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2001 Power Cruiser Comparo
In search of enlightenment and two-wheeled bliss.
Torrance, California, November 1, 2001
We haven't picked a rational winner for a major shootout so far this year. What fun is that? If you just want to read the OEM's marketing hype, draw up a spreadsheet and pick a new bike without any real-world input -- for instance, actually riding and living with the bikes -- well, what are you doing here? We like to keep shootout bikes for a couple months, letting their features and flaws seep into our collective consciousness over time, and it's amazing what one can discern from actually riding a group of motorcycles back-to-back, especially so with a bunch of cruisers, where evaluating is almost purely subjective.
Mind you, this is a bit of a tangent, but bear with us a while longer, it's important: We have, many times in the past, pontificated that we pick bikes based on the ones we would realistically own. This basically melds the fun factor in with price, and we go from there. But (and this is the point) we do so independently: without influence from OEMs, advertisers or even -- and this tends to be quite unpopular at times -- you, the not-so-gentle, often-brand-loyal reader.
Feeling pretty smug with ourselves after Kawasaki's ZX-6R won the AMA's 600cc Championship this year -- the same bike you'all hammered us for selecting to win our 600cc test this year because it was the most comfortable and offered excellent performance (Vindication!), we entered this test thinking it'd be an easy, popular win. Sadly, considering the brutal flaming we'll soon be subjected to and the heated arguments over the outcome of this test, that just wasn't to be. Nothing, it seems of late, is ever easy.
"Here's what happened: After our first ride on Harley-Davidson's awesome new V-Rod, we all thought it would walk away with this test."
Editor Plummer has always voted for Harleys to win cruiser tests, Minime thrived on the attention the bike generated, and Calvin fell in love with the wickedly fast power of the bike. Things started turning sour when Plummer found out that we'd ordered up a V-Max, the bike he has listed as his favorite sportbike for the past five years. Seemingly not a big deal, but then we got wind of the horrid price gouging going on for V-Rods, and were dismayed. Still, everything looked on track Minime and Plummer split the V-Rod/V-Max debates with first and third place votes, respectively, both really liking Kawasaki's Mean Streak, which we all felt was the most polished, easiest-to-ride bike in the test. Then, as he did in the aforementioned 2001 600cc Shoutout when he picked the ZX-6R over the bike we all thought would win (Honda's F4i), Calvin threw in a curveball: He voted the Mean Streak first. As did several Guest Testers.
"It's a great bike," we all quipped. "Truly astounding, does everything well and looks great, too."
Then, the votes were tallied.
"It effing won?" stammered Plummer, incredulous that the Mean Streak could win.
"This can't be," cried Minime, despairing. "The Beef Steak (as the Kawasaki is commonly referred to around MO) can't beat the V-Rod, it's lame. We'll be tarred, feathered and outcast! Possibly beaten!"
A debate raged -- we considering changing the rules so it won't win. People wanted to change their votes after casting them. Al Gore got robbed! In the end, we resolved to hold to our ideals, and not bow to our pathetic egos -- being motojournalists, the "coolness" of the job is really all there is; if you saw our paystubs, believe us, you'd understand that. And probably cry a little on payday.
And so it came to pass that, on this first day of November, 2001, the slowest bike in our Power Cruiser shootout won. People are going to file nasty complaints. We're starting to wonder what's wrong with us. But, as much as it pains us, we're sticking by the Kwacker for this one. Ruffle the feathers, we say. Buck the system, down with the man, we fought the law and the law won. Read along and find out why.
Fourth Place: Honda VTX
Quicklook: {MSRP $12,499 || 88.3 bhp || 96.5 lbs/ft}
Plebians have been clamoring for something that has, well, 'nads, but also brakes and goes around corners pretty well, too. Disappearing are the slow, clunky chrome things of yore, replaced with models that actually go forward with a respectable degree of rapidity. And so begins a new era of enlightment for the masses.
Honda's VTX is what Big Red believes to be the epitome of this new metric cruiser ideal. It boasts class-leading power numbers and tonnage, though it also comes standard with back-of-the-pack brakes. If you're willing to overlook some things in favor of the sort of gargantuan torque that leaves chunks of pavement behind, there's always the VTX to satiate you. With nearly 100 foot-pounds of torque at the rear wheel, and a size that makes it a Hummer in a group of economy cars, the Honda just begs for sixth gear from of 30 mph right on up into the triple digits.
Huge numbers aside, some people just couldn't come to terms with the Honda. A number of riders who have thrown a leg over the VTX mention that it seems as if Honda engineers built one of the all-time great cruiser motors, neutered it with an all too eager rev-limiter and installed it in anything that would keep costs down. This is unfortunate, really, as the VTX deserves a chassis with componentry more befitting its awesome oomph. The brakes, for instance, feature a non-adjustable front lever (only one in this test) and are linked rear-to-front (we hate linked braking, by the way), and, compounding the braking peculiarities, overall stopping power is lacking. A big bike needs big brakes. Maybe Kawasaki will have some spare binders laying around someday. Honda ought to do some e-Bay bidding for them.
On the highway, the motor thrums along nicely, providing a constant though mellow reminder as to the severity of the explosions and the rotation of the mass occurring beneath you. On smooth highways, the VTX does things as well as any other. Once the road turns less than perfect, however, the thing begins to wallow about, and the rev limiter seems to be constantly kicking in: "every time you feel like it's just starting to really get up and go, it bounces off the limiter, leaving you jerking for another gear," commented Plummer of the VTX's engine. "It's frustrating in the extreme, and the icing on its demise -- there was nothing I really like about the VTX, and a lot of things that just don't seem to work well, the big three being the engine, chassis and brakes." The front end and the rear both seem undersprung, though the rear is most in need of some loving.
