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Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence slammed President Obama's healthcare plan for "killing jobs" and destroying small businesses and promised Donald Trump will repeal and replace Obamacare if elected.
Citing skyrocketing premiums, Pence said Tuesday, "This government takeover of healthcare we call Obamacare is failing...The case has never been stronger for repeal."
He said Trump would "reform health insurance in America with the power of the free market" and empower consumers with information about the cost of their care.
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Pence was speaking in the Pennsylvania suburbs as part of a joint event with Trump where the duo was outlining their ticket's healthcare plan. Trump left the detailed criticisms of the program to Pence who delivered a lengthy takedown of the health law, highlighting the news that the cost of its premiums are rising.
"What good is a healthcare plan if you can't afford to use it?" Pence asked.
Pence said Obamacare can only be repealed if Trump gets elected president and if Republicans get reelected in Congress.
"The momentum is on our side," Pence said. "The latest polls have Donald Trump leading in the race for president of the U.S. Republicans across the country are coming home."
Trump said Hillary Clinton wants to expand Obamacare and if he becomes president, he'd immediately convene a special session of Congress to repeal and replace Obamacare
Trump said Obamacare was "a catastrophe" and has to be replaced "very, very quickly."
He said if it isn't replaced, "we will destroy American health care forever."
Dr. Ben Carson, Trump's primary election rival, introduced the candidates.
The event was held in the Keystone Ballroom at King of Prussia's DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel. Trump campaign is pushing for votes in the Philly suburbs, which are critical if they intend to defeat Clinton in the Keystone State. Another appearance scheduled Tuesday in central Pennsylvania by Pence was canceled. Pence was set to hold a rally Tuesday morning at Brubaker Farms in Mount Joy, but LNP newspapers reports that the event was canceled Monday so that Pence could join Trump in Montgomery County.
Westmoreland County Community College says on its website that Pence, the governor of Indiana, is scheduled to hold a rally there at 3 p.m. Tuesday. Trump is scheduled to appear at an evening rally in Eau Clare, Wisconsin.
Mike Brubaker, co-owner of Brubaker Farms, said campaign officials said there was a possibility that the rally there could be rescheduled in the week remaining before the Nov. 8 election.
Later Tuesday, Trump urged voters who have had second thoughts about their presidential choice to recall their ballots and change their minds.
Trump told supporters in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, that Wisconsin is one of four states in which someone who voted early could potentially change it at a county clerk's office.
Trump said that voters who "are having a bad case of buyer's remorse" should change their ballot "if you think you made a mistake."
He said the four states that allow early ballots to be changed are Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota and Pennsylvania.
In Wisconsin, voters can change their minds up to three times. The deadline for doing so is Thursday. Changing votes is very rarely done, according to the Early Voting Information Center at Reed College.


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Frequent Inspections Save Tires
You can't tell much about a tire simply by kicking it. Drivers would disagree, but you can't even tell with any degree of certainty how much air is in the tire. It seems the best you can expect from many drivers is a quick visual check that the tire is where it should be. Whether or not it's capable of holding air is another matter.
A lot of fleets depend on drivers for daily oversight of their tires, and that may be asking too much. Since thorough daily inspections are likely not being done, the task falls on the tire team or the outside contractor, and they have to be extra vigilant because they may not see a tire for months at a time.
"There's too much at stake to assume the tire is in good condition," says Jeff Lecklider, president of Gem City Tire of Dayton, Ohio. "We approach tire inspection both from a safety perspective and a tire management perspective. We want to minimize tire failures, obviously, but we don't want anyone getting hurt either by a tire that has been damaged internally by running underinflated."
Inflation pressure is the obvious first inspection point. If any serious time has elapsed since it was last checked, chances are it will be low. Is it sufficient to simply air it up again?
"When we come across an underinflated tire, we'll first inspect it for damage or signs that it has been run under-inflated," Lecklider says. A plug in a tire means they dismount the tire and inspect it more closely.
Lecklider looks for signs of the tire being run hot or flat sometime in its life.
"You can see discoloration when it has been run hot or overloaded while low on pressure," he says. "In severe cases you'll see some bulges caused by separation between the tread and the casing, or you might feel irregularities in the surface of the sidewall, or soft spots and bulges."
The Technology and Maintenance Council of the American Trucking Associations' Recommended Practice for tire repairs, RP 206B, advises that any tire that has been run at less than 80% of its normal operating pressure (not its maximum inflation pressure) could have permanent structural damage. It should be carefully inspected before it is repaired or placed back in service.
Assuming the tire is in good physical condition and has not been run flat, the next check is for damage and irregular wear.
Doug Jones, customer engineering support manager at Michelin Americas Truck Tires, says irregular tread wear can shorten life tire dramatically, but spotted early, it can often be slowed or stopped by repositioning or remounting the tire.
"Depending on the type of wear, detecting it early and removing the tire from that wheel position can usually save the tire," he says. "Then you have to correct the source of the problem before installing another tire. Otherwise, that new tire is likely to suffer the same fate."
Mechanically induced irregular wear will usually start to show up on a tire within a couple of weeks of mounting, so don't simply send a new tire back into the wild; make a point of getting the tire back to the shop for another inspection within a short time.
Lecklider says the final step is measuring the tread depth and recording it for later comparison.
"When we're doing a maintenance inspection, we'll measure the tread at two or three spots around the tire to get a better picture of the overall condition of the tire," says Lecklider. "We're obviously concerned with maintaining the tires in safe condition, but we're also looking to establish wear rates so we can predict service life, and for irregularities in wear that could indicate other mechanical problems with the truck."
Tread depth should be measured at two or three spots around the circumference of the tread to get an average number. The DOT will usually measure tread depth at the lowest spot on a tire because they are looking for violations of the federal minimums.
Patches and Repairs
It's not uncommon to repair tire punctures, but Lecklider pays special attention to a repaired tire -- especially tires that have been plugged rather than properly repaired.
"When we see a plug in a tire, we know it's been run soft or run flat. The problem for us is we don't know for how long, and what kind of internal damage running it underinflated may have caused to the tire," he says.
Guy Walenga, director of engineering for commercial products and technologies at Bridgestone, says the prescribed procedures for repairing punctures do more than just keep the air from leaking out.
"When something has gone through the tread surface, it has damaged the rubber as well as the steel cords in the tire. You have to remove the damaged material and then fill the void with a properly prepared insert to protect the internal structure of the tire," he says. "Once you allow moisture to penetrate the casing, you risk further damage to the cords through wicking. You have to remove enough material from around the wound so that you remove any trace of moisture around the steel, and then apply a proper patch to the inside of the casing to seal the wound."
TMC's RP 206B outlines proper puncture repair procedures. They are too complex to be described here.
With the cost of a tire today, a $50 nail-hole repair is a very cost effective alternative to scrapping a damaged tire. But Lecklider cautions that scrimping on a tire repair -- like simply just jamming a plug into the hole -- can hasten the demise of the tire due to rust incursion through the steel cords.
"We recommend any tire with a puncture be removed and inspected as soon as possible, and not repaired even temporarily with a plug," he says. "A small puncture is a cheap and easy fix, but you can ruin an expensive tire in no time by ignoring what happens after a puncture occurs."
Retreaders do very thorough casing inspections before retreading a tire, and they find improperly repaired tires all the time. They often scrap the casing because the internal damage has progressed beyond the point where it can be repaired.
If you're not inspecting your tires on a weekly basis, how are you going to know what condition the tires are really in? If you come across a tire that is under-inflated, don't just re-inflate it. Inspect it first for damage and improper repairs.
