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BROCKPORT – Residents in Horton Township will not see an increase in taxes after the board of supervisors adopted the 2012 budget during their regular meeting Wednesday night. Supervisors unanimously approved a budget of $286,435 that will keep taxes the same. A budget meeting was held Nov. 23. In other business, officials are looking to address FEMA's [Federal Emergency Management Agency] Plan B floodplain ordinance. Supervisor Dennis Thompson said he attended a meeting in Fox Township to meet with other municipalities to discuss the ordinance.
WEEDVILLE – On the morning of Oct. 26, it was discovered that the Gardner Hill Community Church had been vandalized overnight. During that incident, a table and stereo were taken and a dead deer was left inside the church. The incident was subsequently investigated by the Pennsylvania State Police and Pennsylvania Game Commission and charges were filed against five individuals through District Judge Wilhelm's office on Dec. 12.
An email and text message alert sent out by the St. Marys Area School District (SMASD) through its automated emergency text/email notification system informing recipients of the "attempt to pass voucher charter school expansion legislation next week" and instructing them to contact their legislators and "tell them to vote no on vouchers" has come under fire for what some perceive as misuse of a public address system intended for emergency purposes only.
Tracy Ross, Community Outreach Training Coordinator for the Citizens Against Physical, Sexual and Emotional Abuse is involved at the Francis S. Grandinetti Elementary School with the fifth grade classes teaching tolerance and conflict resolution in the Diversity/Tolerance Program. The program focuses on teaching the children to respond confidently and with success.
JOHNSONBURG – Residents in the Borough of Johnsonburg will not see an increase in taxes after council members voted in favor of fixing the tax rates to remain the same from last year. The real estate tax will remain at 21.36 mills and the occupation tax will remain at 237.5 mills. The 2012 budget was adopted at $1,801,811 during Monday afternoon's regular borough council meeting. Other taxes include a one-half of one percent earned income tax, a local services tax of $47; a $5 per capita tax and a one-half of one percent realty transfer tax.
WILCOX – The Jones Township Supervisors adopted the 2012 budget during the regular meeting Monday night. Supervisor Laurie Storrar reported a general fund budget of about $650,000 without a tax increase for the upcoming year. The real estate tax will remain at 6.6 mills and the occupation tax will remain at 14 mills. Supervisors discussed a joint meeting that was held with Al Vanderpoel of E&M Engineers and Thomas Wagner of Meyer & Wagner, on Dec. 8 concerning the seven Elk County Municipalities that need to address the Federal Emergency Management Agency's [FEMA] Plan B Ordinance.
Plans to shut down Main Street for the Ridgway Chainsaw Carvers Rendezvous were quickly stifled by PennDOT officials as borough council and event organizers struggle to settle on an agreeable locale. After the initial plans for Main Street were halted, talks of returning the event to the Ridgway Firemen's Carnival Lot along North Broad Street were shot down as borough officials have reportedly been entertaining thoughts of holding the event on Court and Center Streets in down Ridgway.
After the New Year, the Johnsonburg Municipal Authority and the Borough of Ridgway will discuss connecting their water supply systems together to use one source as backup in the event of an emergency. Ridgway Borough's environmental manager Paul McCurdy attended Tuesday night's Johnsonburg Municipal Authority meeting to discuss the concept.
The Ridgway Area School District Board of Directors approved a resolution to not raise taxes above the PDE [Public Department of Education] index rate for the 2012-2013 fiscal year. According to board member Johna Holtz, the index rate for the district is 2.4 percent. The approved resolution states that the district has determined that there will be no increase in the rate of any tax for the support of its public schools for the 2012-2013 fiscal year by more than the the index established by the PDE.
Saint Lucia is said to be one of the earliest saints. As early as the sixth century she was venerated as a virgin martyr. Legends say that during Sweden's terrible famine, a young woman dressed in white named Lucia came to offer help. She later suffered a gruesome martyrdom in order to remain a virgin and serve the poor. Later her duties where celebrated throughout Sweden as the feast day of Lucia, and is celebrated as a festival of lights. Cultivated by Swedish founders, the Bethlehem Lutheran Church exemplifies their heritage by celebrating St. Lucia with an annual festival.


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Hi there, friend. I'm Lottie, a 21 year old student living in England.
I'm a self-confessed food enthusiast, world traveller and lover of life.
I created Lottie's Little Kitchen in my first year of university and began to document my often messy struggles in a student kitchen. In an attempt to offer some inspiration to students on a budget, I got creative with mince and clever with my grocery shopping. I created a Back to School series full of my favourite student meals, endless cookies, cakes and brownies on a budget, collaborated with Cosmo on Campus to produce a thrifty Food Friday series and worked with The Student Wordsmith to publish a set of LLK recipes in their first book! Now LLK has become a place to share real, achievable and tasty recipes for students and frugal cooks alike. I believe that food on a budget can still be beautiful and delicious. Lottie's Little Kitchen is here to prove that.
Along with my favourite recipes, you'll find moments of my life documented on LLK. I've always collected my memories, whether it be in a big, old ottoman, scrapbooks or shoeboxes under my bed. LLK is a virtual (and slightly tidier) way to continue collecting all of my memories and share them with my family, friends and you. Some of my favourites include my blogging trip to Australia, adventures around Europe and a couple of Cosmo Blog Award nominations.
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I think your blog is brilliant. This is coming from someone who has never been a foodie and have always resented cooking. I've started cooking again recently and couldn't have stumbled upon a more perfect blog - full of nice meals on a budget that aren't difficult or time consuming, presented clearly enough so that even a nightmare in the kitchen such as myself can get it right! Keep up the good work.
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3 partners are doing business
No.1 has 60% partnership
no2 has 23% partnership
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If No2 partner (23% ) want to leave partnership then how many percent partnership increase of No1 and No 2?
3 partners are doing business No.1 has 60% partnership no2 has 23% partnership no3 has 17% partnership If No2 partner (23% ) want to leave partnership then how many percent partnership increase of No1 and No 2? |
No.1 goes from having $\dfrac{0.60}{0.60+0.23+0.17}$ of the partnership to $\dfrac{0.60}{0.60+0.17}$. So you can work out No.1's new share and "how many percent partnership increase of No1", which can have various different interpretations. You can do the same calculation for No.3. |
That's not a matter of mathematics. Typically, unless something else has explicitly been agreed in advance between the parties, leaving a partnership requires the consent of all participating partners. So the correct answer is "whatever the two remaining partners can agree on, given the totality of the situation". All parties probably need to get lawyers involved before they can figure out what to agree on, if only to find out what the consequences of not reaching an agreement would be in their particular jurisdiction. The leaving partner usually wants to be paid for his share of the partnership's assets, goodwill and so forth. If the partnership does not have enough operating cash available to buy him out, one or more of the remaining partners may have to put up money of their own to pay off the leaving guy; those who do so will often be rewarded with a greater share of the restructured partnership. If the continuing partners are not willing or able to buy the leaving one out, he might effectively be stuck there. If he's really desperate, he could offer to leave for free, without getting any of his initial capital investment back -- but that still won't get him out of any liabilities he might have incurred as a partner, unless the other partners and the creditors consent on this. Always be sure to make the rules for leaving or restructuring a business partnership explicitly clear in a formal contract, before it starts operation. |


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Williamsburg has also just introduced an iPhone application so visitors can download information about exhibits and sites. In the works is a downloadable interactive game for children that will involve finding clues as they move from one point of interest to another.
