text: CNN Student News - November 25, 2013By Updated 2327 GMT (0727 HKT) November 24, 2013Just WatchedCNN Student News - 11/25/13replayMore Videos ...CNN Student News - 11/25/13 10:00Story highlightsThis page includes the show Transcript, the Daily Curriculum, and MapsUse the Transcript to help students with reading comprehension and vocabularyThe Daily Curriculum offers the Media Literacy Question of the Day, Key Concepts, Fast Facts and Discussion Questions At the bottom of the page, please share your feedback about our show and curriculum November 25, 2013A preliminary agreement involving Iran's controversial nuclear program could signal the end of decades of diplomatic gridlock. On Monday, CNN Student News reports on the details of the deal and some vastly different reactions to it. We also discuss the potential impact of winter weather on Thanksgiving travel. And we meet a teen who's planning for an upcoming hospital stay by thinking of her fellow patients.On this page you will find today's show Transcript, the Daily Curriculum, Maps pertaining to today's show, and a place for you to leave feedback. TRANSCRIPTClick here to access the transcript of today's CNN Student News program. Please note that there may be a delay between the time when the video is available and when the transcript is published.DAILY CURRICULUMClick here for a printable version of the Daily Curriculum (PDF).Media Literacy Question of the Day:Do weather forecasts have an impact on people's holiday travel plans? If so, to what extent? If not, why not?Key Concepts: Identify or explain these subjects you heard about in today's show:1. world power2. forecaster3. Federal Communications Commission (FCC)Fast Facts: How well were you listening to today's program?1. What is known about a deal over Iran's nuclear program? What have been some reactions to this deal?2. How has a winter storm system impacted parts of the United States ahead of Thanksgiving? What is this system expected to do?3. What has the FCC proposed with regard to cell phone use on airplanes? Discussion Questions:1. What do you think might be the potential outcomes of a nuclear deal between Iran and six other countries? Why do you think different countries have vastly different opinions on this agreement?2. What are some arguments for and against an FCC proposal to allow cell phone calls during flights? Do you think that the flying experience will change if this proposal is passed? If so, how? If not, why not? Do you think passengers should be allowed to make calls during flights? Why or why not?3. What needs might hospital patients have over the holidays? What are your thoughts about what brain surgery patient Savannah Day is doing for other hospital patients? How might her story inspire others?CNN Student News is created by a team of journalists and educators who consider the Common Core State Standards, national standards in different subject areas, and state standards when producing the show and curriculum. We hope you use our free daily materials along with the program, and we welcome your feedback on them.MAPSDownload PDF maps related to today's show: AsiaIranNorth AmericaVirginia; Cincinnati, OhioFEEDBACKWe're looking for your feedback about CNN Student News. Please use this page to leave us comments about today's program, including what you think about our stories and our resources. Also, feel free to tell us how you use them in your classroom. The educators on our staff will monitor this page and may respond to your comments as well.Thank you for using CNN Student News!Click here to submit your Roll Call request. More from studentnewsCNN Student News - March 3, 2015CNN Student News - 03/03/15CNN Student News - March 2, 2015Powered by Livefyre


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Class of 1965, Save the Date for your 50th Reunion
Friday, May 15- Sunday, May 17, 2015!
What to Expect | FAQ | Class Book | Class Gift | Missing & Deceased
What To Expect
The reunion program is exciting and is a weekend filled with something for everyone. Click here to view a full schedule of the weekend's festivities!
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you have some questions about your 50th Reunion Weekend Celebration? Click here for more information including answers to questions regarding local hotels, guests, dress code, navigating campus, and more.
50th Reunion Class Book
Please consider writing a short narrative of your "journey" since graduation. A collection of these reflections and an updated class list with contact information will be compiled in a 50th Reunion Memory Book, which will be distributed at Reunion. Even if you cannot attend, we encourage you to submit an entry. Previous 50th Reunion classes have found the book inspiring, and have appreciated the contact information to reconnect with classmates. We need as many entries as possible to make this project a success, and will continue to remind you to participate!
Your story can highlight a wide range of things – from your professional career to your family, hobbies and personal life. You may submit your entry in the following ways:
• Online at www.fairfield.edu/50thmemory
• E-mail it to Maria Bolis at email@example.com
• Mail your submission to Fairfield University,
Attn: Maria Bolis, 1073 No. Benson Road, Fairfield, CT 06824
• Call Maria at (203) 254-4280 with any questions.
Submissions should be no longer than 500 words, or one single-spaced page.
The deadline for the submissions is March 20, 2015.
50th Reunion Class Gift
Your contribution of any amount is counted toward your class participation rate. To make a gift, contact Debra Reich, director of annual and special gifts, (203) 254-4004 or email@example.com. Planned gifts count toward your Reunion Class goals. Visit the planned giving website for more information.
Missing & Deceased Classmates
Help us find your missing classmates! Please contact us if you know their whereabouts so we can update their contact information.
Sadly, since your graduation in 1965, 51 members of your class (as of February 2015) have since passed away. We will remember them all during the celebration of your 50th Reunion.
Click here to view missing and deceased classmates.
Still Have Questions?
Feel free to contact us at any time.
Maria Bolis, Director of Reunions
Phone: (203) 254-4000, ext. 2614
Fax: (203) 254-4104
Office of Alumni Relations
Phone: (203) 254-4280
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Congratulations to the Class of 1964,
who celebrated their 50th Reunion last May!
The Class of 1964 and their spouses celebrated their Reunion last May, where 31 members of the class processed with the Class of 2014 at Commencement. The weekend included a special lunch with the president, where they were inducted into the Golden Stags; a tour of campus; and special recognition at the Baccalareate Mass. Three members of the class, Daniel Skuret, Albert Lojko, and John Farrell are the proud grandfathers of graduates of the class of 2014, who graduated over the weekend. It was a milestone occasion for them all.
Click here for the class of 1964 50th Reunion Photos.

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A power adjustable Door Closer that features a cast iron body and is ANSI A156.4 Grade 1 and ANSI A117.1 compliant. It is also UL Listed. Manufactured under ISO 9002 guidelines, this ADA (Handicap) multi-sized closer has adjustable Spring Power for a range of sizes which can be adjusted after installation. Same template as the domestic brands.
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Haitian Botanica Trois Rivieres in North Miami Has Plenty of Vodou Supplies
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Giordani Ronald, owner of Trois Rivieres, and friend Jeanty Claude. |
If the word vodou strikes fear in your heart, relax. It's not like all vodouisants (vodou practitioners) do is vindictively prick pins into dolls that represent their loathsome mother-in-laws. It's also not like they don't do that at all, but like most world religions, vodou is foremost about a positive spiritual relationship.
