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"Jumping the Shark" is an episode of the Happy Tree Friends internet series. This is the first episode of the second season, and twenty-eighth episode overall, and the continuation of the previous season's cliffhanger finale. Despite the character being introduced before, this episode introduces Sniffles' ability to build high-technology objects, that usually backfire with deadly results.
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Castaway on a deserted island, the gang must figure out how to get home. They battle sharks, sinking life boats and out-of-control rockets just to make it back to their favorite forest. Do they succeed? Tune in to Part Two to find out!
The survivors of the previous episode are stranded on a deserted island. Flippy creates small graves for those who died in the crash, while the others look on mournfully. Once the task is done, they silently walk away.
The next day Giggles catches a fish in the ocean, using a stick as a makeshift spear. She gets stung by a jellyfish, however, and by night she suffers from extreme chills and her leg has become badly swollen. The scene shifts to Flippy sadly pounding down another grave with Giggles' bow tied around it.
Just then, Lifty and Shifty reveal they have an inflatable raft the group can escape on. As the group sails away from the island, everyone is relieved and in good spirits. Unfortunately Flaky sits down and her quills pop the raft, causing the raft to start sinking as a shark swims along. The group hurriedly swims back to the island, but Lifty and Shifty are taken by the shark. As Flaky breathes a sigh of relief, having survived, the others are obviously angry at her. As the scene changes to night, Flippy laughs evilly as he pounds Flaky's grave into the sand, while the others watch on the background with evil expressions.
The next day, the school bus and the tree on the island are gone and in their place stands a rocket ship. The group boards their creation and flies away, singing as they go. Eventually, the rocket stops moving upwards. They throw several weighty objects out of the rocket, one of which being Lumpy, and the rocket continues upwards.
Sadly, now the rocket moves too fast and it is headed towards the sun. Sniffles' head explodes as they get closer to the sun. Back on Earth, Lumpy makes the best of his situation by relaxing in a chair and holding his sock over a fire. A puff suddenly appears in the sun, but Lumpy pays little heed. As the episode ends, Lumpy begins applying sunscreen to his arm.
"Give but never Give up!"
- A fish was impaled by Giggles with a lance.
- Giggles was stung by a jellyfish, causing her leg to swell and giving her hypothermia (while the friends have no injection to recover her). She eventually dies because of the extreme chills.
- Lifty and Shifty were eaten by a shark after Flaky deflates their raft with her quills.
- Flaky was killed by Flippy, Lumpy, Handy, and Sniffles for deflating the raft (death not shown).
- Sniffles' head explodes from the heat of the sun.
- Flippy and Handy are killed when their rocket flies into the sun, burning them.
- As everyone is swimming back to the island after their raft deflates, there are six figures in the water. There should be seven (assuming one of them wasn't underwater).
- In the same scene, the characters' silhouettes (except Lumpy's) are Generic Tree Friends instead of themselves.
- When Lumpy is thrown out of the rocket, he is still holding the steering wheel. The next time we see the inside of the rocket, however, Sniffles is the one holding the steering wheel.
- It could be posible they had a replacement wheel.
- Lifty and Shifty arrive on the island randomly (though they could've traveled there via their raft or been on the bus in Part 1, just unseen), along with Flippy.
- When the rocket stopped in the air, Flippy's hand is missing.
- In the credits, writer Paul Allan's name is misspelled "Paul Allen".
- Even though Handy has no hands, he managed to swim back to the island with the other Tree Friends - then again, he seems capable of doing just about anything hand-related without hands as long it's offscreen or barely seen at a distance, although he could have been the one underwater.
- The rocket goes past Mars but if they hit the sun they would have went in the other direction.
- Everyone except Lumpy looks exactly the same when they swim back to the island.
- Although five characters (Cuddles (debatable), Mime, Petunia, Toothy, and The Mole) died on the bus, there are eight graves on the island. The extra graves were probably for Generic Tree Friends.