In an effort to improve the guest experience, the foundation has spent $220 million over the past few years to renovate the Williamsburg Inn, the Williamsburg Lodge, and other hotels it operates next to the historic district, and has opened a major spa facility a short walk from where Thomas Jefferson once argued the patriots' cause. The spa joins three equally improbable golf courses in the area already operated by Colonial Williamsburg.
Nevertheless, history is front and center here, and the re-enactments staged on public squares display an intentional and discomfiting relevance to America today. In one such scene, an unemployed carpenter in financial straits is approached by a recruiter enticing him to join the Revolutionary army, while his anxious wife argues he shouldn't go. In a later scene after the carpenter has decided to enlist, the now distraught wife learns he has been captured by the British and fears she may never see him again. "It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that the impact of those kinds of war experiences on families is no different in the 21st century than it was in the 18th century," says Campbell of historical parallels drawn by visitors. "You hear people talking about it as you walk down the street. People make connections for themselves."
Williamsburg has long been criticized by the cognoscenti. Back in 1963, New York Times architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable called it a "dangerous bore" that was corrupting preservation practices across the nation. She later accused Colonial Williamsburg of inauthentic restoration and "fudging of facts" that helped in "paving the way for the new world order of Walt Disney Enterprises." A Duke University Press study from 1997 deems Williamsburg "a Republican Disneyland" where history's harsh realities are papered over in favor of a more marketable past.
Colonial Williamsburg's current emphasis on social history and the role of slaves goes some way in responding to such critiques. But it can also unsettle some visitors who may prefer to simply soak up the genteel ambience. "A lot of folks don't want to hear about it, black or white," says Sam Wilson, an African American who interprets the lives of slaves at the home of Peyton Randolph, a leading Virginia politician who headed the Continental Congress.
Rather than just underscoring "how slaves were beaten and mistreated," Williamsburg is putting in the forefront individual slaves who strove for liberty and the betterment of their condition, according to Harvey Bakari, a research historian in the African American program. "What do you want people to take away from the experience? Is it just interpreting how horrible it was or how people resisted and tried to change their lives?" Bakari rejects the suggestion that this approach sugarcoats history. "We have to select what we will highlight. It doesn't mean we're neglecting the harshness."
Colonial Williamsburg put the institution of slavery center stage for the first time in 1994 when it re-enacted a public slave auction, a frequent occurrence in the late 18th century. That event sparked criticism from the NAACP and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference as a trivialization of African American history. "We never did it again," Bakari says. Now, he adds, Williamsburg is seeking different ways to find "a hook to get an audience that wouldn't look at you before."
Indeed, the broader problem faced by Williamsburg is how to enhance its attraction for a new generation of visitors for whom the British colonial era is remote and alien to their own heritage, particularly the growing population of Hispanics and other immigrants. In response, the museum has begun promoting education for citizenship, focusing on how individuals made a difference by causing the Revolution to happen.
Researchers for the foundation have written a textbook along these lines that was recently adopted for use in California elementary schools. In addition, a secondary school program is in the works involving civics in the context of American history, closely linking the values that were debated and fought for in colonial Williamsburg. As Campbell puts it, "This is where the country of which you are now a citizen, with responsibilities and rights as a citizen, was shaped; the place where much was formulated that affects your life today."


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Wow, I just love it. You chose the perfect night for this with all the reflections and lights bouncing off the pavement. Excellent shooting! I know what you mean by storms being exhilarating. I have been wanting to learn to do some night photography. This will be my motivation;~) |
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Juanita, I'm kinda amazed you didn't get more comments on your picture. I know how hard it is to get good night shots. It's so clear, wonderful reflections. There just doesn't seem to be anyone visiting this forum anymore. It's a shame. |
I don't post much anymore but I always look at everyone's photos, and I've seen some great ones. This is a wonderful picture. |
Thanks Marnie and Gmom....that's okay...it sometimes really is touch n go here...but sometimes i'm not able to post right away either...I do check it out still.... I would really to get out more at night to see if I can pull something like this off again...Since I wasn't the driver I was waiting poised...shutter button half way down and snapping before that light turned green....LOL...a simple thing like that was fun.... Thanks again Marnie and Gmom.... Juanita |
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The Goucher College Girls' Volleyball Camp is designed for middle school to high school aged girls. The camp is designed for players who have had at least one year of playing experience, and is recommended for any player who has the desire to take her game to the next level! The camp will focus on teaching proper technique and a progressive development of skills by incorporating the best practices in teaching and skill development. Camp coaches, including certified training staff, are all experienced coaches and have achieved success at a high level. The Camp is also staffed with current and past members of the Goucher Volleyball Team. Join us this July for a GREAT volleyball experience.
The Goucher College Girls' Volleyball Camp combines the best of individual skills camps, position camps, and team camps. Players choose various skills sessions to attend to strengthen a skill, then they choose what position session to attend based on their preferred position. They take these new skills back to their court and work with their "team" to incorporate their new skills in game like conditions.
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Additionally, the Chapel Hill, N.C., native was a multiple A-Sun All-Academic honoree. Harris graduated from Mercer University in 2012, with a major in psychology and a minor in communications. After spending a year abroad working with a London-based psychologist, Charlotte joined the coaching ranks this past summer while working as resource coach at Triangle Volleyball Club in North Carolina. She also assisted at NC State volleyball camps.
