dido Manyiroba, who has spent six months behind bars with no charges; and, Acleo Kalinga, in detention for 16 months.
MP Kyanjo said Kalinga was "castrated by security agents." He said, "These people are subjected to cruel torture that the outside world doesn't know that these things are happening in Uganda." Kalinga was reportedly castrated when his testicles were tied with a rope and pulled off.
Miwambo reports for The Black Star News from London.
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Game of Thrones *Spoiler* Thread
There's been some recent confusion with the old spoiler thread, so I'm kicking off a new one for tonight's premiere. This is going to be the one for folks who've read all the books. So anything anybody might want to talk about is in bounds. Suffice to say, if you haven't read the books, you'll probably want to stay out of here until you do...
I'll bump the old spoiler-free thread shortly in case anybody's interested. For future reference the link to that one is here
i have wood.
wheres the ADWD thread? i finally finished the book
SOOOOOOO pumped for this. My wife, in honor of the premiere, is cooking up a royal feast centered around a king-sized pork shoulder roast.
Gonna be a great night.
Oh, also.... I've been reading that there are going to be some more changes to this season - more so than the first. Do we think this season will begin with the Clash prologue?
I hope so.
Haven't made it all the way through yet, but it's already the best thing I've seen this year.
Only 10 seconds of Ayra. Rubbish!
Watching Cersei flex her vagina only to get punked by Tyrion or her brat is lulz!
I imagine that we will see more Arya as we go. There's just so much going on that it is going to be difficult to cover it all and there will have to be characters that don't appear much in various episodes. Much of what happens with Arya at the beginning of book 2 was already covered in Season 1 with her leaving KL and getting into a confrontation with Lommy and Hot Pie.
And I have a feeling that they are going to change the focus every episode between characters like they did this week. Next week, we'll likely see little of Robb and Tyrion, while they focus more on Arya and Danny. I'm assuming.
Next week may also bring in Renly, Margery and Brienne as well as Balon Greyjoy,and Theon's uncle and sister. I think those are most of the new characters for this season. I hope they get into the background of Davos and Stannis as well, their backstory is interesting and will help viewers understand these new characters better.
MORE ARYA! Her arc with her troupe in ACoK was my favorite so GET ON IT!
The Littlefinger/Cersei scene was great! Although I really disliked how, after the guards released him, she ordered them through a synchronized swimming routine. A strange complaint, but it was just odd to me. He got the picture of what she controls. Just lean in and tell him to STFU or next time she won't tell her guards to stay that order.
It's nice to see more of "Robb the King" being shown. We hear about it a little from Bran/Cat's POV, but don't see it first-hand, really.
Since this spoils Clash, I'll mention it in tags... will set up the disappointment that much more when seeing him bitch out over a woman and die for it.
Starks and their honor.
Something like " you were ****ing our sweet Jaime" *slap* "though it seems unfair that you would open your legs for one brother and not the other" *slap* " I never understood what Jaime saw in you besides his own reflection" *slap*
The casting is excellent in this series but the Melisandre and Stannis choices aren't doing it for me early on. Maybe they'll grow on me?
I really like the portrayal of Davos. Strong, but subservient.
Also, I had heard somewhere that Meera and Jojen Reed are not in this season. Hopefully they will show up at the beginning of next season. I just can't see Bran traveling North with only Hodor as his companion. Maybe they will be written into the show as sympathetic wildlings, possibly friends of Osha.
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Tuesday, December 9, 2008
This suit, filed first in February of 2006, demanded the city begin proceedings to return the over 800 guns stored in an NOPD evidence trailer. These guns had been illegally confiscated by law enforcement from the law abiding citizenry of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
In April of 2007, I put together a team of experts and accompanied Dan Holliday to New Orleans to begin a long-awaited gun inventory. Dan is the attorney from Baton Rouge representing the SAF/NRA.
We had finally gained access to the guns being held by the NOPD, and we started a lengthy inventory of these wretched, filthy, rusted guns.
