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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.
Name of Product: EOS Rebel T4i Digital SLR Cameras
Units: About 68,200
Importer: Canon U.S.A., Inc., of Lake Success, N.Y.
Hazard: A chemical used in the camera's rubber grips can result in a reaction that changes the grips from black to white and poses a risk of skin irritation to the consumer.
Incidents/Injuries: Canon U.S.A., Inc. has received one report of a consumer who developed a minor rash after contact with a surface where the camera had been.
Description: This recall involves certain EOS Rebel T4i digital SLR cameras with a 12-digit serial number that contain a sixth digit that is a "1." Serial numbers are printed on the bottom of the camera. The Canon logo and the model name are printed on the front of the camera.
Sold at: B&H Photo, Best Buy and camera and mass merchandise stores nationwide and Amazon.com and other online retailers between June 2012 and July 2012 for between $850 and $1,200.
Manufactured in: Japan
Remedy: Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled cameras and contact Canon U.S.A. to have replacement rubber grips installed free of charge.
Consumer Contact: For additional information, contact the firm toll-free at (855) 902-3277 between 8 a.m. to midnight ET Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. ET Saturday, or visit the firm's website at www.usa.canon.com
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Rain halts play again at French Open
May 31, 2006
PARIS (Reuters) – Play was stopped at the French Open
because of rain at 1232 GMT on Wednesday.
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On the center court, Russian Maria Sharapova was 3-2 up in
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Enjoy this month's impact highlights!
Move the Needle The science team led a meeting for our new Move the Needle Initiative. The two-day conference brought together experts, clinicians, government officials, and stakeholders to develop a national agenda for lowering the age of autism diagnosis and improving access to early intervention services in all our communities, with a special focus on underserved populations. Geri reported back from the meeting on the science blog.
Autism Treatment Network The Autism Treatment Network released two new tool kits this month – A Sleep Strategies Guide and A Tool Kit for Dental Professionals – and LIVE Chat was held and hosted by Dr. Beth Ann Malow who answered the community's sleep questions; you can see the entire transcript.
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Grants We announced the Family Services Targeted Grant Recipients last week. These represent the largest grants to date for Family Services and are part of a new initiative to identify and fund targeted areas of need for individuals with autism and their families.
Stay up to date with the latest from Family Services in a variety of ways! Subscribe to our monthly "community connections" newsletter, Bookmark the Family Services page on our website or read Family Services related blog posts.
The Government Relations team participated in a Capitol Hill briefing to build Congressional support for a bill that would enable families to create tax-free savings accounts to cover the future needs of their children with autism. Known as the Achieving A Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act, the bill would be based on the existing 529 college savings program and would supplement, not replace, benefits provided through Medicaid, private insurance or employment. Autism Speaks is one of 49 national disability organizations supporting the bill, (HR.3423) which has attracted over 100 House sponsors. Rep. Ander Crenshaw (R-FL), the original sponsor, and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), an original co-sponsor, spoke at the briefing.
WEBCHATS We hosted a live webchat on "My Child Has Autism? How Do I get Insurance" with Lorri Unumb, Esq, vice president for state government affairs. The response was overwhelming with approximately 250 participants asking about autism insurance benefits in their states. Many of the questions focused on self-insured health plans which are regulated by the federal government and therefore fall outside Autism Speaks' autism insurance reform campaigns in the states. The next webchat will be held in late April and will focus on the concerns of families with self-insured health plans.
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Drone aircraft in a stepped-up war in Afghanistan and Pakistan
It will be months before the 30,000 new troops will have gone to war in Afghanistan. But President Obama already has increased attacks by pilotless Predator drone aircraft against Taliban and Al Qaeda militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan's tribal areas.
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It will take some time for 30,000 more US troops to deploy to Afghanistan, as called for by President Obama's new Afghan strategy. Already in operation, however, may be another part of the plan: an increase in covert strikes against militant targets by missiles fired from unmanned Predator drones.
Evidence of this surfaced Tuesday, with reports that the US launched a drone attack in northwest Pakistan that may have killed a key member of Al Qaeda.
"Nothing has been definitively confirmed, but it's possible that a senior Al Qaeda figure has died," a US official told the Reuters news service.
The US government has not officially talked about the strike, nor is it likely to. The drone program is a covert effort run by the CIA. Neither Osama bin Laden nor Ayman al-Zawahiri was the likely target, however, according to wire service reports.
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The only thing I'd change about Yasuo's ultimate is to revise the abilties that Yasuo's ultimate can use. Yasuo shouldn't be able to use his ultimate just when , for example, Draven uses Stand Aside and throws two axes.. The ultimate needs to ONLY proc off abilties that knock people in the air or knock them significantly backwards.
