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Page OverviewRhode Island Emissions Testing & Safety Inspections
Rather than wait for federal action, Rhode Island has decided to combat its thickening ground ozone problem by making emission checks mandatory for most vehicles and light trucks under 8,500 lbs.
On this page you'll find a general overview of the Rhode Island emissions and safety inspection program.
Rhode Island Emissions & Safety Inspections
Emission checks must done every 2 years at any state-certified inspection station. To save you time, tests are jointly conducted during your vehicle's biannual safety inspection. When arriving, be sure to have your car's registration.
Emissions and safety inspections cost $55.
The following vehicles are required to pass both inspections biannually:
- All vehicles weighing 8,500 lbs. or less.
- New vehicles within 2 years of purchase or before they reach 24,000 miles, whichever comes first.
- Used vehicles being newly registered within 5 days of the registration date.
- Diesel vehicles weighing 8,500 lbs. or less.
The following vehicles are exempt from the emissions test only:
- Electric vehicles.
- Vehicles that are 25 years old or older. (Both tests will be administered, but the vehicle will not fail if it does not meet emissions standards.)
- Vehicles insured as classic cars.
- Vehicles that are temporarily out of state (See "Rhode Island Extensions for Vehicles Out of State" below).
NOTE: Your vehicle is exempt from completing both the safety and emissions tests if it is registered as an antique.
If Your Car Passes
If your car meets the state's emission standards, you will receive an inspection report and a validation sticker that must be displayed on your vehicle's windshield. Failure to do so is an invitation to getting pulled over by the police.
If Your Car Fails
Failing your emissions check means your vehicle is releasing an inordinate amount of pollution. The examining technician will supply you with a detailed inspection report indicating what needs to be fixed on your vehicle.
In addition, you will receive a Repair Data Form that needs to be completed and signed by the mechanic who repairs your vehicle. You then must present this Repair Data Form when you return for another emissions check.
You'll be able to get a free re-inspection if you return to the same testing facility within 30 days of your first test.
If your vehicle fails the re-inspection, you will need to file a waiver through the RI Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV). A diagnostic waiver stipulates that your vehicle couldn't be repaired because the necessary parts are no longer available.
If you disagree with your vehicle's failing grade, you may request a challenge inspection.
RI Incentives for Eco-Friendly Driving
Electric vehicles (EV) are exempt from the emissions portion of the biennial inspection; however, you still must bring your EV in for safety inspections in order to maintain valid vehicle registration.
NOTE: If you own an alternative fuel vehicle (AFV) with a gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of 8,500 lbs or fewer (including hybrids that can operate on gasoline), you must bring it in for the biennial safety and emissions inspection.
For more information about eco-friendly driving perks, visit our section on green driver incentives.
Extensions for Vehicles Out of State
If you and your vehicle are out of the state for an extended period when your inspection sticker expires, it might be possible to get an inspection in another state. Check with an inspection station in that state to determine its testing procedures, and then contact the Rhode Island Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) Safety and Emissions office at (401) 462-5890.
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MUSSOLINI and FASCISM in ITALY (1 of 5)
Romantic Heroism in War | Frustration for Mussolini in 1919 | 1920: a Failed Revolution and a Good Year for Mussolini | Road to Power in 1921-22 | Prime Minister Mussolini Increases His Power
Prime Minister Mussolini
World War I – or the Great War as it was also called – elevated some of Italy's young men who were proud to be combatants for their nation. The war also elevated national pride in people and a sense that Italy was one nation with a common cause rather than divided by class antagonisms. And one Italian so elevated and proud to have fought in the war was Benito Mussolini.
Benito Mussolini was the son of a worker-intellectual, a blacksmith – who named his son after the 19th century Mexican revolutionary, Benito Juarez. Benito Mussolini was a bright boy and a voracious reader in his youth. He suffered from poverty as a young man and hated the rich. More accurately, he envied the rich. But he sought recognition more than personal wealth. He was for a time a school teacher, and he rose to become editor of a Socialist Party newspaper.
In 1915, as Italy pondered whether to go to war, Mussolini broke with the pacifism of the socialists. He editorialized for Italy's involvement in the war on the side of the Allies, claiming that France's defeat would end liberty in Europe. He argued that Italy's involvement in the war would hasten the socialist revolution. The Socialist Party responded by expelling him. So Mussolini started his own newspaper, The People of Italy, receiving funds from the French. He did not want Italy left out of what he called a grand drama.
Mussolini was so excited about the war that when Italy declared war he joined Italy's prestigious Bersaglieri regiment as a private. He liked the trotting and getting into shape – stomach in and chest out. He was sent to the front, and in February 1917, after six months, he was wounded during hand grenade practice. He was hospitalized for months, and during convalescence he took up the cause of praising his nation's soldiers and veterans. By October 1917 he was back at his newspaper in Milan, and later that year he was blaming "defeatists" and "the politicians" for the failure at the front – the great rout after the battle at Caporetto.
Mussolini advanced himself by publishing his Diary of the War. His view of international events was Darwinistic, the masthead of his paper glorifying armed struggle and reading: "He who has steel has bread." By now he had forgotten about the liberty that might be lost with France's defeat. He attacked all those, including the Socialist Party, who called for peace.
The war had not been going as well as for Italy as Mussolini had hoped, and the nation was suffering economically. People were casting about for targets of blame, and in February 1918, Mussolini joined those who spoke with disgust about parliamentary squabbling. Mussolini described parliamentary democracy as "effete." Italy, he claimed, should set things right by making a clean sweep. Italy, he said, needed a dictator. And in advocating soldierly patriotism and Italian nationalism, he attacked what he called the "sickly internationalism" of Lenin and Wilson.
