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Rwanda launches campaign to keep girls in school
The five-year campaign, which was launched at a ceremony in the northern Rwandan town of Ruhengeri, compels communities and schools to address the existing gender imbalance by taking extra measures to encourage girls to enroll and stay in primary and secondary school.
We need to help Rwandan girls strengthen their self-confidence so that they can confront the challenges that exist in life, said Rwandas First Lady, Jeannette Kagame. Women can do everything that men can do; they should not be intimidated.
Rwanda has made great progress in recent years to encourage equal opportunities for women and men, and as a result many more girls are enrolling in the 2,295 primary schools throughout the country. However, girls are far more likely than boys to drop out of school. Only about half of all girls who enroll in primary school actually complete their education. The main factors contributing to their drop-out rate include demands of the household, gender-related violence and improper sanitation facilities at schools.
UNICEF has supported the campaign from its infancy by providing technical and financial support to the Ministry of Educations Girls Education Taskforce, which was created in 2005. The taskforce together with the First Ladys office and civil society partners have worked together to plan the campaign, which will grant annual awards to those schools making progress in retaining girl pupils. The three best performing schools each year will also be rewarded with new scholastic or laboratory equipment, or with needed improvements to school facilities.
Success in attaining gender parity, equality and specifically maintaining the girl in school lies in an effective and meaningful process for engaging schools and communities where negative beliefs, attitudes and practices that have maximum impact on their participation are entrenched, UNICEF Representative in Rwanda said on this occasion. The results for Rwanda will be worth the time and resources spent."
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A suspect in a drug investigation led police on a car chase Monday night from Baltimore City, into Baltimore County and back into the city, ending in the arrest of the driver.
City police say detectives tried to stop the burgundy sport utility vehicle in the 500 block of Alluvion Street about 9:30 p.m. The driver did not stop and fled into Baltimore County, at which point county police and Maryland State Police also got involved to try to stop the car.
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From "Long Ago and Far Away" comes a program of music from the movies that is "Just One of Those Things" audiences will love. "Hooray for Hollywood" as the Sun City Community Chorus and Band presents "Cinemagic!" on May 2-5 at Magnolia Hall.
"There's a wealth of music from traditional musicals that have become part of the fabric of our lives," said music director Art Hansen. "This type of material needs to be addressed once in a while and how it reminds us of our past and the future. Current movies define our time with some of the popular music."
One of the pieces in the second act of the concert is "Star Wars Suite: Duel of the Fates." Hansen selected this music because it was written by composer John Williams.
"He is one of the most influential composers of the last 30 years and to have a show of musicals without him in it is unthinkable. It also provides a timeline presentation of movies over the last 50 years."
A variety of music
The "Star Wars" piece has been a challenge, said chorus president Pat Zenone, who came to Sun City with a background of 30 years in music education and joined the chorus in 2006.
"The piece from Star Wars is difficult because of the interspersed instrumental parts. It's a beautiful choral piece. It really shows the parts and then interspersed with instrumental sections," said Zenone. "This is the most challenging show we have done so far, and I have watched each year as the music has gotten more beautiful because the voices are stronger, and more confident."
Among the classics Hansen will be conducting the chorus in are "San Francisco," "My Fair Lady," a choral medley from MGM and "The Wizard of Oz."
"We had to start with the Golden Age of the MGM musicals, beginning with the 1937-39 production of "The Wizard of Oz," Hansen said. "Before then, the movie-making production was not up to the size and scope of the musicals. They started translating better to the screen from the stage after "Oz" because it was a musical made for the big screen. It's always a matter of one medium catching up to the other medium."
In rehearsal
Whether it is "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" or a song from "Hairspray," staging the production requires long hours both in rehearsal and at home, said Zenone.
"People practice at home, they do individual work, sometimes the sections get together and work and they're happy to give," she said. "They are volunteering five hours a week in rehearsals for this."
The chorus is enjoying singing the medleys, said Zenone, both the MGM compilation and two sets from Stephen Schwartz who composed "Godspell," "Wicked," "Pocahantas" and "The Prince of Egypt."
"What the audience will enjoy is being reminded of all these beautiful songs that they know and love and finding some new ones," Zenone said. "We are all loving the Schwartz songs, especially a piece from the "Hunchback of Notre Dame" called "The Outcasts" that is so lovely."
The chorus of about 90 voices will be joined by the Sun City Band to perform one matinee and three evening shows in its annual spring concert.
If you go
When: 2 p.m. May 2; 7 p.m. May 3-5
Where: Magnolia Hall, Sun City
Details: Tickets are $23 and may be purchased at Sun City's Magnolia Hall at 118 Sun City Lane every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 9-11:30 a.m. and one hour prior to each concert. During performance week, the box office will be open daily from 9-11:30 a.m. The concert is open to the public. Call 843-368-3153 for "will-call" tickets.


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WEST COVINA – Police are not releasing the identity of an Azusa man in his 50s who entered a local Home Depot on Wednesday and used three saws to cut his arms to the bone, police said.
The man was losing consciousness when a West Covina police officer and an off-duty paramedic from the Pasadena Fire Department came to his rescue.
Fire Captain/Paramedic Art Hurtado, who was off-duty at the time, was at the Home Depot with his wife to get wood for a project when he saw the man, and helped by putting a makeshift tourniquet on the man's right arm.
Police spokesman Cpl. Rudy Lopez said the firefighter and the police officer each grabbed an arm and applied a tourniquet.
"There was so much blood on the ground (officers) were surprised he was still alive," Lopez said.
"(The victim) has not been able to share anything because he's not in any condition to speak right now," Lopez said on Thursday.
Police have been in touch with family members trying to obtain more information about the man.
He was taken to Citrus Valley Medical Center – Queen of the Valley Campus in West Covina where he underwent surgery.
Lopez said medical personnel at the hospital were able to save his limbs, but he is in very critical condition.
On Wednesday, the police arrived after 12 p.m. at the Home Depot, 2220 S. Azusa Ave., after someone reported that the man was cutting himself a saw.
Lopez said the man didn't say anything before the incident or exhibit strange behavior. And no one noticed him until he started sawing his arms with at least one coping saw.
Hurtado is credited with helping to save the man's life and spoke about the incident on Thursday.
Hurtado, a U.S. Marine Sergeant veteran, happened to be at the West Covina Home Depot looking for some materials for his daughter, who lives down the street and who needed some new window molding when he saw blood in the aisles.
After realizing there was a medical emergency, Hurtado, 51, said that he identified himself and asked several West Covina police officers, who were on scene, if he could help.
The man, Hurtado said, was face down, barely had a pulse and was barely breathing.
Hurtado said he started a tourniquet on the man's right arm, which looked significantly more dire than the other, to help stop the bleeding until local paramedics could arrive.
"I'm in work mode; that's all. I'm not freaking out, I'm not going to freak out," he told reporters at the press conference at Fire Station 33 on North Lake Avenue. "Things have to get done. All I'm thinking is golden hour and stopping the bleeding to make sure this guy is packaged for when the fire department gets there because they are going to take over and do the best they can and get this guy to the closest hospital and they did. We all did. "
Hurtado said they weren't heroic events but just another normal day.
"It's what we're trained to do," he said. "We're out there to help people."
Hurtado, after the press conference, said he was a bit emotional talking about the experience "not because of what I did – more because the grace of God decided to put me there that afternoon. I could have picked the other Home Depot. God decided for me to go the Home Depot that I hardly ever go to and be able possibly to help a person and save their life."
The Home Depot at the Heights Shopping Center was operating as normal early Thursday afternoon, with shoppers walking through the aisles and employees offering to help.
Still, the tragic event that unfolded early Wednesday is still fresh in the minds of some employees who witnessed an unidentified man sawing his arms off.
"When they picked him up, his arm practically fell off and they had to pick it up," said one unidentified Home Depot employee of the paramedics who transported him to the hospital.
"I pray for his family and hope he gets the help he needs," the employee said.
Staff Writers Brenda Gazzar @bgazzar on Twitter and Juliette Funes @juliette_funes on Twitter contributed to this story.


