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Wrestlers on velvet. What else is there to say? LTD gallery's latest group show going on tonight. How can I NOT do a painting of Laurence Tureaud, a.k.a., Mr. T.
First time painting on velvet. Pretty challenging but super fun once you get the feel for it.
I didn't know much about Mr. T. prior to his days as a bouncer. Pretty interesting life to say the least. Give it a read when you get a chance. Also found some interesting things like this while doing research. The best thing about doing this painting was hearing people's stories about meeting the man himself. Besides seeing him at San Diego Con, I've never met him personally, but all the stories I heard from people that have, are the same. Super nice guy, hands down. When you had a crazy life like his, why wouldn't you be.
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text: Lewa Krom Report post Posted November 26, 2012 (edited) Invasion Towers of white crystal once dominated the landscape of Ko-Metru, back in the early days of the Toa Metru and for tens of thousands of millennia before then. Within the last day, a miracle had graced the City of Legends. Yes, there was the miracle of the life of the Great Spirit being restored, but there had been another smaller miracle that had been overshadowed by the great sacrifice of his translator. The Knowledge Towers, as with the rest of the city, had been restored to its former glory. It was into one of the Towers of Thought that Jaa led Turaga Nuju, former elder of Ko-Koro, into. Jaa had long ago been a scholar in towers such as this. Now, he was relearning these skills that were lost to him by a hand of darkness. Nuju remembered back to his first glorious adventure through Metru Nui, seeking out the lost Matoran Ehrye. Jaa had helped him then, whether he remembered it or not, just as he did now. Ascending the Tower of Thought took little time as they were eerily empty, even for such a presitigious tower as this one. Nuju knew why. Mata Nui, have mercy on his soul. Arriving at the top, he half-expected to see him waiting there, looking up into the stars. That was ridiculous of course. He was dead now. Nuju would never see him again. Jaa led Nuju to look out over the City of Legends. The streets were filled with celebrations, but Nuju knew that they were actually empty. Jaa pointed up into the sky. He had explained to Nuju before entering that there was a story dancing in the stars. It was as if the dead had written a journal, waiting to be seen by those down below. Looking at the region to which Jaa motioned, Nuju saw the Red Star glowing brightly as ever. The stars that surrounded it had a newfound glow, no longer dying. And in those stars, Nuju read the story of Matoro, glowing brighter than them all. The universe is a riddle. Nuju smiled. Sometimes the riddle can be solved just by looking around you. --- Matoro, Toa Inika of Ice, felt his head be smashed against the rock walls of a winding stone Cord. The hand belonged to Vezon, the insane Piraka that wasn't a Piraka, former guardian of the Kanohi Ignika, the Mask of Life. With his head ringing, Matoro struggled to fire a blast of ice and lightning from his energized ice sword. The blast missed Vezon completely and struck the opposite wall. Jaller and Kongu unleashed blasts of fire and air respectively which struck Vezon square in the chest. Matoro collapsed to the ground, clutching his head. Shaking it gently, he stood up and joined the other Toa Inika around Vezon. Jaller, Toa of Fire, reached down and ripped the Spear of Fusion from Vezon's hands. The former guardian of the Mask of Life had followed the Toa Inika down the Cord from Voya Nui, the entrance that Axonn had opened up for them. After losing the Kanohi Ignika to the seas that surronded Voya Nui and Hahli being rescued by a strange Matoran who talked of a city beneath the sea, it became clear as to where the Toa were meant to go next. Matoro was wondering what this meant. Destiny had an odd way of presenting itself. If the mask was meant to be used beneath the surface, why did it wait to travel there until after the Piraka and Toa Inika had rushed down beneath the surface of Voya Nui to retrieve it. Matoro smiled, remembering Nuju's views on the universe. "It hints at the path you are meant to walk," the Turaga of Ko-Koro would say, "but never makes its message clear." "Give that back!" Vezon barked at Jaller as his hands glowed with red hot energy. Jaller ignored the plea and the Spear of Fusion burst into flames. From behind Vezon, the Toa Inika could hear a swarm of footsteps. The Zyglak were returning. The Zyglak had proven to be a formiddable threat on the journey down the Cord so far, being immune to attacks made with the Toa's elemental powers. They had escaped narrowly and continued onwards. The Toa Inika had also learned, through carvings, that the Zyglak were somehow connected to the Krana. Nuparu had been the one to spot the carving itself – out of a pool of liquid emerged a hideous creature resembling the Zyglak and a Krana. More carvings followed with what looked like Matoran and Bohrok, but the details had been worn away with time, making them completely unreadable. Vezon leapt to his feet and turned to the Zyglak, smiling as any Piraka would. "Take the Toa!" Vezon yelled giddily. "Kill the Toa, and I will lead you all to glory!" The Toa Inika raised their weapons, what little they would do. If Vezon was leading the Zyglak, then they needed every weapon they could find, even if it meant striking them with their weapons rather than channeling their elemental powers through them. To the Toa's surprise, however, the Zyglak grabbed Vezon and hoisted him over their head. "No!" Vezon shouted. "Not me! I'm clearly not a Toa! No weapon, no special powers, no mask – well, anymore at least." Jaller unleashed a wall of fire between the Toa Inika and the Zyglak and Piraka. It might not affect the Zyglak much, but anything helped. Matoro followed suit, creating a wall of ice, behind the wall of fire. Turning to his team, Jaller whispered one word: "Run." "How do we continue on from here?" Kongu looked to the other Toa for answers. Toa Jaller, who had served as their light for the journey so far, was exhausted, after several hours of fending off the Zyglak. At the long last, the Zyglak had retreated, but now the Toa might be without a light. Hahli, Toa of Water, smiled. "Remember back when we first arrived on Voya Nui, hiding in the cave." Hahli reached to her face and removed her Kanohi Elda, the Mask of Detection. A bright light shown in the Cord, blinding them. Hewkii grabbed her mask and shoved back onto her face. "We won't be able to see like that." Matoro let his arms down from his eyes. They burned and his headache roared. Out of the corner of his eye, he thought he saw something slither by but disregarded it. He couldn't think, nor see straight in this state. "I'll lead from the front," Hahli replied. The Toa exchanged glances. If Hahli led in the front, it would spare their eyes from pain. But if something were to attack her, she would be vulnerable, assuming whatever was attacking them couldn't see either. "I think I should scout ahead, and let you guys know what the dangers are up ahead," Matoro offered, referring to the Kanohi Iden, the Mask of Spirit. "No." Jaller's reply was short and to the point. "We can't risk being short one of our own, should another Zyglak patrol attack." "I'll be fast. No more than a minute," Matoro replied. With that, the Toa of Ice's body went limp. At the same time, eerily enough, the entire room went dark as if Jaller's fire had been doused with water. Suddenly, the room went light again as Hahli's face glowed with the Elda removed. By that time, Matoro was sitting upright once more. "The way ahead is