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One issue I've had with Yasuo is an enemy flashing/blinking mid ult, as soon as its finished I'm miles behind them
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Yasuo just feels so niche, he's so fun to play but so weak at the same time. Im conflicted between playing him for the fun of using the champion and not playing him and having a chance to actually win the game. Oh and maybe if you're looking to make him less tedious to play you could maybe make his wind wall work like anivia's wall where you can place it closer/farther away from you. A slightly stronger early game wouldnt hurt either.
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Last week, we talked about what not to do if your dog steals something you don't want her to have. This week, we'll concentrate on how you can teach your dog to "trade" an object in her mouth for something she would rather have. The "something" you trade will most likely be food, although certainly some dogs (not mine!) can prefer to trade for a much-valued toy or ball. If your dog would most likely choose food over a toy or ball, here's a suggestion on how to determine what foods your dog considers most valuable.
Food rewards range in value from the dog's regular kibble (probably low in value) to the most amazing treat your dog has ever eaten—probably something she gets rarely, very likely falling under the category of "people food." That will be a very valuable trade. In between high-value and low-value lie a variety of food rewards; some you've tried before, some may be new to you.
Here's an experiment.
- Assemble a variety of food treats. For the dog with no allergies, I'd recommend trying:
- String cheese
- Tube meat (freezable compressed soft dog food in tube form, shaped like a salami and sliceable)
- Peanut butter (try dipping oyster crackers or even dog biscuits in it)
- Cooked and diced chicken or beef
As you can see, I'm leaving out regular dog biscuits because you already know which ones your dog likes. However, you can up the value of regular biscuits by dipping them in bacon grease, cottage cheese, yogurt—really, any food that will stick to a biscuit and is safe for your dog to eat.
Try to come up with a dozen different treats that you think will appeal to your dog.
- Put together a "team of experts"—your friends and family—to help you judge your dog's interest in each of the treats you've assembled.
If you want to be really scientific, give everybody a pad and pencil and ask them to rate each treat on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being wild enthusiasm on the part of the dog, and 1 being no interest on the part of the dog. Run the test several times over a period of weeks to obtain the best information.
Remember that the more people you have standing around watching, the more likely it is that your dog will be somewhat distracted—possibly more interested in the company than in the food. That's why it's advisable to "test" a number of times for best results.
- Always "test" for food-treat preference when your dog is empty—in other words, at least six hours after her last meal and after she's had a chance to eliminate.
- Keep the treats you are going to "test" well away from the dog—up on a high shelf or even in the fridge—so that the smell or sight of all of them together doesn't overwhelm the dog.
- Bring out only one treat at a time. Wash your hands between treats. (See, I told you we'd be scientific!)
- During your multiple test sessions, vary the order of the treats you offer.
- Offer the "samples" one by one, in your open palm, as you would feed sugar to a horse.
- Observe your dog's reaction.
Does she sniff the food in your hand first, before taking it to eat? Does she completely refuse the food? Is she slower to take that food than another food? Overall, try to come up with a rating for each food—the higher the number, the higher the interest. Rate the food or foods that are "most interesting" as 10, the foods that are refused as 1. If the food is taken into the dog's mouth and spit out, that's definitely a 1—or maybe a 0!
Remember, reactions will differ from dog to dog and from food to food. If you have more than one dog, test each dog separately, of course, and don't be surprised if their preferences vary widely, especially if they are two different breed backgrounds. Keep in mind that some dogs (I think of Chows) are simply not that interested in food rewards at all. You may not find a 10 with those dogs ever.
- Make enough tests over a period of time to be fairly sure of your dog's preferences.
Here's how your final list might look:
1 | Kibble |
2 | Oyster crackers |
3 | Tube meat |
4 | String cheese |
5 | Apple pieces |
6 | Oyster crackers dipped in peanut butter |
7 | Apple pieces dipped in peanut butter |
8 | Cooked chicken pieces |
9 | Anything dipped in bacon grease |
10 | Cooked steak pieces |
Note that every food treat on this list can be delivered in very small quantities. That's important because you don't want to fill your dog up with treats and then have her not want her regular kibble. Cut back on her kibble to make up for the treats you feed her. If one day you feed a lot of treats, feed her less kibble in that day's regular meals. Treat-based training should not be allowed to affect your dog's weight!
That was the easy part! Now it's time to teach your dog to Trade.
- Pick an object that "belongs" to your dog—in other words, a dog toy that's usually left out so that the dog can play with it whenever she wants.
Something that's always accessible is usually of lower value to the dog than a toy that's kept away from her most of the time. (That's not always true, of course. I know a golden retriever whose most highly valued toy is the slightly deflated soccer ball that stays in her yard. The dog seems to like that toy almost more than food!)
Teach this skill first with that low-value toy.
- Interact with the dog and the toy, so that the toy ends up in the dog's mouth.
- Offer the dog a small amount of kibble from your open palm.
The dog will likely open her mouth, drop the toy, and eat the kibble.
That is a successful Trade: the dog has given up the object in her mouth in exchange for what you're offering—in this case, a small handful of kibble. Low-value object, low-value reward.
