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Meet the Polygamists
Well, I am from an orthodox country and polygamy is unusual for us, so much more when it refers to Christians. But we are open-minded enough to accept other ways of living. However, in one episode I noticed something psychologically interesting: Mr. Cawley said he wants to extend the house because he had a vision about he must have 7 wives and a lot of kids; in the same time all the 3 present wives understand that he wants to extend the house for them, not for other women. I think, althought people are born and raised in this cult, for many generations ago, a woman heart never accept 100% to share a man. And it is suffering everytime a new wife comes into the family. And I think Mr. Cawley lies about his visions; he simply likes to have many wives, as a man, not as a believer. It is acceptable any decision about life, but it is honourable to be based on free-willing not on fake atitude, lie and suffering.
Yes, I know some polygamist families are on Gov. assistance and in that case it is an unfair drain on society when a man can't provide for the family he chooses and is responsible for. HOWEVER, we don't know the stats on that point within the Centennial Park community. What we have been shown seems to be families working and sacrificing together to be independent. Until I know more I won't judge on that point.
While I would pray and do all that I could to convince my Daughter NOT to get involved in a polygamist situation (an abusive situation in my opinion) I do believe these people to be sincere in their convictions. When you see people striving to live in the way they believe pleases God, you respect their integrity- even if you don't agree with them. I find it fascinating to watch how people live out this dysfunctional ( in my view) way of life and admire their determination to live as they believe is right. At the same time I am sad for everyone involved- especially the women and children.
I too have heard the info about food stamps and welfare. Not sure where info originated. I have found the show to be informative although I am not sure how accurate. I do not agree with their fundamental beliefs, but respect their beliefs and family unity. However, I do not agree with raising children with the understanding that it is acceptable to choose which laws to break. It cannot be acceptable within a country, to have whole segments of that country disobeying the law.
.Regarding the Cawleys. I do not understand why as fundamentalists, they choose which parts of the Bible they will adhere to. In the Old Testament husbands provided for their families.but Mr. Cawley wants to overpopulate the world and send his sister wives out to bring home the bacon. And I was aghast at his solution for extra bedrooms (shipping containers ). God help if there is ever a catastrophe, fire, flood. etc. Where is the egress? I guess there are no building codes.
I noticed that Isaiah,his "wives", and their children, do not wear seat belts. What's up with that??
Please let people know these families often are on WELFARE AND FOOD-STAMPS! Since they are not legally married the women are considered single and unemployed. So, we are supporting their life-style!!! They think they are hurting no one and will say they are not all the while sucking up as much gov. aide as they can get... Let them marry legally and stop paying them to live like this!!!!
@audra miller Obviously you didn't do your "homework". You, like so many others, jump to the conclusion that because they have so many children, they HAVE to be on food stamps. Many of the wives hold down jobs. While they may not eat "like kings", they are able to provide for their children all the food they need. The only social service they take advantage of is insurance for their children. The same as many people do in this country. Just being able to legally marry will not change anything. Many married couples and single mothers abuse the system of services that are in place to help people. So how is marriage going to make a difference?
Before you post, get the facts. Judge not, lest ye be judged.


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Comics A.M. | One Piece breaks another record, more on Diamond Digital
Publishing | The 61st volume of Eiichiro Oda's insanely popular pirate manga One Piece sold more than 2 million copies in its first three days of release, according to the Japanese market-survey firm Oricon. It's the fastest-selling book in the Oricon chart's nearly three-year history, breaking the previous record set by the 60th volume of One Piece, which sold more than 2 million copies in four days. [Anime News Network]
Retailing | Heidi MacDonald talks to Dave Bowen, Diamond's director of digital distribution, about the newly announced deal with iVerse Media that will allow retailers to sell digital comics in their stores: "The retailer will login using their Diamond retailer login and be presented with the opportunity to create store-specific, item-specific codes in whatever quantities they need. Then we'll use some approved cryptographically secure method to generate random codes for the retailer to use. And we'll format those in a PDF which they can then print out. Likely what will happen is, it'll print easily on Avery 30-up laser labels. So what you have is a sheet of Avery laser labels with a bunch of different books and codes on individual labels. In that case the retailer takes that material and secures it and then when someone wants Transformers #16 they simply ring the sale and give the label or sticker or cut-out to the consumer. […] It's really very simple. Then the consumer that has that code, which is live, they could literally step out of the line, pull out their iphone or ipad or whatever other device and redeem the code and begin reading the material." Meanwhile, Todd Allen dissects what he describes as "a particularly silly digital download scheme." [The Beat, Indignant Online]
Comics A.M. | Day-early debut axed for Formic Wars, more on Wizard World
Publishing | Citing "distribution concerns," Marvel has canceled plans to allow members of the ComicsPRO retail trade organization to sell the first issue of author Orson Scott Card's Formic Wars: Burning Earth on Feb. 15 rather than Feb. 16. Announced last Friday, the move was designed to take advantage of Diamond Comic Distributors' new day-early delivery program, which allows direct-market stores to receive comics on Tuesday for sale on Wednesday. It's what just this week enabled the early release of the heavily publicized Fantastic Four #587. According to Rich Johnston, complaints from DC Comics and other publishers over that promotion are what led to cancellation of the ComicsPRO incentive.
But publishers weren't alone in protesting Tuesday releases: On the retail-oriented news and analysis site ICv2.com, store owners complained about "special treatment" for ComicsPRO members, and criticized Marvel for already authorizing day-early sales. "At this rate, by the end of the year, Tuesday will be new comics day," wrote Ed Sherman of Rising Sun Creations. [Marvel]
Comics A.M. | Tom Ziuko hospitalized, Paolo Rivera's surgery
Creators | Artist Alan Kupperberg shares word that colorist Tom Ziuko has been hospitalized as he fights acute kidney failure and other health conditions. "The good news is that the doctors seem to have finally stumbled on a series of treatments and therapies that have Tom seeing some light at the end of the tunnel," Kupperberg said in a message to Daniel Best. "The bad news is that Tom, uninsured and unable to work since the beginning of December, is in a tough financial bind." Kupperberg is accepting donations via his PayPal account — firstname.lastname@example.com — and adds, "I will pass 100% (plus) along to Tom."
Ziuko worked in DC Comics' production department before going freelance, and colored comics like Crisis on Infinite Earths, Batman, Action Comics and History of the DC Universe, to name a few. Todd Klein remembers their time together at DC. [20th Century Danny Boy]
Creators | Artist Paolo Rivera suffered a broken cheekbone after intervening in a domestic dispute. "The good news is I'm all right and—most importantly—my vision is intact," he wrote on his blog. "… I had surgery on Monday and have been taking it very, very easy since. All things considered, I was very lucky. My eye looks horrendous—the white of the eye is blood red—but I can still see (thank goodness) and should make a full recovery. I also have a pretty rad haircut right now due to surgery… it kinda looks like the one I had circa 1995." [The Self-Absorbing Man]
Comics A.M. | Spider-Man resumes tonight, One Piece creator makes $24M
Broadway | The Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark canceled both Wednesday performances to test new safety measures following the Monday-night fall that left a stuntman hospitalized with broken ribs and internal bleeding. The cancellation of the sold-out evening show was announced just three hours before showtime at the Foxwoods Theatre. Tonight's performance is expected to go on as planned.
