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(Pocket-lint) - The Kindle Fire HD 8.9 swells Amazon's UK tablet offering to three devices, with the 8.9 sitting at the top of the pile, at least, in terms of size.
It matches the design of the 7-inch Kindle Fire HD, and in many cases offers the same specs and functionality, with both devices surpassing the original Kindle Fire, which still exists as the cheapest member of the family.
It's designed as an entertainment tablet, taking some of the established experience from Amazon's Kindle eBook readers and pushing it into an LCD device with wider content choices.
It's an Android-based tablet, but it's the Amazon angle that's important, as Amazon's services are deeply integrated into the experience. But does that mean you miss out on the excitement of a more flexible Android tablet, or will the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 meet all your needs?
There's only so much you can do with tablet design and not much of that brings differentiation, not while you keep a conventional approach to things - unlike the Sony Xperia Tablet S for example.
The Kindle Fire HD 8.9 shares the same design as the smaller Fire HD: both are well made with a solid construction, so feel like good-quality devices, even at their competitive prices.
Finished with a tactile back cover, the Kindle Fire HD is a nice tablet to hold, with soft curves and enough bezel to ensure your fingers aren't obscuring the display. Around the back it's just black with a metal dividing back that carries the Kindle name and stereo speaker grills.
It measures 240 x 164 x 8.8mm and weighs 567g. It feels pretty weighty in the hand, a touch lighter than both the Nexus 10 and the iPad with Retina display, although both those devices have slightly larger displays. You'll feel that weight if you're holding the tablet watching a video in bed, for example, which is where the smaller 7-inch, at 395g, has the advantage.
The physical controls and connections are set into the band around the edge. There's the 3.5mm headphone socket, as well as Micro-USB and micro HDMI for connecting to a bigger screen, for example watching those Lovefilm movies.
READ: Amazon Kindle Fire HD (7-inch) review
There's also a volume rocker and standby button which both sit flush with the edge. If you're planning to rest your tablet on one end while you're reading a book or magazine, then the "other" end is clear of all buttons and connections, so you won't turn it off as soon as you plonk it on the table.
One of the highlights of the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 is the display. It has a 1920 x 1200 pixel resolution, which gives you 254ppi. That's lower than the likes of the Nexus 10, but sits pretty close to the iPad with Retina display. Visually, it's a lovely sharp display to look at and HD content looks stunning on it, be that from games, or streamed content from somewhere like Netflix or Lovefilm.
It's an IPS display too with great viewing angles and plenty of punch to colour. It has been designed to reduce glare, using the common lamination technique of reducing the gap between the actual display surface and the touch surface.
The approach works, and setting the Kindle Fire HD next to the Nexus 10, we found the reflections were reduced. However, in the same comparison, it's obvious that the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 doesn't produce the brightest whites, with a slightly yellow hue. In isolation, you might not notice it, but alongside a better display, you will.
We also find it interesting that Amazon is talking about reducing reflection on the Kindle Fire HD, but the user interface predominantly uses a black background, which always emphasise reflections, something that a white or coloured background doesn't.
Hardware and performance
Amazon doesn't flag up the internals of the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 in the same way that other Android manufacturers do. There's a 1.5GHz Texas Instruments OMAP4470 dual-core chipset in the 8.9 and although Amazon doesn't advertise the RAM, it is reported as 770MB from the device.
In reality, it's slower to set about tasks than the Nexus 10 we have on the desk. Opening apps takes longer and even things like returning to the home screen takes longer than it needs to. We noticed a similar situation with the smaller device, as though the Kindle Fire has been designed for a slightly slower pace of life.
But opening up a slow to load app, like Real Racing 3 for example, there's a noticeable difference of about 15 seconds before you get to do anything compared to the Nexus 10. Once in the game, it plays well enough, however navigation of the graphically rich main menu see a lag between finger movement and response, suggesting there might not be enough power, or it's not optimised well enough.
That said, it's far from a poor experience, it's not the fastest tablet out there, but then you have to consider affordability and application. When it comes to something like reading your Kindle books it is slick and smooth. Although the web browser is slower to launch than it could be, it's fast enough to return results.
That's really the important point to consider: it might not be the best choice for gaming or power users, but for many other apps and online activities, it may well fit your needs at a price that's right and at £229 (or £259 for the 32GB model), it's certainly affordable.
READ: Nexus 10 review
There is 16GB of internal storage but there's no expansion slot for your own card. Amazon gives you access to your Amazon Cloud with unlimited online storage, meaning you can backup and restore content from the cloud as you need it, and with the company's run of Android and iOS apps, that might fit conveniently into your cross-device plans.
The battery in the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 will give you about 10 hours of entertainment. That's about typical for this size of tablet and obviously, performance will vary depending on what you do with it. It's worth noting that in the box you only get a USB cable, so you'll need a charger: Amazon's special PowerFast charger will cost you £12.99 and promises faster charging, but you can use any Micro-USB charger.
The Amazonian ecosystem
We've mentioned a couple of times that this is an Android tablet, but that's not the end of the story, as it is a skew on Android completely taken over by Amazon's user interface. That means you get the Amazon way of doing things from the home screen to the settings menu, with barely a hint at Google's platform.
That also means that what you get on the Kindle Fire HD is different from your Android phone or tablet. Although you'll easily find your way around if you're familiar with Android, and many of the apps are the same, the two things effectively exist in different worlds.
That means you don't get Google's apps: there's no native Google Maps or Gmail app. Instead you access apps through Amazon's own curated Amazon Appstore, so it's different from Google Play you might have on an Android smartphone.
However, if you're really keen on getting regular Android apps onto the Kindle Fire HD, you can sideload them and many will run fine. For example, Dropbox isn't in the Appstore, but head to the Dropbox website and there are detailed instructions about how to get the app running on your Kindle Fire.
Instead Amazon offers an experience that's unique to the Kindle Fire. The homepage is a simple timeline of things you've been doing, with large thumbnails. That means, rather than shortcuts or widgets, you can pick up your tablet, scroll back and tap that book you were reading or that website you were on.
It's simple and although it doesn't provide you with much in the way of personalisation, it does bring current content to the fore. Navigation around the device is governed by shortcuts across the top of the display into major content areas, like books, movies and apps. There's a right-hand navigation controller that appears when needed offering search, menu and home, as well as other context-sensitive options.
Swiping down from the top of the display gives you access to the notifications area as well as toggles for the hardware controls - Wi-Fi, brightness and so on - as well as the settings. Overall, it's easy enough to find your way around.
Do you feel entertained?
Out of the box, this is an Amazon experience. Rather than signing in to your Google accounts (which you can do later for email, calendars and contacts), you sign into your Amazon account. Just like the Kindle reading devices, this is linked to your account, so anything you buy will be charged via your Amazon payment options.
Linking into your Amazon account also means that anything "Amazon" you already have, like Kindle books or AmazonMP3 music, is then available to you. Rather than syncing to the device, those content assets sit in the cloud until you draw them down. In the music section, for example, you have a tab for local and a tab for cloud music. You can stream that music or download it for offline play.
We said it of smaller Kindle Fire HD, and the same applies here: the speakers are good for a tablet device. They boast Dolby Digital Plus certification and there's plenty of definition right through the volume range. We'd say they offer the best speaker performance of a tablet and although they are bettered by headphones, the Kindle Fire HD is a great audio performer.
Plugging in headphones gives you a nice balanced delivery for your music, with nice rich bass and plenty of detail (assuming you're using good-quality headphones). There's little in the way of sound control however, and you have to return to the settings menu to toggle Dolby on and off.
With books you get the clever syncing that persists across Amazon devices and apps, meaning you can move between devices and it will sync to the last read point, so long as those devices are connected to the internet.
The reading experience gets some unique extras that you don't get on the Kindle for Android app, and that's the time left to finish the chapter you're reading, derived from your average reading speed, and X-Ray. X-Ray lets you see more about the characters involved in the part of the book you're in.
It's almost useful, not as useful as the equivalent service in videos, that will draw out information from IMDb so you can pull-up details about the actors in the scene.
Videos come courtesy of Lovefilm. There's a reasonable range on offer through Lovefilm Instant, although you need a subscription to the service if you plan to use it beyond the 30-day free trial. However, if you decide not to, there's nothing to can do to change the tab, so you can't have it link to Netflix, for example.
You can also sideload your own files, but they don't get added to the Videos tab. Instead you have to use the "personal videos" app. File format support is limited, but you at least get the option to add your own content from a PC as you wish.
Finally on video, there's no offline option from Lovefilm. That means you'll need a connection to be able to watch the films you're paying for (the same applies to Netflix), so if you want to watch movies on the plane, you'll have to buy them elsewhere and load them on yourself.
Any photos you have in Cloud Drive will also appear on the Kindle Fire HD, ready to view. Using the Cloud Drive app on your smartphone, you can easily have photos you take on your phone appear on your tablet for showing off on the big screen.
There's a lot to like about the Kindle Fire HD 8.9. As a tablet it looks good, both in terms of that display and the simple design. The build is good quality too and the speakers offer really impressive performance, as does the dual Wi-Fi antenna.
As for the experience, it's also easy enough to use, with content being at the forefront. If you're a fan of Kindle, or of Amazon, then the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 might be just the tablet for you. It does just about everything you could want and is competitively priced.
However, if you're an experienced Android user, then you might find yourself better served by a straight Android tablet. Amazon has done a good job of enabling its ecosystem to support other devices, so much of what you find on the Kindle Fire 8.9 you can get elsewhere: Kindle for Android, Amazon Cloud Drive, Amazon MP3. All these apps bring the Kindle to any Android device.
READ: Kindle for Android review
That means that the seemingly unique features of the Kindle Fire HD are reduced to a handful: Lovefilm streaming movies and the X-Ray features. Outside of those, you can get the Amazon experience and all the best of Google from any number of tablets.
We like the Kindle Fire HD, but we still think it sits in the shadow of the better, more flexible tablets out there, but it's hard to argue with the price.