A low tire, or a tire that won't hold pressure, is a time bomb. An inexpensive -- and proper -- repair can save a lot of money and grief in the long run.


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- 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, cut into 8 pieces
- 1/2 cup (packed) golden brown sugar
- 1/4 cup golden syrup*
- 2 1/3 cups quick-cooking oats (not instant or old-fashioned)
- Pinch of salt
Recipe Preparation
Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter 8x8x2-inch metal baking pan. Combine first 3 ingredients in heavy medium saucepan. Stir constantly over medium-low heat until butter melts, sugar dissolves, and mixture is smooth. Remove from heat. Add oats and salt; stir until coated. Transfer mixture to prepared pan and spread out in even layer.
Bake until top is golden (edges will be darker), about 25 minutes. Cool in pan on rack 5 minutes. Cut into 4 squares; cut each into 4 triangles (mixture will still be soft). Cool completely in pan before serving.


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You have conquered opponents on the battlefield, you have conquered players on the scoreboard... this February 14th you will try to conquer the most dastardly of foes imaginable... LOVE!
We have received reports of Cupid's Army closing in on the Club, training their deadly arrows on our unsuspecting, unspoken for, and mostly unromantic, members! Since we cannot stop Cupid, the only way to combat this onslaught will be to find our best and brightest Love Warrior through a series of intense battles and contests and entrust them with the one weapon Cupid fears most:
The Red Conquer Star!
So, this Friday, February 14th, starting from Midnight CCT:
- Come to Conquer Club
- Collect 69 Conquer Hearts
- Enter the Tournament of Cuddles for big prizes including Credits, Trophies, Conquer Cup entry... and a Red Star The first Red Star ever to be issued!
On Friday 14th, there will be many ways to collect Hearts...
Love is all about Games! Starting and Winning Games will reward players with Conquer Hearts in the following descending order of likelihood:
- Valentine's Day Map - our special Map for the occasion is for Doubles Games Only. Snare a partner and get to canoodling!
- Doubles Games on other maps
- Triples and Quadruples Games
- Regular Games (the more players the higher your chances)
- Bot Games (very low chance, Bots don't believe in Love)
Conquer Love Royale Pillow Fights
Speed Battle Royales will be running throughout the day, with highly juicy Heart drop rates.
The Conquer Club Matchmaker
Visit the Conquer Club Matchmaker to find your CC Sweetheart! By answering a simple set of questions our Matchmaker will hook you up with some highly desirable Clubmates. Then you can score big Heart bonuses by going on a gameplay date with your chosen ones!
How to get Hearts with your Sweethearts from the CC Matchmaker Game:
- Start a regular Game on VD Map on same team with 1 of your 5 sweethearts - 7 Hearts per Sweetheart
- Start any other game with a sweetheart - 1 Heart per Game.
- Enter the Morning After Doubles tournament - 10 Hearts
Please report all games here to the the Conquer Club Matchmaker. You can win up to 25 Hearts from the CC Matchmaker for games, and another 10 from the the Morning After Tournament.
The Morning After Tournament
Win additional Hearts just by signing up for the Morning After Doubles Tournament with one of your CC Sweethearts from the Matchmaker game. Sign up on the 14th and you'll be wondering what on earth you were thinking when you wake up on the 15th, but it will all be worth it if you win that Red Star.
Sign up here for the Morning After Tournament
Conquer Love Speed Daters
Speed AutoTournaments will run throughout the day, spitting out Hearts for those are quick-witted enough to score on the playing field.
Chat Hearts
All good romances start with chat. Well, most of them do. The others start with ice cream. Anyway - pop into Live Chat on Feb 14th and say something sweet (or just something, if sweetness is a stretch) and you may just score yourself some Heart love.
The Dating Games
The Dating Games are a scavenger hunt designed to find the most date-worthy players based on their skills at finding hidden items (hint: to find something that might be good for a date, it helps to know what types of things might be good for a date... or what a date is).
Live Chat will having mini contests throughout the day giving clues to the locations of hidden items.
If you can successfully find enough items to have a successful (or, at least, non-tragic) date, you win Hearts... the number depending on how good the set of items for your date is!
Love Names
Every hour, starting at midnight, at random intervals during the hour, Caption Contests will be held in Live Chat, with Hearts galore for the winners.
Share the Conquer Love
Share or post on Facebook or Twitter using #ConquerLove and including your Username to win up to 5 Hearts.
Conquer Gods
Apparently Cupid has cut a deal with the Conquer Gods as they will be raining Hearts down upon us throughout the day.
The Tournament Of Cuddles
The grand finale of the event, this is a Scheduled AutoTournament with great prizes. To qualify you have to collect 69 Hearts throughout the day. The winner scores 1500 Credits, Conquer Cup Entry, a Red Star and a Tournament Trophy.
Singles Awareness Tournament
Yep, for those that don't have the moves to make the big tournament, for a mere 10 hearts you can play (polymorphic games) with yourself on Singles Awareness Day (Feb 15th). Just take your leftover, broken, hearts to the Tournament Page to enter.


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Your donation to the Palomar Performing Arts Circle demonstrates not only a personal commitment to the arts, but a willingness to share it with those around you as well.
Donors can choose from several levels of participation. Become an Associate ($25.00 Donation), a Colleague ($50.00 Donation), a Fellow ($100.00 Donation), a Partner ($250.00 Donation), a Benefactor ($500.00 Donation) or even a Patron ($1000.00 Donation). Donations are tax deductible. Memberships expire 12 months after purchase.
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Looks like Dr. Dre and Monster Inc. have split their ways after a 5 year relationship building some of the world's best high end headphones. Beats by Dr. Dre are for people who would consider themselves audiophiles, from the most basic listener to the person who takes every single music note and every single bass note to the extreme.
Dr. Dre Headphones is a well recognized brand, worn by some of the best known celebrities and athletes, such as; Gwen Stefani, Kayne West, Eminem, FloRida, Lady GaGa and more!
This breakup was due to an irreconcilable dispute between Beat's Jimmy Iovine and Monster's Noel Lee. The core issue is who deserved to take more credit. Is it the Beats By Dr. Dre brand, Monster for their design and production, or as Beat's spokesperson said, "high-quality status symbols" tied in with celebrity connections?
As an owner of the Beats By Dr. Dre headphones brand, more specifically, their Beats Pro (over-ear headphones), I have enjoyed them immensely! Listening with my BlackBerry Bold 9900, BlackBerry Torch 9810 or through my BlackBerry PlayBook, the sound quality is like no other.
What is going to happen to customers like me who have purchased these high-end headphones? Do you have a pair of Monster Beats headphones?


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Insurance giant AIG will have to return to the Treasury Department the $165 million it just paid out in executive bonuses, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Tuesday in a letter to congressional leaders.
"We will impose on AIG a contractual commitment to pay the treasury from the operations of the company the amount of the retention awards just paid," Geithner wrote. "In addition, we will deduct from the $30 billion in assistance an amount equal to the amount of those payments."
That would be a double payment, essentially a $165 million penalty on AIG for issuing the bonuses.
The move comes after New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo confirmed in a letter to Congress that this year, after receiving federal bailout money, AIG paid 73 employees bonuses of more than $1 million each. Watch congressional reaction to AIG bonuses
Cuomo also wrote that 11 of the employees no longer work for the company. The largest bonus paid was $6.4 million; seven other people also received more than $4 million each. Read full article »
CNN's Ted Barrett, Dana Bash and Elaine Quijano contributed to this report.
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Women with large numbers of moles on their skin may be at higher risk of breast cancer, research suggests.