clear," he said as he stood up. "Let's go." --- Matoro scouted ahead, seeing nothing to be immediately concerned about. There were a few small Rahi skittering across the stairs, but nothing that would be harmful to the other Toa Inika. Turning, Matoro raced back up the Cord to the other Toa Inika. If there were blood in his veins as a spirit, it would have been frozen, even for a Toa of Ice. Hahli was leading the Toa Inika down the Cord with the Elda in her hand and the other five Toa Inika falling in behind her. Including the Toa of Ice, Matoro. This couldn't be real, but it was clear that one of his worst fears was. Perhaps this was a trick of the Kanohi Ignika? An alternate universe? Deep down, however, Matoro felt the connection to his body and knew that it had been invaded But by who? Matoro quickly looked around. He couldn't contact Hahli. She didn't have her Kanohi Elda on. And there was no one else that could see him. "Something's wrong." Matoro turned to Hewkii, who had whispered in Jaller's ear. "How so?" the Toa of Fire asked. "The Toa of Ice." "Matoro?" "I don't think that's Matoro." Matoro smiled. There was hope yet. Looking over at the physical Matoro, Jaller saw that the Toa of Ice seemed to have an aura of darkness around him. Shifting towards, his fellow Toa, Jaller decided that he would what exactly he had seen during his journey down the Cord. However, before he could do so, a spear flew from behind him between their heads. More Zyglak had arrived from behind. There were more Zyglak than they had seen before. Kongu unleashed a tornado with lightning entwined. It struck the Zyglak, but did not hurt them much, the bolts of lightning knocking them backwards slightly. "Lightning," Nuparu whispered. He turned to Jaller. "The Zyglak are immune to elemental powers, correct?" To answer Nuparu's question, Jaller unleashed a stream of fire, which struck some nearby Zyglak but did not burn them. "The lightning we received from the Red Star is clearly not elemental," Nuparu explained. "And if it's not elemental, then it has an effect on the Zyglak." "Lightning is lightning, right?" Kongu asked. Hewkii hurled rock with lightning. The rock struck the Zyglak. The lightning hurt it. "It doesn't have to make sense right now, it just has to work." Hahli unleashed a stream of water with the electricity and it washed over the Zyglak. Hewkii, Jaller, Kongu, and Nuparu sent elemental blasts near Hahli's water and lightning blast, adding some of their lightning to hers. The Zyglak howled in pain as they slowly backed away. Matoro joined in, not even sending blasts of ice with lightning, but lightning alone. The electricity traveled from one Zyglak to another, creating a chain. When it was over, Zyglak bodies littered the ground. Not dead, but out for the count. Matoro stared at his body, as the other Toa Inika turned to face him. "How'd you do that?" Kongu laughed, thoroughly impressed with Matoro's feat. "I hate getting my air in my electricity. Any chance you can help me separate it too?" "No, he can't," Hewkii replied, staring harshly at the Toa of Ice that stood before him. "He's not Matoro." The entire cavern went silent. When Matoro finally spoke, the voice of their nightmares spoke. "Very well." It was the voice of Makuta. "Leave!" Jaller ordered. "Leave now, Makuta!" "And why should I? You have need of Matoro. He is very crucial to your quest for the Mask of Life." "We will destroy Matoro if it means that we can destroy you as well," Jaller replied. "You were dead once. You can be dead again." Makuta laughed. Matoro shuddered. The Toa Inika stood steadfast, however, raising their weapons towards Makuta. Slowly, Makuta's laugh died away. "You are serious, I see. So be it." Makuta/Matoro waved his hand at the Toa Inika. They simply collapsed, as they fell into a deep slumber. Makuta/Matoro turned to face the spirit of Matoro. "It is time I returned your body, now isn't it?" Makuta smiled as Matoro's body collapsed. The spirit of the Toa of Ice wasted no time returning to it. Standing, Matoro faced the green sludge that had filled the zamor spheres of the Piraka on Voya Nui. He could still hear the voice of Makuta in his mind, however. "You must be more careful if you are to survive the Pit, Matoro." "You don't give up easily, Makuta. I have feared you for as long as I can remember, and you were never seen as simply surrendering at gun point." The green sludge seemed to smile. "There was more at stake than simply your body and my life. I also came to warn you." "Warn me?" Matoro chuckled. "I'll heed no warning of yours." "You had better. Have you ever heard of the Iden Stone?" Makuta asked. Matoro did not reply. "Of course you haven't. It is a stone with the ability to increase your power by tenfold. One of my brothers informed me that a Zyglak got a hold of it. It mutates you with the power, as long as it is in proximity with your spirit. Those who live in the Pit were once like that, full of power. But there power has been ripped from them. Now they are hungry for the power they lost. Very hungry." The green sludge seemed to just disappear – Matoro didn't get a good look as to where it went, but he expected to see Makuta in the near future. Makuta had posed another riddle to him, dancing around the answer. Nuju would have known what to do. Sometimes, you have to figure the answer out for yourself. --- A hand fell upon his shoulder. Turning, Nuju saw Turaga Vakama. Jaa had left a while ago, as Nuju read into this journal in the stars. Nuju whistled and tweeted, excited, explaining to Vakama what he had seen. Vakama smiled sadly as he heard Nuju's tale. Matoro had been a large part of the Turaga of Ice's life and now that he was gone, there was a void. There would be much healing to come, but it seemed that Nuju accepted Matoro's death and was now ready to celebrate his life with the rest of them. This entry probably stretched every single rule and might not be allowed in the end. But it was enjoyable to write. I wish I could manage my time better so I could have perfected it, but I'll enter anyway. 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We got up early on game day and made it to Hotlanta in time for lunch at our favorite place - The Tavern at Phipps. We always get the spinach chips and I usually get a plain chicken sandwich (SURPRISE!!).
There is one dish that is on their menu that I always want to try - the Marinated Chicken Breast. It is grilled chicken topped with prosciutto and melted provolone cheese served with a side of fettucini alfredo. I never get it since I am only eating lunch. I decided that I would try and recreate this dish at home for dinner tonight.
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A sneaky photographer managed to get a couple shots of the new Porsche Cayman before its release at the LA Auto Show at the end of this month.
The headlights are covered with camo stickers, but I think it's safe to expect a set of dual, vertically-stacked lights similar to what's on the 2013 Boxster. As expected, the door treatment with integrated scoops and the taillights with integrated spoiler are all carried over from the new Boxster, continuing Porsche's trend of integrating things with things. Those little red reflectors on the rear bumper, though— maybe they could spend a bit more time integrating those, if they're real.
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Jaap Nieuwenhuis is a Dutch painter, illustrator and graphic designer. Born in Deventer, He was educated at the art academies in Arnhem and Amsterdam. He has been active as an illustrator since the 1950s. He has illustrated text stories for Okki, Taptoe and Donald Duck in the 1960s and 1970s, and he drew the comic 'De Zandpiepers' for De Fabeltjeskrant in 1970. He made drawings of famous operas for AVRO Bode.
