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Call of Duty tackles a whole new era as Black Ops plunges you into the murky height of the Cold War and history's most secretive battles. The world's most popular first person shooter places you in the most dangerous conflict zones of the late '60s.
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It didn't matter what we were doing, it was always fun. For example, we spent New Year's Eve of 2006 cleaning the pores on our nose with Biori Strips...this is how crazy I was about Jen.
Jen and I used to try to "out-dork" each other...her go to move was the robot.
Our favorite movie to watch together was Talladega Nights, we laughed so much. Will Ferrell's character was named Ricky Bobby. My middle name is Robert so Jen started calling me Angie Robbie.
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May 5, 2016
The sound of Christmas carols filled the air at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point Wednesday.
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I dunno how many of how have read the " The Rising Sun" . Though the book cover proclaimed it was a bestseller I still can not understand HOW !!!!!!
Really sad one with attempts of Japan Bashing by Crichton though he tries to be very rational about it. The ending is real sad as well.
Real dampener considering that I had picked up a book after a long long time. Damn Saturday Morning gone to waste
Hey ppl,
Posting to let people know abt the amazing mumbai fuchcha-tuchcha meet (the informal one-the fuchcha initiative) that took place on 22nd evening...
Lekin khelne ko time milega kya?????????????
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Howdy Facchas and facchis
Myself HaT , ur tuccha and PGP oldie (most of u are n00bs ), spo probably won't know me .. Afer getting into IIMA u do not get much time
Neways Bhelcome to WIMWI
Presently me in Moombhai doig internship fo HLL in their Sales and marketing division..
If u really have any burning queries post them here and they would be sorted out. If there is already a thread fo that, do point tat out for me. Just do not have time at this moment ..
Sayonara for now
And trust me u will see me in campus a lot during your stay
I guess i am really late but still ..
Well I will be Joining HLL in Mumbai as Sales And Marketing Intern.
It begins from April 8th
arr subbu, new members coming into b-skools. can i be a group leader (asks nicely ) my official mail id is firstname.lastname@example.com
The world has changed. Its a long long, swift passage of the moons since the times of Pig-hooooooooooo-ey.
Hi guys
Me posting after a long long time but the slow spped of the site among others somehow did not have the time. Life is chillax
Went to watch Indiav/s Sl match on sunday at Motera. Had a whale of time. 4 other PGP1S and moi left for the stadia at 8 in the morn and returned only after the last bowl had ben bowled. My frens tell me taht tehy saw me on TV. Yeahhh
Bakee nxt monday end terma hain but now have got so used to the system that it is almost becoming like engg college days. Am watching Seinfeld nowadays and am on episode 92 . Finished Naruto backlog. On the sports front badminton is still going strong and now that 2s are back frm acations will pick up in a big way( I hope)
I am staying in Ahmedabad for the vactions as my parents will be coming here en route their Raj-Guj brahman . So here I will be -the lone faccha in my dorm .I simply love it. Wil catch up on a lot of novs.
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Haree Ommmm
HI guys
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Writer, Ron Derby (email@example.com) recently reported on www.Bloomberg.com that Mcdonald's, the world's biggest restaurant company and official World Cup sponsor, waived their rights to exclusively supply food at World Cup soccer stadiums and fan parks during the tournament starting this June 11.
What? (that's what I said.)
Apparently, the company will instead focus on providing food at its 132 restaurants in the country. Sechaba Motsieloa, marketing director at McDonald's South African unit said:
"We are best suited to leverage our position at our restaurants than outside that environment…it's also a "consideration of capacity."
According to the article:
McDonald's expects sales at existing stores to increase between 17 percent and 35 percent in the build-up to the tournament that begins on June 11, with revenue seen climbing 10 percent during the actual event, Motsieloa said.
