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Control system installed for power generating units
The China Power Investment Group has awarded Emerson Process Management a contract to install its Ovation expert control system at two new ultra-supercritical power generating units under construction at the Changshu power plant in Jiangsu Province, China. Ultra-supercritical technologies are becoming more prevalent in China because they can boost the efficiency of coal-based electricity generation by approximately 50 percent, while maintaining superior environmental performance. Emerson's technology will help China Power run the new units safely and efficiently.
Expansion of the existing 4 X 300-MW Changshu plant will support economic development of China's Yangtze Delta area. The two new units, Unit 5 and Unit 6, are expected to come online in February 2012 and August 2012, respectively.
At each new unit, the Ovation system will monitor and control the Shanghai boiler and balance- of-plant processes, as well as interface to the controls of the Shanghai turbine. The Ovation systems for the two units will manage more than 30,800 I/O points. Emerson will supply a total of 18 workstations and 56 redundant controllers.
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Oil-based paint poisoning occurs when large amounts of oil-based paint get into your stomach or lungs. It may also occur if the poison gets into your eyes or touches your skin.
This is for information only and not for use in the treatment or management of an actual poison exposure. If you have an exposure, you should call your local emergency number (such as 911) or the National Poison Control Center at 1-800-222-1222.
Alternative Names
Paint – oil based – poisoning
Poisonous Ingredient
Hydrocarbons are the primary poisonous ingredient in oil paints.
Some oil paints have heavy metals such as lead, mercury, cobalt, and barium added as pigment. These heavy metals can cause additional poisoning if swallowed in large amounts.
Where Found
Various oil-based paints
- Eyes, ears, nose, and throat
- Blurred or decreased vision
- Difficulty swallowing
- Eye and nose irritation (burning, tearing, redness, or runny nose)
- Heart
Rapid heartbeat
- Lungs
- Cough
- Shallow breathing — may also be rapid, slow, or painful
- Nervous system
- Coma
- Confusion
- Depression
- Headache
- Irritability
- Lightheadedness
- Nervousness
- Stupor
- Skin
- Blisters
- Burning feeling
- Itchiness
- Numbness or tingling
- Stomach and intestines
Abdominal pain Diarrhea
- Nausea
- Vomiting
Home Treatment
Seek immediate medical help. Do NOT make a person throw up unless told to do so by poison control or a health care professional.
If the chemical was swallowed, immediately give the person a small amount of water or milk to stop the burning, unless instructed otherwise by a health care provider. Do NOT give water or milk if the patient is having symptoms (such as vomiting, convulsions, or a decreased level of alertness) that make it hard to swallow.
Before Calling Emergency
Determine the following information:
- Patient's age, weight, and condition (for example, is the person awake or alert?)
- Name of the product (ingredients and strengths, if known)
- Time it was swallowed
- Amount swallowed
However, do NOT delay calling for help if this information is not immediately available.
Poison Control, or a local emergency number
The National Poison Control Center (1-800-222-1222) can be called from anywhere in the United States. This national hotline number will let you talk to experts in poisoning. They will give you further instructions.
This is a free and confidential service. All local poison control centers in the United States use this national number. You should call if you have any questions about poisoning or poison prevention. It does NOT need to be an emergency. You can call for any reason, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Take the container with you to the hospital, if possible.
What to expect at the emergency room
The health care provider will measure and monitor the patient's vital signs, including temperature, pulse, breathing rate, and blood pressure.
Symptoms will be treated as appropriate. The patient may receive:
- Fluids by IV
- Laxative
- Tube through the mouth into the stomach to wash out the stomach (
gastric lavage) — will generally be done only in cases in which the paint contains toxic additives that are swallowed in significant amounts
- Washing of the skin and face (irrigation)
Expectations (prognosis)
Survival past 48 hours is usually a good sign that recovery will occur. If any damage to the kidneys or lungs has occurred, it may take several months to heal. Some organ damage may be permanent.

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Maroon 5 To Perform Exclusive Concert Following GRAMMY Nominations Special
Three-time GRAMMY-winning group Maroon 5 are set to perform an exclusive concert for guests attending "The GRAMMY Nominations Concert Live!! — Countdown To Music's Biggest Night." The concert will immediately follow the one-hour live nominations special — which will feature performances by Luke Bryan and Maroon 5, and will be co-hosted by two-time GRAMMY winner LL Cool J and six-time GRAMMY winner Taylor Swift.
The show — which will announce nominations in several categories as well as feature performances by past GRAMMY winners and/or nominees — will take place live for the first time ever at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., on Wednesday, Dec. 5, and will be broadcast in HDTV and 5.1 surround sound on the CBS Television Network from 10–11 p.m. ET/PT (9 p.m. Central). Additional performers and presenters will be announced shortly.
Tickets for "The GRAMMY Nominations Concert Live!! — Countdown To Music's Biggest Night" and exclusive post-show concert with Maroon 5 are on sale now and are available online at www.ticketmaster.com or via Ticketmaster charge-by-phone lines at 800.745.3000.
This concert special marks the fifth time nominations for the annual GRAMMY Awards will be announced live on primetime television. Last year's airing of the nominations special helped lead to increased ratings for the 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards, which attracted 39.9 million viewers, the largest GRAMMY audience since 1984 and the second largest in history. The telecast was also the biggest social event in the history of television at that time, drawing 13 million social media comments with the conversation on Twitter reaching a record high at 160,341 tweets per minute during the live telecast.
LL Cool J has hosted "The GRAMMY Nominations Concert Live!! — Countdown To Music's Biggest Night" since its inception, and also hosted the annual GRAMMY Awards telecast for the first time earlier this year. Swift co-hosted the first GRAMMY nominations special with LL Cool J in December 2008.
The road to Music's Biggest Night begins with "The GRAMMY Nominations Concert Live!!" and culminates with the 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards, live from Staples Center in Los Angeles on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013, and broadcast on CBS at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
"The GRAMMY Nominations Concert Live!! — Countdown To Music's Biggest Night" is produced by AEG Ehrlich Ventures, LLC. Ken Ehrlich is the executive producer. LL Cool J is producer.
For updates and breaking news, please visit The Recording Academy's social networks on Twitter and Facebook.


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The band plays the first note of the fight song and more than 90,000 fans rise to their feet, captivated and transformed by what they are about to see. As the game begins the fans create an atmosphere unlike any other in college football, raising their level of intensity as the magnitude of the game heightens with every turn ... this could only be a Saturday Night in Tiger Stadium!
"Baton Rouge happens to be the worst place in the world for a visiting team. It's like being inside a drum."
"It makes a body tingle ... these folks go berserk when the band marches on the field."
"I'd been warned prior to my first visit to Baton Rouge that the legendary Death Valley mystique was a myth. That assessment couldn't have been more wrong. Tiger Stadium was as loud as any I've ever heard during the dramatic fourth quarter of Saturday's Georgia game, the festivities surrounding it as advertised. The streets were lined with purple and gold. Smoke emanated from the grills in the parking lot. Shouts of 'Go Tigers' and 'Tiger Bait' echoed from the stadium deep into the heart of campus. And that was just Friday night."