Still another 19 months would pass before the courts finally had enough, and ordered New Orleans to begin proceedings to return as many guns as possible. The court further ordered a permanent injunction against the city to never again illegally seize firearms from citizens without just cause.
There was much grumbling and protestations on the gun blogs, sites, and in magazines about the shame of allowing those who had basically committed armed robbery by cop to escape all consequences. Basically, the complaints went, New Orleans got off with a slap on the wrist, and the only good coming out of this was at least some of the guns would be given back.
Having lived with this case for three years and having been intimately enough involved to have written a book about it, I think the record now needs to be set straight.
The NRA and SAF got exactly what they were looking for the entire time.
Before Hurricane Katrina, it was a well-known practice of NOPD to seize guns from citizens during traffic stops, telling them they could get their guns back when they showed up at the precinct with a receipt proving ownership. For more details on this practice, go to my column here:
As we detailed in the book, these practices were one of the things that led to the wholesale confiscation of guns by every stripe of law enforcement in the madness after Katrina.
The Second Battle of New Orleans was the court battle between the gun organizations and the city over the guns held by the city. The NRA/SAF wanted the order of a permanent injunction against the city which prohibits them from ever again taking a gun from a citizen illegally.
The following quote was taken from the NRA Institute for Legislative Action website for October 8, 2008:
Under the terms of the injunction, Mayor Ray Nagin, Police Chief Warren Riley and any agents or employees of the City of New Orleans shall:
• cease and desist confiscating lawfully-possessed firearms from all citizens;
• make an aggressive attempt to return any and all firearms which may have been confiscated during the period August 29 to December 31, 2005;
• within one month of the settlement, post on the City website the procedure for the return of confiscated firearms. This notice must include an interactive form for those claiming firearms to fill out, resulting in timely transmission of the information to the appropriate official. All other information on claiming a firearm will also be included on the site.
• within one month of the settlement, the City must mail notices to all individuals who are identified on the property tags of firearms in the City's possession which were confiscated during the aftermath of Katrina.
"On behalf of the lawful gun owners of New Orleans, NRA is pleased with this outcome," said Chris W. Cox, NRA's chief lobbyist. "We thank Judge Barbier for his leadership and constitutional scholarship in presiding over our lawsuit. NRA will continue to aid however we can in the full return of all the firearms confiscated by the City."
What should be pointed out here, in spite of the constant harping by the media about the guns, it was never really about the guns in storage!
Law enforcement officials seized what is now believed to be thousands of guns from citizens for months following Hurricane Katrina. The correspondingly small number of guns which were stored were only those turned in to NOPD—and few of those were of any great worth.
Quotes from officers in depositions to NRA/SAF investigators stated most of the quality guns were kept while the junk was tossed in the lakes and canals of New Orleans. A lot of the guns stored were junk which were turned in as red herrings to show the guns were not being stolen.
Those guns became the public focal point in the battle between the NRA/SAF and New Orleans.
But the permanent injunction is what the gun rights organizations wanted, and is the reason for the continued fight and resistance by the city. A permanent injunction doesn't leave a lot of wiggle room the next time a traffic cop steals a handgun from a motorist.
With the permanent injunction now in place against the city, ANY violation of this injunction by any representative of the city can result in the city being immediately cited for violating the injunction, opening the way for serious penalties.
As Dan Holliday described it to me, the purpose was always to gain the permanent injunction. Thus it is recorded in federal court that the city may never again take any guns from any citizen without due process.
This allows a complaint to be brought directly and instantly to the court, and places New Orleans in contempt of a federal court order—a situation taken seriously by the courts and those in contempt. Such an action could result in jail time and fines for the mayor and superintendent if such actions occur again.
So the next time you're stopped in New Orleans, if the cop takes your gun, and offers some song and dance about you don't have a receipt so therefore you have no proof you own it, be sure and get his/her name. And keep the ticket as proof of the stop--and call the NRA and the SAF.
This time, we have a hammer.
13 comments:
- Xavier said...
These are the best points I have heard yet about the entire proceedings..... And they make perfect sense.
- December 11, 2008 at 11:26 PM
- Don said...