Generally cutaneous nevi, commonly known as moles, are associated with skin cancer. But a new study found that women with at least 15 of the blemishes were 35% more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer than those with none.
In terms of "absolute" risk, 11.4% of women with 15 or more moles were likely to develop the disease.
Sex hormones appear to play a role in the link, researchers found. In a sub-group of post-menopausal women, those with six or more moles had higher blood levels of oestrogen and testosterone than women who were mole-free.
The findings emerge from an analysis of about 20 years-worth of data on 74,523 US nurses and 89,902 French teachers.
While numbers of moles could theoretically provide a marker of breast cancer risk, it is unclear how useful this would be in practice, say the researchers.
The study, led by Dr Jiali Han, from Indiana University in the US, is published in the online journal Public Library Of Science Medicine.
The scientists wrote: "These findings support the hypothesis that the number of (cutaneous) nevi reflects sex hormone levels in women and may predict breast cancer risk.
"Notably, they show that the association between breast cancer risk and nevus number was independent of known risk factors for breast cancer, and that the risk of breast cancer increased with the number of nevi in a dose-dependent manner.
"These findings also suggest that a hormonal mechanism underlies the association between nevus number and breast cancer risk."
They added: "Because this study is observational, these findings are insufficient to support any changes in clinical recommendations for breast cancer screening or diagnosis. Nevertheless, these data.. support the need for further investigation of the association between nevi and breast cancer risk and of the mechanisms underlying this relationship."
Dr Matthew Lam, senior research officer at the charity Breakthrough Breast Cancer, said: "This study doesn't prove that moles can cause breast cancer, which the research team acknowledge, but there does seem to be an association between number of moles and the risk of developing the disease - potentially caused by the presence of higher levels of sex hormones, a known risk factor for breast cancer.
"Whilst the link is interesting, it's not yet clear how useful asking women to report how many moles they have as part of risk estimation would be given that there are several other, more reliable, risk factors at play such as weight, age, and genes."


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While Apple is moving to LTE with the iPhone 5, it's focused for now on North America and advanced Asian markets, leaving Europe's most important LTE bands behind.
The iPhone 5 will come in three versions, equipped to use different sets of frequencies: Two phones for the GSM family of technologies and one for CDMA, which also includes GSM bands for roaming.
On top of those frequencies, each model includes selected bands for the faster 4G LTE technology, a key selling point of the iPhone 5. However, the new lineup leaves out two bands - 800MHz and 2.6GHz - that will be critical to LTE service in Europe, according to Tolaga Research analyst Phil Marshall.
Indeed, 800MHz and 2.6GHz are the two spectrum bands that UK operators will be bidding for in Ofcom's forthcoming 4G auction, scheduled for the end of this year.
"If you were to build a European device, it would have 800MHz and 2.6GHz in it," Marshall said. Carriers in Germany, Sweden, Italy and other European countries already have or are expected to deploy LTE in one or both of these bands.
Apple does include the 1.8GHz band for LTE in two of the iPhone 5 models, which could provide for LTE use in some parts of Europe, Marshall said. This set of frequencies, also called Band 3, is used by about 25 percent of LTE operators worldwide, according to Tolaga.
This is one of the LTE bands that wasn't included in the iPad 3 launched earlier this year, a shortcoming that led to legal action in Australia over Apple advertising the tablet as supporting "4G." The company dropped that claim from its advertising in Australia after the country's competition agency took Apple to court.
Earlier this week the UK's largest operator Everything Everywhere (EE) began live testing its 4G network, which will be delivered using spectrum in the 1800MHz band. EE is currently the only UK operator with enough 1800MHz spectrum to launch a 4G network in this band.
Earlier this week the UK's largest operator Everything Everywhere (EE) began live testing its 4G network, which will be delivered using spectrum in the 1800MHz band. EE is currently the only UK operator with enough 1800MHz spectrum to launch a 4G network in this band.
Last month, EE was forced to sell 2x15MHz of its 1800MHz spectrum to the UK's smallest operator Three, as part of the terms of the merger of T-Mobile and Orange in 2010. However, Three has not yet announced any plans to launch a 4G network in this band.
This means that support for the main LTE bands in Europe will have to wait for a later release of the iPhone, Marshall said – a revelation that is bound to infuriate the likes of O2 and Vodafone.
"They've put a device together that's targeted toward the U.S. and mature Asian markets," namely Japan and South Korea, plus including several 3G frequencies in all three models for roaming, he said. That may be a smart strategy when it comes to investing in new product versions.
"Europe, from an LTE standpoint, has not gained nearly as much momentum as the U.S. and mature Asian markets," Marshall said.
Equipping a phone for many different frequencies -- the CDMA iPhone 5 can be used for 16 different bands, depending on the carrier -- isn't an insurmountable task but presents challenges for makers of chipsets and of subsystems such as amplifiers and filters, as well as the phone vendor, Marshall said.
It may even dictate choices about how the phone's motherboard is laid out, allowing for adequate isolation of radio waves from the various bands.
By making more than one model of the iPhone 5, Apple may be reining in the potential costs of that development. Starting with the iPhone 4, it has released separate CDMA and GSM versions, but the fragmentation of different frequencies used for LTE has raised the complexity bar with this release.
"I would anticipate that they will continue to do these multiple [products] rather than try and jam it all into one device," Marshall said. But after several generations of the phone, LTE networks may have matured to the point where there is an obvious set of LTE bands to include in one phone sold around the world, he added.
The many different pieces of spectrum used for LTE is a problem that goes well beyond Apple, and travelers are not expected to be able to roam on these fast networks in foreign countries for several years.
The three models of iPhone 5 that are set to go on sale beginning 21 September are specialized for certain markets.
One model, the GSM Model A1428, looks geared toward AT&T, the original carrier of the iPhone and a mainstay of Apple's U.S. phone business. It's built to use LTE in bands 4 and 17, both of which are deployed by AT&T. (T-Mobile USA's planned LTE network will also be in band 4, though that doesn't mean an AT&T iPhone 5 will work or even necessarily roam on T-Mobile, it only makes it possible to build units for that network.)
GSM Model A1429 seems suited for key Asian carriers: It has bands used by Japan's NTT DoCoMo (at 2.1GHz) and by South Korea's SK Telecom and LG UPlus (at 850MHz), along with the widely used 1.8GHz band.
There is just one model designed for CDMA, the type of 3G network used by Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel in the U.S. That phone, the CDMA Model 1429, includes the two Japanese and Korean LTE bands in addition to Band 13, used by Verizon, and Band 25, used by Sprint.
All three phones include support for four widely used bands for GSM plus four for its faster variants that go under the HSPA name. The CDMA unit includes three bands specifically for its variant of 3G, called EVDO.
Sophie Curtis conributed to this article
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Western countries have developed a variety of approaches to religious diversity, influenced by their own cultural traditions and history.
From Canada's openness to multiculturalism to France's ban on religious garb in public schools, policies on religious accommodation are hotly debated in today's increasingly diverse societies.
Should governments require minorities to abandon traditions deemed incompatible with western values?
Or is integration a two-way street where the host society encourages newcomers to participate as full citizens while maintaining their practices and traditions?
We chose six countries whose different approaches to the rights of religious minorities shed light on the controversy over the Charter of Quebec Values.
>> United States
Score on the MPI or Multiculturalism Policy Index: 3 Moderate
In 2010, Christine O'Donnell, a Tea Party Senate candidate in Delaware, challenged her Democratic opponent, Chris Coons, when he stated the U.S. Constitution calls for the separation of church and state.
"Let me just clarify: You're telling me that the separation of church and state is found in the First Amendment?" she asked.
