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And CD's sound a lot better than streaming, I'll bet.
They won't do that, especially since the Repukes support the rights of corporations to do what they want. As much as I hate to say this (since it's likely to be hard), you'll have to see about getting the Green Party or the Socialist Party elected to some ballots in a few states (and starting at the local level but working from the bottom up)-they care about this a lot, I'll bet.
Does Fox even own the rights?
No, it wouldn't unless there's millions of people who want to buy the DVD (remember, the show hasn't been seen for decades and isn't as popular as a newer show, or as popular as an older show with an active [and vocal] fan base, like Star Trek.
Trust me when I say that the bootlegs are shit; you might as well just wait for the show to be rerun on TV Land or Me-TV, and then just record it off of TV onto a high quality video format like S-VHS or onto a DVD recorder.
I agree, as there's no way that copyright's going away any time soon.
Not in Japan, where the copyrights are different, and where you can get the show on Blu-Ray DVD:
My guess is that it's Harlan Ellison, who sued Google for letting other sci-fi books by other authors be read for free without payment in royalties. He won the case, and is proud of it, I guess (even more so because he hates computers and the Internet.)
Correction: the DVD is getting only half of the music on the show (about 75-85% of the 250 songs that were featured), not everything.
...Mostly because CBS only cares about crime shows like this, and little else (no variety shows/specials [except for the Tony Awards], no sci-fi to speak of [and they own Star Trek] no miniseries as in the 70's, 80's, and 90's)-no, just reality TV, crime shows, and comedy.
It should really be called the CRBS (Crime and Reality Broadcasting System.)
The converse (and the reason for the rise of said e-readers) is that people will only buy so many books until their living space becomes so full of stuff that they have to (or are forced to) sell it or give the stuff away.
Why would it care about exposing this guy?
We need media re-regulation, and soon, or we're all fucked.
"Because we can. You wanna make sumthin of it?"
Because it`s a written and actually existing law? Stop making up bullshit just to support Snowden.
The connection is only in YOUR mind, and nobody else`s that can think clearly.
There`s something called going to the U.S. embassy and turning oneself in, I guess? He could try that.
U.S. law pretty much spells it out, I`d think. And unlike you, at least I do think.
Those had NOTHING to do with this incident, other than emoprogs trying to play `connect the dots`and failing.
Well, at the most, all he deserves is 50 years in jail, not a hanging-that, I`ll be glad to see happen to him. And I hope that Greenbum goes with him.
I guess that the people who did accept the consequences and did go to jail in the past for what they believed (Nelson Mandela, MLK, etc.)are `fools` by your reckoning, then.
BTW, asswipe, they`re not `my` precious spy agencies, but thanks for being a libertarian emoprog fool and idiot with no sense of history other than what happened to them yesterday all of the same.
You need to read Saul Alinsky first before you do.

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Do you want to learn all about the Culture, History and Traditions of the Fijian People, then the Kalevu Cultural Centre is well worth a visit and will be one of the most interesting and informative experiences you'll have during your stay in Fiji.Situated on the Coral Coast 10 minutes from Sigatoka town The Kalevu Cultural Centre is hidden away within the four and a half acre grounds of Gecko's Resort. The Centre provides a glimpse into the way of life in a traditional Fijian village which has been created to be as authentic as possible. The hour long tour takes you through the traditional Bure's where you can learn all about the Fijian History, Culture and Traditions including Pottery and Tapa Cloth demonstrations.
There are two ways to experience the Cultural Centre:-
One Hour Tour
You can participate in an hours long guided tour with one of our knowledgeable Local Fijian Guides Lapani or Samu, they will walk you through the authentic Village providing you with all the information on Fijian History, Culture and Traditions and provide the answers to all your questions. Upon request you can participate in a Kava Ceremony. The tour is both fun and informative and is recommended to all age groups.
Half Day Tour
Group bookings of fifteen people or more are welcome and on arrival would be greeted by Traditional Warriors before participating in the one hour long tour as above. A Fijian Lovo Buffet Lunch would then be served which is a form of Fijian cooking involving a hole in the ground with fire wood and coconut husk as the heat source and rocks as the heat material. Meat, fish and vegetables are wrapped in banana leaves and then placed on top of the heated stones and cooked for about two and a half hours. Cool Tropical Fruits are then served for dessert. The event will then proceed with a spectacular traditional Meke presented by the local villages which includes dances from the Islands of the South Pacific concluding with the spectacular Samoan Fire Dance.
Booking in advance is recommended so as not to be disapointed.
ContactThe Kalevu Cultural Centre is situated 10 minutes from Sigatoka Town on the Queen's Highway very close to Cuvu Village and The Shangri La Fijian Resort.
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On one of those recent days, I had been busy working at home all day and followed it up with a late afternoon dental appointment. Sitting in the chair in my little paper bib waiting for the dentist, I was doing a mental inventory of the groceries stuffed into my fridge and remembered purchasing some zucchini. Mmm. Zucchini Oven Fries would be good. They would be excellent with Paninis. Yum. What a great pairing. Ding. Ding. We have a winner.
Or, rather, I had a winner until I sent a text to Hubby announcing the menu. He wasn't feeling it. He wanted something else, but didn't know what. I was back at square one. Ugh.
I think that I gave up that night and let Hubby create some concoction with leftover Chipotle Pork. I know that I didn't starve, but whatever we had for dinner wasn't memorable, and certainly wasn't crispy with Parmesan on the outside while moist and tender on the inside Zucchini Oven Fries or layers of deli meat and melted, cheesy goodness inside the crunch of a perfectly grilled Panini. A craving had developed, and there was no need for Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe the next night. I had to have Zucchini Oven Fries and Our Favorite Paninis On My Plate.
Zucchini Oven Fries
1/3 cup seasoned bread crumbs
(I usually combine plain bread crumbs with garlic powder, onion powder, and Italian seasoning, all to taste.)
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
(Honestly, the green can does work well for this, even though I prefer fresh grated.)
4-5 small zucchini
1 beaten egg
Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
Trim zucchini and cut in half lengthwise, then slice into 1/4 inch wide sticks resembling french fries.
Combine bread crumbs and grated cheese in a shallow bowl.
Beat egg in a 2nd shallow bowl and dip zucchini fries into egg, then into crumb mixture.
Place on baking sheet coated with nonstick cooking spray.
Bake at 450 degrees for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown and tender. (Serves 4)
2 tablespoons mayo
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
4 slices Swiss cheese
4 slices provolone (or mozzarella) cheese
4 slices cheddar cheese
1/2 lb deli turkey
1/2 lb deli ham
1/2 lb sandwich pepperoni
1/2 lb Genoa salami
pepperoncini peppers, cut
Preheat the panini grill.
Combine mayo and mustard together and spread on each slice of bread.
Layer remaining ingredients on each of 4 slices of the bread.
Start with Swiss cheese, then ham, cheddar cheese, then turkey, provolone (or mozzarella) cheese, then salami and pepperoni, and finally peppers before topping with remaining 4 slices of bread.
Brush the outside of each sandwich with butter and grill until crispy on the outside and melty on the inside. (Serves 4)


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The establishment of Taiwan's first dedicated intellectual property rights court, the Intellectual Property Court (IPC), in 2008 introduced a new system of technical examination officers. These officers are said to be "shadow judges" due to the ambiguity of their status and this affects confidence in the court's decisions. With intellectual property becoming more important globally, it is necessary to define the officers' statuses.
Intellectual property lawsuits frequently involve specialized technical knowledge, and in addition to proposing a set of special litigation and trial procedural laws, the IPC, after having looked at the Japanese and South Korean legal systems, introduced technical examination officers to assist judges. On the instruction of a judge, these officers collect and analyze technical information and provide feedback.
According to the Intellectual Property Case Adjudication Rules, written suggestions provided by technical examination officers do not have to be revealed to the parties to a lawsuit. The IPC also stresses that judges direct both cases and rulings, suggestions by technical examination officers only serve as a reference for judges, and the officer's position is equal to that of a judge's assistant.
However, in practice, because these officers may question the parties to a lawsuit, although the parties know nothing of interactions between the officer and the judge, parties may feel that the officer acts as a shadow judge, wielding crucial influence over the final ruling.
With the introduction of technical examination officers, the court's reliance on expert witnesses has dropped sharply, which makes people feel that these officers take on the role of an expert witness. While parties to a case can question the evidence of an expert witness, they have no way to understand the thinking of a technical examination officer and that affects a ruling's credibility.
Article 8 of the Intellectual Property Case Adjudication Act (智財案件審理法) says: "Before any special professional knowledge already known to the court is adopted as grounds for a judgement, parties shall be accorded an opportunity to present their arguments regarding such knowledge. The Presiding Judge or Commissioned Judge shall direct the parties to issues concerning the legal relations of the disputed matters, and shall, whenever appropriate, provide his legal opinions and disclose conviction."
The special professional background of the technical examination officers and the analysis they provide to the court could be defined as expert knowledge that is already known to the court, so perhaps parties to a case should be given an opportunity to question the officers, and the officers should be required to disclose and explain their convictions based on the procedural safeguards included in the Code of Civil Procedure (民事訴訟法).
Many of the Supreme Court's decisions on patent infringements also invoke the same rule, stressing that courts should implement an appropriate procedure for disclosing convictions.
Both the regulations in the Intellectual Property Case Adjudication Act and the intent of the Supreme Court's rulings are the foundations for allowing the parties to a lawsuit to question a technical examination officer.
The introduction of the officers has had a major impact on intellectual property litigation and it has contributed to litigation efficiency. However, their status is ambiguous and that will affect parties' confidence in final rulings. This, unfortunately, could have a negative impact on the good intentions behind the establishment of this dedicated court.