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Dec. 22--WEST HAZLETON -- Wreaths adorn the graves of all 280 veterans at Transfiguration Cemetery, thanks to an anonymous gift to Wreaths Across America.
The donor and helpers located the graves of each veteran in the cemetery along Route 93 a few days before the wreaths were delivered Dec. 17, Bernadine Antolick of West Hazleton said.
For the past four years, Antolick, whose husband, Thomas, is buried at Fort Indiantown Gap National Cemetery, and Donald Drasher, an Army veteran who lives in Butler Twp., have been the local coordinators for Wreaths Across America.
In addition to the wreaths donated for Transfiguration Cemetery, area residents paid $15 apiece for wreaths that they placed on the graves of family and friends in other local cemeteries for Christmas.
Wreaths Across America began in 1992 at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia after a picture of snow dusting wreaths on graves caught national attention and led the owners of the Worcester Wreath Co. of Harrington, Maine, to form a nonprofit association.
Now the organization known as Wreaths Across America is based in Columbia Falls, Maine, and run by a board of directors. The organization distributes wreaths to towns and historic sites from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, to the 9/11 Memorial Plaza in New York City.
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Cam Cole, National Post --- So Canada's under-20 national team won't be playing for the gold medal, after getting clocked 5-1 by the United States Thursday at the world junior championship in Ufa, Russia.This is also a fact that makes me very happy.
So this means … what? A colossal failure? Cause for a royal commission? A closing of the borders so that those dastardly foreigners — all two of them, per team — can't play in our major junior leagues, take spots away from our own kids, and then turn around and use what they've learned here to beat us over there?
Or is it simply one more chapter in the ongoing story of a sport that now belongs to the elite players of a half-dozen or more nations, not just one or two. To Americans and Swedes, to Russians and Canadians, to Finns and Swiss and Czechs.
Nearly one in four NHLers is an American. And the NHL footprint has greatly increased the number of states that now produce elite junior players.I have been reading some of the pundits break down the Canadians 4th place finish and you would think that with their line-up that the Canadians had, this would have been their year. But as we know, talent doesn't always equal victory.
While it's easy to bag on the Canadians for them not winning the gold. I believe that the Canadians play the game the right way. You don't see the Canadians flailing all-over ice diving like a bunch of ballerinas. I am pointing my finger at a few of the European teams.
Lastly, going forward in the future, if the USA can't win the gold, I would much rather see the team wearing Maple Leaf standing at their blue ling singing their national anthem than the Russians or the Swedes any day.


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Asking school board for more money
The Mexico School District Teacher Salary Welfare Committee is asking for more money for teachers who have been in the Mexico School District for 10 or more years. The committee voiced its request at the Tuesday night regular monthly school board meeting.
Tenured teachers in the Mexico School District want more money, and the Salary Welfare Committee took the request to the school board Tuesday night, in addition to other issues of concern.
SWC members Sarah Keithley and Michelle Yount made the presentation.
"The Mexico CTA proposes that the salary for certified teachers be increased by $1,500 on the base salary (Level 1) and that there be a $1,000 increase added onto the salary schedule for teachers who have been in the Mexico School District for 10 years or more," Keithley told the board. "This is the same proposal that was proposed last year, because we were told that this proposal (an example of possible uses for money from the passing of Prop C) was to be implemented not last year, but the year before.
No action was taken.
Following are other issues the Welfare Committee presented for the board members' consideration Tuesday:
• The need for more technology technicians – at least 4 more – for a total of six.
• The district currently has two personal days and nine sick days every school year, and the personal days roll into sick days. While the teachers appreciate the policy, they say they lost one sick day from the amount they previously had (10 sick days). They would like discussions started for the possibility of granting teachers 12 days they can use as needed, and no longer designated as sick or personal days. Any unused days would then roll over to the next school year into accumulated "sick" days.
• With the week-long spring break being removed from the calendar for the next school year, the SWC would like the possibility of using personal days the day before or the day after a four-day weekend.
• Teachers in this district are continually required to go to several meetings a week either before school or after school. They are concerned that their time is spent in meetings so much that they really don't even have time to evaluate themselves or the data they have collected from their classrooms and use that to better themselves and the students.
• At the high school level, teachers are being asked to cover other teachers' classrooms during their conference period because a substitute was not available. That cuts down on the time teachers can prepare for their classes.
• At the elementary level the classroom teacher has to help supervise recess duty. That shortens the time they get to eat lunch and shortens the time they get to plan for their classes.
• There is a concern regarding which administrator is in charge of certain staff if there are two building administrators in one building. Example: Hart Career Center and Mexico Education Center.
• In regard to compensating teachers who have made the decision to invest their time and lives in the Mexico School District, and who are committed to being in their classroom every day to teach the students. The sick leave policy states that a teacher cannot accumulate more than 100 sick days. The Salary Welfare Committee proposes that the district pay teachers their daily rate for the base salary for any unused sick days that exceed 100 days; pay teachers the certified sub rate for any unused sick days that exceed 100 days; or increase the maximum number of days allowed to accumulate from 100 days to 150-180 days.
Teachers who still want/need to use sick days each year would still be allowed to use them, but the committee said this would give teachers an incentive (once they have accumulated 100 sick days) to be in the classroom. The committee also suggested other incentives that the board could offer for teachers with perfect attendance.
The committee provided solutions for each of the concerns voiced, and thanked the board for its consideration on the salary proposal.


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Peter Jackson, the director of "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, is a chubby sprite with untamed hair and beard who wears Bermuda shorts in December and walks barefoot in the Waldorf-Astoria. His most successful venture before adapting J.R.R. Tolkien's epic was an art-house film.
"If you were entrusting $270 million to someone making three movies, you wouldn't choose me," he said in a recent interview.
Jackson's modesty belies his tenacity. His nearly decadelong odyssey to shepherd "The Lord of the Rings" from book to screen has reached fruition. The first of three installments, "The Fellowship of the Ring," opens Wednesday with the next two to be released around Christmas in 2002 and 2003.
"I do believe a certain obsessiveness is a positive thing when you have to wake up every morning at 6:30 and work till 11 at night and shoot for 274 days and spend eight years of your life on it," Jackson said.
Fueled by the anxiety of knowing his son was off fighting the Nazis, British author Tolkien wrote more than 1,000 pages about a place called Middle-earth. Elves, dwarves, wizards and 3-foot-6 humanoid creatures called hobbits battled for possession of a ring that could make the bearer all-powerful.
The ring falls into the trusted hands of a hobbit named Frodo Baggins, but evil is never far away. "Lord of the Rings" was a hit in Europe in the '50s, then embraced by the counterculture here in the '60s before it gained mass popularity.
"No matter what liberties we took with dialogue and the plot," Jackson said, "we did want to give people the feeling we had gone on location to Middle-earth to shoot the film."
To shape the sword and sorcery into three holiday movies required hubris. Jackson seemed to be of more humble ambition. You could say he was born to make splatter flicks, given his arrival into the world on Halloween in 1961. As a boy, he shot movies with his parents' Super 8, punching holes in the celluloid to simulate gunshots. He displayed his lust for gore in a low-budget science-fiction romp called "Bad Taste," which screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 1987, and he also created the 1991 zombie fest "Braindead" and 1996's "The Frighteners."
But it was the original "King Kong" that turned him on to filmmaking. He pledged to take on the big ape someday. Just when it seemed like it would happen, the studio in charge, Universal, got cold feet because a new "Godzilla" and another gorilla movie, "Mighty Joe Young," were in the works. Jackson regrouped with his special-effects team to come up with another fantasy project.
"We kept saying it has to be like `Lord of the Rings' and we kept talking about `Lord of the Rings' so much, we thought it would be worth making a phone call to find out who had the rights to it," he said.
Jackson's investigation led him to Miramax chief Harvey Weinstein. Weinstein had distributed Jackson's "Heavenly Creatures," for which Jackson's wife, Fran Walsh, had written an Oscar-nominated screenplay about two friends (one of them played by Kate Winslet) who plot to kill one of their mothers. The movie was an art-house hit here, so Weinstein was eager to deal.
But when the studio boss expressed a desire to make just one movie, Jackson balked. The director wanted to make two. Weinstein gave Jackson a month to shop the project around. Only New Line entertained the proposal with one caveat: Because Tolkien wrote three books, why not make three movies?
The 40-year-old Jackson, who grew up near Wellington, New Zealand, believes he won over the studio because he could create out-of-this-world wonder on a down-to-earth budget. "The reality is we make movies in New Zealand for half the price they would cost elsewhere," he said. "If we're living in a world where `Pearl Harbor' costs $150 million, I've got to believe `Fellowship of the Ring' would cost $180 million."
Wearing a purple polo shirt with the shorts, Jackson looked like a hobbit about to play 18 holes at a very liberal country club. But his scruffy exterior houses a capable core.
"I can't imagine anyone else, be it the usual candidates like Lucas or Spielberg, maintaining the focus and having the endurance to get through this," said Viggo Mortensen, who plays the human warrior Aragorn, spending 1½ years on location with Jackson in the forest of Matamata on New Zealand's North Island.
Jackson said the toughest times came working knee-deep in a swamp, with snow on the way and the police hounding his crew to finish up.
"A director has many duties," Jackson said. "One of them is to be calm. In an organization as big as we had with 2,000 people working over a long period of time, if the director started to unravel, the entire thing would fall apart like a house of cards."
Elijah Woods, who plays Frodo Baggins, said Jackson never lost his cool. But not even a spell cast by one of Middle-earth's powerful wizards could ease the filmmaker's self-doubt.
"The fear of failure is one of the most powerful creative forces at work," Jackson said.