- Continue to engage the dog with the same toy.
- Offer a handful of kibble again, hoping for another Trade.
If for any reason your dog decides not to Trade, but instead runs off with the toy, or perhaps just stands there, try offering the next treat up on her value scale. Perhaps the toy you've chosen is more of a favorite than you thought, or, for some reason—at least right now—it's more valuable to the dog. When you see that the dog values the object more than you expected, up the value of the reward.
- It's always best to end on a success.
At first, repeat this exercise only a few times in one session. Always leave your dog wanting more. If the dog consistently refuses to Trade, end the session and spend some time considering what might be going wrong. On your next attempt, try using the same toy but a much higher-value treat. Your objective is to entice the dog into playing the Trade game. Until the dog is willing to play, she'll have no idea there's a reward waiting.
When you're getting consistent willingness from your dog to Trade a relatively low-value object for a relatively low-value treat, up the value of both the object and the treat. In theory, you should save the highest-value treats—in our list above, the steak scraps—for objects that are very highly valued by the dog. These are often the items we don't want the dog to have in her mouth ever—like our underwear, our mobile phone, our credit cards.
Remember, you'll practice the Trade game every day (multiple times, if possible) for a long time before you can expect your dog to understand that she'll get a very yummy treat if she drops your expensive shoe. Most of the time, you'll practice using items that are not off-limits. When the dog does steal an item that's off-limits, you'd better have those high-value treats ready in the fridge!
Trade doesn't work if you're yelling at the dog, chasing the dog, or at any time punishing the dog for stealing. Your attitude should be calm, cool, and collected. You know what to do and you do it. You have Trade rewards stocked in your fridge in separate containers—heck, you can write the value numbers right on those plastic bags so you can grab the right one quickly. On a walk, carry Trade rewards with you. On a visit, again, carry Trade rewards. On a trip? Take a cooler of rewards!
Fair warning: clever dogs who have been taught to Trade might try to get extra treats by grabbing an off-limits object and bringing it to you just to get the Trade reward. You'll need to decide if you want to use this spontaneous behavior (which, in fact, could be the beginning of a Retrieve) or if you want to eliminate it. If you don't reward a dog-instigated Trade, you risk losing the good Trade response you've got. The better you know your dog, the easier it'll be to decide how to respond.


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Orlando City notebook: Is the USL championship at UCF a possibility?
Could there be a USL champion crowned at UCF?
Orlando City's front office is still looking into what it will do if it advances to the USL PRO title game. The club would prefer to play in a bigger venue, and they have explored the possibility of playing at UCF's Bright House Networks Stadium.
The club met resistance in the past when they looked into playing an entire USL season at the home of the Knights, but UCF has recently shown an interest in hosting one-off events -- like the MEAC/SWAC Challenge -- and a possibly pay day for the university could make the partnership a possibility.
The USL championship game would likely fall in the window between UCF's home game against Bethune-Cookman on Sept. 20 and the Knights' next home game against BYU on Oct. 9, a stretch of three weeks. In the past, UCF has not been keen on hosting a soccer game on the field during football season -- the soccer lines on a football field and potential damage to the grass have been raised at issues. But with a longer open window between games, those issues could be alleviated.
The club is still in discussions with UCF, per a spokesman, but may end up being forced to host at the smaller Wide World of Sports field with a capacity of around 5,000. That is, if they make it to the championship game.
* Orlando City fans will have to wait a bit longer to see Benfica transfers Rafael Ramos and Estrela.
The two former Benfica under-19 players have still not arrived in Orlando due to visa issues. The club expects them to get that paperwork cleared up in the next few days. Once they arrive, they'll be integrated into training.
With injuries and depth issues recently, the outside back and defensive center midfielder will be a welcome addition to the roster.
* I reached out to the club to see if Orlando was in the bidding process for the 2015 Gold Cup. Turns out the turf on the new Citrus Bowl is an issue -- no surprise there.
By putting turf on that stadium field, Orlando basically won't be a major international venue option for U.S. soccer until the new soccer stadium is finished in 2016.
* Orlando City youth player Raul Aguilera Jr. was called into the U.S. under-15 national team camp beginning Saturday in Carson, Calif.
Aguilera will join 36 other players at the camp under U15 coach Hugo Perez.
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EU needs to do more to stop the spread of Ebola
By Natalia Alonso, Oxfam's Deputy Director of Advocacy & Campaigns
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa will not be contained unless more is done to prevent new infections.
The UN is planning to tackle the illness by treating people already infected with the disease, tracing their contacts and ensuring safe burials, which is important. But Oxfam believes that more work needs to be done on stopping people getting infected in the first place.
In today's extraordinary EU meeting on Ebola, Europe was more concerned about its border controls, rather than what it should be doing to contain the spread of the disease in West Africa.