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The Obama administration is calling for an overhaul of college programs that prepare teachers, saying they are cash cows that do a mediocre job of preparing teachers for the classroom.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan called for "revolutionary change" in these programs, which prepare at least 80 percent of the nation's teachers.
In a speech prepared for delivery Thursday, Duncan said he has talked to hundreds of great young teachers while serving as Chicago schools chief and later as President Barack Obama's schools chief. The teachers have two complaints about education schools, he said.
"First, most of them say they did not get the hands-on teacher training about managing the classroom that they needed, especially for high-needs students," he said in the speech to Columbia University's Teachers College.
"And second, they say there were not taught how to use data to improve instruction and boost student learning," Duncan said.
A 2006 report found that three of five education school alumni said their training failed to prepare them to teach, he noted. The report was by Arthur Levine, a former Teachers College president.
Prestigious programs get money
Their large enrollment and low overhead makes education schools cash cows for their universities, Duncan said. But their profits have been diverted to smaller, more prestigious graduate departments such as physics and have not been spent on research and training for would-be teachers, he said.
The government is also to blame, he said. Most states have paper-and-pencil licensing exams that measure basic skills and knowledge but not readiness for the classroom, he said, and local mentoring programs are lacking.
And most states and school districts don't link the performance of teachers to their education schools to identify which programs prepare their teachers and which don't, he said.
"We should be studying and copying the practices of effective teacher preparation programs, and encouraging the lowest-performers to shape up or shut down," he said.
Stimulus tied to achievement
Duncan noted the administration is using stimulus dollars to reward states that tie student achievement data to the education schools where their teachers had credentials. His department also is helping to pay for an expansion of teacher residency programs in high-needs schools.
Timing is crucial, Duncan said. A third of veteran teachers and principals are Baby Boomers who are poised to retire, which could create a million new teaching positions in the next four years, according to the Department of Education.
He noted Obama's goal for America to have more college graduates than any other country by 2020. It's a tall order — only three-quarters of kids graduate from high school, and of those who do, about half go to college.
"But to reach that goal, both our K-12 system and our teacher preparation programs have to get dramatically better," Duncan said.


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Sirius is making a Big Deal out of "bringing boombox back" and "listneing to our subscribers" but this new announcement is complete BS. LiquidTodd has been doing his "Zeros and ones" show on Alt Nation for a while. But now they are just going to call it "Boombox Radio" and think nobody will notice that its just the same old show. Is Todd going to start playing breaks on Alt? Don't hold your breath.
Hoorah for giving Icey a show on the Area channel but that is pretty much the only good news. Karmazan and that clown Zellner must think we will just give up and stop complaining (ooh thanks guys!!) but they are going to get an earful from me. This whole thing stinks. Backspin and the Strobe fans get there channels back but we get a name change and Icey for 60 minutes a week? COME ON.


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Kitchen remodeling is a fantastic way to add value and enjoyment to your home. Not only do kitchen's often serve as mission control for most families, they are also one of the first spots scrutinized by value-hunting homebuyers. While some kitchen remodeling projects can be very expensive, many can be done at a fraction of the cost.
So whether you plan to stay a while or move on soon, a small investment in your kitchen's function and good looks can go a long way toward enriching daily routines and enhancing the overall value of your home. Here are several tips to remodel your kitchen without burning too much cash.
Replace countertops – Including a sparkling new countertop in your kitchen remodeling project make a stylish statement, whether the look is naturally neutral or fashion-forward. There are many countertop materials to choose from. The one you choose will depend on the expanse of countertop area you need to re-cover and the expense you're willing to spare.
Natural stone such as granite is tops for sophisticated good looks and durability. Engineered stone is also a wonderful option with a lower price point. Ceramic tile is a countertop material you can install yourself that can add personality and variety. More countertop options such as solid surfacing, concrete and composites with recycled content provide unique character, color and texture.
Spruce up kitchen cabinets, inside and out – Kitchen cabinets can be replaced, refaced or refinished. If you have well-built wood or laminate kitchen cabinets, refinishing them is the most a cost-effective improvement.
First, do a careful check to make sure that your prep work won't involve sanding through thin kitchen cabinet veneers. Next, start refinishing the cabinets, following the step by step process outlined by the paint manufacturer's instructions. Accessorize refreshed cabinetry with sparkling new kitchen cabinet hardware.
Finally, work inside the kitchen cabinets to make the most of the space you have using specially sized organizers and full-service fittings. Fresh, stable shelf liners will create an easy-clean interior for the cabinet and protect dishes, glassware and serving pieces.
Let in the light – The right lighting can make time spent in the kitchen both useful and pleasurable. Your kitchen remodeling project should include a combination of energy-smart fixtures and day lighting. Track lighting, rope lighting and recessed fixtures will help put work areas in the spotlight, and installation of a tubular skylight can add sunlight in hard to reach places. Also consider replacing a standard over-the sink window with a greenhouse window. You'll get extra illumination while visually extending the space and creating a home for a fresh herb garden.
Freshen up the flooring – Installing new floor during your kitchen remodeling project is another great way to transform your space. There are a lot of reasons to love laminate flooring in particular: it's affordable, simpler than ever to install, available in a range of formats and styles, stands up to moisture challenges, and is easy to clean and maintain. Vinyl tile is another do-it-yourself option, and can be applied to both subtle and dramatic effects.
Kitchen sinks and faucets – Dress up a serviceable sink with a new faucet, and, as you're able, bring appliances up to date. Shop for Water Sense-qualified models, and you'll also reduce your water bills, thanks to technologies that save up to 30 percent on water usage. Adding new ENERGY STAR appliances to your kitchen remodeling project, which use far less energy than older appliances, can also add to the savings. Coordinate appliance finishes and colors for a unified, more subtle kitchen flavor, avoiding strong colors or details that veer too much toward the eclectic.
Walls and Ceilings – Finish off your kitchen remodeling project with a fresh coat of paint or some new wall coverings.Go for a decorative vibe that plays to contemporary tastes and creates a clutter-free work space. Select wall coverings with clean, fresh colors and simple patterns, and remember that windows are best left undressed. Finally, edit countertop collections and wall décor to enhance an open, generous look and create a clear path to culinary enlightenment.