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USDA analysts are projecting 2009 U.S. cotton plantings at 8.5 million acres, which is slightly higher than the 8.11 million acres projected by the National Cotton Council's Annual Early Season Planting Intentions Survey, released Feb. 13.
In a report presented at the Agricultural Outlook Forum in Arlington, Va., in late February, USDA also estimated U.S. cotton production in 2008-09 at 13 million bales, compared with last season's 19.2 million bales, the lowest production since 1989. If USDA's acreage projection holds true, this would be the lowest planted area since 1983.
Cotton planted area fell 12.5 percent in 2008, including reductions of about 30 percent in the Delta and West, while the Southeast reduced acres by 15 percent. Most of the decrease is attributed to higher prices for corn, soybeans and wheat in combination with higher input prices that affect cotton more than most other crops.
Since the NCC survey, prices for grains and soybeans have decreased, while cotton prices have shown considerable volatility, and have recently moved lower. The fluctuations in price signals to producers, combined with uncertain weather — particularly the dry conditions in Texas — suggest greater than normal uncertainty as the 2009 planting season approaches.
Harvest futures prices in mid-February for corn were $4 a bushel and for soybeans, $9 a bushel. Those prices are below a year ago, but remain favorable relative to cotton at 50 cents per pound. While winter wheat acreage in Texas was higher than a year ago, dry conditions there may result in cotton following failed wheat if adequate moisture does not materialize.
On March 31, USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service will provide its first survey-based producer intentions for 2009 crop acreage.
USDA's projected production of 13 million bales is based on average abandonment of about 9.5 percent, and a national yield of 810 pounds per harvested acre. Abandonment in 2008 was unusually high and yields were lower than in 2007 due to difficult growing conditions, especially in Texas. In addition to assumed normal weather, 2009 yields are likely to remain even with the 2008-crop yields due to proportionally larger reductions in planted area for the two highest-yielding regions, the Delta and the West.
USDA's analysis assumes normal weather for the outlook, however, the National Weather Service's mid-February Drought Monitor shows abnormally dry conditions in the Southeast, severe drought in the San Joaquin Valley, and abnormally dry to exceptional drought in the Southwest.
The NWS forecast is for drought conditions to persist in Texas and California's San Joaquin Valley through the end of April. Since cotton is sometimes a preferred alternative for dry conditions, continued dryness could boost planted area, while also raising abandonment and reducing yields.
Thirteen million bales of production combined with current beginning stocks estimate of 7.7 million bales results in a U.S. cotton supply in 2009-10 of 20.7 million bales, the lowest since 1998-99.
U.S. domestic mill use is projected to rise marginally in 2009-10 to 4 million bales, consistent with the projected recovery in the domestic economy. While the long-term trend in U.S. mill use is lower, mill use will fall below trend in 2008-09 and thus could achieve a slight rebound next season as cotton use at the retail level is expected to rise.
U.S. exports are projected to decline slightly in 2009-10 to 11 million bales. The total U.S. cotton supply is projected nearly 2 million bales lower than 2008-09.
In addition, the United States is likely to lose market share as foreign suppliers such as India and Central Asia draw down the surplus stocks accumulated in 2008-09. Accordingly, the United States is projected to realize a more modest one-third share of world trade. The U.S. share of world exports is projected at its lowest level since 2000-01.
Based on these projections of supply and use, U.S. ending stocks will fall to 5.7 million bales, equivalent to 38 percent of total use, following three seasons with stocks-to-use ratios of 50 percent or higher.
With tighter stocks relative to use in both the United States and the world, the 2009-10 season average price received by farmers is forecast to rise about 9 percent to 55 cents per pound.
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I picked some up today. I hope my 3 does well on it.
Yay I'm a big fan of this stuff. I actually picked up a bag of their (non grain free) cat food for my parents today, because they asked me to find a food to replace the Diamond Naturals they have been feeding (at my suggestion). I love their UPCs for Trees program, and my local store just introduced their Frequent Buyer cards, so you can buy 10 of the same size bags and get the 11th free. I wish I would have known about it a long time ago when I switched my girls from TOTW. My dogs love it and do fantastic on it. Their poop is tiny and hard. I put my pug on it cold turkey when we got him, because he didn't come with his Blue Buff, and it had no ill side effects. I do know every dog is different. I'm excited to get my cats on it and see how they do.
I'm going to be an entirely Earthborn Holistic grain free household, except the Akita, who I am switching to Fromm low activity/senior from the Diamond Naturals. The Fromm is a fairly significant price jump, but I can't find something similar that is comparable in price. That's ok. I have stuck with Diamond through a few recalls... the big one in 2006 had to do with corn mold, and none of my food had corn. A few varieties were involved in the 2007 Menu Foods recall, but so were Nutro and Blue Buff, etc. Nothing I've ever fed was affected until now, but that's not even why I'm switching. I'm just sick of defending my choice to feed food manufactured by Diamond and then getting slapped in the face with it. Not two days before this recall was announced, I was defending my choice to a wholesaler I'd contacted regarding prices... and he got to send me links to the recall "just in case" I didn't know and was affected. It's not worth it, especially when I can find something else affordable that I'm happy with!


text: Latest News Obama staffer says Hillary "went after women who came forward and accused" Bill The Clinton disciples are turning on their masters. Published 1 year ago on November 24, 2017 By Alex Christoforou 4,949 Views Share Tweet Article first appeared on RPT. The Clinton mafia is under assault by the very liberal left disciples they helped place into positions of power. Bill and Hillary Clinton actively and purposefully attacked numerous women, over many decades, who accused Bill of sexual harassment, assault, and even rape. Via SHTF Plan… In an interview conducted on a CNN podcast by former Obama chief adviser David Axelrod, former Obama Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius opened up about the cover-up and subsequent attacks on the women who accused then President Clinton in the 1990's. "Not only did people look the other way, but they went after the women who came forward and accused him," Sebelius stunningly detailed. Keep in mind this is a fact that the alternative media has reported on literally hundreds and hundreds of times while being attacked as right-wing conspiracy theorists for doing so. "And so it doubled down on not only bad behavior but abusive behavior. And then people attacked the victims," Sebelius continued. Sebelius made clear that her criticism extends directly to Hillary Clinton herself who was widely known to be the driving force behind the attacks on her husbands accusers. An article written about the podcast by CNN could not hide from the fact that the decades of sexual abuse by hubby Bill is Hillary's problem as well. Sebelius extended her criticism to Hillary Clinton, and the Clinton White House for what she called a strategy of dismissing and besmirching the women who stepped forward—a pattern she said is being repeated today by alleged perpetrators of sexual assault—saying that the criticism of the former first lady and Secretary of State was "absolutely" fair. Sebelius noted that the Clinton Administration's response was being imitated, adding that "you can watch that same pattern repeat, It needs to end. It needs to be over." The comments came during a conversation with David Axelrod on the latest episode of "The Axe Files," a podcast produced by the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! 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Buchanan Authored by Patrick Buchanan via The Unz Review: "Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last." So said President Charles De Gaulle, who in 1966 ordered NATO to vacate its Paris headquarters and get out of France. NATO this year celebrates a major birthday. The young girl of 1966 is no longer young. The alliance is 70 years old. And under this aging NATO today, the U.S. is committed to treat an attack on any one of 28 nations from Estonia to Montenegro to Romania to Albania as an attack on the United States. The time is ripe for a strategic review of these war guarantees to fight a nuclear-armed Russia in defense of countries across the length of Europe that few could find on a map. Apparently, President Donald Trump, on trips to Europe, raised questions as to whether these war guarantees comport with vital U.S. interests and whether they could pass a rigorous cost-benefit analysis. The shock of our establishment that Trump even raised this issue in front of Europeans suggests that the establishment, frozen in the realities of yesterday, ought to be made to justify these sweeping war guarantees. Celebrated as "the most successful alliance in history," NATO has had two histories. Some of us can yet recall its beginnings. In 1948, Soviet troops, occupying eastern Germany all the way to the Elbe and surrounding Berlin, imposed a blockade on the city. The regime in Prague was overthrown in a Communist coup. Foreign minister Jan Masaryk fell, or was thrown, from a third-story window to his death. In 1949, Stalin exploded an atomic bomb. As the U.S. Army had gone home after V-E Day, the U.S. formed a new alliance