Producers and creators met privately on Tuesday with the entire company to address safety concerns about the $65-million musical, the most expensive and technically complex in Broadway history. Although accidents in theater productions aren't uncommon, it's unusual for there to be four injuries before a show has officially opened. MTV offers some context. [The New York Times, The Associated Press]
Comics A.M. | The comics Internet in two minutes
Publishing | No comic cracked the 100,000-copy mark in the direct market in October, with the top title, Marvel's Uncanny X-Force #1, selling an estimated 96,500 copies. Diamond's graphic novel chart was led by DC Comics' Superman: Earth One hardcover, which sold more than 16,000 copies. Retail news and analysis site ICv2.com notes that was the best number for a graphic novel since new volumes of Scott Pilgrim and The Walking Dead shipped in July. The website also pursues John Jackson Miller's recent analysis of comics that don't make it into Diamond's Top 300, concluding: "Sales below the Top 300 may be growing in importance, but when we look at a fairly long period (10 months) either they aren't big enough in the aggregate to make much difference, or their sales are changing at about the same rate as the Top 300's. If anything, looking at year to date numbers, sales on titles below the Top 300 are shrinking faster than sales in the Top 300, at least in periodical comics."
Meanwhile, Miller sifts through data made available by Diamond to determine that comics sales are 69.6 percent of the total market. [ICv2.com, The Comichron]
Conventions | Wizard Entertainment has announced its acquisition of Central Canada Comic Con in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Johanna Draper Carlson also picks up on rumors that the company is adding Mid-Ohio-Con to its growing stable. [press release, Comics Worth Reading]
Talking with retailer Joe Field, ComicsPRO president and FCBD founder
I've been writing about comics for over five years now, and one of the things I've learned is always know who the experts are on any given subject. Whenever I have an article that would benefit from the insight of a retailer, one of the first people I turn to is Joe Field.
Field is the owner/operator of Concord, California's Flying Colors Comics & Other Cool Stuff. He's the president of the comics retail organization ComicsPRO, founded Free Comic Book Day, worked as a marketing person for Stan Lee and also ran one of the biggest regional conventions, WonderCon, for several years. Over the years I've called and emailed him numerous times with a stray question or two, but never got a chance to sit down and pick his brain — until now.
Chris Arrant: First thing I want to ask you about is ComicsPRO. Not many people outside the retail side know about this — I bet even some publishers and journalists don't. Inform me, Joe — what's the next big event for ComicsPRO coming up?
Nominees announced for Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award
The comics retailer organization ComicsPro has posted the list of nominees for this year's Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award, which includes comic shops in Florida, New Mexico, Texas, England and Israel, among other locations.
Established in 1993, the award is presented to "an individual retailer performing an outstanding job of supporting the comics art medium both in the community and within the industry at large." Nominees are judged based on the following criteria:
- Support of a wide variety of innovative material: Providing opportunities for creators' material to reach buyers; stocking a diverse inventory.
- Knowledge: Working to stay informed on retailing as well as on the comics field.
- Community activity: Promoting comics to the community; maintaining relationships with schools and libraries; keeping active in social, business, and arts community organizations.
- Quality of store image: Innovative display approaches; using store design creatively.
- Adherence to standard ethical business practices.
The winner will be announced during the Eisner Awards presentation on Friday at Comic-Con International in San Diego. The list of nominees can be found after the jump.
Your video of the day: ComicsPRO honors Levitz, Kalish with awards
ComicsPRO 2010 Industry Appreciation Award from BSIComics on Vimeo.
As Kevin mentioned a few days ago, the comics retailer organization ComicsPRO honored former DC Comics president and publisher Paul Levitz with the first ComicsPRO Industry Appreciation Award and Carol Kalish, former direct sales manager at Marvel, with the posthumous ComicsPRO Industry Appreciation Award. You can now watch the video of the award presentation above or on the ComicsPro website.
Comics A.M. | The comics Internet in two minutes
Politics | Ah, comics, the language of diplomacy. During his visit this week to the White House, French President Nicolas Sarkozy gave President Obama an 18th-century document accrediting Benjamin Franklin as ambassador to France and, for his daughters, a collection of Asterix graphic novels. [AFP]
Publishing | Rebellion Publishing, publisher of U.K. comics anthology 2000AD, will begin releasing U.S. editions of new and classic titles in graphic-novel format beginning in June with The Judge Dredd Complete Case Files and The Complete D.R. and Quinch. [PW Comics Week]
Publishing | Two more profiles of Last Gasp Books as the independent publisher celebrates its 40th anniversary. [PW Comics Week, San Francisco Bay Guardian]
Comics A.M. | The comics Internet in two minutes
Manga | A 14-year-old middle-schooler in Owosso, Michigan, has been suspended indefinitely after a classmate found a Death Note-inspired note containing the names of two students and times, and turned it over to a teacher. In Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's Death Note, the hit manga turned anime and live-action movie franchise, a high school student sets out to rid the world of evil using a supernatural notebook that kills anyone whose name is written in it.
Although the incident with the Owosso student was turned over to police, who forwarded the case to the prosecutor's office. Police and school officials say they don't believe the teen intended to harm anyone, and that no one was in danger.
This is at least the sixth incident in the United States in the past few years in which a student was disciplined for possessing a "death note." [Argus-Press, Anime News Network]
Comics A.M. | The comics Internet in two minutes
Retailing | The annual meeting of ComicsPRO, the direct-market trade organization, begins today in Memphis, Tennessee, with DC Comics-focused programming — we'll likely see some announcements this afternoon — and continues through Saturday. Matt Price gauges the general mood among attendees concerning the economy, digital comics and the increasing reliance by publishers on "classified" solicitations whose details aren't revealed until just before the final-order cutoff. [Nerdage]
Publishing | French publisher Les Humanoïdes Associés, which in recent years has had deals with DC Comics and Devil's Due Publishing, plans to "formally reestablish itself" as a U.S. comic-book publisher — this time without a partner. The venture, called Humanoids Inc., is overseen by Publisher Fabrice Giger, Director Alex Donoghue, Editor-in-Chief Bob Silva and Senior Art Director Jerry Frissen. The first titles will be released in June. [Humanoids]
SDCC '09 | Charity auctions, panels, hookups, scalping and more
The 2009 San Diego Comic-Con kicks off with preview night on Wednesday, July 22 and runs through Sunday, July 26. If you are a publisher, creator, retailer or any other kind of exhibitor who would like to let folks know about any special plans you have for the show (panels, signing schedules, exclusives, debuts, etc.) drop me an email and I'll run it here.
Organizations | The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and Things From Another World have teamed up to create a set of limited edition cards by various comic creators that will be handed out by various publishers, the CBLDF and TFAW. The original artwork for the cards will be auctioned off at the con, with proceeds going to the fund. Contributors include Mike Mignola, Phil Hester, Eric Powell, Gabriel Bá, Fábio Moon, Steve Lieber and many more.
Panels | Although the official programming schedule hasn't been released yet, a few companies have started sharing their panels via press releases and such. Thursday at the con brings a panel on Disney animator Walt Stanchfield, who is profiled in a new book called Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes.
Also, FOX TV has released their schedule. They'll have panels dedicated to the Simpsons, Family Guy, The Cleveland Show (a Family Guy spinoff), 24, Futurama and Bones. They'll also have Joss Whedon and Eliza Dushku on hand to introduce a never before seen episode of Dollhouse. And they'll have a panel dedicated to their new show Glee, where they'll show another episode. You can watch the first one on Hulu; it is hilarious.
Interestingly enough, the release doesn't mention Fringe, but there will be a panel with several members of the cast.
Food or Comics | A roundup of money-related news
• Matt Price reports that "not all was rosy" in Memphis, Tenn., this week at the start of the annual meeting of ComicsPRO, the direct-market trade organization: "The overall economic slump had affected some locations. Furthermore, logistic problems with a large supplier have become more pronounced in recent weeks. And, something on many stores' minds is the question of how digital content will impact the comic book industry."