But this doesn't mean that stadium concessions will be filled with mom & pop operations or that fans will be expected to pack a bunny chow in their bag. No, McDonald's, has allowed FIFA, to find a partner to provide food inside stadiums and fan parks, but they can't be a branded fast-food company. According to Motsieloa:
McDonald's will continue to maintain their in-venue presence through its player escort program at all stadiums, and one McCafe coffee- house-style outlet outside the international media centre at the country's main stadium in Johannesburg, which will host both the opening and final games.
Also, earlier this month, Anheuser- Busch InBev NV, the maker of Budweiser and Stella Artois, ceded their rights to be the exclusive beer provider inside stadiums.
What's going on here?
Is it related to the fact, as Mr. Derby reports, that:
South Africa earlier this month cut its visitor estimate for the tournament to 350,000 people from 450,000 previously, with only 100,000 international air tickets having being sold three months before the event?
Are sponsors expecting lower tourism related revenue opportunities? Are Anheuser-Busch Inbev NV gambling that there will be more money to be made (or less to lose) by focusing on their operations outside the stadiums and fan parks, like McDonald's are doing. Are they dropping South Africa (and Africa) as a market? Are they just anticipating and mitigating the risk of angering fans for only offering Budweiser at the stadiums, particularly in light of their main competitor, SABMiller (SAB = South African Brewery), being a South African born brand?
Or did SABMiller, pay their rival A LOT of money to take over their rights? It seems like that's pretty feasible, given that they just reached an agreement with FIFA to supply as many as 10 million beers at the 10 fan parks, serving up to 280,000 people a day, that have been built to cater to fans unable to get game tickets. Perhaps on a per game basis they calculated greater opportunity to build their brand locally (and sales) outside the stadium knowing that the majority of those watching from the fan parks (rather than the majority of those in the stadium) will be the folks remaining in the country after the games are done.
Whatever the reason is, I'm assuming it was a calculated decision; it just seems strange for a sponsor to pay all that money for the sponsorship rights only to give them up 2.5 months before the games begin.
This is a very interesting trend and I'll be curious to to learn more about the underlying motives of McDonald's and Anheuser-Busch Inbev.
For Mr. Derby's full article, click here: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601116&sid=am4CpTMfPov0
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University City High alum Felix Sanchez wins 400 hurdles, fulfilling promise to late grandmother
Men's 400M hurdles
Gold: Felix Sanchez, Dominican Republic
Silver: Michael Tinsley, USA
Bronze: Javier Culson, Puerto Rico
nepal Felix Sanchez held it together when he crossed the finish line and through a protracted victory lap. Then came the medals ceremony, and he stepped on the top level of the podium.
It started to rain.
He lost it.
Sanchez won the 400-meter hurdles at the Olympics on Monday with a photo of his late grandmother, Lilian Morcelo, tucked into his red and blue Dominican Republic racing singlet, and with "Abuela" written on his yellow track shoes. She helped raise him in San Diego, and she died a few hours before his first-round race at the 2008 Olympics.
Sanchez was so distraught in Beijing that he raised his arm in the starting blocks and asked for time to compose himself; and, he admitted later, nearly walked off the track. He would race but finished in a dismal 51.10 seconds — nearly four seconds slower than his personal best — and was eliminated from an event he'd won in 2004.
He made a quiet promise that night as he walked off the track.
"I made a promise I was going to win a medal for her before I retired," Sanchez said. "It took me four years but I got her a medal."
Sanchez wasn't the favorite Monday. Most didn't expect him to even reach the final. Three weeks ago at a Diamond League meet in London against most of these same hurdlers, Sanchez had finished fifth in a pedestrian 49.68 seconds.
The University City High and Mesa College alum had won 43 straight races between 2001 and 2004, including two World Championships and the first Olympic gold medal by the Dominican Republic, where his parents were born and where he pledged his athletic allegiance after failing to make the U.S. team in 2000. But that was followed by an endless string of hamstring pulls and hamstrung expectations, and everything else that accompanies a man approaching his 35th birthday in a sport of 22 year olds with springy legs.