- While the tree friends are on the raft, there's a Giggles' giggling sound, even though she's already dead from the previous scene. Also, the giggle is sync with Flippy's mouth movement, as if he's the one who giggled. (it was Sniffles who giggled, if you look closely, you will see that Sniffles was the one that giggled, Flippy just opened his mouth at the time that happened).
- When the finished rocket is shown, Sniffles' tail is missing.
- Lumpy is missing at the start, when Lifty and Shifty blow up a raft, Lumpy appears.
- Flippy was laughing while burying Flaky his eyes didn't have Pac Man pupils.
- Flippy had Fliqpy's voice when building Flaky's grave and when the rocket was dangerously heading towards the sun.
- When Flippy was pounding in Flaky's grave, there were stars in the shaded part of the moon. This is impossible for obvious reasons.
- The phrase: "Jumping The Shark" was an internet phenomenon made from the '70s TV show Happy Days, where, in the beach episode, The Fonz (Henry Winkler) dares to jump a shark on a jetski.
- This episode makes Giggles the first character to die in the second internet season.
- Throughout the episode, Flippy has Pop's voice. This is because Pop was originally supposed to star in this episode, but the writers thought that it would be too 'out of character' for Pop to kill Flaky, and for Pop to appear without Cub. They replaced him with Flippy (since both characters are voiced by Aubrey Ankrum, even though Pop has a much deeper voice) at the last moment, after all the voices were recorded. As a result, this is the only episode where Flippy doesn't 'flip-out' in any capacity.
- This is the first time ever that Sniffles invents.
- If one looks closely at the back of the bus in the first shot of the episode, the window was broken, and there was blood around it. It could be possible that was how Toothy was flung out of the bus in the first part.
- Despite the numerous deaths in the series, this is one of the few times where the consequence of death is explored.
- When Flippy, Handy, and Sniffles are in the rocket heading towards space, they are humming the theme song again.
- Very little blood is featured in this episode, except at the end when Sniffles's head explodes - this is a good example of how Sniffles tends to die more gruesome deaths compared to most of the other characters.
- In a deleted scene, the gang killed Flaky onscreen. This was cut as it was considered too gruesome. Flaky's offscreen death is often discussed by fans - some say she was buried alive or hung amongst other possibilities.
- Flippy didn't 'flip out' - his eyes were their normal black color, and not his crazed green color. This is the only time to date when Flippy has intentionally killed somebody. It's also the only time Flippy got help from someone else (Lumpy, Handy, and Sniffles) to kill someone.
- This episode marks the first time that Flippy dies.
- This is one of the few occurrences where Lifty and Shifty do a selfless deed by offering the others a chance to escape on their life raft. Although, they could have made people pay offscreen.
- Giggles practically put her head on Handy's shoulder, indicating they are good friends.
- This is the first time that Lumpy, Handy, and Sniffles has intentionally killed a main character - Flaky.
- When the four are in the rocket, Flippy sported Flaky's frown.
- A HTF HTML5 game named Strandead is based on this episode.
- This one of the only episodes where Lifty and Shifty died and they didn't do anything.
- If one looks close enough, the water was moving during the credits.
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APPLETON, WI (WTAQ) - A small group of protesters gave folks shopping at the Appleton Farm Market a major topic of discussion Saturday.
What do you feel safer with in public: Chickens or guns?
"This is Winchester," Mark Scheffler told FOX 11. "She is a laying hen, and she is illegal."
Scheffler says he doesn't understand why toting this Winchester is illegal, but carrying a rifle in a crowded farmer's market is perfectly within the law.
"You cannot have livestock inside the city limits of Appleton. The fine for keeping livestock is $263.50. The fine for carrying a loaded assault weapon through downtown Appleton is zero," said Scheffler.
Scheffler says in reality both pose a public risk.
This protest comes in the wake of what happened to Charles Branstrom two weeks ago.
Branstrom says he and his friends were detained by police for carrying weapons, after someone called 911.