The theme of this year's meeting, which continues today, is "Rising to the Challenge."
"If the economy weakens … we have to remain strong," organization President Joe Field said. "While there are things we can't control, we have to work on the things we can control."
• At ICv2.com, Phil Foglio discusses the economics of moving Girl Genius online.
• Bookstore chain Books-A-Million announced its fourth-quarter sales fell 2.5 percent over the same period, to $164 million.
• Tribune Media Services filed a lawsuit Thursday asking a bankruptcy judge to declare that the company, and not actor Warren Beatty, owns the television and movie rights to comic strip detective Dick Tracy.
Parent corporation Tribune Co., which filed for federal bankruptcy protection in December, has been feuding with Beatty for years. The actor acquired the rights to the character in 1985, and made the Dick Tracy movie in 1990.
According to Tribune Co., Beatty was required to produce another movie or TV project in order to retain the rights. In a lawsuit filed back in November, Beatty claims he began work on a TV special, satisfying the terms of the agreement.
• Dick McVengeance offers tips on how to save money on manga and anime purchases.
• Matt Alt takes a look at the financial state of Japan's anime industry.
• The global recession seems to have had little effect on the Tokyo International Anime Fair, which drew more than 100,000 people.
Wildstorm adds creator-driven titles, offers Planetary update
As the annual meeting of ComicsPRO continues in Memphis, Tenn., DC Comics has announced a new creator-driven lineup from Wildstorm.
Matt Price reports the imprint will add miniseries from Aaron Williams and Fiona Staples, Dave Tischman and Philip Bond, David Lapham, and Jeff Mariotte. Sparse title details can be found at the link.
In addition to the news about Grant Morrison and Jim Lee's Wildcats, Wildstorm's Hank Kanalz announced that Morrison's Authority will be finished by Keith Giffen and "a variety of artists," and that Warren Ellis and John Cassaday's Planetary #27 — the series finale — should ship sometime this year.
DC confirms next weekly series, Wednesday Comics
DC Comics confirmed today that its next weekly series will be Wednesday Comics, a title and format designed to evoke the Sunday comics section.
The 12-part series, which launches this summer, will be presented in a broadsheet format that unfolds from traditional comic-book size. According to blogger Matt Price, each issue will be 16 pages and contain 15 serialized stories.
The details were revealed in Memphis, Tenn., at the annual meeting of the direct-market trade organization ComicsPRO.
Although rumors have circulated for a while online about Wednesday Comics, thanks largely to Kyle Baker's Hawkman pages, today was the first official word from the publisher.
Other creators linked to specific characters are Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso on a Batman, Neil Gaiman and Michael Allred on Metamorpho, Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner on Supergirl, and Joe Kubert on Sgt. Rock. Additional names include John Arcudi, Lee Bermejo, Dave Bullock, Kurt Busiek, Dave Gibbons, Paul Pope, Ryan Sook and Walt Simonson.
Wednesday Comics also will include stories starring Catwoman, Deadman, Demon, The Flash, Kamandi, Metal Man, Supergirl and the Teen Titans, among others.
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Since I have been spending a lot of time researching how to effectively breakout and route large BGAs, my initial posts will be related to designing with BGAs; however, in addition to that topic, I am interested in interactive and automatic routing. BGAs that are difficult to route are either very large (over 1500 pins) or with a very small pitch (less than .8mm). In both cases the most common reason for routing trouble is the requirement to use only through vias. We are fortunate that the handheld electronics industry has embraced HDI almost entirely, yet in most other segments use of through-hole vias still dominate. Using micro-vias in an HDI stackup enables more effective routing resulting in fewer layers and less time to completion.
If you are struggling to complete a through-hole design because the BGAs are too difficult to route or require too many layers, why haven't you started using HDI? My interest in this blog is to find the tipping point at which going to HDI will allow you to succeed with either very large pin-count or very small pin-pitch BGAs. If BGAs caused your company to start using HDI, what specifically was your tipping point? If your company is not moving towards HDI, at what point will you be unable to complete a design with these BGAs?


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Region III is an area rich in historic resources. In Virginia alone there are over 2,000 sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Region III was the heart of the colonies and the setting for the beginnings of our nation. The homes of many of our founding fathers still remain, as well as important buildings, battlegrounds, churches, farms, bridges, and even roads. There are also valuable archaeological sites, many containing the story of Native American history and culture. It is important that we preserve this history for future generations, and both you and FEMA have a responsibility to consider this as you recover from any disaster.
FEMA is required by the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) to take into account the effects of demolition, repair, reconstruction and relocation on historic properties within the disaster area. A historic property is any prehistoric or historic district, site, building, structure, or object included in or eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places. This term includes properties of traditional religious and cultural importance to an Indian tribe, Native Alaskan or Native Hawaiian organization. Many of these structures are not on the National Register of Historic Places, but may be eligible for listing on the National Register. Properties eligible for listing are afforded the same review under NHPA. Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act requires FEMA to consult with the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) on projects prior to providing federal funding. A good rule of thumb to follow is that any structure receiving Federal assistance that is 50 years or older, or that otherwise has specific archaeological, historical, cultural or architectural significance, must be reviewed before beginning any demolition, repair, reconstruction or relocation activity.
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Before beginning any demolition, construction or repair work that involves historic and potentially historic structures, (i.e., buildings, bridges or other structures) please submit the following to the SHPO through FEMA:
- A project scope describing the property/structure(s), age, exact location and address, current and past use (if known), and proposed work.
- Clear photographs, hard copy or digital (no photo copies please) of all sides of structure.
For further information, please contact FEMA Environmental Office or your State Historic Preservation Office.
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Before beginning any project that involves ground disturbance such as leveling plots of ground or digging utility trenches, the area must be reviewed by the SHPO for archeological concerns. Projects may include road realignment, relocating a utility, constructing a material borrow pit or a new debris disposal site. Archeological concerns may not be immediately apparent to the average person, and care must be taken not to disturb sites containing possible clues to our history. Archeological materials may come in the form of buried bones, Native American camp sites, stone tools, abandoned industrial facilities such as factories and mines, historic house foundations, wells, outhouse pits, and trash scatters. Failure to take appropriate care may result in loss of federal funding.
Prior to beginning any project on previously undisturbed areas, the following must be submitted to the SHPO through FEMA:
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- A brief description of all proposed work (include depth for subsurface impacts)
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Game and nongame freshwater fish
Game Fish: black bass, crappie, bluegill, redear sunfish, warmouth, redbreast sunfish, spotted sunfish, flier, mud sunfish, longear sunfish, shadow bass, peacock bass, white bass, striped bass and sunshine bass.
Nongame Fish: all freshwater fish are defined as non-game fish, except grass carp and fish defined as freshwater game fish. Note: Alligator gar require a scientific collector's permit to take.
Methods of taking freshwater fish
Game fish and nongame fish may only be taken with pole and line or rod and reel. There is no limit on the number of rods an angler may use.
Freshwater fish may not be taken by use of any free-floating, unattached device, or by taking of fish or wildlife with firearms, explosives, electricity, spear gun, poison or other chemicals. The taking of fish by underwater swimming or diving is prohibited. It is unlawful to sell, offer for sale or transport out of the state any freshwater game fish unless specifically permitted by the FWC, except that licensed anglers may transport two days' bag limit of legally harvested game fish.
It is illegal to possess any freshwater fish along with gear that cannot legally be used to take freshwater fish, including gear types listed above and below for taking nongame fish or bait. An exception is game fish may be possessed together with cast nets having a stretched mesh size not greater than 1 inch; minnow dip nets not more than 4 feet in diameter; minnow seines having a stretched mesh size not greater than 1 inch, a length not more than 20 feet and a depth not more than 4 feet; and minnow traps not more than 24 inches in length and 12 inches in diameter, with a funnel entrance not more than 1 inch in spread.