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Services for the Health in Asian & African Regions (SHARE) = SHARE is a citizen sector organization (NGO) that engages in international cooperation mainly through providing health service.
HOME > Support > Report on Support Activities: East Japan Great Earthquake Disaster
For credit cards, please refer to the section below. After entering the donation amount (increments of 1,000 yen) you will be lead to another page to complete the transaction. *SHARE is a government registered NPO licensed to operate in Japan. Donations and other contributions made to SHARE are tax-deductible in Japan. |
"SHARE" is accepting donations for the emergency support needed to aggrandize the medical relief effort.
*SHARE is a government registered NPO licensed to operate in Japan. Donations and other contributions made to SHARE are tax-deductible in Japan.
SHARE is supporting local initiative by assisting an NPO (under application) "Livelihood Support Project K (hereafter referred to as Project K)," set up by local health and welfare workers in the Hashikami district of Kesennuma city.
Project site: Hashikami district, Kesennuma city, Miyagi Prefecture.
Planned activity period: July 2011 to August 2014
SHARE launched support for an NPO, "Project K," in July. It was established by local health and welfare workers for the purpose of 1.Providing consultation concerning health and livelihood consultation, and 2. Facilitating community building. Project K targets disaster victims living in both their own homes and temporary housing.
In August, a trailer house was opened under the name of Hashikami Community Plaza. We celebrated opening day with a petting zoo and health counseling service. Many people visited the facility. SHARE continues to assist Project K, mainly at the Hashikami Community Plaza.
Left):Founding members of Project K at the organization meeting on August 20, 2011.
Center): Hashikami Community Plaza, headquarters of Project K. We added a slope to make it accessible for wheelchairs and strollers.
Right): the petting zoo at Opening Day of Hashikami Community Plaza. Some 500 people, from children to seniors, came to enjoy the event. (August 28, 2011)
Each day resident SHARE staff members are available for local residents to consult about health and livelihood. The subjects of consultations range from inquiries about the victim support system to requests for assistance. In addition, in early October, SHARE held special counseling sessions to discuss mental health issues. Tea parties are another type of support activity. Local organizations organize them, and SHARE offers health check-ups and counseling. Tea party participants can get weight and blood pressure checks. They are also invited to talk about their experiences and causes of stress in daily life.
Traditional communities have changed due to the disaster. There are victims who cannot adapt to the new circumstances and those who are seemingly isolated. Since the disaster damage was enormous, support for such victims has been delayed. SHARE is going to find those who are still in need of support and respond to them in cooperation with local key persons. As for temporary housing, SHARE aims to establish a climate favorable for residents to lead secure lives through support of resident association activities. SHARE is also trying to facilitate communication through exchange events at Hashikami Community Plaza and by joining in local rescue and meal-service activities.
Left):Catherine's English class (October 9, 2011)
Right):Venue for a knitting class, part of a handwork project by RQ Women's Support Center in the disaster area.
Left): Ozaki, a SHARE staff member, was on first aid duty at Hashikami Sports Day (October 23, 2011)
Right):Disaster prevention training and potato party held by residents associations of both regular and temporary housing communities. SHARE helped with the cooking. (October 30, 2011)
(project site) Kesennuma City, Miyagi prefecture.
From March 29 to Sept. 30, 2011.
Total personnel dispatched: 596 perday: 17 doctors, 180 nurses, 145 health workers.
SHARE took charge of coordinating the health consultation group of Kesennuma Mobile Medical Team. We carried out orientation on making home visits for health workers dispatched by other prefectures. We also organized and shared information with other people by making records and drawing maps for health consultation. At the same time we tied the needs of victims, which were discovered during visits, to local governments, care managers, health offices, and medical institutions. Acted as a bridge between government and dispatched teams, SHARE set up regular meetings for dialogue and shared information.
Left): Shirokawa, coordinator, making arrangements with health workers from Hyogo pref. Since we worked with local medical institutions and supported organizations from other prefectures, liaison and coordination needed to be detailed and complete. (March 30, 2011)SHARE also dispatched volunteer nurses with health workers from other prefectures to visit victims at home, focusing on the elderly, handicapped, mothers and young children. In response to a request from Kesennuma City, we visited areas with strong needs, assessing health conditions and offering consultations.
We often found cases of patients with bedsores because their electronic beds had stopped moving due to power failure, those with deteriorating health because they couldn't get medicine for chronic conditions, and a need for mental care due to trauma from the disaster.
We supported health consultations and home care for residents of temporary housing and evacuees in small shelters from which emergency medical support had begun to withdraw in June. We focused on the elderly, mothers and small children, checked their health conditions, and handed the information over to governments and local medical professionals. Some people were unable to go to hospitals because of a lack of access. There were psychological problems, chronic diseases, such as high blood pressure and diabetes, and people in need of nursing care without the money to do so.
At the end of September, We briefed Kesennuma municipality on our activities, handed them over to them, completing the work of the Health Consulting Group of Kesennuma Mobile Medical Team.
Left):A home visit by Dr. 下の名前Honda (doctor), Director General, SHARE. He visited victims responding to requests of the visiting care station which was unable to continue routine work due to tsunami damage. (April 3,2011)
Center):SHARE volunteer staff conducting health consultations. (April 30, 2011)
Right): Health checks and consultation at temporary housing. (August 9, 2011)
Left): 下の名前Ohki, a SHARE health volunteer, visited and carried for the elderly at home in the Nambu Motoyoshi district of Kesennuma City. While emergency relief support was focused on temporary housing, response to home health needs were delayed. (April 2, 2011)
Right): Home visits to homes of disaster victims. We checked to make sure no one was left behind in evacuations. Houses with damage on the first floor may still have had inhabitants living on the second floor. (May 6, 2011)
Photo: Vehicle provided by SHARE to a home care support organization. In front of the new car, Matsuoka, a nurse at Minamisanriku Home Care Service Station. (April 5, 2011)
[Activity site] Natori City, Miyagi Prefecture
[Activity period] March 1 --March 28, 2011]
[Actual number of dispatched personnel] 54 in total per day: 21 doctors, 18 nurses, 15 coordinators.