"In the past, any time anyone's called when I've carried a pistol, they usually come up and talk to us, find out our intentions, and go on our way," Branstrom told FOX 11.
This week, Branstrom was back out with his 9-millimeter handgun strapped on.
His friend carried two weapons, including a rifle.
Appleton Police patrolling the market say they spoke with the men briefly.
"Any time weapons are introduced to a scene, it heightens everyone's awareness of it. So part of our job is to observe the behaviors associated with that and make a determination if we need to intervene or not," said Deputy Chief Todd Olm.
Meanwhile, police asked was asked Scheffler to remove his chicken.
Police say neither the men with the guns nor the man with the chicken were cited. But it did incite controversy.
"I think it's kind of silly because what we did and what we do with open carry is perfectly legal. I don't know the actual law for the chickens but I could see that as a health hazard," said Branstrom.
"I am a hunter. I am a gun owner, and I think the weapons should have limitations," said Scheffler.
Police say despite ruffled feathers, the law is the law.
The group organizing the protest calls itself Cluck or Duck, and says it plans on petitioning state legislators to limit open carry laws to rural areas.

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How to set TTL for the json objects inserted using cbdocloader command line tool?
I was trying to bulk insert data into my couchbase servers which i was able to do using "cbdocloader". But what about the TTL of the objects inserted?
Is there a way to set the properties like TTL, TTI, etc that we can set using the Java api?
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The cbdocloader tool does not provide any official way to send a TTL.
Since cbdocloader is a python script you can modify it, obviously it is not a supported thing but it is working.
So what you can do is:
- edit the cbdocloader file located in $COUCHBASE_INSTALL/couchbase-core/lib/python
- go to line 129 ( self.bucket.set(dockey, 0, 0, raw_data) )
and replace the first 0 with you TTL


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American Idol top 3
5/13/10 Today I'm thinking of Big Mike. Here is Ellen's reaction to Michael Lynche getting voted off American Idol:
I'm with Ellen. I'm glad the judges saved him too. He lasted 5 weeks beyond that night and he got a chance to show us more of his talent. I like Big Mike I think he's a big teddy bear and I just wanna hug him.
After saying goodbye to Michael Lynche we are down to the top 3; Casey James, Crystal Bowersox and Lee DeWyze. The top three get to visit home with a camera crew and a huge homecoming party. Lee is heading back to Chicago and very excited to see his friends, Crystal is excited to see her family and Casey is happy to be going back to Texas where he can hear a lot of people say "y'all".
I think Casey will be the next to go and Lee is going to put up a fight, but Crystal will still walk away as Season 9's winner.
I have heard many comments from people about their disappointment in this year's contestants. In my opinion it's not that the contestants are less talented than they have been in past years it's just that they're different. None of them are pop stars, Katie Stevens was the closest thing to a pop star this season had seen. The rest of the contestants are more alternative for the lack of a better term. I like that. I think it just shows the show's diversity that it can be a starting point for a career no matter what kind of music you want to perform. Crystal Bowersox will probably win, but she won't sell as many albums as Kelly Clarkson because she's not going to be catering to the same audience. She'll have a successful career because of a core group of fans. Lee DeWyze will probably be a rocker like Daughtry and Casey will probably go country so he can hear people say y'all.
At this point the show's future is still up in the air. The producers are saying they don't intend to announce Simon's replacement until after this season wraps in a couple of weeks. The ratings for the show have been disappointing compared to previous seasons so maybe they'll just call Season 9 the final Idol season. I guess we'll see.


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A Small Market Gets Smaller
Reuben is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinion of the blogger and are not formally edited.
Sprint (NYSE: S) recently announced a bid for cell phone rival Clearwire (NASDAQ: CLWR), after itself getting a massive cash infusion from Softbank (SFTBF). The number three player in the U.S. cell phone market is acting as a consolidator after larger rivals have had trouble gaining approval for deals.