Flowing through a series of long sweepers, the bike behaves most admirably, relying on its huge wheelbase and raked out front end to keep stress levels down. It's only when the pace escalates and the road tightens up a bit that the big VTX starts meandering about, searching for lines through corners that differ from what the pilot had initially planned. The Honda touched down its pegs quicker than any other bike here, sometimes dragging them even in parking lots. Thankfully, there is a lot of peg to drag before any hard parts grind, eventually touching down about the same time as the Mean Streak.

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Extended WM Specification ready
Encouraging news come from the X Desktop Group. Havoc Pennington, founder of the group and free software visionary, announced the release of the version 1.0 of the Extended Window Manager Specification.
Matthias Ettrich of KDE and Hugh Bradley of Trolltech fruitfully participated to the work of this project. Thanks to them, KDE provides a first, proof of concept, full implementation of the spec. Chances are you're using their work on this topic right now, as the window manager of KDE-2, KWin, is 100% compliant.
The release of this specification is an important event. There is now a real chance that applications will be offered with the same functionality at the level of the interface with the windowing system, no matter which desktop environment the user employs.
Many thanks from the KDE project to all the participants in the WMSpec creation.
Re: Extended WM Specification ready
Call me stupid... but does this mean I can use KWin in Gnome?
By Anonymous at Sun, 2000/12/10 - 6:00am
Re: Extended WM Specification ready
Once GNOME is brought up to spec (no idea as to the status of this), yes!
By wes at Sun, 2000/12/10 - 6:00am
Re: Extended WM Specification ready
Congratulations! It's great to see developers from the KDE and Gnome projects working together on something. This will benefit the users greatly. Thank you.
By Jamin P. Gray at Sun, 2000/12/10 - 6:00am
Re: Extended WM Specification ready
I agree with you! Thanks to the developers.
By Stefan at Sun, 2000/12/10 - 6:00am
Re: Extended WM Specification ready
From a user's perspective I don't care if my
Back in the early days of computing there used
But would this make Unix/X11 a success? No,
So my wish would be, that you'd continue this
If you can reach this goal then there isn't much
Please get me right. I don't mean that things
This is what made the Mac (and also Windows)
By Michael Gengenbach at Sun, 2000/12/10 - 6:00am
Re: Extended WM Specification ready
I really agree with you. My dream is that the user can't tell the difference between a Gnome and a KDE program. This would be great because then these two desktops would minimize the number of missing applications. Every desktops has a few great applications but also some applications that are still missing (but maybe the other desktop has this missing application already).
By Steffen at Sun, 2000/12/10 - 6:00am
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Ok. I'm gonna sound like I'm bashing GNOME, but bare with me, I'm not. Not voluntarily, anyway. Not wanting to spread more gas on a dying fire, but here is what I think/feel:
The idea is a wonderful one. Unfortunately, it's (right now) completely impossible. The Qt graphics capabilities are simple a few years ahead of GTK's. GTK's pixmap theme handling is at best laughable. I'm on 133mhz computer, and can rest assure that GTK's themes are as simplistic as they can get. It's slow, ugly, and unusable.
Ok, my computer is anything but bleeding edge. OTOH, just writing bad code and bad applications because the hardware can survive it, is plain stupid. Simply because 800mhz are out there does _NOT_ mean that a simplistic widget set should be brain-dead and require heavy load to draw simple themes. Especially when there are much better implementations out there.
Also, Qt supports UNICODE, and GTK does not. (Yet, I hear 2.0 is supposed to). Qt is a few years in advanced in many, many points to GTK. (Theu se of the programming language for example... )
The morale is that for application to simply LOOK similar, KDE would have to forbid its developers from using the whole of Qt's power, for user to sacrifice the advanced theming KDE/Qt can provide, simply to allow GTK apps to catch up.
For applications to behave similarly, GNOME would have to implement network transparency, a usable (non-mozilla) HTML widget, and thousands of other things KDE has had since 2.0, and in some (non-rare) cases since before that. (For example, a sane pixmap handling code. GTK's gdk-pixbuf is still not up to par wth Qt 1.4 series' QPixmap+QPainter classes)
The differences between gnome and KDE are less and less philosophical, and more and more technical. GNOME lags behind in almost all cases of usability (user-wise) and usability (developer-wise: GDK vs QPainter? There are no comparisons... same for a thousand other details)
The same kind of arguments could probably be made in favor of some parts of GNOME (bonobo vs KParts come to mind, even though I favor KParts personally), and the GNOME guys would tell you that GNOME would need to be 'inferiorized' in order to let KDE catch up.
There would probably need some lowest common denominator in app development that would bring both desktops years back, not to sayy completely inferior to other OS'es desktops environment.
It's impossible. (Un)Fortunately.
By Christian Lavoie at Sun, 2000/12/10 - 6:00am
Re: Extended WM Specification ready
Without diving into the details of this, I'll just say that you are wrong on a number of technical points there. Overall, GTK and Qt are essentially comparable in terms of features and technology.
By Havoc Pennington at Mon, 2000/12/11 - 6:00am
Re: Extended WM Specification ready
Concerning Unicode, is full Unicode input into the text boxes possible on QT 2.2 today? And how about Bidirectional text? Afraid not ...