Black bass, striped bass and white bass or their hybrids, peacock bass, or crappie and panfish (for crappie and panfish, only in waters where minimum-length or slot-size limits for these fish apply) may not be filleted, nor their head or tail fin removed, until you are done fishing for the day.
*NOTE: Statutory provisions of (790.025(3)(h), F.S.) state it is lawful for persons to own, possess, and lawfully use firearms and other weapons, ammunition, and supplies for lawful purposes while fishing, camping, or lawfully hunting or going to or returning from a fishing, camping, or lawful hunting expedition. Consequently, although firearms may not be used to take fish, they can be in possession of someone with legally taken fish.
Nongame fish may be taken:
- By bush hook, setline or trotline baited with cut bait or other substance; but not including live game fish or any part of any game fish; bush hooks, setlines or trotlines (limited to 25 hooks total) are permitted for taking nongame fish for personal use, but only in those areas where trotlines may be lawfully used in accordance with the Wildlife Code of the State of Florida. Refer to the "Commercial Freshwater Fisheries Rules and Regulations Summary." Bush hooks, setlines and trotlines must be clearly and legibly marked with the harvester's name and address while being used or possessed in or upon the waters of the state.
- At night by bow and arrow and gigs.
- During daylight hours by manually operated spears, gigs, snatch hooks, crossbow or bow and arrow from a boat or from shore except at the spillways of the Eureka and Rodman dams on the Oklawaha River or on the spillway of the Jim Woodruff Dam on the Apalachicola River or in Dade County canals south of the C-4 and east of the L-31N and L-31W canals inclusively.
- By the use of cast nets in the South and Northeast regions, in Citrus County, and in the Southwest Region, except that possession or use of cast nets in waters adjoining Saddle Creek Fish Management Area, Polk County, confined by Morgan Combee Road, U.S. Highway 92 and Fish Hatchery Road are prohibited.
- Using a bow and light at night. Night bowfishing tournaments do not require a permit in the Northwest Region.
- By netting and impounding at night from Sept. 1 to May 1 in specified waters of five Northwest Florida counties only. Nets used to take nongame fish in these specified waters must be less than 100 feet in length, have a minimum 3-inch stretched mesh and shall be continuously attended to ensure immediate release of any trapped game fish. Contact the Northwest Regional office for details.
- For personal use by any person possessing a valid freshwater fishing license by the use of not more than one slat basket or one wire trap, made as specified in Rule 68A-23.003, FAC, and used only in those waters where use of wire traps or slat baskets is permitted for commercial purposes. Refer to the "Commercial Freshwater Fisheries Rules and Regulation Summary." Passive fishing gear such as slat baskets or wire baskets must be clearly and legibly marked with the harvester's name and address while being used or possessed in or upon the waters of the state.
Prohibited gear for taking marine species in freshwater
- Spearfishing: Use of any hand or mechanically propelled, single or multi-pronged spear or lance, barbed or barbless, to harvest or attempt to harvest any marine species while diving in freshwater is prohibited.
- Spearfishing for mullet in fresh water is prohibited.
Methods of taking bait
Freshwater shrimp and golden shiners of any size, or other freshwater nongame fish, including catfish, less than 8-inches total length may be taken for bait, unless specifically prohibited, by the following methods:
- Cast nets having a stretched mesh size not greater than 1 inch in fresh waters of the state unless specifically prohibited.
- Minnow dip nets not more than 4 feet in diameter.
- Minnow seines having a stretched mesh size not greater than 1 inch, a length not more than 20 feet, and a depth not more than 4 feet.
- Minnow traps not more than 24 inches in length and 12 inches in diameter, with a funnel entrance not more than 1 inch in spread.
- Any game fish taken by these methods must be released immediately.
- Taking of bait for the purpose of sale requires a commercial fishing license.
Use of fish for bait
- Black bass, peacock bass or any part thereof may not be used as bait.
- Live non-native fishes (including goldfish and carp) may not be used as bait, except for variable platys and fathead minnows.
- Whole pickerel or panfish (e.g., bluegill, redear sunfish, redbreast sunfish, spotted sunfish, flier, warmouth) or parts thereof may be used as bait for sportfishing by the angler who caught them. Whole pickerel or bream or parts thereof may not be used as bait for trotlines or bush hooks or any method other than by rod and reel or pole and line.
- Panfish less than 4 inches in total length raised by a licensed aquaculture facility may be purchased and used for bait.
Release/Movement of fish
Non-native fishes, except for peacock bass and triploid grass carp, must not be returned to the water nor may they be used as live bait, and should be consumed or disposed of properly.
Northern black bass (Micropterus salmoides salmoides) has been added to the conditional non-native species list. Possession, importation into Florida, sale or transportation of any live specimens or eggs of this species of black bass is prohibited except by special permit from the FWC. Hybrids of the northern black bass and Florida sub-species (Micropterus salmoides salmoides x Micropterus salmoides floridanus) are legal to possess in the Suwannee River and its tributaries and north and west of the Suwannee River
Protected: Shortnose and Gulf Sturgeon


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How To Drive An Automatic Car
Reversing With An Automatic Car
The latest Malaysian government's announcement has created a "buzz". The motor industry is excited. So are the driving school people. What are they excited about? The use of "automatic" cars, of course.
Automatic cars are already in use in Malaysia. But the percentage is rather low. For your information, the automatic car is branded as "the lazy man's car".
This article will not concentrate on the question of "should we or shouldn't we" introduce the use of automatic vehicles, especially for tests and driving school usage!
Being such a "hot" topic today, it's only appropriate the subject of "how to use an automatic car" be tackled by the writer.
Basically, an "auto" car is no different from "manual" cars. Steering is still there. The foot control / mechanism perhaps , the absence of the "clutch". However, the usual 1 – 5 gears and reverse gear "stick" in manual cars are absent.
So how does one go about teaching a person who knows nothing about "auto" cars how to drive it?
I do not drive an "auto" car. Anyway, attempts will be made the best he can to impart this knowledge to you.
Some automatic cars have D1, D2, D3 and D4. You need not be confused over them. All you have to remember is "D" means drive. O.K? Are we ready?
Here goes then. Unless the car is in N or P, the engine cannot start or "ignite". So step one is put the gear in N. To do this, press a "knob" with your left thumb and move it to N position. Important that you understand this before we proceed any further.
Unlike manual cars (my own driving tutor used to advise me) a driver should always step on the foot brake. This prevent the car from "darting" or "shooting" or "launching" forward suddenly.
When in position , next the vehicle is ready to "start" or "ignite"
Having managed to start the car, put the gear into "R" (Reverse) and with your right foot safely on the brakes, to control the car. Now release the brakes slowly.
You do not have to accelerate at all. Just by releasing your brakes slowly, the vehicle should move safely and gradually backwards. Viola! That's how the Reverse is accomplished.
But remember, you have to release the brakes slowly and control it, if and when it's necessary. For me, it has been quite a tiresome thing to teach you how to reverse an automatic car in this short article.
About how to move "forward", it will be left to be explained in another article later. So, be patient. Blog in some other time! Bye bye!
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so now already got automatic cars for the driving lessons?
thanks for your nice support and instructions
i am a driving student recently joined in a driving school for automatic car's license. since i joined there so many doubts and speculations are arised because of my driving school being managed by some drivers they are not driving instructors they can drive but they can't teach the new students how to make them capable for driving.
any way let them continue their way i approached you to guide me some lessons. i got plenty of new ideas about automatic car driving since in visited your site/joined you. i am really thankful for the same which could not be forgotten and ignored.