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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Age limits, University degrees, Non-native speakers Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Age limits, University degrees, Non-native speakers Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General Europe Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message JozefJoined: 20 May 2004Posts: 14Location: The Baltic Area Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 1:13 pm Post subject: Age limits, University degrees, Non-native speakers Hello, Is there any one who could tell me, whether I would stand a realistic chance of finding employment as an English teacher in Central- or Eastern Europe, after having succesfully having finished the CELTA teacher training. The reasons why I ask this is, that in spite of the continuously rising demand for good English teachers in this part of the World, the requirements that most employers announce in their ads, seem to be quite rigid and strict, more connected to formalities than to true competence. I lack many of these basic requirements, but in spite of that, I would make an excellent teacher, once I would get a job. The problem is, that it's hardly possible for me to convince potential employers of this, for the simple reason that I hardly even get a chance to meet them in person, let alone get a chance to prove myself on the job, let alone get a chance to keep up and improve my competence by actually working. This post-modern system of applying through a home site, which has to be filled in, before one even gets a chance to meet someone in person, has had catastrophic consequences for me. For me, this has resulted in constantly being "deleted" from the applying "crew", even before the true selection was even getting started. To further explain my situation: * The requirement of being a "Native speaker". I am not a native speaker of English. However, I am fluent in English, speak (British English) without any accent (according to British friends), and I am the owner of the "Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency", which I obtained on the highest level (A). Another advantage is , that I know six other languages besides English, several of the spoken in the countries where I would like to teach (Russian, Polish). As I am fluent in German, Dutch/Flemish and Swedish as well, I could even teach these languages, if there would be any need for this. * The requirement of being "young". I am already 44, but still as vital and flexible as many people 10 to 15 years younger than I am. Most of the people who meet me first time can hardly believe it, when they hear about ny age. Another advantage of this is, that I have much more life and work experience, im several fields, than most younger applicants, and that I through life experience have learned to take responsibility on a much deeper level. * The requirements for a BA or MA. As I have not had the chance of studying during my younger years, I do not have a university degree yet. I do, however, have the intelligence for it, and the same intellectual level as many of those BA's, MA's or PhD's. And I am working at accomplishing this it now, since I finally found the chance to study at the adult age of 40. But because of the lack of money, I cannot continue it to the end (practically). Therefore, I would need to find me a job beside, so that I can finish my studies inmy spare time. Another advantage that I have lost of working experience, which many younger applicants with degrees lack. I learned the hard way, which would increase my chances of functioning and coping in new situations. Another advantage that I have, is that I have lived in Eastern Europe before for several years, and I am used to the kind of living and communication there, as well (as I already mentioned), that I know some of the most important languages spoken there. Is there a chance for me of finding a job, with these lacks, but also these qualities? Is there a way to make my advantages and competence visible to potential employers? Is there a way around this "computerised" application system? Thanks a lot for any help, advice or tips any one could give me. With best Regards. 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|2013-03-21, 13:41
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Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
Age: 38
You are rejecting something from my post, but I am not sure which. Is it that America won't invade Iran, or that America can make up an excuse for Iran like what was done 10 years ago?
|2013-03-21, 15:03
|Link #682
Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: UK
Age: 27
He then goes on about a miscommunication between the US and Saddam that could've possibly been a factor into Saddam believing the US would not be harsh on Iraq if they invaded, but it's not the one Ledgem describes. It's the meeting between April Glaspie and Saddam that Lawrence talks about. He describes it as a communication error brought about due to knowledge of particular developments, not because of any cultural miscommunication.
|2013-03-21, 15:25
|Link #683
The Comet has Come
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Republic of California
Age: 41
I think someone once said that diplomacy, on occasion, becomes a comedy of error that can get people killed. It can be funny to see and read about, but people are still dead.
|2013-03-21, 16:14
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temporary safeguard
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Germany
The U.S. should have attached clear instructions to the presentbox of weapons they gave to Saddam.
Instead, it must have been something more like
'Dear Saddam,
Please accept this small token of friendship and go have some fun.
We really don't like Iran.'
He even did them that favor. Not his fault it didn't work out so well. They got help, which is unfair. And then the remaining weapons were just sitting there... to not use them would have been impolite.
I bet he was pretty surprised when the U.S. suddenly went all TsunTsun on him after all his efforts.
|2013-03-21, 16:21
|Link #685
Master of Coin
Join Date: Mar 2008
-He lost Korea to the Japanese (In the sense of influence)
-Betrayed reformers within the Qing Government.
-Trigger the Qing's collapse
-Failed to suppress the boxer rebellion, triggered an massive foreign invasion.
-Murdered first and last democratic elected president.
-And the army he created degenerate into warlord ism after his death.
|2013-03-21, 16:28
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I disagree with you all.
Join Date: Dec 2005
Frankly, when you talk like that, you don't sound pissed that the heads of the USA act like the Lords and Masters of the world, answering to no one - you sound like you completely accept them as such, but are pissed that they don't use their totalitarian powers the way you want them to.
|2013-03-22, 10:05
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Age: 35
|2013-03-29, 13:15
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Join Date: Mar 2008
I wish I could say I was surprised how some of the conservative justices are handling this case but I really can't.
|2013-03-29, 13:28
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: 42° 10' N (Latitude) 87° 33' W (Longitude)
Age: 40
Yea, yea. Gun issue...
But I have a question:
What is the big deal behind opposing universal criminal background checks? Most people support it - across the board: by party, by ownership (or lack of), by anyone. Sure, many of the other proposed measures -- such as limits on gun ammunition clips and bans on "assault rifles" -- are being views are deemed as unpalatable. But universal criminal background checks -- this measure is a no-brainer.
All it is -- just a few minutes of a gun buyer's time to fill in information that can be checked later on. An extremely minor inconvenience.
Yet, it is still not done.
Anyone opposing universal criminal background checks -- I accuse them of wanting criminals and the mentally ill to have access to guns in the first place.
|2013-03-29, 14:37
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Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
background checks are a mix of potential good and potential evil.
good: IF PROPERLY IMPLEMENTED WITH A GOOD DATABASE ... you can circumvent illegal purchases of weapons by domestically violent, felons, mental patients, etc. It is easier to track gun history as part of criminal investigations.
bad: The decisions on who should not have a gun can get "1984ish". What if you have a spouse who is lying that you are abusing her? Divorces can get ugly. What if you're ADHD? What if your political or religious beliefs seem crazy to the deciders?
I'm fine with moderate reasoned gun regulation that has actual results (feel-good laws are not only ineffective but actually often create more havoc) - but for every "gun nut" out there who wants to own weapons they could take on a pack of terrorists with, there's an extremist on the other side who DOES want to take every gun away from everyone known to have one. They're there. It's disingenuous to claim otherwise. We have Senators, Reps, and city officials who say it out loud.
In a way, they have parallels to officials who carve out little squares under the freeway as the only place they will let you can protest, miles from where you need to protest. They prefer "harmony" over freedom - just like the folks who are "harmonizing" Tibet and any part of China where people get pissed off when schools collapse or food is made of poison.