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Belarus and Iceland are the only countries in Subdivision 4 of women's qualification, and neither are in contention for medals.
When the competition draw for Rotterdam took place months ago, India and Singapore had been entered into the competition and drew Subdivision 4. But both nations scratched.
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The tiny nation of Iceland, which has just a few hundred thousand people, sent two female gymnasts in Rotterdam: Thelma Rut Hermannsdóttir and Dominiqua Belányi. The Hungarian-Icelandic Belányi is coached by Hungarians Gabor Kiss and Eszter Horvath.
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The once-strong Belarusian women's team has become abysmal over the past 10 years, since the last time it placed among the top 12. At the 2006 Worlds, Belarus was 24th, grabbing the very last spot to the 2007 Worlds. There it improved its rankings, but only by three spots, finishing 21st.
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The study by Dr Martin Scott, from the School of International Development at the University of East Anglia, examined how audiences respond to UK television coverage of suffering, for example as the result of disasters and conflicts.
He found that the participants were in many cases indifferent to what they saw and relieved that it did not affect them, especially the younger and male viewers. However there were instances, mostly among older and female participants, of particularly emotional responses to suffering.
Dr Scott, a lecturer in media and development, said documentaries and current affairs programmes prompted more emotional responses than television news because they offered viewers a closer, more complex representation of suffering, and provided more opportunity to hear from those affected and to understand the issues involved.
"News coverage is important, but we have to realise that two minute news items are not necessarily going to make people care more," said Dr Scott. "That's not to say that the media can't achieve this in documentaries and other types of programming, such as drama, comedy and reality TV.
"If we wish to see the media playing a role in promoting solidarity between humans, then the appearance of people in other countries in programming outside of the news should be a priority. It is important to look beyond peak moments of news coverage. Interestingly, though, the study also showed that advertisements from charities like Oxfam and Save the Children only accounted for three per cent of all occasions in which people encountered people from other countries on television."
Dr Scott highlighted the BBC's 'global purpose' to bring the world to the UK, which includes explicit reference not only to news programming, but also to documentaries and other genres, such as drama, comedy, sport and educational outputs. He said other broadcasters around the world should "strongly consider" doing the same.
The study, published in the January issue of the journal Media, Culture & Society, involved a series of focus group interviews over a three month period with more than 100 people. Half of the participants also kept online diaries about all media and non-media sources they encountered on a daily basis that had some connection to people in other countries. They recorded various details, such as the type of programme, what they thought about it and why they decided to watch or not watch it.
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References to news items, for example about the conflict in Afghanistan and violence in Madagascar, prompted objective, descriptive responses rather than emotional reactions. There was also greater evidence of resistance to emotional appeals than there was evidence of emotional engagement in talk about news, with participants particularly critical of what they saw as attempts to make them feel a certain way.
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Is There Strategic Software?
Marcus Ranum
Point In February, Dubai Ports World tried to buy several major U.S. ports from their British owner, but the deal was scotched over concerns Arabs might not keep them adequately secure. Never mind the U.S. couldn't keep them adequately secure.
Fast-forward a few months and Israel-based Check Point Software Technologies tries to buy U.S.-based intrusion detection systems provider Sourcefire, but the deal is quashed over aftershocks from the Dubai Ports fiasco. Never mind that U.S. government agencies can't keep their networks sufficiently secure to begin with; questions were raised as to whether Check Point should control a piece of software that is widely used in U.S. government networks.
Is there such a thing as "strategic software?" Of course there is. But a better question to ask would be: "Hasn't the horse already left the barn on that issue?"
The truth is, if your software controls your computer (and it does), then the person who writes the software also controls your computer. Does that have strategic implications? Ask the European Union, which in the past has voiced dismay over the fact that virtually all of its computers are controlled by software from a certain company in Redmond, Wash. A cynic could see the Check Point-Sourcefire deal as the U.S. government getting a taste of its own medicine.
I'm a cynic, but not amused. If we accept the idea that software can have strategic implications, it would make a lot more sense for the U.S. government to be thinking in terms of a "strategic software reserve"--kind of like our "strategic helium reserve"--rather than killing a single high-tech acquisition. It's patently ridiculous to worry about Check Point owning Snort when Check Point already owns Zone Alarm, a widely used personal firewall that completely controls a Windows computer's TCP/IP stack and processes.
And why worry about the Israelis owning an IDS company when Canada's Research In Motion owns all the BlackBerry handhelds' communications that government bureaucrats simply can't live without? Remember the panic a few months ago when RIM threatened a shutdown because of a patent dispute? Seems the U.S. government was afraid it would be unable to send "sensitive but unclassified" messages to Canada and back. If that communication is strategic, it looks to me like there are a lot of barn doors in need of locking.
The governments of the world have adopted high tech without thinking of it as a weapon. For all the Department of Defense pundits who talk incessantly about "information-centric warfare," they completely avoid thinking about software as a weapons system in its own right--but every important major weapons system today relies on software. I wonder if it's simply too difficult a problem, and everyone has preferred to shut his brain off and say, "Horse? What horse?"
Given the level of denial about the issue, it was silly to single out Check Point and Sourcefire. My guess is that if it were possible to even understand the situation, most of us would be terrified--if we allowed ourselves to be that paranoid. Perhaps this is just one of those problems that we'll leave for future generations to unravel. And, oh, did I forget to mention that key components of Microsoft's ISA firewall were written by one of the company's development teams in Israel?
Bruce Schneier
CounterPoint If you define "critical infrastructure" as "things essential for the functioning of a society and economy," then software is critical infrastructure. For many companies and individuals, if their computers stop working, they stop working.
It's a situation that snuck up on us. Everyone knew that the software that flies 747s or targets cruise missiles was critical, but who thought of the airlines' weight and balance computers, or the operating system running the databases and spreadsheets that determine which cruise missiles get shipped where?
And over the years, common, off-the-shelf, personal- and business-grade software has been used for more and more critical applications. Today we find ourselves in a situation where a well-positioned flaw in Windows, Cisco routers or Apache could seriously affect the economy.
It's perfectly rational to assume that some programmers--a tiny minority I'm sure--are deliberately adding vulnerabilities and backdoors into the code they write. I'm actually kind of amazed that backdoors secretly added by the CIA/NSA, MI5, the Chinese, Mossad and others don't conflict with each other. Even if these groups aren't infiltrating software companies with backdoors, you can be sure they're scouring products for vulnerabilities they can exploit, if necessary.
On the other hand, we're already living in a world where dozens of new flaws are discovered in common software products weekly, and the economy is humming along. But we're not talking about this month's worm from Asia or new phishing software from the Russian mafia--we're talking national intelligence organizations. "Infowar" is an overhyped term, but the next war will have a cyberspace component, and these organizations wouldn't be doing their jobs if they weren't preparing for it.