The Sprint/Clearwire deal comes on the heels of Deutsche Telekom's offer to buy MetroPCS (NYSE: TMUS). Clearly consolidation is taking place. That point gets further support from Sprint's earlier purchase of Virgin Mobil. However, none of these deals, though notable and large, means that the AT&T (NYSE: T) and Verizon (NYSE: VZ) duopoly is coming to an end.
In fact, AT&T and Verizon have been growing relatively strongly of late, while the second tier players have been losing ground. Thus, this looks more like weak players teaming up in a last ditch effort to take on the strongest players. The problem with this logic is that two weak companies joining together doesn't usually result in a strong company. So this deal may be better viewed as second tier companies trying to prolong their slow declines. While Sprint or Deutsche Telekom could manage to pull a rabbit out of their hats, investors are probably better off sticking with the industry leaders.
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AT&T and Verizon are both in the Dow 30. You don't get put into the Dow Jones Industrial Average for nothing. The elite group is selected by the editors of The Wall Street Journal as a broad representation of the U.S. industrial sector. The companies in the index are some of the largest and best known around. That the Dow houses both of the dominant cell phone carriers is a statement in and of itself. Note, however, that these companies have changed materially over the last 10 to 20 years, shifting from wire line and long-distance carriers to cellular based providers.
This shifting is important in another way, too, since the committee that selects the companies for the index have had ample opportunity to push AT&T out after the many mergers and acquisitions in its past. Clearly both companies are changing and those changes are viewed as integral to and representative of the changes in the broader U.S. market. This is a valuable insight to glean and another solid reason for sticking with this duopoly if you want telecom exposure.
AT&T today is very different from the AT&T of yesterday. In fact, it is a partial rebuilding of the government mandated breakup the old AT&T suffered in the 1980s. Although it was once known as the only game in town offering wire line and long-distance telephone service, today AT&T provides wireless communications, local exchange services (wire line phone service), long−distance services, data/broadband and Internet services, video services, telecommunications equipment, managed networking, and wholesale services. It is, however, best known for being one of the two largest cellular phone carriers in the United States, and the first to work with Apple (AAPL) to sell and support the iPhone. And the cell phone market is where it's growing fastest.
Verizon is one of the companies spun off from AT&T when it was forced to break up. It offers similar services to AT&T, but breaks its offerings into two broad categories, Verizon Wireless and Wireline. The big difference between Verizon and AT&T is largely ownership, as Verizon Wireless is a joint venture between Verizon (55% owner) and Vodafone (VOD) (minority 45% owner). Although Verizon is the controlling partner, this is a relationship that adds complication to the picture and potentially increases costs going forward, if Verizon buys Vodafone out.
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The two companies have a great deal in common with each other. For example, they are the number one and two cell phone carriers in the United States. They both have large consumer customer bases and strong brand names. Moreover, they are both financially strong and have relatively recession resistant businesses.
While both companies are dealing with a shrinking wire line business, their focus on the cell phone arena appears to be the right long-term approach. Indeed, cell phones, which were once considered a luxury, are increasingly considered necessities. In fact, many younger consumers have only their cell phone as a means of communication. Moreover, as video and other digital distribution increase, demand for cellular data over AT&T and Verizon networks is only going to increase.
Stick With The Big Boys
At the end of the day AT&T and Verizon are very similar companies. Their growth profiles, though not impressive, are also very similar and vastly better than the third player (Sprint) on down. Both are yielding around 5%, though AT&T's yield is over 50 basis points higher. Investors interested in this space should avoid Sprint and the other bit players and focus on the big boys.
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Sophomore class chaplain Caleb Haynes planned and led a volunteer team of 28 students on Saturday, April 22 to clean up an area recently swept by tornados. Steve Harris, dean of student development, assisted in coordinating the volunteer effort with the Hendersonville Chamber of Commerce.