That's stuff GTK+ 1.3 does and so QT 3.0 is expected to.
By Ilya at Mon, 2000/12/11 - 6:00am
Can someone help me
I know this is off topic but I cant find help anywhere. When I try to install KDE 2.0.1 I get
By Robert at Mon, 2000/12/11 - 6:00am
Re: Can someone help me
Ahh, fun with rpms! I've given up on them and started compiling almost everything (a real pain). I'm going to have to try an apt-based system... it's supposed to be easier.
Anyway, are you installing the rpms in the right order? I think it goes kdesupport, then kdelibs, then kdebase, etc. (Check kde's site for instructions). I think if you just "rpm -ivh *rpm" then rpm will work out the order itself.
BTW, if you get it installed and find kde slow or unstable, it's probably not kde but the packages that you installed. In that case, compiling (qt especially) makes a lot of difference.
Hope that helps,
By kdeFan at Mon, 2000/12/11 - 6:00am
Re: Can someone help me
I think kmid is part of the kdelibs package, so it's possible you're not installing/compiling the packages in the correct order. Here's the order for compiling, which should hold true for installation as well
I got this from
Hope this helps a bit.
By Richar Sheldon at Mon, 2000/12/11 - 6:00am
Re: Can someone help me
I had the same problem with libkmid.so.0.
Take a look on the rpmfind.net pages. I did a quick and dirty, and found this:
Came up with 50 rpms for libkmid. You can also look on the home page for libkmid:
By Nick Ryberg at Mon, 2000/12/11 - 6:00am
Re: Can someone help me
I found out how to to so it but thanks for the help
By Robert at Mon, 2000/12/11 - 6:00am
Re: Extended WM Specification ready
Speaking of Window Managers, I've been working on a new KWin theme which is based on, and closely resembles the KWin 2.1 default theme in the KDE2.1 snapshots. It has been optimised to reduce flicker, esp. when resizing. To see a preview, point your browsers at:
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If you've seen recent news reports about the extreme winter weather in Europe you understand that the situation for many people is quite grim. It has recently taken a toll on ICC's project in Romania as well. The campus greenhouse has been extensively damaged as a result of the heavy snowfall.
We don't have information yet about the extent of the damage and whether or not the structure can be salvaged and repaired. We'll pass along those details once they are available.
On Monday, February 13, Gabriela Costache sent an e-mail regarding the situation in Romania. Here is an excerpt:
The situation here is not good, it is snowing since yesterday and now the snow in the city of Buzau is about 1 meter… [It is] the same in Odobesti and all over the country. And the sad news is that it is going to snow until Thursday. Please, pray for Romania!
I hope God will protect the project. They have all they need and starting with tomorrow the schools are closed. They [the children] will stay home. They have enough bread and flour and yeast in case they cannot buy stuff, because now, with this situation, the food is very expensive.
All the routes are closed in the country and there are many people who died without food or drink.
Last week they changed the government… and during all this time, they didn't have time for the people. Only this week-end they started to help…
Please pray for ICC's project in Romania and especially for the children and staff as the struggle against this cold winter storm system.
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This is a go-to recipe in our house! I like to serve it over quinoa to round out the meal and soak up the delicious sauce!
3 slices bacon in 1-inch pieces
3 garlic cloves, peeled
2 large eggs
1/2 cup bread crumbs
1 1/4 pounds ground pork
1/2 cup (loosely packed) coarsely chopped mint leaves
1 28-ounce can diced tomatoes, drained of all but 1/4 cup juice
1 or 2 cans chipotle chilies in adobo, stemmed, seeded and sauce reserved
1 teaspoon dried oregano
about 1 1/2 cups beef or chicken broth
Heat oven to 450 degrees. In a food processor, combine bacon and 1 garlic clove. Process until finely chopped. Add eggs, bread crumbs and 1 teaspoon salt. Pulse several times until well combined but not a paste. Remove meat from processor.
With wet hands, form meat into about 16 plum-size balls and space them out in a 13" x 9" baking dish. Bake until lightly browned, about 15 minutes.
While meatballs bake, combine tomatoes, 1/4 cup tomato juice, chipotles, 1 to 2 tablespoons chipotle sauce, oregano, remaining garlic cloves (cut in half) and 1/2 teaspoon salt in a blender or food processor. Process to a smooth puree.
When meatballs are ready, spoon off rendered fat from baking dish, then pour tomato mixture on top, covering meatballs evenly. Bake until sauce has thickened somewhat, 15 to 20 minutes.
Heat broth in a small saucepan. Divide meatballs among four dinner plates, leaving sauce behind. Stir enough broth into sauce to give it a spoonable consistency. Taste and season with salt, if necessary. Spoon sauce over meatballs, decorate with extra mint leaves, if you wish, and serve.


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Forty years ago today, Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher and executive, made the first call on a handheld mobile phone to his rival, Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs, from a street corner in New York.
"As I walked down the street while talking on the phone, sophisticated New Yorkers gaped at the sight of someone actually moving around while making a phone call," Cooper is reported to have said. "Remember that in 1973, there weren't cordless telephones or cellular phones.
'I made numerous calls, including one where I crossed the street while talking to a New York radio reporter - probably one of the more dangerous things I have ever done in my life."
He used the Motorola DynaTAC for that fateful call, a "mobile" phone that weighed more than a kilogram. Today's phones weigh a tenth of that, and are far more powerful.