Europe needs to get serious by deploying more medical staff and equipment as well as military personnel in the next two weeks. Otherwise, the EU will miss a very narrow window of opportunity to halt this epidemic.
The aid agency is appealing for more funds to help prevent the spread of Ebola which is ravaging the region. Infection rates continue to grow with the number of cases doubling about every 20 days. The World Health Organisation has put the death rate from this outbreak at 70% and has warned that there could be 10,000 new cases a week in West Africa by December.
The number of Ebola cases, and suspected Ebola cases, has now exceeded 8,000 and the outbreak has claimed 4,500 lives, almost all of them in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
Up until now, the response from most EU governments has been woefully inadequate. While tackling the disease requires new, fully-equipped treatment and isolation centers, as well as medical professionals to treat Ebola cases, prevention of new infections must also be a priority.
We must break the chain of infection by equipping people with the means to protect themselves from contracting this deadly disease in the first place.
We have the expertise to help contain the disease, but funds, personnel and equipment are desperately needed to make this happen.
What's Oxfam calling on Europe to do?
EU Foreign Ministers meeting on Monday in Brussels should provide the people, equipment and money required to save lives and bring Ebola under control. Ministers should agree to:
• Fill the human resources gap. This crisis requires not only money, but people. Ministers should commit to mobilizing and deploying greater numbers of specialist medical staff who can train health workers, as well as military personnel for their logistics capabilities. This military deployment is crucial to provide the surge in capacity in the time frame necessary to break transmission rates. Military engagement should be strictly coordinated with the UN and its partners.
• Ensure adequate financing, a reliable medical evacuation facility (medevac), and air-bridges are in place by 30th October, in line with clear targets outlined in the UN Global Framework.
• Provide assets to the EU's Civil Protection Mechanism voluntary pool.
• Provide air transport options to support medevac and other medical facilities to receive and treat international aid workers, regardless of country of origin, who may become infected as a result of their work in an Ebola treatment facility.
What's Oxfam doing on the ground?
International agency Oxfam is planning to spend over €27 million to triple its programmes in Sierra Leone and Liberia, and plans to concentrate on reducing transmission rates. Although funding changes on a daily basis, it is nowhere near this target yet.
So far Oxfam has significantly stepped up its water and sanitation supply to Ebola treatment centres and community care centres, and its supply of hygiene materials, like soap and bleach, in Sierra Leone and Liberia. It is supplying personal protective clothing for front line community health workers and burial teams, and training community health workers. The aid agency is also helping in the construction of treatment centres.
Oxfam is boosting its mass public information campaign over the radio, billboards and text messages about how people can best protect themselves from catching the disease.
The aid agency is also working on prevention in Gambia, Guinea Bissau and Senegal, where there have been no widespread outbreaks of the disease.
However, in order for Oxfam to scale up its Ebola response, further funding is needed.
Enough Oxfam staff members with the expertise and knowledge to work on the Ebola response have stepped forward to volunteer to travel to the region to work on programmes. The major stumbling block to its deployment is a lack of funds.
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Four solutions to economic inequality
By Àngela Corbalán & Paul Creeney
Economic inequality is on the rise. Half of the world's wealth is now owned by just one per cent of the world's population. In Europe, austerity policies across the continent designed to cut debt and stimulate growth could instead push the number of Europeans at risk of poverty up to 146 million by 2025 – over a quarter of the population.
The problems are severe, but we want to focus on the solutions. As part of Blog Action Day 2014 on the topic of inequality, we look at how to redress the balance in favour of the many instead of the few.
At least $18.5 trillion is hidden by wealthy individuals in tax havens worldwide, representing a loss of more than $156 billion in tax revenue. Amazingly, more than two-thirds of this amount is stashed away in territories within EU boundaries, such as Luxembourg or Malta. This is just a fraction of the total tax loss, as it only reflects the amount of tax that individuals are neglecting to pay. It doesn't include the tax dodged by companies, whose dodgy-dealings and negotiated tax breaks could cost Africa alone an estimated $100 billion a year.
At Oxfam, we want to see individuals and companies paying their fair share of taxes. For example, we're calling for an EU blacklist of tax havens and an agreement from EU governments to impose sanctions against them and those using them. Governments should also compel multinational companies to reveal where they really make their profits and where they pay their taxes. In Europe and across the world, this extra tax revenue could be key to financing public services, like health and education.
Investing in health and education is one of the most powerful ways of fighting global inequality. Spending on these services has the same inequality-busting potential in rich and poor countries alike, reducing income inequality by between 10 to 20 per cent. This is why cuts in these services around the world are so catastrophic.
While public services can mitigate rising trends in inequality, user fees and funding cuts in both the North and South have the opposite effect. Healthcare fees push 150 million people into ruin every year around the world.
Despite all this evidence, between 2008 and 2012, more than half of all developing countries cut their education spending and two-thirds cut spending on healthcare. These cuts focus the pain of austerity directly at those who can least stand it.