Now my some new doubts are as follows:
now i am in a stage of parking/reversing training. reversing/forwarding is very simple as for everybody. but parking is coming little bit doubts and uncertainty. i am frequently forgetting the number of rounding the steering, and to which side i rounded?
Sir, do you have any simple remedy for the same which will help me in this regards
Awaiting for your prompt reply
this is useful but in rare cases it is harmful


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Cell chips are developed to continuously monitor mammalian cell population dynamics in a non-invasive manner. In the presented work we describe the design, fabrication and characterization of a lab-on-a-chip for quantitative cell analysis.
Image-based high-content screening assays, demand solutions for image segmentation and cellular compartment encoding to track critical events – for example those presented by GFPreporters within cell cycle tracking and GPCR translocation assays. We have designed nuclear and cytoplasm discriminator CyTRAK™ probes - spectrally compatible with all variants of GFPreporters offering new solutions in cytometry.
New technologies are needed to deal with live cell-based HCS assays on non-adherent cells or to exploit suspension cells in fluidic systems. Here we describe CyGEL™ - a thermo-reversible hydrogelbased 4-D immobilization technology for live cell location without imposing an anchoring to a substrate.
We demonstrate that DNA methylation patterns can serve as characteristic markers to distinguish different cell types. We have identified panels of methylation markers that are specific to mesenchymal stem cells or various differentiated cell types in the mesenchymal lineage. This method of cell type identification has a number of advantages over conventional markers in that it is robust, is both qualitative and quantitative.
Market pressure exists for new paradigms to meet the demands for more rapid and reproducible cell production to keep up with advances in cell-based assays used in drug discovery and development. Novel automation platforms enable high productivity on three dimensional surfaces.
The work presented in this poster covers the investigation of key parameters for the expansion of stem cells in an automated micro-well format. The effect of inoculation seeding density (ICD), well size, passage number and feeding strategies on the proliferation of human mesenchymal stromal cells (hMSC) was investigated. In parallel the effect of well size and seeding density on the proliferation of mouse embryonic stem (mES) cells was also examined.
Recent in vivo studies have demonstrated that transplanted MSC in mice were able to migrate into various tissues including lung, brain, bone marrow, heart and many others. Nevertheless, mechanisms responsible for the MSC migration remain unclear.
In stem cell cultures there is the possibility of infectious disease transmission to the recipients. Any microbial contamination of the donor`s biological products or introduced during the manufacturing process can potentially present a serious hazard to the recipients. The majority of potential contaminants are mycoplasma and other bacterias, yeasts and fungi. Moreover, viral and prion contamination of cell cultures and "feeder" cells is also a common risk.
This poster describes an in vitro model of DAG-induced osteogenic differentiation of bone marrow mesenchymal stem using various osteoblastic markers. Human MSC should constitute a useful in vitro tool to the effects of osteotropic cancer cells on osteoblast differentiation and to better understand the inhibition of normal formation during the process of tumor-induced osteolysis.


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A Contract Between Americans
Submitted by jabowery on Fri, 06/11/2010 - 14:22As Lysander Spooner details in his essay, "No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority", contracts reached between individuals have no legitimate authority over other individuals. The practical conundrum this presents libertarians is rarely dealt with head-on.
Newt Gingrich's evocatively titled "Contract With America" struck a seductive chord with conservatives precisely because it seemed to present a proposal for a contract between Americans -- between individuals called "Americans" -- thereby establishing its legitimacy.
A far more powerful political force can sweep libertarians to victory if only they would ask themselves the following question:
"What would a natural individually sovereign American, in debt-free possession of his house, tools, land and weapons sufficient to defend and support his wife and raise his children to maturity, agree to if approached with 'a contract between Americans'?"
Answer that question honestly and libertarians will be on the road to victory. One thing is for certain: It is dishonest to claim that an individual sovereign, in a state of nature, would agree to respect the property rights agreed to by others if he, himself, were deprived of any land with which to support a wife and have a family. Yet that seems to be the contract offered by many so-called "libertarians" to the general public and the general public rightly rejects the transparently illegitimate proposal as placing the sanctity of property above the sanctity of life. Not only is this a loser's political strategy -- it is in naked violation of natural law. To win, libertarians must be more honest with themselves and others as to the natural interests of individual sovereigns.
I propose the following Contract Between Americans as the political platform that can, particularly in the present circumstances, sweep deep libertarian principles to political victory in the near term:
* Treat pollution as a criminal assault on the nation.
Pollution harms the national territory. Individuals that harm private property may be held criminally liable under some circumstances but if there is no intent to harm, it is usually up to civil courts to award monetary damages. Individuals that harm the national territory, however, must be held to a higher standard of discipline due to the greater harm. Mere tort law is insufficient as a remedy when what is at stake is the national ecology. If the choice is made to reduce regulation of private behavior because such regulations, although they prevent damage and are therefore quite economical, impinge on freedom, then those enjoying said freedom must, when abusing that freedom, suffer consequences sufficiently severe to serve as an effective self-regulating motive.
* Household bankruptcy protection is the median price of a home plus median capitalization of a job.
The origin of bankruptcy law is the recognition that a man's homestead is as sacrosanct as his body since it is the means by which he sustains his body. A homestead entails not only a primary residence real estate holding but also the source of his other necessities. Hence personal bankruptcy protects "home and tools of the trade" from confiscation. Only a society that accepts slavery can accept confiscation of a man's body for the use of others.
* Anyone or anything (including the government) can place money in escrow as a bid for any property right recognized by law, thereby establishing an in-place liquidation value for that property right.
Money differs from other property rights in terms of its liquidity—that is, its availability for trade upon demand. When money is "tied up in investments" that is simply another way of saying that the owner of the property right sees more value in the property right than do others with money ready to buy that property right. The more people who perceive a particular level of value in a property right, the more force must be brought to bear to protect it from confiscation. In short, if you have a big pile of gold sitting around that a lot of people know about, you are going to have to invest more in protecting it than, say, the Wright Brothers needed to invest in protecting their bike shop from theft, even though they could see that their bike shop was worth the dreams of men over thousands of years. The man with his pile of gold might very well find several bids for it that were comparable to his own valuation of it. There is no chance that the Wright Brothers would have received a bid for their bike shop sufficiently high to motivate them to give it up during their development of the first heavier than air powered flying machine. On the off-chance that someone (say Langley's backers) wanted to suppress the Wrights by escrowing an enormous bid the Wrights could not service from immediate cash flows, the Wrights could borrow against the liquidation value of their asset.
* Cease taxing economic activity except for international trade, which is taxed in such a way as to retain sovereignty.
Economic activity is human action. There is no reasonable way to justify a use fee for a human's own volition in a society that rejects slavery. Sovereignty, on the other hand, demands independence rather than interdependence or "entangling alliances" with other sovereigns. It is therefore essential to national sovereignty that the nation control international trade so as to avoid vital dependencies on other sovereignties.
* National revenue is instead a use fee for property rights paid at a rate equal to the liquidation value of the property right times the short term lending rate to the government—but individual exemption is equal to one half of household bankruptcy protection. The owner can liquidate his property right at any time by accepting the escrowed bid for his property.