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|2013-03-29, 22:18
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books-eater youkai
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Betweem wisdom and insanity
Roe v. Everyone: States take on abortion
|2013-03-30, 12:13
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2010
Just to chime in on the gun thing.
Here in Illinois, we've had background checks since the Brady thing, and yous get chafed a $2 fee for a phone call to da State Police and they do the check. Then wait 72 hours fer a handgun or 24 for a l
|2013-03-30, 12:17
|Link #696
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2010
Long gun.
Plus your required to have a state ID to purchase called a FOID. So Lincoln's home state has enough checks in its systems.
As for a national background thing, why not let the states do it themselves, no need for Zippy and his minions to get involved.
|2013-03-30, 12:24
|Link #697
Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
Age: 38
|2013-03-30, 13:04
|Link #698
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2010
Dis whole hoopla over "national background checks" is redundant nonsense! There's plenty of laws on da books already that need enforcin.
And why is it nobody is asking said alphabet outfit why they didn't catch these mental misfits befores the heinous acts were done?
We don't need more laws, we needs to have a gov't that will enforce dose on the books already!
|2013-03-30, 13:34
|Link #699
Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
Age: 38
|2013-03-30, 13:45
|Link #700
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2010
So lets make all mental cases a a part if the NCIS database and we can keep the weapons out of there hands.
Why we coddle dese people is beyond me, if they're a danger to society they needs to be "in the system". We do the same wit convicted pedophiles, sexual predators and such, so why not the mental ones to?
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By MITCH WEISS
Associated Press
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Investigators say an unarmed man was shot 10 times by a Charlotte police officer.
Police said Monday that officer Randall Kerrick fired 12 times at 24-year-old Jonathan A. Ferrell early Saturday while responding to a breaking and entering call. 10 of the bullets hit the former Florida A&M University football player.
Officers say Ferrell had been in a car wreck and sought help at a nearby house. A woman called authorities when she didn't recognize the man.
Kerrick has been charged with voluntary manslaughter. He is out on bond and expected in court Tuesday.
Ferrell's mother says she forgives the officer accused of shooting her son and is praying for him, but also says he should have never been hired if he could act so recklessly.
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Editor's Note: Danny Gelsomino is the recipient of the Jay Braida Memorial Golf Open to be held on July 13)
"I will tell you when you are dying." — Dr. L. Horvath, oncologist
Christmas 2011
"Danny, you really need to get that cough checked out."
"I will, Mom, after I get back from New York."
February 2012
"Something's going on, Mom, because my left eye is blurry, and I can't use my right hand. I also have pain in my right leg."
"Danny, call your doctor right away."
"My doctor wants me to have a brain MRI and CT scan."
"Vince, I think our son had a stroke."
"Mom and Dad, you have to come as soon as you can. I have to go to the hospital … There's something seriously wrong."
On Feb. 6, Danny Gelsomino, a Princeton native, began a very unexpected and devastating journey.
"Danny, you have incurable Stage 4 Adenocarcinoma (lung cancer), and the cancer has spread to your spine and your brain," Dr. Horvath said as she calmly explained what her words meant.
Danny's primary physician also confirmed the diagnosis and said Danny's cancer was "all over," and only God knew how long he would live.
No parent should ever have to hear the words that their child has incurable cancer.
Our lives would be forever changed.
Danny' sister, Amy, a long-time nurse, knew the seriousness of Danny's cancer. Phone calls had to be made to family and friends. There was total disbelief.
Danny never questioned God's plan for him but was determined to do everything possible to live and fight his horrific disease because of his children, Kasey, 13, and Nathan, 10.
The days in the hospital and the days that followed were filled with constant fear, countless tears, heart wrenching realities and so many unanswered questions.
How could this happen to Danny … so young and so good?
How could this happen to such a great father whose life revolved around his kids?
How could this happen to a man who worked so hard to provide for his family in a career he loved?
How could this happen to a loving and devoted son and brother?
How could his family and friends face a life without Danny being a part of it?
How could he have lung cancer? Danny never smoked.
Radon, which is a cancer causing radioactive gas, was considered a possible cause because the home he lived in for 11 years had twice the amount of radon when it was tested.
The Surgeon General has warned that radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer in the United States today. Only smoking causes more lung cancer deaths.
Radon is colorless and odorless. It forms naturally from the decay of radioactive elements, such as uranium, which are found at different levels of soil and rock.
However, the cause of his cancer will probably never be determined for sure.
Danny's oncologist had to take a medical leave of absence, so he was assigned to another oncologist, Dr. Linda Ferris.
After extensive testing at Central Dupage Hospital in Winfield, Danny began an aggressive treatment plan.
He had 10 radiation treatments for the tumors in his brain. Hair loss and fatigue were side effects from those treatments.
Following radiation, Danny had two targeted infused chemotherapy treatments.
The treatments caused constant nausea, fatigue, emergency trips to the hospital because of dehydration and a five-day critical hospital stay. At this point in time he weighed 123 pounds and was very weak.
His immune system was constantly compromised, and his white blood cells and red blood cells were consistently below normal. He was always prone to infection.
He had a tooth abscess and had to have a root canal. Due to the fact that his horrific pain was in his head, he had to have another brain MRI before a root canal could be performed. It took five days before the tooth could be treated.
His oncologist determined he could no longer have infused chemotherapy because of the serious negative effects.
Danny continued to worry about his health but was more concerned about what his cancer was doing to his children.
Their lives had changed drastically, too.
Danny was too ill initially to do the things he so enjoyed doing with them like taking long bike rides, playing cards and board games, shooting hoops in the driveway, attending Kasey's Irish dance competitions, attending Nathan's games, going to movies as a family and attending school activities.
The laughter in the Gelsomino household was almost non-existent.
During the summer of 2012, Dr. Ferris recommended Danny take experimental chemo pills which were approved in the winter of 2011.
He began taking two chemo pills a day, and his oncologist finally found an anti-nausea pill to control his constant nausea.
Weekly blood tests, frequent brain MRIs, CT scans and routine doctor appointments became Danny's way of life.
And — day by day, week by week, month by month — Danny's health improved.
According to Dr. Ferris, most of the patients who took the same experimental chemo pills didn't have positive results.
Although Danny's results have been good, he knows the pills can lose their effectiveness at any time, based on current statistics.
Danny firmly believes the power of prayer has also been vital in containing his cancer because so many people have offered prayers on his behalf.
He always has been and continues to be a source of strength for his entire family and friends.
During a routine brain MRI on May 6, another brain tumor was detected.
Danny simply said, "It is what it is."
A team consisting of his oncologist, radiologist and a neurosurgeon determined the tumor needed to be addressed quickly.
Danny had a Stereotactic radiosurgery procedure done on May 14.
Stereotactic radiosurgery is a highly precise form of radiation therapy that focuses high powered X-rays on a small area of the body.
Some types require a frame attached to the scalp. The frame is anchored with pins that go through the surface of the skull.
Following the procedure, Danny said it was the most "overwhelmingly intense" thing he ever experienced.
Danny had a follow-up brain MRI on June 25, and the procedure was successful. The tumor is still there, but it's contained. He will have another MRI in three months.
Danny continues to take one day at a time and is focusing on creating lifetime memories for Kasey and Nathan.
During art class, Nathan had to draw a self portrait. His T-shirt had the words — I Believe.
Nathan believes his dad will win his battle with cancer. His drawing was framed and hangs on a kitchen wall to remind all of us to continue to believe.
Needless to say, however, Danny's journey is ongoing.