Governments must value the impact of free public services and not introduce fees, budget cuts or other privatization of services that hit the poorest hardest, when inequality is already stacking the deck against them.
Wealthy elites have co-opted political power to rig the rules of the economic game, undermining democracy and hindering economic growth and poverty reduction.
Economic inequality can lead to "opportunity capture", which means that the best education, the best health care and the lowest tax rates will be claimed by the children of the rich.
If inequality is not addressed quickly, we will soon live in a world where equal opportunity is just a dream. Rather than leaving the rest of us to fight over scraps from the top table, the investments and policies needed to put right the imbalance of inequality must be addressed if the global poverty currently affecting over a billion people is to be truly made a thing of the past.
Àngela Corbalán is Oxfam's Head of EU Communications and Paul Creeney is Oxfam's EU Communications Assistant.
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June 1, 2009 by Ted Rall
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June 1, 2009 by Naomi Nowak
It's the little things that take longest with comics … I've got all the artwork finished for graylight but I'm now on my third day of fixing speech bubbles. I want each one to be hand drawn of course, to fit what ever it contains … a slight vibrato, a whisper or a shout can be seen in the outline.
So, counting on maybe two more days. Must. Stay. Strong. Through. Tedium. Well, actually there's something poetic about monotone work once you get used to it. It's summer here, by the way.
Desperately Seeking: Energetic Simple Lineweight
May 28, 2009 by shane white
Here again with another installment about all THINGS UNDONE.
This time I'm sharing an example of the inkline I was looking for in the process of developing this book. The cartooning wasn't in the bag either. I was pushing for more of a big-head-cutesy-kind-of-thing. The purpose behind it, well I really wanted to show that I can cartoon. I wanted my characters to have the flexibility and strong silhouettes that I think help me express their emotions if in almost an iconic kind of way.
There was no doubt I'd be inking this with a brush, but unlike earlier books I wanted to it feel easy and breezy. Just strong shapely information without a lot of noodling.
The main characters Rick Watts and Natalie Meade are in one of those long-term relationships…like 7 years long. Just in time for things to start getting a little weird.
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Nicolas Cinquegrani will be signing the preview galleys of The Big Kahn we mentioned earlier on Friday from 10-12 and 2-4 and Saturday 10-12. We're in booth #2941.
We just got those printed paperback bound previews and they're lovely! Free at BEA and ALSO at MoCCA in NYC next weekend!
NBM at BEA this weekend
May 27, 2009 by NBM
This Friday through Sunday, Book Expo America is on in NY's Javitts Convention Center. It's the yearly get-together for the book publishing industry (and is open only to professionals). For those of you going, here's what NBM has cooked up:
We'll be in booth 2941 presenting our upcoming Fall goodies. Of most note: we'll have advance galley previews of Neil Kleid's and Nicolas Cinquegrani's The Big Kahn! Nicolas will be there to sign them on Friday and Saturday morning.
Also: we'll have previews of Ted Rall's and Pablo Callejo's beautiful new GN The Year of Loving Dangerously, the new redesigned Malefic by Luis Royo part of a complete relaunch of Royo, Jesse ("Flower & Fade") Lonergan's Joe & Azat, Shane ("North Country") White's Things Undone, Naomi ("Unholy Kinship") Nowak's Graylight, the new Dungeon, the next episode of Remembrance of Things Past, and an amazing discovery for ya: Greg Houston and his outrageous Vatican Hustle.
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My Column For This Week
May 27, 2009 by Ted Rall
Here's my syndicated opinion column for this week:
With Democrats Like Him, Who Needs Dictators?
MIAMI—We expected broken promises. But the gap between the soaring expectations that accompanied Barack Obama's inauguration and his wretched performance is the broadest such chasm in recent historical memory. This guy makes Bill Clinton look like a paragon of integrity and follow-through.
From healthcare to torture to the economy to war, Obama has reneged on pledges real and implied. So timid and so owned is he that he trembles in fear of offending, of all things, the government of Turkey. Obama has officially reneged on his campaign promise to acknowledge the Armenian genocide. When a president doesn't have the 'nads to annoy the Turks, why does he bother to show up for work in the morning?
Obama is useless. Worse than that, he's dangerous. Which is why, if he has any patriotism left after the thousands of meetings he has sat through with corporate contributors, blood-sucking lobbyists and corrupt politicians, he ought to step down now—before he drags us further into the abyss.
I refer here to Obama's plan for "preventive detentions." If a cop or other government official thinks you might want to commit a crime someday, you could be held in "prolonged detention." Reports in U.S. state-controlled media imply that Obama's shocking new policy would only apply to Islamic terrorists (or, in this case, wannabe Islamic terrorists, and also kinda-sorta-maybe-thinking-about-terrorism dudes). As if that made it OK.