"Government shall make no establishment of religion," Coons quoted.
"That's in the First Amendment?" queried O'Donnell, who lost the election.
While some Americans still have trouble wrapping their minds around the idea, the precept that the state should not intervene in religious matters goes back to colonial times. Roger Williams, the dissident Puritan who founded Rhode Island, coined the phrase separation of church and state in 1644.
President Thomas Jefferson reaffirmed the principle, writing of the American constitution: "I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;' thus building a wall of eternal separation between Church and State."
Government should stay out of religion unless it injures others, Jefferson said.
He wrote: "It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
But don't Americans pledge allegiance to "one nation under God," have "In God We Trust" on their money and politicians who end speeches with "God bless America"? Indeed, but those phrases are more recent traditions; "one nation under God" was only added to the pledge in 1954, at the height of anti-Communist hysteria.
The wall between church and state has come under attack from the religious right, for example, over the teaching of creationism in schools.
But separation between religion and politics lies at the core of American identity, said Demetrios Papademetriou, president of the Migration Policy Institute, a think tank in Washington D.C.
"Because religious freedom is such a deeply embedded value, we typically don't have arguments," he said.
"The United States was formed by people who were fleeing religious persecution, so this was both a means of protecting religion and keeping religion out of politics and public life," he said.
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There are no moves to ban religious garb in the U.S., Papademetriou said.
In a 1995 Memorandum on Religious Expression in Schools, President Bill Clinton wrote: "Students may display religious messages on items of clothing to the same extent that they are permitted to display other comparable messages. Religious messages may not be singled out for suppression, but rather are subject to the same rules as generally apply to comparable messages. When wearing particular attire, such as yarmulkes and head scarves, during the school day is part of students' religious practice, under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act schools generally may not prohibit the wearing of such items."
In 2011, the U.S. Military began allowing students in the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps to wear head scarves or turbans. The army banned turbans in 1984, but relented in 2010 to allow two Sikh officers to wear theirs.
>> Canada
MPI: 7.5 Strong
When Baltej Singh Dhillon became an RCMP cadet during the late 1980s, he was told to remove his turban. But Dhillon said to do so would violate his beliefs as a devout Sikh and asked to be exempted from the rule.
"I have been practising my religion for the last 23 years," he said in a CBC-TV interview with the late Barbara Frum. "Now, is somebody really asking me to protect a tradition, or are they asking me to sacrifice my religion, my principles, my disciplines, my respect in the community, the respect I have from my family, and all the other things that tie into this religion?"
In 1990, Solicitor General Pierre Cadieux announced turbans would be allowed in the Mounties.
Dhillon's victory was a milestone for religious accommodation in Canada, the first country in the world to adopt an official multiculturalism policy in 1971.
"For although there are two official languages, there is no official culture, nor does any ethnic group take precedence over any other. No citizen or group of citizens is other than Canadian, and all should be treated fairly," Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau said.
"National unity if it is to mean anything in the deeply personal sense, must be founded on confidence in one's own individual identity; out of this can grow respect for that of others and a willingness to share ideas, attitudes and assumptions," he added.
Multiculturalism is enshrined in Section 27 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which states that the "Charter shall be interpreted in a manner consistent with the preservation and enhancement of the multicultural heritage of Canadians."
In 1988, Parliament passed the Multiculturalism Act, with support from all parties.
Canada has the highest proportion of immigrants among the G8 countries, representing 20.6 per cent of the total population of 34.9 million.
While most Canadians support immigration, multiculturalism has been criticized for leading to ethnic enclaves and tolerating groups whose beliefs are inconsistent with liberal values. A poll in March by Forum Research showed 62 per cent of Canadians think immigrants should abandon their native cultural values when they conflict with Canadian values.
But Keith Banting, a professor of political studies who holds the Research Chair in Public Policy at Queen's University, said many people have a mistaken perception of multiculturalism.
"It is a fear that multiculturalism means that people don't have to integrate into the larger society. There is a fear that you get social segmentation and you weaken social cohesion if you adopt a multicultural strategy," he said.
On the contrary, Banting said, multiculturalism is a two-way street that encourages newcomers to participate fully in Canadian society.
"We respect difference, we encourage people to celebrate their differences but we also encourage them to join the mainstream, join the economy, understand the country and accept basic liberal democratic values," he said.
While religious symbols like the hijab and turban have generated controversy in Quebec, they are generally tolerated in the rest of Canada. In June, the Quebec Soccer Federation banned turbans on the pitch but reversed the stand after soccer's world body, FIFA, said the players could wear the head coverings.
In 2007, Quebec soccer referees ejected an 11-year-old Ottawa girl from a tournament for wearing a hijab.
But while religious garb is tolerated, Ontario drew the line at Shariah law in 2005, when then-Premier Dalton McGuinty scuttled a plan to extend a 14-year-old law allowing for religious arbitration to Muslims.
In 2011, the federal government banned the wearing of the face-covering niqab and burka during Canadian citizenship ceremonies.
>> United Kingdom
MPI: 5.5 Moderate
Last month, Quebec Premier Marois suggested multiculturalism in the United Kingdom is leading to terrorism.
"In England, they beat each other up and set off bombs because of multiculturalism and people don't recognize themselves any more in that society," she said in an interview with Le Devoir.
"It really is nonsense," responded Ted Cantle, the founder of the Institute of Community Cohesion at Coventry University.
Cantle, author of Interculturalism: The New Era of Cohesion and Diversity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) said the growth in Muslim extremism around the world is not peculiar to any one country.
Cantle noted that terrorists are a very small minority in all countries where they are present.
"What we've done in Britain is to try to make sure that we do not in any way alienate or make victims of the whole Muslim community," he said.
"All of the talk about banning veils and so on tends to suggest that it's the whole Muslim community that's the problem, that we've got to be wary of them. In Britain, we've made strenuous efforts to say that the vast majority of Muslims are peaceable people," he said.
The U.K. has made enormous strides in coming to terms with growing diversity since 1968, when Conservative MP Enoch Powell gave his "Rivers of Blood" speech warning the country was being overrun by Caribbean immigrants.
"As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see 'the River Tiber foaming with much blood,' " Powell said, warning that the U.K. was importing American-style racial strife.
Four out of five Britons are of British ethnic descent, down from 87.5 per cent in 2001, according to the 2011 census. The biggest minorities are people from India and Pakistan (4.5 per cent) and non-British whites (4.4 per cent).
The U.K. passed its first anti-discrimination law in 1965 and since 2001 has had a policy of "community cohesion" that encourages local initiatives like programs to improve school performance among minorities.
Cantle said there is no move in Britain to ban religious garb like the hijab, kippah or turban. Sikhs have been exempted from Britain's motorcycle-helmet law since 1967.
"Generally speaking, the wearing of religious symbols is seen as desirable, not a problem," Cantle said.
"In the same way, if an Indian lady turned up at an event, perhaps a family wedding, in a sari, or a Scottish man turned up wearing a kilt, it would be seen as something which is desirable. It's about expressing their identity and their individuality and I think it would be welcomed," he said.
However, the face-covering niqab has aroused controversy. A judge in London recently ruled a Muslim woman may stand trial wearing a full-face veil, but must remove it to give evidence. British Prime Minister David Cameron has said that while he disagrees with banning the niqab, officials should be able to ask women to remove it in certain situations.
In 2011, Cameron declared multiculturalism had failed.
Six years earlier, Trevor Phillips, chairman of the U.K.'s Commission for Racial Equality, warned in the wake of the 2005 bombings in London's public transit system that Britons were "sleepwalking our way to segregation."