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Vodouisants merge Roman Catholic, West African, and indigenous West Indian (Arawakan) beliefs and practices. They believe in one main God named Bondye and many subordinate deities called lwa (also loua). This divine hierarchy was present in many West African religions; when the slave trade brought West Africans to Haiti in the 16th century and slave owners forced them to accept Roman Catholicism, their supreme God became associated with the Judeo-Christian one, and in many cases, the lwa were replaced by the saints.
Trois Rivieres has a little of everything for the vodou-doer in you. "We have all kinds of products, but they all for the same thing. They all about vodou," said Jeanty Claude, friend of owner Giordani Ronald. "People think differently about voodou, but it's not really true. Depends on the way you use it. You can use it for good, you can use it for bad."
Among the items used for "good" are colored scarves that represent different saints and can be carried around for protection against evil spirits ($10), colorful printed representations of St. Anne, St. Patrick, and Lazarus ($2), candles ($2), with or without pictures of religious figures on the glass, and icons of the same array of saints or lwa.
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You don't have to practice voodoo to tote one of these Haitian bags. |
The shop also supplies some items of interest for those who don't practice vodou. We, for example, found the hand-woven Haitian basket bags to be pretty cool totes to take to the farmer's market or the beach, or of course to carry your vodou dolls around in, should it be that kind of week. (Claude did advise us that the bags could also be used for the practice of vodou; for example, you might carry items that represent a spirit you are soliciting favors from.)
The traditional Haitian bowls ($5 each), mortars and pestles (which are used to crush herbs for voodou rituals), and pottery would also add a rustic, multicultural flair in your living room or kitchen.
The shop sells incense and soaps in scents that promise to bring you money, love, luck, and more. Near the door, you'll find a bunch of brooms that can be used to sweep your house clean of dust, and also of evil spirits, according to Claude. To the non-vodouisant, these hand-made brooms would make great Halloween accessories.
Trois Rivieres has rows and rows of what looks like bottled water tinged with food coloring. Claude assures us these are "wines" used during rituals, but in the same breath tells us they're non-alcoholic. We ask if that means that they're grape juice, and he says "yes," but not very confidently. Extensive Google searching has not yielded any more information on these vodou "wines." If anyone can offer more info on this, we'll be happy to update.
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A kitten rests on some handmade accessories beneath some traditional Haitian bowls ($5). |
Claude tells us that rituals can be performed at any time, for almost any reason, including honoring the lwa, asking them for assistance in scoring a job or healing a relative, counteracting or removing evil spirits, and escaping a run of bad luck. "Okay, every morning you wake up, and you praise God and you light your candles. It's not really a big deal," Claude says in his strong Haitian accent.
Almost all the items in the botanica can be used to build a personal voodou shrine in an individual's home; Claude tells us that to vodouisants, these shrines are the equivalent of churches.
If the lwa are calling you, there's no better time to get initiated. The Voodoo New Year is coming up on November 1st, followed by Fe't Ge'de, a day to honor dead ancestors, on the 2nd.
Trois Rivieres (12303 NE 6th Ave, North Miami) is open seven days a week, usually from 10 a.m. to around 8 p.m. Call 786-343-1992.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Robert Mathis and Chuck Pagano like what they've seen so far from Indianapolis' defense.
It's playing hard, fast and physical.
Yes, there's still plenty to prove. After limiting their first two preseason opponents to 91 yards and no touchdowns in about 2½ quarters, the Colts could face their most daunting preseason test Saturday — if Drew Brees plays for the high-powered Saints.
But Mathis likes what he has seen.
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Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Regency Ballroom (SF), San Francisco CA
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Rio Theatre, Santa Cruz CA
Friday, June 8, 2012
Belly Up, Solana Beach CA
Saturday, June 9, 2012
Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Los Angeles CA
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At least you dont have to pay extra for drake tickets now.
More M83 dates
Three new shows have been added to the US Tour, see below for details. Exclusive pre-sale tickets will be going on sale tomorrow at 10:00AM local time via the M83 Ticket Store.
22 May Sunshine Theater – Albuquerque, NM
23 May Marquee Theater – Phoenix, AZ
25 May The Cosmopolitan – Las Vegas, NV
4/10 Los Angeles, CA - The Echoplex
4/11 Costa Mesa, CA - Detroit Bar
4/12 San Francisco, CA - Popscene
4/13 Seattle, WA - Electric Tea Garden
4/14 Vancouver, BC - Electric Owl
4/15 Portland, OR - Rotture
4/17 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
5/11-12 Brighton, UK - The Great Escape
I highly recommend that fans of Austra go check out this band.
KROQ Weenie Roast
KROQ's Weenie Roast lineup for 2012 is finally out! Taking place on Saturday, May 5, at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in Irvine, the line-up this year includes Angels & Airwaves, Awolnation, Coldplay, The Dirtyheads, Garbage, Grouplove, Incubus, The Offspring, Of Monsters And Men, Pennywise, Silversun Pickups and Walk The Moon.
Tickets go on sale this Thursday, April 5 at 12 p.m. NOON via Live Nation for $45.00 - $85.00 a ticket plus service fees with a four (4) ticket limit (Unlimited for lawn seats) and must be a KROQ Street Teammember to get the password to buy tickets. Click below then to get your tickets this week to attend this year's KROQ's Weenie Roast!
Talk about a shitty lineup...
Can you guys hug it out at Coachella this year and post a picture? That would be great!
ps For those that saw Andrew Wk couple weeks ago, does he play "I get wet" in full in the beginning or end of the set? I still remember seeing him exactly one year after 9/11 @ TLA in Philly. I hope he still has the energy to party till you puke tonight!
Liars 2012 dates!!! I'm thinking they'll play Pitchfork again this year
6/20 Webster Hall NYC
6/22 Music Box LA
ps People go on facebook still? Pshhh...Solution!
Mute Records announces:
Liars - Angus Andrew, Aaron Hemphill and Julian Gross - have announced further details of their eagerly awaited new album.
Titled WIXIW (pronounced "wish you"), the 11-track album will be preceded by a single, "No.1 Against The Rush".
Head over to www.facebook.com/LiarsOfficial to listen to the new song.
The title, WIXIW, is explained by Angus Andrew, "'wish you' is a familiar and universal sentiment of longing and hope, but when misspelled becomes uniquely shrouded and difficult to interpret, which in many ways is representative of our music and the songs we wrote for this album".
Watch what happens [below] when human beings are confronted with WIXIW and see it manifest in unlikely places.
He continues, "The word being a palindrome offered us some comfort, and came from superstitious behavior that was the result of extreme uncertainty and doubt. The word and spelling struck us because it seemed to exude a special quality or power."
Recorded in LA, self-produced by the band with additional production from Daniel Miller and mixed by Tom Biller, the album is hard to shake, tough to pin down, and impossible to get out of one's head even after an initial listen. Simultaneously the most accessible and most challenging release from these iconoclasts, it is both a summation of Liars' work up to now, and a complete break from anything you'd ever heard the band do previously.
