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In a proactive response to increased criminal activity at the Toronto Premium Outlets mall at Steeles Ave. and Trafalgar Rd. in Halton Hills, the Halton Regional Police partnered with loss prevention experts from Mexx, Banana Republic and The Gap stores in a combined operation that was conducted over a two-day period.
Police and retail crime specialists have been liaising for some time on how to deal with the gangs of roving shoplifters that plague GTA malls. Uniform officers have been increasing their presence with foot patrols, as well as building relationships on all levels with the mall management and staff since it opened in 2013.
A plan to embed corporate loss prevention into police arrest teams was drafted by detectives from the Halton Regional Police 1 District Strategic Support Team.
On Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, officers from the District Response Unit and uniform patrol changed into street clothes and took full advantage of the operational learning opportunity presented by working in the mall with these loss prevention experts.
Over the two-day period, four females were arrested from various stores in the mall and charged with a variety of criminal offences.
Tamesha Nicola Duncan, 35, from Stayner, Ontario charged with theft under $5000.
Qiana Gillespie, 32, from Brampton, Ontario charged with theft under $5000 and possession of stolen property.
Dawn Williams, 46, from Brampton, Ontario charged with theft under $5000 and poseesion of stolen property.
One other 43-year-old female arrested and revealed an outstanding immigrant warrant, released unconditionally to immigration officers.
Halton Regional Police will continue to have a visible and proactive presence at the Toronto Premium Outlets mall.

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A friend of mine is renting a house. She had somebody knock on her door selling something so she let them in to talk. After a little while, she told them she wasn't interested and asked them to leave and take their stuff. They did leave but then hid some of their things in the bushes that were at the end of the property because they didn't want to carry them around the rest of the neighborhood.
Her daughter then came home, saw the bags and when she reached in got cut on something sharp inside the bag. Can she sue them for trespass to land even though she had invited them in before. However, she did ask them to leave and take their stuff with them, which they left?


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How Detroit can rise againBy Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley, Special to CNNUpdated 11:37 AM ET, Thu July 25, 2013Just WatchedDetroit's fall from gracereplayMore Videos ...Detroit's fall from grace 05:14Story highlightsBruce Katz, Jennifer Bradley: Revival in Ohio, Pittsburgh should give hope to DetroitThey say after steel's collapse, Pittsburgh diversified economy based on 'eds and meds'They say in Ohio, philanthropies pooled resources to tap into cities' potential strengthsWriters: Some of these strategies already underway in Detroit; story's not over yetThe Detroit bankruptcy case is acting as a Rorschach test for so many challenges that bedevil older industrial cities in the United States and beyond. A common one: How do older cities rocked by deindustrialization and the loss of population and jobs redefine their economic function and find a new reason to live in a shifting global economy?The experiences of Pittsburgh and Northeast Ohio offer cause for hope and a roadmap for reinvention and renewal. With the collapse of the steel industry in the early 1980s, the Pittsburgh metro area endured the loss of nearly 100,000 jobs in just three years; the city's population declined by almost 12.7% during the full decade. Fast forward 30 years, and it is clear that the city and broader metropolis have regained their footing through a series of strategic and sustained interventions. Bruce KatzJennifer BradleySmart public, private and civic leadership has helped diversify the economy toward health care and technology, building off a solid base of advanced research institutions and medical campuses ("eds and meds"), such as Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Smart urban regeneration tactics have successfully repurposed waterfront locations, historic buildings and even brown-field sites into new walkable places valued by innovative firms and talented workers. An impressive 25% of the jobs in the Pittsburgh metro area are within three miles of the central business district, compared with just 7% in Detroit. With such employment density, reasonable housing costs and ample cultural amenities, the city now routinely places at or near the top of worldwide livability rankings.Northeast Ohio -- which spans the four metropolitan areas of Cleveland, Akron, Canton and Youngstown -- provides a more recent example of renewal. In the early 2000s, the Cleveland Plain Dealer chronicled the "quiet crisis" that was gradually bleeding the region of people, jobs and vitality. In response, philanthropic institutions pooled their resources and supported a series of institutions and intermediaries, including the Fund for Our Economic Future, BioEnterprise and Nortech, to identify precisely the region's untapped potential in emerging technology, health care, energy and manufacturing clusters and then help small- and medium-sized firms meet the demand for new products and services. Just WatchedAlbom: Detroit is not AtlantisreplayMore Videos ...Albom: Detroit is not Atlantis 02:55PLAY VIDEOJust WatchedThe Motor City sputters to a stopreplayMore Videos ...The Motor City sputters to a stop 01:47PLAY VIDEOAs in Pittsburgh, these efforts leveraged Northeast Ohio's stellar network of advanced research institutions and medical campuses, many of which (e.g., the Cleveland Clinic) sit at the cores of the region's central cities. The result in less than a decade has been impressive: an additional 10,500 jobs, $333 million in payroll, $1.9 billion in investments, including the first nationally designated additive manufacturing institute in Youngstown.The examples of Pittsburgh and Northeast Ohio provide a road map for the renewal not only of Detroit but of older industrial cities more generally. RoboCop creator: Detroit shows the film's fictional future is upon usFirst, form and sustain a network. Cities and metropolitan areas are powerful because they are networks -- of corporate, philanthropic, university, community and government institutions and leaders. Each element of the network is not big enough or rich enough to power economic restructuring. But, taken together, they have the potential to design and deliver transformative initiatives and interventions. Second, set a distinctive vision for economic growth grounded in your region's special assets and advantages. Shakespeare was right; what's past is prologue. Northeast Ohio, for example, shows how specialties designed for car manufacturing can be repurposed. As Akron's tire making industry declined, companies working with local universities shifted their focus and research efforts into the related business of polymers. The former Rubber Capital of the World now makes polymers and plastics that can be used in clean energy and biotech. Third, find the series of game changers that have the potential to create jobs in the near term and alter the trajectory of your economy over the long haul.In Pittsburgh and Northeast Ohio, the signature game changer has been collaboration--among companies, universities, entrepreneurs and supportive institutions -- to help reshape the economy and create a sense of place