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Cagayan de Oro. More than 1,000 people remain missing in the Philippines after devastating floods that have already left more than 1,000 others confirmed dead, the government said on Friday.
The latest toll stood at 1,079 missing, up from 51, and 1,080 dead, up from 1,010.
The big jump in the missing came as rural families reported large numbers of relatives had gone to work in hard-hit southern cities and remained unaccounted for, civil defense official Ana Caneda said.
"There are whole families who have gone missing or who died. No one inquired about them before," Caneda said.
She said entire families had been wiped out in the hard-hit southern ports of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan on Mindanao island, and because they had no relatives left in the cities, there was no one to report their disappearance to the authorities.
Nearly a week after the flash floods wrought by tropical storm Washi, relatives from nearby provinces had descended on the disaster zones and raised the alarm after finding their families' homes gone, she said.
Also, survivors who were recovering from the shock or injuries have also realized that they have missing kin, said Caneda.
"Victims who could not find their relatives are now inquiring about them," she added.
The government's civil defense agency, National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, listed 674 dead in and 626 missing in Cagayan de Oro, along with 312 dead and 406 missing in Iligan.
The country's civil defense chief Benito Ramos however said: "That [missing list] is just an estimate."
He said not even local officials could say for sure how many people had really disappeared.
Caneda, who is based in Cagayan de Oro, conceded those listed as missing could be among the unidentified bodies that are piling up at local mortuaries.
"Let us focus our attention on finding the dead and taking care of the survivors," Ramos said.
Entire neighborhoods in Cagayan de Oro, a city of half a million people, and nearby Iligan, a port of 100,000 people, were swept away or were flattened by rampaging floodwaters early Saturday.
Many of the dead were swept to sea along with their homes.
The United Nations, which launched a $28.6 million aid appeal on Thursday, likened the disaster to that of a tsunami.
Bernard Kerblatt, the Manila representative of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said it would airlift 42 metric tons of emergency shelters, blankets and kitchen implements later on Friday to the flood areas.
"In helping communities recover from conflict, our approach has been to fund quick, relatively low-cost projects that involve entire communities," he said in a statement, citing fishing boats, water wells, market stalls and sewing machines.
"We believe this approach could also be effective in rebuilding fragile communities after the floods."
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Upbeat one moment and glum the next, serving National Council members, of late, have been finding themselves frequently caught between the two extremes of temperament.
Initially, they were unsure whether they had to resign to re-contest for another term and forgo the end-of-term benefits, or take the benefits by serving until the end of their first term, but lose the chance for a second term.
Gradually, as the puzzle progressed, an interpretation of allowing existing members to re-contest while still in office was to them like being served bread with butter on both sides.
An official announcement of that interpretation was expected to emerge in His Majesty's address during the opening and closing of the last parliamentary session that ended in early March.
What little hope council members clung to then was, however, dashed, when election commission officials recently issued an official notification, basically a reinforcement of what they had always maintained, that serving council members should resign to re-contest.
While a few serving council members had made their intent clear to re-contest before the notification was out, a few others decided so after.
What they had not said was whether they were considering resigning.
Most, however, continue to bide their time, perhaps until such a time that another announcement, one that would rescind the election commission's and weave in with their initial fancy, to sit in office and re-contest.
The fact that there has been no such announcement so far should be a message strong enough that the election commission's notification stands.
The commission is an important democratic and constitutional institution and any overriding of their decision would mean watching its credibility and authority wane.
The fact that most council members are waiting for some sort of a statement, which would nullify the election commission's recent decision, is already a disregard of this important institution.
If this is how things stand today, imagine what will become of the commission in future and, for that matter, all other democratic institutions, which we believe have begun taking roots.
What precedent are we setting? Do we stand by them or do we watch a mockery made out of them?
These are some of the issues our members of the council ought to bear in mind, than be too engrossed and concerned with affairs pertaining to their personal interests and gains, and risk missing the big picture.
Journalists from abroad, following the country's developments closely as it nears another round of elections, already ask of the independence of many of the country's democratic institutions.
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Hemispheres Announces 2010 Summer Institute "Unraveling Race and Ethnicity"
Posted: March 4, 2010
June 8-11, 2010
What is race? What is ethnicity? What's the difference between them? In addition to shaping the world in which we live, they continue to affect our lives and our perceptions of other people and places. And although they come up in classroom discussion frequently, they are sensitive topics that make even the most confident educator tread lightly.
This workshop from Hemispheres will look at race and ethnicity in a global context, from the historical to the contemporary. We'll begin by exploring theoretical issues that will boost your understanding—and that of your students—of what these terms mean and how that meaning can change in different contexts. We'll then look at the ways societies around the world both define and deal with them, both positively and negatively. Finally, we'll facilitate audience discussion and development of classroom strategies that will help you unravel the complexities of discussing race and ethnicity effectively in your classroom.
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Your registration fee includes: workshop materials, coffee and continental breakfast daily, lunch most days, and parking. Housing asssistance is available to a limited number of participants (see registration form for details).
As in previous years, we expect strong demand for this summer's offering. Ensure your place by registering today!
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Jandi Chontra
Situated at about 1000 meters above sea level, this scenic spot is an eastern gateway to Samani valley. It is 17 km away from Bhimber and 12 km from Samahni town.The famous Baba shadi shaheed shrine is approximately 4 km in the south from here.There are quite a few shops and restaurants, with all types of refreshments available.
Due to the high altitude , this hill station not only gives a panoramic view of Dab valley (an off shoot of the main valley) but it also takes you as far as the snow capped mountains (Pir punjal range) of occupied Kashmir. Although these scenes could be observed with the naked eye, the use of binoculars will have an added advantage.
From Jandichontra a 15 km stretch of road known as Kadiala road offers an alternative route to enter the valley. This road which runs along the mountain ridges and through thick pine trees joins Samahni Mirpur road, in Chowki bazaar.