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I got one on eBay last year. It was a used one, but quite large, and not too expensive. On a smaller scale, you can use the plastic fruit ripening bowls that the super markets sometimes sell. Be sure to use begonias that don't get huge. |
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One with a round top. |
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Hello, I am in the Seattle area. I moved here a couple of years ago and don't know all the native plants. I have two beautiful dogs that I walk on a trail every day. One is a puppy though, only 15 weeks old, and I usually keep my eye on her constantly because she puts everything in her mouth, but my other dog was having an issue so I turned my head for a sec and she started eating a pod. There are these red/orange pods with little tufts on top on plants that are typical oblong, green, glossy leaves, and they get to be about apricot size. They do have a lot of white seeds in them. They kind of look like a little pomegranates but with persimmon skin. I asked someone on the trail what it was and she said she only knew the German word for it but that it was used to make red tea. I just need to verify that it is harmless. They grow all over the place so I am sure people know what it is. Thanks in advance!! |
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I don't know. You may want to try the Name that plant forum. There are alot of very knowledgeable folks that can id plants with the briefest of descriptions. FataMorgana |
I don't know either...I'm not familiar with plants of the Pacific Northwest. But if your puppy is exhibiting any unusual symptoms, you may want to bring her to the vet to be examined, just in case... I agree with FataMorgana that you may want to try GardenWeb's "Name That Plant" forum (see link at the bottom os this post) and see if someone there can help identify the plant. A photo would definitely help. Here's a link for GardenWeb's Northwestern Gardening Forum...maybe someone on that forum may know what the plant is. NORTHWESTERN GARDENING FORUM: You can also try bringing or e-mailing a photo of the plant to your local Cooperative Extension if you are still concerned. They may be able to help identify it. Try "googling" the name of your county plus the words "Cooperative Extension" to find yours. Sometimes state park employees or people who work at nature preserves can be helpful in identifying plants if there is a state park or nature preserve near you. You can also try contacting your local chapter of the Washington State Native Plant Society and see if they can help you identify the plant. WASHINGTON NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY: There is also always a chance it is a non-native plant that has escaped from someone's garden, perhaps by birds or mammals distributing the seeds inside the pods/fruits via their droppings. Good luck & best wishes for your new puppy. |
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At last, 23 days from the date post-marked on the envelope, my registered letter has been delivered and signed for in New York.
The Canada Post tracking form still shows neither its arrival in the US nor the fact that it has just been delivered. Despite the information on the screenshot from the Canada Post tracking form. Updated daily. Hmmm... wanna buy the Brooklyn Bridge?
But no more sniggering from those of you who have followed this sad saga of slow, sloppy, snail-like service from my first plaintive posting "Does Canada Post use Ox-Wagons" through sucessive reports of non-arrival.
The funniest point of all was made by the recipient who called me to announce its arrival. The letter proudly bears a stamp that says "Canada Post: From anyone... to anywhere." But as he said - it does not say how long.
A few days ago a friend and I joined a large roomful of Bard on the Beach supporters at the Pan Pacific Hotel. The occasion was a breakfast fundraiser for the company's educational programs. While we enjoyed fresh fruit salad, Eggs Benedict, pastries and coffee, Artistic Director Christopher Gaze invited the four set and costume designers for the 2010 season to tell us about their concepts for the Mainstage and Studio Stage productions.
On the Mainstage, comedy (Much Ado about Nothing) will alternate with tragedy (Antony and Cleopatra). Set designer Drew Facey described some of the challenges of creating a stage setting that must be switched from Much Ado director Dean Paul Gibson's concept of Messina in 1910 Italy, Scott Bellis's locations of Rome and Egypt a millennium earlier for Antony and Cleopatra. Costume designer Mara Gottler showed some of her costume designs and gave us some interesting insight into how various techniques are required to create as an example, a light diaphanous look for Cleopatra's clothes.
The Breath of Life by David Hare Directed by Adam Henderson United Players of Vancouver Jericho Arts Centre Apr 2 -25, 2010
Vancouver, BC: I finally managed to see the last of the four plays with "great roles for older women" featured in Vancouver within the past 4 months, as alluded to in my Preview of Collected Stories. Starting with the Arts Club's, Mrs. Dexter & her Daily in January, this coincidental "series" of plays includes Queen Lear at Presentation House in March, and Collected Stories at PAL Theatre and Breath of Life, both this month.
Masters' Play Ballet Kelowna Roundhouse Community Centre Sat, Apr 19th, 2010
Vancouver, BC: In an unusual conjunction, this weekend I had the pleasure of seeing two dance shows (instead of two plays back to back on successive evenings. Friday night's show was the stunning high energy Burn The Floor Ballroom and Latin Dance production at the Vogue Theatre. As a lovely counterpoint, on Saturday night, Ballet Kelowna, a small ballet company with a huge heart performed at the Roundhouse Community Center.
Burn The Floor: FloorPlay Conceived, Directed and Choreographed by Jason Gilkison Vogue Theatre Remaining shows Apr 17, 2 and 8 pm, April 18.
Vancouver, BC: Last night at the Vogue Theatre I saw Burn the Floor for the third time in eight months . The show has lost none of its impact from the first two times I saw it in New York and the dancing- and the singing - is as fantastic as before. They got several standing ovations and deservedly so. Anyone who loves dance should see this show and there are only three performances left before they head off to Toronto.
We were a group of 8 people with very mixed experience in dance, that met to go and see the Friday night performance. All of us, from the 5 who are simply enthusiastic observers of dance shows, to me - a very late starter in ballroom dance, and my two teachers, who are ex-competitive dancers, were wild about the show.
Earlier this week I had enjoyed the opportunity to chat to some of the dancers and to Preview the cast dancing in three of the numbers up close, but the energy they generated in the dance studio was nothing compared to that in the theatre, when magnified by the strong percussive music. You could power a city with the force of their energy.
Unfortunately I had a very large, tall man in the seat in front of me with a big head that really blocked my view of the overall stage, except for two numbers when he sat a little lower in his seat. If it was the first time I saw the show I would have been really upset.
But as it was, looking around his head, I found myself focusing less on the spectacle and more objectively on the individual dancing- the various steps that I could identify and the awesome precision of the footwork.
Collected Stories by Donald Margulies Directed by Mel Tuck PAL Theatre April 14 to 17, 21 to 24, 2010
Vancouver, BC: Well I have now seen three of the four plays I mentioned in my Preview of Collected Stories. Plays with satisfyingly meaty roles for "veteran actresses." Ruth Steiner in Collected Stories is such a character and, in the opening night show, Karen Austin did full justice to the role.
Collected Stories, by American playwright, Donald Margulies (who teaches playwriting at Yale School of Drama) premiered in New York in 1997 and won a Drama Desk nomination for Best play. it is beautifully constructed to show the changing relationship between successful writer/ professor, Ruth Steiner and the young student Lisa (Deborah English) who becomes her protege, her friend and ultimately her rival.
It must have been post-Olympic nationalistic lunacy that made me walk into a Canada Post Office to send a letter by registered mail to the US. Why else would I utilize the "services" of a Corporation who expend more effort on advertising their politically correctness than they do on providing service?
I handed in a letter to go by registered mail to New York on April 3rd. The 4th was Easter Monday- that's a holiday in Canada so the 5th would be the first working day. According to the Tracking System two days later, on the 7th, my little registered envelope "left Canada".