and to grow quality jobs in quality places. The revival of Detroit is not a fanciful dream; in fact it has already begun. According to research in progress by the Brookings Institution and The Reinvestment Fund, Detroit's historic downtown and midtown core is 3 percent of the city's land mass but home to 37 percent of its jobs, and residential and business growth is underway. This growth includes new corporate residents like Quicken Loans bringing over 7,000 new jobs downtown since 2007, and older anchor institutions like Wayne State University, Henry Ford Health System and the College for Creative Studies driving over $1.8 billion in investments to midtown over the past decade.This resurgence of Detroit's core builds off the physical "bones" (such as historic buildings, revised riverfront) of the city and the enviable assets in the broader metropolis, including a relatively high concentration of workers in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields, given the region's concentration in advanced manufacturing.And the resurgence is stewarded by the leadership of re-energized networks of philanthropies like the New Economy Initiative, as well as the work of capable institutions like the Detroit Economic Growth Corporation, Midtown Detroit and Invest Detroit. With such advantages, now is the time to revive the city from the core and set ambitious goals for housing, job and fiscal growth that benefits all residents. Detroit's future, in short, is still to be written. Private, civic, and, yes, public investors like the federal government must double down on this momentum, and invest in that future to make it a bright one.Follow us on Twitter @CNNOpinion.Join us on Facebook/CNNOpinion. Opinion on the newsHow AirAsia flight compares to Air France 447 crashPilot Bill Palmer says the AirAsia flight had similarities to Air France 447, which also encountered bad weatherDon't turn your back on these childrenPoverty isn't the only reason why so many parents are paying to have their child smuggled into the United States, says Carole GeithnerIran's hypocrisy in condemning U.S. racism Michael Rubin says it's a farce that Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei posted tweets criticizing U.S. policeThe smart thing that makes you stupidRon Friedman says your smartphone may be making you behave stupidly; resolve to resist distractions in 2015Is AI a threat to humanity?Artificial intelligence does not need to be malevolent to be catastrophically dangerous to humanity, writes Greg Scoblete.Welcome to the troll ageThe ability to manipulate media and technology has increasingly become a critical strategic resource, says Jeff Yang.More from opinionAre drugs stifling women?What will happen if the bees disappear?Thanks, Ben Carson, but prison doesn't make people 'come out' gayPowered by Livefyre
How AirAsia flight compares to Air France 447 crashPilot Bill Palmer says the AirAsia flight had similarities to Air France 447, which also encountered bad weather
Don't turn your back on these childrenPoverty isn't the only reason why so many parents are paying to have their child smuggled into the United States, says Carole Geithner
Iran's hypocrisy in condemning U.S. racism Michael Rubin says it's a farce that Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei posted tweets criticizing U.S. police
The smart thing that makes you stupidRon Friedman says your smartphone may be making you behave stupidly; resolve to resist distractions in 2015
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Not only did the hacker get a hold of Julian Fellowes' season 4 finale, he also breached the accounts of Leonardo DiCaprio, Tina Brown, George W. Bush, Robert Redford, and dozens more.
The two companies make a deal that enables EarthLink customers to access wireless high-speed Internet via Clearwire's network.
A few dedicated individuals buck the broadband trend and still use dial-up Internet-access services at home.
A strongly worded letter from Microsoft's general counsel to Attorney General Eric Holder says secrecy about National Security Agency surveillance is harming fundamental "constitutional principles."
Officially, Uncle Sam says it doesn't interfere. But behind the scenes, the feds have been trying to browbeat Internet firms into helping with surveillance demands.
Protecting users' e-mail privacy from the National Security Agency and other intelligence services means using encryption. But with the exception of Google, few companies do everything they can.
Viva Movil will need more than an entertainment superstar to become the smartphone shopping destination of choice for Latinos.
The search giant is asking federal agencies to take a closer look at a practice it says undermines "patent peace."
Subscribers to one of NetZero's 4G data plans can now hand out a healthy chunk of data each month via Facebook.
At 1,588, it's the final episode of Buzz Out Loud, the podcast that launched a thousand news stories, arguments, hosts and co-hosts, producers, and good times. We packed the studio full -- Tom Merritt, Veronica Belmont, Jason Howell, Rafe Needleman, Donald Bell, plus, of course, Molly Wood, Brian Tong, and Stephen Beacham...and it's possible there was some Champagne, a little whiskey, some cake, and even a couple of news stories. Oh, and tears. Definitely tears.


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Police charge Florida man with brutally attacking to robbery victims with a baseball bat.
Police made an arrest Wednesday after two women said they were attacked by a man with a baseball bat in downtown Orlando, Florida.
The attack was caught on surveillance video, and police arrested Juan Carrillo, 48, on Wednesday. He denied the allegations.
The pair said the robber hit them on the head outside the Grand Apartments on East South Street early Sunday morning. The women had parked their car and walked to the front gate. One of the victims said as soon as they reached to open it, the man attacked her and she was knocked out.
Rebecca Naudasher and her friend had just come home after a night on the town.
"As I came up to open the door, kind of out the corner of my eye, that's when it happened. Someone just kind of ran up and hit me in the back of the head with a bat," said Naudasher.
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Download: 12th Planet - The End Is Near! EP; Revolution Show Tomorrow Night
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As his slightly younger friends have scored acclaim, though, 12th Planet himself has enjoyed his own soaring popularity. This is in great part thanks to his live performances, which are part DJ set, all ruckus, full of wall-rumbling bass drops and an infectious party atmosphere.
A proper debut artist album is still in the works, but to celebrate the kickoff of his Scion-sponsored tour, he's dropped a freebie EP dubbed The End Is Near! as well as a video for the title track. As you'd think from that name, it's a slab of apocalyptic stuff, full of the heavy rumbling that defines a certain, au courant SoCal dubstep sound.
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Just got back from a 16 day international (business?) trip. Here is what I got up to....
At DrinkTec in Munich with Martin
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The US economy is highly innovative. Yet in two notable public meetings,
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Godzilla Goodness: GODZILLA VS. KING GHIDORAH (1991)
By Witney Seibold on May 21, 2014
Installment #20, and we're finally back on our feet after a reboot and a few shaky first steps. This time around, we have time travel, our favorite evil dragon, and something called Dorats.