A natural man, outside of any government, must acquire minimal territory and tools to exist—and these are represented in household bankruptcy protection. If you take a certain amount of money and lend it to the government, you are assured of interest payments at some minimal level. This sort of income is the zero risk economic value of society. No one in particular can claim responsibility for generating it hence it is inappropriate to let it fall randomly on those who happen to benefit from general economic growth—typically the wealthiest and most politically powerful. The requirement for pair bonding is a singular dependence that must be accommodated or the very life of the nation is in severe jeopardy. Unless we are going to disenfranchise females, it is necessary to divide this minimal territory in two parts so that the pair bond is encouraged within a money-based economy. Corruption of assessment takes 2 forms: 1) Underassessment by the government of favored individuals and, 2) Over assessment by the government of disfavored individuals. In underassessment, a private individual may come in and offer more than is the government thereby raising the pressure on the current owner to transfer title. In overassessment, the current owner may escape payment of exorbitant fees by accepting the exorbitant bid.
* National revenue is sent in equal amounts to all citizens as monthly deposits in their bank accounts and all able bodied men are required to arm themselves and participate in county militia training for protection of private property rights as well as defense of country.
As the national revenue derives from the risk free economic growth of the society, it is the proper source of social expenditure. As political systems are notoriously corruptible when involved in deciding social expenditure, it is prudent to remove discretion from political systems, "the political class", in allocating social expenditure—and this includes discretion in interpretation of complex rules of allocation. It is therefore essential that money gathered by the government be immediately dispersed evenly to all citizens so their personal market decisions drive investment capital toward serving the demands of the citizenry rather than some elite. The ultimate social expenditure that cannot be left to charity is military defense of national territory and, secondarily, private property rights. The Swiss model of defense, based around mandatory military service by all able bodied men, commanded by the Cantons has proven quite effective in defending territory while also avoiding entangling military alliances that result in world wars. Individual responsibility for using the citizen's dividend stream to self-equip according to local standards under local command minimizes the likelihood of central government corruption of the military and maintains a force at-the-ready throughout the land for defense of the nation as well as the law.
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I hope the readers can appreciate what you have done here...
Since prehistoric times, men have always lived in groups. Even the most primitive hunter/gatherer society has a government, property, laws, and rights.
All of these were based on an evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) balancing the individual's interest with the interests of all other members of the tribe.
The fact that the ESS was not originally written did not make it any less real. Men were living and dying by its precepts millenia before Hammurabi attempted its codification.
But, in fact, it was (and IS) already written; in our very DNA!
We KNOW instinctively what is just.
We KNOW that we need government to enjoy the fruits of civilization.
We KNOW that there is a fine line between the criminal and the rugged individualist; and that there exists a subspecies composed of psychopaths waiting to prey on our willingness to co-operate.
We KNOW all of these things in our gut; even if our conscious mind has been brainwashed by a religion or ideology.
But the paradox of Natural Law is that it can never be expressed fully in words; written or spoken.
We cannot write Natural Law because we ARE Natural Law.
Similarly we cannot form a perfect government because WE are not perfect.
Government is not inherently evil; except to the two year old toddler or that part of our ego that regards anything other than our own will and interest as "evil",
But government, a just and efficient government, is inherently complex.
We will not be able to accidentally evolve our way into a better society.
We will have to use our intelligence to design and implement a better government.
The non-aggression principle, while coming very close to describing Natural Law, fails to allow enough room for government and its very real benefits.
More importantly, it also fails to acknowledge the preeminence of the most basic Natural Right; the right to life.
How does it fail?
No rational man would expect an individual to agree to a social contract in which he is expected to respect the property rights of another; even at the expense of the lives of himself and his family.
And yet libertarians have no problem asking a starving man to respect the property rights of a multi-billionaire.
No rationalization can erase the injustice of that situation.
Any attempt to do so only reinforces the impression in the common man that the Libertarian has either lost touch with his sense of justice, or that he is one of the psychopaths trying to game the system.
That is why "Libertarianism" (at least in its current form) has not and never will be the dominant ideology.
The Virtual Conspiracy
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This is an easy argument.
The starving man should respect their property rights and ownership rights, no matter how much he may disagree with the person in question.
That is not to say the rich man or starving man should be left out in the cold, at all.
Inter-alia; the starving man should be given the tools to hunt; to fish; to fetch food & to clothe himself willingly and freely by the rich man or other members of society. After which, the now non-starving man should pass on this wisdom to everyone he meets.
Solution? Many people are now no longer starving, and state councils as well as state governments..are able to prevent it from happening. Charities go widespread as society does what it can to help, the "predators of society" (IE: the elite) also get blacklisted & exposed.
They get rightly trounced on many TV stations or other media outlets we control, for neglecting men for their own selfish needs & desires.
Au contraire, teaching those men how to fish, hunt and seek truth...is more valuable than any force of the federal government.
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Our American government was designed to enforce our sovereign,
unalienable, Rights.
A right without enforcement is NOT a Right.
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good point..
The problem with all governments, including Republics, is that they are subject to the law of entropy and the law of depravity. As people gain more power, they pervert justice and trample the rights of others. When there is a disregard for the rule of law, then all sorts of atrocities can be justified by the perpetrators.
"Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern." ~~C.S. Lewis
Love won! Deliverance from Tyranny is on the way! Col. 2:13-15
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Knowing & knowlede is NOT the same as implimentation..
All things have been known since the beginning ..It is the implimentation that is not being done because human nature interferes with the rule of law..
why else would you have the term, "criminal"?..
Why else do you have the term, Regulation ?
Humans must Regulate & Crimianalise to keep "evil" from overtaking "good'..It's a FACT of nature ..PERIOD..You need rules to follow..And you need enforcement if not followed by free will...
This is why you need to have a free will change to the human nature behavior that can ONLY come from G-D..
CHRIST in you = Free Will
Gov't = forced will..
Sorry for the religious slant but that is the fact...
Change does not proceed out, from within an individual, which is why for 6000 years we have problems ..You cannot change to perfectness, your own core..Your ability to do so, was given away in the garden..You were influenced..PERIOD. The core needs to be changed..
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Well said...
We are not sheep. Replacing failed laws with more of the same? Never.
Replace fraudulent contracts with no contracts at all. Repeal all false contracts of fraud.
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The Law is Broken
and replacing with other laws is oxy-moronic given all human history.
"Code" is what's needed and Oath of Righteous Individualism that man makes alone (with no witnesses) and lives by it without talking about it.
1st -- Community-Economics (I've spelled it out a thousand times)
2nd -- Consumer-Minarchism (read the bottom two links)
3rd -- Consumer-Individualism
It's not so much the names or that I wrote it that should concern you.
It's the "math"
What is the "evil they's" Revenue Stream?
Why are we 2/3rds of it with the last 3rd being a by-product of the 1st two?
Why is localism the answer?
When you can answer those three questions you'll be retracing the first few steps in my original meditation on individualism years ago.
We can jump-start it by putting shoulders behind my work (based off of Mises, Spooner, Gandhi, and RP to name a few).
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All this changes
when a Country is running in DEBT mode.
"We the People" become the "securer" rather than the Federal Reserve...So we are actually doing the FED a big favor by securing what they cannot..
The Tresury Dept has hung us out to dry ..
NOT the Fed..
A "responsible" Federal Reserve would say, NO , Treasury DEPT, you may not borrow more than you can pay back, or more than you can pay interest plus principle while you maintain your economy.
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Monetary Policy Consequences
Under such a system, the money supply is represented by the sum total of all escrowed bids for property rights. This means the money is backed by the property rights of the citizenry -- a large and highly diverse "basket of goods".
Although there may be fictitious entities, such as corporations, they would not have the legal status of citizens and therefore would be manifest in the money supply only as property rights of citizens, eg: stocks, bonds, etc. held by individuals. The internal property rights of such entities would not appear in the public ledger nor have bids escrowed for them.