Unless it goes to the North Pole for Santa's elves to sort, it should have reached New York at least by the next day. I mean a passenger plane takes less than 5 hours direct from YVR to any of the New York city airports. So being charitable let's say it landed somewhere in the US by the 8th of April.
Well it is now the 15th April - seven, yes SEVEN days later, and it still is not even showing that it has been scanned in at a US mail destination, never-mind having been sent out for delivery. Unbelievable.
I checked two other shipping companies - you can guess which - and their standard delivery times are around 5 business days.
Last year I came across some interesting posts in The Guardian newspaper's theatre blog on the subject of stage roles for older women. Critic/blogger Lyn Gardner asked "what happened to great stage roles for older women" and academic/critic Karen Fricker responded by naming some great classic roles.
Since "older' is a relative term - viewed differently at 70 then at 20 - Fricker suggests "middle age [for which there is actually no one accepted definition anyway ] and best played by an actress in her 50s or above."
Refuge of Lies Written and directed by Ron Reed Pacific Theatre Company Pacific Theatre, April 9 - May 1, 2010
Vancouver, BC: Refuge of Lies is the kind of play that makes theatre exciting for me. It tells a great story, has strong characters struggling with profound life questions and has the power to engender intense discussions as well as individual explorations of one's personal sense of morality. Throw in a number of excellent performances and powerful staging under the direction of the playwright himself, and you have a riveting drama.
As Reed states, his impetus to write this play originated sixteen years ago when UBC botanist and Mennonite, Jacob Luitjens, was extradited to the Netherlands for war crimes committed some fifty years earlier, during the second world war. Reed took the title and theme for this play from the lines of Isaiah 28:7 - " And I will make justice the line... and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overwhelm the shelter."
While the play grew out of the Luitjens story (and that of others like him), Reed emphasizes that the play is not biographical but more about the emotional conflicts stirred up in the playwright himself in response to the events. And the different degrees to which these conflicts spill over into each audience member adds to the power of the piece.
Forget about your superheroes. Forget about "swifter, higher, stronger". The fittest athletes not to compete in an Olympic Games are performing in Vancouver this week. It's the cast of Burn The Floor, the dance spectacular that reinvents International Ballroom and Latin Dance in a show that is absolutely riveting.
They are fresh off their Broadway run - where I loved it so much that I saw it twice in two weeks - see Burn The Floor - New York Theatre.
And guess what, I already have my ticket for the Vancouver show.
So what's so special about this show? The music will rock you to the core and the percussion rhythms of Georgio Rojas with vocalists Ricky Rojas and Rebecca Tapia will make you want to get up and dance.
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Despite the somewhat serious implications of real wrecked cars (we're talking serious injury to adverts for car insurance), the virtual smashing of vehicles has always been fun - a sentiment shared by the creator of Crashday, a hi-octane game that believes a car isn't a car until it's hurtling through the air in several thousand pieces.
Amazingly though, the origins of this sleek, adrenalin-fuelled racer came when its creators were proud owners of bumfluff beards - at a tender 13 years of age. "Back in 1997, Crashday started as a hobby project of my friend Jan Bodenstein and me," explains project leader Robert Clemens. "Our dream was to create a game that blends the classic stunts and its track editor, with the wrecking action of Carmageddon."
In short, we're talking about some serious pubescent passion that went into developing the title - you can almost smell the inability to talk to pretty girls.
"After a few years of development (without any budget) and lots of effort, we ended up with something that was good enough to start considering a commercial release. At that point we were really running out of resources, so in 2003 we joined forces with Hamburg game development studio Replay Studios to finish work on Crashday."
At this point, I think it's only fair we put into words what everybody is thinking: the huge half-pipes; the loop-the-loops; the physically improbable stunts; this is TrackMania isn't it?
"Well, both TrackMania and Crashday focus on easy accessibility and feature a track editor, but that's where similarities end," continues Clemens. "We try to avoid comparing Crashday too much to any other racing game since it's rather a new breed - a crazy mix of racing, speed and destruction that allows you to build your own mad courses. It's a blend of different action racing games: the casual gameplay and destructive fun of Burnout; the open terrain and wrecking action of Carmageddon; a track editor similar to TrackMania; and the game's Stunt mode, which is best compared to Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, only with cars."
Despite the fact that Crashday is melding together so many different ideas from so many different games (what with a UT2004-on-wheels feel to vehicular deathmatch), it still feels different enough to warrant its own existence. With a huge amount of customisability, Crashday will at the very least be a huge pile of something, and our bet is that something won't be putrid faeces. And seeing as it's being made by two men who must have sacrificed no end of school discos to get it to us, that's nothing but a good thing.


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Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) Typing
The forensic scientists at the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory (AFDIL) use the latest DNA typing methods to provide for the identification of remains or other biological evidence. For the identification of current casualties, nuclear DNA (nucDNA) provides a tool for positive identification, when other forensic techniques, such as a fingerprint or dental comparison is not possible. In some cases, nucDNA is not a viable tool in identifying remains that have been degraded by environmental factors. These factors include such things as ultra-violet light from the sun, heat, and moisture. For older remains, however, recovered from the battlefields of Korea, the Cold War, World War II, and Southeast Asia (SEA), mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has proved to be a useful investigative tool that adds additional detail towards a positive identification.
Background on DNA
There are only two copies of nucDNA per human cell, except for red blood cells, which have no nucleus. Half of the nucDNA component comes from the biological mother while the other half comes from the biological father. On the other hand, there are hundreds to thousands of copies of mtDNA per cell. Thus, mtDNA analysis is more successful on degraded remains (i.e., Korean War, Cold War and SEA losses) because the amount of mtDNA found in cells and required for analysis lasts a much longer period of time. It is possible that mtDNA stays viable in bones and teeth up to thousands of year if the environmental conditions are favorable.
In looking at nucDNA, a child is a biological copy of the mother and father's because of the inherited nuclear DNA. However, mtDNA is different in that it is only transferred maternally from the mother to the child. An important aspect of mtDNA is that it is an extremely stable genome. Scientists estimate that mutational changes in mtDNA will occur only once in every 40-60 generations, so as long as family relationships can be established, mtDNA provides forensic scientists the ability to go back generations in a family tree to observe these maternal relationships.
One limiting factor of mtDNA is that some DNA sequences are observed more frequently than others. In some of the more common mtDNA sequences, 4-6% of the population can have the same sequence even though they are not know to be maternally related to each other. As a result, mtDNA cannot be used by itself for positive identification and must be coupled with other forensic information to help establish the identity of an individual. However, it is an extremely valuable forensic tool in support of the identification process.