The special effects in the Godzilla films have now improved to the best possible degree. In 1991, CGI was just around the corner, and Jurassic Park was about to be made, so we're kind of at the height of man-in-a-suit style monster effects. Call me old fashioned or traditional, but Godzilla should always be, in my eye, played by an actor in a suit (in the Heisei era, he is played by Kenpachiro Satsuma). There's something about his heft and his movement that kind of demands it. An actor lends the necessary humanity to our favorite gorillawhale.
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah is off the hook. This movie has everything your sugar-coated inner child could possibly stand. From time travel, to robots, to dragons, to nuclear accidents, to dinosaurs, to a really, really easy way to create a Godzilla. And Dorats. Can't forget the Dorats.
This film posits an more complex origin for Godzilla. In the original, it is assumed that Godzilla was formed by a nuclear blast mutating the local sea life into a giant monster, or by that same nuclear blast awakening and mutating a giant ancient creature that had laid dormant on the ocean floor. Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah makes it explicit: Godzilla was actually a long-lived dinosaur called – natch – a Godzillasaurus that was, in 1944, exposed to radiation and transformed into a Godzilla. I have been operating under the assumption that Godzilla was more amphibian than reptile, but this film makes it clear that he is the latter.
The story is as follows (and hang on to them hats an' glasses): Time travelers from the future have been devastated by Godzilla. Even King Ghidorah (an evil dragon that, in this new continuity, is only now being introduced) was destroyed by Godzilla in the future, and in 2204, King Ghidorah, sans one head, lies dead on the ocean floor. The future men, along with their android, propose going back in time to 1944 and preventing Godzilla from being created. Yes, there are WWII soldiers in this film facing off against a dinosaur and time-traveling future men. It's nice to know we're finally back on track.
They destroy the 1944 version of Godzilla, but the future men accidentally leave three Dorats behind. Dorats are cute little green-haired winged rodents from a distant planet that future men keep as pets. In 1944, the Dorats are exposed to the same radiation that would have created Godzilla, and they themselves merge to form King Ghidorah. Oops. Returning to 1992, our heroes discover that King Ghidorah has been ransacking the Earth instead of Godzilla. Out of the gorillawhale, into the dragon.
We have learned from previous movies that only a Godzilla can defeat a King Ghidorah, so they (and this may seem hasty) somehow manage to conduct a quick nuclear test and quickly create a new Godzilla that seems to look and act exactly like the old one. I guess that means there's an element of fatalism in the Godzilla universe. Time travel, nuclear bombs, evil rose bushes, robot clones… nothing can undo Godzilla. He is inevitable. He is the Alpha and the Omega of monsters.
Godzilla does indeed make short work of King Ghidorah, but them proceeds to go on his own rampage. Godzilla, in the Heisei era, is less of a protector and fighting badass than a destructive force (as is traditional). To now take down Godzilla, the Earth men travel to 2204, salvage King Ghidorah's corpse off of the ocean floor, equip it with a robot head (!) and unleash Mechaghidorah. If you're not already clapping your little hands in glee, then I have nothing for you.
A fun joke: In the 1944 scenes, an American soldier looks at the monsters fighting and remarks at how amazing it is. His superior officer tells him to recall the sight and tell his unborn son all about it. The soldier is named Spielberg. Prescient of his film, seeing as Spielberg hadn't yet made Jurassic Park.
Up next: Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle for Earth (1992)
This one is pretty crazy and they don't handle the time travel well….but I still love it. This one has the best looking Godzilla in my opinion, right mix of bulk and leaness.
You kind of glossed over and botched a major part of the . . . uh . . . er . . . "plot", as it were. The future people purposely, not accidentally, planted the Dorats in the path of nuclear radiation in order to create Ghidorah, because they no longer had nuclear weapons/energy in their future (it had been outlawed). They traveled back in time to prevent Godzilla and create Ghidorah, which they could control because the Dorats were genetically engineered (NOT from a distant planet). The future people claimed to be part of a UN like Earth Union trying to prevent the destruction of Japan, but later revealed themselves to be from a terrorist group opposed to the Earth Union and bent on greater equity among Earth countries by eliminating Japan as a super power in their time, by destroying it in the past with Ghidorah. Your explanation does make more sense, sort of, but the movie had a different political message. Also, the Japanese perspective on the US soldiers/Navy in WWII, and of Japan's future rise to world domination were pretty interesting side notes in the movie.
The part with Major Spielberg happened when the time travelers flew over the ship offshore. They thought it was a UFO and then the superior suggested he tell his unborn son about it, which would imply this is where Steven Spielberg got his ideas for E.T. and Close Encounters from here.
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Construction options and house styles are as varied as the plot of land you choose and Costa Rica is no exception. I'm always interested in housing designs, especially if they are a bit unusual and individualistic.
Around San Jose, I came across three 'alternative' building systems offering a different construction approach from the more usual block-and-beam style. Although they might not come in that much cheaper per square meter when comparing material costs, all three offer much faster construction timeframes, which in themselves translate into substantial savings.
This fifteen-year-old company started out producing and marketing wood and concrete preserving chemicals before branching into log home construction in 1995. Co-owner Juan Tuk put up a show house along the main autopista between San Jose and Cartago and before it was even completed, a lady driving past stopped, took one look and placed her order. Since then, Xilo have produced nearly 400 log homes throughout the country among weekend homes, beach hideaways, hotel cabins and gazebos. Although less common, several clients have happily built log homes as their primary residence within the metropolitan area.
Building with wood is not a new idea to northern residents but log homes have found a niche in Costa Rica. Purpose grown eucalyptus and pine are cut at four years once a 15 cm diameter is reached. After transporting to Grupo Xilo's processing facility, the trunks are debarked and smoothed then dried in special cylindrical kilns in a vacuum and preserving agents are added at a pressure of 12 kg/cm2 to ensure maximum penetration. The dried, treated trunks will repel insects, fungal growth and sun damage with the chemicals also acting as fire retardant to withstand 420 C, which is kind of useful when you think about those open fireplaces! The chemical agents comply with international norms (The American Wood Preservers' Association) and are non-toxic. Arsenic is not used in any areas to be used by humans and the company claims the wood is good for up to fifty years.