So, grossly, massively, violate the United States Constitution involving hundreds maybe thousands of individual citizens and you get a warning not to do it again, but violate a federal court order and you may get jail time and fines. Seems a little, I don't know...BACKWARD!
Oh, and I'll believe the jail time and fines when I see them. I can already hear the excuses: it was just one incident, he got his gun back, no harm no foul, we're sorry, we've made great strides in improving the situation, it was an anomaly, it won't happen again. OK...hold out your wrist...slap, slap.
- December 24, 2008 at 12:46 PM
Next time..give em to em bullets 1st
Otherwise you MIGHT never get the right back!
- March 2, 2009 at 1:11 PM
i am affraid what happened in new orleans could happen all over the US. they are hoping to pass the AAA ammunition accountabilit act already. don't know what we'd do without the NRA
- June 8, 2009 at 1:21 AM
- marie said...
gcan anyone tell me why, washington wants amnesty when our unemployment is over 8%.
can anyone tell me why they continue to reward bad behavior like the DREAM act, AKA amnesty.
or citizenship of the soil? those who came here legally must feel foolish.
- June 8, 2009 at 1:28 AM
AMEN BROTHER...It is not our obligation to prove what we own is not stolen...this is the very basis of the Bill of Rights!
- March 21, 2010 at 8:45 PM
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- June 10, 2010 at 12:45 AM
Did you see the videos of the police & national guard holding automatic weapons in the read to shoot position fingers on the trigger, always several at one person. And how 3 or 4 of them jumped onto the very little old lady (it's hard to tell so many were trying to jump her)
and you seriously think it's a good idea to ask these wild and crazy adrenaline junkies for a receipt?
any sane person who hears they are confiscating weapons should throw them unloaded out the back window, after making sure the coast is clear, so when they bust the door down and ask if there are any weapons in the house, you can say, "no" I threw them in the back yard, they are not loaded, and hope they don't have a fit and shoot you anyway.
and if you are stupid enough to have a video camera going bolted to the wall, they will probably tear the wall confiscating that too.
My dad was a Judge, and he left me with one very important piece of wisdom, "never argue with a police officer" I'm sure he emphasized never.
If you get their badge or identification, do so without letting them, asking them, when their adrenaline is pumping full speed ahead is like arguing with a speeding locomotive heading the wrong way, but heading toward you.
get out of the way, later you can talk to the man in charge of the railroad.
But if you aren't on your face, get the badge number, and as much as you can remember, just don't let them know you are doing so. If you have a camera recording, don't let them know.
later if it seems practical (one never knows these days) a few years ago maybe. but these days, who knows, maybe in the morning, every door in the states will be knocked down?
But if still have rights to take to court, write down the info you remember asap, see a lawyer, preferably from a big organization.
In the meantime, don't go to sleep, we loose our rights because very few people are fighting for them. How does one fight? stay informed, vote, find a candidate who had a chance of winning, then volunteer to go door to door, waking up all the other voters.
It takes WORK, I know that's a four letter word. But it's better than being dead, and that's where you and your rights will be unless you fight=work for them. God bless, don't forget to pray. Unless the Lord build the house, they that labor, labor in vain. Unless the Lord keeps the city, the watchman wakes in vain.
A country founded on God, cannot stand without God.
That's the way it is, now and forever.
- November 4, 2010 at 2:07 AM
Did you see the videos of the police & national guard holding automatic weapons in the read to shoot position fingers on the trigger, always several at one person. And how 3 or 4 of them jumped onto the very little old lady (it's hard to tell so many were trying to jump her)
and you seriously think it's a good idea to ask these wild and crazy adrenaline junkies for a receipt?
make a mental note of their badge number secretively, never argue with a police officer, yes sir them to death, they live for that, then take them to court later
- November 4, 2010 at 2:09 AM
As a police officer and a gun rights activist, I could never follow an illegal order to take any property from anyone. People's 2nd and 4th amendment rights were violated during the approximate 5 month confiscation sweeps.