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Sooshi Sooshi – Hazmieh
Contemporary Japanese cuisine
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Japanese menu: starters, soup, salads, suhi, sashimi, maki, temaki, gunkan, teriaki, sets…
Suitable for vegetarians. Serves alcohol.
Owner's Word
Hazmieh, Mar Roukoz Area, Mekhitariste street next to Daebbis, Hourani center.
3 Reviews
May 16, 2012 at 21:50The restaurant is very small and looks like a snack. The service is very friendly. The taste of the sushi and maki is average, some are excellent and some are not that good.
Sep 24, 2012 at 10:18Good sushi. Recommended for delivery.
Jan 11, 2013 at 22:18i have tried many sushi places but never tried tastier and fresher than this place...I am and will always be a regular and 3 thumbs up...
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Phone Number: 05 951 195 or 71 750 500
Website: http://www.sooshisooshi.com/
This restaurant makes delivery.
Opening hours
Monday to Sunday 12 pm - 12 am
Get there
Hazmieh, Mar Roukoz Area, Mekhitariste street next to Daebbis, Hourani center.
See Also
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Sushi Bento - Ashrafieh(13 votes)
Small and cozy sushi restaurant
Le Hanoi - Ashrafieh(5 votes)
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Wok n'Roll - Hamra(3 votes)
Chinese and Japanese Casual Restaurant
Ô Japon - Sodeco(4 votes)
Small Restaurant with Competitive Prices
Le Sushi Bar - Ashrafieh(6 votes)
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Posted by Bob on September 29, 2003
In Reply to: Help! Dictionaryless & Parapetetic - thanks posted by Lotg on September 29, 2003
: : : We've recently moved house and the only dictionary to surface so far in the unpacking is my partner's Collins - which I'm hear to tell you is an awful dictionary.
: : : So yesterday someone used the word 'parapetetic' (spelling???). This is a word I've heard before and I love the sound of it, but have no idea what it means, and I can't find it in David's Collins dictionary. Is it derived from parapet? If I've spelt it incorrectly, then probably not. If it is, then it makes no sense in the sentence in which it was used yesterday.
: : : Oh, and yes, I do know there's no such word as 'dictionaryless'. That was just a desperate plea for help.
: : Parapetetic basically deals w/ someone who tends to "walk around." For example, they said Jesus was a parapetetic teacher because he taught as he walked.... Guy
: Thanks Guy
Peripatetic. From the Greek "peri," around, as in perimeter, or periphrastic. At one time, peripatetic was more or less reserved for Aristotelians.


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This is Red Bull Racing's launch video for their 2013 F1 car. It shows an obsession with high-tech manufacturing on par with Metropolis.
The problem with Formula One is that the technology is so advanced, that it's hard to get a sense of what the cars are actually made of, and what they're doing. Well, this video shows you perfectly.
We can't stop watching them make the transmission. There's something about those tiny gears and forks coming together like a watchmaker's high-speed fantasy.


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By Jobin on Thursday, April 29, 2010I really love this car - it's a head turner. I bought mine used with 1200 miles, saving over $11k in the process (due mainly to public demand and the subsequent dealer mark-up). I'm happy to see that since buying last July (2009) that I am still well in the black on this car. I have modded mine but maintained every little part (down to valve caps and bulbs) so that a future purist may easily return this numbered first edition car to factory stock. I agree with some of the reviews here that the Ram's heads do not belong on the car (made for the trucks IMHO) and I have replaced all mine with nostalgic Challenger logos (except for the steering wheel - haven't quite figured out how to get around that one with the airbag). The interior was kind of bland but (additional) carbon fiber and some well placed billet accents have brought it to life. The trunk is MASSIVE. The only negative things I could say about the car are: (1) The huge blind spot created by the large C pillars - I can deal with this though because I feel that the C pillars are necessary for that nostalgic look and you get used to it. (2) The body has minor factory blemishes that could've been worked out better. (3) Many of the mods I made should've been factory options or standard - this really isn't a bad thing as they make my car unique amongst 3rd gen Challengers. (4) Too many of these became trailer queens - get out and drive the car fools!! Other than that, Dodge has nailed it! You Camaro owners can continue to eat your hearts out! (I'd say the same for the Mustang but it is the only Ford I am fond of - remember, the Challenger and Camaro went away for many years, the Mustang simply evolved). I could go on forever but go test drive one, you'll see.
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By Ridgeback on Saturday, October 14, 2017Ive owned nothing but Ford products my entire life, I have owned 3 Mustangs and decided to make the jump to a more roomy Muscle car style vehicle. I thought I was going to compromise the performance by going with a roomier and heavier car.....I was wrong. My Scat Pack Challenger is everything I could ever want. Lots of attention, beautiful car, very comfortable, sounds incredible and has extremely good performance. I wont buy another 2 door coupe out there if this car is available. I just wish I had bought the Hellcat model. Other than that....my favorite vehicle ive ever owned. I love it!!
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There should be a drinking game where people have to consume as much alcohol as possible and the last person still able to say "Hada Labo Super Hyaluronic Acid Moisturizing Olive Cleansing Oil Review" gets £50.
Well, I am officially a cleanser hoarder, and a few months ago purchased this Hada Labo Super Hyaluronic Acid Moisturizing Olive Cleansing Oil. Hada Labo is a drug store, high street, whatever you want to call it skincare brand and when it's good, it's so good.
So brand reputation is one of the reasons I bought this. Also because it's mineral oil free and uses olive oil as a base. I love olives.
Alas – it was not to be. Whilst I love that this cleansing oil can be used on the eyes to remove waterproof mascara (does a decent job as long as you don't mind walking round for 10 minutes after, like you have cataracts).
Moreover it's drying. In fact I have started to find most cleansing oils very drying, maybe not after one use but over the space of a week, I notice dry areas forming. It left my skin so parched but it may be much better for oily complexions.
I bought this from adambeauty.com for about £8.