to protect the crucial European powers — West Germany, France, Britain, Italy. Twelve nations agreed that an attack on one would be treated as an attack on them all. Cross the Elbe and you are at war with us, including the U.S. with its nuclear arsenal, Stalin was, in effect, told. Hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops returned to Europe to send the message that America was serious. Crucial to the alliance was the Yalta line dividing Europe agreed to by Stalin, FDR and Churchill at the 1945 Crimean summit on the Black Sea. U.S. presidents, even when monstrous outrages were committed in Soviet-occupied Europe, did not cross this line into the Soviet sphere. Truman did not send armored units up the highway to Berlin. He launched an airlift to break the Berlin blockade. Ike did not intervene to save the Hungarian rebels in 1956. JFK confined his rage at the building of the Berlin Wall to the rhetorical: "Ich bin ein Berliner." LBJ did nothing to help the Czechs when, before the Democratic convention in 1968, Leonid Brezhnev sent Warsaw Pact tank armies to crush the Prague Spring. When the Solidarity movement of Lech Walesa was crushed in Gdansk, Reagan sent copy and printing machines. At the Berlin Wall in 1988, he called on Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall." Reagan never threatened to tear it down himself. But beginning in 1989, the Wall was torn down, Germany was united, the Red Army went home, the Warsaw Pact dissolved, the USSR broke apart into 15 nations, and Leninism expired in its birthplace. As the threat that had led to NATO disappeared, many argued that the alliance created to deal with that threat should be allowed to fade away, and a free and prosperous Europe should now provide for its own defense. It was not to be. The architect of Cold War containment, Dr. George Kennan, warned that moving NATO into Eastern Europe and former Soviet republics would prove a "fateful error." This, said Kennan, would "inflame the nationalistic and militaristic tendencies in Russian opinion" and "restore the atmosphere of the cold war in East-West relations." Kennan was proven right. America is now burdened with the duty to defend Europe from the Atlantic to the Baltic, even as we face a far greater threat in China, with an economy and population 10 times that of Russia. And we must do this with a defense budget that is not half the share of the federal budget or the GDP that Eisenhower and Kennedy had. Trump is president today because the American people concluded that our foreign policy elite, with their endless interventions where no vital U.S. interest was imperiled, had bled and virtually bankrupted us, while kicking away all of the fruits of our Cold War victory. Halfway into Trump's term, the question is whether he is going to just talk about halting Cold War II with Russia, about demanding that Europe pay for its own defense, and about bringing the troops home — or whether he is going to act upon his convictions. Our foreign policy establishment is determined to prevent Trump from carrying out his mandate. And if he means to carry out his agenda, he had best get on with it. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest The ISIS attack in Syria appears to have failed in its real mission ISIS probably tried to get Mr. Trump to keep troops in Syria, but in reality this attack shows no compelling reason to remain there. Published 11 hours ago on January 19, 2019 By Seraphim Hanisch ISIS is one of the bloodiest, most brutal organizations to ever exist in modern history. During its meteoric rise, the "Caliphate" struck with death and fear across the deserts of Iraq and the wastes of Syria, seducing a seemingly increasing number of recruits from the West, developing its own currency and financing abilities, all the while remaining a death cult, in the conviction that their eventual destruction would trigger a far greater Islamic uprising. But something changed for them starting in about 2013. While ISIS got quietly aided and abetted by President Obama's (perhaps not unwitting) support through neglect and then even quieter collaboration (Obama thought ISIS could be "managed" in the effort to oust Bashar Al-Assad from Syria), its power and reach extended through much of Syria. But then came Russia. Russia didn't think ISIS should be managed. Russia determined that ISIS should be destroyed. And in 2015, invited by Syria, the Russians came and went to work. They did most of the heavy lifting in terms of driving ISIS back, while (inconveniently for the US and West) also carefully taking back Syrian territory from antigovernment groups that were supported by the US and its coalition of forces operating in the country, including Al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra, and all the names it took on afterwards. This was quietly carried out because the Americans also had face to save, owing to Obama's clumsy decision to send American forces into the country, which gradually grew and metastasized into a significantly sized fighting force. With an extremely complicated group of alliances and enemies, the American forces were forced to quietly abandon their mission of removing Bashar al-Assad from power and to pivot to actually destroying ISIS. President Trump does deserve some credit for his part in helping this to happen. He also deserves a lot of credit for his recent decision to pull American troops out of Syria. This move was severely condemned by the US hawks, resulting in the resignation / firing / retirement of former Secretary of Defense James Mattis, and, in an amusing show of hypocrisy, the pundits from the Anti-Trump crowd at CNN and other news outlets characterized this decision as the US President proving once and for all that he is a Putin operative, a real-life Manchurian President. ISIS evidently wanted the US not to leave either, so it conducted an attack on Wednesday, January 16th, tragically killing 19 people, with four Americans among the dead. The New York Times was lightning-fast to jump into the fray to carry out what was probably ISIS' real mission with this attack: to sow seeds of doubt among the US authorities, and to keep American forces in the region (emphasis added). Four Americans were among 19 people killed in Syria on Wednesday in a suicide bombing that was claimed by the Islamic State, just weeks after President Trump ordered the withdrawal of United States forces and declared that the extremist group had been defeated. The attack targeted an American military convoy in the northern city of Manbij while troops were inside the Palace of the Princes, a restaurant where they often stopped to eat during patrols, residents said. While the Americans were inside, a nearby suicide attacker wearing an explosive vest blew himself up. The bombing raised new questions about Mr. Trump's surprise decision last month to end the American ground war in Syria. Critics of the president's plans, including members of his own party, said Mr. Trump's claim of victory over the Islamic State may have emboldened its fighters and encouraged Wednesday's strike… Mr. Trump's withdrawal announcement, made over the objections of his top national security officials, "set in motion enthusiasm by the enemy we're fighting," said Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina and a prominent Trump ally who has nonetheless criticized the military drawdown. "I saw this in Iraq. And I'm now seeing it in Syria," Mr. Graham said at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday. The rest of the article, of course, had the Trump Administration defending itself, with Vice President Mike Pence as the spokesman of that defense. However, already only two days later, the noise about this seems to have faded. There is no ongoing media fury about the President's decision to remove troops. In fact, aside from the ongoing investigation to confirm that ISIS indeed did carry out this attack, there is no indication of a change in the troop withdrawal process. If this situation remains as it is, it is a very good sign for these reasons: President Trump is showing his resolve and confidence in a decision he knows to be right (to withdraw) and not to accede to the War Party wishes. ISIS is losing its reputation as a significant fighting force as far as the US population is concerned, as it probably should. With the US gone, Russia can prosecute this war full force without risk of creating more serious incidents with the Americans. The possibility exists that this attack, already heinous in what we know, could have been a false flag, designed specifically to provoke the US troop withdrawal to stop and be reversed. This last scenario has oddly not been visibly mentioned, but it should be, because it probably happened in April 2018 and earlier. The Duran covered this quite extensively, and while the "official" (Western) investigation has come up curiously silent on the alleged chemical weapons attack last April in Ghouta, the overwhelming body of reports from the region suggested that the "gas" attack was nothing at all but drama to keep the US ensnared in the region. Remember, President Trump at that time also expressed the intention of withdrawing US troops from the area, and this event caused a reversal for a time. ISIS tried to become a nation. It operates on terror and theater, but it considers itself free to kill people along the way as it creates its pageantry. For the souls of all those innocent people who perished in this attack, we must pray and not forget. But ISIS is substantially done, and what is left will be dealt with by Russian and Syrian forces. For once, the definition of "American courage" might be not to fight. President Trump's decision to remove the troops remains one of the most significant achievements of his presidency, and one of the most important in terms of restoring balance to the United States that it deserves to have. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest Trump grounds Nancy Pelosi from taxpayer-subsidized travel Nancy Pelosi is exhibiting all the maturity of a 14-year-old druggie teenager who just got grounded, only House Speaker Pelosi is 78. Published 11 hours ago on January 19, 2019 By Seraphim Hanisch Nancy Pelosi is 78 years old. She is the Democrat Party leader of the House of Representatives, and presently she is Speaker of the House since her party holds the majority of seats there. She is also grounded, like a naughty teenager. Like a naughty, gossipy teenager, she is bitterly embroiled in a popularity war against another septuagenarian, US President Donald Trump (age 72). One has to admit that there is a great deal of humor that can be extracted from this. After all, we are taught as kid to "behave like adults." No doubt The Donald and Mrs. Pelosi were taught this too, probably even more strongly than those of us who are younger. However, the American media is eager mostly to brand this as a "temper tantrum" of the President, because most of the American media, for some reason, just doesn't like Mr. Trump. We have noted before here on The Duran the thought experiment surrounding Mr. Trump: "what if he had run as a Democrat, but with the exact same policy set as he has now?" It is really too bad that it is not possible to see what would happen, but a thinking person can use this thought experiment to discover that most of the sentiment against Mr. Trump is simply because he ran as a Republican. At any rate, we have a situation where it is being reported by a one-sided media that President Trump is at fault and is being somehow unfair and mean to Mrs. Pelosi. Mrs. Pelosi evidently thinks so too, for after Mr. Trump yanked her travel privileges via taxpayer-paid military transportation, she shot back, claiming that it was in fact President Trump who blew the security for the troops and personnel on this planned trip by announcing a secret trip publicly. CNN reports: Speaker Nancy Pelosi canceled a planned trip to visit troops in Afghanistan Friday, after — her office alleged in a statement — the White House leaked the details of the congressional delegation's commercial plane travel. In the middle of the night, the State Department's Diplomatic Security Service provided an updated threat assessment detailing that the President announcing this sensitive travel had significantly increased the danger to the delegation and to the troops, security, and other officials supporting the trip," Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill said. "This morning, we learned that the administration had leaked the commercial travel plans as well." Which, to borrow the parlance of the Internet, is VERY big, if true. It's one thing for Trump, as he did on Thursday, to rescind the military plane Pelosi and the rest of her colleagues were planning to fly on as a way of exacting revenge on her for asking the President to delay his planned "State of the Union" speech on January 29. To do so publicly — White House press secretary Sarah Sanders tweeted out the letter Trump sent to Pelosi — is to raise the stakes. To leak commercial travel plans to make absolutely certain that Pelosi can't go on the trip is a bridge even further. Now, to be clear, this is an allegation made by Pelosi without corroboration to date. And, the White House denies it. "When the Speaker of the House and about 20 others from Capitol Hill decide to book their own commercial flights to Afghanistan, the world is going to find out," a White House official told CNN's Sarah Westwood and Kevin Liptak. "The idea we would leak anything that would put the safety and security of any American at risk is a flat out lie." It appears that Mrs Pelosi is copying The New York Times and The Washington Post narrative style of "slander the President, acknowledge somewhere buried in the article that the slanderous charge is unsubstantiated, but get that slander out there so people hear it and read it!" It is a shoddy attempt for the news media to manipulate its consumers all while "protecting itself" from libel. The unfortunate fact is that it does work, at least insofar as to galvanize the anti-Trump crowd into a very solid bloc of insanely angry Americans. Further, in using the classic style in which a drug addict or active alcoholic manipulates people to pity him or her, Mrs. Pelosi and the media act like the druggie teenagers arrayed as one against Dear old Dad, who is the only adult in the house. The White House. But, still. To put a bit of adult analysis on this story is very simple, but it is honestly not very thrilling. To be honest, it is probably more fun to be like the mainstream media and the Democrats – energized by passion, doing stupid things publicly and getting attention and praise for it. But here is what appears to be the hard cold boring reality behind this saga. President Trump is committed to getting a change made in how the United States handles illegal immigration. For decades, the country has been getting slowly infiltrated, if not invaded, by immigrants who at the very least game the welfare and social support mechanisms of various levels of US federal, state and local governments. When people come into the country illegally and go on welfare, taxpayers start paying non-citizens for being here. Taking care of even 100,000 illegal immigrants with such programs is likely to be extremely expensive. Housing, food, healthcare, schooling, legal protection by police… it goes on and on. But there are not just 100,000 such people here. Last year, the Border Patrol apprehended well over four times that number. 467,000 illegals were apprehended in 2018. Estimates show anywhere from 12 million to 22 million illegals presently living in the United States. While it is certainly doubtful that all of them are gaming the welfare system, they are in the country, unknown, untracked, and not being good citizens by paying taxes and supporting our agreed-upon infrastructure and services the same way that American citizens are. That is a huge money drain. Add to that the drugs that do flow across the Mexican border, a fair infusion of criminals like murderers and rapists, and the possibility of terrorists making use of the open border to infiltrate the US and the situation becomes both costly and dangerous. This is why President Trump wants to change it with a barrier running the length of the US-Mexico border. While it is unlikely that all 2,000 miles need to have a wall, we certainly need more of a barrier than what we have now, and the barriers that DO exist are extremely successful in cutting the flow of illegals. From the high point of 2000, immigration apprehensions have on the whole fallen by quite a bit. This chart shows the track through 2016. But our 467,000 apprehensions is an enormous number – larger than the population of the city of Long Beach, California! This is an enormous number, but it is far lower than the 1.6 million that got caught before the existing barriers were built. This is also the number of illegals that were caught. We do not know how many were not caught. Now, President Trump begins to look like the adult in the room, because he wants to fix this, bringing the numbers down much closer to zero, and also finding a way to vet and interview immigrants that truly can contribute to the US dream as Americans. So, as part of creating a real border security apparatus, he wants to extend and even complete the Border Wall. It is not very expensive – even a $50 billion price tag is only about 1.3% of the bloated federal budget this year, and President Trump thinks the wall can be finished with half that amount. At this time, he is only asking for about $5 bn. And all Nancy Pelosi will say is "no!" So, like a good parent, the President refuses to reward such behavior by giving her what she wants. Now there is a partial government shutdown. President Trump took it on himself, but he is correct. He is doing this because the Democrats are doing this childish druggie routine. And he cannot reward this behavior. Pelosi and her loyal sidekick Senator Charles Schumer are like a clique of druggie kids in the class, disrupting everything by commanding some attention. But it seems they are gradually losing it, and the government remains shut down. However, they wanted to act like it is Trump's fault, so Nancy Pelosi was trying to do "business as usual" and go to Afghanistan for whatever reason (do they want her?). And the President said, "hey, not so fast. You have a partially closed government, and I have been here every day waiting for you to negotiate a deal. You have to be nuts to think this shutdown is not going to affect you, so you cannot use our military transportation while the government is shut down. It is only fair." Now who is looking like the bratty teenager? For some people who read articles like this, the answer will probably still be "President Trump." But maybe if they put down the cannabis and the booze and read facts for a change, their heads will clear up and they will come to see what the rest of properly thinking people have already seen. In this feud, there is an adult in the room. And he is having to manage the childish behavior of a woman six years older than he is. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading JOIN OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL Your donations make all the difference. Together we can expose fake news lies and deliver truth. Amount to donate in USD$: 5 100 Validating payment information... Waiting for PayPal...Validating payment information...Waiting for PayPal... 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Target (NYSE:TGT) said additional forensics work Friday morning revealed that encrypted PIN numbers were stolen in the recent breach of its payments system, but the data is believed to remain secure.
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The retailer disclosed last week that up to 40 million credit and debit cards were exposed in a massive data breach from Nov. 27 to Dec. 15. Consumers who shopped at Target stores during that period were potentially impacted, and banks such as J.P. Morgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) put spending limits on cards to thwart fraudulent charges.
Customer names, card numbers, expiration dates and security codes were stolen in the breach. Target previously said there was no indication that PIN numbers on bank-issued or Target debit cards were compromised.