Left) :Debris, vehicles and ships carried by tsunami piled up on the road. Roads near the seacoast were completely impassable. (Mar.22, 2011)
Center) : Medical supplies for a small clinic in Minamisanriku Utatsu. The tiny waiting room was packed with patients. It was more difficult for small clinics like this to get support than large shelters. (March 22, 2011)
Right) :Medicines and drugs for cold, infection and chronic illness brought from Tokyo. (March 24, 2011)
Date | Main SHARE activities |
July 23 | Installed a trailer house in Hashikami district. |
Aug.20 | Established "Livelihood Support Project K" formed by local people. Along with supporting set up of Project K, SHARE started health and life support activities in corporation with "Project K" |
Aug.28 | Project K opened trailer house as "Hashikami Community Plaza." Through various events focusing on problems in daily lives of disaster victims in Hashikami district, SHARE aimed to activate communication activities in the community. |
Date | Main SHARE activities |
March 28 | Advance party left for Kesennuma city, Miyagi prefecture. |
Mar. 29 | Advance party started activities. |
Mar. 30 | Started health care support activities. Started dispatching volunteer nurses/coordinators. |
Mar.31 | Joined "Health Consulting Group of "Kesennuma Mobile Medical Team." Started health consultations during itinerary visits to the elderly, disabled, and mothers & children (until Jun.1). Acted as coordinator of health consulting group. |
April 26 | Started visiting health consultations and inquiring after mothers and child ren to support for well-baby check-up continuation (until Jun.10). |
May 3 | Dispatched long-term residential project coordinator. |
May 31 | Started itinerary health consultation at small shelter. |
June 2 | Started itinerary health consultation at temporary housing |
Sep. 29 | Dissolution of "Kesennuma Mobile Medical Team" |
Sep. 30 | Handed over health consultation service to Kesennuma city government. SHARE terminated visits/health consultations as a Health Consulting Group of "Kesennuma Mobile Medical Team." |
Date | Main SHARE activities |
March 11 | East Japan Great Earthquake |
March 18 | The first support team including medical personnel arrived at Tohoku Kokusai Clinic and started medical care. |
March 20 | In corporation with other organizations, SHARE started itinerary medical care in shelters. |
March 22 | Accompanied by other organizations, SHARE sent movable care to Rikuzen Takada. |
March 28 | Due to a decrease in medical care needs at clinics and sufficient medical personnel, SHARE terminated emergency relief activities. |


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Recently there have been widespread changes throughout the United States to make lunch choices in schools healthier. Due to the growing population of obese children, what has been called an epidemic; there has been a huge push towards making healthy options available for kids at lunch. It has started as early as elementary school and continued through high schools. In an effort to promote long—term health there have been many campaigns to make changes. The Child Nutrition Bill was signed in order to provide more money to schools to subside lunches and to make sure that kids are getting the healthy futures they deserve. The USDA has began a push to cut down on trans fats, salt, and calories and also increase the amount of fruits, vegetables, and whole grain products offered. The goal is to encourage children to start eating healthy at a young age and make sure they know the importance of nutrition. The main concern is the health impacts that obesity and unhealthy eating cause. The government knows that it is important that the food still tastes good as well. They want to make sure that children don't start bringing unhealthy lunches to school or skipping meals because they do not like them. So while they are cutting back on the unhealthy foods they are still packing a lot of flavor with new recipes. There are also ways you as a parent can help your child. If you are packing your child's lunch make sure to make healthy choices for them and choose healthy after school snacks as well. It is important to make sure that your child isn't only eating healthy during school lunches but at home as well.
Making Healthy Choices:
- Choose wheat bread over white
- Use fruits and vegetables in creative ways
- Choose less starchy foods
- Choose water or milk over sodas and sugary juices
- Try to avoid processed foods they tend to have higher sodium and fats
- Keep the food pyramid in mind to make sure there is a good balance of food groups
Lunch Ideas and Tips:
- Make your own lunchables with sandwich meat, whole grain crackers, and low fat cheese
- Make a wrap — use a healthy tortilla and fill the inside with sandwich meat or chicken, veggies, and low fat cheese.
- Cut up fruits and vegetables into slices so it is easier for your child to snack on
- Instead of packing a typical dessert like a cookie replace it with trail mix or a chocolate chip granola bar
- Low fat yogurt — you can add raisins, berries, or granola in for additional flavor
- Pack raw cut veggies with their preferred dipping accompaniment — make sure to choose low fat or light options if it's a dressing
- Make a sandwich fun by cutting it into different shapes
Be Eco Friendly:
- Pack your child's lunch in a reusable bag
- Use washable lunch bags for easy clean up and a longer life use
- Use a BPA free water bottle vs. plastic bottles of water
- Pack lunches with reusable containers instead of multiple plastic baggies


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A couple of interest rate related stories have surfaced in the past few days, both indicating a boost for the real estate market — but at what cost?
A mere rumor of a federal interest rate cut has been spurring Wall Street to buy, buy, buy. Like September's rate cut, the nationwide housing crisis will be a causal factor if there is a decision to cut rates. Outside of ARMs and home equity lines of credit, these rates do not affect (fixed) mortgage lending rates, unless they influence the overall economy. How does that happen? People buy things on their lower-interest-rate credit card.