I just wanted to ask, wasn't the state/federal military involved in those sweeps as well? Where are they involved in the court hearings? Didn't the military also occupy vacant homes without permission?
- December 9, 2012 at 2:39 AM
- Michael Chaney said...
I talk about this a lot, and I'm going to do so until I see a difference.
Please quit using their language.
"Before Hurricane Katrina, it was a well-known practice of NOPD to seize guns from citizens during traffic stops, telling them they could get their guns back when they showed up at the precinct with a receipt proving ownership."
The word "seize" is one word that they would use - the other is "confiscate". One definition of seize - and the one you're using here - is literally "to confiscate". "Confiscate" is defined as "To seize by or as if by authority". The point is that the word denotes taking something from someone under some legal authority. And there are statutes in various places that give police officers the authority to seize certain items.
In this case, there's no legal authority for them to take the guns. In the absence of legal authority, this action is "robbery" - which is to take something from someone by force.
The point is that the police have no seized any weapons. They have robbed plenty of people and stolen their firearms.
Call it what it is. When you say they "seize" the guns it makes it sound legitimate. It's not, and they know it's not.
- January 26, 2013 at 5:06 PM
People are not very smart are they. If and when this happens again the same thing will take place the sheeple will give up their rights and will be told they can take it up with the corrupt courts at a later date in the mean time the criminal so called authoritys will steamroll over our GOD given rights ounce again. People need to stand up and not give up 1 more inch from these scumbags. Our founding fathers must be rolling in their graves. These scum is taking our rights bit by bit and one day it will all be gone. History has proven that over and over again. People wake up, do you realize that all other rights are the same in all 50 states. The 1st,4th,9th etc. Have the same protection but the 2nd is not the same in all 50 states, why do you think that is? WAKE UP BEFORE ITS TO LATE SNOWFLAKE.
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Missouri Rep. Todd Akin says the U.S. should suspend aid to Egypt because of the attack on the U.S. embassy and the repeated burning of American flags by Egyptians.
Akin said in a statement Thursday that the fact that the embassy attack occurred on Sept. 11 suggests it was planned and not spontaneous. He said if Egypt were a good ally, it should have better protected the U.S. embassy.
Akin said U.S. aid to Egypt should be suspended "until the Egyptian government takes corrective action to restore its relationship with the United States."
A six-month government funding bill pending in Congress would allow almost $130 million a month in military and economic aid to Egypt.
Akin, a Republican, is challenging Democratic U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill in the November elections.


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Penn State recruits facing questions about future
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Two prized Penn State recruits have already backed away from their verbal commitments and will go elsewhere, due to the Jerry Sandusky sex scandal hanging over the football program and the uncertainty over the Nittany Lions' next head coach.
More decommits may be on the way.
Until the focus shifts to the future instead of the ugly recent past, national recruiting analysts believe it will be difficult for the Nittany Lions to turn things around.
"They're going to need someone to come in and re-invigorate the fans," said Scott Kennedy, director of scouting for Scout.com. "In today's society, I don't think this is as program-killing as people have talked about. Not to minimize what's been going on there, but I just don't think this is akin to a death penalty.
"However, I do think in the short term it's going to get worse before it gets better."
What was at one time considered a solid class of prospects -- possibly among the 10 best in the nation -- has no choice but to pin its future on the reassurance of what is expected to be a lame-duck coaching staff. Meanwhile other programs are taking advantage of the lingering questions surrounding Penn State to spirit away players.
Five-star defensive tackle prospect Tommy Schutt from Glen Ellyn, Ill., announced on Monday he was taking back his commitment to Penn State and now says he's headed to Ohio State.
Offensive lineman Joey O'Connor, of Windsor, Colo., also has reversed his thinking and now says he will not go to Penn State. He's still considering his options.
One major reason for the defections is the stigma of the charges that Sandusky, a former Penn State assistant coach who retired in 1999 but still had an office at the school long after, allegedly abused young boys.
The Sandusky allegations led to the firing of coach Joe Paterno on Nov. 9, along with the departure of other top athletic department officials. Longtime defensive assistant Tom Bradley took over on an interim basis as the Nittany Lions went 9-3 and earned a spot in the TicketCity Bowl on Jan. 2 in Dallas against Houston.