It has been a long and arduous journey to get from the back-breaking, heavy shoulder-strapped behemoths to the paper-thin smartphones of today. Pocket-lint takes a look at some of the more iconic handsets that have marked the path along the way.
Motorola DynaTAC
Where it all began and made famous in many movies both released and set in the 1980s, such as Wall Street (Gordon Gekko uses it on the beach to talk to Buddy) and American Psycho.
There were several Motorola handsets released over a 10-year period - from a prototype model in 1973 that didn't have a display, to the pinnacle of the series in 1983 that came with an LED screen so you could at least see the number you were calling.
The battery allowed for a call of up to 60 minutes, after which it was necessary to charge the phone for up to 10 hours in a trickle charger or 1 hour in a fast charger, which was a separate accessory.
Motorola 4500x
The size of a small bag, the 4500x was more suited to the car (starting the "carphone" nomenclature). However, you were also able to take it on the go with you, to use in your meeting.
Gordon Gekko had the DynaTAC, while everyone else who actually needed to do some work had the transportable range from Moto. Yes, you needed strong muscles, but you could also make phone calls virtually anywhere.
Philips C12
Made by Philips - it made phones at one point - the C12 stood out as one of the classic candybar handsets of the late-1990s and was available originally on the BT Cellnet network in the UK.
Its party trick was that it could save ten text messages and had an aerial you could screw on and off. There was also a rumour that the C12 was able to top-up credit itself for free. Urban legend goes that, if you held the 5 button down long enough, an extra £10 would be added to your balance.
In 2006, O2 told its C12 customers that they could no longer use the phone on its network, causing many to be thrown away. Sad times.
Nokia 3310
Released in 2000, the crowning glory of Nokia's incredible user-focused design, the 3310 was the mobile phone that anyone could use. There was a period in the early noughties when it was as ubiquitous as the iPhone is today. To this date Nokia has sold more than 126 million of them, making it one of the most popular mobile phones of all time.
The handset was virtually indestructible, packed a great battery life and decent call quality. It also shipped with Snake 2, which was awesome. But, perhaps its biggest draw was that you could swap the cover of the phone for a custom face and back plate. The accessory market has never been the same since.
The Ericsson T28
Another classic, the T28 did away with the chunky design of its contemporaries and opted for something much thinner. It had a minuscule single-line screen which made reading text fairly problematic.
Its success lay in that it was the smallest and lightest phone available at the time. Weighing in at 81grams, the T28 sparked the trend for pocketability in phones which we see today. Some of the old guard here at Pocket-lint had one.
Ericsson T68
Launched in 2001, the T68 was Ericsson's first phone to have a colour screen, sporting a whopping resolution of 101 x 80 and 256 colours.
A year later, under the ownership of Sony (Ericsson became Sony Ericsson), the T68i became one of the first phones to have a camera. We say "a camera", but what we really mean is an optional accessory that you could connect to the phone so you could snap pictures on the go. Mega.
BlackBerry 6230
Imagine sitting in an airport working because you are able to read your emails on the go. Sounds standard now, but in 2003 you were a demi-god if you had that power at your fingertips.
Up steps the Qwerty keyboard-touting BlackBerry 6230, which promised secure email on the go from a device that you could type on without having to get all T9.
Sony Ericsson V800
Sony's V800 flip phone was one of the first handsets to hit the UK with 3G in tow and was the Vodafone flagship to promote its new service. The tri-band handset landed in 2004, with a rotatable 1.3-megapixel camera attached so you could make video calls.
Packing 7MB of internal storage, the phone also had the ability to read Memory Stick Duo cards, which meant it was expandable all the way up to 16GB - a lot of storage for the time, especially when you consider there were no apps to download.
Motorola Razr V3
Until the Razr, virtually every phone had been big - having been about getting the job done and not much more. But the Razr V3 was a sleek, slim, clamshell phone that changed all that. From here on, if you wanted to sell a phone it had to look good.
Sadly, the same couldn't be said for the clumsy interface. However, its Tron-inspired looks meant this is one of the all time greats. Oh, and the hot pink version sold like hot cakes.
LG Chocolate
Another handset to capitalise on the emerging clamour for pink gadgets was the LG Chocolate (or KG800, to give it its true UK designation). While it wasn't the first in the range, with the original colour scheme coming in a box that smelt like, well, chocolate, the pink version pretty much changed the landscape for gadgets, not just mobile phones.
After its success, you couldn't move for pink gadgets in the mid to late-noughties. Whether women really wanted their games consoles, PDAs, watches or calculators in pink was another matter, they were being hoiked on every corner. LG didn't mind, it sold bucketloads of each of the variations of the phone - something it hasn't really repeated to this day (apart from the Nexus 4, but that could be attributed more to Google).
Motorola Rokr E1
Motorola was on a roll after the Razr (how times have changed), and teamed up with Apple to create the first iPhone, of sorts - then dubbed the Rokr E1. The idea was that you could sync your phone with iTunes and take a massive 100 tracks on the road with you.
As you can imagine, it failed, and failed badly, with a clunky interface and a lack of excitement over a device that could hold only 100 songs compared to the iPod's (now classic) mammoth storage options. It would take Apple a further two years to come up with the iPhone we know today.
Nokia N95
iPhone, what iPhone? Nokia's N95 was way ahead of its time. Launching at the peak of Nokia's fame, it was one of the first proper flagship smartphones that became a must-have product. The phone was released in 2007 with a 5-megapixel camera, GPS, web browser and a stack of other neat tricks.