Are you seeing the problem here? If the housing crisis is caused by (for whatever reason) people being in over their heads on their mortgages, what's the solution? Get people in over their heads with Encourage people to increase their consumer spending. Other people, we would assume.
The other news is a more direct fix for those people who are facing a giant mortgage hike in the next year or so. The treasury department is actively calling for sub-prime lenders to help their borrowers avoid foreclosure. Banks met with the Treasury Department on Tuesday [NYT]:
In that meeting, according to industry and government officials, bank executives said they were close to defining a uniform standard for people who would qualify for a "loan modification" — a temporary freeze on their teaser rates — and a uniform standard for how long that freeze would last.
Some advocates are asking for as long as a 7-year freeze! How long would the freeze have to be to make a real impact? And what sort of ripple would that send through the economy as banks had to make up that income? I'm very happy about people staying in their homes, but what happens next?
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To Deliver Us from the Present Evil Age
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27th Jun 2008, 01:40 PM | #1 |
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Version: v0.5pb Compatibility: UT3 1.20 Description: The idea behind this gametype was a war of attrition so everything featured is geared towards that. To win though you have to make a kill with every weapon once, you start with all weapons and they are removed from your inventory as you make a kill with them. Suicides will return a weapon back to your inventory unless it is already full. There is a catch, you have unlimited ammo and all pickups are removed except, Jumpboots, Vials, Armour, Shields and the Keg. In this gametype frags dont really matter a great deal, except they are a way to get rid of your weapons! This gametype is best suited for lower player counts, around the 2-4 range is really good but anywhere between 2-8 should make for good matches as it really does depend on the size of the map and how many rounds you want to play. Anyways this is still an early version and not fully feature complete, there is acouple of bugs Im aware of that I'll work to fix in the future. Im mainly putting this up so everyone can take a look at let me know what they think of it I will say this though, there is no team based version of this mode planned for the future, if there is enough interest in that I will consider making a multi-team version. There is however more victory conditions on the way, as well as acouple of variants I'll probably attach as mutators. Features: Health/Armour Degen - after these are picked up they start to wear in, then over time they wear out and break down. Wear only occurs over 100 health and always on armour, except the starting armour. Round Based Play - at the moment it only supports winning the match by getting to the rounds won, so if you win 3 rounds, in any order first, you are the winner. More victory conditions are on their way though, like playing out an amount of rounds no matter what and the player with the most wins at the end is the winner. Anti-Camper - This was put in because of the unlimited ammo, keeps people moving and makes the matches faster especially 1 on 1 matches. Since there is no time limit this was almost a requirement. Tweaked Music - To give more of an action feel the music was tweeked so it ramps up alot more. Tweaked HUD - Alot of the excess text was removed from the hud as well as tweaking to make it fit with the gametype. I will be updating this so people can customize alittle more and reallow acouple of the default options. Instructions: To Install Attrition Extract the Archive and then copy the UTGame directory into one of the following directories: Code:
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%My Documents%\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3\ To change the number of rounds you need to go to: Code:
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NumRoundWins=3 You can also edit other options like: Code:
bAllowPickups=True bAllowAmmo=False bStartArmour=True bCamperAlarm=True CampThreshold=512.000000 ReCamperWarnInterval=3 CamperWarnInterval=8 Be warned that not all of these are full tested and stable, it would be appreciated if you post your config if you find bugs within the options. Any other bug reports would be greatly appreciated Credits: MonsOlympus, euchreplayer23 (for the PS3 cook) and Epic Games. Help/Changes/Fixes: Full ChangeLog and ReadMe comes with the mutator. Download: PC: UC2004 - UTAttritionv0.5pb.rar FilePlanet - UTAttritionv0.5pb.rar PS3: FileFront - UTAttritionPS3.zip
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2nd Jul 2008, 02:41 PM | #3 |
It's reverse-gungame? |
2nd Jul 2008, 10:21 PM | #4 |
Whats gungame?
So yeah dunno about that, basically the initial idea was to promote weapon skill across the board but after testing I found that selecting which weapon to make a kill with an when actually becomes alittle bit of a strategy. For eg, if you make a kill with all your best weapons first you are stuck with the ones you arnt so good with so its possible your opponent could get one up on you. From there though the idea turned into attrition, I removed all the pickups and slowly started adding them back until I got something I liked. The gametype does actually still have the option to roll with no pickups but it doesnt play out as well I dont think, the health and armour degeneration keep people moving around the map more. It just adds back in the element of map control which I think is important, there is also timing but I got a few features up my sleeve still for next release.
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Ummz, can you elaborate alittle more please? These should only be loaded when attrition is selected so maybe something isnt getting reset on a gametype switch midgame, thats about all I can think of without more details though
10th Aug 2008, 07:37 PM | #7 |
I believe it was Mapmixer
You see I was using your mod with Mapmixer Alpha 5 sense install and as of late I have been noticing all kind of problems that all seem related to Mapmixer. Problems like keys getting lost, settings getting reset and Character problems like character information getting lost(not the demo guy). As a result, please allow me to test your mod without it and see if the problem continues.
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11th Aug 2008, 12:20 AM | #8 |
Yeah Ive been having troubles getting mapmixer going myself, I cant even get to the using it part
If I can replicate the problem though I might be able to fix it on my end, it could a problem with mapmixer not my code but I'll take a look and see what I can do about supporting it.
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Gun Game is a popular custom gametype for Counter Strike Source (and possibly other games, but that's the only game I've seen it in).
However, the OG Gun Game doesn't have unlimited ammo, the music/UI tweaks, the health degen or anti-camper.