Those who watch recruiting closely say not hiring someone sooner has cost Penn State.
"I thought they would hire a head coach by now," said Mike Farrell, national recruiting analyst for Rivals.com. "The fact that they're dragging their feet here is really giving all of these recruits the time to say, 'Well, geez, signing day is coming up pretty soon. I'd better start checking out my second options.' That's why they're starting to lose kids. I know this is an important decision but the longer they go in deciding who the next person to take over at Penn State is, the worse this is going to get -- and it's gotten pretty bad."
With no new head coach yet -- it's unlikely that Bradley or other current staffers associated with the Paterno regime will be retained -- there has been very little hope or optimism surrounding the program.
Penn State's once glittering brand name has been mentioned prominently in a persistent drumbeat of court dates, appearances, interviews and further allegations.
"The greatest enemy to Penn State right now is the lack of certainty, the unknown that is looming over this program," ESPN national recruiting analyst Tom Luginbill said.
"That's hurting recruiting for them far more than the sex scandal is. At the end of the day, prospects want to know who's going to be in charge and who's going to be coaching them, and the parents want to know who's going to be caring for their child. There's a lot more about the uncertainty of the situation that is creating problems than anything else."
On the recruiting trail, Penn State coaches are sticking with the themes they offered to recruits before Paterno was fired -- to look at the entire school and to take into account the program's history of academic success along with its tradition-rich history. But the act is growing tired.
Earlier this year, Ohio State was wracked by a tattoo scandal that led to the forced resignation of longtime coach Jim Tressel and multiple suspensions and NCAA investigations. Now Ohio State has helped to shift the focus from a year of NCAA problems by hiring new coach Urban Meyer, who won two national championships at Florida.
That gaudy hiring has helped the Buckeyes put a fresh coat of paint on their battered image and they are now considered a recruiting destination instead of one that was down and out.
"Before Penn State, Ohio State and Miami were the ones taking the brunt of all the things and now no one talks about them because this scandal is fresh and it's different," recruiting expert Tom Lemming of CBS Sports Network said. "I think a new staff comes in next year (at Penn State), with a fresh slate, and they could overcome it.
"But not this year. They're dead in the water this year."
Follow Rusty Miller on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/rustymillerap.


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Bundesliga: Augsburg 2 Gladbach 2
A late goal from susbstitute Arkadiusz Milik earned a Augsburg a 2-2 draw with Borussia Monchengladbach in an entertaining encounter.
The two sides headed into the game with identical records, having taken three wins from their first six games, and there was nothing to separate them in Friday's meeting at the SGL Arena.
Augsburg had taken the lead through winger Andre Hahn, but Gladbach looked to be on their way to victory after Max Kruse and Branimir Hrgota had turned things around, only for Polish striker Milik to deny them the points with a close-range strike.
The hosts started the game the better of the two sides, and they went close early on as Halil Altintop fired wide with a low volley.
Winger Juan Arango crashed a shot against the crossbar as Gladbach grew into the game, but it was Augsburg who seized the initiative after 27 minutes, Hahn firing past Marc-Andre ter Stegen at the near post after being played through by Tobias Werner.
It took the visitors just six minutes to level, though, attacking midfielder Kruse converting from Christoph Kramer's pull back after good work from Raffael.
The scores remained level until the break, but midway through the second half, Swedish attacker Hrgota met Kruse's left-wing cross with a wonderful driven effort that flew past Alex Manninger and into the bottom corner.
Augsburg began to dictate the game as they pushed for the equaliser and two minutes from time they get their reward, Milik collecting Hahn's far-post delivery to tap in and ensure a share of the spoils.


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Women's History Books: A List from Random House Children's Books
By Bianca Schulze, The Children's Book Review
Published: March 23, 2011
This is an abbreviated version of a list of books put together by Lauren Donovan from Random House Children's Books.