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Murdoch's Big Bet Gone Bad: iPad Only Publication Not Engaging Readers Much
from the that-was-tough dept
But what about readers? While the Murdochs have been quiet, the folks over at Nieman Lab put together a nice proxy, in looking at how many people were Tweeting stories from The Daily's iPad app. I'm sure it's not a perfect correlation, but if people were really engaged with the news from The Daily -- which, increasingly, is an important aspect of news communities, you would expected to see this number continue to go up. Instead, as Joshua Benton describes, it's "decline, plateau, decline." Here's the graphical representation:
And, I think, that's the obvious problem the Murdochs always run into with their online efforts. They're good at producing content. They're dreadful at actually engaging with a community. They bought MySpace, but their failure to understand what people there wanted resulted in its rather massive decline. It seems clear, with the Daily, that engagement and interacting were an afterthought. At best, it was a "let them tweet!" sort of discussion, rather than a look at how to actually engage the community in any meaningful way.


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If the clang and clutter of summer superhero movies and action behemoths aren't for you — or even if you just want a break — there are still plenty of options in the months ahead, both at the art house and the far corners of the multiplex.
Which isn't to say that even these movies don't have some of the same features as their louder, bigger cousins. There's the end credits stinger of "Calvary," which instead of teasing a sequel hauntingly shows the locations from the movie without people, or the microbudget action sequence of "Happy Christmas," when a frozen pizza forgotten in the oven sets off smoke alarms and panic.
So even if you're just going to the movies for the air conditioning, don't feel strong-armed into seeing something you won't like. Here are a few choices.
In "Words and Pictures," opening May 23, the art teacher and the English teacher at a New England prep school square off as to which is more evocative in conveying the specifics of human emotion, the written word or the image.
The teachers are played by Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche, their kicky chemistry giving the film an added spark, as the story conveys both their characters' mutual attraction as well as the way in which they are both grappling with where their talents, life choices and fate have landed them. (Binoche did her own painting.)
"I certainly wasn't interested in making just another romcom," said director Fred Schepisi, whose restlessly diverse filmography includes "Roxanne" and "Six Degrees of Separation." "The people are real, the dilemmas are real, their struggles are real, the humor is real and the attraction is real. It's about working out where you're at and finding a way to go forward."
So as a film director who uses the script and the camera, does Schepisi himself have an opinion on words versus pictures?
"As we know, both can be very powerful if used in a powerful way," he said, evading the question with a laugh. "That's why we introduce music at a certain point."
Based on an 1846 novella by Dostoevsky, "The Double" is rooted in the existential anxieties of urbanized life, the fear of being unrecognized or even that someone else is leading a better version of your life.
Opening May 9, the film finds Jesse Eisenberg playing opposite himself as both anonymous office worker Simon James and his newly arrived one-upping colleague James Simon. The two compete for the attention and affection of a young woman in the copy department, played by Mia Wasikowska.
English director and co-writer Richard Ayoade previously made the whimsically melancholy teen romance "Submarine," and though his offbeat, deadpan sensibility provides a through-line, "The Double" is something different.
"The script occasionally read as a more traditional comedy," said Eisenberg, "but when we were filming it, I realized there was something much darker or sadder or terrifying about the world that was being created. Traditional comedy tropes didn't necessarily apply."
Was Eisenberg secretly rooting for one character over the other?
"Simon is right because he is ethical and cares about others," he said. "And James is also correct because James lives in this kind of true animal world of competition and efficiency. They're just living in different contexts."
In "Happy Christmas," filmmaker Joe Swanberg enlisted his own young son Jude to play opposite himself and Melanie Lynskey as a family in Chicago. Their quiet routines are turned upside down by the arrival of the husband's trouble-making younger sister, played with bad-girl zeal by Anna Kendrick.
Opening July 25, the film used as its main location Swanberg's own home, complete with basement Tiki bar. Lynskey found herself somewhat mimicking a real-life dynamic with her character Kelly, who could be seen to be some version of her director's wife, Kris Swanberg, herself a filmmaker too. "I had a few long conversations with her, but I didn't want it to be like I was playing her," said Lynskey.
Even while touching on sibling relationships, maturity and the struggle for women to "have it all" — including an extended conversation on that topic among Lynskey, Kendrick and Lena Dunham — it may be young Jude Swanberg who steals the movie.
"I was very relieved that he liked me," Lynskey said of her young costar, who she was surprised to discover was quite the actor. "He'd do something and you'd think, 'Oh, he's a kid and being cute,' and then it became increasingly apparent to me that he is a performer — he was acting for the camera. He knows."
In an attempt to find the next untapped resource of potential players and fans for the sport of baseball, agent J.B. Bernstein went to India to turn a cricket bowler into a fastball pitcher. In "Million Dollar Arm" Jon Hamm plays Bernstein, with Madhur Mittal and Suraj Sharma as his young protégées. Lake Bell, Aasif Mandvi, Alan Arkin and Bill Paxton also star.
"What I loved in the story, and I didn't know how well it would hold up, was that for the longest time, Jon's character is quite unforgiving and just really motivated by material goals," said director Craig Gillespie. "It's very late in the film when he finally turns. And I wasn't sure how long the audience would put up with that."
Written by Tom McCarthy, the film opens May 16, and its unusual cross-cultural mix of sports, drama, romance and self-discovery may make it less of a surprise to realize that among Gillespie's previous films is the oddball Ryan Gosling sex doll romcom "Lars and the Real Girl."
Just don't think of it as only a sports movie.
"It certainly has that classic sports element, the underdog and wanting to be successful, but it belongs so much to the characters. I don't describe it as a sports movie so much."
"Calvary" opens with a disarming extended close-up of Brendan Gleeson. The actor plays an Irish priest hearing confession who is told by an anonymous man that as revenge for abuse suffered as a boy at the hands of a priest, he will kill Gleeson's character in a week, exactly because he is innocent.
Writer-director John Michael McDonagh, who directed Gleeson in "The Guard," had other shots he could have cut to but found Gleeson so mesmerizing that he just used the shot all on its own.
"Brendan goes from being flippant to realizing the suffering this person is going through to then taking on that he has been threatened," said McDonagh. "There's like a three-act structure to just that opening scene."
The film, opening Aug. 11, also features Chris O'Dowd, Kelly Reilly and M. Emmet Walsh and builds to a climactic showdown. Though McDonagh didn't actually decide which character Gleeson would be confronting until he was well into writing the script. Having purposefully populated the town with an odd assortment of characters, McDonagh had quite a selection to choose from.
"It's like an Agatha Christie movie where every now and again somebody will say something sinister," he said. "It was only when I got to about the last week of writing that I made the decision who it was going to be. I knew what the ending would be but not who the person would be."
Set in New York City in the early 1920s, "The Immigrant" follows a young woman, Ewa Cybulski, as she arrives from Poland. Determined to be reunited with her sister, who is quarantined on arrival, Ewa (Marion Cotillard) finds herself torn between two men, backstage hustler Bruno and traveling magician Orlando (Joaquin Phoenix and Jeremy Renner, respectively).
Opening May 16, the film is rich in period detail, and the production shot on Ellis Island to re-create the experience of arriving in America. Cotillard also spent two months intensely studying Polish for the role.
Marked by heightened emotions that director and co-writer James Gray ("We Own The Night," "Two Lovers") has likened to opera, the story puts Ewa through hardship after hardship as she struggles and conditionally prevails.
"She needs the energy of hope, and she's trying to find it anywhere," said Cotillard. "She's desperate, she has nowhere to go, and she's stuck. But she has the ability to see light in the darkness."
Though the story is drawn partly from his own family history, Gray points out that the story is not so much autobiographical as it is personal, drawn from ideas and feelings that speak deeply to him.
"We're never above the characters," Gray said. "We're never above anybody, no matter how low or bad they seem to us. And nobody is beyond redemption."