Marcus is 100 percent correct when he says it's simply too late to do anything about it. The software industry is international, and no country can start demanding domestic-only software and expect to get anywhere. Nor would that actually solve the problem, which is more about the allegiance of millions of individual programmers than which country they happen to inhabit.
So, what to do? The key here is to remember the real problem: current commercial software practices are not secure enough to reliably detect and delete deliberately inserted malicious code. Once you understand this, you'll drop the red herring arguments that led to Check Point not being able to buy Sourcefire and concentrate on the real solution: defense in depth.
In theory, security software programs are after-the-fact kludges because the underlying OS and apps are riddled with vulnerabilities. If your software were written properly, you wouldn't need a firewall--right?
If we were to get serious about critical infrastructure, we'd recognize it's all critical and start building security software to protect it. We'd build our security based on the principles of safe failure; we'd assume security would fail and make sure it's OK when it does. We'd use defense in depth and compartmentalization to minimize the effects of failure. Basically, we'd do everything we're supposed to do now to secure our networks.
It'd be expensive, probably prohibitively so. Maybe it would be easier to continue to ignore the problem, or at least manage geopolitics so that no national military wants to take us down.
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Weather delays Wakarusa kickoff
Music festival prepares for severe weather
The opening acts for Wakarusa was postponed for a few hours due to severe weather threats in the area. The music was schedule to begin at Noon. Organizers asked concertgoers to seek shelter in their vehicles. They said they continue to monitor the storms threats.
Wakarusa is an annual music festival on Mulberry Mountain that is no stranger to severe weather conditions. Those who attended in 2012 when storms moved in were expecting 100-degree weather.
With severe weather a serious concern in 2013, organizers are preparing. They learned from last year how to get the word out quickly to all the fans using every resource available.
"Basically, in a severe weather event, we could utilize all 300 security staff we have on the property, plus stage personnel," said one event organizer.
About 2,000 volunteers and employees could help get the word out, not including the use of social media outlets for warnings. The stage itself is also a concern, as those who erected it took three days for construction.
In an emergency, however, it would take only a few minutes to collapse.
With 20,000 fans expected to fill the property through the weekend, it will take everyone to help keep the event safe if severe weather strikes.
Wakarusa begins Thursday and continue through the weekend.


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YSL have released a Limited Edition blush and highlight powder for Autumn 2010.
They say:
This season's star is embellished with a detail of passementerie engraved on the emblematic YSL compact in contrasting matte and shiny gold. This powder in interlacing barely-there shades will give you sinful radiance.
The slick gold case has the beautiful passementerie (elaborate trimmings and engravings) on the top:
I am very very bad at using anything this pretty and limited edition – I end up keeping it as part of my collection instead. But this one, I've decided is going to be my special powder for winter! So I threw away the box so it has to go into my regular make up bag not my collectors drawer:
There's a warm bronze/peach in the centre and a whitish pink highlighter around the sides. You can mix together or use separately.
The powder has a fine shimmer to it – so it's not an all over powder, just for strategic placement, please:
The dark side is a sparkly bronze apricot – very pretty and the white highlighter has a fine silvery sparkle.
Mixed together:
Super pretty powder I'll be using to blush and highlight.
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MDG Goals Panned for Isolating Women's Rights
UNITED NATIONS (WOMENSENEWS), August 5, 2010--It's a commonplace maxim in international policy circles by now to say that helping women and girls is the most foolproof method of achieving sustainable development.
But women's advocacy groups here worry the concept might get short shrift when global leaders convene on Sept. 20 for the Millennium Development Goals Summit to assess progress of the goals over the past 10 years.
The early worries are generated by a "draft outcome" document that has been circulating since June re-affirming nations' pledges to meet these eight major goals, commonly known as the MDGs, by 2015.
The document finds goal No. 1--cutting 1990 poverty rates in half by 2015--on track. If reached it will leave 920 million people living under the international poverty line.
But goal No. 5, to improve maternal health, is way off track. Maternal deaths dropped by less than 1 percent between 1990 and 2005 globally, according to the U.N.'s 2008 MDGs report, making the goal of a three-quarters reduction of 1990 figures in five years appear remote.
The disparity, critics say, shows that women's rights are being given less consideration.
The 15-page paper reaffirming commitment to these goals offers a superficial discussion of gender equality, says Polly Truscott, Amnesty International's deputy representative to the U.N.
A major flaw, she says, is the treatment of gender equality and women's empowerment as a "key goal in itself" and not as a "basic human right." Truscott and her team have produced an edited version of the document with a stronger human rights focus.
Their amendments go beyond recognizing gender equality as essential to achieving the Millennium Development Goals, as well as "fundamental for development, peace and security." They call for women's empowerment to recognized as a "fundamental value and an issue of social justice" that should gain support in the new composite entity, U.N. Women, which is comprised of four existing U.N. gender offices.
Hot Button Issue
Human rights inclusions in the document shouldn't be controversial, Truscott says, given widespread international acceptance of the historic Beijing Platform of Action, adopted at the United Nations Conference on Women in 1995, which establishes women's rights as human rights.
The emphasis on women's rights as human rights includes the hot-button issue of abortion.
Women should have access to safe abortions where the procedure is legal, the Amnesty version of the draft outcome document now says. In countries where the procedure is illegal or restricted, they should have access to "quality services for the management of complications arising from all abortions."
Amnesty International is a member of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty, an international civil society coalition with 162 partners in 130 countries.
In the lead-up to the September MDG summit, organizers have lobbied for gendered language and gender-specific commitments to be imbedded throughout the summit's outcome document, not bracketed into women-specific sections.
Their criticism targets the structure of the MDGs, which lump women's special issues into two of the eight goals: maternal mortality reductions under No. 5 and the elimination of gender disparity in primary and secondary education by 2015 under No. 3.
"It's of course not a bad thing to make a strong statement about maternal health, except if it is made in exclusivity," said Lysa John, campaign director of Global Call to Action Against Poverty. "It's not an issue you can work on in isolation. It's not just about access to a hospital or medical care, it's nutrition, education, sexual and reproductive rights and much more at all stages of a woman's life."
Addressing Various Needs
Amnesty says the same about girls' barriers to education; that they aren't removed just by providing scholarships, cash transfers and eliminating school fees. It's also necessary to abolish discriminatory employment and land-inheritance laws and gender-based violence.
In other words, the two goals that focus specifically on women can only be fully pursued by addressing women's special needs throughout every layer of social policy planning.
Letty Chiwara, the United Nation Development Fund for Women's chief of the Africa Division, is also anxious to see the draft document include specific, itemized goals for women.
"We've had enough commitments and we don't want a document that narrates the good work we have done," said Chiwara. "We want a document that articulates key gaps and what actions we need to close those. We still need a lot of work to achieve that."
Chiwara wants specifics, such as more funding for women living with HIV/AIDS and an increase in female participation in governments, added to the document.