On Friday, additional investigative work confirmed that encrypted PIN data was removed from Target's system. The numbers, which are encrypted at the keypad, remain secure since the key used to decrypt the information is only held by its external payment processor, Target explained.
"The most important thing for our guests to know is that their debit card accounts have not been compromised due to the encrypted PIN numbers being taken," said Molly Snyder, a spokeswoman for the company.
The latest update from Target comes as some state attorneys general question whether the retailer had proper safeguards to prevent customer data from being stolen.
According to Target, the stolen PIN numbers were encrypted using Triple DES, a commonly-used encryption standard.
Shares of Target were down 26 cents at $62.22 early Friday afternoon. The stock has fallen about 2% since news of the data breach surfaced.


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By Gwen Knapp
It didn't take long for Roger Goodell to realize that the Saints' Bountygate punishments had to make the Patriots' Spygate penalties look like an hour of clapping erasers after school. The commissioner hammered the lead perpetrators, handing down a season-long suspension for head coach Sean Payton and an indefinite ban for former defensive coordinator Gregg Williams.
Bill Belichick didn't miss a game when the league learned in 2007 that the Patriots coach had authorized illicit videotaping of opponents' defensive signals. He simply had to pay a $500,000 fine while his club forfeited a first-round draft pick. If Goodell had suspended Belichick, he would have had no choice but to ban Payton and Williams for life and completely gut the next two drafts for the Saints, instead of docking them a pair of second-rounders.
Spygate, after all, didn't come loaded with phrases such as "knockout hits" and "kill shots." The electronic shenanigans in New England threatened the league's integrity, but not its very existence.
The widespread belief that Payton would miss only four to six games discounted the repercussions on other fronts, especially in the courtroom. The revelations about the Saints' bounties came as former players lined up to join lawsuits against the NFL, accusing its leadership of obscuring evidence tying the violence of the sport to brain damage. If Goodell had allowed Payton to coach this year, he might as well have told team owners to start writing huge settlement checks.
The Saints will also lose their general manager's services for a half-season, and assistant coach Joe Vitt for six games. One has to wonder whether Goodell even considered stripping the Saints of their two-year-old Super Bowl trophy, which they won during the bounty years.
That idea, like all attempts to rewrite history, always appeared to be a non-starter. When players by the dozens responded to the original bounty revelations by citing variations on the scheme elsewhere, or shrugging off the assassin's mentality as part of the game, it became clear that Bountygate had to focus on the involvement of high-level officials and their cover-up attempts.
When the first reports came out about the bounties, Goodell may have thought the story would fade quickly. The information was released like a trial balloon, set loose on a Friday afternoon, the classic crisis strategy for a corporate or political newsmaker.
The story, it turned out, had the legs of Emmitt Smith. It called for an equally strong response. The punishments came down 19 days after the original announcement, and a little less than 24 hours after Peyton Manning embraced Denver and John Elway. That drama, with all its glorious distractions, had to end before the commissioner could seize a whole news cycle to smack down Payton, Williams and the Saints.
Drew Brees almost immediately turned to his Twitter account to proclaim support for his suspended head coach. "I am speechless. Sean Payton is a great man, coach, and mentor," the quarterback's tweet said. "The best there is. I need to hear an explanation for this punishment."
The NFL had already clearly delineated Payton's failure of leadership and duplicity during the investigation. If he has any doubts about what happened, he should rent a DVD of "All the President's Men" and maybe invite Brees over for a showing.
Williams' departure for St. Louis, at the end of the Saints' season and six weeks before Bountygate surfaced, added to the pressure to come down hard on Payton. Otherwise, the Rams might have paid more heavily for New Orleans' sins than the Saints did.
The team just let Williams walk, only three years after Payton had transferred $250,000 of his own paycheck to land the aggressive defensive coordinator. Did the Saints know that they were all about to be busted, and think that splitting up would make sorting out punishments more complicated?
Granted, it wasn't unusual for Williams to wear out his welcome with a head coach. He apparently alienated Joe Gibbs in Washington by not informing him of a plan to send only 10 men out for the opening play of a game, in honor of slain cornerback Sean Taylor.
But at the time, the move made sense for one, vital reason. Williams' methods had started to fail. The Saints' defense faltered badly all year, drafting in the wake of a magnificent offense. The 49ers, rendered helpless by the Saints' excess aggression in their preseason opener, took full advantage of New Orleans' predictability and tendency to over-pursue the quarterback when they met in January. As a result, they delivered a knockout blow in the playoffs. No extra payment required.
Gwen Knapp is a San Francisco Chronicle columnist. email@example.com


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As the Lipscomb Lady Bison go through spring soccer workouts it is readily apparent the program has a new attitude.
Kevin O'Brien isn't going to settle for mediocrity. He plans to build a program that will compete on the highest levels with teams like Tennessee and Vanderbilt.
"We have a long way to go to develop a squad that is going to compete at the highest Division I level, but with our peers I think we can be competitive," O'Brien said. "I want them to understand that there is not a game we are going to go into that we can't win.
"We are really working hard at getting them organized and understanding each individual role and responsibility within the team so that collectively we can be more successful."
Coaching in soccer is very subjective. System, formations and styles of play are designed at the coach's discretion. O'Brien appears to have quickly won the confidence of his players, but he has no idea how the program has been operated in the past.
"I'm not exactly sure how it went in the past, but I know we are trying to come together in a more disciplined fashion," O'Brien said. "The expectation level is high."
O'Brien, in his first head coaching job at Lipscomb, knows that his approach can work at Lipscomb based on his past success at Davidson, a school with an enrollment of approximately 1,700. He had limited scholarships available as associated head coach and recruiting coordinator for Davidson's men's soccer team. In addition, he also had to find athletes who could handle the rigorous academics of the school.
"We got players that weren't at the same level as a North Carolina or a Duke, but we beat them," O'Brien said. "So there is not a soccer game that you go into that you can't conceivably win.
"What needs to happen is the players have to buy into the tactical game plan, and obviously produce on the field. They have to minimize mistakes and certainly be fit."
The fitness of his team has been of immediate concern to O'Brien.
"We are going to play teams this spring that are fitter than we are," O'Brien said. "So as we move through the rest of the spring and into the summer that will be a great focus of the coaching staff.
"We want to get every player fit enough so that every player, when called upon, can go in and increase the work load and increase the energy. We want them to increase the team's ability to produce without breaking down mentally or physically."
In the past defense has been what previous coaches have depended on to make a difference. O'Brien wants a balance of offense and defense, but he knows that is going to take some time.
"You build a squad in terms of what you've got and I think we have more defensively-minded players at the moment," O'Brien said. "But you defend to attack. My focus is going to be very organized and exploit an opponent's lack of organization in transition.
"That is a big theme in the world of soccer today – speed of play, transition, a counter attacking style. I think that will give us the best chances of success. To play a wide-open, stretched out game against some really good opponents would be to our detriment."
O'Brien knows the limitations of his team. But he prefers to dwell on the possibilities.
"The reality is we will be limited in some ways when we go into games," O'Brien said. "We don't have real impact players … one who can take over a game like a central midfielder that is so creative and dynamic or a goal scorer who finishes that majority of her chances.
"It is going to have to be a collective effort. I think more so than ever our team has to have a great team effort, team spirit and team performance to get a result. Looking at the team we are going to have to score by committee."
O'Brien would like to see multiple players on the score sheet each game.
"We don't have any standout 10-to-15 goals a year type players," O'Brien said. "We are going to have to be opportunistic when we get our chances. It is going to have to be a gargantuan team effort.
"I'm recruiting and trying to find that player who can score double-digit goals each season, but they are few and far between. They are the toughest players to sign, but I won't stop."