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Lawrence "Dago" Mangano
He's obscure now, but "Dago" Mangano was one rung away from the top of the Chicago Outfit's ladder in 1944 when hit men pumped some 200 shotgun pellets and five .45 caliber bullets into him.
by Allan May
Lawrence "Dago" Mangano was listed by the Chicago Crime Commission as a public enemy as early as 1923. The day before his funeral in 1944 a Chicago Times article called him, "the immigrant who became 'public enemy' No. 4." In William Roemer's book Accardo: The Genuine Godfather, he states, "In 1931 he (Tony Accardo) was arrested, again with a guy who would ascend the ladder and become one of the most famous names in the Chicago mob: Dago Lawrence Mangano." For someone who was rumored to be that close to the top leadership rung on the Chicago Outfit's ladder, little is known of Mangano.
Mangano grew up in Chicago's notorious "Patch" section, an area that also spawned "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn, Frankie Pope, Albert Anselmi, and "Diamond Joe" Esposito. His first recorded prosecution was in 1912 for pandering. One source says he was arrested over 200 times, but never spent a day in prison, this being attributed to "bum raps" and "good lawyers." Another source states, "he had a long record of charges and imprisonments for vice, gambling, larceny, etc."
In 1928, Chicago Police Captain Luke Garrick raided one of Mangano's gambling dens. Mangano responded by bombing the captain's house. When Capone was battling the Aiello brothers, Mangano and Capone gunman Phil D'Andrea called Dominic Aiello and warned him to leave town, they then punctuated that message by shooting up his bakery. Mangano later worked with Ralph Capone and Charles Fischetti as the three were put in charge of beer distribution.
Mangano was a suspect in two prominent murders in 1931. On April 29 he was playing cards with Mike "de Pike" Heitler, the aging Chicago pimp who had become a thorn in Capone's side. The following day, Heitler's charred remains were found in a burning house in the suburbs. Mangano was held in police custody for three days and then released. The second murder was the Aug. 1 shooting of North Sider Jack Zuta. Mangano's close friend, Tony Accardo, was also suspected of taking part in this hit.
With the end of prohibition, gambling became the number one source of illegal income for the underworld in America. Most of the action in Chicago could be found in the Loop where Mangano was one of the top bosses. The Outfit's gambling interests were protected by the Kelly-Nash political machine. Edward J. Kelly was mayor of Chicago while Patrick A. Nash was the chairman of the Cook County Democratic Central Committee.
Another political friend of Mangano's was Joseph Adduci. Elected to the Illinois House of Representatives in 1934, Adduci caught a lot of heat in the newspapers because of his relationship with Mangano and mob extortionist Willie Bioff. Adduci would later testify before the Kefauver Committee that Mangano had helped finance his political career.
For Chicago's gambling underworld, the war years caused a boom, but also ignited bloody turf battles. Gambling activities picked up in all fields: casinos and nightclubs, horse race betting, and betting on baseball, football, and basketball games. New gamblers were out pushing for a piece of the action. By 1943, the gambling battles turned every bit as vicious as the bootleg wars of the 1920s. With new operations springing into existence, the number of killings increased as syndicate figures battled for dominance.
The year 1943 would also be a benchmark year in the history of the Chicago Outfit. As the result of indictments handed down in a Hollywood extortion case, the top layer of the Chicago leadership was about to be removed. Frank Nitti committed suicide in March, and later in the year, Paul Ricca and Louis Campagna were found guilty in the extortion case and sent to prison. Accardo was destined for the top spot. His only competition was believed to be Mangano.
Also in 1943, one half of the Kelly-Nash combine died, Nash on October 6, and Kelly had to assume the chairmanship of the central committee. Protecting the gambling syndicate was still an important function of Chicago politicians and Moe Rosenberg was making sure the protection fees kept rolling in. When Rosenberg died, Ben Zuckerman replaced him. When Zuckerman was murdered on Jan. 14, 1944, Mangano was a suspect.
On August 3, 1944, Mangano was on his way home from Cicero at 4 a.m. after a night of visiting various gambling joints. With him were Michael Pontillo, his bodyguard, and Rita Reyes, a young lady friend of Pontillo. Reyes had met Pontillo in a bar and had been out with him for two days straight, missing two days of work from her job in a war factory. The divorced, 25-year-old Reyes lived with her brother and sister and had left behind a scribbled note, "Take care of the dog. I won't be home for a couple of days."
As the trio drove on, Mangano noticed that they were being followed. Thinking that it was the police, he asked Pontillo for a five-dollar bill. "I'll pull around the corner and if they follow me I'll know it's a squad," Mangano stated. He figured the five dollars might settle any problem.
Mangano pulled to the side of the road on Blue Island Avenue just past Taylor Street. He stepped out of the car to meet his pursuer. When the big black car drew near gunshots sounded and Mangano fell in the street as the vehicle sped past. Pontillo and Reyes managed to drag Mangano to the sidewalk. While they did, the hit men circled the block. When Pontillo spotted the car again, he pushed Reyes down, but this time he was severely wounded.
Although over 200 shotgun pellets and five .45 caliber bullets hit Mangano, he was still alive. A police officer, who was a block away when the shooting started, arrived and asked Mangano who shot him. "If I knew I'd tell you," he moaned. Mangano was rushed to Bridewell Hospital where he begged the doctors to, "put me to sleep." He died at 5:48 a.m. Pontillo died five hours later.
There was only a small turnout for Mangano's funeral. The papers reported the mourners were mostly women relatives "who embraced each other tearfully." Only three bouquets of flowers were reported.
Police theorized that Mangano's death was in retaliation for the Zuckerman murder. Other mob insiders believed Accardo was just making sure he didn't have any competition for the top spot.
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The Unity of Man Conferences take up the line of the first World Conference on Unity of Man under the presidency of Sant Kirpal Singh, which was the beginning of the movement. In His auspicious welcome speech Sant Kirpal Singh highlighted the Conference aims:
"This convention aims to unite all mankind on the common ground of service to fellow human beings and Faith in Divine Power, and to accomplish that, it urges the religious and ethical leadership of the world to shed apathy and aloofness and assume a more prominent role in human affairs. Such conferences in the past have been organized at the level of religions, and consequently have not been able to achieve integration in the required measure. A significant feature of this conference is that it is being organized at the level of man, as envisioned by saints and prophets like Socrates, Buddha, Mohammed, Christ, Kabir, and Nanak, so that it may lead to true integration.
I am confident that each one of us fully realizes the significance of this cosmopolitan meeting and will extend his whole-hearted support toward the fulfillment of its objectives: developing human understanding and heralding the unity of mankind. Let us pledge ourselves to this task, transcending all narrow allegiances and commitments, and stand united and resolute until its ultimate fulfillment."
After the first World Conference on the Unity of Man 1974 in Delhi, among a series of national and local meetings and smaller conferences, two World Conferences in 1994 and 2007 at Kirpal Sagar set milestones on the way. The line of conferences have resulted in a warm and constant contact with representatives of different faiths and public personalities. In a smaller or larger scale conferences on the unity of man are being convened from time to time, encouraging to live the ideal of unity in day-to-day life.


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Is it meant to have that pixel column effect on each 8x8 matrix as it scrolls?
Other than that it looks good.
Just uploaded it.....no difference in this compared to the video I posted....
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Two of EA's biggest games had rough launches last year, and although SimCity seems to be in a stable place right now, the Battlefield 4 issues (and patches) continue — to the point where EA won't work on downloadable content for their shooter until everything is fixed.
The question is how are they going to handle these sort of launches in the future? In a brusque interview on Rock Paper Shotgun today, writer Nathan Grayson presses EA's chief creative officer Rich Hilleman — a well-respected game designer and one of the creators of Madden — about the continuing issues facing the publisher's multiplayer games.
Here's an excerpt:
RPS: SimCity and BF4 both had terrible launches. SimCity didn't work for more than a month, and BF4 still has issues. Surely you're overhauling how you approach launches internally from now on?
Hilleman: I'm not sure I accept your premise. Battlefield 4 has been an exceedingly successful product on both consoles and PC. From a sales perspective, from a gameplay perspective.
RPS: Sure, BF4 is fundamentally a good game, but you can't just write off months of glitches and server issues. Some people straight up could not play for the first couple weeks.
Hilleman: I think there was a lot of noise about the game, but some of that is a function of your surface area. The more customers you have, the more noise becomes available. We did things wrong. We know that. We're gonna fix those things. We're gonna try to be smart about what customers want in the future. But I'm not willing to accept — and I don't think most of my customers are willing to say — "it's a bad product, I wish I didn't buy it." That's not the conversation we're having now. I think what we're hearing is, "You made a game we really liked. We would've liked it a little better if it didn't have these problems." Many of those problems we can fix, and we have and will.
That's a little disarming — and while Hilleman goes on to promise that they "know how to not have the problem next time" — it's hard to imagine that anyone who couldn't play Battlefield 4 stably for two months after launch is pleased by EA's assertions that this was "an exceedingly successful product". If you spent money on SimCity, and then again on Battlefield 4, how can you trust that this won't happen again when you buy, say, Titanfall, or the next big multiplayer game by EA?