Typing of mtDNA
Typically, the sequencing of mtDNA begins by pulverizing approximately two to three grams of bone or a tooth. The powdered material is then treated with a chemical solution to release the DNA from the cells. Scientists purify this solution to a small volume of extract. Initially, the amount of extracted mtDNA is too small to analyze. Therefore, scientists will replicate a particular region, the "d-loop", of the mtDNA many millions of times using a special chemical process called the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), which was invented in 1985. Technicians determine the sequence of the amplified portion of the mtDNA taken from the extract. Once scientists determine the sequence, they compare it to a family reference sequence to either exclude or provide supportive evidence of the maternal relationship to a particular family.
mtDNA's Support Towards Identifications
mtDNA sequencing is an important tool in DoD's identification process. Scientists count on the power of mtDNA to provide the additional evidence required in making an identification. As with nucDNA, environmental factors such as soil (acidic), weather (moisture), and condition of bones (fragmentation) will often provide extreme challenges to the forensic scientist. Southeast Asia has acidic soil and rain, which accelerates the breakdown of mtDNA. Korea's colder and drier environment, on the other hand, allows for better preservation of the DNA in the remains.
Analysis of mtDNA is extremely accurate; however, mtDNA may not be unique to a single individual. Investigators then require additional presumptive evidence for identification. This presumptive evidence can include other documented findings that provide a logical reason to associate remains with an individual. However, the mtDNA sequence obtained from the biological materials provides the final key scientific evidence that will lead to an answer as to establishing the relationship of the remains with a family reference sequence.
Innovative Usage of mtDNA
Scientists can best use mtDNA on single loss incidents or on a small group of remains. When investigators focus their efforts to a narrowed group, based on presumptive or other collaborative evidence, mtDNA sequence comparison provides the significant additional supportive information towards making an identification.
In cases that involve large numbers of individuals, such as a large battlefield, with possible commingling of remains, there maybe little initial presumptive evidence to help investigators focus the identification process. In these type cases, mtDNA can be useful in grouping the recovered remains into smaller more manageable numbers, so other investigative means can better provide evidence to the identification process. Here scientists will use mtDNA sequences of the remains much earlier in the investigative process as the first step to divide a large group of commingled remains into smaller groups that have the same mtDNA. From scientific study of mtDNA, of the 8,100 American personnel missing in Korea, approximately 5% will have the same mtDNA typing. That is potentially 420 sets of individuals with the same mtDNA sequence. However, the rest of the remains will divide into smaller, more focused groups where investigators may concentrate their efforts. However, the assistance of families is critical if mtDNA is to be used in this manner.
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AFDIL scientists require a family database that includes a mtDNA family reference sample for each of the unaccounted-for servicemen to conduct comparisons between remains that have no other presumptive evidence. AFDIL will use the database to compare mtDNA sequencing to exclude or help to identify a returned remain in support of CILHI's identification process.
More than 8,100 servicemen remain unaccounted-for from the Korean War and more than 100 are missing from the Cold War of the 1950s and 60s. Since cessation of hostilities in Korea in 1953, the services have lost contact with many of the families. Consequently, DPMO and the services are conducting a "Family Outreach" program to locate the relatives for servicemen unaccounted-for from the Korean and Cold War. Once these families are located, the Service Casualty Offices will attempt to identify and obtain a maternal blood reference sample. With these samples AFDIL will be able to establish a comprehensive family reference database. Family members of these servicemen should contact the appropriate service casualty office to provide information relative to their loved one.


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BA is planning a biofuels plant, as it makes its bid for the "green airline" ticket. Its proposed project, to be built in east London, would employ 1,200 people and produce 16m gallons of aviation fuel a year.
It is a smart move, stealing a march on Sir Richard Branson, leader of BA's bitter rival Virgin Atlantic. Sir Richard has been talking a lot about the danger of oil shortages – the "oil crunch", as he has been calling it – as head of the UK business task force on peak oil, but has made only tentative attempts to position his company to face that threat.
However, BA's plant would deliver only modest amounts of fuel, while consuming enormous quantities of London's garbage.
There is a very real prospect that we will hit "peak waste" before we hit peak oil.
Siting the plant in London is a smart move, because the city is the Ghawar of waste: the country's largest upstream source of supply. The plant would use organic waste such as food, thrown away in astonishing volumes by the British public, which would be gasified and then converted into liquid fuels by the standard Fischer-Tropsch process used for gas-to-liquids plants.
However, there is a fundamental problem with this plan: a shortage of garbage. London throws away about 3m tonnes of that organic waste every year. That might sound a lot, but BA's plant would need to use 500,000 tonnes a year to produce its 16m gallons. That is one sixth of London's output, or the waste from 1.3m people. About 1m tonnes a year is already finding productive uses, so BA's demand will be about a quarter of the city's available waste.
Meanwhile, the mayor of London has a project to encourage the use of waste for fuel, so there are likely to be several other companies in the area that could compete with BA for its waste supply. For example Ineos, the chemicals group, has big plans for biofuels from waste, in the US as well as the UK.
That 16m gallons, moreover, would fuel just 2 per cent of BA's fleet at Heathrow airport. So to power all the aircraft just for BA, just from that airport, would require the waste from eight cities the size of London, or roughly the entire population of England.
The problem, strange as it may seem, is that there is just not enough waste in the world for the process to make a radical difference to energy supplies. "Fuel from garbage" is a seductive idea, and at the margin it can make a contribution, but the margins are where it is likely to stay.
It also suggests that there may come a time when you will no longer have to pay people to take your waste away, but will be able to sell it. That has already happened with many types of commercial waste. How long before householders have to keep their bins inside the house, for fear of "garbage bandits" snatching their precious potato peelings and banana skins?


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The federal surface transportation bill funds everything from highways and transit to crosswalks and bike lanes. Thanks to federal transportation law, our country's vast network of highways, railroads, public transportation, walkways, and bikeways stretches from Maine to Minneapolis and Tallahassee to Tucson.
The transportation bill is traditionally re-written and re-authorized every six years.
Congress passed a new federal transportatin law, Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21), in June of 2012. The law significantly cuts available funding for biking and walking projects, but also presents an opportunity for Americans to encourage state and local governments to fully utilize available funds to make biking and walking safer and more convenient.
Shortly after the bill's text was released, America Bikes published a full analysis of the changes to biking and walking policies. View our full analysis here.
Our two-page factsheet on MAP-21 (online here; PDF for download here) discusses the changes to biking and walking programs, new funding structures, and eligibility under other federal transportation programs.
In the past, three programs were designed to fund non-motorized projects: Transportation Enhancements (TE), Safe Routes to School (SRTS), and Recreational Trails Program (RTP). In the last three years, these three programs represented 48% of federal funding for walking and biking projects.