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of Time and Place:
Contemporary Views of Landscape
In Celebration of the Gallery's 20th Anniversary
February 3 - May 15, 2004
Susan Hoeltzel with Nina Sundell
Sally Apfelbaum, LC Armstrong, Hugo Bastidas, Lawrence Beck, Jose Bedia, Dozier Bell, Louise Belcourt, Vija Celmins, Christo, Susan Crile, Rob de Mar, Peter Edlund, Elger Esser, Guy Hundere, Nade Haley, Susan Hartnett, April Gornik, Alfredo Jaar, John Kalymnios, Nadav Kander, Kim Keever, Cynthia Knott, Justine Kurland, Mitche Kunzman, Sally Mann, Felicia D. Megginson, Ellen Phelan, Leah Oates, Lesley Punton, Andrea Robbins and Max Becher, Alexis Rockman, May Stevens, Adam Straus, Tomás Sánchez, Joni Sternbach, Jorge Tacla, Tom Uttech, Wim Wenders, and Wayne White
Images of Time and Place: ContemporaryViews of Landscape examines a broad range of artists who are working with the concept of landscapeboth as the primary content as well as in a supporting role. Featuring the work of 40 artists, the exhibition explores innovative approaches to this traditional genre through paintings, drawings, photography, installations, sculpture, and video. The work ranges from the artifice of Kim Keever's contrived environments to the irony of Hugo Bastidas and Adam Straus. It includes Christo's studies for The Gates that propose aesthetic intervention on the urban, pastoral setting of Central Park and Sally Apfelbaum's conceptual approach to photographing Monet's garden at Giverny. Allegorical, narrative and psychological approaches in which the natural setting play a dominant role are also included.
The exhibition is co-curated by the director of the gallery Susan Hoeltzel and its founding director Nina Sundell.
This exhibition is funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts.
The exhibition is
presented in both the Edith Altschul Lehman wing
and the Robert Lehman wing of the gallery.
April Gornik, Field and Storm, 2003
Christo, The Gates, Project for Central Park, New York City, 2002
Public Art in the Bronx
Close to Home
Maria Magdelena Campos-Pons: A Town Portrait
Jerry Kearns: Deep Cover
En Foco
Mayakovsky: Man or Myth
In View of Nature
The Bronx Celebrates:
Cathleen Lewis
Physical Evidence
The Works of Rigoberto Torres
Selections 1993
Anaida Hernandez:
Hasta que la muerte nos separe
"Till Death Do Us Part"
Physical Evidence
Contemporary Chinese Art and the Literary Culture of China
Fact, Fiction and Truth
Alice Adams: Public Projects
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does anyone know any lesser known S.C places to investigate?(legally of course)
any lesser known S.C sites
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Posted 02 January 2012 - 07:00 PM
I think Charleston has several locations, including a graveyard - St. Phillips if I remember right. And I think Columbia has an abandoned mill just outside of town that has a reputation for hauntings. I also remember hearing that Georgetown has several locations reportedly haunted, but don't remember any details.
"Never wrestle with a pig. All you get is dirty and the pig has all the fun." ~ Anon.
Posted 07 August 2012 - 11:43 AM
Historic Brattonsville is quite haunted and you can take a "self guided" tour through all the old houses for a very small fee... Do it during the week and you will be the only one there... Which is great... Quite rare to be able to investigate old colonial mansions right next to a battlefield and do some EVP sessions etc... And be able to do it alone without a tour guide!
Click my link in my sig and watch the video entitled "Revolutionary Shadows" to see us doing just that!
Click my link in my sig and watch the video entitled "Revolutionary Shadows" to see us doing just that!
Watch our original paranormal web-series "Gallo Family Ghost Hunters" on blip.tv
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Valve have earned their place in the market by being forward thinking while offering added value to your experience. There is a significant amount of logical justification for them to take their cut, which most people will point out is siginficantly less than publishing via bricks and mortar would take from you. Unless you can argue valve employees should work for free, I doubt many people are going to lose sleep over the fact they're making money from giving us what few else would.
Still, feel free to buy games direct from the companies that offer that. It's likely the ones that don't are happy with the agreement that valve have with them.


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A Camera Uses Light Field Technology to Give Photos New Depth; Game-Changer or Gimmick?
Lytro's latest camera lets viewers shift focus and perspective on photos after they were shot. Personal Technology Columnist Geoffrey A. Fowler tests whether this is photography's next chapter, or just a neat gimmick.
What might photos look like if your camera could capture more depth?
Rewind with me for a moment to that scene in pretty much every crime investigation show, where good guys studying security shots "enhance" the image to reveal the villain.
Everybody knows that real blurry photos can't be made sharp after the fact. But that's exactly the premise of the new Illum camera from a startup called Lytro.
Instead of snapping a solitary image, the Illum captures a whole moment—known as the light field—so you can change focus and shift perspective after you've taken the shot. Just by clicking around a screen, the viewer can focus on a birthday cake candle, the person blowing it out, or partygoers in the background. These "living pictures," as they're called, even let the viewer look a bit behind the closest objects. The effect is a little like the portraits in Harry Potter's newspaper: a hint of depth where you weren't expecting it.
The Lytro Illum, which goes on sale Friday for $1,599, makes this mind-bending technology remarkably accessible to avid photographers. But you have to work within some technical and artistic constraints. Over a week testing the Illum, I took striking portraits and close-up shots that appear to come alive, but struggled to get as much use out of it for landscapes and action scenes.
The Illum offers great tools for experimenting, but remains a ways off from being essential for serious photographers. The jury is still out on whether light-field cameras will define a compelling new kind of photography, or be remembered as a fun gimmick.
If the name Lytro sounds familiar, that's because Illum is the company's second attempt at a camera that can do these kinds of tricks. Its first, just called Lytro, came out in 2012 and failed to catch on despite a wave of attention and a relatively low $400 price tag. That camera—a 4.4-inch-long tube that looked more like a colorful toy than a cutting-edge instrument—stayed under the radar because it had poor image quality and was hard to control via a tiny screen.
Lytro's reboot follows the counterintuitive path of quadrupling the price and redesigning the product for people accustomed to DSLRs. The Illum actually looks like a camera, with a big 8X optical zoom lens fixed on the front and four times the resolution of its predecessor. You control shutter speed, exposure and other image factors through a tiltable 4-inch touch screen on back. When I walked around with the Illum, the camera's near-futuristic lines prompted bystanders to compliment it.
The Lytro Illum, on sale this week, retails for $1,600. Lytro
Behind the lens, the Illum's sensor captures a lot more information about a scene than the typical camera, including the path the light takes on its way through the lens. Though it has just one sensor that captures one image, think of it essentially as a 3-D camera, taking shots at every possible focal point. From that moment's data, you can create an interactive image that feels like a video, where the viewer gets to choose the focus and perspective. Or you can extract a single 4-megapixel image—half the resolution of an iPhone 5S photo, but good enough for a 5x7 print—with your desired point of focus.
There's a learning curve to capturing images that take advantage of the Illum's capabilities, but by my third day, I was taking decent shots. When you're composing an image with the Illum, you have to think in terms of depth—what's near and what's far. The more dispersed your subjects are, the more interesting the shot.
To help you create shots with more artful blurring, Illum has a special "Lytro" button; press it, and the camera colors parts of the live image preview on its screen with shades of blue (near) and orange (far). You can adjust the amount of each in a shot by changing the center of focus, using the zoom or just moving the camera around.
I found that close-up portraits of people or pets generally have enough dimension to produce interesting images that make you feel closer to the subject. And busy images—parties, gardens, street scenes, markets—are great for letting you shift focus, concentrating on different parts of a scene.
Landscapes are much harder. I went to the Golden Gate Bridge on a sunny day to practice, thinking that its layers of towers, cables and fog would be perfect for the Illum's depth effect. I couldn't have been more wrong. My shots turned out flat, like those of a regular camera.
When I showed my boring bridge images to Casey McCallister, Lytro's creative content manager, he explained that on such a massive scale, the entire bridge scene was at a point photographers call infinity—that is, beyond my ability to shift focus. Under those conditions, I should have put another object—a tree, sign or another person—within 4 feet of me, to add usable dimension. (Lytro offers tutorial videos online.)
Soon enough, I found myself looking at scenes differently. Instead of clearing obstructions out of the way, I was adding them in. Power lines, plants and fire hydrants all work. Try turning your family into mobile props.