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Update: Symantec Hacked in 2006? Claim Raises More Questions
Symantec now claims that the company's own networks were in fact breached back in 2006, leading to the loss of proprietary product data: "...an investigation into the matter had revealed that the company's networks had indeed been compromised"...
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Update: Hacker to Release Symantec's PCAnywhere Source Code
"YamaTough, spokesperson for the hacktivist group "The Lords of Dharmaraja", informed Infosec Island of plans to release source code for Symantec's PCAnywhere. The release is to be made prior to the threatened exposure of the full source code for the Norton antivirus..."
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Infosec Island was provided with a file by an unidentified hacker going by the handle YamaTough which after preliminary analysis appeared to contain source code for the 2006 version of Symantec's Norton antivirus product.
Infosec Island provided Symantec with the file for analysis, which has now been completed.
Cris Paden, Sr. Manager for Corporate Communications at Symantec emailed Infosec Island editors with the following statement concerning the exposure of source code for the company's Norton antivirus product:
"Symantec can confirm that a segment of its source code has been accessed. Symantec's own network was not breached, but rather that of a third party entity."
"We are still gathering information on the details and are not in a position to provide specifics on the third party involved."
"Presently, we have no indication that the code disclosure impacts the functionality or security of Symantec's solutions. Furthermore, there are no indications that customer information has been impacted or exposed at this time."
"However, Symantec is working to develop remediation process to ensure long-term protection for our customers' information. We will communicate that process once the steps have been finalized."
"Given the early stages of the investigation, we have no further details to disclose at this time but will provide updates as we confirm additional facts."
Though the code is for an older version of the Norton antivirus product, the impact of the exposure is still as of yet undetermined, and several questions remain:
- As the file provided to Infosec Island and passed on to Symantec was merely a sample of the material YamTough claimed to be in possession of, does that mean that code for more recent editions have not been compromised as well?
- What was the "third party" - presumably some entity related to the Indian government - doing in possession of the source code for the Symantec product?
- How much information would source code from 2006 provide to malware authors assuming that the entire product has not been reinvented from scratch since the time this code was produced?
Symantec officials have indicated they will be providing more information as they continue their investigation, and certainly more will be known if the entirety of the compromised data YamaTough claims to be in possession of is finally released to the public as has been threatened.
Stay tuned for more as this story develops into what could be one of the biggest data loss events of 2012, and just less than one week into the new year.
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Pope Francis is first of all a priest. The world is his parish and every single one of us is in the crosshairs of his admonitions to follow Jesus without reservations.
Following Jesus all the way, without holding anything back, is a revolutionary act. People who do it, even the most placid and low-key of them, become revolutionaries themselves. They are God's change agents in a fallen world.
Those who try to follow Jesus part way, who stop when it gets difficult or conflicts with other things they hold dear, are pretty much useless to God. He cannot change the world with partially converted Christians. We are called to follow Him. There are no qualifiers to that command. It is absolute and all-encompassing.
When Pope Francis exhorts us to do just exactly that, he invariably becomes the target of half-converted Christians who have been using a selective view of the Gospels to condemn others and deify themselves. Everybody gets a kick out of it when the Holy Father calls out somebody else about sins we find appalling. But when he does it to us, well, that's, as we say in these parts, meddling.
There has grown up here in America a false theology based on the idea that only a couple of sins — abortion and homosexuality — are truly sinful and anything and everything that has to do with money is outside the concerns of morality. In other words, if you oppose abortion, then you can rob all the banks you want.
This has grown to the point that there is a whole movement of fallen Christians out there who will lecture and hector anyone who has concern about the poor and helpless. They justify themselves and attack others with what are blatantly selective and anti-Christ interpretations of Scripture.
They use this obviously false and self-serving bogus theology to justify helping the rich get richer by transferring the wealth of our nation to them. They take prosperity that belongs to everyone and give it to a few and then proclaim that what they are doing is righteousness before God.
I've lived with this blasphemy for years on my job as a legislator. I've listened as the distorted, self-serving, anti-Christ interpretations of Scripture are flung in people's faces. It is evil right down to the ground.
The idea that opposing abortion and gay marriage politically is the sum total of the Gospels is a sick, sad, anti-Christ interpretation of Scripture invented by political activists for their own purposes. It is, in itself, deeply sinful.
When Pope Francis tells us that we are bound to follow the whole Gospel of Christ, he is telling us the same thing that Dietrich Bonhoeffer said with his famous comments about cheap grace.
Of course Pope Francis is being attacked for speaking out for the poor. Of course he is being reviled for teaching the whole Gospel.
That's what happens to people who stand for Christ and Him crucified. It. Happens. Every. Time.
I've chosen this particular video because it contains excerpts from three of Pope Francis' recent audiences in which he addressed what is the moral plague that is destroying the witness of a good many Christians today. He talks about child labor, the love of money, arms dealing and fear of God.
In my opinion, these things are just a few of the manifestations of one thing: A false Gospel that says that economics cannot be judged by moral beliefs. If that isn't a lack of fear of God in action, I don't know what is.


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Take one look at this graph, and you'll think you recognize the story: Yeah, yeah, yeah, the 1 percent blasts into the stratosphere while the 99 percent languishes in stagnation, moving on...
Simple, right? Except this graph doesn't tell that story, at all. Because you see that languishing green line at the bottom? That's the 1 percent.
Now let's add labels (the income data lives here if you wanna play at home) and voila, you can see this isn't a picture of the rich and the rest. It's the 40-year history of the rich, the truly rich, and the truly filthy stinking rich—the 1 percent, the 0.1 percent, and the 0.01 percent.
Who even are these people—the 1 percent of the 1 percent?
As Tim Noah explained, they're mostly executives and bankers. A 2010 study of the top 0.1 percent found that 61 percent of this group is either a banker or an executive/manager another big corporation. The rest are mostly lawyers (7 percent), doctors (6 percent), and real estate people (4 percent).
How'd they all get so rich? It wasn't the way the rest of us get rich. It wasn't their wages. It was something else.
The richer you are, the more likely your riches come from stocks, not salary. For the three groups graphed above—1 percent, 0.1 percent, and 0.01 percent—capital gains account for 22, 33 and 42 percent (respectively) of their average income. At the very tippy-top of the economy, the 400 richest tax returns analyzed by the IRS take home about 50 percent of their income from capital gains.
Practically all the growth in average income at the top comes from stocks. Between 1992 and 2007, the average salary of a top-400 tax return doubled, but average capital gains haul increased 13X. Wages are for normal people. The richest get richer from their investments.
As Matt O'Brien explained, the incomes of top-earners ride a roller coaster, and that roller coaster is the stock and bond market. Just look at top incomes compared with gyrations in the S&P 500.
As O'Brien concluded:
The rise of the rentiers is nothing new. What is new is the degree of financial globalization and liberalization that has supercharged the fortunes of the super-wealthy even beyond robber baron levels. But it's no mystery how to reverse this. It's a matter of setting better rules for markets and taxing earners at the top a bit more.
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It's no secret that iOS mobile gaming leaves us wanting when it comes to physical controls. Fortunately, at CES 2013, iFrogz is out to fill that void with the Caliber Advantage iPhone case-gone-console. The Caliber Advantage, an iPhone 5 and fifth-generation iPod touch accessory, uses Bluetooth 4.0 to connect to the corresponding enabled application rather than the phone itself. iFrogz mentions that a deal with Epic Games and Chair Entertainment to build the basis for the Caliber software powered by the Unreal Engine is in the works. In fact, later this April the company will host its own developer conference aimed at seriously expanding the platform and hopefully adding support for previously released titles.
Marrying a case with a full-fledged controller certainly adds some bulk, but after handling the prototype, the approximate half inch of added girth honestly didn't incite any ill feelings. The chassis, while clearly heavy on the plastic, felt more sturdy than anticipated, and fairly natural to our hands. As for the buttons? Crisp and responsive, hard though that may be to believe. The unit is set to retail at $70, and curious iOS gamers can feel free to take a closer look in the gallery below.
Kevin Wong contributed to this report.


text: Aliens Jigsaw is a new free online alien jigsaw game. In this terrific game it is given a picture of a two aliens. As in others jigsaw games, you have to shuffle this picture and then you have to try to solve it as fast as you can. To play this game you have to drag the pieces to the right place of the screen with your mouse. You can choose one of four difficulty modes: easy, medium, hard and expert. In the easy level you have to place 12 pieces, in the medium mode you have to place 48 pieces, in the hard mode 108 pieces and in the expert mode you have to place 192 pieces. After you choose the difficulty mode, press shuffle and start playing the game. Try to be very fast because the game is time limited, but also there is an option in the game to disable the time and play relaxed. Also if you have difficulties in solving the jigsaw you can preview the picture while playing. You can turn the music on or off and you can change the mode whenever you want. Use your skills to memorize and to concentrate on the pieces. Play this cool alien jigsaw game and enjoy in your free time!


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A new pair of boots opens up endless possibilities. They can take you down the street, out on the town or around the world in style. Where will you go next?
It's the most wonderful time of the year: boot season! And at Famous Footwear, we want to make sure you have all the styles you need (there are quite a few). Like the low-ankle boots that will match anything you pull out of your closet, and the lace-up boots that give your look a little something extra. The Timberland boots that feel so quintessentially cool and the faux suede boots that keep things warm and cozy. The combat boots you lace up when you're feeling bold and the over-the-knee boots you never thought you could pull off (take it from us: you totally can).
Like the open toe booties (or peep toe booties, if you're feeling sassy) that show off your perfect pedi and the chunky heel booties you'll be able to wear day and night—yep, they're as comfy as they are cute.
Everything you need (and more!) is right at your fingertips. Happy shopping!