"If we aren't confusing people, it's not us," Andrew laughs. "If we aren't confusing ourselves with what we do, then we've failed."
Interview w/ Pitchfork...
Pitchfork: What's the story behind this album's title, WIXIW?
Angus Andrew: With our music, we try to convey everyday ideas, but they get all mixed up and hard to read after they've gone through our musical process. It's a palindrome, and that interested us as far as the idea of starting somewhere, going through a lot of work, and ending up in the same place you started. I guess that can be seen as a negative result, but for our creative process, it's actually a really positive thing. There's this air of superstition or mystique around this made-up word.
"We dropped everything that we had learned on the last couple records and tried to really see what it's like starting from
the other end. That's always pretty frightening."
Pitchfork: WIXIW is much more electronic and sample-based than your previous two albums. What caused the change-up?
AA: Change always seems natural for us. When I look at the last two records in hindsight, I see this attempt to figure out what it's like to be a musician, how to use your instruments properly. At some point, we realized that we're not interested in that anymore. What I like about music isn't necessarily a good song structure. We wanted to get back to sound and the intents behind songs, rather than the more standard rock or blues ideas.
Pitchfork: Did anything specific trigger this change in thinking?
AA: Aaron and I had a period of writing out in the woods, with just computers and programs. Then we went off and took a break, and we did one show at this Mute festival in London. It was the first time I'd seen the Residents play live, and it just really blew me away. There were a lot more electronic acts in that lineup, too. We came out with the material that we'd been playing recently, with the standard drums/bass/guitar setup, and that felt really weird.
Pitchfork: On your website, there's a bunch of short videos, some of which seem to document odd items that are being sampled. Did you sample anything particularly strange while making the album?
AA: We wetted rags and let them drip on tin pots. We filled up balloons and let them out slowly. We were trying to find interesting sounds from different places. We're really not that technically adept, so using this stuff naïvely and wrong was really the key for us. Even when we're using more standard instrumentation, it became interesting when we couldn't get something to work right.
Pitchfork: Any personal occurrences that influenced the album's lyrical themes?
AA: This record's about the internal struggle, as opposed to Sisterworld, which was about how you're supposed to associate with your environment. This one's more about how you're supposed to associate with yourself. Part of that comes from the idea of personal relationships. I had recently begun a serious relationship, and at the same time, Aaron had ended a very serious relationship. There's this interesting duality of fear and doubt that you can achieve from both sides of that coin. You suddenly are very aware of yourself in relation to other people. There's a lot of doubt, anxiety, and uncertainty in the lyrics of this record.
We dropped everything that we had learned on the last couple records and tried to really see what it's like starting from the other end. That's always pretty frightening. We've done that before, but not with this computer technology that we really had no idea about how to use.
Pitchfork: Was this album harder to make than previous ones?
AA: Yeah, it was a lot more difficult. Normally, Aaron and I write separately and bring complete songs to each other, but for this record, we really forced ourselves to collaborate from day one. We had to agree on every note and word. We found that difficult, but also really rewarding at the same time. It's harder to be confident about what you've done if you allow someone to see the bare bones of where you started.
I don't think I've been as scared of a record we've made since Drum's Not Dead, when there was definitely a point where Aaron and I said to each other, "Are we really gonna release this?" It was just so new and uncertain to us. This one feels similar to that. But I think that being worried about a record is good. It's a challenge.
Pitchfork: You recorded this album in your own private recording space, right?
AA: Yeah, it's below the 101 freeway [in Los Angeles]. There's a lot of homeless people around, as well as the complementary weed dispensary next door, just like anywhere you go in Los Angeles now. I really wish we had this place when we made Sisterworld, because it speaks directly to this other world beneath the grime and the glitz. It's a weird, rough part of L.A. But once you lock yourself in here-- which you definitely need to do, because people seem to always want to come into these kinds of places-- it's a different little world. And we've made it a home.
He plays it first straight through, then will encore with some other album tunes. He has ended some with We Want Fun, an I Get Wet bonus track.
Also, can you please never post a giant pitchfork/blog/magazine article in here again? There are plenty of discussion threads and those two Liars dates were just fine by themselves.
2/15/15 - Horse The Band w/Taken @ Regent // 3/21/15 - Tweedy @ Theater at Ace Hotel // 3/6/15 - Viet Cong @ Echoplex // 4/14/15 - Cloud Nothings @ Echo
4/19/15 - Electric Wizard @ Roxy // 4/22/15 - Faith No More - Wiltern // 5/1/15 - Sleater-Kinney @ Palladium // 5/27/15 - Neutral Milk Hotel @ Warner Grand Theater
6/3/15 - Sufjan Stevens @ Dorothy Chandler
Sigma will be playing Respect in Los Angeles on the 19th. Pretty upset about their choice of date since I'm attending weekend 2.
2/28 - Caribou - Fonda
3/05 - Swervedriver - Roxy
3/06 - Viet Cong - Echo
4/08 - Drive Like Jehu - Glass House
4/14 - Ride - Fox Pomona
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I get the feeling that Spooks is a Caligula alias, just always really fucking high on happy drugs. There are so many similar mannerisms...
2/28 - Caribou - Fonda
3/05 - Swervedriver - Roxy
3/06 - Viet Cong - Echo
4/08 - Drive Like Jehu - Glass House
4/14 - Ride - Fox Pomona
last.fm, if you care
Twitter, if you dare
Alias of an alias? How clever
Carolina Chocolate Drops - 4/6 - Royce Hall
2/28 - Caribou - Fonda
3/05 - Swervedriver - Roxy
3/06 - Viet Cong - Echo
4/08 - Drive Like Jehu - Glass House
4/14 - Ride - Fox Pomona
last.fm, if you care
Twitter, if you dare
Naw. Better stuff happening on friday nights in l.a.
Caribou @The Fillmore 03/01/15
The Pop Group @ GAMH 03/11/15
Swans @ Terminal West 03/28/15
Electric Wizard @ Slims 04/17/15
Acid Mother Temple @ BOTM 04/18/15
Faith No More @ the Warfield 04/20/15
John Zorn @ UCLA 05/02/15
Will Bulter @ Slims 05/26/15
Neutral Milk Hotel @ Pappy & Harriets 05/30/15
Mariah Carey @ Caesars palace 06/11/14
2/15/15 - Horse The Band w/Taken @ Regent // 3/21/15 - Tweedy @ Theater at Ace Hotel // 3/6/15 - Viet Cong @ Echoplex // 4/14/15 - Cloud Nothings @ Echo
4/19/15 - Electric Wizard @ Roxy // 4/22/15 - Faith No More - Wiltern // 5/1/15 - Sleater-Kinney @ Palladium // 5/27/15 - Neutral Milk Hotel @ Warner Grand Theater
6/3/15 - Sufjan Stevens @ Dorothy Chandler
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Toro Rosso team principal Franz Tost has been a familiar face in the Formula One paddock since he joined BMW Motorsport as track operations manager back in 2000. His current tenure began immediately after Red Bull bought Minardi ahead the 2006 championship.