MAP-21 consolidates TE, SRTS, and RTP into into one program: Transportation Alternatives. This new law reduces overall funding levels for biking and walking projects and changes how these funds are distributed for local projects.


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DAVID KARP DOESN'T SEEM LIKELY FOR POLITICS. When the Tumblr founder and CEO explains what happened over the weekend, he speaks about it in his typically blazing conversational speed, a full paragraph at a time, with the intensity of someone who's been sequestered on a coding project for the last three days:
"Basically," he blasts off, "we had this gathering of the internet in our office, we had seventy people and a bunch of politicians on the phone"—and then pulls back to divest himself of credit—"though we didn't organize the effort, it was the Demand Progress guys. We just put them up in our office, where we had forty-plus people around. We were in here all day on Saturday. We basically showed up to just say, 'hey, anything we can develop we'll help develop, in direct communication with dozens of people,' and basically all of these founders and people in tech companies are standing by following all this,'" and by 'this,' Mr. Karp is referring to a piece of legislation going through Congress—"developing, working to figure out how they can seed it in their communities—propagate it—and get it out there. We literally just finished the copy, we had our team of engineers help build it."
And yesterday morning, these efforts went live, the center of which was a quirky, live collage of user-submitted photos from those with jobs in the tech/online platform entitled I Work For The Internet that provoked the call to Mr. Karp. That was at the beginning of the day.
Less than 24 hours into its existence, the site has already provoked a decent amount of curiosity, amusement, and—like anything else on the Internet—some criticism and meta-enabling, like a Gawker post lampooning the message, and a VICE post about how Gawker fell for their trolling prank on the site.
It also happens to be the product of some of the most deeply-ingrained footsoilders of Silicon Alley, who came together in all-weekend marathon thinktank and coding session for what might be one of the most bracing and cohesive American policy problems Silicon Alley has faced as an industry, and their first step towards fighting one together, too. The startups of New York City don't usually find themselves embroiled in politics, unless, of course, it's in a (bipartisan) manner with which the ingenious of their own platforms can be further brought to light. Yet, to say that they have some skin in the SOPA fight is a massive understatement.
Tumblr's New York City offices—where the weekend-long, late-night session was held—is quite the fitting setting. After all, if Silicon Alley loses this fight, the entirety of Tumblr could be shut down for hosting anything from a beloved music blog like SexMusic to a beloved Ryan Gosling blog like Fuck Yeah Ryan Gosling.
The Stop Online Piracy Act, a bipartisan effort powered by the packed wallets of Hollywood lobbyists, is an effort to curb illegal distribution of their product by way of an Internet Kill Switch: If a website is accused of hosting pirated content, it can be shut down, sight-unseen, without due process. Orwellian and fantastically dreamed as it may sound, it's actually being debated in Congress for a vote over the next week.
The implications of this legislation being passed are what the thinktank-yielded website—or trifecta of sites (I Work For The Internet, Trust Nerds, and Fight For The Future)— aims to explain. By distilling the result of SOPA's passage into simple voting issues and a user-friendly way to act on them, those helping fight SOPA hope to give it the kind of viral, accessible resonance that might yield political action.
Mr. Karp takes another breath, but this time, and slightly slower, he speaks emphatically: "We really working to understand the process and the legislation right now. We were really just discussing what we could do to get behind this." With words like that, maybe his political future isn't so cloudy after all.
"TURNOUT WAS REALLY GOOD. You know, like, New York Tech Company people, for the most part." Six days into his new job, Tumblr's new Vice President, Andrew McLaughlin—a former White House staffer who was President Obama's deputy chief technology officer, which followed a four-year stint as Google's global policy wonk—is already talking politics. He's rattling off (albeit, with some struggle) the names of all of those who were in attendance over the weekend, when the aforementioned Silicon Alley heavy hitters came up with the concept, design, and execution of an attempt at activism-by-meme, as a stance against the highly-controversial sum-of-all-fears legislation that is SOPA, or the Stop Online Piracy Act, currently being pushed through Congress this week.
"Brad Burnham and Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures were there, um," he continues, "people from Etsy, Kickstarter, Reddit, Foursquare..people from some of the Betaworks companies, so like, Chartbeat, I think Beatworks itself, Social Flow. We didn't actually pass around an attendance sheet, and this was actually the first time I met them, so I'm sort of shitty on the names, but," he finishes, "it was a real slice of the startup crowd in New York City."
Awareness of the legislation has rocketed over the last few weeks, but even when Tumblr previously took action to put their foot in the ground on SOPA, the primary focus was the threat of censorship, a looming political threat most Americans don't fret over conspiratorially. After all, it is protected by the first—and not, say, the nineteenth—amendment. SOPA advocates needed something stronger, and the legislation more than gives them that fight.
"We didn't want to repeat what we did last time," Tumblr editorial director Mark Coatney explains, recalling Tumblr's 'blackout' initiative, "but at the same time, everything that we've heard from the feedback from that is that the only thing congressional staffers respond to are the phone calls to their office. After that it was: 'How can we hit the other aspects of the bill?'"
Hence, the newest efforts. For example, on the jobs front, Mr. McLaughlin suggests that the United States—ever-proficient in creating platform companies like eBay, Amazon, Google, Dropbox, and say, Tumblr—could have job-creation threatened by an act that places liability for these platforms' content on the platforms instead of the users, as they traditionally have. "The rules up until now have been very straightforward. So long as you're not the one who's not the author, as long as you act quickly to take things down when they're infringing copyright, let's say, then you're not liable for what users did."
The threat SOPA presents is that domains like Tumblr would be responsible for what its users do. "Let's say Canada and the European Union maintain the principle of intermediary liability. We think there's a real danger that increased compliance costs on U.S. businesses will make us less competitive, and people in other parts of the world will be more competitive. If you make it much more expensive to be an American internet company, then that's going to be to the benefit of other countries."
This potential for this to go wrong in other ways, it should be noted, could hit Mr. McLaughlin's new home especially hard. "[SOPA] has real implications for, let's say, Tumblr, where we've got 35 million blogs, every single one of them has a unique third-level URL under Tumblr.com. Under the bill as it's written, the threat is that one bad apple means they could get cancellation of Tumblr.com the domain name, killing everyone's blog. We don't think that's what people intend, we don't think that's what they want the result to be, but we look at the language of the bill…and the use of this very clumsy tool of domain cancellation, that's what we see as a possibility."