In practice, Obama wants to let government goons snatch you, me and anyone else they deem annoying off the street.
Preventive detention is the classic defining characteristic of a military dictatorship. Because dictatorial regimes rely on fear rather than consensus, their priority is self-preservation rather than improving their people's lives. They worry obsessively over the one thing they can't control, what Orwell called "thoughtcrime"—contempt for rulers that might someday translate to direct action.
Locking up people who haven't done anything wrong is worse than un-American and a violent attack on the most basic principles of Western jurisprudence. It is contrary to the most essential notion of human decency. That anyone has ever been subjected to "preventive detention" is an outrage. That the President of the United States, a man who won an election because he promised to elevate our moral and political discourse, would even entertain such a revolting idea offends the idea of civilization itself.
Obama is cute. He is charming. But there is something rotten inside him. Unlike the Republicans who backed Bush, I won't follow a terrible leader just because I voted for him. Obama has revealed himself. He is a monster, and he should remove himself from power.
"Prolonged detention," reported The New York Times, would be inflicted upon "terrorism suspects who cannot be tried."
"Cannot be tried." Interesting choice of words.
Any "terrorism suspect" (can you be a suspect if you haven't been charged with a crime?) can be tried. Anyone can be tried for anything. At this writing, a Somali child is sitting in a prison in New York, charged with piracy in the Indian Ocean, where the U.S. has no jurisdiction. Anyone can be tried.
What they mean, of course, is that the hundreds of men and boys languishing at Guantánamo and the thousands of "detainees" the Obama Administration anticipates kidnapping in the future cannot be convicted. As in the old Soviet Union, putting enemies of the state on trial isn't enough. The game has to be fixed. Conviction has to be a foregone conclusion.
Why is it, exactly, that some prisoners "cannot be tried"?
The Old Grey Lady explains why Obama wants this "entirely new chapter in American law" in a boring little sentence buried a couple past the jump and a couple of hundred words down page A16: "Yet another question is what to do with the most problematic group of Guantánamo detainees: those who pose a national security threat but cannot be prosecuted, either for lack of evidence or because evidence is tainted."
In democracies with functioning legal systems, it is assumed that people against whom there is a "lack of evidence" are innocent. They walk free. In countries where the rule of law prevails, in places blessedly free of fearful leaders whose only concern is staying in power, "tainted evidence" is no evidence at all. If you can't prove that a defendant committed a crime—an actual crime, not a thoughtcrime—in a fair trial, you release him and apologize to the judge and jury for wasting their time.
It is amazing and incredible, after eight years of Bush's lawless behavior, to have to still have to explain these things. For that reason alone, Obama should resign.
(Ted Rall, President of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, is author of the books "To Afghanistan and Back" and "Silk Road to Ruin: Is Central Asia the New Middle East?")
May PREVIEWS closing: Preorder THE BIG KAHN from your retailer today!
May 26, 2009 by Neil Kleid
Just chiming in to remind you that the month of May is almost over and with retailers finalizing their orders, it's time to get in your preorder for THE BIG KAHN, my new graphic novel for NBM Publishing using Diamond Order Code MAY090988
Rabbi David Kahn has lived a forty-year lie: he is not, nor has he ever been, Jewish. When at his funeral, the "rabbi's" grifter brother reveals the truth, it forces the Kahn family to struggle with grief and betrayal as their congregation examines their every move and they question their very faith. Rabbi Avi Kahn, the heir apparent whose future is on the line, spirals into a tryst with his rebellious sister Lea's non-Jewish roommate. Lea rethinks the religion she's run from, religion strong enough to alter her father's life, while Eli — the youngest Kahn — inherits his father's long-forgotten legacy. Somehow, with the help of the uncle he never knew and his slowly re-awakening sister, Eli attempts to return faith and order to his family, community while reinstating his father's good name. This July explore a family secret so well-hidden, even the family didn't know about it until it was too late.
Illustrated by Nicolas Cinquegrani and hitting shelves in July, THE BIG KAHN, a 176 page black and white graphic novel, is currently available to preorder via Diamond Comics Distributors (Order Code; MAY090988) and through bookstores (ISBN 978-1-56163-561-0) at the low price of $13.95.
Click here for a ten page selection from the book, available at the NBM website
Why I Killed Peter reviewed by Library Journal
May 26, 2009 by NBM
"Alfred's charming, emotional color art captures wonderfully Ollie's youthful joy and psychological turmoil. Sensitive. Recommended for older teens and up."
So says Library Journal of Why I Killed Peter about the author's experience with abuse at the hands of an otherwise cool priest.
This only adds to the great press this book had gotten, including The Onion, a starred review from Publishers Weekly, the Miami Herald and many prominent websites.
It should be noted there is little in this book that could prove visually offensive.
An Editorial Cartoon You Might Enjoy. Or Not.