Since then he has experienced his fair share of highs and lows, and earlier this season we caught up with the Austrian to discover a little about his philosophy for running one of the youngest teams on the grid
Q: Best part of being a team principal?
Franz Tost: In the short time I have been a team principal, I have yet to experience anything that could be considered best.
Q: The most annoying?
FT: Not finishing races.
Q: Running a Formula One team is like
knitting fog!
Q: What would you be if you werent a team principal?
FT: I would hold a management role in motorsport.
Q: The first thing I do after a race is
talk to the media.
Q: Winning a race would mean
we have achieved our first target as a young team.
Q: What is your favourite place to relax?
FT: Bed.
Q: Funniest thing you've read about yourself in the press?
FT: Fortunately, the press dont find me very interesting.
Q: The most difficult decision you have had to make as a team principal?
FT: Getting rid of a driver.
Q: Best time during a race weekend?
FT: Just before the start of a Grand Prix and the first lap.
Q: Formula One racing and politics is like
like bacon and eggs - they always go together.
Q: Your best moment as a team principal?
FT: I hope the best is yet to come.
Q: Something you always wanted to do but never had the time?
FT: Heli-skiing.
Q: How was your first race as a team principal?
FT: It was in Bahrain in 2006. It was a good race as the first race for Toro Rosso. It was a new team, new drivers, first time the season had started in Bahrain and we got both cars to the flag in 11th and 13th places.
Q: Who would you like to be for one day? And why?
FT: My mothers dog, because he has a great life, just sleeping, eating and walking.
Q: Does money change everything?
FT: Ill tell you when I have some!


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@ChronoWolf: Galen teleported a hostage out of my hands and I deem that to be autohitting and cheating. Galen disagrees. We want our arbiter to settle it.
Fancy being an arbiter for the day?
@SamJaz: If that one scene is anything to go by, and what Feha told me of the abridged series, it most definitely is one of the best abridged series.
About your little problem, Iskander is capable of moving people inside his Realty marble to different places. He moved all of Assassins split personality thingies, that were surrounding him, Saber and Gilgamesh in one scene, to one side grouped. together, while the three king were on the other side. Then he provided to murder the everloving hell out of them.
In a different scene he moved a giant monster so that Saber could destroy it with Excalibur.
I would provide you with videos but I am unable to do so from my phone.
Go to YouTube and look for Rider Vs. Assassin, or Banquet of kings for the first example.
So, I went and read the posts. I would not call that an autohit and/or cheating. Unless Assassin's shadows can hide the connection master and servant have I think GB is in the right here. The court rules in favor of the defendant, Galanbeta. The court also states that they are not infallible and the supreme court should verify its ruling.
The Supreme court agrees. Yay!
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@Sonata: sorry, i don't get along well with Kuro much he mad me mad so much when if first join that i kind of hold a grudge against him.
Understandable, but those threads in the link provided will help. Hopefully we can work on the basics tomorrow, and work out the kinks of your bio.
@ChronoWolf: Hold on, Assassin does have crazy awesome hiding skills that make him near impossible to detect, and spread that influence to his Master and Hostage. These skills were very much in effect when they were hidden and reality marble came into play.
@Galenbeta: But those links are the basics of how-to-play, if you dont master the basics you will not level up your writting and with leveled up writing everything is easier. I love this forum, mostly because of the inclination towards Original Content, and I have always tried to help expand such content. I'm sure there are at least five active RPG forums with Attack on Titan Thematic RP that are surely better prepared or have a bigger quantity of players willing to participate or a bigger quantity of players period.
I found most of the anime inspired threads sharing problems with fanfiction (a genre I mostly despise) as the works of another author should remain that way, that's the reason the original authors are so good at writting it, as it comes from their heads. In my experience making Original Content is easier than copying others as you're either restricted by the limitations imposed by such action as trying to emulate a world and characters that arent yours. When you write from your own heart and mind it all clicks easier than when you just try to ram your ideas into an already created world. I know this by experience as I had to face that problematic on my current job, as I'm writting scripts for an animated series that wasnt my original idea, thus I have to comform to pre-established directives instead of letting my imagination run free.
Thus, concluding, I highly recomend that you level up your basic writting through the Original Content Rp rather than tackling blindly a series based RP. If you still want to keep going is your choice, this is only a reccomendation that shouldnt be taken as an offense or an insult, I'm just trying to help. Please read the links and soak in their wisdom, I was really bad when I start but thanks to those links and some hands-on experience I became good enough to work as profesional writer
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Kilgore — The city of Kilgore is looking to complete a six-field baseball complex — aimed at attracting tournaments to the town — in time for spring ball.
The proposed complex, which would cost between $1.5 million and $2.2 million, has been on the wish list of the Kilgore Boys Baseball Association for some time.
"We have been working on this for about 10 years, and our fields are antiquated enough now and kids have gotten so much better now that the fields we have we cannot host any state tournaments," said association President Gary Dent.
In May, the City Council approved $473,921 for high-mast lighting at the future park, which will sit across Commerce Street to the west of Driller Park.
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Women's Soccer Inter-Squad Game & Kick-Off
Date & Time
Saturday, August 11, 2012 - 2:00pm to 8:00pm
Event Location
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Event Description
Join us for a preview of the 2012 season, gourmet BBQ by Back Forty, silent auction and raffle. Meet the 2012 Women's Soccer Team players and coaches and help support Gaels Athletics as we kick off the Women's Soccer season.
2 p.m. - Inter-squad Game | Saint Mary's Stadium
4 p.m. - Kick-Off Event | Bertain Redwood Grove
Tickets: $25 per person | $25 to Sponsor a Player
RSVP by Friday, August 3.
Event proceeds benefit the Women's Soccer Team Fund.
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Monthly Archive for April, 2010
Giveaway: A bunch of beauty and a book
Since we've gone a couple days without a giveaway, I'm giving you a good one this morning. Note, it is only a 12-hour giveaway. We've got: Miss Jessie's Curly Meringue ($22) Miss Jessie's Curly Pudding ($22) "The Modern Girls' Guide to Sticky Situations" by Jane Buckingham ($20) As you know, we have rules here for […]
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Your Time Warner Cable questions answered
After I wrote a post complaining about the new Time Warner Navigator system, the company reached out offering to help me. I messaged them back and asked if they were willing to help a whole lot of readers, rather than just me. They agreed. So several of you submitted questions for the TWC staff, which […]
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ARA: How do I decline lunch with my 'toxic' boss?