But why shouldn't domains be responsible for their content? After all, Hollywood and what it produces is, over the last century, one of America's most consistent exports. Mr. McLaughlin volleys this back without thinking: "[Domains] aren't engaged in the infringement. They're not doing it. They're not the criminals. If two people plan a crime using the telephone system, you don't indict the phone company for connecting the call. If you want these platforms to thrive, you can't impose liability for every one of the literally billions of transactions that runs over their system every day," he takes a breath, and then drives again:
"The second point is this justice point, which is just simply: They're not doing the infringement. When you put those two together, it just so happens, the traditional techniques of law enforcement are what we should be using. The number of kind of like commercial scale copyright infringement mills is—by Hollywood's own estimate—somewhere in the low tens. To inflict an entirely new liability regime and to break secure DNS to go after a couple of dozens of sites is crazy!"
The other two sites—Trust Nerds, which advocates against the dismantling of DNS upgrades that would be waylaid by any stripe of Internet Kill Switch and attempt to circumvent it, and American Censorship, which advocates against the potential for SOPA to be abused by redaction-happy corporate or bureaucratic forces lacking the best intentions—make up the remainder of the political tech power push. "When it became clear that those were the three narratives to hit," Mr. Karp concludes, "we decided to go with 'Fight for the Future,' which was the original SOPA setup, and then decided to make that the hub for all the stuff we now use to host that call to action."
And on Monday, it was done…With exception to a few coding errors, of course, the likes of which received personal adjustment from Mr. Karp after reading about them on Hacker News boards. For a first foray into political activism by Silicon Alley at-large, it's undeniably coherent and impressive, regardless of what some may think of the message (it certainly stands in stark opposition to that other viral political movement, Occupy Wall Street, whose criticisms of 'But what does it stand for?' have all but been totally answered herein, and then some).
Yet, if strong national opposition to the face-value injustices of Wall Street banks experiences news-cycle setbacks in the simple dismantling of sit-in protests, are the lofty ambitions of fighting SOPA realistic? In other words: If you can barely get someone to call their representative for that, is all this effort be for naught?
"We're not under any illusions. I've been around D.C. long enough," Mr. McLaughlin says, sounding like someone who has, in fact, been around D.C. long enough. "We're not under any illusions that this isn't some magical counter to decades of investment and relationships and political campaigns and lobbyists and so forth that pro-SOPA people have made. It's not like this is, you know, a Mr. Smith Goes To Washington-moment where lots of calls come in and suddenly everyone drops what they're doing and we magically win the debate. We're not that grandiose as to think this is going to work like that." He concludes that this is the kind of fight those with dogs in it—and those who want to help—we need to get used to, and now is as good a time as any to start:
"For this battle and for future battles down the road, people who care about the Internet need to get in the habit of letting their representatives know they care about the Internet. The Internet isn't just a force of nature that happens, it's something that's built. It's built by humans and regulated by governments, and the people who care about it need to be sufficiently vocal."
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1 Keep me safe, O God, I've run for dear life to you. | 1 Keep me safe, O God, for in you I take refuge. |
2 I say to God, "Be my Lord!" Without you, nothing makes sense. | 2 I said to the LORD, "You are my Lord; apart from you I have no good thing." |
3 And these God-chosen lives all around - what splendid friends they make! | 3 As for the saints who are in the land, they are the glorious ones in whom is all my delight. |
4 Don't just go shopping for a god. Gods are not for sale. I swear I'll never treat god-names like brand-names. | 4 The sorrows of those will increase who run after other gods. I will not pour out their libations of blood or take up their names on my lips. |
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7 The wise counsel God gives when I'm awake is confirmed by my sleeping heart. | 7 I will praise the LORD, who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me. |
8 Day and night I'll stick with God; I've got a good thing going and I'm not letting go. | 8 I have set the LORD always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. |
9 I'm happy from the inside out, and from the outside in, I'm firmly formed. | 9 Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest secure, |
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Does our climate here in CO allow for growing Artichokes??? If so, what is the right time to get them in the ground? |
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- Posted by dan_staley USDA 5/S 2b (My Page) on Thu, Aug 20, 09 at 17:49
You treat them as an annual here. Dan |
Look for "Imperial Star" artichoke seeds, and start them in January. You want to set them out about the first week of May so they get really cold, maybe a light frost or so, and plant them in a bed with a lot of organic matter, about 3 feet apart. They are aphid magnets, and need to be sprayed every few weeks with soapy water. You'll get 5-10 heads per plant. If you can manage to over winter them, then things really take off the next year. I managed inadvertently by dumping a few feet of leaves/grass clippings on one plant, and it survived the winter, and came roaring back the next spring. That plant has produced at least 20 heads. A fresh artichoke straight from the garden is a culinary wonder. They sure are a pain to grow. I have 20 odd plants and we have more than we can eat. Although we try. They are popular at the market, but nobody is going to pay very much for them because they are smaller, and nobody in their right mind is going to pay what they charge in the stores. I can sell all I bring at 50˘ a piece. At $1, no takers. I don't blame them, either. I will try to over-winter them once again, and if successful, so be it. I'm still undecided if I'll buy seeds again maybe let me try that recipe I heard the other day where they steam them, pick off the tough leaves, then cut in half and sprinkle with olive oil and grated parmesan, then broil ..... |
- Posted by dan_staley USDA 5/S 2b (My Page) on Thu, Aug 20, 09 at 21:30
Ah, yes, I'm caught by my shorthand again. Much better is 'more often than not they die and are treated as an annual'. David, what did you think you did that made them overwinter successfully? Do you think it was the sheer depth of the mulch or the few days of cold? Dan |
Dan, I've talked to some other folks who have tried to over-winter them with wire baskets of mulch on top, and that didn't work. We didn't get all that cold this last winter, the big problem we face is everything dries out. So I think it more a question of the mulch keeping the soil moist enough, as well as insulating. Or, just dumb luck. :) |
- Posted by dan_staley USDA 5/S 2b (My Page) on Fri, Aug 21, 09 at 10:39
They are one of my favorite veggies, David, and I'd love to have the space and climate to grow them here. I see very few make it here and all the MGs and gardeners we know don't count on them. Maybe I'll send them on a fact-finding trip ;o) Dan |
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Do you know where your kids are? For many parents the answer is a resounding yes; they always know where their kids are. Cell phones have changed family life in many ways. They provide parents with peace of mind, and they're great in emergencies. Family members can always reach each other or call 911. Cell phones are also convenient and time-saving. Kids can let parents know where they are, when they need to be picked up, when they'll be late, and just generally what's happening. Parents can let children know if their plans change, whether they'll be late, and where to meet. In many ways, cell phones make life easier and safer.
Marianne, 16, has just earned her driver's license and wants to know she can call for help if her car breaks down.
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Josh, 11, whose parents both work, lets them know when he gets home from school.
Estimates of how many middle school students own cell phones range from over 40% to 75%, with even higher rates for high school students.