A downhill view of Dub-Valley from Jandi Chontra
Delevopment near Jandi Chontra
Baghsar means a land of water and gardens. This beautiful place is 12 kilometres in the east of Samahni town and a same distance away from Jandichontra. It is famous for its lake and a huge granite built fort known as baghsar fort. Baghsar is said to have been a focal point during and after the Moghul era due to its picturesque locality and calm atmosphere. The water lake has past its prime days and is being swallowed by the mud and other debris thus is in need of the urgent attention from the authorities. Overlooking the lake the Baghsar fort is built at a nearby mountain. There are conflicting opinions among historians as to who built this wonderful fort. Many believe this was the work of Moghul emperors. Some say that it was built by the sikh rulers after they had defeated Raja Sultan Khan the last ruler of Bhimber state in 1812.
There is a very little evidence available about the true history of this fort. According to G.T. Vigne (a frequent traveller between Lahore and Bhimber) this fort was built by Gulab Singh's brother called Deyhan Singh who was made Raja of Bhimber in 1826. In his book "travel in Kashmir ladakh and Iskardo" vol1 published 1844 he says.
The castle of Amur Gurh (an old name for baghsar) built by Deyhan singh is visible on approaching Bhimber from the plain, upon a ridge six miles distance to the eastward of the village. (Page 239)
The first march I made was from Bhimber to the village of sumani. The peasants brought me a profusion of wild yellow raspberries. I examined the castle of Amur Gurh through my telescope. It is apparently built on a ridge. It seemed to be of stone and of solid masonry with curtains and towers on a rectangular outline. It is supposed to contain a large treasure and a magazine of arms increased by the cannon that the Raja (Deyhan Singh) had smuggled from his master Ranjeet. (Page 245)
Another traveller W. Wakefield who visited the area in 1875 writes in his book.
On the summit of a hill, some few miles distance is the castle of Amur Gurh built by an uncle of the present ruler (son of Gulab Singh) and well worthy of inspection if time can be spared.
[It ought to be kept in mind that the above writers were travellers not professional researchers.]
Some historians believe that emperor Jehangir while returning from Kashmir fell ill and died in this fort, and in order to delay decomposing process his internal organs were removed and buried in this fort before taking his body to Lahore for a permanent burial. The claims of a similar nature however are also made about Chingus sarai near Indian controlled town of Rajouri. If we go by Jehangir's connection to this place then we will have to trace its roots beyond 1627(Jehangir's death) and well into the heart of Moghul era. Due to inadequate information and some missing references we are unable to draw a complete picture of this historical site, but despite opposing and controversial views on its origin, this architectural heritage of the Sub Continent is and will remain a constant reminder of our glorious past in the construction field.
Baghsar Fort - Dhian Singh, believed to be the creator of Baghsar Fort
A view of Baghsar fort from different angles
The ruins of Baghsar Fort
Samahni Town
Population 1998 census = 1429
The whole Valley Samahni has been named after this historic town. It is 29 km away from district Bhimber and 67 km from Mirpur. It lies in the eastern edge of the valley, a short distance away from the ruins of the ancient Moghul route which linked Bhimber with Noshera and ultimately to the rest of the kashmir. It used to be a centre of social, cultural and trading activities long before the partition of Sub continent. The town consisted of mixed communities of Hindus and Muslims. Both the faiths co-existed with harmony and mutual understanding. Financially Hindus were in a better position then the Muslims. They dominated most of the businesses in the towns; old bazzar which was aprox. 100 meters long with all kinds of shops on its both sides. Hindus had built their temple (Mander) in the heart of the bazzar for worshipping and also for their social events they had two Dharam shala (community center) facilities just out side of the town.Samahni town benefited from some of the best craftsmen in the valley.One can still find the scattered ruines of finely carved stones to remind us of their valuable skills. The town had the valley's only civil dispensary, a post office, and a lower middle school to cater for educational requirements.
In 1947 Samahni town was partially destroyed during a brief invasion by the Indian forces. Since then it has made remarkable achievements to transfer itself into a modern day town.Today the old bazzar has almost disappeared and the new markets have been built instead where all types of businesses are being carried out. Samahni also has the following infrastructure and facilities within its vacinity which refelects the true extent of the progress this town has made.Different institutes and facilities in Samahni Town
Degree College Boys
Zakat & Usher Committee Office
Degree college girls
PWD offices
Tehsil HQ Hospital
Habib Bank
S.D.M offices
National Bank
Civil Magistrate court
Sub post office
PWD rest house
Town committee offices
Union council
Girls industrial school
Jamia Mosque
Agricultural department
AEO Offices
Veterinary Hospital
An arial view of Samahni Town (taken from nearby mountain)
Samahni Nala (river)


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We're still a few weeks away from the big tournament in Brazil, but a mini-World Cup comes to Toyota Soccer Center this weekend with the third-annual MoneyGram Nations Cup.
The MoneyGram Nations Cup was organized in 2012 to promote outreach and unity in the local DFW community through the game of soccer and in 2014 we will celebrate the third year of the tournament. 16 teams have been drawn into four groups in a World Cup-style tournament that will determine the 2014 MoneyGram Nations Cup champion.
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FRISCO - Tomorrow in Lisbon, another UEFA Champions League winner will be crowned and perhaps the biggest Atletico Madrid fan lives right here in Frisco and patrols the midfield for FC Dallas.
Midfielder Peter Luccin, who was back on the bench for FC Dallas in Wednesday's loss in Los Angeles after missing the last six weeks with a leg injury, spent three years with Los Colchoneros from 2004-2007, having played with current Atletico coach Diego "Cholo" Simeone in that first 2004-2005 season.
"I played for years at Atletico Madrid and I can't explain what is happening over there because they have very, very good players," Luccin said after training a couple weeks ago. "But for me it's a team thing and a "Simeone" thing, the coach who does a very good job."