A reader asks: For some, a lunch out with your boss may sound like a nice way to escape the walls of your office for an hour or two, and bond with a superior on a more personal level. For others, this meal out is very important for work-related reasons- it could signify a potential […]
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Simon Ghanimian to appear at Northeastern Fine Jewelry
When the publicist called me about this event, he presented it like Beyonce was coming, whispering "Simon G" as if Simon was some "American Idol" super star blessing the Capital Region with his presence. But, no, Simon Ghanimian is a high-end bridal jeweler (he's got the Kardashian family and Jennifer Love Hewitt sporting his bling) […]
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Shows that have gone to the television graveyard
Regular reader Rose has a great post on her blog about what happens when shows we love die. I have actually wanted to write about this topic for awhile, but here is Rose to launch the conversation for us. She talks about losing "Las Vegas" and "Sex and the City," among other shows. When one […]
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ARA: How to deal with a coworker's 'bad' kids
A reader asks: My fiance and I are planning to attend a conference related to his work later this summer. My fiance's coworker (we'll call him Alan) and his wife (we'll call her Laura) and their two young children (ages 6 and 4) are also going. It's a week long conference, in a large metropolitan […]
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Jake Pavelka got kicked off last night's 'Dancing With the Stars'
I was still in the car last night and missed "Dancing With the Stars," but I called my mom at 9:01 p.m. for the results. I was hoping, wishing, praying that Niecy Nash got the boots. She's loud, obnoxious and showy (unlike my oh-so-demure "girl crush," Erin Andrews) and I am still perplexed as to […]
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OTE on TEN: What to do if your coworker tells you to lose weight
I'm a little late on this one (apologies), but here is this past Friday's OTE on TEN where several reader comments made it on-air regarding handling a colleague who says you should lose weight.
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List love
I love lists. I make lists for just about everything — groceries, office assignments, housework, packing for vacation. Thing is, many of these lists used to be mental. Since childhood, I remembered almost everything after hearing (or seeing) it once. I was the go-to in my family when someone needed a reminder. As I've gotten […]
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ARA: How do I properly tell my girlfriend I don't like her purchase?
A reader asks: My girlfriend recently bought one hell of a monstrosity designer handbag. When she showed it to me, the expression on my face was like the expression Amanda does every time Marlon posts. Kind of like…omg, wtf? I liked all her SMALLER "Coach" bags that she has. What's the "sensitive guy thing" to […]
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More and more people seem to recognize you. You've become a celebrity. Has this been a goal of yours? Is this a form of success?
Not at all. It's not bad being recognized and certainly not unpleasant being popular, but if this were all taken away tommorrow for whatever reason, I would simply move on and do something else. I am an editor. I am a working person.
So what does local celebrity status really mean?
It means I don't have to wait in line, never pay a cover, rarely pay for my drinks. Bottom line, it makes it easier to go out. Truthfully, I never think of myself in those terms, in celebrity-type terms. I find it really superfluous and actually kind of silly. The whole notion of being "famous" is a little bit unsettling to me. I just love being part of the scene, and of course it's fun to be popular. But beyond the logistics of going out being easier, it also gives me an opportunity to meet people, to help promote people that live here. I'm a huge supporter of the arts on Miami Beach. We've got a gold mine of talent here and there are a lot of really talented artists that have international caliber, and it gives me a chance to write about them and get to know them and their talents, and help them achieve their goals.
Is being a celebrity more important than Florida's budget crisis or the Mideast peace talks?
Of course it isn't. But life is to be enjoyed, is to be celebrated despite what is happening in the political arena. World peace, a cure for AIDS, a cure for homelessness - these are paramount concerns that should be at the top of everyone's list. They are at the top of my list. However, everyday life can either be mundane or it can be jubilant. I prefer for my life to be jubilant.
How would you respond to people who say this is all a waste of time?
You mean people that are home in their living room in Gables Estates saying, "Oh, this misdirected young girl"? To each her own. One person may be utterly comfortable having a "normal," societally condoned job in corporate America, going out to dinner twice a week, and in bed by 10:00 p.m. That's simply not exciting enough for me.


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The Dead Navy Seals, The Obama War, The Helicopter. The Killing Of Bin Laden: President Sh!t Head agreed that the entire operation was to remain classified and neither the unit nor the names of any of its members were to be released. Obama jumped out the next morning praising SEAL team 6, traveling to their base and broadcasting to the world that he ordered the killing of OBL and claiming that he accomplished something that the evil Bush and his merry band of Republicans never could. Vote for me, he said: I killed OBL! Send money to reelect me, the ads read: I killed OBL. Well now he can claim something else that Bush never did, he (Obama) flapped his jaws and got those troops targeted by every terrorist group in the world. He can't say "It's Bush's fault" this time, the "old Bush Wars are now The Obama Wars. The Left Wing Obama News Media still keeps saying "the helicopter crash" yes it crashed, after it was SHOT DOWN by the dirty smelly Taliban Dogs. Cindy Sheehan and your gang, where the hell are you...........?
If in fact Obama agreed to keep all information confidential and then did not, he should be investigated and held accountable. If someone else actually leaked the info, then they should be held accountable. No one, even a president has the right to do that.
Know you were aware of this post yesterday, but it was not about you and your agenda so it does not count.. http://www.patsfans.com/new-england...6-warriors-killed-afghanistan-helo-crash.html FYI a trip in the memory machine indicates that the admiral in charge of the SEALS released the info.. but what do you really know??
A thread started by a liberal isn't good enough for you? There's some reason you think you have to start your own? Mods, isn't there some rule about not starting a new thread about a topic which is already under discussion? http://www.patsfans.com/new-england...6-warriors-killed-afghanistan-helo-crash.html
Obviously, we should get out of Afghanistan. It seems highly unlikely that it will be a reliable ally at any time in the near future, whether we leave or stay. We have lost more people in Afghanistan under Obama than we lost under Bush. Many liberals are speaking up, and more would if they didn't fear the rise of extremism as represented by the Tea Party.
This thread is actually about whether or not our president broke confidential information and caused the seals to be targeted. So it's not the same subject as the other thread and is ok as a stand-alone thread.
What does your comment mean? If he agrees to keep info confidential, then he must do so just like anyone else.
He did not break it, even though you want him to, the press broke the story... What do you really know about anything of this???.. in reality a whole lot of conjecture. The original information was leaked by an admiral, McRaven I believe.. and there was a lot of subsequent inuendo and guesswork. Not a lot of substantive information was leaked, and we do not know a whole lot more today than we knew yesterday when it was initially reported.
Which is EXACTLY why I posted this... Like I said...whoever leaked the info should be held accountable.