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By Gabriel Francis, Kiva Fellow class 12 in Costa Rica
When asked what they think of Costa Rica most people usually refer to the poster in their local travel agency, white palm beaches, virgin cloud forests, and toucans. Yet, there is a side of Costa Rica that the tour packages pouring out of San Jose regrettably fail to recount. The truth is, while eco-tourism and liberal trade agreements have brought prosperity to some in Costa Rica, many Ticos still live below the poverty line.
Is ignorance bliss? We Kiva Lenders know better.
Why you should lend in Costa Rica
As a Kiva Fellow, I was placed with one of Kiva's Field Partners to provide support and transparency into the money lending process. As you may know, all entrepreneurs on Kiva's web site are supported by local Field Partners, or micro-finance institutions (MFIs) like FUDECOSUR, who are Kiva's liaison between Kiva lenders and Kiva borrowers in southern Costa Rica. They choose which of their clients are eligible to receive Kiva support, write and upload business profiles, disburse loans, collect payments, write journal updates, and respond to lender comments. Currently, FUDECOSUR is one of three MFIs in Costa Rica and the only to focus exclusively on Costa Rica's impoverished agricultural region.
Southern Costa Rica is ripe for micro-finance innovation. For a majority of FUDECOSUR's clients their Kiva loan is the first loan they have ever received, and in some cases ever qualified for. Despite an abundance of national banking options and agricultural credit unions in the area most loan terms are too steep to afford and bank branches too difficult to reach over the muddy unpaved roads. FUDECOSUR specifically tailors its loans to serve this marginalized client base. By operating on a village banking model FUDECOSUR empowers local communities to manage their own credit resources. With your neighbor as local banker, barriers to affordable credit are significantly lowered. Village banking also creates a bond of trust in these farming communities between the organization and its users, ensuring decision-making starts at the community level. As a non-profit organization all interest payments to this partner go to extending new credit opportunities to these local banks and providing additional educational services such as computer classes. To further facilitate its agricultural clients FUDECOSUR often extends longer than average loan terms, so that when a plague or heavy rains destroy the harvest, farmers have some flexibility in payment.
Riding around in FUDECOSUR's four wheel car over the past three months, I have interviewed over one hundred Kiva borrowers and visited nearly all of its 41 village banks. Since FUDECOSUR is a new Kiva partner and still in pilot phase a majority of my work has been spent on ensuring they are prepared to scale with a Kiva funding increase. In addition to process refinement and borrower interviews, I have also compiled several Social Impact studies to measure FUDECOSUR's success in their mission to alleviate poverty. The results have been heart-warming.
Recently, Melvin, an entrepreneur in Santa Rosa de Brunca who took out a Kiva loan to purchase two cows, told me that he has really seen a difference in his community since FUDECOSUR came to town. The people have hope he says. Just by looking around he can see a difference. Houses are well kept and children go to school rather than work in their family's fields. Melvin then wondered out loud if Kiva lenders would like to help his community finance a potable water system, which they are in the process of building.
Client Profile: Doña Maria and her pigs
The Executive Director of FUDECOSUR, Leonardo, often starts off his meetings with local village banks by telling the story of a butterfly farm.
"Imagine," he says, "if at every birthday celebration, graduation, or religious ceremony if people let out butterflies! Wouldn't it be beautiful? A room full of butterflies swirling about in the warm air to complement the happiness of the occasion? All we need are you to be the butterfly farmers."
Butterflies of all colors, shapes, and sizes are abundant in Costa Rica but most importantly this kind of radical thinking exemplifies the utopian ideal we chase in micro-finance: new economic activity created where there once was none. So it is truly remarkable when such a case is found.
Doña Maria is one of the spunkiest 76 year old women I have ever met. A few years ago Maria's partner, who is 77, grew tired of trekking about in the hills of his coffee fields. The work is hard and at his age he didn't feel like battling the mud, the rain, and the ant nests to pick the ripe red berries. So Doña Maria had the innovative idea to create something out of nothing. She decided to build a pig farm.
Maria noticed that people in her village often travelled to the nearby town of Pejibeye to purchase their meat. Very few of her neighbors raised their own pigs and no butcher shop existed in her village. With a Kiva loan of $1,200 Doña Maria purchased six piglets and built a pig sty behind her house. Within six months from her loan date these pigs had already birthed 18 babies, a return of 300% on her original investment. If only my own investments showed such quick returns! Her neighbors quickly started placing bids for her pigs rather than travel all the way to neighboring town. By now Maria has a healthy business that help her and her partner earn a steady income without having to crawl around in the coffee fields. When Don Gerardo, a loan officer of FUDECOSUR, and I first met Maria she was out in knee high rubber boots and an umbrella feeding her pigs despite the heavy rains. Don Gerardo noted that he hopes he shows such initiative at that age. Who wouldn't agree?
Doña Maria's case is only one of many example I have witnessed during my time in Southern Costa Rica. Despite popular opinion, most poor people work hard and when given an opportunity to improve themselves, they take it. Truly, the power of inclusive financial services like micro-credit is astonishing.
Of course, not every story turns out with a happy ending. Every once in a while I interview a borrower where things haven't gone so well. Like Keilyn of China Kichá who took out a Kiva loan to finance her father's grocery store. Within several short months of taking the loan Keilyn lost over $3,000 from bad customers who failed to pay grocery bills made on credit. When her father became ill and required two consecutive surgeries Keilyn found herself burdened with debts beyond her means and was forced to close the store. She and her father count on the sale of the house they live in to cover her Kiva loan payments. Though few and far between stories like this are humbling reminders that although micro-finance is a valuable service it is not magic. After all, this is still real life.
The Rain in San Isidro
Here in southern Costa Rica the rainy season is in full swing. I think I've seen more rain in the past few months than I have in the past three years combined. It rains every day all day without fail and often hard enough to turn the street outside my tiny apartment in San Isidro into a full fledged river. Although it will be a relief to see some sunshine, I have to admit that I will miss the sound of rain clattering against my tin roof. The droning wash puts me to sleep at night and a warm metallic ping is my natural alarm clock in the morning.
Despite these miserable conditions the farmers of Costa Rica press on. Every day trucks loaded with bright red berries from the recent coffee harvest roll through town, leaving behind a syrupy scent that is unique to the area. It seems almost surreal that soon after my Kiva Fellowship ends those beans will follow me overseas to be ground into a dark cup for my daily coffee. As I walk among the fierce skyscrapers of the Manhattan skyline I will be more thankful than ever for the sacrifices it took to get those beans there, for the farmers of the Brunca Region of Costa Rica to which I owe an unforgettable three months, and to you, the Kiva Lenders, who are making it all possible.
On behalf of the Kiva Fellows and the entrepreneurs of the Brunca Region of Costa Rica thank you for being a Kiva Lender. Together, may we find sustainable solutions to poverty and facilitate development world-wide.
Lend to a Costa Rican Entrepreneur today!
UPDATE: Tomorrow Friday, October 23rd, 2010 I will host a one time personal interview with Leonardo, Executive Director of FUDECOSUR to be published on the official Kiva Fellows blog. If you have ever had a burning question about how micro-finance works in the real world or a specific questions for this partner, now is your chance. Please use this Google Moderator page to submit and vote on questions: http://www.google.com/moderator/#16/e=35f62
Gabriel Francis is a Kiva Fellow in Costa Rica. He will soon be trading his rain-forest for the concrete jungle of New York City.