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- Cell phones are not just for talking. As the technology becomes more and more sophisticated, kids can use cell phones to do lots of other things without their parents' knowledge. With some phones kids can take pictures, text message or surf the Web for videos and games. They can also download pictures, videos, and music. Cell phones allow kids to keep their contacts secret and can facilitate contact with bad influences. The Office of National Drug Control Policy has reported that some teens are using technology and the Internet to get drug information, and cell phones provide instant access to information and sources of drugs. According to their report, 60% of teens have their own cell phones and 19 million teens instant message.
- New features such as color and added power may provide games and videos of questionable content. Game ratings are not available on cell phones, so parents will have less knowledge or control of their children's activities than they have of children's use of home computers.
- Cell phones offer opportunities for undesirable behavior, such as cheating on tests or teen dating abuse. Teens have reported that they have been called names, harassed, put down by their partner, or asked to engage in sex through cell phones and texting. They have also reported that boyfriends/girlfriends sharing private or embarrassing pictures/videos on cell phones and computers is a serious problem.
- Since parents have demonstrated that they're willing to pay for the peace of mind that comes with knowing where their kids are, cell phone plans, particularly family plans, are proliferating. Preteens and teens represent a significant source of revenue for phone manufacturers, and younger children are also being targeted with the marketing of simple entry level phones. Industry spending on advertising to children has increased during the last decade from $100 million in 1990 to more than $2 billion in 2000.
- The issue of safety and the impact of cell phones on the developing brain is still unresolved. The FDA has taken the position that there is no evidence that cell phones can cause harm. The use of headsets is recommended, however.
When is a child ready for a cell phone?
Cell phones have become a status symbol, and even young children are clamoring for them. The decision to give a child a cell phone should depend not only on need but also on whether or not s/he can be responsible for taking care of it. Children have been known to lose the phone, bury it in a backpack, forget to turn it on, lend it to a friend, etc. Several cell phones are specifically designed for younger children; they have no frills and have built-in parental controls, such as limits on who can call and who can be called, lack of internet access or text messaging capability, and plans with prepaid minutes that can't be exceeded.
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Believing that phones interfere with academic productivity and concentration, most schools have policies about their use, such as not allowing cell phones to be used in class, no cell phone rings at school, and vibrate-only calls in an emergency. Some schools permit the use of phones only in the parking lots and bus and parent pickup spots.
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Monitor your children's use of all technological devices.
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Idaho to vote on constitutional right to hunt, fish — and trap
An Idaho ballot measure that would grant a constitutional right to hunt and fish is controversial because it also would make it a right to trap animals.
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BOISE — Idaho has a measure on the November ballot to enshrine a right to hunt, fish and trap in the state constitution — a proposal that likely would generate virtually no opposition in the outdoorsy state but for the inclusion of trapping.
Thirteen other states have passed right-to-hunt-and-fish amendments, all but one of them in the past 15 years. Three others in addition to Idaho — Kentucky, Nebraska and Wyoming — are considering them in November. But only five states have specifically protected the right to trap.
Greg Moore, head of Idahoans Against Trapping, called trapping "an inherently unethical way to kill animals" and a hazard to pets. "Trapping is just no longer necessary — we don't need the fur," he said. "It's so women in places like Sun Valley who think they're chic can have fur trim on their ski parkas. That's not worth all the suffering that goes into it."
His group has raised $22,000 for a campaign against the constitutional amendment, HJR2aa, and hopes to start running a TV commercial against it in the Boise area. The money came from dozens of Idaho residents, campaign-finance reports show, along with $5,000 from a family foundation and $1,000 from the Idaho Sierra Club.
Patrick Carney, president of the Idaho Trappers Association, said opponents are misinformed. "I do not believe that it's inhumane," he said. "We've come a long ways over the last probably 40 years with the kinds of traps."
His group is preparing radio ads and billboards in favor of the amendment. He said of the measure's opponents, "They're against everything. They want us to eat bean sprouts and tofu, I guess."
Sen. Lee Heider, R-Twin Falls, author of the Idaho amendment, said he wants to preserve the state's heritage of hunting, fishing and trapping for future generations. "It needs to be preserved in our constitution so that it can't be challenged every year by some other faction," Heider said.
Trapping is a much smaller portion of Idaho's wildlife scene than hunting and fishing; the state licensed 1,752 trappers last year but sold more than half a million licenses for hunting or fishing.
State Fish and Game records show more than 800 nontargeted animals got caught in traps over the past two years, including 102 rabbits, 62 squirrels, 49 skunks, 44 mountain lions, 37 porcupines, 35 deer, 30 dogs, 24 house cats and two eagles. Not all were killed or injured; where possible, they were released unharmed.
Craig White, a wildlife biologist with Idaho Fish and Game, noted that interest in trapping in Idaho fluctuates with the economy and with the price of a bobcat pelt, which now is high, averaging $300 to $500. Idaho had about 1,000 licensed trappers until two years ago, when the number started climbing to the current 1,700-plus.
The amendment has aroused some concern among constitutional scholars for recognizing something other than a traditional "fundamental right" like freedom of speech or religion. David Adler, constitutional expert and head of the Andrus Center for Public Policy at Boise State University, likened it to amending a constitution to add a right to smoke or a right to ride a bicycle.
"We wouldn't clutter up the constitution with those kinds of interests," he said.
Adler said, "Hunting and fishing rights would not ever be threatened in Idaho — it's in Idahoans' DNA. The practice of trapping might be a different issue. But that's why it's all the more important to deal with that at a legislative level, because legislators can take account of society's views and values on that kind of an activity."
Creating a new constitutional right could invite lawsuits over whether various hunting, fishing or trapping regulations go too far, Adler warned. Lawmakers cited that concern, among others, in rejecting the first five versions of Heider's amendment this year before finally backing the sixth.
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Who is the Liberator King and why do I use this phrase as His name?
The Liberator King is none other than Jesus Christ, the one who literally spoke all of creation into existence. The one who took on human form and walked on this very Earth. Who taught the scriptures like no one before Him because He truly was the human embodiment of The Word, who performed many miracles, cast out demons, and opened the way to Heaven for each and every one of us.
He laid down His life on the Cross of Calvary and took it up again on the third day promising each and everyone of us a Resurrection. And He lives today in Heaven interceding for those who have chose to accept His salvation.
Even if you haven't He still calls out from the pages of The Word, the Bible saying:
28 "Come to Me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 All of you, take up My yoke and learn from Me,because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for yourselves. 30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light." Matthew 11:28-30
I use the phrase Liberator King because if you choose to give up your burdens to Him, repent of your sins, and let Him lead your life and fill you with His Spirit. He will liberate you from The 10 Commandments, from death and from Hell.
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