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At the end of the year, thoughts turn to Champagne. This week, we're devoting all three posts to the subject, including suggestions for some of our favorite bottles. Whether you're watching a football game with a good blanc de blanc, enjoying a bit of social conviviality with friends over a bottle of brut rosé, or celebrating the New Year with a special prestige cuvée, bubbly is the wine of the season.
Champagne is unique among French wines in that it is named after the houses or marques that produce them. True Champagne only comes from the region of the same name, located some 90 miles northeast of Paris. It is either produced by large houses (marque Champagne) such as Veuve Cliquot and Möet & Chandon, who source from a vast number of estate and grower vineyards, or independent growers (récoltant Champagne).
Styles can vary depending on the grape makeup. Blanc de blancs are made entirely from white grapes, specifically chardonnay. Blanc de noirs are made entirely from dark grapes, usually from pinot noir, but sometimes with added pinot meunier, each of which has been fermented separately. Blanc de noirs are still "white" wines since little or no skin contact is allowed during production. Rosé Champagne, which has an appealing salmon or cherry color, can be made from any combination of pinot noir, chardonnay, and pinot meunier, but fine examples are crafted from 100 percent pinot noir in one of two ways to give it its festive color: some skin contact with the grapes is allowed in the fermenting vat before pressing, or a small amount of still pinot noir wine is added to the final blend.
Champagne may be either non-vintage or vintage. Non-vintage, which makes up about 70 percent of exports to the United States, is a blend of wines from two or more vintages fashioned in a consistent flavor profile. Vintage Champagne is only produced from a single harvest year and is often more expensive. Classic, great vintages include 2006 (not yet released), 1996, 1990, 1985, and 1982, while outstanding vintages include 2005, 2004, 2002, 1998, 1995, and 1979. Prestige cuvees such as Krug's Grand Cuvée or Laurent-Perrier's Grand Siécle, are produced from the best vineyards, aged longer before release, and can be a non-vintage (multivintage) or vintage Champagne.
Consumers are often challenged in deciphering the categories of Champagne to suit their taste. I've written about sparkling wine for years, and still find the terminology displayed on the label confusing. For example, "Dry" Champagne is actually slightly sweet. These categories are defined by the amounts of residual sugar in the finished liquids. Fortunately, Brut Champagne is far and away the most common category and is the type most encountered in stores, thus simplifying a choice. Here are the five most common types:
Champagne is rich with lore. Here are a few trivia facts you can use over the holidays to impress your friends:
In Part II on Thursday, I'll discuss the aging and serving of Champagne, and share with you a listing of some recommended favorites.
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Either (a) they don't have a product that has proved itself to potential buyers. Can you imagine companies like Toyota, Honda, GM not finding a few million to get a major breakthrough battery ready for their new cars?
Or (b) the people running the company are business idiots who aren't adequately demonstrating their product to potential buyers.
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It says EEStor is still anticipating delivery of it's first production prototypes to Zenn Motor Company in 2008...with regular production beginning in 2009.
In the big picture, EEStor's financial condition is almost completely insignificant compared to whether or not they can actually deliver a device with the energy storage they claim. It's not uncommon for start-ups to struggle with maintaining control of their business when greedy shark VC's are involved.
And yes, there's a large number of people hoping EEStor doesn't deliver because it would disrupt several established industries.
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We have energy density (how much energy can be stored) and we have power density (how fast this energy can be given when requested).
For example, on your TV remote you don't want high power densities, because the cialis 100mg overnight shipping cialis remote requires little power.
On a car on the other hand, you seek high power densities for acceleration. You would also want high energy density, so the car can travel enough kilometers.
Ultracapacitors are the champions when it comes to prices levitra "power density", so your vehicle will be more responsive to the "gas" pedal (it can also "get back" energy from braking better and order usa viagra online faster). They are ideal for vehicle use from this aspect. Unfortunately, ultracapacitors have very small energy densities of less than 30 W.h/Kg.
Here comes EEStor: They claim that they have increased the energy densities up to 300 W.h/Kg (for comparison NiMH batteries are in the ~100 W.h/Kg range with considerably less "sparkiness"). A 100Kg supercapacitor array would give you 30KWh of energy. Combined with a lightweight chassis and a good kinetic energy recovery system and you have a winner.