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"I wanted to make [them] look timeless," Day told EW of dressing Chris Hemsworth, Olivia Wilde, and the rest of the cast of the Formula One racing drama Rush. "I didn't want to go over the top with patterns… I used a lot of primary colors — and lots of ladies in hot pants."
In addition to watching hours of archival footage and pouring over books and photographs, Day was also able to draw upon his own memories to shape the aesthetic. "I was around when this was happening," the costume designer said of the rivalry between drivers James Hunt (Hemsworth) and Niki Lauda (Daniel Brühl), which took place during the 1976 racing season. "[In the '70s] my father sponsored a Formula One car that actually appears in the film."
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The Bible on which I took the oath of office for Deputy Director of Demand Reduction at the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) was my grandfather's. He was a faithful man to his family, his community, and his new country. Yet after December 7, 1941, my grandfather, who was born in Japan, was branded unworthy of the most basic trust and imprisoned because of where he was from, how he looked, and the accent with which he spoke. Federal agents took him to an undisclosed prison in North Dakota. Now, two generations later, it is the same executive branch in which his grandson now serves our Nation.
For 14 years before joining the Obama Administration, I worked for Asian American Recovery Services whose first mission almost three decades ago was to address the tragic impact of prescription drug abuse that ravaged San Francisco's Asian American community. At the time, culturally tailored drug treatment services were not readily available for the scores of addicted young adults in the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community. Witnessing the tragic impact of this threat on our friends and family, our community came together to create a non-profit organization that would help this vulnerable population.
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Archive for July, 2010
Black Tuesday for transparency
Posted by Brigitte Alfter in EU on July 2, 2010
The public until Tuesday had the right to know the names of the officials working on their behalf and of lobbyists trying to influence those officials. However Tuesday the 29th of June the European Court of Justice decided that the strict data protection rules should weigh more than the public interest rules. The outcome is devastating for the public's right to know: This reverses the burden of proof, says expert lawyer. A 'depressing judgement' says key-politician.
Andrew Ronnan from Northern England likes Bavarian beers. So in the 1990ies he intended to import Bavarian beer to his home country for sale there. Many of the pubs, however, had agreements with British breweries and could not serve foreign beers, so the European Commission started to look into this alleged breach of free competition. Ronnan wanted to participate in one of the meetings of the Commission, was refused and followed up by asking access to the minutes of the meeting including the list of participants. This is where it all started.
This week the case came to a conclusion with a judgment by the European Court of Justice, which – in short – forces the applicant to prove, that she or he has a good reason for disclosure of any name. "Civil servants are only accountable at their discretion," says lawyer Scott Crosby, a freedom of information expert and partner at Kemmler Rapp Böhlke & Crosby in Brussels after a first look at the judgment.
However for Crosby the real error in the judgment is to consider that merely identifying a civil servant who attends an official meeting in the course of his or her duties would undermine the protection of that person's privacy and integrity.
"Mentioning the name of a person, who does his duty, is not an infringement of this person's privacy," in Scott Crosby's opinion. After all, there is no mention of "sexual orientation nor bank accounts", he says.
"This is switching the burden of proof from the Commission to the applicant," says Crosby.
Andrew Ronnan does not trade beer anymore and found better businesses to make a living. He is an enthousiastic marathon runner, and not one who gives up easily. Obvioulsy he is not happy about the judgment. "As the EU expands, it grows only more essential that there is more openness in commercial discussions," he comments. "We are not talking about how to make a nuclear bomb here. This is simple commercial business. If they want to keep corporate business organisations under the veil of secrecy, this is not in the wider interest of the 460 million European citizens," he comments.
His reading of the judgment is that "if you scream loud enough for the names, then the Commission may have to release them". In other words if you give a reason to release the names. "We didn't give a reason, because 1049/01 says you don't have to."
The Bavarian Lager case was fought by lawyers James Webber and Matthew Readings of Shearman & Sterling in London. Webber is disappointed with the judgment. "This is a conservative judgment which provides legal clarity but does not support transparency," he says.
In his view the Court decided, that access to documents is simply another form of data processing – there is little analysis about the transparency context in which the data is processed. In consequence "people who lobby the Commission in their professional capacity may now withhold their names from disclosure on the basis of their entitlement to privacy," he says.
To overcome the privacy issues, the judgment thus introduces an obligation by the applicant to prove, that there is a necessary interest in disclosing the name. But proving that disclosure is necessary will be "very difficult," Webber estimates. "This does not take account of the principle (of the access to documents regulation) that you don't have to give reasons," he says.
The Commission is not disappointed. "We are very pleased about the legal clarity," says Michael Mann, spokesperson for Commissioner Maros Sefcovic, responsible for inter-institutional relations and administration. However at the time of this interview the Commission had not read the judgment in detail yet and did not want to comment further.
The European Data Protection Supervisor Peter Hustinx however did comment already one day after the judgment was published. The fact, that the Court of First Instance and the European Court of Justice came to opposite conclusions shows, according to Hustinx, that there is an urgent need to address the relationship between transparency and data protection in the current revision of the regulation.
Michael Cashman, British MEP and rapporteur for the revision of 1049/01 talks about "a depressing judgment" and promises, that he will work for taking into account the need to reinforce the principle of transparency particularly for people participating in meetings, where decisions are made.
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Temperatures will cool through the 60s and 70s soon after sunset. The big story for much of the remainder of the week will be the very warm air.
Tuesday will be near 90 degrees and the warmest day is Wednesday when the mercury should approach 93 in Tucson. Some spots in the Western Deserts will climb to the mid 90s.