The final wording of the document depends on the 150 member nations who participate in the September gathering, says Denmark's envoy to the U.N. Carlsten Staur, a co-facilitator of the outcome document.
"Our task is to realistically see what we can achieve and what we can call a fair balance of the text," Staur told Women's eNews. "There may have to be some trade-offs, where you cannot accommodate all views in one area. It will always be a compromise."
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Just this week, I bought a pair of Converse Chuck Taylors for the first time since… maybe middle school? I'd forgotten how much fun these shoes can be, even if they are a little bit hard to get on and off every day.
But while my rust-colored sneaks are cool, they're not as cool as these wicked custom Game of Thrones Chuck Taylors, which Etsy user Tannim is selling for $115 a pair.
Those Lannister ones up top are a little bit loud for me, but I really dig the Stark and Arryn ones. Though man, I dunno if I could rep House Arryn on my shoes every day.
Check out some other highlights:
Would you consider throwing down for these? If so, which house? Does the nature of the house matter more to you than the color scheme? Those Targaryen shoes are pretty hot…
Talk shoes, Game of Thrones, or anything else, here or over in the Talk Amongst Yourselves forum.
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Satoshi Kon, one of the truly brilliant Japanese filmmakers, passed away yesterday due to pancreatic cancer. He was 46 years old.
While still in college, he made his debut as a manga artist. Upon graduation, he worked as an assistant for Akira author Katsuhiro Otomo.
He went on to create and direct some of the most impressive and striking anime of the last two decades.
Perfect Blue
Millennium Actress
Tokyo Godfathers
Paranoia Agent
Kon was working on a new film called The Dream Machine, which was slated for next year.
On August 23, the last tweet was posted on Kon's Twitter site. It reads: "I might be old-fashioned, or maybe it's just that I still admire the old values."
Anime Director Satoshi Kon of "Millennium Actress" Passed Away [Gigazine] [Pic]


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Residents relieved after Nassau River clean up
River was full of litter for full week
NASSAU COUNTY, Fla. – People in Nassau County are relieved that their river is now clean after it was full of litter for a full week.
A tractor-trailer carrying produce and Burger King products overturned last Saturday on Interstate 95 southbound in Yulee, spilling the debris all over the road and into the river below.
People who live in the area were extremely frustrated that nearly a week later the river was still littered.
Burger King contacted Channel 4 on Saturday and said the mess would be cleaned up, and on Sunday it was in fact gone.
"Oh, I think that's terrible, I mean, what it's doing to the environment," said Kurtis Adams.
A huge pile of litter is now gone from the Nassau River a week after a semi crash left produce like potatoes and onions, and Burger King products like bags and cardboard boxes scattered in the river.
Many complaints came into the Channel 4 newsroom. Many Nassau County residents said they use the river for fishing and other recreational activities, and people were not happy.
"I think it could have a major impact on that I wouldn't want to be fishing with garbage floating around depending on what was in there," said Lester See. "I don't really know but if it's hazardous to the fish or people who eat the fish, that would be awful."
Channel 4 didn't get a response from Burger King on Friday about who was responsible for cleaning up the mess but they got back to us Saturday morning and said it would be cleaned up on Saturday. When we went back on Sunday, it was in fact taken care of.
The smell of onions and potatoes came from a dumpster where the debris was disposed.
Adams said if the trash stayed in the river much longer, he would have taken it into his own hands.
"I would have got a group of people together and cleaned it up myself, get it out there as quick as possible," said Adams. "It's definitely not a good thing to have trash in your water."
People who live in this area said they're just happy the trash is in the dumpster and not in their river.
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Joni Mitchell's Both Sides Now appeared on her 1969 album Clouds (though Judy Collins's hit recording of the song was released the previous year). Clouds provide the central image in the song, particularly in the line I've looked at clouds from both sides now.
The song has literary origins, but the exact nature of them is a little, well, cloudy.
In one version, the song was inspired by Henderson the Rain King, a 1959 novel by Saul Bellow. The protagonist is a successful middle-aged man, Eugene Henderson, who suffers a crisis of spirituality and travels to Africa in search of answers. Through a series of misadventures, he is named the Rain King of the Wariri tribe. Early in the novel, Henderson is on a plane flying to Africa when he looks out the window and muses about the clouds below him:
And I dreamed down at the clouds, and thought that when I was a kid I had dreamed up at them, and having dreamed at the clouds from both sides, as no other generation of men has done, one should be able to accept his death very easily.
In an interview conducted just days after she'd written the song in 1967 (excerpted on her website), Mitchell said:
I was reading a book, and I haven't finished it yet, called Henderson the Rain King. And there's a line in it that I especially got hung up on that was about when he was flying to Africa and searching for something, he said that in an age when people could look up and down at clouds, they shouldn't be afraid to die. And so I got this idea 'from both sides now.'
She repeated the story in a 1996 interview with the Los Angeles Times:
I was reading Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King on a plane and early in the book Henderson the Rain King is also up in a plane. He's on his way to Africa and he looks down and sees these clouds. I put down the book, looked out the window and saw clouds too, and I immediately started writing the song.
In 1967 Joni was an avowed fan of J.R.R. Tollkien's The Lord of the Rings, thanks to her then-husband, folk singer Chuck Mitchell. "Joni had picked up Chuck's ardor for The Lord of the Rings," writes Sheila Weller in Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon--and the Journey of a Generation. "Both were swept up in the world of Middle Earth." (In fact, reports Katherine Monk in her book Joni: The Creative Odyssey of Joni Mitchell, "The two formed Gandalf Publishing together, a nod to their shared Lord of the Rings fascination; the name was formally approved by the famed author after the Mitchells made a request in writing.")
Weller writes that Mitchell "once said that 'Both Sides Now' was inspired by The Lord of the Rings (she'd begun to write a children's fantasy based upon it)." In an interview in 2000 with Hot Press, Mitchell elaborated on the fairy tale she was working on, and Tolkien's influence:
It was called Mythology, and focused on a place that had two kingdoms. It was kind of like childhood Zen. The kingdom of Fanta and the kingdom of Real. Fantasy, reality. And 'Both Sides Now' came out of that mythology, from Sequan, the queen of that mythology. It was a children's story! And yet people say it's narcissistic because I'm referring to myself. But it was the queen of the kingdom of Fanta singing. And the whole idea probably came from my reading Lord of The Rings. That was a direct influence.
So which author inspired the song--Bellow or Tolkien? Perhaps both did. In any case, we're glad to have given you the opportunity to consider the question from both sides now.


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WASHINGTON — The economy's unexpected contraction at the end of last year showed that "fiscal cliff" fears and a sharp drop in defense spending pushed the moderate recovery off track, highlighting the precarious nature of the country's economic revival.
The nation's total economic output shrank at an annual rate of 0.1% in the last three months of the year, the first such pull-back since the Great Recession ended in mid-2009, the Commerce Department said Wednesday.