Inflation results when the money supply increases relative to the value of the property rights backing it. Deflation occurs when the money supply decreases relative to the value of the property rights backing it. The negative consequences of both inflation and deflation on the citizenry are mitigated by virtue of the fact that the citizens dividend increases or decreases in exact proportion.
The money supply increases whenever the government bids more for a property right than any of the currently escrowed bids for that property right OR pays interest on a debt (eg: escrowed bid) owed to an individual that is still within the standard exemption. The money supply decreases whenever the government withholds full payout of the citizen's dividend.
The value of the nation's property rights increases whenever wealth is created by good investment. The value of the nation's property rights decreases whenever wealth is destroyed by malinvestment.
As with any corporate entity, excessive payout of citizens dividends can be malinvestment.
To summarize then, the monetary powers of the government are:
- Adjust the short term interest rate it pays.
- Bid high for properties when there is a growth in their in place liquidation values not reflected in the escrowed bids for those properties.
- Retire money from existence by lowering the payout of the citizens dividend as there is a relative lowering of the in place liquidation value of the nation's property rights.
If you read nothing else, read this: A Contract Between Americans
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Right here is bulletproof evidence that....
..The system is unsustainable fraud.
Like you say, corporations must be rigorously prosecuted and prevented from becoming higher than natural persons.
To give them free handouts and subsidies constantly, in the love of war & religious bigotry...is the definition of insanity and is the number one problem to solve!!!
We have more weapons. Lets solve these problems.
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awesome snippet
Hopefully, some of the more statist leaning newly join DP'ers I've been seeing in the last couple of weeks, let this piece of wisdom settle in their souls, a bit.
RON PAUL 2012 and the r3VOLution!!!
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I will study this later,
thanks for sharing this.
"We can see with our eyes, hear with our ears and feel with our touch, but we understand with our hearts."
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An elegant solution to a thorny political problem.
Maybe even THE political problem.
Human history is the story of the struggle of individuals struggling to survive and reproduce in the face of challenges both natural and social.
Civilization has always been a two-edged sword.
Proponents of either of the polar extremes of statism or anarchy fail to acknowledge the baby that they are discarding with their particular brand of bathwater.
The Virtual Conspiracy
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I agree with that, to some degree...
It's all about property rights. Our personal property rights and rights to be individuals, rather than part of some ideology that rules by force.
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Property for Life
Yes. Might the key concept be captured by the phrase "Property for Life" better than "A Contract Between Americans"?
Natural property is for life by design of Nature and Nature's God. Artificial property is for life only by the design of man. If our designs for living place the sanctity of property over the sanctity of life -- in its fullest form of heterosexual love and rearing children to themselves participate in this joy -- we place the creation over the creator.
If you read nothing else, read this: A Contract Between Americans
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Clever antenna engineering on iPhone 3G
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Amy dines out on Tony songs
Amy Winehouse has been talking about working with the legendary Tony Bennett. She is to re-record a version of his greatest hit - I left my heart in the San Francisco branch of Threshers.
Big Brother contestants attempted to break the world non-stop laughing record, which stood at three hours, six minutes. That's nothing ... the whole of Scotland just beat that by nine days...and counting.
The latest expenses revelation from parliament - £5000 went on mugs. Or, as MPs like to call them, constituents.
Joey Chestnut won the World Hot Dog eating championships at the weekend. The second sporting decision in a week that Frank Lampard's angrily contested.
The first ever "Drag Queen Olympics" in Torquay had to be cancelled due to a lack of interest. Plus, because the Olympic committee ruled Immac and lipgloss were performance-enhancing substances.
A priest who drove a yellow Ferrari and amassed £2million has been sacked. It was for fraud and not because he wouldn't let the bloke in the confession box get a word in edgeways.
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I asked these questions when Gizmodo was offering to answer anything about the PS4, and of course they didn't bother to check the comments later on.
So, here are my very simple questions:
- Can you see the same friends list as on PS3?
- If so, how do you know if they're on PS3 or PS4?
- Is the messaging any better? Have they made some IMAP-like messaging? The PS3 messaging was sort of like POP3...heck, it might even be POP, but I don't know, all I know is that it's similar.


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Video shows the microphone for Moto X is always on, always listening
Posted By Vamien McKalin On July 15, 2013 @ 5:50 AM In Android | 2 Comments
The upcoming Android Moto X smartphone will come packed with a feature similar to Microsoft's Kinect where the mic is constantly listening for any form of voice requests, according to a leaked video.
Like the Kinect camera that comes bundled with the Xbox One, the Motorola X listens for hot keywords to activate the mic, which means users are required to say "OK Google" before issuing a command. This is also comparable to how Google Glass operates, so users of Glass should feel right at home with the Motorola's new toy.
The interesting thing about this feature is it is always listening as mentioned above. And it isn't clear if there is an option to disable Moto X's mic or not. However, it is not yet certain how interested parties would react to such a feature as Microsoft came under a lot of fire for doing a similar thing with Kinect. We believe potential users of the Motorola X would likely accept this feature more than they would with Kinect, which is mainly due to Google's superior PR compared to Microsoft's madness.
Furthermore, the leaked video highlighted a new feature that allows users to start the camera app by shaking the phone. It would have been better off if Motorola added a dedicated camera button to give users a more practical and easier option to get the camera up and running.
The video is below in its entirety, and it appears Rogers in Canada will have exclusive hold on the Motorola X for a short while.
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I'm a sixty year-old man who is single and just got kicked off my healthcare policy. The new expensive Obamacare plan they want to sell me demands that my coverage includes maternity care. Huh?!? And yet, some progressives actually believe the Democrats know more about my health needs than I do. Geez!!!
I can't believe that Congress has the nerve to grill anybody about job performance.
You do realize, don't you, that after all the dust has settled, the contractors who complete the, by then, one billion dollar website for Obamacare will receive multi-million dollar bonuses for the "superb" work they did? And the government employees who supervised the contracts will be promoted - and they too will receive bonuses.
To those who smoke while driving: why do you litter our streets by throwing your cigarette butts out of the window? Yeah, you don't want to smell up your car any more than necessary, but have a little consideration! Put 'em in an Altoids box or something.
Once again our government has put the Step D before Step A. We need to control the costs first before trying to supply all with health care. There is absolutely no reason for a MRI to cost $3-3.5 K a pop. Helium is not that expensive.
Still missing from all the stories about people bemoaning the losses of coverage and/or the increases in their health insurance premiums under the new "ObamaCare" rules - the answer to the question: "Who did you vote for in 2004 and 2008?"
when the government creates jobs it means a higher debt for us tax payers
When JFK wrote "Profiles in Courage" he had little trouble finding heroes to write about. An author today would, in order to have enough chapters for a book, have to entitle it, "Profiles in Cowardice".
Obamacare will destroy the Democrat party.
Pogo was drawn by Walt Kelly. Al Capp drew Li'l Abner.
The Obamacare website debaucle is just the slightest harbinger of what it'll do to our healthcare. Get your cancellation notice yet?
The Vent has become too political. I miss the fun stuff - like trashing celebrities, movie and TV show comments, etc.
To Roswell City Council members: We do not need any further development around GA 400 and Holcomb Bridge Rd
So Kathleen Sebelius takes "full responsibility" for the ACA website debacle. At least she didn't say "Mistakes were made".
With all the revelations about Obamacare, I'm wondering if Thursday was Halloween or April Fool's Day.
The solution to a problem? Call a meeting; then, draft a study; pose that outcome (with a personal agenda) as a viable solution with, of course, constraints, and copious funding. Sound framiliar?
hey Sandy Springs Police! Sitting on the side of 285 with your lights flashing is just slowing up traffic for no reason. turn off your lights while your sitting there doing nothing!