It also included Symbian OS 9.2, which offered plenty of proper smartphone functionality, like web browsing and basic apps. The inclusion of expandable microSD storage marked the start of a trend in smartphones we still see today.
There is no denying that the iPhone is an iconic mobile phone. It shifted the entire focus from making calls to doing something much more. But, for all its exciting feature set, it was a very different phone from what we have now. No cut and paste, no third-party apps, and it was painfully slow.
The original iPhone combined Apple's iPod, already a huge seller, with a mobile phone, resulting in one joyous union that continues to this day. It ensured Apple rose to the top of the tech market. Let's not forget the world of apps either, which has changed almost every consumer electronics device, not just the humble phone.
Bang and Olufsen Seranata
B&O decided to turn its design hand to the world of mobile phones, releasing the extremely unusual-looking Seranata. It included a built-in speaker in October 2007, just months after the launch of the first iPhone.
The concept was simple. If you liked your B&O kit, this was the phone you would want to be using. Sadly for B&O, it never really took off and the company didn't make a follow-up. Perhaps that was down to its price: around £650 in 2007.
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Apple had the iPhone, while the Open Handset Alliance fronted by Google had the Android-powered T-Mobile G1, made by HTC.
According to Google and the operators at the time, HTC wasn't a strong enough brand to have its own name on the device, so the name changed depending on which country you were in and what operator was backing it. Deciding that you might not be ready for a full touchscreen experience, there was a slide out keyboard, and a trackball (BlackBerry-style) that could be used to navigate around the phone's new icons.
Motorola Aura
Iconic simply because of its absolutely outlandish designthe Motorola Aura put even Nokia's craziest offerings to shame. At nearly £1,400 when it first went on sale in the US, the Aura was the most elite of mobile phones.
It was produced from stainless steel and boasted a complex front plate with moving cogs which took manufacturers two weeks to produce. The phone also rotated, with the circular screen in the centre protected by a Swiss-made lens.
Samsung Galaxy S2
Announced in February 2011, the SGS2 is seen by many as the start of Samsung's huge march to the top of the mobile phone pile. Before this, Android had been championed by the HTC Desire, but this was a phone that was thin, powerful and more like the iPhone than anything else before it.
In the next two years, Samsung would go on to create the Galaxy S3 and the soon to be announced Galaxy S4, featuring such sci-fi tech as the ability to control the phone with your eyes. Expect the Samsung Galaxy S5 to have mind-control features, probably.
And so we come bang up to date. We could have included some of the very latest handsets, such as the HTC One, which we're particularly fond of here on Pocket-lint for a number of reasons, but to become iconic the phone will have to be used for a time and be seen to have made a significant impact on the industry for the better, or worse.
Needless to say that the humble mobile phone, 40-years-old today, has changed the world. Here's to you Martin Cooper, here's to you.
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Democrats responded angrily this morning to Alaska congressman Don Young's use of the anti-Latino slur "wetback" to describe migrant laborers.
"Shame on Rep. Don Young," said Rep. Rubén Hinojosa, a Democrat from Mercedes who chairs the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. "It is deeply disheartening that in 2013 we are forced to have a discussion about a member of Congress using such hateful words and racial slurs."
In a statement released by his office, Hinojosa noted that the 79-year-old Alaska conservative "has served alongside Hispanics in Congress since 1973, so he should know terms like 'wetback' have never been acceptable."
"I agree that now, more than ever, we must resolve the many issues of our broken immigration system, but as we move forward, it's important that our Republican colleagues are mindful of how words have consequences," said Hinojosa. "When elected officials use racial slurs, it sets back our nation and sets back legislators who are seriously working toward real, bipartisan solutions."
Young faced bipartisan condemnation following his comments to an Alaska radio station. Republicans, including the second-ranking Senate GOP leader, John Cornyn of Texas, have disavowed Young's comment.
"The comments used by Rep. Young do nothing to elevate our party, political discourse or the millions who come here looking for economic opportunity," Cornyn said.
Hinojosa agreed, but said that the bigoted atmosphere of Young's youth is no excuse for repeating the same slurs decades later.
"Rep. Young says that he was just using the language he was accustomed to as he grew up, but there is no excuse for ignorance," Hinojosa said. "Our country needs reform that can only be achieved with a bipartisan effort. I am urging Republican leaders, including Speaker [John] Boehner, to condemn this behavior and ask members in their party to act responsibly."
Republicans have been attempting to reach out to Latino voters in the aftermath of the 2012 presidential election, when GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney was outpolled among Hispanic Americans by a margin of nearly 3-to-1. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Preibus described the party's commitment during a recent address at the National Press Club, and GOP strategist (and former Fox News analyst) Dick Morris said recently that he was working with Preibus on those efforts.
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Washington, DC – Today as the House Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security convenes for its hearing today on "Border Security and Enforcement – Department of Homeland Security's Cooperation with State and Local Law Enforcement Stakeholders," the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) calls for the suspension of the flawed enforcement program Secure Communities.
The hearing presents an opportunity for Congress to gather information about the adverse impact Secure Communities is having on communities nationwide, most notably the way it undermines the effectiveness of local law enforcement and community policing. "Secure Communities" makes it harder for police to protect our communities. Trust is an important part of law enforcement. But Secure Communities makes our communities less secure and less safe because it drives fear into immigrant communities that the police are people they cannot trust," said David Leopold, AILA President. "AILA strongly supports smart and effective law enforcement, but this is not the way to make America safer."