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The Vampire Diaries Caption Contest 69Steve Marsi at . Comments
Welcome to the 69th edition of The Vampire Diaries Caption Contest, a Friday tradition!
This week's Caption Contest winner is LuckyBastarda. Congratulations and well done.
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GOOD Music's newest in-house producer 18 year old Kidd Cole for our next Production Rights artist.
TRUE: How did you get into production? What about the process intrigues you?
KC: I've been making beats since I was 12. So, one day when I was in the studio and me and my manager Miguel Melendez came in and told me that someone would be interested in me. That's when he flew me to New York City to meet with Kanye West. I played my beats for Kanye and he actually signed me on the spot. First of all, I had to step out of the room because I couldn't believe that this is actually happening. So, I stepped back in and I literally just cried because I had been through a lot of stuff, so to see my dreams come true is one of the best feelings in my life.
TRUE: Have you been in the studio with the GOOD music crew as a whole? If so, which artists are the easiest and most fun to work with?
KC: I'm actually working on the Hall of Fame album with Big Sean right now. I have also worked with The Renegades, so that's the projet that I am working on with Big Sean right now. Also, I'm working with Teyana Taylor soon as well, so I actually have a lot of stuff that I am working on. I would say that Big Sean is the most fun to work with. He is actually really close to me and he looks at me like a little brother. He's the one that I really can count on a lot.
TRUE: What is the process like when making a beat for GOOD music? How does it differ from when you weren't signed?
KC: The process is like I have to go to my own studio, make the beat, and send it to their email. They look at it and give me feedback and tell me if they like it or not. It takes at least about 3-4 weeks. So, it is a process. They are really fun so for me to be only 18 doing this is incredible.
TRUE: What artist are you most shocked that you have worked with this early in your career?
KC: To be honest I look at all of them as regular people. I am not shocked at all because to me, they are just regular people. For me, I am a very humble kid and I don't get star struck. I call all of them by their real names, I don't call them by their stage names. That is the type of chemistry that we have.
TRUE: Give us more insight on the collective brand MISFITS, how did you hook up with them and what do you do for them?
KC: The Misfits is actually Jaden Smith's clothing line, so we actually have had our clothes on Rip the Runway. I'm actually the fashion coordinator for them. So, really it's for a bunch of kids to express yourself through your clothes. So myself, Jaden Smith, Willow (Smith) we all like to express ourselves through our clothes so that's what we do. I actually do fashion for fun, I like the music side of everything. Music is more fun to me because I just do what I want to do. To be honest, clothes don't make you, it's your personality and character.
TRUE: What is more fulfilling to you, when a big artist likes and chooses a beat of yours or actually hearing your song being played publically?
KC: When I hear the finishing product, it really makes me feel good. I actually tell my mom that I can't believe that I actually produced this song.
TRUE: Have you ever heard one of your tracks and disagreed with the way something was done?
KC: Well with my beats, everybody likes them. No one has ever told me that they didn't like my beats. So, I always get a good thumbs up when I make them. I don't really tell them my feedback because for me to tell them that their verse sucked would hurt me. I think everybody's verses on all my beats are really good. For me to be the youngest person to tell them that I don't like their verse, they would probably look at me strange. I keep my viewpoints to myself sometimes so it is what it is.
TRUE: What is your biggest accomplishment to date?
KC: Actually when I produced for Drake. I produced this song called "Make Daddy Proud" it got mad reviews. So, that's my biggest one. Jaden Smith's "Hello" I actually produced that. So, those 2 songs are the ones that I think are my biggest accomplishments so far.
TRUE: Where do you want to be in 5 years? would you want to get into other aspects of entertainment? What are your goals with music?
KC: My goal is to be the greatest, youngest music producers in the whole entire world. So, I just want to become the greatest and I believe that I will be better than all of them because God blesses us with amazing talents and gifts so I believe with my talent, I can go really far.
TRUE: Who are your top 5 all time producers that you have always looked up to?
KC: I would say Mike Will, Diplo, Young Chop, Key Wane, I like pretty much anyone from the Renegades.
TRUE: How would you describe your sound?
KC: My style actually catches your ear. The way that I make my beats, I try to put my audience through a ride so that they can be able to just nod their heads to the beat. Then, they will understand where I am coming from. I would say that I am like Mike Will, my beats are sort of like his.
TRUE: Is there a certain formula that you use when you are making beats? How do you know when the beat is finished?
KC: I always start off with the 808's and get my drums ready first. Then my melodies. It just varies sometimes. As far as knowing when it is finished, I just let it come to me. When I am done, I let Hitboy or some of my mentors listen to it and tell me their feedback.
TRUE: What projects are you working on for the rest of 2013?
KC: Actually, I am nominated for an NAACP Image Award. There are a couple of concerts that I am going to do. I am actually going to be one of the artists on Jaden Smith's tour. Since I am a senior in high school, my schedule varies. I get my schoolwork done during the week and my music on the weekends. I am also working with Kid Named Breezy on his EP. Then I have a couple of events that I am doing with certain known artists.


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I think the book is really good and I really liked the book because it had to do with Halloween and two dogs, they were on a mysterious adventure in the woods. My favorite part in the book is when Hank got chased by the Trick or Treaters and he got scared. The reason this is my favorite part is because Hank is really funny and he is a scared dog. There is one character that changed in the book and it was Drover because he wasn?t scared any more. Yes, this is like any other book I?ve read because I?ve read other series and it is really interesting if you sit down and read the book.
Yes, I recommend this book for you to read and understand the book if you read from the first to the end. People who like to read the book will be interested in it and if you do not like to read you will be missing out on the best books to read. The story might interest readers that are in the age groups from 4th?6th Grade.