Economists were surprised but predicted the drop was a temporary detour that would not send the U.S. veering toward another recession. They pointed out, however, that battles in Washington, including upcoming ones on spending cuts and the debt limit, again could affect consumer and business confidence and economic growth.
Among the factors for the fourth-quarter decline was a 0.6% drop in investments by businesses in their inventories amid concerns about the large tax increases and federal spending cuts — dubbed, collectively, the fiscal cliff — that had been set to start Jan. 1.
In addition, federal defense spending dropped 22.2% from the previous quarter, the biggest decline in four decades. And with Europe in recession and growth in China slowing, exports decreased 5.7%.
Two straight quarters of contraction officially constitute a recession, which would seem to put the U.S. on the precipice of another downturn. But economists said things were not as bad as they seemed.
Some of the key factors in the fourth-quarter slowdown, particularly the falloff in defense spending, appeared to be anomalies. A last-minute deal in Washington avoided most of the tax increases, providing a potential springboard for business investment.
And some key components of the economy, particularly consumer spending and the housing market, showed strength at the end of last year. Such factors should help ease any concerns about falling into another recession.
"I'm sure we will start seeing the use of the dreaded 'R' word," said Justin Wolfers, an economics professor at the University of Michigan and fellow at the Brookings Institution. "That's premature, and almost certainly wrong."
Wolfers said the economy still is growing, but he warned that the "recovery is still precarious, and Congress could still blow it up."
Economists had been expecting economic growth to slow from the 3.1% annual rate in the third quarter, but not into negative territory. The consensus estimate had been for 1% growth in the last three months of the year.
Amid the slowdown, the Federal Reserve said Wednesday that it would keep short-term interest rates near zero and continue its latest bond-buying stimulus program.
After a two-day meeting, Fed policymakers said recent information "suggests that growth in economic activity paused in recent months, in large part because of weather-related disruptions and other transitory factors." Those disruptions included last summer's drought and last fall's Superstorm Sandy.
But the Fed said the economy has continued to add jobs at a "moderate pace" and it did not indicate it was preparing any new initiatives. On Friday, the government is expected to report the 35th consecutive month of private-sector job gains, a report that could indicate whether the fourth-quarter contraction was a harbinger of problems or a blip in the recovery.
Economists estimated that the economy added about 165,000 jobs in January, up from 155,000 in December, and that the unemployment rate remained at 7.8%.
A monthly survey by payroll processor Automatic Data Processing Inc., released Wednesday, showed the private sector added about 192,000 jobs this month, up from a revised 185,000 in December.
Investors appeared not to be overly concerned about the prospect of another recession. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 44 points, or 0.3%, to 13,910.42 on Wednesday.
"I don't think anything has fundamentally changed in the economy," said Mark Zandi, chief economist for Moody's Analytics. "The economy is growing."
He predicted the economy's fourth-quarter performance would end up in positive territory after the government revises the data over the next two months.
Bernard Baumohl, chief global economist at Economic Outlook Group, said he was advising the firm's clients to disregard the fourth-quarter report. He projected the economy would grow at an annual rate of 2.2% to 2.5% in the first three months of this year.
"All the economic indicators that underpin household and business spending are moving in the right direction," Baumohl said.
Still, the expiration of the two-year payroll tax break Jan. 1 is expected to be a drag on consumer spending as workers adjust to smaller paychecks. And large automatic government spending cuts, delayed until March 1 to give the White House and Congress more time to work out a deficit-reduction deal, also could slow growth.
The importance of federal spending to the economy was clear in the fourth quarter. After a 12.9% increase in defense spending helped boost the economy in the third quarter, the big decrease in the fourth quarter helped drag growth into negative territory. The drop reduced economic growth by 1.28 percentage points, the Commerce Department said.
"A likely explanation for the sharp decline in federal defense spending is uncertainty concerning the automatic spending cuts that were scheduled to take effect in January," said Alan Krueger, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisors.
The report was "a reminder of the importance of the need for Congress to act to avoid self-inflicted wounds to the economy," he said.
But the drop in defense spending probably came because the Pentagon pulled some spending into the last fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30, said Gordon Adams, a professor of international relations at American University. He also said the gradual end to the war in Afghanistan was reducing military spending.
Times staff writer Alana Semuels contributed to this report.


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I have gotten so frustrated by the things going on in America. But what can one do here in the Fayette/Morenci area? Christians can pray every day for America.
I have listened to TV and radio programs about how America was born through our founding fathers and their faith in God. Our children are no longer being taught in school the who, what and why of our country. Do people realize that Thanksgiving Day was actually created as a spiritual holiday? For most, the celebration has taken over the reason for the day, much the same way as it has for Christmas.
I read an article the other day by the Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd, and it says it all. He started out by saying immigrants have to adapt to Australians. He is tired of his country worrying about whether immigrants (individuals or culture) are being offended. The culture in Australia has been developed over two centuries of struggles, trials and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom.
He goes on to say that in Australia they speak English and if you want to be a part of Australian society you have to learn to speak English. The article said that most Australians believe in God and that this is not some Christian, right wing, political push, but a fact, because Christian men and women founded their nation on Christian principles, which is clearly documented. They can display it on the walls of their schools.
He feels if God offends you, then you should consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is a part of the culture there. If you don't like their flag, their pledge, their Christian beliefs or their way of life, he encourages you to use another Australian freedom—that of the right to leave.
Why can't our leaders in our government take a similar stand on these issues? Why have we gotten so far away from that which America was founded and why?
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Last week, the UN, with the blessing of the US, mustered up a strongly-worded statement condemning Bashar Assad's violent crackdown on unarmed dissidents in Syria, but still refused to demand Assad's resignation. Barack Obama still has yet to call for Assad's removal after five months of murderous Syrian response, despite demanding the resignation of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt after eight days of protests without the kind of brutal crackdown seen from Assad. Even the Saudis have had enough (via Jennifer Rubin):
Saudi Arabia has said it is recalling its ambassador from Damascus in protest against Syria's deadly crackdown on anti-government demonstrators.
A statement from King Abdullah said the violence was "unacceptable" and called for it to stop before it was too late.
It came hours after the Arab League issued its first official statement, strongly condemning the violence.
On Sunday, more than 80 people died as the army launched assaults in eastern and central Syria, activists said.
How about the Obama administration? According to the State Department's response, they think that Saudi Arabia's decision "clearly sends a message" to Assad's government. And, of course, we won't send the same message, as The Cable deduces:
The State Department welcomes the announcement by Saudi Arabia that it is recalling its ambassador from Syria, but the U.S. has no plans to do so. "This is a choice by any sovereign nation whether to recall its ambassador. It clearly sends a message to the government," said Toner. "For our part, we've talked about this last week and continue to believe that Ambassador Ford is playing an important role on the ground, bearing witness to what's going on in Syria."