"Nobody paid any attention to me over the past eight years," said Sanchez, the oldest of 50 entrants in the 400 hurdles here. "There have been a lot of setbacks and injuries. I wondered if I could come back from all that. Now I'm here. I'm here."
He won in 47.63 seconds, the exact time he ran in Athens in 2004. And he won with surprising ease, trailing at the eighth hurdle but powering over the ninth and 10th. He kept thinking someone would close on him; no one did.
"Pretty much everyone is counting you out and writing you off," American Angelo Taylor, the 2000 and 2008 gold medalist, said of Felix. "You're the underdog. But, I mean, it's a hurdles race. It's anybody's race. It's all about technique, momentum and having a rhythm. Felix put it all together at the right time."
The rest of the field stood or sat on the track, waiting for the photo-finish judges to sort out the tangle of bodies that crossed the line after Sanchez. Unheralded American Michael Tinsley was second in 47.91, followed by Puerto Rico's Javier Culson in 48.10. The two guys Sanchez worried about most, 2001 world champion Dai Greene of Great Britain and Taylor, were fourth and fifth.
Sanchez let out a primal scream and then just stood there, motionless, expressionless, in utter disbelief. "Surreal," he said.
Then he reached behind his athlete bib and pulled out the photo of his Abuela, his grandmother. He laid on the track, kneeled down and kissed it.


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Let's Mess with Texas
Kesavan, Vasan, Paulsen, Michael Stokes, Texas Law Review
"New States, of convenient size, not exceeding four in number, in addition to said State of Texas, and having sufficient population, may hereafter, by the consent of said State, be formed out of the territory thereof, which shall be entitled to admission under the provisions of the federal constitution."
-Joint Resolution for Annexing Texas to the United States1
I. Introduction
Texas Republicans have been thinking waaaaay too small. In 2003, for the first time since Reconstruction, Texas Republicans controlled both houses of the state legislature. Encouraged by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) and perhaps Presidential adviser Karl Rove as well, Texas Republicans decided in the spring of 2003 to take up a new congressional redistricting plan that they hoped would "better reflect" the state's increasingly Republican voting patterns.2 The then-existing congressional map had been drawn up by a three-judge federal panel in 2001, after the state legislature could not agree to a new one.3
In a famous and comic Texas-sized drama (or fiasco, depending on one's point of view or one's politics) stretching throughout the four seasons of 2003,4 the state's Republican Governor, Rick Perry, along with the Republican majorities in both houses of the state legislature, finally succeeded in outlasting more than 50 State House Democrats and 11 State Senate Democrats who had fled, respectively, to Ardmore, Oklahoma in the spring5 and Albuquerque, New Mexico in the summer,6 to deprive their respective houses of the necessary quorum to adopt the Texas Republicans' proposed redistricting plan.7 (One could call this process-and in fact some already have called it-"perrymandering."8) Alas, no one can stay in a Holiday Inn forever, and the State Senate minority leader, John Whitmire of Houston ("Quitmire" as he is now disaffectionately known), turned tail after almost 30 days holed up in a hotel in Albuquerque and loped on home to the Lone Star State in the late summer,9 bringing an end to the "Great Texas Redistricting Standoff" of 2003.