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Just hours before they were scheduled to meet with representatives from four leading phone manufacturers Thursday, two public officials announced they have lined up support from 40 government leaders and scholars urging phone makers to make devices with antitheft features.
Warning about the prevalence of violent robberies involving cellphones, New York Atty. Gen. Eric Schneiderman and San Francisco Dist. Atty. George Gascón have repeatedly called on the tech industry to create phones that would no longer be usable once reported stolen. They plan to meet in New York on Thursday with executives of Apple Inc., Google Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. and Microsoft Corp.
Five other state attorneys general, several district attorneys and professors from universities such as Harvard and Yale have now joined with Schneiderman and Gascón to form the Secure Our Smartphones Initiative. They plan to investigate the criminal, technical and economic aspects of cellphone theft.
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New York Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli also signed onto the initiative, revealing letters he sent this week to the four manufacturers participating in the meeting. In them, DiNapoli said he was concerned that "the continuing publicity surrounding cellphone crime" would hurt the "substantial" and "long-term" investments of New York's pension fund in the companies.
The New York State Common Retirement Fund owns about 817,000 shares of Google stock, about 0.25% of its current market cap. The fund also controls about 0.3% of Apple, 0.3% of Microsoft and 0.06% of Samsung, according to the letter.
Critics have said the companies are disinterested in deterring theft because many victims end up having to buy a new phone. The companies have generally declined to comment on the issue.
Still, Apple announced an improvement to its Find My iPhone feature this week that requires a user to log in before doing anything to a lost device.
Schneiderman said in a statement this week that he would "reserve judgment" on the feature until he learned more about it.
He and Gascón have been asking manufacturers to embed a feature -- free to consumers -- that would work regardless of whether the device is off, has a SIM card or is tampered with by a thief.
"The cellphone industry cannot ignore that smartphone theft is a crime that can be fixed with a technological solution," Gascón said in a statement. "That is why law enforcement leaders across the country are joining us in the Secure Our Smartphones coalition to urge the industry to exercise social responsibility for the safety of our communities."
The coalition includes Delaware Atty. Gen. Beau Biden, Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr and four other Bay Area district attorneys. It does not include any officials from Southern California.
Though the Los Angeles Police Department did not respond to a request for updated data, Gascón has said 30% of all robberies in Los Angeles last year involved a mobile communications device. And Long Beach was ranked last year as the fourth-worst city for cellphone theft, according to data from insurance company Protect Your Bubble.
The coalition says 40% of all robberies in New York involve phones, with nearly 11,500 reported cases of stolen Apple devices in the first nine months of 2012.
More than half of U.S. adults now own a smartphone, but a recent survey by McAfee found that barely 1 in 3 people lock cellphones with a password.
Although the solution proposed by Schneiderman and Gascón may deter some thieves, experts warn that hackers always find ways around safeguards.


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Amherst (Nova Scotia)
Amherst [1] is a city in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia.
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Amherst is just off the Trans-Canada Highway 104, a few kilometers south of the provincial border with New Brunswick. The city is accessed through the following highway exits: LaPlanche St (if coming from the west), Victoria St or Albion St. You can also enter Amherst from the Sunrise Trail (Route 6) to the east, which links to Victoria Street.
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The main streets in Amherst are Albion St, Church St and Victoria St. Church St intersects with Victoria St and Albion St, and both Victoria and Albion St intersect with Highway 104, so you can usually find your way around if you know these three streets. Albion St, where most of the restaurants and shops are, represents up-town. Church St and Victoria St (downtown) have most of the artisan shops, diners and history.
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If you have followed Steven and Chris through their hit television shows, you know their approach to design is more about helping you find your personal style and less about imposing their personal taste. Experienced and charismatic designers, Steven Sabados and Chris Hyndman provide insight into design and help people in pursuit of beautiful living spaces with lighting products ranging from classic ceiling fixtures to modern wall lighting and lamps. Steven and Chris have partnered with the Artcraft Lighting and through that partnership created a classic, yet modern lighting line of outstanding quality. Steven and Chris have become household names, even catching the attention of Oprah Winfrey who featured their work on her show. The duo has taken the world by storm with their programs airing internationally in more than 80 countries.