Imagine if the best price levitra online supercapacitor research gets more funding...
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Those yokels have sunk their future hopes in the Chevy Volt (a slug of how to get cialis in canada a car with an 80 mile range at 40 mph--that's just silly) and they are desperate to see harm come to ANY new technology they don't control.
I've yet to see any statement from EEStor claiming a delay due to canadian generic viagra online lack of funding.
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www.ultracapacitors.org is a good website with information on the technology.
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They've been very generous with NanoSolar, Tesla, and geothermal startups, among others.
There's lots and lots of money available for new promising green technology. The drilled-geothermal people report money falling from the sky.
(I'm not sure the Eestor guy is a scam artist. I suspect that he's not as objective as he should be. He's got the optimism that a good researcher should have, but he probably doesn't have a workable product which he hoped to have by now.)
And Kabong, you need to get your facts straight. Doesn't do the conversation any good to have people posting incorrect information as fact....
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EEstor technology is a game changer - and it's up to the impacted industries to cost levitra adapt or die. Marketplace Darwinism.
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Do I think they are? No.
Compare the Volt, and EESTOR. The Volt actually exists, in prototype form, that people have seen, touched, driven, and experienced. EESTOR, which claims to be closer to production than the www.jubileecampaign.nl Volt, had allowed NONE of this, not even to www.celebratinglife.org their financiers who admit they have not seen, touched, or experienced the device.
Prove me wrong, and I'll say I'm wrong.
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a) Some people have actually seen Bigfoot!
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Capacitor expert John Miller raised a number of fundamental issues about EEStir technology. Miller asserted that EEStor was attempting to violate no less than three laws of nature:
1. When you make something that you want to work, if its made
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if you read the patent they have there, he's talking about putting
together 10s of thousands of parallel connected capacitors. And any one of them fails, means the system fails. And they will fail,
Capacitors fail by dielectric breakdown. They will fail. Now you can get around that on capacitors that have what's called self clearing mechanisms. But Barium Titanate does not have self clearing mechanisms. So once you have a breakdown, it's a short. So calculations that I did..... well I also was also hired by EPRI. The Electric Power Research Institute to write a position paper on this and I did. Apparently they were getting a lot of questions from their customers..utility customers...is there anything there? [with eestor] The reliability is just not practical when you don't have self clearing.
2. [H]e's operating at the breakdown strength and www.airatlanta.ie you
never do that with a capacitor because you always have avalanche breakdown. The rule of thumb is you drop it down an order of magnitude in voltage and your energy goes as the voltage squared so that's 100 times lower.
3. [T]he third problem with this is [the] thermal management issues. He's talking about charging this thing in his patent and all his publications ...charging it very quickly. Even if it's 99.9%
efficient, the energy that 10th of a percent energy lost during that process over the 5 minutes he's talking about would cause the whole thing to melt down. It's too compact. It's incredible, it's twice the energy density of lithium ion batteries, the highest energy density battery. You just can't put that heat in there and expect the thing to survive. [laughing] It's ceramic material, the temperature would rise so great it would melt down. The metalization what he's talking about, low temperature metalization....that would all melt.
Miller continued his evaluation of Weir by saying:
He can be very sincere and believe what he's doing is what should be done. But has it been reviewed by other people? No, I don't think so. Does he have the combined intelligence like the people at Penn St. that have been spending many many careers on dielectric studies. That's why I'm saying, what's all the hub bub and all the big noise?
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Who wouldn't sign such a deal, even if it was a 100:1 long shot, for the price of herbal alternative to viagra the trivial brand damage they'll suffer if it never pans out, and in return Eestor get to say "we've got Lockheed Martin on board".
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Karl Manheim, a professor at the Loyola School of Law in Los Angeles, told Mother Jones that Kaplan's use of the citizenship standard is "wrong" and offers those email users broad grounds for an appeal.