Ahhh, I see. Ford is a witness! I suppose the thousands of Syrians getting attacked won't do in that role. As for Ford, he wants us all to know that what's going on is, er, pretty bad, or something:
U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford condemned the Syrian military crackdown against a civilian uprising in the city of Hama, calling the violence there "grotesque" and "abhorrent." As international condemnation grows, he said the United States would "try to ratchet up the pressure" on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, including through new sanctions.
"The violence that the Syrian government is inflicting on Syrian protesters, from our point of view, is grotesque. It's abhorrent," Ford told "This Week" anchor Christiane Amanpour in a U.S. exclusive. "So we are looking at additional unilateral measures, but also measures that we can work with partners to get the Syrian government to stop shooting protesters, to release political prisoners and to stop these arrest campaigns."
It's grotesque and abhorrent, but not enough to cut off diplomatic ties or to treat Assad, a clear antagonist towards the US and the West, with anything approaching the treatment we gave Mubarak, our nominal ally in the region. Instead of showing any consistency, we're going to keep jollying along this supposed "reformer" and desperately look for others in the region with more muscle to get Assad to kindly, pretty please, stop massacring his own people. That must be what Obama means by "smart power," huh?
It's a sad day indeed when the Saudis are more concerned with human-rights violations than the United States, especially in a place like Syria. One might even call it "grotesque" and "abhorrent."


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"Rick Santorum's decision Tuesday to suspend his campaign effectively ends the GOP nomination fight. But it doesn't mark the start of the general election between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. That contest has long been under way. Mr. Obama's speech to the Associated Press last week and two appearances in Florida on Tuesday provide a glimpse of the low road the president and his campaign likely will take.
"He will distort beyond recognition his opponent's arguments. For example, he explained to news executives at the AP that Republicans want to 'convert more of our investments in education and research and health care into tax cuts—especially for the wealthy.' Actually, no one has suggested that.
"No honest differences are possible with Mr. Obama. He will impugn the motives of any who disagree with him."
"Now, in the face of mounting attacks from Democrats and the Obama campaign, Mr. Romney is taking steps to address [the] gender gap head on. In the past week, his campaign has devised a three-pronged strategy, which it finalized Tuesday night, advisers familiar with the internal discussions said. They will try to debunk the notion that Mr. Romney's policies have hurt women, turn the criticism back on Mr. Obama and outline how they believe women have suffered under his administration, and brand those issues in a memorable way…
"As the Romney campaign pivots to the general election, his aides will reintroduce him to voters, warming up his image by emphasizing his role as a devoted father and husband. Mr. Romney's wife, Ann, has already made several Web videos that feature her reminiscences, along with gauzy family photos; voters are likely to see more of these. Mrs. Romney will also increase her campaign appearances; she has already begun to talk about how women tell her that they care deeply about the economy, where the campaign wants to keep its focus. Polls showed that as the Republican primary campaign dragged on, Mr. Romney began losing support with women, who may have been put off by the nominating contest's focus on social issues like Planned Parenthood, immigration and contraception.
"'Women voters are pocketbook voters, and the highest casualties of President Obama's failures on the economy have been among women,' said Eric Fehrnstrom, a senior adviser to Mr. Romney, a former governor of Massachusetts."
"Rick Santorum had been the last best hope of Christian conservatives who opposed Mitt Romney, derided by many as a 'Massachusetts moderate.' Now, facing the abrupt end of Mr. Santorum's presidential bid, some evangelical leaders have begun to rally behind Mr. Romney, saying their shared hostility toward President Obama will be a powerful force for uniting the party in November…
"Mr. Romney, a range of evangelical leaders said, must not waver in his support for conservative principles if he hopes to tap the energies of Christian conservatives in the general campaign…
"'Going to the general election, I will do everything I can for Governor Romney,' [Gary Bauer] said.
"'But his campaign has got to make it easy for me to help them,' he added, 'and not make it hard by being tempted to pull back on conservative issues.'"
"Some high-profile conservatives are warning Romney not to marginalize Santorum.
"'If they want to be successful, they have to figure out a way to incorporate him into the campaign,' said Family Research Council head Tony Perkins, noting that Santorum 'could've held this thing out even longer.'…
"But even before Santorum left Gettysburg on Tuesday, some senior Republicans were fretting about the specter of Tampa being hijacked by one of the losing candidates and their supporters.
"'We can't let somebody who's a better performer upstage Romney,' said one influential party leader, recalling GOP conventions in 1976 (Ronald Reagan) and 1992 (Pat Buchanan) when the nominee's message was stepped on by his chief primary opponent. 'We can't have another shrill speech like what Pat did in 1992 with our gender gap.'"
"Most political professionals, including many Republicans, think that President Obama will win reëlection handily — and this belief is reflected in the betting markets. At Ladbroke's, the British bookmaker, the odds on an Obama victory are four-to-nine, which means you have to bet ninety dollars to win forty. These odds imply that the chance of Obama winning is about sixty-nine per cent. At Intrade, an online-trading exchange, the implied probability of an Obama victory is a bit lower, but only a bit: sixty-one per cent.
"Despite having been an early proponent of the view that things were shifting in Obama's direction, I am reluctant to embrace the new conventional wisdom that the result is virtually a foregone conclusion. If the past few months have taught us anything, it is that things can change pretty rapidly in American politics. Unlike Walter Mondale in 1984 or Bob Dole in 1996, Romney isn't a complete no-hoper. According to a new poll from ABC News and the Washington Post, three in four Americans still think that the economy is in recession, and, by a margin of four percentage points, voters trust Romney more than Obama to handle the economy.
"Clearly, though, there has been a turn. Back in October, Obama's approval ratings were languishing in the low forties; head-to-head polls showed him lagging Romney in many battleground states, such as Florida; and the unemployment rate stood at 9.1 per cent. Since then, what a reversal of fortune we've seen."
"Conservative primary voters are more discriminating than ever, looking seriously at the flaws of old heroes like Gingrich and new saviors like Rick Perry. They are more willing to keep the primary contest going than before. All they need is a candidate to lead them.
"What if that candidate, come 2016 or 2020, is a current rather than former elected official? Someone with no votes for Medicare Part D or No Child Left Behind in his record? Someone who has governed, without tax increases or TARP bailouts? The bench will not be as depleted from the Bush years next time.
"By winning 11 primaries and caucuses, Rick Santorum was the most successful conservative insurgent since Ronald Reagan in 1976. But that still isn't good enough. The right is seeking to emulate Reagan in 1980 instead."
"Guess what? His wife has never actually worked a day in her life. She's never really dealt with the economic issues that a majority of the women in this country are facing—in terms of how do we feed our kids, how do we send them to school, and how do—why we worry about their future. So I think it's, yes, it's about these positions, and yes there will be a war of words about the positions, but there's something much more fundamental about Mitt Romney—he just seems so old-fashioned when it comes to women, and I think that comes across, and I think that's going to hurt him over the long term. He just doesn't really see us as equal."


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Police Sgt. Gregory Ames was taking to Boston Medical Center; but it was unclear if the injuries were life threatening, said West Bridgewater Police Lt. Vic Flaherty.