Last Saturday at the historic Nou Camp in Barcelona, Atleti won La Liga for the first time since 1996 with a 1-1 draw against Barcelona and Luccin says a third team infringing on the normal big two of Real Madrid and Barcelona in Spanish soccer is definitely a good thing.
"It's always been just two teams, but it's good for the champoinship because last year it was so easy. It's Real Madrid and Barcelona 20 points ahead," said Luccin. "So now we know and understand there's another team. It's amazing, but Atletico Madrid is a very good and historic team. Now the thing is changing and it's good for the championship."
As for Simeone, currently the toast of European soccer, Luccin says that his teammates always knew the man known as "Cholo" would one day be a manager.
"I played one year with him and he was an aggressive player, a very passionate player and of course I could see he would be a coach one day," said Luccin. "Everyone thought he would be a coach. He does a very very good job…we can see 11 players running 90 minutes and it's not easy. There's good technique, but the fitness is so important with that team."
Looking ahead to Saturday's UEFA Champions League Final, the man who spent a good portion of his life in Madrid says he's happy that both the city's teams are in the final and, surprisingly said he likes both teams. However, there's no question who Luccin is cheering for on Saturday.
"I'm a big, big, big fan. It's a little bit strange to say I like both teams, but I'm happy to see both teams in the final," said Luccin. "It's strange. If you talked to any Atletico fan, it would be hard, but me, I like Madrid. I like the city so I like both teams but I want to see Atletico Madrid win the Champions League
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The FC Dallas 01 Boys West team recently won back-to-back championships. The first tournament was the Carey Invitational that was held the weekend of May 10. They won their first game 1-0 against FC Dallas Blue, their second game 4-0 against Ayses Gold, and tied Andromeda FC Pre-Academy 1-1 to win their bracket with 22 points and advance to the finals. In the finals, they defeated the Dallas Texans 4-0 and claimed the title.
The second tournament they won was this past weekend at the Frisco Shawnee Trail Shootout where they defended their 2013 championship. They tied in their first game 1-1 against Ayses Gold, defeated FC Dallas Silver 3-0, and also defeated FC Dallas Blue 2-1 to come in first place in their bracket and advance to the semi-finals of the tournament where they played AFC Black. At the end of regulation the game was tied 0-0. Overtime consisted of two 10 minute halves and FC Dallas West managed to score two goals in order to advance to the finals. In the finals, they faced FC Dallas White. Once again at the end of regulation, the game was tied, although this time at three goals apiece. Similarly to the semi-finals game, FC Dallas West was able to score 2 goals in overtime to come out on top with a final score of 5-3.


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The Health Of The U.S. Supreme Care Court!
Health Care Reform: Why It's Safe From The Supreme Court
The Supreme Court will not overturn health care reform. At least if the five-justice conservative majority that brought the country Citizens United and Bush v. Gore can be stymied by the possibility of being the first court in over 75 years to strike down a sitting president's signature domestic achievement.
Congress' party-line passage of the Affordable Care Act two years ago triggered unceasing speculation over the prospect of a similarly partisan end-game at the Supreme Court. And given the litany of sharply divided conservative victories in the court's most politically charged cases, casual court watchers would not be unreasonable to expect the five Republican appointees to strike down the Affordable Care Act's individual health insurance mandate and perhaps the entire law with it.
Reasonable expectations, however, can be wrong. The battle this time is likely to be an intra-conservative conflict between the economic libertarianism underlying the mandate's challenge and the traditional principles of judicial restraint that have defined right-wing jurisprudence for more than a half-century.
The Affordable Care Act constitutional saga opens its final chapter on March 26, when the court takes to the bench for six hours of oral arguments over three days. The justices will finally offer scraps of their thinking, through questions and comments to the lawyers before them, to a public hungry for hints of whether Congress exceeded its commerce clause power by requiring virtually all Americans to purchase minimum health care coverage or pay a tax penalty.
Justice Clarence Thomas, whose six years of silence at oral arguments suggest that he's unlikely to pipe up in health care cases, has long made clear his allegiance to the libertarian camp. He has called time and again for a return to a narrow reading of Congress' power to regulate interstate commerce that a deeply conservative Supreme Court in the mid-1930s used to provoke a constitutional crisis by invalidating much of President Franklin Roosevelt's first slate of New Deal legislation.
But it is far from certain that his four conservative colleagues — Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy and Samuel Alito — will join Thomas to repeat that repudiated era of court history.
Since FDR prevailed over the court in 1937, there has been a mainstream consensus on the left and the right that Congress has the broad power to regulate any conduct that, in the aggregate, substantially affects interstate commerce. At its most expansive, this has meant, as the court decided in 1942's Wickard v. Filburn, that Congress can forbid a farmer from growing excess wheat for personal consumption.
From the 1950s through the early 1970s, the court took a decidedly left turn on issues including school prayer, civil rights, criminal procedure and abortion rights. Most conservative lawyers who came of age during the second half of the 20th century were therefore more concerned with correcting the "excesses" of the court's liberalism than with using the judiciary to curb Congress' regulatory reach, said Eric Claeys, a professor at George Mason University School of Law.
"It is crucial to remember that Roberts and Alito both went to law school in the 1970s and both did significant service in the Reagan administration," said Claeys, who last summer wrote "Obamacare and the Limits of Judicial Conservatism" in National Affairs. In Roberts' and Alito's milieu, liberals were the judicial activists. Conservatives practiced restraint.
Justice Scalia championed judicial restraint as a conservative value in his posts as a law professor, government lawyer and federal judge. Debating a prominent libertarian law professor in 1984, then-Judge Scalia described calls for activism on economic rights as a "moment of truth for many conservatives who have been criticizing the courts in recent years. They must decide whether they really believe, as they have been saying, that the courts are doing too much, or whether they are actually nursing only the less principled grievance that the courts have not been doing what they want."