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Former Lt. Gov. Timothy P. Murray on Friday acknowledged mistakes in overseeing his campaign fundraising, but blamed an estimated $5O,OOO in illegal fundraising uncovered in an 18-month investigation by the attorney general on errant addresses put on fundraiser invitations by his campaign staff. He also continued to place blame on former Chelsea Housing Director Michael E. McLaughlin, who he said misled him about fundraising activities.
'Unfortunately some things slipped through the cracks with a bad character,' Mr. Murray said, referring to Mr. McLaughlin, who was indicted Thursday on 12 counts of illegal fundraising for Mr. Murray's campaign organization since 2008.
Mr. McLaughlin was sentenced to 3 years in federal prison earlier this year for lying about and mis-reporting his $360,000 a year salary.
Mr. Murray said alleged illegal fundraising involving E. Bernard Plante a state Department of Transportation supervisor who is also chairman of the Millbury Board of Selectmen occurred because wrong addresses were mistakenly put on boxes ofinvitations sent to Mr. Plante's home for at least two fundraisers in Worcester while Mr. Murray was running for re-election.
A settlement agreement with the attorney general's office signed by Mr. Murray concludes that Mr. Murray failed to exercise reasonable care to prevent unlawful fundraising, and Mr. Murray said he accepts responsibility for that. Moreover, he said he can only hope other candidates learn from those mistakes. He has agreed to forfeit $5O,OOO from his campaign account to the state, pay an additional $2O,OOO fine from campaign funds, and a $1O,OOO personal fine as part of the settlement.
While the investigation identified an estimated $5O,OOO in unlawful contributions, Mr. Murray said since he began running for statewide office in 2OO6, his campaign raised over $10 million and only a small percentage about 2 percent or less came from state employees.
Questions about Mr. McLaughlin's fundraising for the campaign have been widely reported in the months leading up to Mr. Murray's decisions earlier this year not to run for governor and then to step down as lieutenant governor, to become president and CEO of the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce. But alleged unlawful fundraising linked to the DOT supervisor uncovered in the investigation was not publicly known until the settlement was announced Thursday. The investigation found that the Murray campaign 'received contributions resulting from illegal fundraising by a public employee in connection with three fundraising events held in the Worcester area,' on May 8, 2OO8, May 14, 2OO9 and May 27, 2O1O. It found that in advance of the 2OO9 and2O1Oevents, whichdrewnumerous contributions from DOT employees, boxes of invitation promoting the events were sent to Mr. Plante by Federal Express by the Murray Committee. The investigation found that Mr. Plante's son, who was working for the Murray campaign raising funds, and the committee sent the invitations to the senior Mr. Plante, a DOT supervisor, at his Millbury home.
The settlement agreement states, 'This DOT supervisor directly and indirectly solicited numerous persons for contributions and received contributions in connection with the Worcester events. Those persons included numerous DOT employees as well as other individuals.'
It further states that Mr. Murray should have known Mr. Plante was not allowed to be involved in soliciting campaign funds. Mr. Murray has contended that the invitations were sent to Mr. Plante by mistake, as his address was mixed up with his son's address by campaign workers.
State transportation officials said Friday they were reviewing the investigation's findings and had yet to determine whether any action may be taken against Mr. Plante, who as a state employee is barred from soliciting or collecting campaign funds by law. The attorney general has not brought any charges against him. Mr. Murray said he is relieved that the investigation is over and acknowledged the challenge of overseeing expansive statewide fundraising, noting the alleged unlawful activity occurred even though he hired a nationally known campaign treasurer and experienced fundraising compliance consultant.
'I moved from being mayor and having four or five fundraisers a year to running statewide with 80 to 120 events every year,' Mr. Murray said. And while he attended the events involved in the investigation himself, he said he often did not know most of the people attending and did not personally arrange them. 'You come into them and give a speech. You are in and out and it's hard to know everyone that is there,' he said, although he usually spent some time shaking hands and greeting people at the fundraisers.
He said he hopes people will view the fundraising issue in the context of all he did while serving as lieutenant governor to help people and solve problems.
'I think most people are fair and will judge a person on their body of work,' he said. The board of the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce on Friday voiced its support for Mr. Murray. In an email to members, Richard P. Burke, chairman of the chamber's board of directors, said Mr. Murray has been open and forthcoming about the investigation into his fundraising activities since he was approached about taking the top job at the chamber.
'We are confident that Tim will continue to provide the energy and focused leadership to move the chamber forward, and he has the full support of the executive committee in helping the chamber achieve our goals,' Mr. Burke said.
Mr. Murray said support from people who know him in his hometown has been very helpful while he dealt with the investigation.
'Support from people from Central Mass, and Worcester have kept me and my family going through this long and difficult process,' he said.
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Jesse Ballard III, the head of internal investigations at the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, will retire in June to take a federal job, the state agency said Friday.
The move comes as the department continues to handle the fallout from a federal gang indictment that alleged widespread corruption at the Baltimore City Detention Center, and critics have questioned whether Ballard and other top leaders could have done more to prevent the scandal.
Since 2010 Ballard has led a squad of 25 detectives who have full police powers to investigate staff and inmates at the corrections department. The agency declined to say whether Ballard was involved in the investigation leading to the corruption case or what role he has taken since it was unsealed last month.
Federal prosecutors alleged that the Black Guerrilla Family organized a lucrative scheme to smuggle drugs, cellphones and other contraband into the jail under the leadership of an inmate named Tavon White and aided by 13 female corrections officers.
Department officials said Ballard's retirement was based on a March job offer and not connected to the federal case. No replacement has been named.
"Jesse has been the rock of the unit and has managed it extremely well," Secretary Gary D. Maynard said in a statement.
Maynard said that under Ballard's leadership, the internal investigations unit "has been outstanding in its relentless pursuit of integrity." Maynard also called him "an invaluable asset to this organization" whose "leadership and integrity will be sorely missed."
Ballard, whose salary was $85,239 in 2011, is a 26-year veteran of the corrections department and began his career as a corrections officer at a state prison in Baltimore in 1987. He is taking a job with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
"The most important thing in my whole career is seeing law enforcement come to the understanding that a well-functioning integrity unit is paramount and should never be viewed as a necessary evil," Ballard said in a statement.
"My detectives and support staff do a fantastic job in often difficult situations trying to find the truth and prosecute those responsible for breaking the law. Nobody likes our process, but everybody likes our results."
The department said 53 corrections officers have been fired or resigned since Ballard took over the leadership of the internal investigations unit.
Del. John W.E. Cluster, Jr., a Baltimore County Republican who toured the state-run city jail this week, called it a "peculiar time" for Ballard to go.
"It's concerning that this is the time he's retiring," he said. "I don't know the inside the story. … It just puts up red flags."
But Cluster added that having a new person in the job might make it easier to implement reforms. "It's probably not a bad idea to bring a fresh face in to look at it," he said.
Gov. Martin O'Malley is pushing plans to clean up Maryland's prisons and jails, expanding the use of technology to block cellphone calls in corrections facilities, reviewing whether enhanced workplace protections for corrections officers helped dishonest workers stay on the job, and administering polygraph tests to jail employees to root out corruption.
But Republicans in Annapolis and a few Democrats have called on him to replace Maynard.
Del. Michael D. Smigiel Sr., a Republican who represents parts of Caroline, Cecil, Kent, and Queen Anne's counties, also questioned the timing but said that "it's good to have all the change we can have."
"What I would ask is how willing is he now to speak freely and frankly about what was going on, and why it was necessary to bring in the feds," Smigiel said. "Why couldn't he and the secretary do their jobs and protect the citizens of Baltimore, including those awaiting trial, from the Black Guerrilla Family?"
White, the alleged Black Guerrilla Family leader who also impregnated four corrections officers at the Baltimore jail, will await trial in federal custody out of state, his attorney said Friday. A federal judge ordered him moved from state custody after a hearing on the conditions of White's detention.
His lawyer Gary E. Proctor had complained his client was being held without his personal belongings and was unable to receive visitors at a Maryland prison in Cumberland.
In a court order, U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan K. Gauvey cited the "allegations of corruption among the Division of Correction's staff in at least one of its correctional institutions." It is not clear how those allegations factored into her ruling.
The department has subjected the detention center to scrutiny in the weeks since the federal indictment. Its senior leaders were required to take polygraph tests, and its head of security was forced from her job last week. More recently, the department began cycling corrections officers from other facilities to the jail to man its entrance security. Federal authorities blamed lax procedures for much of the alleged smuggling.
Del. Luiz R.S. Simmons, a Montgomery County Democrat, said Ballard's departure raises more questions about how the department is recovering from the allegations.
"I want to be fair, sometimes there are coincidences that occur," he said. "It could very well be that he was thinking about it and this accelerated it."
He added: "I do not think that the department has a good track record with respect to informing the public accurately about what's going on."
Lawmakers will question Maynard when the leadership of the General Assembly holds a hearing on the jail allegations. The panel will meet June 6.
Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton contributed to this article.


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Angry that a serial rapist could be released in their neighborhood, residents in a desert community have started a Facebook page to "keep Christopher Hubbart out of Lake Los Angeles."
The Facebook page was started on Friday to push for keeping out Hubbart, a 62-year-old man dubbed the "Pillowcase Rapist," who has admitted to raping 38 women in California between 1971 and 1982.
Community members were outraged after a Santa Clara County judge on Friday said Hubbart potentially could live in the Antelope Valley community when he's released from prison.
A formal hearing is scheduled in 45 days. He could be released as early as December.
"I, as a person will not feel safe in the only place I call home," Nichole Stone wrote on the Facebook page. "I, as a person should not have to relocate because of a judges decision."
On the page, Stone asks residents to let her know how the move will affect their lives and to include their names, addresses, and phone numbers, for a possible court action.
Lake Los Angeles is located 17 miles east of Palmdale's Civic Center.
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Like the orchestra conductor who unveils a symphony to the rhythm of his baton, RAYMOND WEIL reveals the notes on its 2013 music score, one by one. The first crescendo in its maestro collection, the Trois Aiguilles Or Rose (Three Hands Rose Gold) model, combines aesthetic refinement and watchmaking knowhow, and so this classic timekeeper all in rose gold stands proudly as one of the leading models of this year.
The maestro Trois Aiguilles Or Rose, as its name indicates, sublimates the color of the setting sun. Its case, bezel, crown, hands and indexes are in 5N PVD rose gold. Together with a silver dial and a brown leather strap with saddle stitching, the warm reflections exuded by this model's color make it irresistible. The central "clou de Paris" decor of the dial, for its part, is typical of the clean, traditional style of the maestro collection. Housed within the 39.5mm case with its extremely detailed finish, the watch's mechanical movement is visible through the sapphire crystal case back.
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Award-winning indie film producer Fahmi Reza has come up with this moving music video dedicated to all ISA victims since 1960 and to the families of current ISA detainees.
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Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Brandon Stokley had to find a top-secret location for a game of catch.
Brandon Stokley joined KKFN in Denver with the Drive to talk about having Peyton Manning in town, if he and Manning are still close, the story of him and Manning playing catch at a park near his house, what Manning's work ethic is like based on having played with him for many years in Indianapolis, and how healthy Manning appeared to him when Manning came to visit the Broncos.
On Peyton Manning being in town:
"It was fun. I was just glad he decided to come visit here. To make it his first visit you've got to think that he has a lot of interest in maybe choosing Denver as his place to play. I was excited he was coming to town."
How close he and Manning are:
"We're close friends definitely and we don't get to see each other as much as when I was there obviously but still very close friends."
On the story of him and Manning going to a park to play catch and how it came about:
"The first thing is I had a field picked out so I'm like 'okay I've got a nice, new field we will be able to go there and if you want to throw I've got a place for us' because he wasn't sure and he was tired so he woke up and was like 'okay let's go throw.' We headed off to the park, I packed my son and his friend, and my son is walking out the door with his Peyton Manning jersey on. I said 'wait a second, wait a second I think you need to change the jersey.' He said 'what jersey? Can I put on Brett Favre?' I said 'no, no Brett Favre.' So he put on his Victor Cruz jersey and we get into the car and we're going to the little field I had picked out and we're driving up there with three balls and we're ready to go. We pull up to the field and there's 30 cars there and there's a Lacrosse game going on there. (Host: Of course it is Saturday morning.) I know but it's 8:00 in the morning! Who plays Lacrosse at 8:00 in the morning? So I have no plan B. I'm like every field in Denver is going to be taken now. Like 'what am I doing? I'm supposed to have this taken care of. This is my one job to have taken care of and I'm screwing it up.' We drive back to the house and I'm like 'well I guess we can throw it in the driveway because we just want to play catch.' We start throwing in the driveway and it's good, I mean I can't run routes or anything but he's getting some good throwing in. Then my wife, being the brilliant person she is, realizes we have a little field in our neighborhood that would just be perfect. Out and about, nobody can see us, so we head over to that field, just me and him, and we're ducking and dodging the joggers and bicycle people, people riding bikes, every time somebody rides by in a bike one of us puts the ball under our shirt and just turns the other way. We end up getting some good work in, probably about 35 or 40 minutes and nobody recognized us or anything so it was great."
On Manning's work ethic:
"His work ethic seriously is second to none. When we were at Duke I told Dallas (Clark) I feel like I'm in Training Camp. We had everything set-up and it was like almost full-scale practices that we were going through. Then to come here, he has been travelling all around the world, for him to say 'hey let's try to get the throwing session in if we can,' it just speaks, I know if it were me I'd be like I'm sleeping in and I'm resting up. This guy puts everything into it. That's why he is what he is."
How healthy Manning looks:
"I mean I think he looks as good as he has ever looked to me. I think he is back to normal. I thought he looked great a week and a half ago when I was with him and we threw for three straight days and he had thrown two straight days previous, so that's five days in a row. He looked great doing that and he looked even better when he threw it to me I guess it was on Saturday. He looked even better then and he had three or four days off where he hadn't thrown at all. To me he looks like he did six years ago."
This post, written by Chris Fedor, appears courtesy of Sports Radio Interviews. For the complete highlights of the interview, as well as audio, click here.
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A former Syrian transport minister has confessed to involvement in a corruption case while he was in office, according to sources on Tuesday.
The sources, who asked not to be named, told Albawaba.com that ex-minister Mufeed Abdul Kareem, who held the transport portfolio in the last government, confessed to interrogators that he, and another former senior official, among others, were part of a corruption case related to a maintenance contract of two Jumbo airplanes, belonging to the Syrian Airlines.
They said Abdul Kareem gave evidence that former prime minister Mahmoud Zu'bi was corrupt .
The sources declined to disclose the name of the other official, but said he has been summoned by authorities four times for interrogation.
"The authorities hold in custody a small group of officials from the Public Establishment of Civil Aviation accused of involvement in the same case," the same sources added.
Previously, Lt General Omar Rida was arrested on charges of wasting more than a million US dollars in the Jumbo maintenance deal.
Zu'bi committed suicide on May 21 after he was referred to court for corruption, in the framework of an anti-corruption crusade reportedly led by Syrian President's son, Bashar Assad.
On Sunday, former deputy prime minister for economic affairs, Salim Yassin, was arrested and his assets confiscated within the same campaign – Damascus, Albawaba.com
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An article in "Albany Kid" by Tara Bloyd, Edna Kearns' great granddaughter, is spreading the word to a younger audience about the exhibition of the suffrage campaign wagon used by Edna Buckman Kearns currently underway at the NYS capitol in Albany, NY.
A Brooklyn wagon company donated the wagon to the state woman's suffrage movement in 1913. Considerable information about the wagon and its use for grassroots activism during the suffrage movement has been presented on Suffrage Wagon News Channel over the past two years.
The article in "Albany Kid" highlights the exhibit underway at the state capitol honoring New York State's extraordinary women as represented in many arenas, including suffrage. The exhibit's in the Hall of Governors in the state capitol and is part of an ambitious program by NYS Governor Andrew Cuomo to make more public space available for educational and historical exhibits. The exhibit runs through April and possibly into May.