The main structure is supported on wooden pillars sunk with cement reinforcement between 40 to 120 cms apart. In this way, no major earth moving is necessary, which helps reduce costs. It also means that air flow from beneath helps keep the house damp free in more humid regions and, conversely, cooler if built in the hot lowlands. Ventilation windows fitted with mosquito netting are set under the eaves for free air flow. The mock-tile roofing is insulated to 10 cm between the ceiling and roof to keep in the warmth for colder altitudes and deflect heat for the hotlands. A cement poured floor is tiled from a selection carried by Xilo, or the client can choose from a retailer of their choice. Horizontal trunks infill the vertical pillars and the spaces are sealed with a rubber epoxy. Since the wood inevitably undergoes some shrinkage in the first year, subsequent inspection and sealant applications are included in the cost of construction.
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Official Name: Independent State of Papua New Guinea
Capital City: Port Moresby
Type of Government: Constitutional monarchy with parliamentary democracy
Head of Government: Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare
Head of State: Governor General Sir Paulius Matane representing Queen Elizabeth II
Official Languages: English; Pidgin English; Motu spoken in Papua region; 715 indigenous languages
Area: 462,840 sq. km/178,704 sq. mi
Population: 5,931,000
Religion: Roman Catholic 22%; Lutheran 16%; Presbyterian/Methodist/London Missionary Society
8%; Anglican 5%; Evangelical Alliance 4%; Seventh-Day Adventist 1%; other Protestant 10%; indigenous beliefs 34%
Currency: Kina (PGK)
Number of Time Zones: 1
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) plus 10 hrs; Eastern Standard Time (EST) plus 15 hrs.
Weights and Measures: Metric system
Country Domain: .pg
Country Tel Code: 675
Papua New Guinea (PNG) is home to over four million people, who speak over 800 languages, and to nearly 180 different species of mammals and 660 species of birds. Migration from the South Pacific, Europe, and Asia over hundreds of years has added to the striking diversity of this country.
Papua New Guinea is a parliamentary democracy and a member of the British Commonwealth. The Head of State is Queen Elizabeth II. She is represented in PNG by a governor general appointed by the Prime Minister. Elections are held every five years. The country is divided into 20 provinces, including the district of the nation's capital. Each province has its own government with limited authority from the national government to operate capital works, health, education, business development, and other local matters.
The Prime Minister is elected by the members of National Parliament, and his cabinet members must also be members of parliament. Legislative power rests with the 109-member National Parliament.
There are two distinct economies in PNG. One is the traditional village-based agrarian society involving almost three-fourths of the population. The remaining quarter of the population works in export-related industries, such as gold, copper, coffee, cocoa, forest products, and fish.
This country is rich in natural resources, including gold, copper, hydrocarbons, tropical timber, fisheries, and forest products. Oil fields are being developed in the Gulf and South Highlands provinces. The government has taken an active role in approving economic reforms to ease trade and investment regulations, promoting growth in all sectors.
A few problems affecting PNG's economic development include ethnic conflict and tribal violence among the more than 1000 ethnic groups; land disputes over communal land holdings; and disputes over compensation for mineral deposits. Other issues include human rights abuse and environmental questions.
Papua New Guinea today
Expatriates will find that PNG's capital, Port Moresby, has numerous high-rise office buildings, modern apartment buildings, and luxurious homes in both the city and its suburbs. This architectural development stands in dramatic contrast to the traditional stilt houses that grace the oceans bordering the city.
Over 50,000 years ago, Asians are thought to have moved south to populate what is now Papua New Guinea, creating a rural, village society. To a large degree, this rural, village society continues today, with the majority of Papua New Guinea's inhabitants living in rural areas. They have a strong attachment to their land, even though land is by tradition communally owned, and most are subsistence farmers.
The rugged terrain of the country contributed to the formation of small communities which promoted independent, autonomous tribes, each with its own language and customs, with an enormous number of languages still in existence today.
The people of Papua New Guinea have strong ties to their extended families and further to their tribe or language group, wantoks. People who speak the same language have a feeling of obligation for each other which extends to helping anyone within the language group, materially and otherwise.
Although primarily Melanesian, there are a variety of physical characteristics among the Papua New Guineas, ranging from short, muscular Highlanders to lighter-skinned coastal people, and dark-skinned Bougainvilleans.
About 308,000 people live in the capital, Port Moresby. Nearly 37 percent live in the five Highlands provinces, 27 percent in the northern coastal region, 20 percent in the southern coastal region, and about 16 percent on the islands. Life expectancy is somewhat low, with approximately seven percent of the population living to age 60 or beyond.
Ethnic makeup
The vast majority, 98 percent, of the population of PNG are Melanesian, mostly Papuan. Other groups include Negrito, Micronesian, Polynesian, Chinese, and Europeans.
Four ethnic groups can be identified – the New Guineas who derive from the north of the main island, the Papuans who come from the south, the Highlanders, and the Islanders. Within each of these groups, however, there are many subgroups.
Cultural traditions
Papua New Guinea is a unique culture that has been influenced by European values and those of Australia but has retained its Melanesian foundation.
The most central elements of Melanesian tradition are the importance of the personal touch and personal relationships. Allegiance to one's wantok, people within one's language group, is very strong and dictates how one's time, energy, and wealth are utilized.
In business, Papua New Guineas try to be Australian, but with a Melanesian twist. Business in the city is more western, while the further into the bush one goes, the more Melanesian one's dealings become.
Like other cultures in the area, Papua New Guineas have an aversion to delivering bad news as well as any form of rejection. As a result, they are unlikely to say "no" directly and may even say "yes" without meaning it. While this is frustrating to those from cultures that are more straightforward, it is necessary to understand and accept this trait and work around it.
The village culture of PNG places a great emphasis on rites, such as birth, reaching manhood, marriage, and death, and consequently on celebrations and feasts. Traditionally, food has been central to all of these events.
Wood plays an important role in PNG, in the people's method of farming as well as their art. In the past, the Papua New Guineas did not have metal tools. They used simple wooden digging sticks to till the soil. At the same time, however, they produced elaborately carved wooden items, ranging from decorative pieces for their homes to common kitchen utensils.
PNG is known for woven bilums or brightly-colored bags, beautiful earth-fired storage pots, musical instruments, and more modern items, such as mendi trays that are woven wickerwork.
The Hiri Moale festival, recreated each September for four days in Port Moresby, is an example of the festivals of the PNG culture. This festival commemorates the annual sailing adventure along the Gulf of Papua coast which was undertaken in order to barter pots for items like canoe logs, betelnuts, shell jewelry, and the like, fostering friendships between the Motu and the Gulf people.