But Cantle said on balance, the U.K.'s increasing diversity has been a success story.
A recent poll found 90 per cent of British voters feel Britain has become a multicultural country, and 70 per cent say that is a good thing.
"I think the effect of not banning religious symbols and allowing people to express them, as long as they are inoffensive, is that people feel a greater sense of belonging, they are more willing to integrate and, in the longer term, it clearly works in favour of the community as a whole," he said.
>> France
MPI: 2 Weak
In last year's presidential election, Socialist leader François Hollande painted himself as a unifying figure, in contrast to former president Nicolas Sarkozy, who vowed during the campaign to cut immigration by half and take halal meat off school cafeteria menus.
But Hollande's popularity is sagging as high unemployment and anti-immigrant sentiments boost support for France's far right.
This week, an Ifop poll in the newspaper Le Nouvel Observateur put the extreme-right Front National at 24 per cent of voters' intentions, five points ahead of the third-place Socialists.
Front National leader Marine Le Pen wants to slash immigration, pull France out of the euro and reinstate border controls. Le Pen, who has compared the sight of Muslims praying in the street with the Nazi occupation of France, led the party to its best showing ever in last year's election, with almost 18 per cent in the first round.
Her tough stance against immigration and globalization is paying political dividends in France, where majority-minority tensions remain high nine years after the government banned Muslim head scarves and other religious garb in public schools. Muslims are estimated at about five million out of a population of 65.7 million. (Under government policy France keeps no record on religious affiliation.)
French-style secularism, or laïcité, has roots in the French Revolution, which stripped the Catholic Church of the power and privileges it held under the Bourbon monarchy.
In 1905, the Statute Concerning the Separation of Churches and State made the state officially neutral on religion. However, it did not restrict the freedom of individuals to practice the religion of their choice.
L'affaire du foulard (the head scarf affair) burst into the headlines in September 1989, when three girls in Creil, north of Paris, were suspended from school for wearing the Islamic head scarf. Initially, the government's Council of State ruled in favour of allowing the hijab, finding that "the freedom of conscience of students entails for them the right to express and manifest their religious beliefs."
But in 1994, the education minister reversed that stand by instructing schools that "discreet" religious symbols were acceptable but not "ostentatious" ones.
In 2004, in the wake of a 2003 report by the Stasi Commission, the government banned "ostentatious" religious symbols like the hijab, Jewish kippah and Sikh turban in schools.
With the ban, France's secularism law "shifted from a symbolism of liberty to a symbolism of prohibition" — a reinterpretation that "amounts to a new definition of secularism," wrote Dominique Custos, a Paris-educated law professor at Loyola University in New Orleans, in a 2006 article in the American Journal of Comparative Law.
In 2011, France banned the wearing of Islamic face veils in all public places.
In July, rioting erupted in Trappes, a Paris suburb, after police arrested a man who reacted aggressively when his wife was ticketed for wearing the niqab.
>> Sweden
MPI: 7 Strong
Rioting youths setting cars on fire is not the image that comes to mind when you think of Sweden.
The Scandinavian country that gave the world the pop group ABBA, Volvos and IKEA is also known for its excellent quality of life and generous social programs. Last week, an international report, the Global Age Watch Index, ranked Sweden the best country in the world in which to grow old.
But in May, riots erupted in Husby, a multi-ethnic Stockholm suburb, spreading to a half-dozen cities and towns. They were reportedly sparked by the death of an elderly man who was shot by police after he threatened officers with a machete.
The disturbances suggest some members of minority communities feel they are not sharing in the good life.
Even Sweden, where immigrants account for 14 per cent of the population of 9.5 million, is not immune to the cultural tensions roiling other European countries.
While the overall unemployment rate is only 7.3 per cent, youth unemployment is higher than the European average, at 22.8 per cent. Among young immigrants, joblessness is even higher.
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt called for calm after the riots, saying unemployment and crime in Husby is actually on the decline.
The violence came as a surprise because Sweden is one of the most tolerant countries in the world when it comes to diversity.
But with many newcomers concentrated in low-income enclaves, social divisions are growing.
In 2010, the far-right Sweden Democrats entered Parliament for the first time after winning 5.7 per cent of the vote in a general election.
Banting of Queen's University said one reason the economic performance of many immigrants to Sweden and other European countries is poor is that most arrive as refugees or under family-unification programs rather than being chosen as economic migrants, as in Canada.
"In Sweden, which has maintained a multicultural approach, the composition is overwhelmingly of refugees who are accepted for compassionate reasons and who have a lot of difficulty making it in a more technologically oriented labour force," he said.
Nevertheless, Sweden has maintained its multiculturalism policy. The Swedish constitution enshrines multiculturalism and guarantees freedom from discrimination.
The government provides minority-language education in schools, including courses in Sami, the language of the indigenous people of northern Scandinavia, and funds organizations that work with immigrants and ethnic minorities.
Despite its Protestant heritage, Sweden is a very secular society, where only one person in 10 thinks religion is important in daily life.
However, religious minorities are encouraged to express their faith. Police officers are allowed to wear a turban, head scarf or kippah and in 2005, the military allowed a Sikh man to wear his turban.
In August, more than 2,000 Swedish women posted pictures of themselves on Facebook wearing the Muslim head scarf to express solidarity with a Muslim woman who said she had been attacked for wearing a hijab.
>> Netherlands
MPI: 2 Weak
In 2004, Mohammed Bouyeri, a Dutch Muslim, murdered Theo van Gogh, a filmmaker and great-grandson of Vincent van Gogh's brother. The shocking slaying was a direct response to a TV movie called Submission, about the abuse of women under Islam, which van Gogh made with politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
Van Gogh's death was a catalyst for nationwide soul-searching that has led the Netherlands, the most densely populated country in Europe, to turn its back on multiculturalism. Known for their laissez-faire attitude on issues from euthanasia to prostitution, the Dutch found themselves asking how a society based on tolerance could be fostering religious fanaticism in its midst.
Last year, the Netherlands became the third European country, after France and Belgium, to ban face veils such as the niqab or burqa.
"The Netherlands is a country that did have (programs to promote multiculturalism) in the early stages and it's clearly moved, withdrawing or uprooting a number of those programs," Banting said.
Public opinion began to turn against growing diversity during the 1990s. After the Second World War, waves of immigration transformed the Netherlands from a fairly homogeneous society to a diverse one where nearly one in five people in a total population of 16.8 million are of non-Dutch ethnic origin. Minority communities include temporary workers from southern Europe, Turkey and Morocco who arrived during the 1960s and early 1970s and stayed, and refugees who have arrived since the late 1980s.
During the 1992 election campaign, politician Pim Fortuyn was assassinated after calling Islam "a backward culture" and proposing to close the border to Muslim immigrants.
In recent years, anti-immigrant sentiment and rising anger over the European Union's austerity policies have boosted support for the far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) led by Geert Wilders. In 2011, Wilders, who has compared Islam with Nazism and wants to ban the Koran, was acquitted of inciting hatred against Muslims.
Wilders has begun talks with Le Pen's far-right Front National in France and the Lega Nord in Italy with a view to forming an anti-EU bloc in coming European Parliament elections.
The Dutch government has tightened rules for permanent residents, drastically reducing the number of new citizens. Prospective residents must pass a test on Dutch language and values, and those from outside the European Union must take a civic integration test after they arrive.
In February, the government proposed to require all prospective residents to sign a "participation contract" agreeing to uphold Dutch values.