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3 Takeaways From Citigroup's Earnings
Citigroup reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue on Monday, handily beating analysts' estimates. This was very welcome news to investors, especially after JPMorgan Chase kicked off earnings season on a bad note, and since most recent Citigroup headlines have to do with the Federal Reserve's rejection of its capital plan.
The three biggest takeaways from Citigroup's earnings have to do with the falling losses from the Citi Holdings division, the lower trading and mortgage income, and the stock's incredibly low valuation -- which seems to keep getting more attractive. So, how was the bank able to beat estimates despite the challenges it faces? Is Citigroup still a buy after the post-earnings pop?
The bad assets are less of a problem now
Citigroup made more money because the bad assets left over from the financial crisis aren't dragging on the balance sheet nearly as much as they had been. The Citi Holdings unit, which is where the bank's "legacy assets" are kept, is in the process of being wound down, and great progress has been made.
The adjusted net loss from Citi Holdings fell by more than 63% year-over-year, and the company's allowance for credit losses now stands at $6.1 billion (6.8% of loans), down from $9.4 billion (8.7% of loans) last year.
Citi Holdings now represents $114 billion, or around 6% of Citigroup's total assets. While this is no small amount, the exposure to bad assets has dropped considerably over the past few years. Even though it's not quite there yet, the chart below shows it's likely just a matter of time before Citi Holdings becomes a non-factor.
Trading and mortgage lending are down
As mentioned, Citicorp's revenue and earnings are down, mainly due to lower revenues in bond trading and mortgage lending.
The mortgage lending drop is no big surprise, as record-low rates in recent years and home price gains had sparked a flurry of refinancing activity. However, over the second half of 2013, rates shot up and fewer people found it worthwhile to refinance. When you look at the difference in the 30-year mortgage rate from this time last year, it's no wonder refinancing revenue dropped. This has cost Citigroup a great deal of fees, which the bank collects to originate and process mortgages.
As for trading revenue, the drop is a combination of new industry regulations and the effect of interest rate uncertainty, which has driven clients and their money to the sidelines. This is affecting the entire industry, and JPMorgan took a hit as well this past quarter, with their bond trading revenues off by 21% year-over-year.
Citigroup's bond trading revenue dropped 18% from last year, but the key point for investors to keep in mind this is not a Citigroup-specific problem. Trading revenues should start to rise again as the Federal Reserve has given the market more clarity on the direction of interest rates and banks are adjusting to the new regulations. Even so, Citigroup's CFO expects bond trading revenue to fall 5-10% across the industry this year because of these issues.
Still a great discount
Even after the post-earnings pop, Citigroup still trades at a pretty great discount. Citigroup's tangible book value per share grew by 8% year-over-year to $56.40, so shares trade at less than 85% of TBV even after the post-earnings pop. This is extremely low on a historic basis, and well below the valuation of its peers.
While it is true Citigroup has much more global exposure than peers, and the full impact of another crisis is difficult to predict, the company's valuation more than makes up for any risks.
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The Everyday Range
The Everyday Range range is hand thrown in Emma's studio using a fine stoneware clay and is finished with beautiful, tactile satin matt glazes. Each piece is dented while the clay is still soft giving a sensual aesthetic and a form that is ergonomic to use.
The Espresso Cup is the smallest size cup of the Everyday Range. Dimensions are 6cm tall by 7.5cm diameter with 140ml capacity approximately, shape and colour might differ slightly due to the pieces being made by hand.
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dfchud necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 33 diseños de 3 diseñadores freelance.
I am a physician and food writer. My website http://www.aDoctorsKitchen is devoted to healthy cooking. I am producing an app for iPhone and iPad. The following is the description from the marketing plan:
Trufflehead (TH) is an innovative iPhone and iPad app that is a mobile healthy cookbook, providing multi-media instructional demos, a smart shopping list and extensive reference guides. Through its array of detailed personalizeable supporting material, the app meets beginning and intermediate cooks, ages 20 – 40, at their respective levels of experience, equipment, and cooking repertoire. Its goal is to help them gain greater cooking confidence as they cook their way through 200+ healthy recipes. This confidence enables the user to look at cooking and food, for perhaps the first time, as an empowering experience and a means to self-sufficiency. The benefits of this "food independence" are many, including: better health, saving money, new opportunities for social gatherings such as cooking for friends and family, enhanced self-esteem, and – because "eating in" is environmentally friendly—a sense of contributing to the health of the planet.
The app will have a companion website that will hopefully be the hub of a full-fledged community of Truffleheads.
The target audience is young men and women, ages 20 to 40 but the bull's eye of the target is 22 - 35. They are young professionals, college graduates, mostly urban, living in apartments, mostly single, presumably without children. (The app is not about family or kid-friendly food.) These people have smart phones and buy apps.
Trufflehead logo. I recently ran a design competition for the Trufflehead app icon which I hope can be accessed by designers working on the logo. We want a logo that can stand alone and also work in relation to the icon. Please let me know if you cannot access the winning icon design. I have attached the palette in case it will be useful. We want something that is sophisticated and fun.
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text: Dr. Monty Davenport, 77, of Lubbock passed away on Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011. Graveside services will be held in Resthaven Memorial Park on Monday, Jan. 2, 2011, at 10 a.m. A Memorial Service will follow at Second Baptist Church, 6109 Chicago Ave., at 11 a.m. The family will receive friends at Resthaven Funeral Home Monday evening from 5 to 7 p.m.Monty Earl Davenport was born May 16, 1934, in Crowell, Foard County, Texas, to Earl and Irene Pierce Davenport. Monty married Janada Sue Gound on Aug. 28, 1954. He graduated from Lubbock High School and Texas Tech University with a B.S. in mechanical engineering. Upon graduating, he became an instructor in mechanical engineering at TTU. In 1957, he was one of two Texans to receive Atomic Energy Commission Fellowship in Nuclear Technology. He received his M.S. in nuclear energy and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at Stanford University. In 1966, he began his career in teaching, research and administration in higher education at TTU. He received special recognition as an outstanding young engineer by the South Plains Chapter, Texas Society of Professional Engineers, and was a registered professional engineer in the state of Texas. He served TTU as Associate Dean of Engineering, Associate Vice President of Plant Services and Vice President of Operations. He retired from TTU in 1998.In 2003, Monty married Dee Dee (Poage) Stewart. He was a voracious reader and enjoyed traveling. He was a faithful member of Second Baptist Church, where he served as a deacon.He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Sue; and his daughter, Kelli Hartman.He is survived by his wife of eight years, Dee Dee; his daughter, Kimberly Baker and husband Greg; his aunt, Willie Mae Davenport; his cousin, Tommy Gamble; and Dee Dee's children, Ronda Stewart-Wilcox and husband Rodney, Karen Alderson and husband Craig, Paul Stewart and wife Laurie, and Sandy Jarasius and husband Linas. He is survived by four grandchildren, Matt and Chris Hartman and Grant and Abigail Baker. He is also survived by six step-grandchildren.Memorial contributions may be made in his name to a charity of your choice.