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A series of compelling and highly stylized photographs currently on display at Dubai's Gulf Photo Plus captures the veil adorned by women across cultures, from Indian to the Middle East.
El-Tantawy's photos recount her personal experience with the headscarf, which was worn with pride by the strong and feisty women in her family. Meanwhile, her exhibition puts forward an alternative identity for the veil; an aesthetically striking and colourful symbol that transcends cultural differences.
While contemporary Arab artists and activists are inclined to portray a certain sense of intrepid rebellion against the veil, regarding it as a symbol of tyranny and oppression, El-Tantawy's collection steers away from the popular "Why do they hate us?" rhetoric.
Recent examples of artwork that rebels against the veil include; Saudi artist Sarah Abu Abdalla's daring artwork exhibited in October 2012 in Riyadh's first contemporary art gallery, Alaan Artspace, in which she challenges the identity of Saudi women through placing them fully covered in black burqas (loose gowns covering the whole body, with holes for the eyes, worn by Muslim women, particularly in India and Pakistan) against chaotic backgrounds and driving little pink cars. In an exhibition entitled 'Tank Girl,' held in a Cairo gallery last March, Egyptian artist Nadine Hammam exhibited a collection of brightly coloured nude paintings that sought to challenge the confines of Egypt's patriarchal society.
Aliaa Elmahdy's nude photos represent a more direct attack on female identity in Egypt and the Arab world. And of course, the artwork that appeared alongside Mona El-Tahawy's much debated Foreign Policy article, "Why do they hate us?" which depicted a nude woman fully painted in black paint except for her eyes, is also reflective of a tendency to demonise the veil as a symbol of religious and cultural oppression within the Arab world's art scene.
However, in 'The Veil,' which opened 14 January in Dubai, London-based Egyptian photojournalist and artist Laura El-Tantawy, who grew up between Saudi Arabia and Egypt, presents a unique take on the veil. The young artist endeavoured to challenge the typical representation of the veil as a symbol of hate and repression, and instead presents a substitute paradigm that characterizes the headscarf as a beautiful force that could surpass cultural and religious boundaries.
El-Tantawy unveils the motivations behind her artwork in an email interview with Ahram Online.
Ahram Online (AO): 'The Veil' appears to defy stereotypes of the headscarf as an oppressive symbol, and instead offers a new image of the veil as merely a part of Muslim women's wardrobe; was that the purpose of this exhibition?
Laura El-Tantawy (LT): 'The Veil' attempts to showcase the veil as something that is not just limited to Muslim women, which is the stereotype. All the way from India to the Middle East, women have traditionally worn some form of head cover due to tradition or cultural norms, not necessarily religion. Also, Catholic nuns cover their hair.
My series on the veil stems from my own memory of the veil growing up in a moderate Muslim family where the majority of the women adorn a head cover. The women in my family are some of the strongest, independent and strong-willed women I know. I also wanted to show the veil as something feminine, colourful and beautiful.
AO: Much of your photography projects take the form of a journey of discovery, such as 'In the Shadows of the Pyramids,' when in 2005 you started to document the lives of Egyptians and in the process understand your "home." How has your personal perception of the veil changed over the years, and how is it reflected in this project?
LT: I look at it now as something that should not be judged as much as understood. I think people often judge too quickly and don't ask the right questions to understand. This work has helped me do that, especially in realizing that the veil can bring women and cultures together; it doesn't have to divide them.
AO: Some of your photos depict a haze of multi-colour veils, while others capture women covered in black abayas (traditional dresses). Can you describe the technique you used to produce these photos?
LT: It's not much of a technique as it is a style that you can probably see in my work; I take pictures when I feel, not when I see. This is a very important part of the process for me, to make an image that captures an emotion. This does not always work and in some situations the image is just the image, but I know my most successful pictures are ones that convey an emotion, not just show something.
AO: Some of the photos in your exhibition were shot in Egypt and some in India, why did you choose to present a cross-cultural spectacle through 'The Veil?'
LT: Because it was important for me; part of what I wanted to show about the veil is that it crosses cultural and religious boundaries. The West often points a finger at Islam and Muslim women as the only ones who wear a veil. This comes with some perceptions of oppression and lack of independence. The intention behind 'The Veil' is to counter this and present a different argument that perhaps will stimulate people to think about it.
AO: Because of your sophisticated technique, which gives significant texture to each of your photographs, your work appears to subvert realism. Some of your photos resemble snapshots from a dream. Who inspires you in the field of visual arts and photography?
LT: I am inspired by a number of photographers whose work crosses the border between reality and mystery or whose work is very strong compositionally. My favourite photographers and artists are Gueorgui Pinkhassov, Miguel Rio Branco, Michael Ackerman, Rebecca Norris Webb, Alex Webb and Christopher Morris. I also draw a lot of inspiration from music and poetry.
AO: Your portfolio is quite dynamic; it includes a wide range of projects, such as 'In the Shadows of the Pyramids' shot in Egypt, and 'I'll Die For You,' which tackles suicide in rural India. When did you first discover your passion for photography?
LT: I started working with photography immediately after completing my university degree in the United States. I had a dual major in journalism and political science, but fell in love with photography as an artistic form of expression with limitless boundaries. I have been taking pictures since 2002. My work is generally focused on social issues, especially those pertaining to my own background.
'The Veil' runs at Gulf Photo Plus until 18 February
Street 8, Alserkal Ave, Al Quoz, Dubai, UAE
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Tri-State Church Offers Drive-Thru Ashes
Christians Mark Ash Wednesday, Start Of Lent
An Ohio church is offering a drive-thru Ash Wednesday blessing for parishioners pressed for time or reluctant to come inside the church for the Lenten observance.
The Rev. Patricia Anderson Cook of Mt. Healthy United Methodist Church in Mount Healthy offered the ashes Wednesday evening for people of all faiths beginning around 5 p.m. in the church parking lot. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Christian season of Lent, which concludes after 40 days with the celebration of Easter, and the faithful traditionally have a smudged cross drawn on their forehead.
Bridget Spitler, the church's secretary and building manager, said the church had received a lot of positive feedback for offering the drive-thru ashes.
"Some people may not be too comfortable coming in for a serious service," she said, adding that people with severe arthritis or other ailments that make attending the service uncomfortable also appreciate the drive-thru opportunity.
The pastor will provide a church brochure and a Lenten booklet, and the church offers a traditional Ash Wednesday service inside at 7 p.m.
It's a first at her church, but some other churches have also taken more-informal approaches to the ashes. There's even a Web site called Ashes to Go.
The Rev. Teresa K.M. Danieley of St. John's Episcopal Church in St. Louis said the ecumenical effort began in 2007, with ashes given to some 100 passers-by outside a coffeehouse. The practice has spread, with clergy members offering ashes outside commuter trains, at bus stops and on street corners around the country.
"Ashes to Go can be a powerful way for people to encounter Christ where they are, in the midst of their lives," she says on the web site.
Cincinnati Archdiocese spokesman Dan Andriacco said for the Cincinnati region's many Roman Catholics, getting ashes still calls for attending a service.
Some Cincinnati area Catholics might be taking part in another Lenten tradition: McDonald's Filet-O-Fish sandwiches were pioneered in Cincinnati in the early 1960s by a franchisee, the late Lou Groen, who was trying to offset business being lost when Catholics abstained from eating meat on Fridays.