I hope that the liberals will continue to speak up their silence makes them look dishonest and foolish, I hope we aill start to see the good old fashioned "March On Washington" led by the entertainment people along with Jessie and Al. anti bush war protesters - Yahoo! Search Results
He certainly can. We learned from the Nixon administration that no man is above the law. If the President were to reveal the location of every nuclear missile silo, bomber base and subs, he would be impeached the next day for improperly leaking that information. If he were to be privy to a ongoing criminal investigation and discuss it before the individual was charged, he could be improperly leaking information.
Don't discount the probability that one of those Afghani soldiers on that Chinook was a suicide bomber. This is what I am presently thinking due to how they are discussing it. A rocket propelled grenade does not necessarily take a Chinook down so easily.
If that's what the thread is supposed to be about, would have been good to see the OP cite some actual facts in creating it. But of course that will never happen...
Facts are no longer important, hysteria reigns supreme.. This incident was reported early yesterday morning, complete with the Seal Team 6 info.. so somehow the news media picked it up. Obama spoke later in the day.
The word agree implies some sort of negotiation between equals. That's not the sort of relationship that exists between the President and the military.
You are correct in that if he had told Whitey Bulger the Feds were on their way out to San Diego to arrest him; he'd be in as much trouble, after Impeachment, as the Fed who did just that back in the 90's. However there's no law about nukes or sub locations or seal team member identities that applies to the President. He's the decider, so to speak, when it comes to that sort of stuff.
If a POTUS gives his word and then breaks it, he can be held accountable. That's not an opinion, it's a fact.
What word did he give??? in this case the news reported it right after it happened.. do you think that Obama leaked it?? It is more ado about nothing? Slow day for outrage on the right, so lets drum shyt up..
We need to file a missing persons report to find all those people who got as many headlines as they wanted while Bush was in office. Just proves what I have said all along: The so-called "peace" movement was never about actually trying to find peace. It was simply about attacking a republican.


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Italy's standard of living has been declining since 2001, for failing to adapt to the Euros'regime and a thanks to a PM preoccupied with protecting his owns business interest and immunizing himself to the endless legal troubles of self making. The average Italian family survives on 1000euros per month, while the political class and the bureaucrat elite live on luxury.
As a frequent traveler to Italy for business , (not pleasure) I can't fail to observe that even the quality of food has declined, corruption and tax evasion pervades everyday's business life, organized crime is thriving, smog, pollution and a general disregard for the environment is rampant.
I have many Italian clients constantly asking me help them expatriate ....
As an Italian living overseas I often ask myself whether Italy is still part of Western Europe.
By the end of berlusconi term, Italy will be fiscally financially and morally corrupt, with the EU and foreign investors asked yet again to bail it out.
To reinforce my prior points to the saddest situation Italy is in, Dr. Rita Clementi a scientist in medical research based in Padoa (Northern Italy), finally decided to emigrate to the USA and accept a research position in Boston. A few of the many reasons of leaving Italy she cited, to a public letter to the Italian President, was nepotism, lack of meritocracy, and cronic underfunding for medical research.
I recently rejected an offer for a top job to work in an international UN agency in Rome, after visiting that same city, and after hearing Mr. Frattini the Italian foreign minister anouncing to the international press that the consensual age for sex in Italy is 14. As a father of teeagers I'll stay the hell out of Italy.
"By insisting that nothing is amiss, Mr Berlusconi and Mr Tremonti are also passing up an opportunity to embark on reforms that would not only speed the economy's recovery but actually improve Italy's productivity and public finances. Confindustria is pressing the government for more reform of the unsustainable pension system (Italy spends 13% of GDP on the elderly, almost four percentage points more than the average for the EU 15 richer economies). And it wants a programme of liberalisation and privatisation to promote competition, increase productivity and cut consumer-price inflation. A recent Bank of Italy study concluded that in three years such a programme could boost Italy's GDP by as much as 5%.
Since it returned to office last year, however, the Berlusconi government has become wary of free-market ideas. Guided by Mr Tremonti, author of a book foreshadowing the credit crunch, the government has embraced Sarkozyite ambiguity. It has no programme for deregulation or asset sales. It is not prepared even to raise the retirement age for women. Ministers have hinted that they fear courting unpopularity at an already delicate juncture.
It might be possible to steer through pension reforms and take on the vested interests opposed to liberalisation and privatisation if it were done in the name of national belt-tightening. Italians responded heroically in the mid-1990s when the then prime minister, Romano Prodi, called for sacrifices to clean up the national accounts to prepare for euro membership."
The Economist has today hit the nail on the head.And the economic indicators published today in Italy are the worst since 1999. And yet all Berlusconi and Lega Nord supporters are totally silent on the subject.
You see the Berlusconi government is wholly driven by consensus and all the reforms mentioned in the article would "hurt" the vested interests in the short term and such vested interests are mostly represented by the PDL and Lega Nord supporters so no such reforms. Brunetta very much wanted to go ahead and raise the retirement age of women but he was stopped by Berlusconi because it would have affected his consensus.
One issue The Economist does not mention is the thriving black economy in Italy. In fact the Berlusconi government is tacitly encouraging evasion of taxes. When the estimates of corruption and evasion of taxes were referred to in the recent annual report of Corte dei Conti many influential supporters of the Berlusconi government argued that it was acceptable to evade taxes and turn a blind eye. Again today it is reported that there is a drastic reduction in tax revenues - mainly because of the rececssion and partly because of the increase in tax evasion.
But who cares? PDL and Lega Nord supporters are doing very well, thank you.So why worry about the rest of the population?
The defamation campaign against the Prime Minister Berlusconi initiated by the hopeless bitter toothless Italian opposition and actively assisted by certain left oriented international press,is now backfiring.
Please follow closely the scandalous events in Puglia involving the very left parties.
It would be a pleasure reading for once something about that in the Economist that has been very busy reporting articles from La Repubblica , il Manifesto and other left oriented propagandist Italian press.
The article by sincerity below it is all but sincere.
even this columns are increasingly getting pestered by berlusconi's embedded bloggers...
we are witnessing an attempted "porta-a-portization" even of the British media!
Please..MI5 stand aware of this intrusion on the royal press!
The Italian ruling classes have known since the early 1990s what they were facing with the fall of the Iron Curtain and the new globalization.
They changed a few faces and governments fall and rise again at a slower pace than in the past, the forces of the so-called opposition and of the current government in power almost the same amount of years since 1994, with mostly the same results or lack thereof.
To be sure, Mr Berlusconi is no saint and to the discerning certainly no cultural icon, but when compared to the alternatives, this constant picking on the guy is damaging The Economist's reputation, turning it into a rag as mediocre as the entire Italian ruling class is ineffectual.