On the bench, Scalia has had an ambivalent relationship with the commerce clause. He, along with Justice Kennedy, joined the court's conservative majority in the only two instances since 1936 that the court struck down an act of Congress on interstate commerce grounds. In 1995, they voted to invalidate the Gun-Free School Zones Act as insufficiently related to commercial conduct and did the same in 2000 to a portion of the Violence Against Women Act.
Nevertheless, in neither of those cases did Scalia or Kennedy question Congress' power to regulate what he saw as bona fide commercial conduct. Reaffirming the Filburn decision in 2005, they joined with the court's liberals to find that federal laws regulating the national market for illicit drugs permitted Congress to prevent a woman from growing her personal crop of state-legalized medical marijuana.
The 26 states and several private parties challenging the Affordable Care Act concede that health care is a national market, but say that Congress cannot force someone to partake in that market by mandating the purchase of health insurance.
Neal Katyal, the former acting U.S. solicitor general, said in an interview with HuffPost that the government responds to this argument by saying that "everyone consumes health care in this country."
"Right now 50 million people don't have insurance, so it means that you and I essentially are paying for them," said Katyal, who defended the law in front of three appeals courts. "Congress said, 'Let's fix that system and make it so that everyone has a certain amount of insurance.'"
Next week's health care cases come from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, which did not buy the government's argument. But high-profile conservative judges on two other appeals courts did. Sixth Circuit Judge Jeffrey Sutton, a former Scalia law clerk, was the first among all federal judges to cross party lines to uphold the mandate. D.C. Circuit Judge Laurence Silberman, a Reagan-appointed greybeard of the conservative legal movement, did the same.
The challengers' "view that an individual cannot be subject to Commerce Clause regulation absent voluntary, affirmative acts that enter him or her into, or affect, the interstate market expresses a concern for individual liberty that seems more redolent of" the cramped pre-1937 view of economic regulation, wrote Silberman. That reading "has no foundation in the Commerce Clause," he concluded.
Georgetown Law professor Randy Barnett, one of the intellectual architects of the health care law challenge and lawyer for the private plaintiffs, told HuffPost that these decisions "have to do with what [the judges] think the role is as a lower court judge: following Supreme Court precedent." That responsibility, Barnett noted, is "a constraint that the Supreme Court is not as under as much as lower court judges are."
But Barnett, unlike Sutton and Silberman, finds the health insurance mandate entirely unprecedented. And when there is no precedent, there is no need for judicial restraint. "I'm only in favor of judicial restraint insofar as it means following the Constitution, and I don't know anybody who thinks the court should not strike down unconstitutional laws, on the left or right."
If only the calculus were that simple. The court's conservative bloc has had no problem recently striking down or calling into question state and federal laws big and small as violations of the First, Second and 10th Amendments. But invalidating a sitting president's signature legislative victory on commerce clause grounds is freighted with deeply unpleasant institutional memories both for the court and the conservative legal movement. If the individual mandate is as unpopular among Americans as public opinion polls report, then the court can let the democratic process play out and, by exercising restraint, collect political capital for the battles ahead on affirmative action, campaign finance, the Voting Rights Act and perhaps even abortion that really matter to the court's majority.
© 2012, agentleman.
Once Upon A Time Tea Party Made Right Choice
Tea Party Questions Constitutionality Of GOP Bill Repealing Medicare Reform Provision SAHIL KAPUR
The right is giving House GOP leaders a collective headache.
They were already under fire from conservative members for taking a piecemeal approach to repealing the health care law. Now conservative activists are after them for abandoning Tea Party principles at the same time.
Caught in the middle of these related attacks is President Obama's Medicare cost-cutting panel — the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), which was created by the health care law.
The House is poised to vote this week to repeal IPAB. A small but vocal contingent of dissatisfied, all-or-nothing Republicans worries that this strategy is too timid, and will lead the public to conclude that some parts of the law are acceptable.
But Tea Party activists are upset about something else entirely. GOP leadership has opted to fund the $3.1 billion cost of repealing IPAB with legislation written by Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-GA) that would reform medical malpractice laws. That's a problem not just for the handfuls of House Democrats who want to scrap IPAB, but also for conservatives who believe federal malpractice award caps are unconstitutional.
Judson Phillips, the leader of Tea Party Nation, fired off an email to supporters Monday lamenting the GOP's pay-for, claiming House leaders need a "refresher course" on the 10th Amendment. "The IPAB repeal ought to be fairly simple. Even some Democrats are on board with it," he wrote. "The Republican leadership decided to play stupid political tricks and attach the Medical Malpractice bill to the IPAB repeal bill."
The measure in question caps the amount courts can award in non-economic damages for any given medical malpractice lawsuit at $250,000. Tea partiers don't necessarily have an issue with the concept, but they strongly believe it's an issue that states, not the federal government, should decide. And they cite the 10th Amendment as evidence that malpractice damage caps imposed by Congress infringe on states' rights.
"The 10th Amendment does not say that the powers granted to the states can be usurped simply because the right party is in power," Phillips wrote. "Whether you think tort reform is a good idea or not, it is an issue that belongs to the states, not to the federal government. Tort law has always been governed by the states."
The constitutional concern was shared by the conservative Heritage Foundation, which declared in a Monday evening blog post that the House GOP bill is "misguided" because "the law governing medical malpractice claims is a state issue, not a federal issue." The post argued that "Congress has no business (and no authority under the Constitution) telling states what the rules should be governing medical malpractice claims."
Jen Talaber, a spokeswoman for Gingrey, told TPM that the bill addresses 10th Amendment concerns by letting state laws capping malpractice award supercede the federal limit, regardless of their level. "Detractors of lawsuit abuse reform, namely Democrats and the trial lawyer lobby, have attempted to turn this into a 10th Amendment issue," she said. "It is not."
The bill, Talaber said, would "ensure that current or future state law addressing issues such as non-economic damages would supersede the federal law. Further, juries in different states may still award as much as they see fit to compensate a patient for economic damages."