Yet in Amsterdam, multiculturalism is still very much a reality. A study by the New York-based Open Society Foundations' At Home in Europe Project found that among Muslims, who make up 12 per cent of Amsterdam's population, attachment to the city is high (80 per cent) compared with attachment to the Netherlands (60 per cent).
Only 41 per cent of Muslims interviewed for the project thought that other Dutch people considered them Dutch.
In Amsterdam, municipal initiatives like television spots featuring young Dutch Muslims promote pride in diversity.
Twelve per cent of the police force was from ethnic minorities in 2008 and the government has established a program to increase representation of minorities and women in the higher echelons.
* The Multiculturalism Police Index or MPI
The Multiculturalism Policy Index is a scholarly research project by professors Keith Banting and Will Kymlicka at Queen's University that monitors multiculturalism policies in 21 Western democracies. Scores are for 2010 and are based on an evaluation of eight aspects of multiculturalism policies: legislative affirmation, school curriculum, media representation, exemptions from dress codes, allowing dual citizenship, funding of ethnic organizations, minority-language education and affirmative action. A rating between 6 and 8 is considered strong, 3 to 5.5 is modest and under 3 is weak.For more information, visit www.queensu.ca/mcp/index


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St. Kitt's - You guys are full of it. There has never been a recorded shark attack on St. Kitt's and Nevis. A man was found inside a dead bull shark, but the authorities believe that he was dead prior to the feeding. Probably the outcome of gang violence. There have only been 6 recorded shark attacks in the caribbean alone since 1997 while there has been over 90 in North America.
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Shart attack Nevis - A man was eaten by a large Tiger shark a few months ago.
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Climate change poses a serious challenge to social and economic development. How development occurs also has implications for climate change itself and the vulnerability of societies to its impacts. Therefore, we clearly need to place climate change and its impacts into the mainstream of our economic policies, development projects, and international aid efforts. Bridging the gap between the climate change and development communities, however, requires more than a simple dialogue. This is because the two communities have different priorities, often operate on different time and space scales, and do not necessarily speak the same language. Specific information is needed on assessing the significance of climate change for development activities, along with operational guidance on how best to take it into account within the context of other pressing social priorities.
Bridge Over Troubled Waters: Linking Climate Change and Development is the product of a collaborative effort between the OECD Environment and Development Co-operation directorates on mainstreaming responses to climate change in development planning and assistance. This volume synthesises insights from six country case studies that reviewed climate change impacts and vulnerabilities, analysed relevant national plans and aid investments in terms of their exposure and attention to climate risks, and examined in depth key systems where climate change is closely intertwined with development and natural resource management. These include the Nepal Himalayas, Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, the Nile in Egypt, the Bangladesh Sundarbans, coastal mangroves in Fiji, and agriculture and forestry sectors in Uruguay.
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Psoriasis is an inflammatory skin disease. In a subset of patients, psoriasis is located in the intertriginous areas, including the skin folds of the underarms, breasts, groin, buttocks and genitals, according to background information in the article. "Patients who exhibit intertriginous psoriasis often complain about intense itching, irritation from sweating and soreness. These symptoms may have devastating psychological and emotional consequences." Management of IP usually includes the application of topical corticosteroids, but those medications have adverse effects with long-term use.
In this study, Alexander Kreuter, M.D, from Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany, and colleagues conducted a randomized controlled trial that compared 1 percent pimecrolimus (a new anti-inflammatory drug), 0.005 percent calcipotriol, 0.1 percent betamethasone and the vehicle (a similarly appearing cream with no active drug) in the treatment of IP with a four-week treatment period and a six-week follow-up without therapy. A total of 80 adult patients with the clinical diagnosis of IP were included, 20 patients in each of the four treatment groups.
"After four weeks of treatment, the three active compounds and the vehicle resulted in a significant decrease in mean (average) M-PASI score [Modified Psoriasis Area and Severity Index] (86.4 percent for 0.1 percent betamethasone, 62.4 percent for 0.005 percent calcipotriol, 39.7 percent for 1 percent pimecrolimus and 21.1 percent for vehicle)," the researchers found. "The 0.1 percent betamethasone was significantly more effective than 1 percent pimecrolimus during the study period." The researchers report 25 percent of patients treated with pimecrolimus reported an increase in itching and burning shortly after application, however, most reactions lasted less than 30 minutes and resolved in a few days.
"In conclusion, this study indicated the efficacy of all three active compounds, 1 percent pimecrolimus, 0.1 percent betamethasone, and 0.005 percent calcipotriol (as well as the vehicle) in the treatment of IP. The 0.1 percent betamethasone was clearly more effective than 1 percent pimecrolimus, confirming that treatment with corticosteroids is still the most effective topical approach for psoriasis. However, their use in long-term management, particularly for the treatment of intertriginous areas, which are more prone to steroid adverse effects, is limited. To combine the rapid anti-inflammatory effects of a topical corticosteroid with the favorable long-term effects and safety profile of pimecrolimus or calcipotriol, short-term application of topical corticosteroids for acute disease followed by maintenance treatment with one of these agents seems to be a reasonable approach in the treatment of IP." (Arch Dermatol. 2006;142:1138-1143)


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Richard McCleary, professor of criminology, law and society in the School of Social Ecology at the University of California-Irvine, will give a lecture at Texas State University-San Marcos, Monday, Feb. 6 at 3:30 p.m. in the Agriculture Building, room 204.
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The DM who is confrontational and sees the game as 'Me against them'. I have played with killer DM's. One of my first DM's was like this. We would go through several characters a day sometimes. When He got bored or the players started to get 'too powerful', TPK time. Later, when I experienced a good DM, I couldn't believe all that we had endured and continued playing despite of it.
The DM who believes 'It is all about Me'. I have played with the cheater DM. The one who rolls just for the sound of it, but knows if it will succeed or fail before the die hits the table. They tend to have a story or world that is more important than the players. The last would rule zero every time he was caught bending the rules past breaking. One of the last games I joined was like this. The DM was only concerned with his fun, and changed rules on whims only to change them again later when it best suited his desires.
The power trip DM who believes 'Everything is Me'. I have even experienced this type of DM for short periods. One was a bad Warhammer player who decided he could DM a D&D game. He could never get out of the wargame and was just too thrilled to be in the driver seat. Anything went depending on his moods and when he decided to 'win'.
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The sleazy news about Arnold Schwarzenegger screams daily across the media.
What isn't so loud is the voice of Eric Bauman, Vice-Chair of the California Democratic Party.
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His is the first, and only, call for a full investigation into the former Governor of California.
Some decry his demand as partisan politics, but in reality, shouldn't we be asking how could we live with ourselves if we didn't look closely at the actions of then-Governor Schwarzenegger?
For seven years, the Governator was arguably the most powerful person in state government. And now we know for every minute of his time in office, there was a woman, identified as Schawarzenegger household staffer Mildred Baena, who could have destroyed his political future with a single phone call.
All she had to do was tell the media she was the mother of the Governor's secret son, the product of an extramarital affair.
That gives Ms. Baena a lot of power. Power to threaten the governor. Perhaps for money, perhaps for influence, perhaps to make sure a friend or relative got preferential treatment from the state.
The U.S. Justice Department is now investigating another politician, John Edwards, for possible campaign finance crimes. The government wants to know if campaign cash went to support his mistress Rielle Hunter.
And the drumbeat may be getting louder for a probe into the former Governor. Responding to questions, a spokesperson for the Attorney General used that cliche, "We can neither confirm nor deny the existence of an investigation."
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U.S. women tie Sweden 1-1 at Algarve Cup
- Americans are unbeaten in 28 games
- They will play Germany in Wednesday%27s title game for Algarve Cup
- Alex Morgan scored for U.S. in 56th minute
There was a familiar face on the sidelines of the U.S. women's match. Only this time, Pia Sundhage was trying to beat the Americans.