You know, there are still communities in regions and provinces of Italy where economic participants growth their own food, manufacturing their own goods, and recycle their own waste to fuel and refuel the process. To be sure, export sales have suffered, but they are hardly starving to death, on the contrary, they are doing what they have been doing from generation to generation.
Yes, maybe that's boring, but that is the real stuff of life, and The Economist would do better to report and analyse this type of enduring resilience.
Good luck.
As things stand today with the Italian politics, it does not exists and none is as yet in sight, any plausible alternative to the Berlusconi Center Right Government.
The left is as ever divided. Just now the Pdl former Unione in in the middle of a bitter fratricidal war and it has further split in two major groups, the dalemiani supporting Bersani and the veltroniani supporting Franceschini all aiming for power throgh a bitter struggle.
The groups remain united exclusively by an incomprehensible hatred against Berlusconi, through which they are able to organize a smearing campaign which turns out more harmful to themselves rather than the Premier.
Just follow the events closely in order to believe it.
Those are real and true facts of life of today's Italian left politics.
The real opposition in Italy is the Catholic Church, which is increasingly criticizing berlusconi's fitness for leadership. The Economist doubted way long time ago about this guy's fitness to lead a modern and immature democracy like Italy's.
While not a Catholic, my admiration for the Church is increasing exponentially.
I can't help to notice that even the foreign press the one so far that stayed silent about berlusconi's various gaffes and escapades, is starting to report on him with increasing frequency.
benito berlusconi behaves like one of the those Middle East rulers, thus not fit to lead Italy.
In 25 years of living in Rome, I have seen only one non-european beggar on the streets. Immigrants come here in the hopes of finding work in order to live some kind of decent life. It's true that a lot of them work illegally; either as illegal agricultural or building workers or as illegal street-traders and domestic assistants - but they come here prepared to work their bollocks off from dawn to dusk, in many cases doing jobs that Italians wouldn't touch. The legal immigrants in Italy comprise 7% of the population but generate 10% of the GDP; because the illegal immigrants are exploited both in the workplace and in their accomodation, they add significantly to the severe financial burden that the black markets and tax evasion already impose on the state.
Rented accomodation in Italy is expensive and hard to find even for Italians (ask any university student!), and so almost every month,in Rome at least, we hear reports of "immigrant hotels" being discovered; the last one I remember said that 16 Bangladeshi were being lodged in a 4-room flat, paying €200 each a month for the privelege. The landlord was Italian. And yet there are hundreds of thousands of empty apartments all over Italy and, more importantly, thousands of abandoned government or military buildings which could brought into use for accommodation. Immigrant groups have begged local councils for access to such sites in Lazio, offering to do the work themselves to render the places habitable.
And it's obvious that impeding the integration of immigrants into society will merely encourage them into criminal activities in order to survive.
The solution is to allow the 'illegals' to become legal. If the process of obtaining the necessary papers weren't so convoluted - and the various Berlusconi governments have made it even more byzantine than it was when I first arrived here - the 'emergenza immigranti' wouldn't exist.
The world is on the move; face up to the fact. This government is insisting on turning what should be a resolvable social problem into an insurmountable and expensive criminal problem. But "The War on Immigration", macho and gritty as it may sound, is just as cretinous and futile a slogan for the unthinking as is "The War on Drugs"
Some people here and other threada about Italy, confound criticism to berlusconi and cronies with anti-italianism.
As an Italian, I criticizes the current italian political situation because my love for this country compels me to wanting better for it. Same as when I criticize my kids when they do something wrong. This force It is called love. Thus people who confound my passionate criticism to the sad status of my country, with hatred and whatever, display a lack of sophistication and a adisregard for freedom of expression......
Thus, stick to intelligent arguments, stay away from personal attacks and write without shouting.
I am sorry, but as a supporter of the Party of European Socialists I must agree with Zorzon. Personally I am in favour of open borders, multiculturalism and integration of new immigrants to Italian lands. I also think however that democratic laws must be respected (I may not agree with them, but I work to change them, not break them) and that every country must be realistic about what it can afford.
Zorzon, you are right, this ship is sinking. Public debt is at 107%. In one year it will be at 116%. In two years it will be 125%. In three years, at this rate, we will finish like Yugoslavia (but maybe the breakup will be peaceful, like Czecho-Slovakia.) As a resident of Friuli, I am sick of listening to left-wing Roman politicians telling me how we must think to be more like Europe. The only foreign state they know is Vatican City and I can reach Slovenia or Austria in an hour, and three more EU countries in five hours. Yes, I understand the new Venetia will probably be a right-wing country, but at least it will be prosperous and with a normal right-wing government and normal left-wing opposition. I would even prefer being part of the Italian minority of Slovenia or Croatia (if and when they join the EU) than living under this stupid class of non-leaders. Berlusconi is a disgrace to humanity, Veltroni and D'Alema are still fighting over a sinking ship even as they beg the Vatican to help them save it, and the only serious politician in Italy is the comedian Grillo.
I saw last year there was some scandal among the chattering classes in Rome about the explosion in votes during local elections in Alto Adige for the extremist, German-language party, Sud-Tiroler Freiheit.
Roman idiots! You don't understand us border Italians. I am sure many of their votes come from Italians in the secrecy of the ballot box. The message is clear: Take us out of Italy, please! Much better to be an Italian minority in Austria than part of the "majority" in this non-functioning state, with no real governing party and no real opposition.
I have seen that the Regional councils of Liguria and Piemonte have signed an agreement. They want to become "Limonte" - unite the regions to obtain a semi-autonomous statute like Friuli or Val d'Aosta.
Zorzon, when even the Liguro-Piemontesi want out, you know it's over for Italy. After all, they created the centralised state, not Rome.
While the Berlusconi supporters are rejoicing about the new Security law they forget to mention the pledge not respected by Italy concerning the finiancial aid to Africa. You will recall that in 2005 Berlusconi with great pomp and show pledged financial aid for Africa at the G8 meeting at Greeneagles together with other G8 governments.Only 3% of the amount promised has been given by Italy. In a very interesting and thought provoking interview with Berlusconi, Bob Geldof takes to task Berlusconi for not repecting his promise and states that he risks being labelled as Mr 3% and that his credibility is at stake. Geldof also questions about what he intends to do about Africa at this week's meeting. It is in the self interest of Italy and other G8 members to help Africa now, Africa being a very huge market in terms of trade.
You will also remember that Berlusconi continues to remind us that he is the only leader who has hosted the G8 meeting 3 times but then .....
Will the G8 circus show include Berlusconi's starlets?
I love this dragoon's acolytes who write, rant and...rate their own written rantings!!!!
The italian government has recently adopted very harsh measures against prostitution.
Last years very often private apartments were rioted by law enforcement agencies and, when evidences of sex business arised, even the landlord (sometimes unaware of what was going on in his rented flat) has been charged with serious crimes.