That hasn't appeased all conservatives. Reps. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and Ted Poe (R-TX) objected to the legislation in the Judiciary Committee last year, forcing top Republicans to shelve it indefinitely, after they twisted arms to clear the bill through the panel. Virginia's conservative Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli was so troubled by the measure, he vowed last year to challenge it in court if Republicans managed to turn it into law.
It's not clear the conservative objections will carry enough weight with the GOP to endanger the bill. Republicans see IPAB as a long-term threat to their years-long goal of turning Medicare into a private insurance system. But they may well lose their bipartisan cover.
Speaker John Boehner's office previewed the vote this way: "The House will act this week to repeal another part of ObamaCare: IPAB, which empowers a board of unelected bureaucrats to deny care and raise costs. This will be the 26th vote the House will take to repeal all or part of ObamaCare, which is a big part of the regulatory onslaught coming out of Washington, DC."
The question now is whether the anti-"Obamacare" message will be enough to completely unify the GOP. It may not pass muster with conservative purists who, as Phillips put it in his email, view the 10th Amendment as "one of the best defenses we have against tyranny."
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Mozzarella is one of the world's favorite cheeses, but unlike many others, its name has not been adequately protected. Today you can walk into any store and find a very industrial piece of cheese called mozzarella that has nothing to do with its authentic cousin made exclusively from buffalo milk in the region Campania in southern Italy. So how to know if you're choosing the real thing? And what to do with it once you've got it in your hands? The internationally known Obikà Mozzarella Bar has a stand at this year's Cheese, giving visitors tastes of mozzarella paired with Slow Food Presidia products. We asked President and founder, Silvio Ursini, for his expert advice. Here's what he says:
• The first thing you need to do is look for the protected name: Mozzarella di Bufala Campana DOP from Italy. In order to use this name, producers need to be in the Campania region and follow strict procedures, for example, they are not allowed to have any cows on their farm to avoid potential addition of cow milk.
• Stay away from the dry yellowish-colored mozzarella used for grating.
• Fresh mozzarellas made with cow's milk can sometimes be good, but this is a completely different cheese!
• Be careful about "smoked" mozzarella. It is very rare to find one that is smoked naturally with hay. The vast majority are produced with artificial flavor.
• Look for the white round ball that comes in a bag with brine.
• Check the expiration date. This can technically be after 2-3 weeks, but the further you get towards the end, the less likely it is that it will be good. Talk to your grocer about when the mozzarella is coming in and buy it immediately - the same day if you can. Mozzarella that is exported is generally made and shipped within 48 hours.
Once you get it home…
• Keep it out of the fridge for a few hours before eating it to get it to the temperature up to where it tastes best.
• A little trick for consumers outside of Italy: Dip the whole bag in really hot water for a few minutes. This will reactivate all the enzymes in the brine and the mozzarella will recover from the trip. An anti-jet lag!
• On the eye: The mozzarella should be shiny and porcelain white.
• When you cut it you should see little holes that weep droplets of milk.
• On the palate: The texture should be slightly crunchy, not totally soft. The taste should have notes of hazelnuts and slight hint of musk that comes from the buffalos.
• When the mozzarella is very fresh you can eat it by itself without condiments. If abroad (when the cheese will be a few days old) a dash of good extra-virgin olive oil won't hurt. But please people – no garlic! It will kill the taste buds and for all you know you might as well be eating a piece of Camembert. Stay away from oregano and other dry spices that overwhelm.
• If you want to use it on pizza made sure to cut it first and squeeze out the liquid, otherwise it will make your pizza too soggy.
Mozzarella has been at center stage during Cheese over the last few days; the star of workshops, conferences and a live demonstration of its production at the Slow Food Foundation's Biodiversity House (pictured).
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Liverpool are close to signing last night's hat-trick hero Xherdan Shaqiri after reports that his agent is in England to discuss terms with the Merseyside club.
According to transfer extraordinaire Gianluca Di Marzio, a deal is close to being struck to lure the Swiss international to Anfield.
The highly coveted winger has an abundance of experience, and at the tender age of just 22 has already secured two Bundesliga titles, and a Champions League winners medal with perennial champions Bayern Munich.
The former Swiss footballer of the year has been linked to Premier League clubs on a number of occasions.
However his sterling performances for Ottmar Hitzfeld's side throughout the World Cup has intensified talk of a summer exit.
Shaqiri has two years remaining on his current Bayern deal, and is valued at a whopping £17m.
If the Reds were to land their man, it could significantly reduce the likelihood of Southampton's Adam Lallana leaving St. Mary's in the summer.
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DENVER (AP) - Denver kicker Matt Prater kicked an NFL-record 64-yard field goal as the first half expired in the Broncos' game against Tennessee on Sunday.
Prater's kick on a clear day in 14-degree weather with nary a hint of wind barely cleared the crossbar. He and holder Britton Colquitt jumped in jubilation as their teammates rushed into the tunnel for halftime.
The record-breaking kick cut Tennessee's lead to 21-20 at the break.
The 64-yarder bested the record of 63 set by New Orleans' Tom Dempsey in 1970 and tied by Denver's Jason Elam in 1998, Oakland's Sabastian Janikowski in 2011 and San Francisco's David Akers last season.
Janikowski's and Elam's kicks also came in Denver's thin air.
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|Posted by Donnaleigh on December 9, 2011 at 7:30 AM
"Christmas is the season when you buy this year's gifts
with next year's money."
- Unknown
Ah, the holidays. No matter which holiday you celebrate in December, it is a flurry of activity and sometimes it feels like a race to the finish line. Our culture has conditioned us to believe that the more we spend, the happier we'll be. The commercialism of the holidays has seeped into our very homes and stolen the quiet moments and connections that holidays could potentially provide.
So let's take a look at what the holidays should really bring.
What are the TOP 3 THINGS tarot suggests we focus on?
For this reading, I used Corrine Kenner's Christmas Tarot.
And the cards that arrived were:
The Moon
The Lovers
The World
The Moon:
1) Recognize where we have deceived ourselves with holiday madness.