Well, the third special session was the charm. In mid-September, the Texas Republicans, quorum in hand, proceeded to de-gerrymander, ungerrymander, or re-gerrymander (again, depending on one's point of view or one's politics) the state's congressional and other legislative districts, in all probability tilting the state's districts less in the Democrat direction and more in the Republican one. By mid-October, and after mediation by Representative DeLay, the Republican-controlled state legislature sent a "compromise" redistricting plan to Governor Perry for his signature, which was promptly received.10 The Texas Democrats, not to be outdone, took the Texas Republicans' redistricting plan to federal court claiming that it was unconstitutional.11 After the trial had begun, but before any opinion was issued, U.S. Attorney General John Aschroft granted "pre-clearance" to the redistricting plan pursuant to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.12 On January 6, 2004, a three-judge federal panel approved the redistricting plan.13 The Texas Republicans' victory was sealed on January 16, 2004 when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to block it.14
According to some accounts, Texas's 32-member congressional delegation, which after the 2002 elections was split 15-17 Republican-Democrat, could shift to a 22-10 or 23-9 Republican majority as a result of the 2003 redistricting plan for a net gain of 7-8 Republican seats.15 This might even give Republicans control of the House of Representatives for the rest of the decade, and would in all likelihood significantly enhance House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's prospects for becoming the next Speaker of the House.16 Without a doubt, the Texas redistricting plan pushed through by the GOP in 2003 could set off a wave of gerrymandering across the country to "counterbalance" the Texas effect-for example, New Mexico's Democrat governor, Bill Richardson, who proudly harbored the State Senate Democrats on the lam,17 recently considered (seriously) but has rejected (for now at least) a redistricting plan in New Mexico that would have increased the Democrats' chances in that state. …


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Updated: 05/31/2007 - A local Applebees is shelling out some major cash to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit, that's according to a filing by the equal opportunity employment commission.
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Posted: 05/31/2007 - The quality of the air in 21 Wisconsin counties is poor today, causing the Department of Natural Resources to warn those with lung or heart diseases.
Posted: 05/31/2007 - Authorities in Chicago say a newborn is doing well after being found in a garbage bag that was stashed in a closet of a West Side home.
Posted: 05/31/2007 - The tuberculosis patient under federal quarantine has left an Atlanta hospital and is headed for a Denver facility that specializes in respiratory disorders.
Updated: 05/31/2007 - Authorities say an American tuberculosis patient who flew across the Atlantic against doctors' orders also took several more flights while he was in Europe.
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Posted: 05/30/2007 - A bizarre story out of suburban Milwaukee. A Waukesha man is accused of stealing girl's shoes from a locker room and smelling them for sexual gratification.
Updated: 05/30/2007 - Talk of a casino has come and gone over the years in Rockford. Now it's back and picking up some steam at city hall. But, the odds aren't in the city's favor right now with pending deadlines in Springfield.
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It's cold outside. Winter has hit Washington like a snowball in the face. Even the dog doesn't want to go outside… and he wears a permanent fur coat.
When it gets this cold, there's only one thing a wine lover can do: drink BIG red wines. And the biggest of them all is Syrah.
Today, it can be found in the warm, sunny climates of Argentina, Australia (where is known as shiraz), California, France, South Africa, Spain, and Washington State to name a few
Whether you say Syrah or Shiraz, nothing warms the soul quite like the dark red wine that is made throughout the grape-growing world.
Here are some big wines to warm up with:
Former Canadian investment banker-turned-cult-winemaker Jayson Woodbridge made his claim to fame as the producer of high-end wines at Hundred Acre. Now he has set his sights on making a series of inexpensive, high quality wines under his Layer Cake label. The 2009 Layer Cake Shiraz from McLaren Vale region of South Australia is a stunning example of value in a bottle with flavors of blueberry, black cherry and chocolate on the well-balanced frame. The medium-finish features rich mocha and pepper notes. $17
Last week, I mentioned that I wanted to try more wines that were from wine regions that are a bit off of the beaten path – well the 2008 Stark-Condé Syrah from the Stellenbosch region of South Africa is a step in the right direction. This brooding beauty features melted licorice and black plums that enchant both the nose and the tongue. Additional flavors of jammy blackberries, olives and espresso weave in and out of the beautiful, if not massive, structured finish. $23
If you're looking for something to spice up your New Year with, the 2002 Rocca Famliy Syrah from the Napa Valley should do the trick. A great expression of classic syrah, with a bouquet filled with scents of cassis and black olives. The soft mouthfeel delivers plenty of warm blackberry, dark plum and black raspberry fruit flavors on the front of the palate and hints of tar – not a bad thing – and black pepper on the long, lovely finish. $40
Another nice winter warmer-upper from California is the 2006 Pax Wine Cellars Syrah from the Sonoma appellation. A striking nose of black fruit, saddle leather and roasted meat is intriguing and lingering. The palate is filled with flavors of black cherry, dark plum, roasted game and smoke that glide over the tongue and onto the finish. Hints of mocha mingle with soft tannins to provide a medium-bodied finish. $50
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Two weeks after vetoing a bill that would have extended tax exemptions and credits for businesses in the vicinity of Oxford Airport, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced that he intends to work with legislative leaders to devise an economic development plan for the area.