TILLIE THE TERRIBLE SWEDE: How One Woman, a Sewing Needle, and a Bicycle Changed History
By Sue Stauffacher; illustrated by Sarah McMenemy
When Tillie Anderson came to America, all she had was a needle. So she got herself a job in a tailor shop and waited for a dream to find her. One day, a man sped by on a bicycle. She was told "bicycles aren't for ladies," but from then on, Tillie dreamed of riding—not graceful figure eights, but speedy, scorching, racy riding! And she knew that couldn't be done in a fancy lady's dress. . . . With arduous training and her (shocking!) new clothes, Tillie became the women's bicycle-riding champion of the world. Sue Stauffacher's lively text and Sarah McMenemy's charming illustrations capture the energy of America's bicycle craze and tell the story of one woman who wouldn't let society's expectations stop her from achieving her dream.
Alfred A. Knopf | January 25, 2011 | Ages 5-8 | 40 pgs
Add this book to your collection: TILLIE THE TERRIBLE SWEDE: How One Woman, a Sewing Needle, and a Bicycle Changed History


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Now if you look closely at this table then you will see that Y is the same as A, while Z is simply A or B. Now this would be simple to implement using an Arduino, in fact you would just need the following sketch.
void setup() { pinMode(11, OUTPUT); // output Y pinMode(12, OUTPUT); // output Z pinMode(8, INPUT); // input A pinMode(9, INPUT); // input B } void loop() { digitalWrite(11, digitalRead(8)); digitalWrite(12, digitalRead(8) | digitalread(9)); }This could be simplified slightly by not using the Arduino to set Y and just using A directly, but it would still require three pins to read A and B and generate Z. Given the limited number of pins on an Arduino this seems wasteful. Now most logic gates can be built from a combination of transistors, but again they can quickly get complicated, especially if you need more than one logical operation. Fortunately there are a number of cheap integrated circuits that you can buy that implement the standard logical operations (and some not so common). After a quick trip to Maplin on Thursday, 99 pence got me a single chip with four 2-input OR gates: the 74HCT32N from NXP. It was simple to add it to the breadboard and wire it into my circuit instead of using the Arduino to compute the OR.
The only problem arose when I went to record my circuit using Fritzing. Clearly Fritzing can't support every single component in the world, and it didn't have a specific component to represent the 74HCT32N. It does, however, have a number of generic parts which are easy to customize. One of these allows you to represent any integrated circuit by specifying the number of pins etc. The problem is that this generates a breadboard view where the chip is simply labelled IC and a schematic view that just labels the pins on the chip and tells you nothing about the internal workings. Now for a complex chip this makes sense but for something as simple as OR gates it would be helpful if the schematic view included them.
Now you can create parts from scratch, but after an hour or so of trying and getting nowhere, I hit upon a simpler solution.
The first step is to use the parts editor (ignoring the warning about it being bug ridden) to label the pins and properly name the component etc. Once you are happy with those values click to save it as a new part.
The new part will be listed in the "MINE" parts bin. Simply right-click on it and choose "Export Part". This will give you a file with a fzpz extension. This is just a zip file which you need to unpack. You should find that you now have five files: a fzp file which describes the part and four SVG image files for the icon, breadboard, schematic and PCB views.
You can now go ahead and edit the SVG files. Be careful not to edit or alter any of the connectors in the images but otherwise it's safe to make changes. If you are wanting to draw logic gates inside a chip then you can simply grab the appropriate images from Wikipedia which makes life really easy as all you need to add are the connections between the gates and the pins. As well as improving the schematic view I also edited the icon and breadboard views: the breadboard view now gives the full part number and the icon shows OR instead of IC. Note that to avoid any problems try saving to plain SVG rather than any application specific extension.
Once you are happy with the images go back to the part editor and replace the images with the new versions (even though I didn't edit the PCB image I replaced it anyway as a bug in the part editor means it seems to get lost if you don't). Once you are happy you can export the part again if you want to keep a backup copy or share it with other Fritzing users.
I'm going to make any custom components I produce available to anyone who wants them. For now there is just this single chip but they will all appear here.