"The U.S. Constitution applies to all persons (even foreign nationals) within U.S. borders and to U.S. persons abroad," he says. "While the targets of the subpoenas are outside of U.S. jurisdiction, the subpoena itself is operative within the U.S. So the Constitution should apply."
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It was in Ecuador not Venezuela
The judgement against Chevron has been vacated
Chevron has been cleared of all charges
The judge in Ecuador has been indicted for taking bribes
The Colorado environmental company that wrote the report has been heavily fined for falsifying thier report
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It sounds like once again someone that the people elected is bought and sold by an oil company. The only thing that seems similar is their ethics--none. Possibly the folks there should get this clown out from behind his desk as soon as possible; recall/next election? Besides he probably has a job waiting for him at Chevron that pays more.
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A beggar who whipped a disabled Carlisle man who refused to give him money has been freed on appeal.
David John Nicholson, 51, had been jailed for 17 months in October for assaulting 53-year-old stroke victim Frank Forrester with a dog leash.
But the Court of Appeal ruled yesterday that the sentence was "manifestly excessive" and freed Nicholson, of Lediard Avenue, Currock.
Nicholson turned on Mr Forrester after he was turned away when he called at the victim's house in Currock.
He pleaded guilty to charges of common assault and assault occasioning actual bodily harm and was subsequently jailed by Carlisle Crown Court. But after an appeal by his lawyers, his sentence was cut to six months. This means he can be released immediately on licence.
Sir Christopher Holland, sitting at London's Court of Appeal with Lord Justice Toulson and Mr Justice Lloyd Jones, said Nicholson's case was a "bizarre" one.
On the evening of January 13 last year, Nicholson had knocked on Mr Forrester's door and asked for 5p for his Staffordshire bull terrier.
Mr Forrester refused and told him to go, whereupon Nicholson removed the dog's leash and whipped the householder across the back. The victim had recently had a stroke and was walking with a stick.
The medication he was taking meant that his bruises did not heal for weeks.
Shortly after the attack, Nicholson took his dog to a house nearby and asked for a few pence from 31-year-old dad, Christopher Stott.
When Mr Stott refused, he again removed the dog's leash and swung it at the householder, narrowly missing when Mr Stott took a step back.
He was arrested later that night. After he was picked out in an identification parade, he said he had no idea why he was begging because he had money in the bank.
Nicholson said he was ashamed of what he did. He said he had been drinking cider and had not taken the correct dosage of medication he needed.
His lawyers argued that the sentences he received for the two assaults were much too tough and should be slashed.
Giving the judgement, Sir Christopher said: "Having given careful consideration to all the material, we are quite satisfied that the end result in terms of the sentence of 17 months was manifestly excessive, so excessive that we should quash it."Having regard to the nature of the offence and to all the circumstances and giving modest credit for the guilty plea, we are quite satisfied that the appropriate sentence is six months."
Nicholson would only have to serve half of his sentence before release on licence and had already served almost four months.Mr Forrester declined to comment on the court's decision.He told the News & Star: "I just want to put the incident behind me."
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(WMC-TV) – Missourian Sandy Lawrence, who served as a surrogate in 2012 for her daughter-in-law and son, has done it again.
On Wednesday, February 5, Sandy gave birth to her second grandchild, a boy named Jarrett Jacob.
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In February 2012, Jarrett's sister, Mya, was born to parents, Mindy and Jake. Mya was also born via a surrogate, her grandmother, Sandy.
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Lyra, also known as aerial hoop is a circular steel apparatus suspended from the ceiling. The aerial artist performs acrobatics using it. It can be used static, spinning or swinging.
The Spanish Web, or Aerial Rope refers to both the apparatus and the performance. The apparatus itself is a long braided rope covered by a soft cotton sleeve. It's suspended from overhead rigging. Towards the top of the apparatus, a small loop is attached to the main rope through which a performer will secure an ankle or wrist and be able to hang freely.