In recent weeks, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has acknowledged flaws in the program, including the likely deportation of victims of domestic violence and other crime victims. Last week, Representative Zoe Lofgren of California called publicly for an independent investigation of DHS for allegedly misleading the public and local government officials about how Secure Communities would function. City councils and municipal leadership have balked at the coercive way that DHS has rolled out the program, citing concerns about local autonomy, the lack of transparency, and frequently shifting positions of DHS officials.
"Secure Communities was not ready three years ago and is still not ready now," said Leopold. "Serious questions remain about the supervision and oversight of this program that has already been implemented in 1250 jurisdictions and will be in every town and every city by 2013. The federal government cannot rollout a program as powerful as this until it has been carefully tested. That's why the program needs a timeout until DHS puts adequate checks and safeguards in place."
"Secure Communities suffers from the same problems as its precursor, the 287(g) Program, which was severely criticized for fostering civil rights and other abuses by local law enforcement agencies," said Leopold. "The Office of Inspector General did not one but two reports concluding that 287(g) was poorly run and lacked adequate due process, monitoring and other protections. Why should Americans trust that Secure Communities, a close cousin of 287(g) but with a catchier name, will be any better run or any safer, especially when members of Congress are saying they were lied to?"
Although Secure Communities has been billed as a way to identify serious criminals who pose a threat to our communities, 60 percent of those deported under the program have never been convicted of a serious crime or any crime. "That's thousands of people that we are dragging to court and expending finite enforcement resources on. AILA supports the stated goal of targeted enforcement, but this is neither targeted nor smart enforcement. It's more like a dragnet," said Leopold, "The Obama Administration needs to do a full-scale examination of this program before moving forward. Small fixes and policy tweaks are not enough. The Secure Communities program needs a fundamental overhaul."
The American Immigration Lawyers Association is the national association of immigration lawyers established to promote justice, advocate for fair and reasonable immigration law and policy, advance the quality of immigration and nationality law and practice, and enhance the professional development of its members.


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I'm not sure why a 5 year old would want it, but have you heard about this ruling?
A federal judge ruled Friday that the morning-after pill, known by its brand name of Plan B, should be available without a prescription or any age or point-of-sale restrictions within 30 days. (source)
With the drug having become available over the counter, the judge ruled that the FDA had overstepped it's mandate, which had only to do with determining the safety of drugs. They have no mandate to set age limits or set standards for the sale of safe drugs.
Anyway, the question here is directed at the parents among us, and especially those with children at or approaching an age when sexual activity potentially begins. Do you have any mixed feelings about this? Do you feel that up to a certain age (16? 18?) children should at least have to see a physician before obtaining them? Not to talk them out of abortion but at least to discuss the medical issues (potential exposure to STD's, side effects, etc.).
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i think that the parent should know the child is purchasing the pill. because it could be used to cover up a rape with that pill adn that it is just fucking crazy
Better to uncover a rape through an unwanted pregnancy?
The reality of being a parent is that their is a lot of things out their legal and not so legal. We don;t want our children to smoke but some of them do, we don.t want them to drink but they do. I had friends at school that got pregnant, if only their was a morning after pill, some gave their children up for adoption, some kept them and others had abortions. Every single one of them did not talk about sex to their parents, 3 of the friends used condoms but they ripped. We did not have legal abortions as it is only a new law that allows it so my one friend lost half of the inside of her legg her uterus and scared for life because of a back street abortion at age 14 I just can not help but wonder what difference the morning after pill would have made to her life. I know that no matter how hard you want to protect your children shit happens
As a parent I accept my responsibility for the health and safety of my offspring, I do not need a Nanny State to meet that responsibility, nor to decide what risks to take in the pursuit of my own health, safety and happiness and that of those I brought into this world.
I am disgusted by the lack of backbone that exists today in the majority of Americans that occupy this country today, they pale in comparison to those who founded it.
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If there is a parent out there who allows his/her 5 year old child to decide which OTC products to buy.........I have my doubts as to whether that child will live to see 6 years of age.
Parenting is the toughest job in the world, the best we can hope for is to be the best we can be, knowing we will fall short of perfect.
I think responsible, effective parenting would do so - in that the parents would talk to their child/daughter about such issues responsibly.
As the rule goes, if you refuse to talk about something to your child, or simply dismiss it in a negative light by telling them, "you can't do that," then naturally they will want to because by your very direction you have made it taboo. So, yes, as a parent - if I had a daughter (which I don't, I have three sons) - I would discuss it with her and have her see a physician for more information, and in fact I wouldn't but I would encourage and make sure that my wife did considering it would be more comfortable as a woman-to-woman discussion.
As for my boys, discussing sex is already on the board for future talk. In fact, my six year old son already asked questions about sexual orientation in response to the news about the US Supreme Court taken up the issue of same-sex marriage.
Besides, yes a five year old might be able to buy it, but so suggest the "moral and physical danger" of them actually doing so is entirely absurd.
A five year old boy ingensting a hormone pill intended for a mature woman involves no physical danger? That may be true, but how do you know that?
Would some procedure, allowing her the pill, but also requiring the girl to be reminded that unprotected sex doesn't just expose her to pregnancy but also to STD's be totally out of order?
"A five year old boy ingensting a hormone pill intended for a mature woman involves no physical danger? That may be true, but how do you know that?"