The Illum's screen lags just enough from reality that it was hard to use it in action situations. Still, the camera can capture 2.5 photos per second. Like midrange digital SLRs, it also has challenges with night shooting, producing grainy images. And shooting outdoors on sunny days can be difficult, as the LCD screen can be hard to see.
The magic happens once you move the Illum's giant 53-megabyte image files to the Lytro Desktop editing software. (Warning: Working with so much data in a single image requires a workhorse of a computer, and even then is slow.)
The program lets you make basic photo adjustments such as exposure, color saturation, sharpening and cropping. You can also choose to highlight a single point, blurring all the rest, or bring everything, foreground and background, into focus. You can export these images as flat JPEGs, images that can be seen on 3-D TVs and monitors, or short videos that tell a story by shifting focus and perspective.
The most interesting option is to turn shots into what Lytro calls living pictures. This allows the viewer to change the focus or perspective themselves in real time on Lytro's website or mobile app and other photo-sharing sites like 500px.com.
Illum undoubtedly advances photography in an era where most other high-end camera-makers make only incremental improvements. But what good are these new capabilities in the hands of artists and photo enthusiasts?


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100 years of international police cooperation
The idea of INTERPOL was born in 1914 at the first International Criminal Police Congress, held in Monaco. This meeting brought together police officers and judicial representatives from 24 countries to find ways to cooperate on solving crimes, notably arrest and extradition procedures, identification techniques and the idea of centralized criminal records.
Participants at the Congress expressed 12 wishes for the future of international police cooperation. These principles continue to underpin INTERPOL's work today. Read more about the 12 wishes: then and now.
Over the past 100 years, cooperation among police forces internationally has become firmly grounded in practice as crimes and criminals have moved increasingly beyond national borders.
Officially created in 1923, INTERPOL – the International Criminal Police Organization – has seen its membership grow steadily over the years. Today, 192 member countries work together on a daily basis, using the databases, tools and secure communications systems that the Organization offers.
While its vision and mission remain in line with the original goals of the meeting in 1914, the Organization continues to evolve in response to the needs of its member countries, the emergence of new crime trends, and innovations in technology.


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Ex-Cowboy complains about cop who detained Texan
Dallas cop gets another complaint from NFL player
Ex-Cowboy claims wife was treated unfairly by same officer who detained Texans' Moats
DALLAS — Former Dallas Cowboys linebacker Zach Thomas claims his wife was mistreated by the same Dallas officer now at the center of a misconduct probe involving Houston Texans running back Ryan Moats.
Thomas said his wife, Maritza Thomas, was stopped in July by Officer Robert Powell making an illegal U-turn. Her husband was at training camp in Oxnard, Calif. at the time.
Powell gave Maritza Thomas five tickets, four of which were later dismissed. She was handcuffed, put in the back of a police cruiser, detained at the Dallas County Jail for about three hours and threatened with the possibility of spending the night behind bars, The Dallas Morning News reported Sunday in its online edition.
In total, Maritza Thomas was detained for about five hours.
"This in no way compares to what happened to Ryan Moats and his family," said Zach Thomas, who played for the Cowboys last season and is now a free agent. "But we wanted to tell our story, not knowing how many others have been affected by Officer Powell. We know the vast majority of the Dallas police force are good and professional people, but this guy just seems excessive."
The charges that were dropped were failure to show proof of insurance, running a red light, having an improper address on a driver's license and not having a registration sticker on the windshield. She accepted deferred adjudication for the illegal U-turn charge, and her record will be cleared next month.
"This situation never should've happened," said Maritza Thomas' attorney, Brody Shanklin. "Unless extraordinary circumstances exist, no person should be arrested for a Class C citation. In this case, it was an example of Officer Powell being overzealous and exerting his authority in a manner that he never should have."
Bob Gorsky, Powell's attorney, questioned the timing of Thomas' allegations.
"I do understand that an arrest on multiple traffic charges happens often and is absolutely proper under these circumstances," Gorsky said. "Often, when there are multiple charges, an arrest made and bond posted, some of the charges from a single event are later dropped."
The Thomases said Powell was dismissive, but they have not alleged that he used abusive language. There is no dash-cam video available of the incident, but the police report lists the five citations and confirms that Thomas was taken to jail.
Powell has apologized for the Moats incident. A dash-cam video shows the officer berating Moats for about 13 minutes near the Baylor Regional Medical Center in Plano, where his mother-in-law was dying. He was stopped after rolling through a red light.
His mother-in-law died before he could make into the hospital.
Powell is on leave pending an investigation of the Moats incident.


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There are plenty of easy, creative, and attractive ways to hang your Christmas stockings this year. If you want to branch out from hanging your Christmas stocking on a mantel or if you just have a ton of stockings to hang, then you've come to the right place! Check out this list of creative Christmas stocking holders.
Personalized Wooden Block Christmas Stocking Hangers
Creating your own wwoodblockChristmas stocking hangers is a fun Christmas craft that you can do with the kids. To make one personalized wooden block Christmas stocking holder:
- Purchase a 2×4 and cut out two pieces that are 5.5″ long.
- Paint the two blocks with acrylic paint. You can use whatever color you want, but Christmas green or red might be a good choice.
- Sand the edges if you want them to look aged.
- Spray the blocks with an acrylic paint sealer.
- Decorate the front (the large, flat surface) of one of the 2×4 pieces. This will eventually stand up, so if you decorate with something directional, make sure the top and bottom are the 4″ lengths and the sides are the 5.5″ lengths. You could add a vinyl letter, a mod-podged photo, or holly berries and leaves.
- With the second 2×4 (which is only painted and has no decorations), create an X on the bottom surface (the large, flat surface) so that you can find the center. Drill a pilot hole in the center through the entire 2 inches.
- With the first 2×4 (the one you decorated) create an X on the bottom edge (the 2″x4″ side) and drill a pilot hole about an inch into the wood.
- Stand the decorated 2×4 upside down with the decorated front facing you, so that you can see the pilot hole. Place the second 2×4 on top of it with the 2×5.5 side facing you (also upside down) so that the holes line up. Screw them together from the bottom.
- Turn it over and measure to the center of the 2″x5.5″ front side of the base. Drill a pilot hole.
- Attach a screw-in hook from the hardware store to the front of the base piece (through the pilot hole).
- Stand it on the mantel and hang your stocking on it.
Use Household Items as a Christmas Stocking Hanger
Christmas stocking holders do not have to be attached to a fireplace or sitting on a mantel. The following are some ideas that you could use to hang Christmas stockings using everyday household items.
- Bedposts. Have each member of the family hang their own stocking from their bedpost. It would be a fun surprise for children to wake up to full stockings hanging from the posts of their beds.
- Ladders. If you have an old wooden ladder, give it a good sanding and bring it in for the stocking hanger. You could give it a fresh coat of paint, or leave it weathered and worn. Hammer a few nails at different points on the ladder, hang your stockings on the nails and stand it by the Christmas tree.
- Coat Racks. A coat rack typically has multiple arms where you could hang your stockings.
- Walls. Hang the stockings on the wall, going up the stairway. Find empty wall space in the living room, hang the stockings on it, and hang photos of the family from past Christmases around the stockings.
- Dresser or Cabinet Knobs. Many dressers and cabinets have knobs that are perfect to hang a stocking on. You can hang each Christmas stocking on each person's individual dresser, or hang everyone's stockings on the curio cabinet knobs in the living room.
Other Christmas Stocking Holder Ideas
- Ornament Display Trees. Hang your stockings on an ornament display tree so you can place your Christmas stockings in any part of the house you like. If you're having a large dinner party, you can set up and ornament display tree in your dining room and hang your stockings on it – now you've got yourself an instant Christmas party decoration.
- Stocking Holders. If you don't want to put nails in your wood fireplace, use a non-permanent solution like stocking holder hooks. These Christmas stocking holders have fun holiday motifs for a special seasonal touch.
If your fireplace is enclosed in brick and you're not sure how to hang your stockings, see our article, Yes You Can! How To Hang Stockings & Wreaths On A Brick Wall.