Facing its former coach for the first time, the United States came from behind to tie Sweden 1-1 Monday on Alex Morgan's 56th-minute goal and advance to the Algarve Cup final for the 10th time in 11 years.
"I tried to tune Pia out, and the fact that she was speaking Swedish helped a little bit," Morgan said. "After the match, it was a frustrating feeling having tied and having so many opportunities in the last 10 minutes, so I didn't want to go over and hug her. But then I was like, no, she's done so much for us, so I went over and gave her a hug and, as always, she was so happy to see all of us."
The Americans, who extended their unbeaten streak to 28 games, will play Germany in Wednesday's title game at Lagos Portugal. They are seeking their ninth championship in 18 trips to the tournament.
Sundhage left the U.S. team after last summer's Olympics, where the Americans won their second straight gold medal, to return to her native Sweden. Tom Sermanni replaced her this year.
For defender Kelley O'Hara, playing against Sundhage's team took a bit of an adjustment.
"I am so used to hearing her voice. It was like, 'Are you talking to me?'" O'Hara recalled thinking. "'Oh, you're talking Swedish. I'm not on your team anymore!' So it was a bit weird."
Lisa Dahlkvist put Sweden ahead in the fourth minute on a 40-yard shot. Goalkeeper Ashlyn Harris came off the line to clear and was trying to get back to the net.
"Those things happen. You just have to respond well," Harris said. "I didn't get rattled by it."
The 27-year-old Harris made her national team debut after starting for the Americans at the 2002 and 2004 Under-19 World Cups.
"I've waited a long time for this moment," she said. "It just shows that they are not scared to put me in when it comes to crunch time and I appreciate that."
Morgan tied the score with a header off Megan Rapinoe's corner kick.
"I think we showed a lot of character and that's an important part of a soccer game," Sermanni said. "There are some days you can go out and play the type of football you want to play and there are days at the office when you know it's going to be really tough, roll-your-sleeves-up, kind of battle, and today was one of those games. You need to be able to adjust and play under both of those conditions."
Morgan's goal was her first of 2013.
"Luck was a little bit on my side today," she said. "Pinoe hit a great ball in, and actually that's a goal I've been wanting to get I'm always on the keeper and not in the prime position to be the goal scorer for corner kicks."


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Last year, I wrote about a side project of mine that I was working on at the time called "Facebook Desktop". In short, it is a real-time notification engine built for Facebook! I built it because I felt it filled a need that Facebook didn't fill…
It kept me connected to Facebook (and my friends) without having to
keep a browser window opened to Facebook.com the entire time.
It ended up becoming quite a popular project, amassing over 500,000 downloads, over 2 million API calls PER DAY, written about by numerous blogs and publications around the world, used in over 30 countries, and localized into 20 different languages, all in the short 14 months since it was released! Low-and-behold, Facebook had issue with my app (I think because I called it "Facebook Desktop") and so they "asked" me to shut it down. Rather than argue with the well-known
startup company, I decided to comply. It was a wild ride, and I learned a LOT (perhaps I'll write another blog post about this), but as the saying goes, "All good things must come to an end".
However, there is always a silver lining! To build Facebook Desktop, I had to write a lot of custom code (obviously). I've already open-sourced a lot of the individual components that I wrote, including…
- ActionScript OAuth 2.0 Library*
- ActionScript Notification Engine
- ActionScript Relative Date Library*
- ActionScript Diff Library*
But, now that I'm moving on to other things, I've decided to go ahead and open-source the entire project! Just as I've done with all of my other open-source projects, I've made Facebook Desktop available on GitHub. You can download it and run it out-of-the-box!
Facebook Desktop is a notification engine that provides real-time updates of your Facebook friends straight to your desktop, without requiring a browser! Here is a short list of some of the features that I've built in…
- Real-time notification of Facebook activity
- Language support for 20 different languages!
- User-presence logic that detects when to display notifications
- Operating-system detection that adapts interface to match native applications
- Smart notification engine, including adaptive repositioning, individual notification settings, variable display length, and support for custom styling
- Persistent user-settings, including preferred language, display length, appearance, and icon-click action
- Ability to fully filter notifications by source and action
- Support for updating status
Facebook Desktop is written with Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 using the Adobe Flex 4.5 SDK and the Adobe AIR 3.0 SDK. It makes use of the following open-source libraries…
Code, please!
I've released the code under the Apache License, Version 2.0 and made it all available on GitHub! Please, fork and extend!
This marks the end of a fun-filled side-project for me, but perhaps the start for someone else :D As always, I love hearing from you so let me know what you think! Until next time, happy coding =)


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1997 Ford Explorer Sport - Flexplorer
A 1998, 1992, 1997 Explorer built for the trail
Brad Baker is an insur ance vehicle damage estimator from st. Joseph, Missouri, and this is his fexy 1997 Ford Explorer Sport. Well, the body is a 1997, but the frame is from a 1992, and the engine is from a 1998 Explorer. Yeah, there's a story here.
Baker says, "My 1997 Explorer build started from a passion in Ford RBVs (Ranger-based vehicles). I had been very active on www.explorer4x4.com reading other peoples builds, gathering ideas, and along the way building quite a few RBV rigs. I enjoy their cheaper cost compared to other vehicles and their solid platform. My friends say that I enjoy building the rigs more than using them. I agree to an extent, but really enjoy driving them hard. This 1997 Explorer started because I previously had a 1997 Ranger that I built to race tough tr ucks.
The Ranger used my 5.0L engine, fve-speed transmission, 4406 T-case, headers, and tune. The truck raced an entire season and made several trips to Southern Missouri Off Road Ranch, but along the way I rolled it over and it incurred some frame and body damage. Nonetheless, it completed the tough truck season, coming in Second Place overall for the year. I decided to retire it. My drivetrain sat waiting to see what I decided to do next. I decided I wanted something more for trails and rockcrawling, yet street legal. I bought a 1992 Explorer Sport with a 4.0L engine and fvespeed transmission. I lifted it with a James Duff TTB long-arm kit frst, some 33s, and wheeled it really hard. This took a toll on the body. We did the majority of our wheeling on the family farm where we have many trails, but when it comes time to make new ones the body gets a little roughed up. I decided to part out the suspension to some other www. explorerforum.com members and I bought the James Duff frst-gen Explorer solid axle swap parts.
The kit makes for a really clean conversion, with excellent fex and reliability from their long-arms. I shopped Craigslist and went to Kansas City to buy the front axle and rear axle as a set. I cleaned them up, and put back on the weld-on wedges for the Ford radius arm setup. To the rear axle I added the Detroit Locker and new axle mounting pads. This all went under the 1992 Explorer frame. I then decided the body was too rough and picked up a really clean 1997 Sport with engine problems for $500. I parted it out, but kept the body. I then set all my drivetrain in place that was previously in my race truck. This is a lot easier with the body off. Another beneft of swapping the body on was hardly any wiring modifcations to the 1997 Explorer. The PCM mounts in the same spot as the four-door V-8-powered Explorers and the 1997 Ranger."
We had a chance to see Baker's Explorer in action at the Southern Missouri Off Road Ranch. The rigs combination of V-8 power, a solid front axle, and impressive suspension fex combined to make the SUV a very good performer on the trail. We also dig that the rig is unusual and that Baker built it himself, on a budget.