The last time Tucson recorded a 90 degree day was October 27th of last year which was 184 days ago. According to Chief Meteorologist Matt Brode, Tucson, on average, first reaches the 90 degree mark on April 9th - so this is right on schedule.
Cooler weather will return by the weekend.
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on June 07, 2010 Source: Policy Dialogue on Entrepreneurship
Guest post by Byron Kennard
"Historically, when environmentalists see a problem, their reaction is to regulate it," says Mark Clevey, a clean technology guru who has helped dozens of green small businesses in Michigan get off the ground. "When entrepreneurs see a problem, their reaction is to seek a solution that's profitable." Clevey contends that entrepreneurial approaches usually produce better solutions faster than regulation.
Clevey is right. What's more, I believe the entrepreneurial approach produces better political solutions as well. When entrepreneurial solutions work, they create new jobs and business opportunities. These are big plusses, effectively countering objections that environmental safeguards destroy jobs and harm the economy. At the moment, for example, such objections are stalling climate legislation in the U.S. Senate.
So how do we get more of these nifty green entrepreneurial solutions?
The best place to start is by recognizing that small business is the source of most technological innovations, green or otherwise. I've preached this message for more than 10 years as an advocate of green entrepreneurship. I've preached it as I've watched small entrepreneurial businesses struggle to compete on a playing field that is unfairly tilted to favor politically powerful big companies.
Where are environmentalists in this fray? In my experience, environmentalists have paid scant attention to the entrepreneurial process – especially as it is experienced by struggling small businesses. Instead, they are focused intensively on getting legal and regulatory remedies. To be fair, environmentalists argue that such remedies will create a flood of green innovation, launching a technological revolution. Justifiably, they cite studies showing the abundant innovation stimulated by the Clean Air Act.
But it's 2010, and I'm looking at the climate legislation stalled in Congress. I'm looking at the growing menace of global warming and government's apparent inability to confront it. That's depressing. But on the bright side I'm looking at a marketplace that is being flooded with green innovations right now.
There's a wonderful lesson to be learned here: true entrepreneurs don't wait to be told what to do. They don't sit around hoping that new laws or regulations will improve the entrepreneurial climate. Instead, entrepreneurs accept things as they find them and in that context figure out a way to do their thing if it's at all humanly possible.
True entrepreneurs will find a way to thrive even under the most adverse circumstances. In the period from June 2008 to December 2009, for example, clean tech sales increased a whopping 17 percent, according to The Stella Group, Ltd., a Washington, D.C. marketing firm.
These green entrepreneurs have already launched a revolution.
Their arsenal of existing new technologies, if fully exploited and widely deployed, could make a huge dent in greenhouse gas emissions, perhaps helping to avoid catastrophe. So I ask: shouldn't this be a priority?
And how do we make this happen in the absence of either a cap or a price on carbon? Is there a role for government that's politically palatable and economically prudent? There are no easy answers but there's a way to start that's simple, modest and obvious.
Ask green entrepreneurs what they think should be done.
There's a treasure trove of information to discover here. Green innovators know from hands-on, often brutal experience just how the American entrepreneurial system works and – just as important – how it fails. I say pick their brains. And do it systematically.
For this purpose, the federal government might convene a series of field hearings that would consult panels of green entrepreneurs working in agriculture, energy, housing, transportation, and so on.
By drawing on the hard-won wisdom of these entrepreneurs the federal government might just learn how to stimulate more green entrepreneurship by leveling the playing field and by improving access to credit and to markets. The feds might also learn how to improve the existing, already funded programs intended to help entrepreneurs, programs that often get poor marks from the very people they are intended to help.
Such insights could well lead to a new near term strategy for tackling climate change: silver buckshot. This strategy recognizes that there's no silver bullet that will eliminate the threat. Many diverse responses and approaches are needed. A silver buckshot strategy will produce incremental solutions, aggregate many small gains, and secure immediate greenhouse gas emission reductions. Plus it creates new jobs and new business opportunities. Thanks to green entrepreneurs, we've got a well-stocked arsenal of silver buckshot. So let's use it. Let's ride the wave of the technology revolution that we've already got.
This green business phenomenon is extensively documented in Small Wonders, a 2009 report issued by The Center for Small Business and the Environment. To view or download a copy of Small Wonders, go to: http://www.smallwondersreport.org .
Byron Kennard is Executive Director of the Center for Small Business and the Environment, a non-profit organization located in Washington, DC
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One of the big stories this week is BlizzCon -- or rather, the lack of BlizzCon this year. While I understand the amount of work that goes into making an event as large as BlizzCon successful and I understand that the hours served putting the convention together would better be used on, you know, cool games, I'm still bummed. Partially because last year's convention was so much fun, but mostly because it means I don't get to see everyone again this year. Ah well, I have remodeling to do anyway!
But the rest of the blogosphere has its own reactions regarding the absence of the beloved convention, and we've got a couple of those for you today, as well as a look at a possibly volatile topic.
- Apple Cider Mage expresses regret and reflects on the real reasons BlizzCon is such an amazing time for players.
- Orcish Army Knife has a delightful tongue-in-cheek parody of the whole BlizzCon cancellation situation.
- And in other news, Falling Leaves and Wings wonders just what exactly is so bad about letting 10-man raiding and 25-man raiding be two different things?