Seek beyond impulses and learn where you've been kept in the dark by commercial retailers.
Leave behind at least one illusion (the moon in her sky) that you have created regarding the holiday frenzy.
Recognize how we have deceived ourselves about what is really important.
Spend time alone to go within and connect with your *inner* pull.
Be with those you feel most pulled to, like the tide.
Where is society pulling you, like the tide, to do what is no longer done with thought?
Sneak away from what is expected and do something meaninful.
Take a look at karmic relationships and what you have to learn from them.
Recognize how we are doing things automatically, things we no longer give any thought to, and in the process, have lost context or something important.
Recognize the illusions we carry with the holiday rush: does more really mean happier?
Recognize what makes us feel dark or less happy, and realize this is a secret that has been imposed on us that is not a reality.
The Lovers:
2) Connect with the ones who are most important to you. The holidays are about people, love, and connections. Choose to focus on the people, not the things.
How can you choose free will rather than running on the auto-pilot of society?
Be free from guilt that society places on us; focus on messages of love and bringing those to others.
Hug someone you love.
Focus on spending time and space with those you love, less on spending money with them.
Rekindle a relationship you miss.
Strengthen the bond with someone: tell them something amazing about themself.
"Just Be" with them. Just be.
The World:
3) How can you make a positive impact on the world--
both your immediate world and the world at large?
Why are you in the world?
Are you conscious of why you're here, and are you doing it?
Get involved in something that would improve the world.
How can you feel joy for being alive? How can you bring this feeling to another person who needs it?
Where can you create boundaries that would thereby create joy?
How can you connect with your Divine Source?
How can you help provide something for the world?
If we put the 3 cards together,
and if the Moon is lack of light or too little light,
we quite literally seeing this spread saying:
What the WORLD needs now, is LOVE, sweet love.
It's the only think that there's just TOO LITTLE OF...
or "Too little....Love....In the World."
Here's wishing you a tarot-filled week full of the things that are *truly* meaningful.
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We're seeing many interesting applications of Cisco's TelePresence technology. Citizens Bank is redefining "robosigning" with a system that allows customers to apply for a loan via video conference and use an electronic pen to put ink to paper in an office hundreds of miles away. The bank is testing Cisco Systems' TelePresence equipment at five Bay State branches as a way to speed up transactions between customers and off-site banking specialists. http://bostonherald.com/business/general/view.bg?articleid=1344132&position=0Read more
Telepresence Options has broken down the telepresence marketplace by matching various solutions with the appropriate target audience. Great overview for those considering investing in new or additional systems. IVCi client Duke University's virtual lecture hall is featured in the section 'Large Group Systems and Telepresence Classrooms." http://www.conferencingnews.com/news/37303Read more
We have a higher education client who is using their custom telepresence system to create a global university, connecting students across the country and the world to each other and to subject matter experts. The telepresence solution is giving students a unique opportunity to learn because the classes are interactive and in real time. A student in the US and in India may attend the same class, and listen to a lecture by a business leader who did not have to take the extra time to travel for a personal appearance. It is exciting that younger students may also have access to …Read more
Live Now! http://www.ustream.tv/ciscotv Bridging the Gaps Concert Special TelePresence Event Bridging the Gaps Concert In association with the Urban Entertainment Institute With a special appearance by Dr. Maya Angelou Join us on May 6, 2011, at 11 am, U.S. Pacific Time, for a live broadcast of a TelePresence concert featuring students from Chicago, Los Angeles and New York. Students will share their music, vocal, dance and spoken word talents with each other and the world and have the opportunity to interact with renowned poet and author, Dr. Maya Angelou, acclaimed television and film producer, Norman Lear, and legendary casting director, Reuben Cannon. This concert will demonstrate how …Read more
Polycom is right on the money with its UC offerings and recent additions to its telepresence product portfolio: http://www.conferencingnews.com/news/36804Read more
According to a press release that just hit the Web, Polycom's new EagleEye Director creates a user experience that we haven't seen before. This dual-camera tracking system actually makes sure that whoever is speaking is always highlighted (zoomed in and centered), creating a more personal and realistic meeting experience. Polycom's Eagle Eye should limit the need for camera and remote control adjustments. "Unlike simple camera tracking technology of the past, the EagleEye Director gracefully transitions between highlighting individual speakers to capturing the entire room, allowing users to replicate a life-like conversation and drive more productive meetings." More here: http://18.104.22.168/~ivcicom/polycom-eagleeye-director.htmlRead more


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Maintaining a robust compliance program to avoid accusations of bribery is as important as ever for defense contractors as Congress considers granting the U.S. Department of Defense ("DoD") greater authority to fight contract fraud.
The DoD has asked lawmakers to amend a law that governs its ability to withhold funds from contractors. The proposed changes to 10 U.S.C. § 2207 would give the DoD the authority to withhold contractual payments based on preliminary notice that a contractor improperly bribed or attempted to bribe a U.S. government official.
Current law may provide the DoD with an implied right to withhold funds upon preliminary notice of a bribe, but there is no federal court ruling explicitly confirming the existence of that right, the DoD contended. As such, the DoD pointed out, "the United States could be required to make contractual payments to a malfeasant contractor while the proceeding required by Section 2207 is underway, even if the United States knew that the contractor would immediately disburse all payments received on its government contract, potentially even to employees or owners personally responsible for an illegal gratuity." If that were the case, the DoD stated, once the procedures established the occurrence of the bribe, there would be no funds left for the DoD to recoup.
Under the DoD's proposal, contractors will be subject to withholding of funds due to possible bribes at an earlier stage than they currently are. And because the current system leaves open the possibility that the contractor could exhaust all funds before the DoD has the chance to recover them, the new system could result in greater recoveries from contractors.
The proposal also establishes that for the DoD to withhold funds based on the suspicion of a bribe, it must meet the standard of preponderance of the evidence. The DoD pointed out that it already applies this standard in such situations, and that incorporating it into the governing law will result in more consistent application of the law. Contractors also will gain "a clearer understanding of their rights" with this change, the DoD contended. In addition, the proposal establishes that the DoD must provide contractors notice before withholding funds on a contract.