The Dana 44 front axle was originally under a 1977 F-150 and the long-side of the axle has been narrowed six inches. This makes it just a tad narrower than the rear axle's track width. The front axle has 4.88:1 gears, a James Duff diff guard, chromoly axleshafts, Warn manual locking hubs, and is located laterally by a 1.5-inch-diameter, 0.250-wall DOM track bar with spherical rod ends. Baker used James Duff components to swap in the solid front axle. The suspension includes early Bronco-application coil springs, long-arm radius arms, upper and lower coil spring buckets, and shocks. The custom steering system uses a Wild Horses Four Wheel Drive heavy-duty power steering pump; Ranger pitman arm; 1.5-inch-diameter, 0.250-wall DOM drag link and tie rod with GM 1-ton tie-rod ends; knuckles from a 1976 Chevy truck; and aftermarket high-steer arms.
Body mods were minimal. There's a 1-inch body lift, and up front there's a small homemade front bumper that spans the framerails. The bumper is made from ¼-inch steel and has a pair of D-ring mounts. Inside, the Explorer remains stock aside from an instrument cluster from a Ford Explorer Sport Trac. Baker says that one of the benefits of using the 1992 Explorer frame under the 1997 body is that 1995-2001 Explorers had rack-and-pinion steering, which would've forced him to fab steering box mounts.
Each corner of the front suspension sports James Duff early Bronco-application 5.5-inch-lift coil springs, coil bucket towers, and a pair of shocks.
Meaty 35x12.50R15 Pro Comp Xtreme M/T tires are located at all four corners and each is mounted to 10-inch-wide Mickey Thompson Classic II wheels.
Out back is a Ford 8.8-inch axle with disc brakes. This axle has a Solid Axle Industries diff cover, 4.88 gearing and an Eaton Detroit Locker to improve traction. The suspension consists of dual James Duff shocks at each wheel and a spring-over-axle setup that includes modified 4-inch-lift leaf springs (one leaf was removed). There wasn't enough room to keep the standard Explorer driver-side framerail-mounted fuel tank due to the addition of the BorgWarner 4406 transfer case, so Baker mounted a fuel tank from an E-150 van to the rear of the truck.
The 5.0L V-8 sports the factory fuel injection, a K&N air filter, Tech Performance & Engineering Torque Monster headers, and the factory radiator and fan. Other underhood mods include an Optima RedTop battery and an ARB air compressor. Baker says that all of the body mounts lined up during the body swap except for the front core support. "I just widened the front mounts to bolt the core support in," he says.
Mated to the engine is a five-speed manual transmission from a 1998 F-150. This transmission bolted right up to the 5.0L engine and it rests on a custom crossmember. Baker says he had to reprogram the vehicle's PCM to delete inputs from the automatic transmission. Behind the transmission is a BorgWarner 4406 two-speed transfer case that was also pirated from a 1998 F-150. Transferring the power to the axles is a custom CV-equipped front driveshaft and a modified CV-equipped Ford Expedition rear 'shaft.
|1997 Ford Explorer
|Brad Baker
|Stomping grounds:
|St. Joseph, Missouri
|Build time:
|Six months
|Ford 5.0L V-8, EFI
|Mazda M5OD-R2 fve-spd manual
|Transfer case(s):
|BorgWarner 4406
|Low range ratio(s):
|Crawl ratio(s):
|Front axle/differential:
|Dana 44, chromoly axleshafts,Warn manual hubs/4.88:1 gears, open
|Rear axle/differential:
|Ford 8.8-in, Solid diff cover/ 4.88:1 gears, Eaton Detroit Locker
|James Duff long-arm, 5.5-in-lift coils, shocks
|Modifed 4-in-lift leaf springs, spring-over-axle confguration, James Duff shocks
|Wild Horses heavy-duty steering pump,Ranger pitman arm, aftermarket high-steer arms, custom tie rod and drag link
|35x12.50R15 Pro Comp Xtreme M/T
|15x10 Mickey Thompson Classic II
|Custom front bumper
|Cool stuff:
|ARB air compressor, Ford Explorer Sport Trac gauge cluster


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Contest-Winning German Chocolate Cream Pie
Total TimePrep: 20 min. Bake: 45 min. + cooling
Makes8 servings
Very rich and delicious. A definite splurge of the diet! I followed the advice of other reviews and wrapped crust in foil and added foil to top towards the end of baking.
Absolutely fabulous pie!!! Have made it for several occasions and it all goes quickly. I served this at a church function and people were getting in line for dessert before food!!!
So now I'm off to church with my final pie and I think it will be much better than the trial one. I cut back on the evaporated milk - only used 2/3rds cup (it just didn't all fit!". As preveiously stated I incorporated the coconut (only scant 1 cup) and pecans into the filling. It appears to be great! One more little thing I learned is to spray the underside of my "crust protector" with non-stick spray. When I went to remove it lifed off part of the crust. Other than that, this was a more successful pie!
Made a "dry run" today in anticipation of taking another to a church function. Would not put the entire mixture in the pan next time (thank goodness for pie drip pans). Needed to bake longer and I neglected to cover the crust - thus somewhat burnt. Also because of the longer baking the coconut burned. I need to cover as previously suggested at the end. Am considering just incorporating the coconut and pecans in the mixture and let it go at that.
Easy to make, made one regular size pie with no problems and it needed about 10 extra minutes to set the middle. Puffed up nice and it was great!!! due to the fat content it is not an everyday pie of course but for that birthday event it was nice change from the german chocolate cake. Very happy with this!!!
I made this for Thanksgiving and after reading the reviews and anticipating a longer bake time I wrapped the crust edges with foil. After 45 minutes did indeed need more bake time so I covered the top and left it in longer after an hour and 5 minutes it was mostly set although the knife didnt come out completely clean. I took it out anyway and after cooling refriderated it hoping it would finish setting. It turned out really good. My son kept telling me this pie is amazing. It is already gone and he is asking me to make another. I think next time I will try it like a pumpkin pie and cook 15 minutes at 425 and then reduce to the normal temperature for 40-50 minutes. It was definitely worth making again and relatively easy it just needs more time to cook than the recipe says.
I haven't made this recipe yet but I am concerned about the EXTREMELY high fat content. I have had this kind of pie before and didn't realize the extremes of the nutritional content, not sure I will unless I can shave off lots of those calories and fat...
I haven't made this pie (yet) but think I can offer a tip for using evaporated milk that may help. I'm English and we have a pie in England that is made using evaporated milk and sugar. You need to mix that for AT LEAST 15 minutes or it doesn't matter how long you bake it, the pie will remain a soggy mess in the oven!! My suggestion would be to get to the end of the "add sugar etc" part and then add to the mixture. I'd leave the mixer running for 15-30 minutes and wouldn't stop until a good ten minutes after the sugar crystals had totally dissolved. THEN I'd add the final ingredients and pour into the pie crust.Please also bear in mind that pies of this type do set a little more once out of the oven and cooling.For my money, the recipe looks really good and I will definitely be trying it. I'm developing a far too "happy" relationship with American desserts and this one looks like it will be no exception!
I made this pie for thanksgiving and everyone loved it, all that was left were a few crumbs. My mother-in-law's exact words were "this one is a keeper". It fit perefect in my pie plate (not deep dish). With my oven it took over an hour to bake but well worth it.
I am the most stressed out person in the world!Ha Ha!I recently made a slab apple pie.The recipe was from 1968!Well the last time i made this pie i was a teenager and this recipe seemed so easy then!I decided to trie to make it a second time andit turned out better!What i did different the second time was to take "My Time" in preparing my recipe!This seem's like one of those recipe's!Take you'r time in preparing this one!Dont let some one else make up you'r mind for you!Life is to short!!!