Western missionaries were instrumental in converting the majority of the population in PNG to Christianity. While 34 percent still hold indigenous beliefs, primarily animistic, 22 percent are Roman Catholic, 16 percent are Lutheran, eight percent are Presbyterian, Methodist or part of the London Missionary Society, five percent are Anglican, four percent are Evangelical Alliance members, one percent are Seventh-Day Adventists, and the remaining ten percent are members of other Protestant sects.
The official languages of Papua New Guinea are English, Melanesian Pidgin (Tok Pisin), and Motu. Tok Pisin, a composite language made up of fewer than 1,800 words, derives from English, German, and the local languages of the island of New Britain. It is the most widely used language in Papua New Guinea. Most Papua New Guineas speak Pisin at home whether they speak English during the day at work or not. Motu, on the other hand, is the indigenous language that is most commonly used.
In addition to these languages, there are 836 distinct languages in Papua New Guinea, most belonging to the Melanesian or Papuan language groups.
Papua New Guinea's attitudes
Toward family
As noted, family, and by extension wantoks, defines one's world in PNG and delineates one's responsibilities in life. The obligations of belonging to a wantok are many and often exclude any social contacts outside of the wantok simply because of a lack of time.
People within a wantok must help to accumulate the "bride price" or dowry for a young woman to be married. They may also be asked to help with burial expenses, housing, and other expenditures. Members of a wantok may also be involved in "paybacks" for a wrong committed by an outsider against someone in their wantok.
The concept of family and wantok is so strong that when a couple within a wantok is unable to have children or does not have any yet, they may be given a child by another couple in the group.
Toward foreigners
Foreigners generally are well accepted. Papua New Guinea has had large communities of expatriates from many countries for years.
Toward women
Women in Papua New Guinea continue to be seen in the traditional roles of mother and housewife, with little say in how things operate. Men are considered the decision-makers, and polygamy is acceptable under traditional law.
Spousal abuse is a serious problem in Papua New Guinea. Women are openly beaten with no one willing to intervene between husband and wife. Although laws do exist making it illegal to abuse one's spouse, the problem persists.
Women are expected to dress modestly and conservatively. It may seem odd to some newcomers that while topless women in traditional garb are acceptable, many Papua New Guineans can be very conservative about what is considered proper at other times. While expatriates are given leeway in their dress, conservative attire is appropriate at all times.
Women first were allowed to vote in 1964, and in 1977 the first female parliamentarian was elected.
Toward hierarchy and work
A hierarchical rather than a team organization is found in most businesses in PNG. Working in teams can be problematic, particularly where there is any antagonism between wantok groups.
Toward religion
Religion is important in people's everyday lives, as is evident by the frequent religious revivals that take place. Periodic conflicts that can turn into serious physical disputes do occur between different religious groups.
Churches are central to the culture. They operate approximately half the hospitals and schools in the country.
Parallel to Christianity, there are traditions, which are also upheld. For example, "bride price" is still expected by the groom before the marriage is considered binding; and as noted earlier, polygamy is acceptable. Although sorcery is against the law, as stated in the constitution, "payback" killings still occur in the villages and in the city where black magic is suspected. Involvement in any tribal conflict generally never affects expatriates.
Regarded as Papua New Guinea's industrial capital, Lae has a population of approximately 120,000. It is located on the Huon Gulf on the north coast, adjacent to the Markham River.
As with a number of PNG cities and towns, Lae's growth from a small outpost can be initially attributed to the gold rush of the 1920s. It was the final city from which aviator Amelia Earhart departed before she disappeared in 1937. Lae also served as a base for Japanese forces in World War II. Agricultural and mineral industries gave Lae its highway system, which is the most extensive in the country.
A coastal town of 28,000 residents, Madang is situated in the midst of PNG's renowned diving locales. In spite of its small size, Madang has a variety of facilities geared toward international travel and tourism, including department stores and resort hotels. The town and its outlying areas offer various parks, gardens, reefs, and lush tropical vegetation. Madang is popular with expatriates, and a number of international organizations are headquartered there.
Port Moresby
In addition to being the nation's capital, Port Moresby is PNG's largest shipping port, its second largest import center, and its financial and social center. With a population totaling 230,000, it is the most cosmopolitan as well as the most culturally diverse city in PNG, attracting expatriates and Papua New Guineans from all the provinces.
The city was founded by Captain John Moresby in 1873 and named after his father, Sir Fairfax Moresby. The name is often shortened to Moresby or POM. When it was discovered, Port Moresby was a large village called Hanaubada, or "big village" in Motu. The houses were built on stilts, as the majority of houses are today.
Port Moresby became the seat for the London Missionary Society in 1873, and in 1884 for the British administrators who governed the southeastern part of the island. At that time, the area was called British New Guinea.
Development of Port Moresby was slow until the end of World War II. During WWII, the town was used as a large military camp, housing thousands of troops during the Pacific campaigns. After the war, there was a building boom and an expansion of the public service sector.
A number of suburbs have grown up around Port Moresby — principally Boroko, Gordon, Waigani, and Gerehu — to accommodate the government, commercial, and service industries that have developed. High-rise office buildings, modern apartment houses, and luxurious homes dot the landscape of the city and its suburbs, with traditional stilt houses standing in the ocean at Koki and Honaubada.
Located just south of the equator, PNG experiences no seasons, but there are temperature variations due to altitude changes. The timing of the rainy season and the volume of rain depend on the altitude, as do the seasonal monsoons. The two rainy seasons are from January to April, bringing the northwesterly monsoons, and from September to December, resulting from the southeast trade winds. The driest season is between May and September.
PNG experiences earthquakes, with sometimes devastating results. Although earthquakes have occurred more recently, one of the more memorable earthquakes was that of July of 1998, which triggered a tsunami that devastated villages on the country's northwest coast.
Port Moresby, situated on the south coast in the lowlands, has high temperatures year-round that range from 23°C/73°F to 32°C/90°F. Although the humidity ranges between 75 and 90 percent, Port Moresby is one of the driest parts of PNG with annual rainfall of 1,125mm/45 in.
Most of the country has between 2,000 and 3,000 mm/80 and 120 in of rainfall per year, and the mountainous areas can get as much as 5,000 mm/200 in of rainfall annually.