I never suggested such a thing. You misread my remarks, and I would certainly never make such a dumb remark unless I was ill informed (which I am not). My point is that sex is only a problem if it is treated as a taboo in the family - much like alcohol.
If I had a daughter, which I do not, I would have my wife discuss things with her, and also have our physician discuss Plan B medication with her. This way she understands the risks of both sex and Plan B. But I don't have a daughter. I have three boys, so what I meant in regards to this fact is that as with alcohol and/or drugs, participation in the activity of sex comes with consequences. Children must understand the consequences of those activities, and if they choose to participate in such activities, be responsible about them.
In other words: sex education is important no matter the gender. Plan B just provides a larger opportunity for the discussion to happen when it comes to female sexuality. There is no need for the discussion to happen with boys unless there was a form of male contraception available outside of condoms.
A five year old boy has no need for the meds, so discussing Plan B is a not even in the sphere of contextual need regarding conversations about sex. Discussing sex and the consequences such activity, however, is and too many parents avoid the topic altogether out of it being either uncomfortable or the delusional religious argument that sex is sinful.
All I was trying to do is put myself in the shoes of a parent with a daughter so that context of the discussion would not be lost. However, I don't have daughters I have sons, and so I wanted to make the point that sex education for both boys and girls is of high importance for the parents to be actively involved in so that all children can make well informed and rational decisions about their bodies and their sexuality.
Sorry for any confusion, and I hope the above clears any confusion in what I am trying to say.
RE: "if you refuse to talk about something to your child, or simply dismiss it in a negative light by telling them, 'you can't do that,' then naturally they will want to because by your very direction you have made it taboo."
"Forbidden Fruit a flavor has
That lawful Orchards mock --"
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I don't think there is any research that would support the premice that there is a direct relationship between a person's access to birth control, and the probability of them being sexually active. So, I don't see that access to the morning after pill will increase the spread of STDs.


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Congratulations are in order for Mr. and Mrs. Derek Jeter.
The retired New York Yankees star, 42, married model Hannah Davis, 26, on Saturday evening, E! News confirms. In front of close family and friends, the pair exchanged vows at the Meadowood Napa Valley Resort in St. Helena, California.
According to Us Weekly, the bride walked down the aisle in a Vera Wang gown while the groom wore a handsome black suit. The ceremony began around 5 p.m. local time and lasted about 20 minutes.
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The private couple dated for three years before news of their engagement broke in October. "They are extremely excited and in love!" a source told E! News at the time. "They can't wait to spend their lives together."
It's not just the two of them, though — Jeter and Davis are the proud parents of a 100-plus pound Italian Mastiff named Kane. In an interview with The Players' Tribune, Jeter revealed the enormous dog "was a Christmas gift last year from my fiancée," and he's the first to admit he was a little unsure about his puppy present at the start.
Although Davis' "family had Mastiffs growing up," Jeter had "never owned a pet" before," he explained. But with some training (for the dog and his new owner), Jeter and Kane are getting along quite nicely.
Family — fur and human — is very important to the couple. "Trying to impress you with material things? I think that's lame," she told Maxim earlier this year. "I wanted someone whose family is a big, important part of their life."
And that may eventually include kids. "I mean, I want to have a family," Jeter told NBC News back in 2014. "Who knows when it's gonna be? But I look forward to it."
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stayed quiet about a possible 2016 White House run during a Miami appearance Thursday – but she made a quick quip when asked what it would take for the country to elect its first woman president, The Miami Herald reported.
"Well, it'll take a crazy person," Clinton joked, getting laughs as she appeared before the American Society of Travel Agents' global convention, the newspaper reported.
Clinton said "I hope we break that final glass ceiling," but said nothing about her plans.
Clinton's address was not political per se, but it resembled an introductory campaign speech, the Herald reported. The Democrat would be a likely frontrunner if she joins the 2016 campaign.
"Compromise is not a dirty word," Clinton said as she spoke about deals her husband, former President Bill Clinton, made with congressional Republicans to balance the budget and pass welfare reform in the 1990s. "Compromise is only a dirty word if you think you own all the truth. And that's what I see in countries where people are punished and marginalized because of their race or their ethnicity or their tribe or their religion."
Clinton, who served in the U.S. Senate and ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, spoke without notes at the Hyatt Regency Miami auditorium for about a half-hour before she answered some pre-screened questions from event moderator Nikki Grossman, the CEO of the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Herald said.
A colorful comment Grossman made as she gave Clinton a volleyball-sized glass globe caused Clinton to smile and blush, according to the Herald.
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The crowd responded with an explosion of laughter and applause, the Herald reported. Grossman continued about the glass globe, "However, this one is full of sand, shells and love from the people of Greater Fort Lauderdale and South Florida."
Republicans have repeatedly criticized Clinton and the Obama administration for the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya in which four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, were killed. On Wednesday, Republicans in Congress led another hearing on the issue, faulting Clinton, who was secretary of the state at the time, and the administration for their handling of the incident, the Herald noted.
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"I thought we had a good start. Unfortunately, we failed again and had some mistakes, especially on set pieces. That is costing us a lot early in the season so far. That has been one of our big concerns and then today was no different. After that, we had the initiative and tried to tie the game, and I thought it was our players on the field who looked more for the game, but we couldn't get the equalizer and we get out of game that we should have gotten more out of."
"We had options (in the second half), but we were not accurate in our finishing and that final pass. That last 30 minutes was not quite sharp and the way we wanted. We took a lot of shots and shot well, but we just couldn't get it. Just one of those days and we came out of game were we were very effective and today we couldn't find the net."