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DescriptionThe war of 1999 left the country of Kookistan in shambles. Naturally, a dictator named General Akhboob took control of the beleagured nation and began creating an army of radioactive mutants. With a virtually impenetrable stronghold, a bunch of hostages, and a legion of mutants under his command, the evil despot will stop at nothing but world domination. Only two men have the courage and idealistic naivete to take on Akhboob and his forces: Captain Carnage and Major Mayhem, also known as the Doomsday Squad.
As Captain Carnage or Major Mayhem, it is up to you or you and a friend (in simultaneous action) to rescue the hostages while shooting hundreds of mutants bent on your destruction. As you walk and run forward, backward, left, right, and diagonally through 20 battlezones of nonstop action, you'll always have your machine gun by your side. Additional weapons which you can find along the way include grenade launchers, rocket launchers, plasma machine guns, flame throwers, spray-fire rifles, defensive blades, and an assortment of bombs.
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German indexOn January 31, 1995, Total Carnage was put on the infamous German index by the BPjS. For more information about what this means and to see a list of games sharing the same fate, take a look here: BPjS/BPjM indexed games.
SNES versionThere are a number of changes in the SNES version:
- All blood was re-coloured green .
- Various gore effects were removed.
- In one cutscene, a soldier who gets eaten by a monster was replaced by a van.
- The variety of hostages was reduced (e.g., no soldiers anymore) and they don't scream for help.
- A few dialogues were changed.
- The look of the first boss was changed and most graphical effects during the fight were removed.
- In the second level, a sequence involving an electric chair was removed.
- During the final boss fight, the whole second phase was removed - the reason is a Hitler reference.
- SPOILER: The end sequence was completely changed. In the SNES version, the villain goes to jail instead on the electric chair.
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After a week of birthdays, it's finally back to boring old me :) (btw, yesterday i called my mum and the whole family was eating outside, without me T_T)
I don't like it when there's not much to do. When there's not much to do, the bed seems like the best place for reading, studying..and....eventually...*Yawnnnnnn*...slee..p..i..n...g...*zzzzzzz*
No wonder some of the more enlightened of people used to curse their beds.
"Their sides forsake their beds, to invoke their Lord in fear and hope, and they spend (charity in Allâh's Cause) out of what We have bestowed on them." (As Sajdah:16)
How do you forsake fluffy duvets and pillows?? Whyyyyyyyy??????? WHYYYYYYYY?????????
Ok, that was a bit overboard.
Lethargy ----> being unproductive ------> futur????
(note: futur = it's a bit complex to define, but basically means something like 'not doing da'wah anymore')
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These brownie bites are chock-full of chocolatey goodness, and bonus: they're gluten-free, vegan and filled with beneficial vitamins, minerals, healthy fats and protein — thanks to superfoods like nuts, dates, raw cacao and coconut.
I know some of you might be wondering how can I give you a dish swimming in cream and cheese one week and then turn around and offer a recipe for what some would consider "earthy, crunchy hippie food" the next. It's because life is about balance. And just because you have to get healthy foods into your diet doesn't mean you have to sacrifice flavor.
To further sell you on these, let's break down the health benefits in the ingredients: Medjool dates have a rich flavor and act as both a natural sweetener and a binder for these brownies. They're used in many raw desserts and are a great replacement for sugar or honey, plus they have high levels of potassium, magnesium, copper and manganese, and are a great source of fiber. Nuts — in this case pecans — are ground up and serve as the "flour" for the brownies. Nuts contain both protein and contain healthy unsaturated fats and omega-6 fatty acids (particularly pecans and walnuts), which aid in the prevention of vascular diseases.
Powdered raw cacao is the pure, ground form of the "meat" of the cacao bean, also known as the "nib." This is the raw form of chocolate before it has been mashed into a paste and melted down. Not only does cacao contain a natural chemical which acts as an aphrodisiac (aka: theobromine), it also has more antioxidant flavonoids (cancer and cardiovascular disease fighters) than any other food, and has up to four times more antioxidants than green tea. As for the coconut, it is rich in fiber, vitamins, minerals and healthy fats.
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$4M for student left in cell for 5 days
"What happened to Daniel Chong should never happen to any human being on the face of the planet."
Daniel Chong, the self-confessed pot smoker who was caught up in a drug sweep last year and nearly died after federal agents inadvertently abandoned him in a holding cell for five days without food or water, is now a millionaire.
Attorney Eugene Iredale announced Tuesday he reached a $4.1 million settlement with the
"What happened to Daniel Chong should never happen to any human being on the face of the planet," Iredale said.
The incident made headlines across the globe and sparked a debate about drug policies in the United States.
In addition to the cash payment, the lawyer said federal officials agreed to adopt new detainee procedures designed to make sure no one is left unwittingly in a holding cell again.
Iredale said he also was told the temporary lockups inside the San Diego office have been equipped with cameras to allow agents to view what happens inside.
The U.S. Department of Justice, which paid the settlement and absorbed all other liability from the local police agencies assisting in the sweep, declined Tuesday to discuss the events or the multimillion-dollar payment.
The harrowing experience for Chong, 25, an engineering major at UC San Diego, began on a Friday night in 2012, when he admittedly went to some friends' house in University City to celebrate April 20, a special date for marijuana users.
Chong didn't know it at the time, but the home had been under surveillance by a federal narcotics task force.
Drug agents executed a search warrant early in the morning of April 21, Among other things, they found 18,000 ecstasy pills, marijuana and several weapons in the residence, according to court papers.
The agents also found Chong sleeping on a couch in the front room and transported him and six others to the San Diego field office of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration for follow-up interviews.
Chong said he answered all of the agents' questions and they agreed to send him home without criminal charges. But instead he was returned to a temporary holding cell, where he spent the next four days without food or water. During the final two days of the ordeal, Chong was in complete darkness, he said.
He has said he became delirious, drank his own urine, ate the broken shards of his glasses and used the glass to cut the message "sorry mom" in his own forearm.
He said he kicked the door and screamed for help but agents never came to his assistance. DEA agents admitted later they "accidentally" left Chong in the cell and took the unusual step of apologizing publicly to the
"When they finally opened the door, I was happy," Chong said Tuesday. "I thought maybe they were going to take me to a mental ward. I was screaming."
Chong spent five days at Sharp Memorial Hospital in Kearny Mesa before he was able to return home.
Although his lawyer said Chong still suffers from post-traumatic stress, Chong indicated he is doing better overall.
"I'm pretty much recovered by now," he said. "My kidneys are doing well. I can't assume it was deliberate. I think it was what it sounded like — a really horrible accident."
Also, Chong said, he has changed his major — to economics.
According to Iredale, the $4.1 million payout is not taxable. Under existing law, he also said, attorney fees are capped at 20 percent, so Chong will keep $3.28 million.
Asked what he will do with the money, Chong said, "The given is buying a home for my family, but after that I'll put it away."
Findings of an investigation of the case by the Office of the Inspector General's Office of the U.S. Department of Justice have not been released.
Iredale said federal investigators told him they do not plan to pursue criminal charges against any of the agents involved in the task force. Iredale singled out for the first time a San Diego Police Department officer who was the last person to see Chong before the cell was locked.
"We'll be back in a few minutes," Iredale quoted the officer as telling Chong.
Iredale said the federal government is stepping forward "to cover the malefactions of the San Diego Police Department."
A San Diego Police Department spokesman said the officer was under the command of the DEA at the time of the incident and declined to comment.
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I have a macbook pro 2007 . 4gb of ram 320gb. i bought this macbook off eBay over the summer. it came with leopard , 2 months later then i upgrade to snow leopard, then to mountain lion. i currently have mountain lion 10.8.2 . the screen is kind of flickers and i don't know if its the graphics card or its just the screen. but one day i was using my computer and all of sudden it just turns gray and the screen starts flickering and it just kept going. i don't think its the screen because this flickering shuts down my computer and kernel panics comes up . when you restart it the computer, the apple logo that comes up looks like it has spots on it but doesn't boot. it stays and it freezes and restarts my computer. what to do ?
It very well may be the graphics card in your MacBook Pro. Apparently during the manufacturing process (of this generation) too much thermal paste was applied to the heatsink on the GPU, thus cooking it. If this is the case for you, Apple might replace it or reimburse you for repair, if they are still doing this.
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Judge Overturns Ruling, Says Baby Can Keep Name 'Messiah'
A Tennessee judge has ruled in favor of parents who want their 8-month-old baby to be named "Messiah."
At a paternity hearing last month, child support magistrate Lu Ann Ballew was asked to decide Messiah Deshawn Martin's surname.
She ended up changing the baby's first name as well, saying that Messiah was a title reserved for Jesus Christ.
That decision quickly made international news.
On Wednesday, Chancellor Telford E. Forgety Jr. overturned that decision, ruling that the lower court acted unconstitutionally. He said the lower court violated the establishment clause of the U.S. Constitution.
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Concert Industry May Be A Bust This SummerFebruary 3, 2009
There are already signs that 2009 will be a tough year for live music promoters.
For the last decade, the music industry has countered declining profits from album sales by raising the prices of concert tickets. The average price of a ticket to the top 100 acts rose a stunning 8.4% last year, according to Gary Bongiovanni, the editor in chief of Pollstar, a box office trade magazine.
"That's not a prescription for a healthy business," he says, "but that's what we've been doing.
One month into 2009, the good times may be over.
Coachella, the annual rock festival near Palm Springs, Calif. produced by AEG Worldwide, recently announced it would offer a layaway plan for fans who want to spread out the $269 it will cost for a three-day pass. Like a department store pushing hard to sell furniture, the festival will let fans pay half now and the rest by April 1, or put 10% down with equal installments of $121.05 in March and April.
The business model has worked for StageCoach, the country companion to Coachella. Layaway tickets made up a quarter of all sales, promoters say.
Other festivals that offer layaway plans include the All Points West Festival in New Jersey, the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Tennessee, and the Rothbury Festival in Michigan.
None of it bodes well for the live music industry. Even if customers are able to purchase tickets, they may not be able to purchase high-margin items like beer and T-shirts at the venue. For example, Live Nation (nyse: LYV – news – people ), the world's largest promoter, loses 4% on each ticket sold, but makes 43% of its overall revenue from extra charges like parking and food.
That puts the company in a precarious place, analysts say. "Tickets are a luxury item that people cut back on," said Alan Gould, an analyst at Natixis Bleichroeder in New York. David Kerstenbaum, an analyst at Morgan Joseph, agreed, saying, "The company is going to have to be very careful about its price points. They won't be able to raise prices as much as they probably would have liked."
Live Nation maintains customers are continuing to buy tickets because their typical consumer goes to just one or two concerts a year. The company says they saw little difference in ticket sales between 2007 and 2008, when the recession kicked in.
Artists, meanwhile, may be hit especially hard by any dip in ticket sales or prices. The upper tier of performers make 7.5 times more money from touring than from recorded music sales, according to a study by Marie Connolly and Alan B. Krueger at Princeton University.
Musicians have leeway in setting ticket prices but are often reluctant to cut prices. "They think 'Well, so and so got that much, so I'm worth
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ATLANTA, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Jason Heyward's clutch hit gave Atlanta a late three-run lead Friday and the Braves held on to even their playoff series with a 4-3 win over Los Angeles.
Craig Kimbrel came on to record a four-out save after the Dodgers had inched within a run in the eighth, allowing the Braves to deadlock the National League Division Series at 1-1.
The series resumes on Sunday in Los Angeles, where the Dodgers won 47 times this season. Atlanta was the only team to make the playoffs this year with a losing road record.
After scoring only one run in a series-opening loss to the Dodgers, Atlanta scratched out two runs in four innings against Zack Greinke to take the lead.
Andrelton Simmons had an RBI double in the second to overcome an early Los Angeles lead and Chris Johnson singled home another run in the fourth.
Atlanta still had a 2-1 cushion in the seventh, an inning in which the Braves loaded the bases with two away. After Reed Johnson was walked intentionally to get to Heyward, the Atlanta leadoff hitter singled to center to bring home two runs.
Mike Minor allowed a lone run on eight hits over 6 1/3 innings to get the win, but the Braves' David Carpenter walked Mark Ellis to open the eighth and Hanley Ramirez homered to cut the Dodgers' deficit to a single run.
Carpenter then struck out two batters before giving way to Kimbrel, who tied Baltimore's Jim Johnson for the major league lead in saves this season with 50.
Kimbrel got Juan Uribe on a ground out to end the eighth and then gave up a one-out walk to A.J. Ellis in the ninth. Ellis, however, was thrown out trying to steal second. Kimbrel issued another walk to Andre Ethier before striking out Carl Crawford to end the game.