Another change the DoD proposed is to establish a fraud-fighting fund within each military department. Under the proposal, all damages that the DoD collects under the provisions discussed above would be deposited in the fraud-fighting fund of each relevant department.
Currently, when the DoD collects those damages, they are deposited into the U.S. Treasury as "miscellaneous receipts" and are not then available for use by DoD departments until they are appropriated through the legislature.
Under the proposed system, the DoD would retain the funds and use them to strengthen and broaden its efforts to combat government fraud. The DoD proposal does not specify the concrete actions that it would take using the recovered funds, but any further anti-fraud efforts could impact the business of any government contractor.
The DoD made these proposals as part of a slate of requests to Congress in connection with Congress' consideration of the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act ("NDAA"). The yearly NDAA provides funding for all DoD programs, but is also often used to make changes to DoD's authority and procedures. The proposed NDAA was approved by the House Armed Services Committee on June 6 without the DoD's proposed changes regarding contractor fraud, but it must still be passed by the full House of Representatives, and the Senate must consider and approve it as well. That process is expected to take months, and the DoD's proposal may still be added to the legislation as lawmakers continue to work with it.
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I've posted about this in the past, but its been a while... what I miss the MOST about games in general is the "Fear Factor"...the Fear of DEATH. Let me explain by giving you a few examples of what I'm talking about:
1) I played Ultima Online the day it came out. In that game, when a monster killed you, first of all...you became a ghost, and had to run to a healer to be revived. ALL of your stuff was left on your corpse, which very quickly went away, leaving all your stuff on the ground for anyone to pick up. Instantly, whatever you were doing in the game before became secondary and a NEW quest began....GET MY CORPSE! If you were lucky enough to get back to your corpse before any other player snatched your stuff, the moster that killed you had already looted ONE item off your dead carcass. Now, another quest ensued, and that was to find the Son-of-a-_________ who killed you! You not only wanted to get revenge, but you are killing him to get the item back! It is this sort of excitement that I miss!!! Some say that this is too harsh. While I understand where a lot of players who read this would say that, in Ultima Online, you did have your "favorite" gear, but there was no sword that you spent 100's of hours camping a Raid Spawn to get. Having a second or third set of gear was commonplace, and it truly wasn't the end of the world to lose your stuff. In fact, it became a quest in and of itself, to re-equip yourself!
2) I also played the original Everquest. This game was NOT a full loot PvP (like UO was), but death was not to be trifled with! In Everquest, you DID spawn-camp items and you often DID spend 100's of hours working on getting great gear. When you died, your corpse was left right where you fell. If that was at the bottom of a dungeon, you were in trouble! ALL of your stuff was left ON YOUR CORPSE! You would reappear at your town or recall point (usually outside the dungeon you were fighting in...if you remembered to bind there) totally NAKED. In EQ, you generally did NOT have a decent second set of gear...and if you just died in a dungeon with your GOOD gear, you were hard-pressed to even get there with your "second-tier" gear. Again, I cannot even count the times I had to ask guildmates, or offer random high-level players lots of my money to help me on my "corpse-run". Everyone in the game understood and felt my anguish when I would plead for help, because it was scary, and they had ALL been there. You had 7 days to get your corpse or it would POOF! This made EVERY battle, and EVERY dungeon so much more exciting! You did not dare delve too far and you did not ever recklessly run into battle, for death was scary! Some of my absolute favorite times in EQ was when our party would wipe in a dungeon and the agony of trying to get our stuff back (oh, and you LOST EXPERIENCE - even LEVELs when you died....trust me...you DIDN'T want to die). I MISS that feeling...
Anyway, I have other stories....but I think I made my point. The fear of death is exciting! I miss it!! I have not played a game in a LONG time that gave me the same feeling that UO and EQ did. The parts of those games that are my most memorable and the most exciting is when I was scared to die, and yet we prevailed!
I haven't been afraid to die in a game in.....way too long.
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Originally posted by Alasti
You obviously have not played D3 hard core.
Secondly, to me, getting a rare rare rare good drop is 100x more exciting than some death penalty. I don't miss that at all.
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Originally posted by nariusseldon
There are even MMOs that have corpse runs/harsh death penalties as well
Wizardry, Darkfall, Conquer, Eve, etc (off the top of my head)
The above is my personal opinion. Anyone displaying a view contrary to my opinion is obviously WRONG and should STHU. (neener neener)
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If fear of death gets your motor running, then there are plenty of hobbies out there that are more "frightening" than playing an MMO game, when the worse that can happen is you lose some imaginary gear. I personally play for the excitement of exploring a new area or gaining a new in-game ability. I do the same type of thing in RL too, but obviously I can't take a vacation and go someplace new every week so gaming is a good substitute for that.
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Originally posted by Grixxitt
For EVE it depends what we're talking about it, if we're talking about a few titan losses then yeah that's 6-7 months down the drain. But if it's a few battleships and some T2 cruisers , making the isk back to pay for everything doesn't take long at all. The only part that made me quit EVE was how long it was to get in to PvP, what I mean is that most people always want a major gank fest where we're 200 Vs 5. Where the hell is the fun in that? Let's just go roam and pop whoever and if we get blown up, so be it. Sometimes you can be 12 hours with a party and everyone just plans for the attack and I always scream to myself "C'MON ALREADY!!" lol, EVE is a great PvP game if you're in a pirate corp that doesn't give a damn about the odds.
Great post, OP. Trust me, you're not alone in this at all. There are a lot of us who understand that adding risk in a meaningful way leads to more reward and satisfaction if you succeed.
Originally posted by GrixxittOriginally posted by nariusseldon
It's pretty obvious that OP is showing his dismay for the overall industry standard of making games easier and more forgiving. Of course there are some niche games that meet that particular criterion, but you can't deny that we would have better and more numerous choices to peruse if the industry didn't cater to more casual players who don't want to experience that kind of loss in an mmo.