A bizzare provision has been hastily enforced regarding street soliciting.
If a driver stops to talk with a prostitute he would be fined or charged with some kind of administrative fees and/criminal charges just for talking (unless he is mr. Prodi spokesman). It is not very clear what is the principle that drives such a fierce crusade against sex labourers offering their services to ordinary working class citizens who cannot afford palazzo grazioli, villa la certosa or some exclusive villas and apartments in the outskirts of milan and rome (those never rioted by law enforcement agencies). The already abyssal difference between rich and poor it is marked even by such a mundane issues. If you are poor and you stop to chat with a prostitute in the street in Italy you get charged. If you are the Prime Minister and you pick them up with an air force or private plane nothing will happen to you. Actually, to avoid further noises, the whole structure in charge of institutional flights for the presidente del consiglio it is employed by the military service (voli di stato gestiti dai servizi) fiorenza sarzanini corriere della sera 2 july) so in the future nothing will leak again.
Now, to be fair...I just wish even the politicians on the left being grilled as Mr. Berlusconi, because when Prodi spokesman was caught chatting with a transvestite on the street nothing followed and the whole thing was immediately dismissed as a private issue (with a certain degree of solidarity and fair play even by many centre right politicians).
It is well known that this ludicrous business has been going on in the roman buildings of power since the Catullo's days but blaming only on mr. Berlusconi it is unfair and will give him even undeserved solidarity and support. At least from me.
Berlusconi is the mirror of italians. If I have to choose a person to rappresent the italian style, well, Berlusconi is that person. The best of my country comes from people who are not really pigeon-box as italians. Luigi Einuadi (head of Central Bank after the war) or Alcide Gasperi (PM in the same decade) are example of "italians not italians". The first was born in Piedmont (north-west region close to the french sobriety) and the latter - incorruptible and humble man - was born in Trentino region which was part of Austria at that time.
Whilst the visitors to Italy whose work is connected to the global summit will undoubtably have their papers in order, the same might not apply to those non-EU visitors that have settled in Italy in the past.
A foreign worker in Italy, as a result of the Bossi-Fini law, risks becoming an 'illegal' if out of work for longer than six months, despite having settled for years perhaps with family, investments, or other rooting there. A foreign worker risks being classed as 'illegal' despite paying the settlement tax because of being without papers as a result of the notoriously slow bureaucratic process in Italy.
For landlords, does one have to renegotiate a contract for a family of a non-EU worker made unemployed as a result of, for example, a fall in production within Italy's manufacturing industry? If so, is the landlord compelled to make that family homeless? Are the family then obliged to sign the 'homeless persons register'? Is the public servant holding the homeless persons register then obliged to denounce the family made homeless as 'illegal' settlers in Italy? Genius!??! Perhaps Mr Maroni should spell his name Mr Moron I.
Whilst doctors or headmasters may well have the conscious and intelligence not to grass up sick and ill immigrants or children of immigrants, the same might not apply to their colleagues that do not share their respective professions, those, lets say for example, that are politically motivated or racist; or if Lega Nord supporters, both.
So normally honest and responsible people would be marginalised into outlaws as a result of the weirdo Lega Nord's attempt at Government. A political philosophy based upon hate cannot provide the constituents for sound and long lasting law.
The threat of jail sentences for graffiti vandals (much if not almost all of Italy's graffiti is anything but artisic) is of course watered down by the policy of not jailing for tariffs less than three years in length.
Then there's the 'policing by charity' move that allows for vigilante groups armed with pepper spray (or some other eye irritant) to patrol the streets. Do the vigilante groups have to really pay for the pepper spray, petrol, uniform and all other equipment themselves? Yes! They are independent of Government funding. Just that the Police/Carabinieri will have to fund themselves their having to bail out the vigilante groups from any trouble they get into.
Those falling over themselves in the rush to applaud the Lega Nord 'initiative' ought to bear in mind that it has been done before; not by the Fascists, but even before that: the forerunners of the Metropolitan Police Service were made of organised vigilante patrols of London's dock warehouses.
But that was about 200 years ago and seeing that Italy actually has a plethora of police authorities already, the introduction of a new 'cap in hand, on your knees begging' so called 'security' provision is probably based on politics and polticians appealling to the base instincts of the more idiot members of society (like those that go to political rallys in Italy's north, and insist on wearing green uniforms reminiscent of those brown in colour worn in Germany during the 1930's, for example).
The only consolation can be that badly formulated law does not last long and sooner or later will have to be changed. Do I think thet the Lega Nord have the balls to do such a thing? There's more chance of Marco Travaglio being personally invited by Silvio Berlusconi to a Villa Certosa party brimming with sizzlingly hot young ladies! Not likely.
The register of bouncers is a good thing however. Just that in setting it up, Italy had better not repeat the feat of the bureauratics that ran/run Britain's 'Security Industry Authority'. The SIA, a Home Office agency, registered and issued identity cards to security staff even though they were not legally entitled to work in the UK, nice one.
Forgive the length and extent of this post, but I stand by its content wholeheartedly! Ciao
I got the impression that most people believe, because the Economist originated in the UK, is a UK institution, quite to the contrary, most of the Economist readers live outside the UK over 50% of its subscribers are in the USA alone, its chef editor is an America, The economist edits in deferent continents. The Economist is a universal entity, thus think again before denigrating unnecessarily the good UK people, it makes you look parochial and berlusconesque.
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You keep bringing up the Bossi-Fini (BF) law , which as you will know was introduced in july 2002 and also approved by the EU in 2003 under directive 86.
The issues you raise with the current immigration laws began, not with the 1950's guest-workers system, not with the Martrelli law of 1989, but with the Turco-Napolitano (TN)law of 1998.
Where fingerprinting was introduced for all migrants who had no documents. Be they Eu or non-EU people.
this TN law had problems that although an employer could sponsor a migrant to work for him, it only lasted 1 year, then this "illegal" migrant would be free to run around Italy. This employer then would re-engage this migrant at a cheaper rate, knowing full well that this migrant had no option but take the work, basically slave labour.
The BF law makes the responsibility of this migrant the employer problem forever or until the migrant is declared unwanted by the employer. Also, the employer cannot engage this migrant for a lower fee than the italian standard. benefiting the migrant.
So, to conclude , the migrant is better under the BF, but has only 6 months to re-engage in employment or else, have to leave same as the old guest worker system of the 1950's.
The TN system, could immediately place you in detention or deport you if you once your engagement was finalised and/or you where not fingerprinted.
The BF fingerprinting is only for non-EU people, and is also used as a fact data base to "enforce" that the same migrants do not come form the same foreign nation , but come from various pther nations.
So, read the new law,and read the old laws before making false claims.
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