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Uttar Pradesh (ŏŏ´tär prä´dĬsh), state (2001 provisional pop. 166,052,859), 92,804 sq mi (240,363 sq km), N central India. The capital is Lucknow. Other important cities are Allahabad, Bareilly, Kanpur, and Varanasi. The most populous state of India, it was formed in 1950 by merging the United Provinces and the small former princely states of Benares, Rampur, and Tehri. It was somewhat decreased in 2000 when the state of Uttarakhand was carved from its northwestern section. Hindi is the main language. There is a hilly region along the southern border, but most of the state is a low-lying alluvial plain formed by the Yamuna, Ganges, and Ghaghara rivers.
The mild climate generally permits two harvests a year; wheat, rice, millet, sugarcane, tobacco, cotton, and jute are grown. The moderate rainfall is supplemented by an extensive system of barrage and canal irrigation and by wells and pumps that draw on groundwater. The economy is predominantly agricultural, and industry is centered on processing sugar and cotton; the once-important manufacture of brooches and artwares, such as ornamental brasses, has declined. Building stone and high-grade sand for the glass industry are abundant. Adequate railroads and roads ensure efficient distribution. Numerous universities are supported by this prosperous state. The state is governed by a chief minister and cabinet responsible to a bicameral legislature with one elected house and by a governor appointed by the president of India.


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New names dominate Marlins' Top 20 list
With 2013 Draftees signed and entered into their respective clubs' pipelines, MLB.com has re-ranked its Top 100 Prospects and each club's Top 20 Prospects.
With 2013 Draftees signed and entered into their respective clubs' pipelines, MLB.com has re-ranked its Top 100 Prospects and each club's Top 20 Prospects.
One of the best farm systems in baseball has undergone an early harvest in 2013. With the Marlins' top three preseason prospects -- Jose Fernandez, Christian Yelich and Jake Marisnick -- already in Major League uniforms, the future is now in Miami.
Although the Marlins sports are rebuilding, the contributions of young stars have set the foundation for the successes enjoyed in 2013, as well as those in seasons to come.
Fernandez, the preseason No. 1, who never played higher than Class A before this season, became the youngest All-Star in franchise history at 20 years old. He has quickly developed into Miami's ace and leads all qualified rookie starters with a 2.74 ERA, a 1.07 WHIP and a 2.9 WAR.
Yelich also lived up to the hype in his big league debut, finishing 3-for-4 with two RBIs in a 4-2 win against the Rockies on Tuesday. He joined Marlins manager Mike Redmond as one of only two players in franchise history to begin his Major League career with three straight hits.
Although numerous young faces are on the roster, the youth movement in Miami excites Redmond and upper management.
"We do have a core group of young guys who are either in their first year in the big leagues or new to the big leagues," Redmond said. "There is that adjustment period. But at the same time, too, we have guys with a couple of hundred at-bats. We need to keep going, keep pushing."
"They're part of our future," president of baseball operations Larry Beinfest said. "And part of our future is coming as well."
Seven of Miami's top 11 prospects have graduated to the Majors, led by new No. 1 Yelich and new No. 2 Marisnick from Double-A Jacksonville on Tuesday.
In addition to the All-Star Fernandez, shortstop Adeiny Hechavarria (No. 6), outfielder Marcell Ozuna (No. 7), second baseman Derek Dietrich (No. 9) and catcher Rob Brantly (No. 11) have all made significant contributions at the big league level.
Ozuna, who leads the team with 32 RBIs, and Dietrich, who ranks second among rookies with nine homers, were optioned to Jacksonville on Monday to make room for Yelich and Marisnick.
The Marlins hope Ozuna and Dietrich will continue to work on developing their talents after both players were rushed to the Majors to fill in for injured regulars.
Dropped off
Left-hander Chad James is no longer included among Miami's Top 20 Prospects after earning the No. 18 slot in the preseason rankings. James, the 18th overall selection in the 2009 First-Year Player Draft, is 1-3 with a 5.84 ERA in seven starts with Class A Greensboro.
James is 17-38 with a 4.60 ERA in 81 career starts during four seasons spent between Class A affiliates Greensboro and Jupiter.
New faces
Third baseman Colin Moran, the No. 6 overall pick of the 2013 Draft, makes his debut as Miami's fifth-ranked prospect. Moran homered in his first at-bat with Class A Greensboro.
At No. 11 is another new addition to the list, right-hander Angel Sanchez, who joined the Marlins' farm system as part of the trade that sent Ricky Nolasco to the Dodgers. Sanchez threw the first six innings of a combined no-hitter by Class A Jupiter on July 22.
Also debuting among Miami's Top 20 -- right-hander Anthony DeSclanfani (No. 15), outfielders Austin Dean (No. 17) and Brent Keys (No. 18), right-handers Mason Hope (No. 19) and Arquimedes Caminero (No. 20).
Rising/falling stock
Aside from Moran's impressive debut at No. 5, southpaw Brian Flynn of Triple-A New Orleans jumped from 20th to 10th between the preseason and midseason rankings.
Flynn came to Miami's organization along with Jacob Turner and Brantly in a July 2012 trade that sent Anibal Sanchez and Omar Infante to Detroit.
The 6-foot-7 lefty is 4-11 with a 3.23 ERA and nine strikeouts per nine innings in 20 combined starts between Double-A Jacksonville and New Orleans.
Top 100 representation
Miami is tied for third among Major League clubs with five Top 100 Prospects and ranks ninth in the Majors and fifth in the National League with 251 "prospect points" -- points assigned to clubs based on their representatives on the Top 100 list, with 100 points going to the team with the No. 1 prospect, 99 to the team with No. 2, and so on.
The Marlins lost 38 points from thier preseason total of 289, a drop resulting from the graduation of several prospects from their preseason list.
Left-hander Andrew Heaney made the biggest jump in the Top 100, from No. 81 in the preseason to No. 54 now. Moran debuted at No. 78, Yelich moved into the Top 10 at No. 10 and Marisnick made an impressive jump from No. 70 to No. 48.
Southpaw Justin Nicolino improved from No. 72 in the preseason to No. 64 at midseason.
Joe Morgan is an associate reporter for MLB.com.


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Sometimes fishing equipment is given up for dead.
Men of good will hate war, but, like it or not, wartimes produce inventions like no other periods, because it's important for your side to have better things with which to bash in heads. Fiberglass is such a product. Made from individual glass fibers, combined with polymers, fiberglass comes in a variety of forms, resists burning, and will not decay, stretch or fade. Glass fibers are either continuous fibers, such as that used in textiles and rods, or discontinuous shorter fibers, such as that used in insulation.