May 25, 2009 by Ted Rall


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The Orchard medical practice was established in the heart of Bromborough, in 1958, when the original purpose-built - an innovation at the time - premises were erected. Over the years, the practice has evolved, keeping pace with medical advances and outgrowing that first small bungalow. Today, we are a 4 doctor partnership, offering a full range of general medical services based on modern family practice while at the same time, we believe, retaining many of the traditional qualities appreciated by patients. Our practice covers an area within an approximate 3 mile radius of Bromborough, including Eastham, other surrounding villages and parts of Bebington.
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In response to patient demand from recent surveys, from week beginning 15th September 2014 we will be offering early morning and late evening appointments. Appointments will be available until 8pm on Wednesday evenings with a GP and healthcare assistant and from 7am on Thursday mornings with GP and practice nurse. These appointments will be pre-bookable and not for emergencies. Emergency cover will still be available from the out of hours service at these times. The surgery will be open for those patients with the pre-bookable appointments only. The surgery phones will be switched over to the answer machine.
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better to buy where you intend to get it serviced?
zueslewis Posts: 2,353couldn't service (warranty) a vehicle they hadn't sold. Most manufacturers audit service records for fraud and in the old days, crooked service managers would take VINs off cars in the mall parking lot and run claims against them. That's the first place auditors look - VINs of vehicles not sold by that dealer.
The other concept is one of business survival. A dealer friend of mine in Lake Jackson, TX refuses to let his service department work on vehicles that were bought at mega-dealers in Houston. He figures if you won't even give him a shot at the business and you go to Houston to save a couple hundred bucks, you can get your car fixed in Houston. And he has the right to refuse the service. -
rivertown Posts: 928Odd concept of self protection for a businessman - to turn away business and alienate a potential future customer. I guess it makes sense to a certain sort of mind, however.
Brady, my experience has been the new dealer was happy to have a new service customer and was better about warranty work than the dealer from whom I bought.
My thought is still to check with someone who uses the dealer you plan/hope to use for service and maybe even check with the service writer he/she uses.
I guess it is possible that a dealer might turn away business, as nonsensical as that sounds. -
masspector Posts: 509Tell these auditors to get with the 20th century, much less the 21st.
"That's the first place auditors look - VINs of vehicles not sold by that dealer."
I cannot quote any stats on this and I do not know how it works in more rural areas, but I would think that in major metro areas lots of people buy from dealers that are not their closest dealer. Especially from the makes that have a lot of stores, like Ford, Chevy, Chrysler.
As for your friend in Lake Jackson, I have to go with river on that one. If I bought my car in Houston (for whatever reason) then brought it in for service in Lake Jackson and the dealer refused me service because I did not buy there, guess where I will never be buying a car or getting service in the future? (I'll give you a hint, the answer is not Houston).
I would love to see one of those conversations with the service writer. The manufacturer may not have any authority in that decision by the dealer, but there is a consumer expectation that their make can be serviced by any dealer of that make. -
zueslewis Posts: 2,353the customer to the owner, who tells 'em how it is - you don't even want to give me a crack at business, but you want me to take a tech off of one of MY customer's jobs to handle yours? More warranty work? No thanks - take it to Houston where you bought it.
That's his attitude and his right - none of us are in a place to argue with him.
Each technician does a certain amount of low-paying warranty work in exchange for some better-paying customer pay work. If the tech is swamped with warranty work, especially nitnoid dash rattle stuff, you'll have a tech who'll go somewhere else - major problem. You have to keep techs happy to keep them, and if turning away extra warranty work is what you have to do, then you do it.
Bear in mind there's the issue of dealing with the type of person who would drive to Houston to save $50 - that's not the type of person you WANT in your service drive - overly picky, grinding for time and place in line, etc.
massspector - 20th v 21st...you're not telling the auditors anything. They make IRS folks look like wimps. -
zueslewis Posts: 2,353I was giving an example of ONE dealer I know personally. Many larger dealers don't care at all - this dealer only has 5-6 technicians, but gets a flood of requests from local buyers who bought in Houston.
When you have 40 techs, and you're handling 200 jobs a day, 5-6 extra (non-dealership) customers a day make no real difference. With 5-6 techs, you're only handling 25-30 jobs a day - 5-6 extra customers make a huge difference.
The San Antonio area is unique, too that there are 4 major Air Force bases and 2 Army bases in twon. Lots of military folks (military guys HAVE to have those new cars) with newer cars, coming in from all over the nation. Maybe the "you didn't buy it here" issue isn't an issue there. -
thel Posts: 767Maybe it's pie in the sky and I'm no businessman but if the Lake Jackson dealer is swamped, why not hire more techs. The more cars he fixes, the more customers he exposes to his store, the more likely they will come back the next time they need a new ride.