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U must be thinking that there is no way Locksmiths from different states have some things in common? well you wrong! of course they have. in every business u always got to watch your colleges all over in order to improve your own business.
for example: if you find yourself travel to vacation its a good idea to go on and check the Local locksmiths around, u can always go on Yelp and check for some well rated emergency locksmiths in your area and pay your visit, try to see and learn from them!
in my last trip to New york, that's exactly what i did oh ye! so i check up this Locksmith NYC services, i called them at like 1 am just to check how they maintain their 24 hour locksmith services. i must say i was impressed, they mention that a technician can be in my area in 15-20 minutes. its a fantastic response time considering that in most of the states u might wait up to 4 hours for a Locksmith.
a new cool feature i also found is you can go to this website, and it helps you to find "heavy weight" people in your chosen industry. so just search for people in the security and locksmith business and just start follow.
Another way locksmiths can communicate is via the social media. check up some Facebook pages or even linkedin pages, and just click to start and talk with your colleges.
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The Ruinous Powers Descend From The North
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The world is at war. Men constantly battle with the brutal orcs, wicked ratmen known as Skaven, and their ever present foes, themselves. The beleaguered elves and dwarfs offer what assistance they can, but their races are but a fraction of the glory they once were. At the top of the world lies the Northern Wastes, a barren wasteland full of horrible monsters and barbaric savages dedicated to the four Ruinous Powers of Chaos. This terrifying place warps and changes all who enter it, and fierce champions of the Ruinous Powers emerge from it ready to challenge any before them. Now the Powers themselves are surging forth from the top of the world.
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."
- William Shakespeare
Chaos in the Old World makes you a god. Each god's distinctive powers and legion of followers grant you unique strengths and diabolical abilities with which to corrupt and enslave the Old World. Khorne, the Blood God, the Skulltaker, lusts for death and battle. Nurgle, the Plaguelord, the Father of Corruption, luxuriates in filth and disease. Tzeentch, the Changer of Ways, the Great Conspirator, plots the fate of the universe. Slaanesh, the Prince of Pleasure and Pain, the Lord of Temptations, lures even the most steadfast to his six deadly seductions. Yet, as you and your fellow powers of Chaos seek domination by corruption and conquest, you must vie not only against each other, but also against the desperate denizens of the Old World who fight to banish you back to the maelstrom of the Realm of Chaos.
"We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell"
- Oscar Wilde
As one of these four mighty Powers, your time has finally come! Your three petty rivals each think they are about to gain the ultimate victory, but they are deluded; compared to you, they are little more than pretenders. Your efforts, schemes, and the sheer force of will are about to pay off as you drown the world in a sea of Chaos. That which emerges will be formed in your glorious image, and even your pathetic rivals shall bow down before you for all eternity. Let the final struggle begin!
"Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man"
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Designed by Eric M. Lang, award-winning designer of the Call of Cthulhu and A Game of Thrones card games, Chaos in the Old World board game features three ways to win, and gives you an unparalleled opportunity to reshape the world in your image. Every turn you corrupt the landscape, dominating its inhabitants, and battling with the depraved followers of rival gods. Each god has a unique deck of gifts and abilities, and can upgrade their followers into deadly foes. Summon forth living manifestations of Chaos, debased and hidden cultists, and the horrifying greater daemons - beings capable of destroying near everything in their path.
"I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption."
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For those of you who can't get enough of the Warhammer world we have an added bonus! Included in the first print run, two very rare in game items for the Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning MMO. The Signet of the Cursed Company lets you wander the battlefields of the Warhammer Online MMO as a fearsome skeletal warrior. The Call to WAR will instantly teleport you to your capital city. Also be sure to check out the Support page to view the awesome video trailer for Warhammer Online and the link to a free 10-day trial.
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For the pluage-father! for the lord of disease! For Papa Nurgle! I really want to get this game, as it sounds sick.
Nice!! Could be fun! The Blood God will triumph!!!
Looks really entertaining lets see how it plays
I cannot wait for the Chaos to begin.
Hmm i think i will inform the chaos followers here in the office. They will like it.
And sounds cool for me too.
Oh and blood for the Blood God and skulls for his throne ;)
Great to see Slaanesh back on an even footing, darn Teen ratings - Bleh! this is a very exciting announcement and I will be pre-ordering :)
I'm excited for this. Any chance for me to further the cause of the Plaguefather is great!
This looks very promising!
Let us all dance at the feet of Lord Slaanesh,
Let us all dance at the feet of Lord Slaanesh.
Nurgle is the Lord of the Inevitable. Khorne can have his blood, Slaanesh his/her lusts, Tzeentch his magic, but everyone eventually becoms bile and rot.
We can wait.
For Tzeentch, I must shape the board as He wills it. Must get the game and start His work.


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Planto, I think it is *now* receiving enough light, but it wasn't for several months. Old leaves were normal with the purple underside and striking venation. Then new leaves were just varying shades of green really and the purple on the old leaves faded somewhat. BUT, since I moved it (weird: I think this is the only plant I have that I don't call "little guy") to a better-lit location, it seems happy. There's been much more leaf production since the move, and the leaves are more normally sized and coloured. Does one trim/prune (I'm sure those words are technically not synonymous) marantas? How/with what goal in mind? Can they be propagated by taking a section with an aerial root & cutting that? I may experiment, but not just yet, and not before seeing what others think. |
- Posted by plantomaniac08 8 (My Page) on Sat, Apr 19, 14 at 13:28
Ariel, It sounds like wherever you have it now, it's happy (I wouldn't move it). You can prune them, some say that's how to keep them "bushy" and you can propagate from the stems, but how to go about doing that (where to trim, how to root the stems)... I have no idea. Mine hasn't gotten big enough for me to worry about it yet, so I haven't researched it. Sorry. Planto |
I'll see what I can search up when it starts spreading out too much again. :) |
they grow naturally as a ground cover, spreading laterally. i think in a hanging basket it will trail. i came upon this in one of aroideana journals (i think?) a well known anthurium grower (a. need very high humidity levels, similar to maranta) in dry climate (AZ?) was doing this: take a larger shallow pot that is larger than the bottom of the pot your plant is in. it needs to be least 3-4" deep. Fill it with 1" rocks and then cover all the rocks with water. Sit your plant pot on top of the rocks. Make sure the rocks rise above the water level. you can let water run down into the rocks when you water, or top it up regularly to keep the water level high. it seems similar to putting it on pebbles tray, just deeper and rocks are larger sized - may be for more evaporation? i am going to try this. |
I might give that a shot as well. |
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Species (Pan paniscus) of great ape. It was once considered a subspecies of the chimpanzee, which it closely resembles in size, appearance, and way of life. Its range, the lowland rainforests of central Congo (Kinshasa), is more restricted than that of the chimpanzee, and it has longer, more slender arms, a more slender body, and a less protruding face. Bonobos eat mainly fruits but also leaves, seeds, grass, and small animals. They form communities of 50–120 individuals. A striking feature of their social lives is that they engage in sexual activity with great frequency, often as a means of settling quarrels, and with little regard for gender or age. Populations are shrinking, largely because of hunting and habitat destruction, and bonobos are an endangered species.