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Originally posted by Grixxitt
Yes, but people like the OP don't actually miss that feeling. They are upset that other people have the option to play a game that doesn't feature harsh death penalties. It's about playing a game in which you enjoy a mechanic, knowing that others are being frustrated by it so that you can feel superior.
The problem is that the people playing those hardcore modes, is that they all want to be there. No one is suffering, and so that sense of superiority is lost (save for going to that game's forums to call people who play the other modes casuals/carebears) - gotta get that superiority fix somehow!
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Completely understand where you are coming from OP. In EQ it wasn't just the fear of your corpse going poof after 7 days but the thought of having to re-equip your character again. You couldn't just go to the AH and buy a new set of gear, or even craft it as most of the good stuff was bind on equip, epecially at higher levels. Even the newbie armor quests couldn't be done again if you lost it afaik.
You knew the name of every item and what stats they had because they were so hard to come by. Nowadays who knows the name and stats of any item they have equipped on their characters in more modern mmos? That is probably the thing I miss the most.
Originally posted by nariusseldonOriginally posted by Alasti
Obviously he's talking about MMO's. Also he didn't say no game makes you experience loss, he said he can't remember when he last had that feeling. Probably because the choices we currently have for games like that are pretty bad compared to the AAA budget games that you get.
Originally posted by RusqueOriginally posted by Grixxitt
You couldn't be further from the mark. It's pretty obvious you don't understand our intentions or what we want. I'm not sure why it's so hard to understand that more risk = more reward. And having something like corpse runs/looting adds more unscripted and exciting events than something like "every time you die your items lose 10 durability."
why do you guys always choose to make stuff up about us instead of just reading what we write?
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Originally posted by Holophonist
"You guys"? Why do you believe yourself to be separate? Is it so hard to imagine that many of us 30+ year old gamers have been there and done that, and in some cases, for 5-10 years. The truth is the truth. The games and hardcore modes are out there. Those communities are tiny with only those who truly enjoy playing in that manner.
I know exactly what it's like to play perma-death and plenty of EQ corpse running. Like I said, a small portion actually enjoys that playstyle and goes to those games. Then there's people like the OP (which is most of the whiners) who don't want to go play that type of game with other people who enjoy it. They want to play that game style only if it's forced on the general public so that they can feel superior.
I don't know why self-proclaimed "hardcore" people have a million and one excuses why they're not playing a particular game. And why the next big AAA should have what they want.
Look, it's sad enough when the FFA PvP crowd wants a major MMO dedicated to them when they know full well that they're not a large portion of the MMO gamer population. And those who want perma-death are an even smaller group than that. If a game offers it, you should be playing it because you're not going to get what you want from any AAA games.
Like I said, been there, done that, got the t-shirt. Big whoop.
Originally posted by Holophonist
Obviously the OP is more interested in ranting than seeking out numerous games with harsh death penalty to play.
The industry is large, with many games. It is totally silly to be "dismayed" by companies making entertainment products he does not like. You don't see me complaining about GTA or Saint Rows just because i don't like games with a gangster setting.
Originally posted by nariusseldonOriginally posted by Holophonist
So are you just being willfully ignorant about the fact that almost ALL of the money being spent on mmo's nowadays is being spent on mmo's that are too easy and too forgiving for our tastes? So what we're left with are highly flawed indie games and eve. I'm not sure what's so ridiculous about being upset that the mmo scene is so obviously trending in a way we don't like. If it were 95% ow pvp full loot games and 5% themeparks, I'm sure you'd feel differently.
Originally posted by RusqueOriginally posted by Holophonist
You made a false claim, I'm refuting that claim. Dance around it all you want but to suggest that people just want these games so we can feel superior is incredibly ignorant and insulting.
I've explained to you that we want harsher gameplay because it makes the game feel more rewarding. You decided to go on about how we should just play the games like that that already exist? I do play darkfall and I do play pre-trammel UO shards. But that doesn't change the fact that the industry's shift towards more casual play has had a negative impact on our type of game.
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I don't think at this point anyone can deny that the industry is moving away from standard quest hubs and towards more "emergent gameplay" (to quote Smedley).
Now what that actually means is up to the opinions of the developers themselves. And their hype-machines en tote.
In any event, you can expect the 'Sandbox Renaissance' to be poorly implemented and return to more scripted gameplay in a few years when the novelty wheres off.
The good part about all this is that we will always have options.
The above is my personal opinion. Anyone displaying a view contrary to my opinion is obviously WRONG and should STHU. (neener neener)
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Originally posted by Holophonist
No. I am saying he should look beyond MMOs.
Obviously ranting is not going to bring MMOs to your "taste". Unless he find ranting itself fun, there is no point. No one is changing their minds, nor the market changing its course, just because of some posts here.
Originally posted by Grixxitt
Scripted gameplay (particularly in SP games) never gets old. You just need new scripts.
I don't expect mainstream mmo's to ever be in an all around good place. I agree that the sandbox renaissance that we're currently seeing is probably going to be disappointing to people who want good sandbox games.
I'm not sure why this means we can't be upset about it. It's kind of like people complaining about mainstream music. Except with music, niche genres are well represented because the cost of making high quality music is incredibly low compared to making a high quality game. In short, the mmo genre is more affected by a crappy mainstream than something like the music industry.
Originally posted by Holophonist
Whether they are in a good place or not, is a matter of perspective. They are in a pretty good place for me.
Of course you can be upset about it. It is your prerogative to spend your emotional energy in anything you want. Personally i find that useless. There are plenty of entertainment, and i don't like to spend my time upset by mere games.
But of course you are not me. Feel free to be upset about anything. (And no, i am not upset about music i don't like. I just don't listen to them. Ditto for tv shows, movies, animes, novels, and all other forms of entertainment).


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