Ames was responding to a call with the cruiser's lights on at the time of the accident, said Flaherty. The two vehicles collided when the cruiser went to pass a black Chevy SUV on the left side as the SUV took a left turn into the parking lot of 319 Manley St. The cruiser crashed into the side of the SUV.
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Microsoft Does Not Believe in Rapid Adoption of Stereo 3D by Gamers
Stereoscopic 3D technologies is a topic that is discussed pretty widely both among movie and video games industries. But while there are companies claiming that stereo-3D (S3D) is the big thing for tomorrow, it may turn out that S3D will find itself important only the day after tomorrow. Following Electronic Arts, Microsoft said that it would take years for stereo-3D games to become popular.
"It is projected that less than one 0.5% of all TVs in the U.S. this year will be 3DTV. 3DTVs will make up only 5% of the TV installed base three years from now," a Microsoft representative said on the sidelines of the company's press conference at E3 trade-show.
From the hardware perspective, Microsoft Xbox 360 can support stereo-3D output; for example, Avatar: The Game, Crysis 2 and some other titles either already support S3D on the Xbox 360 or will do so once they are released. However, Microsoft is unlikely to put a lot of efforts into development its own stereo-3D titles for the current-generation hardware. Even if three-dimensional televisions have around 5% of the U.S. installed base in three years, it may not make sense to roll-out an AAA title supporting 3D, but rather to concentrate on other aspects of game-play.
Moreover, it may make a lot of sense to start adoption of S3D technologies with the next-generation Xbox. In fact, the original Xbox did not support high-definition video games despite of the fact that there were a lot of HDTVs available on the market in 2003 – 2005 timeframe. As a result, when Xbox 360 was released in late 2005, it clearly had one huge advantage over the predecessor. Quite naturally, though, Microsoft does not comment on features of its next-generation hardware.
"We closely and constantly evaluate consumer trends. If there is demand, we have demonstrated in the past that we are able to quickly dedicate resources to respond to consumer interest," the representative is reported to have said.
But while Microsoft may not be exactly interested in enabling stereo-3D on the Xbox 360, its arch-rival Sony Computer Entertainment is more than interested in S3D technologies since besides PlayStation 3 consoles it also sells televisions as well as Blu-ray 3D content. Moreover, even Nintendo demonstrated interest in stereo-3D technologies when it unveiled plans to implement an S3D screen into its portable 3DS console, which may also potentially indicate a plan to enable stereo-3D games for its next-generation console that will succeed Wii.
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Here's an idea. You seem to be interested in this stuff. My chair has 36 bolts. All 1/4x about 1 1/2 inch. Grade 5 or 3. If we replaced them with 1/8 or 3/64 grade 8. How much weight saving would their be? Smaller diameter, but more dense bolt. How about a bigger bolt, that's centered drilled?
By the way. Thanks for the info on the VA numbers. Got my doctor to order some stuff, saved having to go to PT.
OK, good, thanks for your opinion so far, that I make up my to choose Oracing F2.
How's your footrest trial goes?
Please kindly show me the picture as well, thanks.
I have a friend ordering ZRA, and her seat to footrest is 13". I know that this measurement need high mount footrest. But she need flip back footrest too, is it possible for her to have a flip back footrest on a high mounting?
The footrest maybe could be raised 3". It would be close.
First you'd try to adjust it up. If it wouldn't go that high, but the footrest bends are not stopping it, measure how high it will go, then remove the footrest from the chair, and cut off off a bit of tubing from both risers to allow it to go higher, then reinstall it (I've never cut titanium, it may be hard to do).
If the footrest bends are stopping it, you'll have to install some kind of pad on top of the factory plate to raise it the rest of the way. Installing a nicely finished hardwood pad would look sharp I think.
If the chair fits you in every other way, you like the price, and you don't mind padding the footrest, I'd go for it.
Saw this in ebay, most of the configuration fit me, just that don't know the footrest height can adjust to 14" or not.
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I have never traveled by plane with my AeroZ. I suspect it would not hold up under rough treatment as well as a titanium chair; I am quite gentle with mine. Ask SCI_OTR for his recommendation regarding a chair for air travel; he often travels by air. If I traveled often by air, I would want a TR3 with a welded backrest.
My understanding is the initial Series2 folding backrest issues have been resolved for new chairs. (Some older S2 chairs stll have the bad hardware.)
DU00019 is TiLite's Designs Unlimited code for a fixed backrest. (The DU00019 page says it's for only the ZR, but the DU table of contents says it's for ZR, ZRA, and AeroZ). I will call them later today (when they're open) to confirm that for you.
Planning to have a second chair. Still hesitate should I go for ZR or AeroZ 2 with enforcement. AeroZ will save me a lot of money, but will it stand through travel by flight? Does the series 2 backrest problem has really solve? Does AeroZ 2 has rigid backrest option?(I remember someone said it has). Thanks, good day.
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Frustrating more than 50 years of bad science that has claimed the exact opposite, Ellison's appraisal of fluoride's negative effects on the body shows once again why removing fluoride from public water supplies is crucial to public health. And health freedom advocates must step up to be the educational catalyst for bringing about this change nationwide.
"Once ingested, fluoride compounds attack the structural integrity of our insides," says Ellison. "Collagen, a web-like network connecting our skeletal system to muscles, is torn apart by fluoride. We feel it as joint stiffness, ligament damage, and aching bones. This same mechanism leads to browning of teeth, an outcome known as fluorosis."
Ellison adds that laboratory studies dating back decades have shown that fluoride spurs the mutation of mammalian DNA cells, which can promote the growth of cancer cells. Various population studies, he says, have shown that fluoride ingestion can increase a person's risk of developing bone cancer by as much as 700 percent.
And finally, fluoride has never been shown to actually prevent cavities, which is the excuse most often used to continue lacing public water supplies with this toxic poison. On the contrary, fluoride ingestion actually promotes tooth decay, and even the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) admits that there is no verifiable, scientific proof that fluoride in any way prevents cavities.
So why does artificial water fluoridation continue to persist in many towns and cities across America today? A combination of ignorance and pride both appear to be factors, as the medical establishment largely refuses to accept modern science showing that fluoride is unsafe because it has been claiming for many decades that fluoride is safe.
John Garfield from The University Daily Kansan recently wrote his own assessment of the dangers of fluoride, noting that the best available science links fluoride consumption to thyroid disorders, endocrine disruption, reproductive damage, skin problems, brittle bones, immunodeficiency, premature puberty, and lowered IQ (http://www.kansan.com/news/2012/apr/26/water-fluoridation/).
The evidence is so strong against fluoride these days that nearly 40 U.S. communities stopped fluoridating their water in 2011 (http://www.naturalnews.com), and many more, including Albuquerque, N.M., Bolivar, Mo., and Myerstown, Penn., have ended water fluoridation in 2012.
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