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Man Sentenced to Prison for Sending Threatening E-mail To Las Vegas Radio Station
Las Vegas, Nev. - The man who transmitted a threatening and racist e-mail to the Program Director at KWID 101.9-FM (Wild 102), a local radio station, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Roger L. Hunt to nine months in prison for his guilty plea to Interstate Transmission of a Threatening Communication, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
According to the court records, on October 2, 2003, RYAN EDWARD LEWIS, age 18, of Las Vegas, sent an e-mail to the Program Director indicating it was from "Adolf Hitler" at firstname.lastname@example.com. The e-mail contained racial epitaphs and a threat to kill. The e-mail discussed White Power and ended with the statement, "watch your backs when you get off work because if we come, it is not to threaten, it is to KILL". FBI Agents were able to determine that the e-mail was sent from LEWIS' residence at 3875 Delaware Lane in Las Vegas.
On October 11, 2003, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Officers were investigating a shooting of an African-American individual that had occurred in Las Vegas on September 24, 2003. Their investigation led them to the home of RYAN LEWIS. During a consent search of LEWIS' bedroom, officers found numerous items related to white supremacy, including a Nazi flag, the Turner Diaries, books re: explosives, and photographs of four individuals in front of the Nazi flag giving the Nazi salute. Officers also found a rifle and shotgun.
On October 14, 2003, LEWIS was arrested following the issuance of an Arrest Warrant and Probable Cause Complaint by a United States Magistrate Judge. He was indicted in United States District Court on October 28, 2003, and pleaded guilty on December 22, 2003.
LEWIS must serve three years of supervised release following his release from prison, and was ordered to serve 200 hours of community work service and to undergo substance abuse and mental health counseling.
LEWIS is also facing Attempted Murder charges in the 8th Judicial Court for Clark County, for the September 24, 2003 shooting. He is scheduled to go to trial on that matter on May 11, 2004.
"We take hate crimes very seriously in the District of Nevada, said U.S. Attorney Bogden. Our goal at the U.S. Attorney's Office is to ensure that all cases involving hate crime, particularly when victims are involved, are prosecuted vigorously and expeditiously. Legal actions, such as today's sentencing, send a strong message that making racially-motivated threats to individuals will not be tolerated by federal prosecutors in the District of Nevada."
This case is being investigated by Special Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Detectives with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Gang Crimes Bureau. It is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Sharon Lever.


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11 Baby Animals Who Fell Asleep At 'Lincoln'
A lot of people enjoyed Lincoln over Thanksgiving weekend. These li'l cuties were not among them.
1. This mouse rolled his li'l mouse eyes every time a lonely trumpet sounded.
2. This chipmunk knew he was in trouble right from the start, when the movie's idea of an attention-grabbing opening scene was having a bunch of random guys recite the Gettysburg Address.
3. If these leopards had wanted to look at a diorama, they would've made one themselves.
4. This puppy thought there were going to be vampires.
"Abraham Lincoln: Amendment Passer"? No thanks.
6. This kitten has never seen a stiffer, more lifeless movie. Seriously, it was like reading a history textbook.
7. This hedgehog felt bad because America, but she just couldn't.
8. This chimpanzee found the endless parade of name actors playing historical figures to be tedious.
Oh look. It's James Spader. Yawn.


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I went to the Richmond, Va gun show yesterday (put on by C&E Gunshows).
The Million Mom Marchers were there as advertised.....well sort of.....even though the NBC local news said 'dozens of people turned out to protest'......there were about 50! (I'm being generous with saying 50!)
Courtesy VDCL update:
http://www.nbc12.com/news/state/10691606.htmlMMM has its protest at a church instead of the Richmond gun show
The Million Mom March, knowing that their ideas don't have a prayer,
moved their Richmond gun show protest from the Showplace to a church
across the street from gun show this afternoon.
They had a mixture of men and women dressed in black (well not all of
them, some were actually wearing white or gray).
As I crossed the street to get to the church, press from local TV
stations (channels 12 [NBC] and 6 [CBS]) and the Richmond Times
Dispatch came over to interview me. I gave them handouts stating the
truth about each of the Million Mom's lies.
One of the MMM leaders came stomping over to see what all of the
press were doing near the street. She was not happy that they were
interviewing me.
Even though VCDL members and other attendees at the gun show didn't
know about the last minute change of venue, we still had over 20
members at the protest, including quite a few women of all ages, all
of whom were open carrying! Some member brought signs and held them
right next to the MMM's signs, getting our message out quite nicely.
Our message? Gun control played a major roll in the deaths of those
32 people. Also, of course, there is NO gun show loophole.
After the lie-in was over, I took the reporter from Channel 12, the
NBC affiliate, into the gun show, as she said she had never been to
one. Although she wasn't allowed to tape (but was told she would be
able to in the future with sufficient notice), she spent about 20
minutes walking around and taking everything in.
I explained to her what the 'assault weapon ban' farce was all about
and showed her the evil parts of such a weapon - the folding stock,
the pistol grip, the flash suppressor, and the ever deadly bayonet
lug. She was taken aback.
I explained that the food, holster, ammunition, clothing, and coin
vendors she was looking at were included in the anti-gunners' count
of 'unlicensed gun show dealers.' I explained that they do this
deception to make gun shows seem like there are far more private
sellers than there really are. She was quite amazed at the small
number of private sellers, as well as the small number of guns those
sellers offered, as compare to the huge tables that commercial
vendors had.
I also took her back to the room where the Virginia State Police run
the background checks on purchasers. I explained that in Virginia,
if a felon tries to buy a gun, while he is waiting for the approval,
the police immediately arrest him.
All in all, I think she was glad she came in to the gun show so she
could better understand the issue.
Several of our members video taped the event and I should have some
links to the videos soon.
This just came in from Channel 12:
Here's a picture I took with the cell phone from the parking lot of the gun show.Protesters call for change at gun show
By Sunni Blevins, NBC12 News
The issue of gun control came to a head today in Henrico County as
protesters gathered across the street from a popular gun show.
Exercising their first amendment right, dozens of people turned out
to protest, not the gun show itself, but what they think is a
loophole in Virginia law that allows private sellers to sell someone
a gun without doing a background check.