What does that tell you about our Mayor? It tells you the same thing about our Governor.
Don't forget state mandates driving the cost up
Guess what - we all die regardless of the quality of our health insurance.
If you think Ted Cruz is different from all other politicians think again. His wife is head of a division of Goldman Sachs follow the money..
Do you want to see Georgia school system and education ranking at work? Go drive I75 and Hudson Bridge in the morning or afternoon.
Donut hole is still there and will be phased out over the next decade.
And why the beards on baseball players - why would you want to look like an old man?
Enough with the purple ties guys - they're just plain ugly
If the only thing you have to offer are comments to criticize a political party, candidate or electorate then you are part of the problem with our government. If you think you are so smart then offer solutions instead. I'll bet you can't! Just because you believe in something or have an opinion on something does not mean you really understand it!
The GOP is too consumed with ax grinding rather than moving the country forward. When was the last time they came forward with any good ideas?
Of course there are glitches with VERIZON during the ACA...they're REPUBLICAN OWNED, people!
I'll be brief! Republicans are trying to take back the Senate by trumping up EVERY CHARGE THEY CAN MUSTER. If you want more obstructionism, then fine, vote them in. If you want this COUNTRY TO GO FORWARD, don't let it happen!
It's time for Clint Eastwood and all republican nut-cases to just leave the USA as promised before the election of Pres. Obama. That would MAKE MY DAY.


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Khoisan Tribe in Court Over Ancestral Land
The Kalahari Khoisan tribe is taking Botswana's government to court to reaffirm a previous ruling that granted the tribe legal rights to its ancestral land.
According to international advocacy group, Survival International, Botswana's government has been denying the Khoisan right to return to their land despite a landmark decision in 2006 that reversed the eviction of around 1 000 tribesmen from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR).
Botswana is arguing that the verdict only applies to the 186 individuals named in the original case, requiring others to obtain permits that grant access to the territory for up to one month.
To read the article titled, "Kalahari bushmen tribe to challenge Botswana government in court again over land dispute," click here.Source:The Huffington PostGay Festival to Create Awareness - NGO
On a Valentine week, the University of Botswana is this week running a film festival, 'Batho BaLorato Film Festival' on the thorny issue of same sex relationships.
The organisers, Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals of Botswana (LEGABIBO), a NGO, says the film festival does not seek to promote homosexuality, but rather seeks to create awareness and promote botho, respect, tolerance, compassion and appreciation between human beings.
From 12-15 February 2013, members of the public are invited to the University of Botswana to watch same sex films involving lesbians, gay, transgender and bisexuals.
To read the article titled, "UB stages gay film festival," click here.Source:Mmegi OnlineThree Khoisan Children Arrested in Botswana
According to a non-governmental organisation, Survival International, three Khoisan children have been arrested by paramilitary police in Botswana.
The children, who were arrested for being in possession of antelope meat in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, have since been released, but further reports of harassment and intimidation have surfaced, and there have been a growing number of Khoisan arrests.
One Khoisan told Survival International, "The Bushmen are being hunted and their rights are being denied because of tourism... Police are given guns to go out and hunt and arrest Bushmen gathering bush food. The Bushmen of the CKGR cannot eat, cannot drink. How will they survive without food?"
To read the article titled, "Botswana's president under pressure over attacks on Bushmen," click here.Source:EkklesiaRenewable Energy Expo in Botswana
A renewable energy expo to be held in May aims to showcase initiatives and technologies by leading companies and organisations on sustainable energy solutions for today and the future to benefit Botswana and other countries in Southern Africa.
Hosted under the theme 'Increasing Energy Capacity with Sustainable renewable sources', the event will raise awareness and educate the public about renewable energy sources and climate change in Botswana and the world as well as create a platform for businesses, government and non-governmental organisations to showcase renewable energy solutions and climate change initiatives and technologies.
Participants will also have an opportunity to stay abreast of developments and highlight issues affecting the energy industry and further highlight technologies, strategies and policies covering the wind, solar, biofuel, hydrocarbon, geothermal, ocean/tidal/wave, agriculture, environment, finance and hydrogen in Botswana.
To read the article titled, "Renewable Energy Expo to raise awareness," click here.Source:Mmegi OnlineReport: Men Continue to Dominate Botswana
According to the latest report, 2012 SADC Gender Protocol Barometer, men continue to dominate Botswana's economic sphere.
The report, which is an annual tracking of regional performance against the targets of the SADC Protocol On Gender and Development set for 2015, women and men are still operating in business sectors that are traditionally determined by gender roles.
The report notes that the National Development Bank (NDB) in Botswana is one of the main parastatal banks that help women grow and expand their business ventures. However, it further states that more men gain access to loans from the NDB than women, at 30 percent and 10 percent respectively.
To read the article titled, "Men continue to dominate Botswana," click here.Source:Mmegi OnlineHP, NGOs, Partner to Fight Malaria
HP has partnered with NGOs - Positive Innovation for the Next Generation and the Clinton Health Access Initiative - to digitise malaria surveillance in Botswana in 2011.
By distributing smartphones to healthcare workers, the company built a real-time system to monitor outbreaks.
During the year-long pilot, cases reported to the country's Ministry of Health in time to stop an outbreak soared from 20 percent of total diagnoses to 93 percent, and response time was minimised.
To read the article titled, "How HP harnesses technology and partners with NGOs to beat disease," click here.Source:Fast CompanyBotswana Leads in Mobile Phone Density
The World Bank says Botswana has one of the world's highest mobile phone density rates, beating industrialised giants like the United States of America, United Kingdom and Germany.
Its latest Information and Communications for Development 2012 Report, the bank assessed mobile phone uptake in 152 countries and their use in promoting development particularly in agriculture, health, financial services, and government.
It says in 2011, Botswana had approximately 144 mobile phone subscriptions per 100 people, putting it in an elite worldwide group characterised by higher than average mobile phone uptake.
To read the article titled, "Botswana leads In global mobile phone density," click here.Source:Mmegi OnlineBotswana's 'Freedom of Press' Ranking Improves
Botswana's 'Freedom of the Press' ranking has gone up, according to the French NGO, Reporters Without Borders (RWB), which places the country at 42, 20 places up from the country's 2010 ranking.
In its 2011-2012 Press Freedom Index, which ranks Namibia at 20th, the RWB has declared the Southern African nation, the only African state whose press operates in a 'good situation'.
The organisation states media independence can only be maintained in strong democracies and that democracy needs media freedom.
To read the article titled, "Botswana's 'Freedom of Press' ranking up," click here.Source:Mmegi OnlineCall for Botswana to Legalise Prostitution
Former Botswana President and head of that country's National AIDS Council, Festus Mogae, has called on the country to legalise prostitution to make it easier to help sex workers prevent the disease.
Mogae, points out that, "Decriminalising sex work does not mean encouraging it, but it would rather pave way for policies that protect those who have been forced into the trade."
He argues that prostitute will be unable to report men who forcibly put them at risk of contracting the virus, and in turn men who seek their services will no longer abuse them as might be the situation now.
To read the article titled, "Legalise prostitution, Mogae says," click here.Source:News24Botswana to Attend COP17
Botswana will be among the countries that will be represented at the United Nations Climate Change Conference to be held in Durban, from 28 November to 9 December 2011.
Botswana's director of metereological services, Phetolo Phage, points out that in efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change, the country has also held a couple of awareness programmes to encourage, among other things, tree planting, discouraging deforestation, highlighting the significance of rain water harvesting, and the use of recycled water.
"We want Botswana to be represented in a big way; we will cooperate with everybody, including NGOs," explains Phage.
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