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Arresting new show captures criminals in a whole new way!
LOS ANGELES, CA � How do you bring some of America's most elusive criminals to justice? Audiences will get hilarious answers to that question on the new Fox Reality Channel original series "Smile, You're Under Arrest!" premiering Saturday, December 27, at 7pET/4pPT. The only all-reality, all-the-time cable and satellite network brings a three-part series, featuring real-life sting operations that combine criminal justice with elaborate improvisational scenarios
In this innovative reality show, a talented team of comic actors set up elaborate scenarios to lure wanted felons � with outstanding warrants ranging from DUI's to drug charges � out of hiding. These sting operations include opportunities for felons to work as an extra on a movie set and as a model in a fashion shoot, among others. Once the trap is set and the actors have had their fun with the unsuspecting criminals, police officers arrest and haul them off to jail.
"Since the early days of television, shows like �Candid Camera' and more recently �Punk'd' have let America laugh at elaborately staged pranks and other �gotcha' moments," said Bob Boden, SVP Production, Programming and Development, Fox Reality Channel. "'Smile... You're Under Arrest!' follows in the tradition of these popular shows. However, it is the first to present these never-before-seen tactics that have been used by law enforcement agencies for years to capture wanted criminals."
All of the cases featured in "Smile... You're Under Arrest!" involve the Maricopa County Sheriff's Department outside of Phoenix, AZ under the command of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who is known as "The Toughest Sheriff in America." He has a reputation for unusual law enforcement tactics such as reinstituting chain gangs, housing prisoners in a desert "tent city" and forcing them to wear pink underwear. Arpaio believes that these stings provide a unique service to his community.
"Because we give higher priority to capturing murderers, robbers and other violent offenders, we don't always have the resources to track down criminals with outstanding warrants for drug and alcohol-related cases," said Arpaio. "Employing the surprise sting operations featured in �Smile... You're Under Arrest!' enabled us to capture multiple criminals all at once, with a lower cost to taxpayers. It also demonstrated that criminals are usually not the smartest people."
"Smile... You're Under Arrest!" is produced by Scott Satin, creator of such successful shows as "Most Outrageous Moments" for NBC and "Who Wants to Be a Superhero?" for Sci-Fi Channel.
Scott Satin is a seasoned television writer, executive producer and director with major credits spanning over 20 years. He created the NBC franchise, "Most Outrageous Moments." Recently he also created with Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee, the Sci-Fi Channel hit "Who Wants to Be a Superhero?" Satin has executive produced and written numerous reality, game and talk shows, including "Outback Jack" for TBS., and Meet My Folks and Who Wants to Marry My Dad for NBC. A
graduate of the University of Southern California, Satin also wrote and produced over 150 live episodes of an updated version of the Gong Show titled "Extreme Gong" which aired on GSN.
Joel Friedman and Jeff Fisher, known together professionally as FriedFish, have been working as a team for more than 20 years. Friends since their college days, the pair have jointly written, directed and produced numerous successful television projects for all the major networks covering a vast range of genres, such as talk shows ("Donny and Marie", "The People vs. Bill Weir"), kid shows ("The Nick Cannon Show") hidden camera comedies ("When Hidden Cameras Attack!" "Outrageous Celebrity Look-Alike Behavior: Caught on Tape") single camera comedies ("The Ralphie and Lana Show", "Van Stone", "The Tenderloins") and comedy hybrids ("The Dave Sheridan Show" and "Faking the Band"). Additionally, they are the creative minds behind the highly successful Carl's Jr. / Hardee's hidden camera campaign that premiered nationally this past year and is still running all over the country. Joel and Jeff continue to search out and create innovative media projects for anyone who will ask nicely.
Fox Reality Channel launched in May 2005, to become the premier destination for lovers of unscripted programming. Fox Reality Channel is the only all-reality, all-the-time cable network featuring compelling original programming, never-before-seen U.S. premieres of international reality hits, and network favorites. Fox Reality Channel is available in nearly 50 million homes and can be accessed via broadband, mobile devices and other digital platforms such as iTunes� and Hulu. For more information on Fox Reality Channel programs and schedules, please visit foxreality.com.


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A cyber charter school in Chinatown has a kosher kitchen and teaches Hebrew to a diverse group of students, none of whom is Jewish.
Abdullah Muhammad, a 16-year-old from the Germantown section of Philadelphia, never imagined he'd be studying Hebrew in high school.
When he transferred to the new Solomon Charter School in the Chinatown section of Philadelphia last fall, he was hoping to learn Chinese. But he was told that all of those classes were full and he'd have to take the only other foreign language offered — Hebrew.
Solomon, which opened in September, offers a rare Yin and Yang of Hebrew and Chinese and embodies a fairly new educational model: It's part cyber school and part bricks-and-mortar academy.
Solomon is believed to be the only public school in the region currently offering Hebrew. In the past, it has been offered in the Philadelphia school district, Lower Merion High School and several other suburban schools.
What it doesn't have —which may appear odd for a school with a kosher kitchen, a Hebrew curriculum and an early closing on Friday afternoon for Shabbat — are any Jewish students.
Not being Jewish is one thing the 40 students enrolled in the school's four Hebrew classes — as well as all 150 students in the school — have in common. Beyond that, they represent an array of ethnic and religious backgrounds.
When asked what it was like to be a Muslim studying Hebrew, Muhammad, a sophomore, didn't delve into the connection between ancient languages and peoples or the modern Arab-Israel conflict. He said that his knowledge of Arabic, which also reads from right to left, has made his transition to Hebrew fairly seamless. He has a 93 average so far.
"The letters are similar," said Muhammad, an African-American who has also learned Portuguese during a summer program and says he hopes his study of multiple languages will look good on his future college applications.
Saundra Epstein, Solomon's chief academic officer, said that, despite efforts to reach out to the Jewish community, so far at least, "the Jewish community has not gotten behind the school."
She attributed this in part to what she termed the "false start" the project got off to three years ago.
That's when local businessman Stephen Crane, Solomon's founder and CEO, first proposed a Hebrew-language charter and pitched the idea throughout the Jewish community. He even held several meetings with prospective Russian-speaking parents at a kosher restaurant in Northeast Philadelphia.
But when the school, which at that point had planned to partner with an existing charter school, didn't get off the ground, Epstein said, many of the parents who seemed interested at the time simply moved on.
Crane and Epstein went back to the drawing board and reimagined what their potential school would look like. Initially, it was modeled after a number of Hebrew-language charter schools that have opened over the past several years in several states.
But they moved instead to a model that focuses on culture as well as language and also incudes Chinese, and possibly soon, Vietnamese and Hindi. Epstein said Solomon is still looking to attract Jews in the future. The food in the cafeteria is kosher — which works for Muslim students who need to eat Halal food — and school ends at 1 p.m. on Friday, which is, in part, a nod to the several Orthodox Jews on the faculty and also represents a hope that it might be relevant to prospective Jewish students. Epstein said she also likes the idea of closing early on Friday because students have trouble focusing once Friday afternoon rolls around.
Currently, Solomon goes from 7th grade to 10th grade, but the Pennsylvania Department of Education has approved Solomon to operate a K-12 institution. Plans are in the works to expand to elementary school next year.
Epstein said they decided to start with 7th grade because they wanted "to do leadership training from the beginning."
"Think of the scouting model where each group of older students mentors younger students. This is what we want to build," Epstein said.
Last spring, the Pennsylvania Department of Education approved Solomon as one of four new cyber charter schools statewide. As of now, just 26 of the150 students are full-time distance learners.
Each student, whether studying on site or off, gets an iPad, and most assignments are turned in electronically. Muhammad and several classmates lamented that their iPads are blocked, so that they can only use the devices for schoolwork, rather than playing games or watching movies.
Epstein said the cyber option allows students with learning or physical disabilities the chance to be part of a wider community of learners, to say nothing of those who live far from school but are interested in the curriculum. The hope for the future is to host a video link so students can take part in classes in real time.
Currently, the Pennsylvania State Senate is taking a closer look at cyber charter school funding and performance. Last year, State Auditor General Jack Wagner called for a moratorium on the approval of new cyber charters until a comprehensive review had been done.
State Sen. Andrew Dinniman, a Democrat from Chester County who sits on the Senate's education committee, said he has "questions in terms of how we guarantee the intellectual integrity, the academic depth of cyber charters as well as how we adequately review the financial cost of cyber charters."
According to Dinniman, graduation rates at cybers are 60 percent, compared to 80 percent for charter schools and 84 percent for regular public schools.
Epstein said it's unfair to compare Solomon to other cyber schools since it offers a much newer concept of a blended education.
"You really have to be present," said Epstein, meaning that distance learners can't get away without doing work because they constantly have to check in and complete assignments. "Does it work all the time? No. But you could say that about any school."
She said the school has a mix of gifted students and those who had previous disciplinary problems or issues learning in other settings.
One student who had disciplinary problems in the past, 14-year-old Joseph Fugarino, of South Philadelphia, said he gets to school early every day because he feels at home there.
Learning the Hebrew alphabet, he said, has proved difficult, but his teacher, Yael Sandler, said he has made great strides.
On a recent Friday morning, Sandler, who heads the Hebrew department — a department of one — strolled the hallway as students were between classes. As groups of African-American and Asian students walked by, she greeted them with "Shalom" or "Ma Nishmah?" which is Hebrew for "How are you?" Some of the students didn't answer while others said, "Beseder," which roughly translates to "OK."
Sandler said she never expected to be teaching Hebrew to non-Jewish students, but finds the experience rewarding. Her classroom is plastered with the Israeli flag and pictures of modern Israel. Hebrew versions of children's books like Goodnight Moon are stacked near her desk.
She's taught lessons about the recent Israeli elections, how Israelis celebrate Purim and showed students how to make a marshmallow dessert from Israel called kremba. The class recently celebrated the 155th birthday of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, who is credited with inventing modern Hebrew.
"I don't focus on the Bible. I focus on Tel Aviv as a modern metropolis," she said. "This is a fantastic opportunity to educate people about another culture."