Swinging ladders resemble a double metal ladder that is hung from silks, also known as Aerial Fabrics, Tissues, or Aerial Ribbons, is a type of performance in which one or more artists perform aerial acrobatics while hanging from a special fabric. Performers climb the suspended fabric and use it to wrap, suspend, fall, swing and spiral their bodies into and out of various positions.
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Boston Magazine recently gathered data from all 230 public high schools in the Greater Boston area to determine which schools are the best, and they determined that Dover-Sherborn is the third best school in the state.
Data gathered included test scores, number of AP classes, graduation rate, percentage of students who continue on to college, as well as the number of sports teams and clubs. Per pupil spending and student to teacher ratio were included in the rankings, but less weight was given to them as recent studies have shown that those are not as important factors in quality of education.
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That fate and worse could await the residents of Monterey County if its Board of Supervisors does not adopt a fracking moratorium soon. Fracking blasts vast amounts of water, while California suffers from a devastating drought, and toxic chemicals deep underground in the hope of extracting oil and gas from Monterey Shale.
The chemicals include benzene, which the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has determined causes cancer in humans, toluene, and hydrofluoric acid. The public disclosure necessary to identify the chemicals in use has been a major political dispute in every region where fracking occurs.
The California state agency with the responsibility to address this new oil drilling technology, the Department of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources, was still allowing oil drilling waste to be disposed into open earthen pits until a few months ago.
Because Gov. Jerry Brown has been asleep at the wheel in setting state-wide regulations on fracking, it falls on each county to set a moratorium to protect residents' health, agriculture, and tourism. Last fall Santa Cruz County Supervisor John Leopold successfully spearheaded a moratorium, backed by 5th District Supervisor Bruce McPherson, and will seek a permanent amendment to the county's general plan.
"I think we're the only county who has one," said Lompico resident Kevin Collins, one of the environmentalists who spoke up for the new regulations in chamber meetings. Across California, however, concerned citizens are starting campaigns to halt fracking in their counties.
In September, Collins represented the Sierra Club's Ventana Chapter, which includes Monterey and Santa Cruz counties, at a national conference in San Francisco as a member of the Council of Club Leaders. The attendees discussed a national energy policy, including fracking, which will be presented to the club's board of directors.
Along with the Sierra Clubs' Ventana Chapter, the national environmental organization, the Center for Biodiversity, is working to develop regulations for Monterey County.
According to the center, "Across the country, more than 1,000 documented cases of water contamination have been associated with fracking and drilling, which pollutes our air with toxic chemicals and emits methane, a highly potent greenhouse gas. It also opens up new areas to fossil fuel development at a time when we need to transition rapidly to a clean and renewable energy future."
"Governor Brown should follow the lead of New York, New Jersey and Vermont and prohibit fracking to protect our wildlife, our natural resources, our health and our climate."
"Monterey is relying on the state of California which I think is a mistake because the state's regulations are very weak," says Collins. "The County's zoning code allows drilling in high-density residential zoning districts. Next to your home there could be big industrial fracking well. We have to persuade the supervisors to address this issue. The simplest and most effective way is to issue a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing in the county."
Collins believes that fracking is already going on. If you travel down Highway 101, you can see old, played-out pump jacks going up and down in clusters along the Salinas River.
"You can frack an existing oil well to stimulate production by bringing in high pressure pumps and chemicals and redrilling down the existing well bore and produce a new well," says Collins. "The oil industry has already done seismic surveying in Aromas which caused activists there to become concerned about it, and they persuaded the San Benito County Board of Supervisors to adopt some regulations to control fracking, particularly the distance between fracking and residents."
As oil companies using sophisticated equipment look for oil, another problem arises for landowners.
"In many cases the landowners don't own the subsurface mineral rights, which may belong to another entity, which they're unaware of," says Collins. "It's a county by county policy. When a deed was recorded, the person who originally sells the parcel can hold back drilling rights."
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