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To keep sodium in check we've left salt out of the rub in this healthy pulled pork recipe. The vinegary sauce infuses salty goodness throughout the pulled pork rather than just on the surface of the meat. If you have both a charcoal and a gas grill, choose charcoal as it will produce a more authentic smoke flavor. The pork is served here North Carolina–style: with peppered vinegar sauce and slaw.
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Swell Artist Collective is an open studio and Art Gallery located in Boise, Idaho's historic downtown, on the lower level of the Old Mercantile Building in The BoDo District.
By combining individual artistic practices and ideas into a common space, their mission revolves around creating a vibrant studio and gallery environment that is open to the public and intent on helping bolster the community's rapidly-growing arts culture. Swell will be host to both First Thursday and independently organized artistic events while maintaining hours of operation during which people can visit.
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Throughout my high school i loved physics very very much. I always wanted to a PhD in physics. Along with i thought of pursuing space science. But due certain reasons i ended up in Computer Science. I have started with the third year of my bachelors degree. I don't hate computer Science, it's just that i loved physics a lot(I dunno about now, maybe yes even now and that's the reason i am nostalgic). Suddenly i have become nostalgic about physics. And i was thinking whether it is advisable to chose physics for my MS. So my questions are as follows:-
Are there research areas (I have always wanted to do research) which combine Physics and Computer Science? If Yes, what should i do to get into it? I am doing Bachelors from India and i don't mind doing MS from the US (as in US they allow to change your branch in MS, it is not allowed in india)
What should be my strategy to get into a research career which involves both physics and Computer Science? (Right now I am in the third year of a 4 year Bachelors Course in Information Technology). I want to do a PhD.
Will there be future research career options in the combined field of Physics and Computer Science?
Following are certain points i would want to stress out:-
1)I talked to some of my friends who are good coders and they suggested me to get into making apps that simulate certain physics fundae. But that is not what i want. I would want to stress again that i liked actual physics. So i don't think i would enjoy just simulating stuff. I am more of a research kinda guy not an application oriented person.
2)Once again i want to stress that it is not at all that i hate computer science or i consider it bad. It's just that i want to do what i loved more and rather than completely changing my stream (which is difficult as well as risky and above all makes me guilty conscious as i would waste four whole years), i want to strike a balance between what i want and what i have.
3)Anything which would allow to me study Computer Science with Physics or Space Technology with a decent research career later on in it is what i want.
4)Just to give you all an idea of what exactly i loved in physics... We did not have advanced physics in high school, but i managed to do stuff on my own to a fair extent. I loved mechanics, electrostatics, relativity, fluid, thermodynamics and such stuff and i enjoyed solving the 'very tough' category of problems (for instance books by I.E.Irodov and another one by Krotov)
Added later: this sounds a good option as in to do Masters in CS (with as many physics related electives as there can be..if there are) and trying to get a job which we will allow me to do sum research in physics as well... is this possible? I really liked you line "Just because you're writing code doesn't mean you're not doing "real physics.""... So you mean to say that i can be in touch with real-physics even if i do a masters in CS??


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In 2010 Greenpeace found high levels of industrial pollution in two factory towns in Guangdong province, China. Both these towns have economies that center around textile production. Gurao, in Shantou, produces 200 million bras every year and is known as one of China's leading towns for underwear manufacturing. Xintang, in Zengcheng, is devoted to the complete manufacturing process of jeans, from weaving, dyeing and washing to tailoring and packaging. More than 60% of China's jeans are produced in Xintang, which also accounts for 40% of all of China's exported jeans. Greenpeace has documented the severe effect of industrial pollution on the residents of Xintang and Gurao.
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Earlier, I posted a video of CNN host Soledad O'Brien going after GOP Rep. Joe Heck for making a contradictory argument for why he and his fellow Republicans are objecting to the expected nomination of Susan Rice to be our next Secretary of State, supposedly because of something with the Benghazi, Libya attack that took the lives of four Americans, including our ambassador.
But this wasn't Soledad O'Brien's first brush with political hackery. Back in August, she stood up to GOP bully and Romney surrogate, John Sununu, who was peddling the old lie about President Obama cutting Medicare (he didn't). O'Brien ripped him to shreds.
She's got a thing for the truth, our Soledad. And that's why I've got a gay-man crush on the CNN morning host: What can I say, we like our women with beauty, brains and a bite.
(Okay, we like our men that way too.)
So with no further ado, here are the 16 deadly faces of Soledad O'Brien. I'm sure there are more, but this is a good beginning primer for anyone planning to go on her show and spout a bunch of bull.


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COLUMBIA, Mo., Sept. 2 (UPI) -- After people have been drinking, alcohol dulls the brain "signal" that warns them they are making a mistake, U.S. researchers say.
Bruce Bartholow, associate professor of psychology in the University of Missouri College of Arts and Science, and colleagues measured the brain activity of 67 participants ages 21-35 as they completed a challenging computer task designed to elicit some errors.
About one-third of the participants were given alcoholic drinks, while the rest were given no alcohol or a placebo beverage.
In addition to monitoring their brain activity, the researchers also measured changes in participants' mood, their accuracy in the computer task, as well as their perceived accuracy.
"When people make mistakes, activity in a part of the brain responsible for monitoring behavior increases, essentially sending an alarm signal to other parts of the brain indicating that something went wrong," Bartholow says in a statement. "Our study isn't the first to show that alcohol reduces this alarm signal, but contrary to previous studies, our study shows that alcohol doesn't reduce your awareness of mistakes -- it reduces how much you care about making those mistakes."
The findings are scheduled to be published in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology.


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Wenger rubbishes current title talk
Manager Arsene Wenger believes it is "absolutely ridiculous" to talk about Arsenal as potential Barclays Premier League winners so early in the season - and urged his side to focus instead on their European aspirations against Napoli on Tuesday night.
The Gunners capitalised on slip-ups by their rivals to move two points clear at the top of the domestic table with victory at Swansea on Saturday.
Although Wenger may well have masterminded a superb winning run since the opening day defeat by Aston Villa, the French coach insists you are only as good as your next game, which will see Champions League Group F rivals Napoli and a certain Rafael Benitez come to the Emirates Stadium looking to put a dent in qualification hopes for the knockout stages.
"You believe 100 per cent or you don't believe, so that is how much our belief (in the title) is," said Wenger, who reported no fresh injury worries and could welcome fit-again Czech playmaker Tomas Rosicky back into the squad.
"In our job the most important thing is to have a good balance between ambition and humility; ambition because of course we want to win (the league), but humility as well because we know we have only played six games and to speak today about the title is absolutely ridiculous.
"What we have done is to continue to have the same ambition and I think the team has a good humility level and is conscious that we want to improve."
Wenger continued: "What people forgot about is we are on a very long run, since March we have not lost a game and if you put that (the defeat to Villa) into perspective it was just one single game that we lost in 21 now, so I think it was a combination of factors.
"All this together made the situation a little bit explosive, but purely on the results perspective it (the Villa defeat) was an accident that can happen.
"It was just about responding with the qualities that we already have in our group."
Arsenal, who beat Fenerbahce in the play-offs to reach the Champions League group stages for a 16th consecutive season, opened their European campaign with victory in Marseille.
Another three points against Napoli on Tuesday would put them in a strong position in front of the double-header against Borussia Dortmund, last season's beaten finalists who lost in Naples on match day one.
"We are in a tough group. If you look at the teams Marseille, Dortmund and Napoli, they all play at the top of their league and in big football countries, so you feel of course for us it is vital to continue our run and to come out of the group," said Wenger.
"But you know as the well the importance of the home games will be decisive in a group of that quality."
Arsenal were close to signing Gonzalo Higuain from Real Madrid earlier in the summer, before the Argentina forward instead moved to Napoli.
Wenger, though, insists there is no need to reflect on what might have been, with Arsenal eventually landing Mesut Ozil from the Spanish side in a club-record £43million deadline day transfer.
"It is not the best moment to talk about transfers today. He was on the market as you know and several clubs were in for him," Wenger said.
"I do not think it needs to be talked about again."
Wenger feels Benitez deserves great respect, the former Liverpool and Inter Milan coach having landed another top European job following what was a testing, but ultimately successful campaign as interim manager at Chelsea.
"He is a top-class manager, he has proven that, so when you are confronted with his teams, you know it will always be difficult," Wenger said.
"But we are up for it, we want to do it and we have the confidence to do it."


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Established on the Feast of Saint Barbara, December 4, 1786, the Santa Barbara Mission was the 10th (of twenty-one total) California Missions founded by the Spanish Franciscans during the 1700's.
More than 220 years later, the Mission continues as a chief cultural and historic landmark in the city of Santa Barbara. Home to an active parish, the Mission occupies over 10 acres of beautifully manicured gardens, and also houses a museum and popular gift shop. Affectionately known as the "Queen of the Missions", the Mission Santa Barbara stands as a monument to all Californians, extolling the virtues of past and present - in one.
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Santa Barbara Mission was founded December 4, 1786. Portions of five units of its extensive water works, built by Indian labor, are preserved in this park, a filter house, Spanish grist mill, sections of aqueducts, and two reservoirs. The larger reservoir, built in 1806, is used today as part of the city water system. Ruins of the pottery kiln and tanning vats are here, also. The fountain and lavadero are nearby in front of the Old Mission. A dam, built in 1807, is located in the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, one and one-half miles up Mission Canyon.


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Police are warning hikers and mountain bikers to be vigilant after someone apparently placed booby traps, including barbed wire and wooden planks with protruding nails, just beneath the surface of trails in a New Jersey park.
Wayne police say a resident told them he has been finding the traps on the trails at High Mountain Park since June 23. He has found broken bottles behind or next to rocks or logs, rope and barbed wire strung across pathways and wooden planks with screws and nails sticking out of them placed just under the road surface to injure hikers or pop bicycle tires, authorities say.
Police said the man's report about the traps was the first they'd heard of them; it wasn't clear if anyone had been hurt.
High Mountain Park is shared among the jurisdictions of Wayne, North Haledon and Franklin Lakes, and Wayne police say anyone who has seen any suspicious activity in the park should contact their local department.