Also there, a group of people who are pro-gun who say they don't want
anyone to interfere with their second amendment right to bear arms.
One by one, they lay down.
32 people representing not only the 32 victims at Virginia Tech, but
the average number of people who are murdered everyday.
They remained for three minutes...representative of how long it takes
to buy a gun in this country.
Steps away, others gathered...silently showcasing their pro-gun
position...and opposition to this groups protest across the street
from a weekend gun show........


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Margaret "Evelyeen" Wyatt Smith, the wife of one of Food Lion's founders Wilson L. Smith has died at the age of 90. She passed away earlier this week at her residence after an extended period of declining health.
She was preceded in death by her husband, who was a co-founder of Food Town Stores, Inc. which later became Food Lion. She married Wilson Smith on July 15, 1943 while he was on active duty with the United States Air Force during World War II.
She and her husband were instrumental in helping organize the Rowan Rose Society and the annual Rose Show in Salisbury. She received numerous awards for her prize-winning roses and flower arrangements. Her family also established The Wilson L. Smith Family Foundation and quietly supported many religious, educational, healthcare and humanitarian organizations in the Salisbury-Rowan community over the years.


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29% of this provider's 187 patients filled at least one prescription for a schedule three drug, compared to an average of 18%.
Risky Drugs to Seniors
0% of this provider's 819 prescriptions for patients 65 and older were for "potentially dangerous" drugs, compared to an average of 2%.
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24% of this provider's prescriptions were for brand-name drugs, compared to an average of 22%.
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$55 was the average price of a prescription from this provider, compared to $49 among peers.
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8 is the average number of prescriptions (including refills) per patient, compared to an average of 25.


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USAID Trains Unemployed Youth in Farm Management
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission Director for Punjab, Mr. Jeffrey N. Bakken, awarded graduation certificates to 22 trainees who successfully completed a one-month farm manager training program under USAID's Dairy Project. This innovative management training teaches Punjabi youth pursuing a career in dairy farm management to enhance milk production and increase their incomes.
Mr. Bakken emphasized U.S. support for improving livelihoods for rural communities in the Punjab and Pakistan. He remarked, "Today's event highlights the importance that the United States places on deepening the impact of development assistance to the people of Pakistan and improving the lives of those in rural communities. Your dedication is critical to pave the way for long-term economic gains in the dairy sector." Dairy Project Director Jack Moser also congratulated the graduates, "We celebrate the success of farm managers who will make a difference in the livestock sector by offering their services to the commercial dairy farm enterprises in the Punjab. The USAID Dairy Project will continue to mobilize and support farmers in the Punjab by training 400 individuals in dairy farm management."
USAID's three-year, $14 million Dairy Project will impact the lives of 9,000 small dairy farmers by enhancing their productivity by at least 10 percent, resulting in at least 10 percent increase in their incomes. The project provides training on the best dairy farm management techniques, including artificial insemination, and provides women livestock workers training in entrepreneurship.
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Welcome to 'Mega Gig'
The Experience
A magnificent, live, 3-day music and entertainments event featuring over 100 contemporary performing artists, on 14 stages, with an estimated 30,000 festival and visitors per day.
The Venue
Mega-Gig will be held at Newark Showground a premier outdoor entertainment venue and right in the very heart of England!
11 purpose-built halls and pavilions offering 14,000 sqm of internal space on 120 acres of flat land.
Parking for thousands of cars, great transport links, no events have ever been cancelled due to the excellent drainage system in the grounds.
The Vision
To create a leading UK event in the heart of the land, culminating in renown entertainers from a wide variety of music genres past, present and future.
Along with comedy and side acts showcasing fresh new talent, plus stalls and fun for all the family in one mega event
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Goble Takes Second In Decathlon To Earn First-Team All-WAC Honors On Day Two Of Outdoor Championships
May 9, 2012 MOSCOW, Idaho - Utah State men's track and field junior Jon Goble garnered first-team all-WAC honors after finishing in second-place of the decathlon (6,470 points) on Wednesday, day two of the four day 2012 Western Athletic Conference Outdoor Track & Field Championships at the Dan O'Brien Track & Field Complex in Moscow, Idaho. It is the first time that Goble has won first-team all-WAC honors, while he has earned second-team all-WAC honors six times in his career. Fellow junior Jordan McMurray and senior John Johnson finished in fifth and sixth-places in the decathlon with totals of 4,944 and 4,723 points, respectively. With the finish, McMurray and Johnson each earn second-team all-WAC honors, marking the first time in McMurray's career that he has received all-WAC honors. For Johnson, this is the third time he has been named second-team all-WAC to go along with six first-team all-WAC honors. Goble won the discus and 1,500m portions of the decathlon with marks of 33.50m (109-11) and 5:28.09, respectively, while also tying Idaho's Jeremy Klas and Andrew Blaser for top honors of the pole vault with a height of 4.70m (15-05.00). McMurray finished first in the javelin with a throw of 49.56m (162-07). Freshman McKenzie Johnson finished the day in eighth-place of the heptathlon with a personal-best point total of 4,276 as she was the only Aggie woman to compete in the multi-events. New Mexico State took the early lead on the women's side as they accumulated 13 points through two days of competition followed by Hawai'i with 10, Idaho with eight, Nevada with five, Fresno State with two and Utah State with one point, while Louisiana Tech did not have any athletes in the heptathlon. For the men, Idaho leads the way with 20 points followed by USU with 11.
Field event finals, along with running event preliminaries and finals begin on Thursday with the meet set to conclude Friday evening. Championship details, including a meet schedule are available atwww.wacsports.com. Live results will be available for fans to follow each event by clicking on the "live results" link on www.utahstateaggies.com or by going to http://wac.org/public/otf/2012/index.htm. The Aggie women are trying to sweep the 2012 track and field championships as they won the WAC Indoor Championships earlier this year. If they can accomplish the feat, it would be the fifth-straight year that the conference indoor and outdoor titles were won by the same team after Louisiana Tech won both team championships form 2008-11. USU's indoor title was the first WAC Track and Field Championship for the USU women as well as the first conference indoor title since winning the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation title in 1994. The Utah State men are set to defend their 2011 WAC Outdoor Championship as they have won three straight titles and four over the past fiver years. Those who qualify will continue their season at the first round of the 2012 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Austin, Texas on May 24-26. The finals for the 2012 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships will be held on June 6-9 at Drake Stadium in Des Moines, Iowa. Fans can follow Utah State Athletics, including USU track & field and cross country, athttp://twitter.com/USUAthletics or on Facebook at Utah State University Athletics. UTAH STATE RESULTS WAC OUTDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS MOSCOW, IDAHO MAY 9, 2012 |


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Last night — in only four quarters of football — we all got enough Manningface to last us an entire season. It was glorious. First play of the game interceptions, unreal turnover scenarios, and most importantly a Giants loss that didn't become official until an Eli Manning Pick Six. A Giants hater couldn't ask for me. The only problem is that the loss came to the Cowboys in a game that didn't involve Dez Bryant getting pulled from the sidelines and arrested. It'll happen soon enough, though. He's Dez Bryant. And whatever it was he probably did it.