I personally have never needed warranty work, but I really like the service department at my local Honda dealer. I take my two Accords and even my 02 Miata there for oil changes, etc. If their service department were a bunch of jerks or they turned my away b/c I bought a Miata instead of an s2000, I would be far less likely to buy a car from them. -
audia8q Posts: 3,138How much of a savings are we talking about??? What is the service reputation of the dealer you intend to service your new car? What kind of grief do you have to go through to save some $$$ at the other dealers to buy the car?? How long do you plan on keeping your car?
Please let us know these things to better answer your questions. -
dglozman Posts: 177I bought my CR-V from not the closest dealer to me. Reason? They simply didn't have it in stock, and I would have to wait, as they said, 4 to 6 week (at least) if they order. So I called all Honda dealers in my area (New York city) and finally was able to locate my car at the dealership 40+ min. away from my house (in Queens) and I'm in Brooklyn. It's not very convenient to me to service my car at that dealership. usually even a simple oil change requires an appointment in advance and you have to leave there your car for a least 4+ Hrs. (again its New York city). so if I would go to that dealership basically I forced to wait there those 4+ hrs. until the service is done. The closest dealer is 10 min walking distance from my house, so I can do something else with my time then just sitting at the waiting area.
So yes I'm servicing my car at the closest dealer and not the one I bought my car from. Am I treated good there? you bet! Should I consider myself inconsiderate? hell no! -
pat84 Posts: 817I bought a Honda Odyssey at a different dealer than I used for service. It wasn't about price, they all went at MSRP. It was about I could get one 2 months earlier at the dealer I bought at.
I went to my closest Honda Dealer for service. All maintenance and 2-3 recalls. The washed my vehicle every time I had it in, even if just for an oil change. They always had it ready at the promised time an at the quoted price. I gave them top marks on everything they did.
I traded in the Odyssey on a Toyota 4 Runner. I have had one oil change at the Toyota dealer where I bought it. It took 2 hours because they don't schedule oil changes. It's first come first serve. They didn't even put paper floor mats and plastic seat protectors in my new truck. Honda always did that. No wash either. I told them the Toyota service manager that I was not happy with my service and wanted a form to fill out. I said they slopped up the inside of my truck, and an oil change took 2 hours and I want the dealer to know I see some areas for improvement.
He said they have no such service rating forms. I found out it was true. Honda had a bulletin board full of rating forms with all outstanding ratings. some were mine.
I am going to see if the Honda dealer will do my service on my Toyota. It may make an interesting advertisement for Honda service. . -
landru2 Posts: 638In my area there is not a service department that has so much business that they can afford to turn away business from people that didn't buy there. However, where it will make a difference is in the extraordinary circumstances that require the service manager to make a judgement call. For instance, Ford allows a dealer to only do so many dollars worth of after-warranty adjustments each month. So if your car has 61,000 km and needs warranty work, the first thing that they check is where the car was bought. If we sold it, then we will be happy to use our AWA budget to get it fixed. If you bought it elsewhere, then you may have to go elsewhere to try and get the warranty work done.
masspector Posts: 509After rereading some of these posts, I think some of the confusion may be coming from different definitions of "service". I think you are refering to warranty work that the customer does not pay for. I think others, myself included, are refering to all service work, including routine maint., etc that the customer does pay for.
peeete Posts: 136I think this thread is hugely important, as most people are concerned about their ability to get good service at dealers other than where they purchased.
My overriding question is that I always understood that warranty work was very profiable, and in fact most dealers maker far more money in the repair bays than the selling floor. If this is true, I would think it would be in a dealers self-interest to accept as much warranty work as they can. Some edealers actually advertise that they will serivce your car even if you did not buy it there, so there must be profit in it.
I can understand that a dealer will give priority in appointments to people who bought there, but there is no reason why other epople should be treated poorly. Obviously there could be many reaons why the car was not bought there; sometimes due to price/availability, and sometimes because they just moved 1000 miles. The buyer should not be penalized for this.
Obviously manufactures have different policies that the dealers follow. For example, I own an Infiniti (never again), and they give loaners to anyone who is in warranty. I have a friend would bought a used Caddy Deville, and goes to another dealer for service and he loves them..loaner and all.
Ive been thinking about buying a new Ford, and there is a dealer who is quite close to me, and another one 10 miles away. THe latter dealer has the car I want, and I will probalbe get a better price from them, as this particular car has sat on their lot since last september..so Im hoping they will want to dump it. But since its a Ford, I know I will have to bring it in for service a lot (ive owned two fords already), so the closer dealer works for me. I am trying to figure out how to get the best servoce from them, even thinking of going to the owner (who I know), and seeing if can get me the car cheap (which I doubt). I may buy an ESP warranty maybe that will help! -
peeete Posts: 136I am totally surprised that it is not a money maker. See, you learn something new every day! If its true, I would guess that dealerships of American cars would be less profitable, as the cars usually require more repairs than Toyota, Honda, etc.
Some dealers, including carmax i believe, advertise that they will do work on any car. Why bother to promote it?
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