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Honorable R. Ted Bottiger
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Cite as: AGLO 1970 No. 118
Dear Sir:
You have recently requested our opinion on a question which we paraphrase as follows:
Under the provisions of Article VII, § 10 (Amendment 47) to the Washington State Constitution, may the legislature enact a statute which would exempt from taxation the first $5,000 of assessed valuation of property owned and resided in by retired property owners?
Article VII, § 10 (Amendment 47) of our state Constitution reads as follows:
"Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 7, section 1 (Amendment 14) and Article 7, section 2 (Amendment 17), the following tax exemption shall be allowed as to real property:
"The legislature shall have the power, by appropriate legislation, to grant to retired property owners relief from the property tax on the real property occupied as a residence by those owners. The legislature may place such restrictions and conditions upon the granting of such relief as it shall deem proper. Such restrictions and conditions may include, but are not limited to, the limiting of the relief to those property owners below a specific level of income and those fulfilling certain minimum residential requirements."
As you are aware, the legislature has already enacted certain tax relief legislation under the provisions of this constitutional amendment (which was approved by [[Orig. Op. Page 2]] the voters at the November 1966 state general election). See, RCW 84.36.127-84.36.129, whereby the legislature has exempted certain qualified elderly retired persons from payment of the first fifty dollars of real property taxes due and owing against real property which they own and reside upon. We can see no constitutional difference between this legislative approach and that which is contemplated by your question. The language of the constitutional amendment authorizes the legislature to ". . . grant to retired property owners relief from the property tax on the real property occupied as a residence by those owners. . . ." It matters not, as we view it, whether this relief is granted in the form of a reduction in the dollar amount of taxes payable or a reduction in the assessed valuation of the property ‑ on the basis of which the tax bill is computed.
In so far as the uniformity clause of Article VII, § 1 (Amendment 14) of the Constitution is concerned, it is perfectly clear that this constitutional provision would not nullify such tax relief legislation as may be enacted in accordance with the provisions of Article VII, § 10 (Amendment 47), supra, for the reason that this constitutional amendment expressly states that the tax relief legislation contemplated by the amendment may be enacted by the legislature "Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 7, section 1 (Amendment 14) . . ."
Therefore, it would be our opinion that the legislative approach contemplated by your question would be constitutionally permissible.1/
We trust that the foregoing will be of assistance to you.
Very truly yours,
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I was just watching the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley. (Or should we call it the CBS Evening Opinion?) Obama is once again trying to gain support for his national gun ban agenda and CBS is doing everything they can to help. The President is in Colorado, with a bunch of cops standing behind him, telling us we cant forget Sandy Hook and that we need to enact all of these gun laws to prevent more tragedies.
Pelley is in Connecticut with the parents of some of the slain children from Sandy Hook. They are holding pictures of their children and talking about how the new gun control laws they helped get enacted in Connecticut will help prevent shootings like this from happening again. My heart goes out to these families. But, I cant help feel that even though they have good intentions, their efforts are misguided. They are being used as pawns in a political chess match.
This legislation, which is based on emotions rather than facts, punishes the many for the acts of a few. It takes rights away from law-abiding citizens, rights that men and women in this country fought and died for. The people who commit these heinous acts of violence dont follow our laws. Last time I checked it was illegal to shoot twenty school children!
Think about it. After the new laws have passed in New York, Colorado, and Connecticut that impose more background checks, limit magazine capacity, ban semi-automatic firearms, etc., are your kids really any safer? After Obama, Feinstein, Schumer, Biden, and Bloomberg are done posing for pictures with the parents of the victims, saying We have to do this for the kids, did they really do anything to protect our most precious resource?
These same politicians have been trying to take away your guns for years. They are using these children as stepping stones to their true agenda. They should be ashamed. The day after these laws pass, the schools are still susceptible to the same type of shooting. Then next time, they will want to ban every gun except a single shot and so on until they are all banned.
While nothing we do can guarantee this will never happen again, there are some things we can do that will help prevent it from happening again, unlike the current proposals. We need to limit access at our schools entrances, install metal detectors and cameras, and have an armed security guard, police officer, or school employee in every school.
Lets do something that honors the children that lost their lives at Sandy Hook. Lets do something that will actually PROTECT our children immediately.


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13 In the past I spoke against Christ and persecuted him and did all kinds of things to hurt him. But God showed me mercy, because I did not know what I was doing. I did not believe. | 13 Even though I was once a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent man, I was shown mercy because I acted in ignorance and unbelief. |
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