text: Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - How do you spend on X'mas and New year day? Dave's ESL Cafe's Student 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 How do you spend on X'mas and New year day? Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Culture View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message yurikoJoined: 19 Jun 2003Posts: 2Location: Japan Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2003 3:57 pm Post subject: How do you spend on X'mas and New year day? Althout X'mas and New year day will be soon, how do you spend on X'mas and New year day? I want to know about how your countries.By the way, many Japanese people will spend on X'mas with girl and boy friend and spend on New year day with family. And I will do too.Please teach me your plan!!! Back to top river1974Joined: 20 May 2003Posts: 525Location: Taiwan Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2003 5:38 pm Post subject: Christmas has already been past when I post this reply. This year, I didn't go out on Christmas day because it hadn't been a national holiday anymore here in Taiwan. That's why I didn't go out on Christmas Eve because I had to work on December 25. Christmas would possess no meanings for me if it is not a national holiday, since I'm not a Christian. But, I really like Christmas music very much. Christmas music has a kind of magic power that could comfort an uneasy heart. Every time I hear Christmas music, I could always feel relaxed and peaceful. And that's why I still like Christmas. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Culture All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Student Forums----------------ComputersCurrent NewsCultureEnglish SchoolsFamilyFilm and CinemaFoodHealth and FitnessHelp CenterHobbiesHolidaysLearning EnglishLiteratureMaking FriendsMusicOpinionsPetsScienceSportsThe Strange and MysteriousTOEFL and Other English ExamsTravel You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Dave's ESL Cafe is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Banner Advertising | Bookstore / Alta Books | FAQs | Articles | Interview with Dave Copyright © 2018 Dave's ESL Cafe | All Rights Reserved | Contact Dave's ESL Cafe | Site Map Teachers College, Columbia University: Train to Teach English Here or Abroad Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group


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What you need to know before you go
Laos is a mountainous country with a rich history that stretches back 10,000 years. With Buddhism as its main religion, there are hundreds of Buddhist monasteries, temples and stupas in just about every city in Laos, with the most popular ones scattered across Luang Prabang.
This Southeast Asian country also attracts travelers looking to take it slow and enjoy a relaxing view of mountains and untamed natural beauty. If you're an adventurer at heart, Laos' lush jungles are home to miles of scenic trails, underground river caves, and waterfalls. A vacation in Laos is always full of surprises, spirituality, generous hospitality, and of course, breathtaking photo opportunities.
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Vientiane, located on the north-eastern bank of the Mekong, serves as the capital of Laos. It has a relaxing atmosphere you won't find in many capitals across the world – many travelers enjoy a relaxing riverside break with a cold beer and sunset views over the Mekong.
Vientiane also has a diverse range of hotels, restaurants, and cafes, some of which occupying French-style villas dating back to colonial times. The city has plenty of Buddhist temples that serve the local community – you'll see devotees offering gifts and getting blessed by monks year-round. If you're traveling to the Lao capital for the first time, check out this guide on everything you need to know about Vientiane.Read more
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In ancient mythology, salamanders could withstand fire. In modern times, though, just a small warming has been enough to dramatically change them—and perhaps threaten their future. Salamanders in the southern Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia have gotten smaller over the past 50 years due to increasing temperatures in their habitats, a new study has concluded. It's the first confirmation that climate change can alter body size, a connection that had only been hypothesized in the past, and one of the fastest studied responses to changing temperatures on record.
"This is helping us understand yet another way in which climate change could play out," says ecologist Michael Adams of the U.S. Geological Survey in Corvallis, Oregon, who was not involved in the new work. "In this case, we're learning how it can change the life history of an organism."
Over the past decade, scientists have documented several population declines in amphibians, including salamanders. But the causes of these declines have been hard to work out; some are due to disease, others to habitat loss or invasive species. Karen Lips, a biologist at the University of Maryland, College Park, wanted to determine what was behind dropping numbers of Plethodontidae, or lungless salamanders, across the eastern United States. The Appalachians are home to more salamander species than any place on Earth, many unique to the area. The Plethodontidae, the most numerous, represent a large and diverse family of salamanders that all respire through their skin. The salamanders play a key role in the ecosystems of the mountains, consuming insects that are too tiny for most other vertebrates.
Lips and her colleagues analyzed more than 9000 salamanders from a dozen different Plethodontidae species, some from museum specimens collected as early as 1950 and others from 85 current locations across the southern Appalachians. Although they didn't find widespread evidence of disease, they did notice another trend: The salamanders had gotten smaller. Salamanders collected after 1980 were 8% smaller than those from decades past. The trend was most significant in places that had seen the largest shifts in climate during that time: low elevations with an increase in temperature and a decrease in rain, the team reports online today in Global Change Biology. On average, the salamanders shrunk by 1% per generation.
Lungless salamanders, Lips explains, are highly sensitive to changes in their surrounding environment because of the way they breathe through their skin. When the temperature rises, their body speeds up. Using computer modeling, Lips' collaborators showed that temperature increases in the areas of the Appalachians that have warmed over the past 50 years could speed the salamanders' metabolisms by more than 7%.
Lips' team hasn't yet confirmed the mechanism by which the change in body size has occurred, although she hypothesizes that it's driven by the salamanders' metabolisms. "If it's a little bit warmer, the animal is going to burn through its calories much faster," Lips says. If availability of extra calories or extra time to forage is limited, the salamanders will grow to a smaller adult size due to this increased calorie burn. And smaller salamanders, she says, lay fewer eggs and are more susceptible to predators. "In general, bigger is better for these guys," Lips says.
The scientists haven't yet confirmed that the salamanders' smaller size is behind the documented population declines, though they are confident that climate change is what's driving the shrinkage in body size.
Joseph Milanovich, an ecologist at Loyola University Chicago in Illinois, says that an ability to alter their body size could be what has allowed salamanders to survive previous temperature fluctuations. "These organisms have been on Earth for hundreds of millions of years," he notes. "They've been through climate warming and cooling cycles before." So the flexibility to alter their metabolism and body size may be an adaptation that's arisen throughout these cycles. But that doesn't mean that their current decrease in size will allow them to survive the faster pace of climate change that's occurring now, Milanovich says.
Lips and her colleagues next plan to study how the change in body size affects the lungless salamanders' interactions with each other and other species. The change in size, she says, could have broader effects on the Appalachian forest habitats they live in due to their key role in the food chain.
"These guys are really important in the food web of the forest," Lips says. "They are extremely abundant and they play an important role in nutrient cycling by eating bugs and converting those into food for birds and mammals." So understanding how salamanders respond to climate change is likely one piece of the larger story of how entire ecosystems respond, she says.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will propose overhauling the U.S. mortgage finance system in a speech on Tuesday, weighing in on a tangled and polarizing problem that was central to the devastating financial crisis in 2007-2009 and that continues to slow the economic recovery, the White House said.
Obama will propose eliminating mortgage finance entities Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac over time, replacing them with a system in which the private market buys home loans from lenders and repackages them as securities for investors, senior administration officials said. The mortgage securitization process is deemed essential to the smooth flow of capital to housing markets and the availability of credit.
The government's role would be relegated to providing some form of insurance or guarantee, and to providing oversight, according to officials and a White House statement.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, originally chartered by Congress to expand mortgage finance, were taken over by the government in 2008 amid mounting losses in the financial crisis. Propping them up cost taxpayers $187.5 billion, although the firms have now returned to profitability.
"We have to end Fannie and Freddie going forward and replace them with a commitment to the notion that private capital must be wiped out before the government pays on any form of catastrophic guarantee or reinsurance," a senior administration official told reporters.
The departments of Treasury and Housing and Urban Development have been working on an outline for housing finance reform. They outlined several options in a white paper to Congress in 2011.
After plunges in home values that wiped out an estimated $7 trillion in homeowner equity and wrecked many Americans' finances, housing markets are staging a modest recovery. Obama, as part of a series of speeches pushing for steps to boost tepid economic growth, is focusing on housing issues in a speech in Phoenix, Arizona, in one of the regions hardest hit by the housing bust.
The president generally agrees with the bipartisan Senate proposal that would replace Fannie and Freddie with a system that would allow private firms to securitize mortgages, a senior administration official told reporters in a conference call. A government reinsurer of mortgage securities could backstop private capital in a crisis, the official said.
Obama would want the Senate measure to go farther in helping first-time home buyers and in making sure affordable rental housing is available, the official added.
The Senate bill, though, remains at odds with the bill advancing in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives that would liquidate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac over five years and limit government loan guarantees.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac became dominant players in housing finance when private lending to home-buyers declined after the financial crisis. The government-backed companies own or guarantee more than half of all U.S. home loans and are critical to keeping capital flowing to lenders and borrowers.
Restructuring of the $11 trillion mortgage finance system is expected to take years. Any overhaul must also include a mechanism to maintain stability for the 30-year-fixed rate mortgage even in shaky financial markets, the official said.
Mortgage finance reform should also incorporate a fee on mortgage products to be paid by financial firms that would help fund for lower-income families buy homes, the official added.
Analysts say more robust housing activity is being held back by tight credit. Clearing up questions about the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could help unlock capital for mortgage finance and give housing activity a boost.
"On Capitol Hill, the odds are against short-term legislation," said Jaret Seiberg, a senior policy analyst at Guggenheim Securities. "Longer-term housing finance reform is gaining momentum. The leading ideas would reduce the government involvement in housing finance, which would mean higher rates for consumers."
The administration is also reinvigorating its effort to help underwater borrowers by pushing for an expansion of refinancing for those who purchased homes when rates were above the current historic lows, the White House said. By refinancing, borrowers could save hundreds of dollars a month, adding to their disposable income and stimulating the economy, officials said.
So far, legislative efforts to expand refinancing programs have failed in Congress.
Obama's nominee to oversee Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, veteran Democrat Representative Mel Watt, has failed to garner enough support for confirmation in the full Senate.
Administration officials are also urging lawmakers to bring Watt's nomination to the Senate floor as part of broader efforts to overhaul the overhaul nation's decades-old housing financial system.
(Reporting by Mark Felsenthal and Margaret Chadbourn; editing by Jackie Frank)