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Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman
Fourteen-year-year-old Shawn McDaniel suffers from such
severe cerebral palsy that he cannot give the faintest sign
that he is an alert, thoughtful, and intelligent human being
with a powerful memory. Although he cannot even focus his
eyes on his own, he is still happy to be alive. He loves
the taste of smoked oysters and chocolate pudding, the scent
of Comet in the sink, and his mother's hugs.
Shawn begins to believe that his father is planning to kill
him as a way of releasing his suffering and Shawn has no
way of communicating to his father the enormous pleasure
he has in living. The ending is ambiguous, with Shawn and
his father alone in the house.
Much of the power of this novel comes from the author's personal
experiences; his teenaged son also suffers from cerebral
In choosing this text for his students, Mr. Hoonan considered
a number of factors including accessibility, level of interest,
and quality. Although Stuck in Neutral is Trueman's
first book, it has won several awards and is generating a
great deal of positive energy among teen readers.
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New York, NY, January 26, 2012 - HISTORY is set to premiere :30 second national SWAMP PEOPLE spot in the fourth quarter of the upcoming Superbowl XLVI. The announcement was made by Nancy Dubuc, President and General Manager, HISTORY.
The Superbowl commercial will promote and showcase both HISTORY, as well as the third season of its popular series, SWAMP PEOPLE which premieres Thursday, February 9 at 9pm ET.
"This is a great moment for HISTORY," said Ms. Dubuc. "We are currently one of the top brands in the media landscape and the #2 network for men, and SWAMP PEOPLE is one of our most successful shows - Season 2 of SWAMP PEOPLE averaged 4.1 million total viewers, which was a 32% increase over Season 1. This is a great way for Americans to get back into the Swamp of things prior to the new season!"
In This is Your Boss, HISTORY takes viewers into the heart of the Atchafalaya Swamp deep in Louisiana - for a Swamp's Eye view of "just another day at the office" - It's a NO GUTS NO GATOR kind of a place where The Boss has a large set of teeth and won't take No for an answer. The spot launches in the Superbowl, and then media will continue with additional paid placements and on A+E Networks.
Continued Ms. Dubuc: "So much of the HISTORY brand is about America and Making History Every Day - with this spot we want to give viewers that sense - that we are part of the American fabric."
SWAMP PEOPLE explores and celebrates a unique culture far removed from the mainstream of contemporary America. This is a united community that fends for itself and makes a living any way they can in an unpredictable environment. The families of SWAMP PEOPLE battle Father Time, Mother Nature and the challenges of life in and around the murky waters of the Atchafalaya Swamp. They are America's forgotten pioneers.
Season Three of SWAMP PEOPLE follows these intrepid hunters and family men as they head out in pursuit of these most powerful beasts during the 30-day alligator hunting season, regulated by the state of Louisiana.
Season 2 of SWAMP PEOPLE set a record for the program, with 4.1 million Total Viewers.
SWAMP PEOPLE ranks as the #7 ad-supported cable non-fiction series in 2011 to-date among A25-54. Overall, Season 2 of SWAMP PEOPLE averaged 2.1 million Adults 25-54, 2.1 million Adults 18-49, 1.3 million Men 25-54 and 1.3 million Men 18-49. The sophomore season was up +24% among A25-54 and +31% among A18-49 vs. its freshman year. The season 2 finale captured record highs for the show, earning 2.8 million A18-49 and A25-54.
This is Your Boss was created by HISTORY's own On-Air Promotion Department, and the Production Company is The Arsenal Film & Creative.
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We've already ranted a lot about the sorry state of gaming on Linux. However, we were also kind enough to tell you some of the best paid games for Linux. Many of the games were indie games, which are great for casual gamers expecting to kill some time. But, if you are a hardcore gamer who dual boots to Windows solely for the purpose of playing games, there are some nice ways in which you could stop yourself from hitting that dreaded reboot button.
Here are 3 ways to play those coveted Windows game right from your Linux desktop:
Wine is a free and open-source software that lets users run various kinds of Windows applications on Unix-like operating systems. Many users, including some developers often mistake Wine for an emulator. That however, is a longstanding myth within the software community. In fact, Wine stands for 'Wine is not an emulator', thus repudiating any such hollow accusations from the skeptics.
With Wine, users can run all kinds of games including the latest 3D ones without any significant drop in performance. Popular Windows games that run flawlessly on Linux using Wine include blockbuster titles like Final Fantasy XI Online, Guild Wars, Fallout 3.x, Left 4 Dead, Starcraft II and more. You may also see this list: 10 Best Windows Games That Can Be Played on Linux
Apart from running games, Wine can run various types of applications that are available only on Windows platforms. Users can also install popular proprietary software like Adobe Photoshop, iTunes and Steam.
Wine is a project which began its journey in 1993 and since then, it has been hugely popular with the Linux community. According to a survey, there are about 1.5 million currently using Wine. Having said that, Wine suffers from a lot of shortcomings, but thanks to the hard work of the developers they are being overcome one by one.
Installing Wine and playing Games: To install Wine, all you have to do is go to your package manager (eg: Ubuntu Software Center, Synaptic etc.) and search for 'wine'. Once you install wine, installing games isn't much of a problem. Just insert the game CD/DVD and click on 'setup.exe'. If the game is perfectly compatible (you may cross check with Wine DB first), then the rest of the process is exactly the same as on Windows.
PlayonLinux is a graphical front-end for Wine, which aims at simplifying the installation of Windows-based games and applications on Linux. PlayonLinux includes a database of most of the popular Windows applications out there. Whenever you search for particular software, let's say Left 4 Dead, PlayonLinux will automatically download the appropriate Wine version that works best with the game. What's more, it will also install any additional software that's needed for the game or application to work properly. The database is constantly updated and it even includes some of the latest games like Portal 2. Despite the gaming-oriented name of the project, PlayonLinux also helps users install applications like IE 6, Firefox (Windows version), iTunes on Linux, etc. Apart from making things easy for Linux users, the team has also created a Mac counterpart of the software and is titled PlayonMac.
Installing PlayonLinux: Installing PlayonLinux is very simple. Just go to the download page and choose the appropriate file for your distribution.
Crossover Games is part of the Crossover suite of mixed-source applications that enable Linux and Mac users to install and use Windows-based applications. The suite, developed by Codeweavers, consists of modified, proprietary versions of the aforementioned Wine. Apart from acting as a user-friendly front-end to Wine, Crossover Games incorporates various patches and user-friendly configuration tools that makes it appealing to Windows migrants. The suite claims to fully support games like Counter-Strike, Half-Life 2, World of Warcraft, Call of Duty 2, Guild Wars and more. The most impressive thing about this software is that it provides professional support to its users.
Installing/Buying Crossover Games: Crossover Games is already available in the Ubuntu Software Center as a trial version. You can download the trial version, install an application of your choice and then register (buy) the suite online. To download, just go to Ubuntu Software Center and click on the 'For Purchase' tab. Finally, if your inner Stallman doesn't slap your wrist every time you buy proprietary software, the official website can be found HERE.


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PARIS — About the only thing getting between Canadian tennis star Eugenie Bouchard and a berth in the second round of the French Open was the weather.
Bouchard overcame a rain interruption of nearly 90 minutes before finishing off a decisive 6-0, 6-2 win over Israel's Shahar Peer on Tuesday.
The tournament's 18th seed beat Peer for the second time this season and fourth in her career over 58 minutes of actual playing time.
Montreal's Bouchard, the 20-year-old former junior Wimbledon champion, arrived to Roland Garros with her highest career WTA ranking. She moved up to 16th after winning her first WTA title on Saturday, beating Karolina Pliskova in the final of the Nuremberg clay court tournament.
"Today the court was actually a bit slower because of the conditions," said Bouchard. "I find the courts here are generally like fast clay courts, so I like them. It's fine for me.
"I'm confident, but I'm usually always confident and believe in myself, and know whenever I walk on the court I always believe I can win the match. But I'm just trying to take it one week at a time. Last week is last week. I have another tournament this week. That's all I'm focused on."
Bouchard had a 3-1 lead in the second set when the weather turned wet. She won the first seven games of the match against Peer, reaching 4-0 in 13 minutes and polishing off the opener in a brisk 27 minutes.
Peer finally won the third game of the second set but was never a threat.
When the pair returned, Bouchard extended her second-set lead to 4-1 and saved a break point for a 5-2 lead before breaking Peer in the final game to advance on a second match point.
Bouchard next plays the winner of a match between Germany's Julia Goerges and Michelle Larcher de Brito of Portugal.
Later Monday, Toronto native Sharon Fichman's match against sixth seed Jelena Jankovic was suspended due to darkness. The match will resume Tuesday with Fichman leading 7-5, 1-5.
Vancouver's Vasek Pospisil was defeated in his opening match, beaten by 6-4, 6-2, 6-3 by Russian Teymuraz Gabashvili to remain winless at Roland Garros.
The 31st-ranked Canadian, whose season has been compromised by back problems, broke in the third set as his opponent served for the match. But Pospisil lost his own serve a game later and went down on a fourth match point from a backhand wide.
Pospisil ended with six aces and 27 winners but also committed 55 unforced errors as he lost in the Paris first round for a third straight year.
He admitted that he was struggling physically but did not want to go into detail. He said that his problem is "fixable" and that he has plans to play Wimbledon.
"Today was not what I wanted. I don't want to talk about the back," he said. "The back is much better now but there are still some demons I have to face. I wasn't able to focus on the competition today, It a combination of a lot of things — I didn't recognise myself on the court today, that's the disappoinbting part."
Officials began cancelling last matches in late afternoon, with qualifier Aleksandra Wozniak of Blainville, Que., having to wait until Tuesday to play Romanian Sorana Cirstea.


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From Christmas Day to the Baptism of the Lord, we celebrate the joyful season of the birth of Jesus. Gently, quietly and humbly Christ came to earth. In a similar way, he knocks on the door of each of our hearts. Let us welcome him and spread the great gift of God's love throughout this Christmas season.
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Joshua Jay has been busy.
He has performed or lectured in over thirty countries and on national television. He wrote two best-selling books on magic and has been the monthly trick editor for MAGIC magazine for over three years.
He has won numerous national and international magic awards, including the Las Vegas World Seminar. He has completed two sold-out runs of his one-man show, At Home On Stage.
And, as of this moment, he's tipping it all.
Volume 1 - Joshua tips the work on his twelve-minute act, including his Ambitious Card and borrowed ring routines. He's performed this award-winning act all over the world, and now you'll have a peek at the thinking behind it. Also included are performance clips from his acclaimed one-man show, a detailed study of his Discreet Displacement sleight, and a special screening of The Heckler, Joshua's magic-themed short film.
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