"We keep going, keep moving. It's a long season and this group is in the process now and we just keep going. We're looking forward to going to another road game and try to get the result because we need the results. We need to win games."
"Every game is an opportunity for the team to keep growing and keep learning but definitely at this point, this is where it hurts the most because in a game like this today and the performances of the players, they deserve much more than this."
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What's one of the first recipes you taught your kids to make?
My son always loves to help in the kitchen especially when I am baking, which is inconveniently the messiest of kitchen escapades, but we have a good time measuring out the ingredients, sifting the flour, and using the stand mixer. It goes without saying that making cookies was one of the first things I ever showed him how to bake.


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Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has been arrested in the shooting death of his girlfriend, police and the woman's talent agent said Thursday.
Capacity Relations talent management firm said 29-year-old model Reeva Steenkamp was the victim of the shooting.
Police spokeswoman Lt. Col. Katlego Mogale told The Associated Press that officers received a call around 3 a.m. saying there had been a shooting at the 26-year-old double-amputee runner's home in a gated housing complex in the capital, Pretoria. A 9 mm pistol was recovered and a murder case opened against Pistorius, who is to appear in court later Thursday.
South African media speculated that Pistorius may have mistaken the young woman for an intruder.
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markhiscoke necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 65 diseños de 26 diseñadores freelance.
This logo Design is being used for a Tennis Centre in Sydney, Australia. The Centre takes part in social tennis and competitions through out Sydney, and caters for junior and senior, male and female. The Centre provides tennis court hire and tennis coaching for all ages, pre-school through to adults. We cater for schools, and provide corporate tennis clinics for large business companies. The logo will be used for website, stationary, banners, shop signage, street signage, and team shirts and hats.
Terrey Hills Tennis Centre
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Here is a little help with the surrounding area and some suggestions:
- The Centre is located in a bush setting surrounded by trees and wildlife.
- The area of Terrey Hills is often displayed with a kookaburra (native Australian bird).
- A kookaburra in the logo somewhere would be interesting for me to see, but is not essential.
- I'm also open to the idea of any other tennis related icons you can think of - as long as they're not cheesy clip-art style
- I would like to stay clear of the traditional early 1900's tennis logo. Something new and fresh with clean lines is needed.
- Remember that I also cater for the corporate world so I need something that speaks proffesionally.
- Colours are up to you, but I will need to be able to display the logo in black and white also.
- Go crazy, if you have an idea I will look at anything.
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Report: Teen traffic deaths on rise
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A new report shows teen traffic deaths increased dramatically in the first six months of 2012.
Deaths of 16- and 17-year-old drivers jumped by 19 percent from January to June of last year. Just more than 100 16-year-olds died behind the wheel nationwide, compared to 86 a year earlier.
One local father lost his teen daughter in a traffic accident, and given the latest numbers, he says he wants teens to know there are consequences to the way they drive.
Duane Sommise said he wants to see some things change.
"It's tough losing a daughter," he said. "I know it's tough on her friends to lose Jordan. Just know that life is precious and it can be taken away in a second."
Fourteen-year-old Jordan Sommise (pictured, right) was killed in December when the truck she was riding in overturned. The driver was 17-year-old Austin Kight. FHP says Kight lost control trying to pass another vehicle.
Sommise believes student drivers should drive in a simulator before getting their license. That could help teens become more prepared for real-life scenarios, like passing another vehicle.
"Kids should be put in situations in the simulator to see how they would act like that," Sommise said.
Because his daughter's accident was on a back road, Sommise also has this suggestion.
"They do need better lighting on these roads," he said. "It's pretty dark in the woods out there."
City Council President Bill Bishop spoke about whether city has had any thoughts on making some of those changes.
"Should we have better lighting on streets? Potentially on some of these back streets, but it's extremely expensive to do so," Bishop said.
Sommise said parents must take some responsibility, too. He suggests they restrict their teens from driving in a vehicle with other teens.
It's something he now mandates with his children.
"They start distracting each other," Sommise said. "You have three teenagers in the front seat of a truck that my daughter got killed in."
He said it's just another reason parents need to talk to their children about safety on the road.
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"He got fired up because of my rudeness."
is the way I would say that. "Burned", though, can mean injured or insulted.
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Can w e say :" He burned up for my rudeniss.," according to a dictionary explanation to the phrase "become or make angry" ? But I haven;t found any examples like this .
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"He got fired up because of my rudeness."
is the way I would say that. "Burned", though, can mean injured or insulted.
2). " fire ,v.i. ... fire up : (a) to start a fire in a furnace,stove, etc; (b) to become irritated or angry," The above is quoted from a Webster's Dictionary. About (a,b) ,I would like you to give me each an example, in which fire should be an intransitive verb. If you couldn't do, can it indicate the dictionary is wrong here?
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"fire up 1.start a fire in a furnace (vt) ; I fired the furnace with firwood last winter.
2. become suddenly angry (vi) ; She fires up a lot; she's a short tempered woman."
The above I quoted from a Chinese book. Which ,either the Chinese book or the Webster's, is right?
Thank you very much!
You may be interested to know that the Oxford English Dictionary gives two quotations from the 19th century illustrating the use of "fire up" as an intransitive verb:
If I were to hear any body speak slightingly of you, I should fire up in a moment. (Jane Austen)
She fired up at the arrogance of the squire. (W Irving)
I have not come across this usage in more modern (British) English but I don't know about American usage.