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This recipe is the appetizer version of the Sephardic Spanech (spinach) ou b' Jiben(cheese) in which the spinach mixture is poured into a big pie shell or pyrex and baked.
I love to add these spinach and cheese delicacies to my Shavuot holiday menu every year because I know that adults and kids will gobble them up as they are waiting for the holiday lunch or dinner to be served.
Make sure the butter is softened at room temperature before making the dough, and use your Cuisinart to whip up the dough in a flash.
p.s.You will always want to have a batch of these spinach tarts bagged in the freezer for an unexpected guest. Serve with coffee and your brunch menu.
Adapted from the "White Deal Delights Cookbook."
- 13 tbsp. unsalted butter, softened
- 2 cups flour
- 1 cup semolina (smead) flour
- 1 1/2 tsp. kosher salt
- 3/4 cup warm water
Spinach Cheese Topping:
- 1 onion finely chopped
- 3 tbsp. safflower oil
- 3 1/2 boxes frozen chopped spinach or 1 1/2 bags frozen chopped spinach
- kosher salt to taste
- 2 eggs
- 3 cups low fat mozzarella cheese (or muenster cheese if you really want it extra cheesy).
- dash of white pepper
- sesame seeds, chopped pimiento (optional topping)
- Combine flour, smead(semolina flour), and salt in Cuisinart
- Using Cuisinart, gradually add butter, then warm water slowly
- Squeeze excess water from spinach.
- Saute onion tilll soft, add spinach and salt
- Add eggs, cheese and pepper
- Mix well, adjust seasonings to taste
- Line baking sheets with wax paper if you are preparing to freeze.
- Line with parchment paper if you are ready to bake
- Roll dough into evenly shaped balls
- Dip in sesame seeds (optional)
- Flatten balls, and flute edges
- Place a tsp. of spinach mixture inside each flattened circle
- Flute edges.
- (you can flute edges and then add mixture- whatever works for you!)
- Freeze and then bag or bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes


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The Gitga'at First Nation has been saying no to the Northern Gateway pipeline project since 2006.
The project will bring more than 200 huge tankers annually through the waters next to their tiny community of 160 in Hartley Bay at the entrance to Douglas Channel on B.C.'s northwest coast. Another 500 Gitga'at live elsewhere, including in Prince Rupert, also on the northwest coast.
The risks and effect of an oil spill are simply not worth any economic benefits, which the first nation views as nil, says Marvin Robinson, a spokesman for the community.
It's a familiar refrain among B.C. first nations.
Despite the argument that opening up a new market for Alberta oilsands in Asia will benefit all Canadians — and an offer of a 10-per-cent ownership stake in the pipeline for first nations — almost all first nations' voices in British Columbia have been raised in protest.
Unlike in Alberta, most aboriginal land claims in British Columbia have not been settled with treaties.
Court decisions, including at the Canadian Supreme Court level, have stipulated that first nations must be consulted and accommodated when their traditional lands are affected by industrial development.
Last month, more first nations signed their names to a declaration calling for an "unbroken wall of opposition" to pipelines and oil tankers along B.C.'s coast. More than 60 first nations along the pipeline route, Fraser River and coast have signed the declaration.
Among those are the Gitga'at, whose concerns on the Enbridge project increased following the sinking of BC Ferries' Queen of the North in 2006.
Hartley Bay residents were first on the scene to rescue passengers.
The fallout from the sinking — the leaking of diesel fuel and oil onto surrounding beaches, including clam beds — woke them up to the potential harm of a larger oil spill, said Robinson, who runs guided tours of the remote coastal area.
"It's almost like a test run. You get to see little mistakes and things that shouldn't happen. We're talking about a really light oil — diesel — [from the Queen of the North]. Imagine if it's one of these [large oil tankers]. That's the part that really scares us," said Robinson.
Some of the tankers will be able to carry as much as two million barrels of oil. Called VLCCs — Very Large Crude Carriers — their length is longer than three football fields.
The Gitga'at are among nearly 20 first nations from B.C. that have signed up as interveners in regulatory hearings that begin Jan. 10 in Kitimat.
Enbridge has said it has aboriginal support and it expects a majority of the nearly 50 first nations with territory along the pipeline route to sign on to its ownership offer, but only one B.C. first nation has declared its support publicly.
And when Gitxsan hereditary chief Elmer Derrick announced the nation in northwest B.C. had signed an ownership deal that would provide $7 million over a 30-year period, it sparked an immediate battle with other leaders in the community who say they don't support the project.
Unlike in B.C., most Alberta first nations have not said whether they support or reject the 1,172-kilometre pipeline.
More than a dozen Alberta first nations have signed up as interveners in the hearings overseen by the National Energy Board, but none have issued public declarations on the pipeline project.
Contacted before Christmas, Alexis Nation leaders said they were not ready to say anything about the project.
Other first nations in Alberta — including the Horse Lake First Nation — did not respond to requests for comment.
But at least one Alberta first nation is saying no to Northern Gateway pipeline.
Driftpile First Nation chief Rose Laboucan told The Vancouver Sun that following the recent completion of a traditional land-use study, the community of 2,000 has rejected the project. About 1,000 band members live on the Driftpile reserve, west of Edmonton.
"The permanent right of way will be about a 25-metre-wide scar running through the territory, harming the plants and animals, things we rely on," said Laboucan.
She said it is ridiculous to believe there is not going to be an oil spill.
"I understand there has to be progress. I understand they want markets outside of Canada, to Asia. But at the same time, when do we balance our Mother Earth? In my opinion, it's in pain now," said Laboucan.
The band had reached a deal earlier with the Pembina Pipeline Corp. to build a safe house in the community over a different project, noted Laboucan.
But she said Enbridge's take-it-or-leave-it approach of its ownership offer in Northern Gateway turned the community off.
First nations who oppose the Enbridge project stress they are not opposed to economic development.
But it depends on the development.
The Nadleh Whut'en First Nation, located in north-central B.C., has signed on to an ownership deal with the $1.2-billion Pacific Trails natural gas pipeline, but is opposed to the Enbridge oil pipeline.
The community of 470 — about 250 of whom live on the shores of Fraser Lake — supports the natural gas pipeline because if there was a rupture the gas would dissipate, says chief Larry Nooski.
There is no support for the Northern Gateway project because the oil from a pipeline leak could remain in the environment for a long time despite efforts to clean it up.
Nooski points to the more than 22-year-old Exxon Valdez tanker spill in Prince William Sound in Alaska, where research has shown that oil remains in the environment.
Nooski said that community meetings early on showed this as a concern.
"The impacts on the aquatic life and salmon was just too great for our people to even consider something of this nature," said Nooski.
"If there is an interruption in our fishing, a lot of people would be without food. I know it sounds strange today because you have the Safeways and what have you. Personally, I still rely on my catch. I still rely on the fish that is caught in the summer and fall," he said.
He said the first nation is already involved in the forest sector through its logging business.
Nadleh Whut'en also recently became involved in Thompson Creek Metals' nearby Endako molybdenum mine and operates a 350-person camp for the $375-million Endako mine expansion and modernization project.