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The team came away with two big wins and the championship after traveling to Gallup, N.M., last weekend, Nov. 2 and 3, to compete in the 8-, 9-, and 10-year-old division.
The 49ers first game was played on Saturday, Nov. 2. Moab's youth football team defeated the Gallup Lobos 19-14. In the second game on Sunday, Nov. 3, the Moab team played the Gallup Bulldogs in the championship game and handily defeated Gallup by the score of 22-8. With the win, the Moab 49ers were awarded the title of Northern New Mexico Junior Division Champions.
The 49ers ended the 2013 season with a 9-0 record, making the team undefeated for the second straight year. The 49ers went 3-0 against the other Moab City Recreation team in the division, and defeated the two Blanding teams in the division twice each for a 7-0 record at the end of the regular season.
"They played above and beyond any expectations I had," said coach Darrin Wells. "They overachieved, played hard, and gave the extra effort. They played well as a team. We had a few close, come-from-behind games. They gave their best effort."
Wells thanked the parents of 49ers team members "for their time and patience."


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Free Wi-Fi has been a big selling point for Starbucks since the coffee chain started offering it in 2010. Could a complimentary phone charging station be another? Starbucks thinks so and began testing the proposition Thursday with a nationwide rollout of Duracell Powermat technology for wireless phone refueling. The charging stations will hit shops first in San Francisco and gradually expand to other parts of the U.S. in 2015. Starbucks expects that a full national rollout of 100,000 Powermat spots to 7,500 different stores could take several years.
The Powermat chargers use magnetic fields to power cellphones placed on top of them and follow standards set by the Power Matters Alliance. Only a few phones—Samsung's Galaxy 5S and Sprint's Kyocera Hydro Vibe, for example—are currently designed to connect to stations. That said, noncompatible devices such as the iPhone can still use the charging pads if they have the correct kind of adapters. That means most customers wishing to take advantage of the benefit will have to purchase adapters of their own, as a company spokeswoman told me Starbucks does not yet have plans to supply them.
Starbucks conducted preliminary tests of the Powermat spots in some of its Boston and San Jose locations, and the spokeswoman said the feedback from those trials was positive. Powermat president Daniel Schreiber told The Verge that each Starbucks store should average 10 or more hotspots, and that trials showed customers typically using them for 15 minutes at a time. The Starbucks spokeswoman said the powermat spots charge devices at approximately the same rate as a plug-in charger. That suggests customers are looking to the charging stations as a brief refill on energy rather than a full-blown recharge.
The foray into wireless charging is the latest reminder that Starbucks values its reputation not only as a coffee shop but as a tech-friendly operation. In addition to its free Wi-Fi, Starbucks also has a popular app that allows customers to make mobile payments and will soon introduce pre-orders. The company has said that upward of 11 percent of in-store transactions are made through mobile devices. Letting customers charge their devices will help keep them happy—and it might ensure that their smartphone lasts long enough to buy that second iced vanilla latte.


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The proposed zone change was recently turned down by the Grand County Planning Commission. Three times previously, a proposal for a zone change not only was turned down by the planning commission but the county council also.
It's simply a bad idea.
But the developer won't let the matter drop and now for the fourth time is asking the county council to overrule the planning commission.
The proposed zone change does not comply with the requirements of the county planning department. The proposal is inconsistent with the 2012 Grand County General Plan.
To repeat, it's simply a bad idea.
To not comply with county rules and regulations would set a dangerous precedent for all neighborhoods throughout the county. This matter affects all Grand County residents. Do our neighborhoods belong to us or the developers?
Concerned citizens are urged to contact council members and attend the Grand County Council meeting next Tuesday, Sept. 17, at 4 p.m. at the Grand County Council chambers, 125 E. Center.
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Black and White Witchcraft
Posted 02 April 2004 - 08:37 PM
For instance, when I found out my best friend was sleeping with my boyfriend, I wished many horrible things on her. I wished them so deeply, and completely consciously, that those things all came to pass. She's unable to have children of her own. Her husband left her, and she's been unable to stay in a healthy relationship, or even enter one for that matter. On the flip side of this mental spell, I was obsessed with her betrayal for many years. Perhaps that was my price to pay, perhaps I would have been obsessed with it regardless. But, I do not think, even if it WAS payment for my deeds, that it was a bad thing to endure, as I learned a great deal from the experience, emotionally and spiritually.
So, I pose the question... do you believe in the validity of a middle-platform of practice? Do any of you truly consider yourself white or black witches or practitioners of your path? To me, assigning colors to your practice is just as ridiculous as the government assigning colors to any 'national state of emergency'... what good does it do in the end?
Posted 03 April 2004 - 12:04 AM
Take my hand and we'll go riding through the sunshine from above
Posted 03 April 2004 - 12:54 PM
Krafted with luv
by monsters
Posted 03 April 2004 - 05:53 PM
Both examples are rare as far as I can tell, but it's like my friend says, all magick is more grey than anything else.
Here! Here! This sums up the whole speech I had on the sub and myself as a witch but I have friends that tend to label themselves "White" or "Black" when it comes to their craft, I personally just see it as restricting and kinda juvenile, color coding sounds like something I did in elementary school :
Or do things worth the writing.
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Posted 03 April 2004 - 06:34 PM
Don't feel so much guilt for your thoughts, your friend did something wrong, if she would breach the your trust as a friend what did she breach with her husband which is why she is probably having relationship problems. The inability to have children usually is a life time condition not one that came about by magic, magik or magical realism
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results." Albert Einstein
I've been hit by mrsspookypants
Posted 03 April 2004 - 08:44 PM
BB, Ana
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Posted 08 April 2004 - 07:00 AM
there ain't noting black nor white, but it is all about our INTENTION!
Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim. --Ovid--
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Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim. --Ovid--
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Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim. --Ovid--
Posted 08 April 2004 - 10:39 AM
Take my hand and we'll go riding through the sunshine from above
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Hijacking Catastrophe9/11, Fear and the Selling of American EmpireEdited by Sut Jhally and Jeremy Earp
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What it really comes down to is this: Are the American voters going to sit still for this? Are we going to treat our democracy like some sort of spectator sport, like watching the Super Bowl, or are we going to ask a little more of ourselves this time? Are we going to explore the Bush Administration's claims? Are we going to look at the details of what this administration has actually done? -- William Hartung, Senior Fellow, World Policy Institute "A highly meritorious effort to raise public awareness and understanding, work that is particularly crucial in advance of the coming election, which may well cast a long shadow over the country's future. -- Noam Chomsky, Professor of Linguistics, MIT "By helping us understand how fear is being actively cultivated and manipulated by the current administration, Hijacking Catastrophe stands to become an explosive and empowering information weapon in this decisive year in US history." -- Naomi Klein, author, No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies
The 9/11 terror attacks continue to send shock waves through the American political system. Continuing fears about American vulnerability alternate with images of American military prowess and patriotic bravado in a transformed media landscape charged with emotion and starved for information. The result is that we have had virtually no meaningful public debate about the radical turn US policy has taken since 9/11. Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire is a riveting collection of 28 interviews with leading political thinkers that shows how the Bush administration has used the trauma of 9/11 and the war on terrorism to advance a radical and longstanding neo-conservative plan for global geopolitical domination. At the same time, it will clarify the ideological vision that has driven US international and domestic policy since 9/11, and will examine the political strategies that have been used to sell this ideological vision to the American people. This collection includes interviews with Tariq Ali, Benjamin Barber, Noam Chomsky, Marc Danner, Fernando Suarez del Solar, Shadia Drury, Daniel Ellsberg, Michael Franti, Stan Goff, William Hartung, Bill Israel, Janine Jackson, Chalmers Johnson, Michael Klare, Karen Kwiatkowski, Norman Mailer, Zia Mian, Mark Crispin Miller, Kevin Ramirez, Scott Ritter, Vandana Shiva, Norman Solomon, Greg Speeter, Immanuel Wallerstein, Cindy Williams, Jody Williams, and Max Wolff.
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