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AQAP takes control of another town in southern Yemen
According to Xinhua, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has seized yet another town in southern Yemen, this time in Shabwa province, and is advancing on the port of Balhaf, home to a key Liquefied Natural Gas facility:
Al Qaeda militants Tuesday seized Rowda town in Yemen's southeast province of Shabwa, a few miles away from the location of TOTAL-led Yemeni Liquefied Natural Gas ( LNG) Company, a provincial security official told Xinhua."The militants of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) took over Rowda town following fierce battles with government forces backed by the Yemeni air force," the official said on condition of anonymity.
"They (militants) are now advancing to the port city of Balhaf, to besiege the government troops guarding the LNG headquarters of the French oil giant TOTAL," said the official.
AQAP now controls several major cities and numerous town in southern Yemen. AQAP seized control of Zinjibar in late May and has held it despite the Yemeni Army's attempts to retake the city. The city of Azzan fell to AQAP in early June. And in mid-August, AQAP captured the port city of Sharqa.
For more information on AQAP and its political front group, Ansar al Sharia, see LWJ report, US 'drones' kill 15 al Qaeda fighters in southern Yemen.
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A flippin' sweet 4th of July
Pretty much nothing beats the 4th of July weekend in a small town in Idaho.
Throw in a trip to the sand dunes, a lake and a bunch of cousins
followed by snowcones, awesome uncles, and a parade. How can you beat it?
All that was missing was a llama, a game of tether ball and a flippin' skit.
Good times. Except the part where the small town fire truck drenches you unexpectedly at the end of said parade. But maybe that depends on who you ask.
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Prior to Comic-Con a rumor was released stating Kick-Ass star Aaron Taylor-Johnson was being considered for the role of Quicksilver (a.k.a. Pietro Maximoff) in The Avengers sequel. Buzz has continued since then.
At Comic-Con the website Bleeding Cool caught up with the actor and, of course, instead of talking about his upcoming role in Kick-Ass 2 the site asked Taylor-Johnson about the rumors surrounding him being Pietro in Avengers: Age of Ultron. The actor's response implies that he may indeed have the role already; and by the way, the actor has recently admitted to having already met with both Joss Whedon and Marvel executives.
"Firstly, I'm flattered to have been offered to be one of The Avengers. Honestly, I think it's one of the best fucking compliments you can have, to be part of that gang, for sure.
"For me, it's always about character, so if you haven't got the basis of something to grab hold of in the personality, you're lost. It doesn't matter if he's got a f**king great power it's always about what's going through that guy's mind.
"That character, him and his sister have been abandoned by his mother and father, they're from Eastern Europe and they look out for each other, they've struggled through life. There's already so much there, and then there's thousands of comic books to go dive into to get that character, and that's what you work on really.
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Barack Obama's administration has backed the use of biofuels in powering its military, seeing it as a chance to immune itself from sharp fuel price fluctuations, especially after the Navy's successful test of the technology.
But despite their efforts, the US Congress could stop the Defense Department from investing in alternative fuel until the price has become competitive to conventional sources.
Alternative Biofuels The Navy has made its first attempts in "going green" in 2009 and made tests on the jet engines on the biofuel mix in 2010. However, the project was questioned in 2011 when the Navy reportedly spent USD 450,000 on biofuels (composed of chicken fat and algae), costing around USD 15 per gallon, which is quite expensive compared to the USD 3.60 for the usual fuel.
The plan was met with strong criticism for its being very costly. Moreover, the Department of Defense was reportedly obliged to implement budget cuts by reducing the number of its personnel, aircraft, ships and important military programs.
McCain insists the program is simply too expensive, saying "I was just reading, it's the cost of one destroyer – $1.8bn extra – they want to spend on this green technology. The fact is, I just do not believe that we need to spend that kind of money on it."
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"Bread and circuses" (or bread and games) (from Latin: panem et circenses) is metonymic for a superficial means of appeasement. In the case of politics, the phrase is used to describe the generation of public approval, not through exemplary or excellent public service or public policy, but through diversion; distraction; or the mere satisfaction of the immediate, shallow requirements of a populace,[1] as an offered "palliative." Its originator, Juvenal, used the phrase to decry the selfishness of common people and their neglect of wider concerns.[2][3][4] The phrase also implies the erosion or ignorance of civic duty amongst the concerns of the commoner.
This phrase originates from Rome in Satire X of the Roman satirical poet Juvenal (circa A.D. 100). In context, the Latin panem et circenses (bread and circuses) identifies the only remaining cares of a Roman populace which no longer cares for its historical birthright of political involvement. Here Juvenal displays his contempt for the declining heroism of contemporary Romans.[5] Roman politicians passed laws in 140 B.C. to keep the votes of poorer citizens, by introducing a grain dole: giving out cheap food and entertainment, "bread and circuses", became the most effective way to rise to power.
… Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses[6] | [...] iam pridem, ex quo suffragia nulli / uendimus, effudit curas; nam qui dabat olim / imperium, fasces, legiones, omnia, nunc se / continet atque duas tantum res anxius optat, / panem et circenses. [...]
Juvenal here makes reference to the Roman practice of providing free wheat to Roman citizens as well as costly circus games and other forms of entertainment as a means of gaining political power. The Annona (grain dole) was begun under the instigation of the popularis politician Gaius Sempronius Gracchus in 123 B.C.; it remained an object of political contention until it was taken under the control of the autocratic Roman emperors.


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