"It's critical for all the leaders to take a look at make sure this is moving ahead full throttle,'' said Malloy spokeswoman Juliet Manalan. The aim, she added, is "to acknowledge how important this area is for the state's overall economic well-being.''
Meanwhile, Sen. Rob Kane, a Republican from Watertown, criticized the governor for vetoing a bill that would have accomplished those very goals.
"So, let me get this straight: When this bill was a Republican idea that passed nearly unanimously in the legislature, it was bad, and now that it is the governor's idea, it's good?'' Kane said in an email. "Well, it's good to see the governor has finally come around. It has become clear that Governor Malloy is flying by the seat of his pants when it comes to economic development policy.
UPDATE: At a press availability earlier today, Malloy was asked about the airport. He said "there is no hard and fast commitment'' to any specific plan.
"What I've said is we've took the step of establishing the Bradley Commission Authority and I need to hear from that authority about what their plans are at Bradley as well as the 5 other airports which would be under its jurisdiction come January 1st,'' Malloy said.
"But there is absolutely no change in my position. I don't think the legislation was as well drafted as it should have been even if I was in agreement with it. But right now what's most important is that we move forward, appoint authority and hear from them about what they believe the proper level of development and enticement to development around, in and around airports is."
Malloy's staff will work with House Speaker Chris Donovan and Senate President Don Williams to "develop an appropriate set of economic development tools to accelerate job creation,'' according to a statement sent out by the governor's office this morning.
"The Governor and legislative leaders want to ensure that Oxford Airport area is a thriving economy, and this collaboration will take a look at all of the factors involved,'' Manalan added. "The Governor doesn't necessarily believe everything needs a legislative solution. The Oxford Airport area is very important to the local economy, and the state's overall economy--improving the area could happen through working together to find the right strategies for the area."
Doug Whiting, a spokesman for Donovan, said the issue could come up during this fall's special legislative session on jobs.
"The goal is job-creation,'' Whiting said. The leaders, working with the governor's office, aim to devise a plan that involves both the Department of Economic and Community Development and a newly created airport authority, that oversees all of the state's airports, he added.
During the just-concluded legislative session, lawmakers passed a bill that would have offered tax breaks to businesses near the airport. But in his veto letter, Malloy said the legislation was "premature."
"This legislation would extend significant tax exemptions and corporate business tax credits to a large area that encompasses much more land than the area immediately near Oxford Airport, and would include census tracts not only in Oxford, but also in Middlebury and Southbury,'' Malloy wrote. "The state would reimburse those municipalities for up to one half of the lost tax revenues from development in the areas covered within those three towns.
"While this legislation, on a more limited scale, might be advantageous or desirable in the future, it is premature now," Malloy wrote, adding that he had just signed new legislation establishing the Connecticut Airport Authority (CAA) to develop, improve, and operate Bradley International Airport and the state's five other general aviation airports, including Oxford Airport. "Clearly, the CAA must play a significant role in the economic development future of Oxford Airport and the surrounding areas," Malloy wrote.
Kane suggested Malloy was playing politics with the Oxford Airport development plan.
"Gov. Malloy first called the Oxford Airport bill's almost unanimous passage 'premature,' saying he wanted to wait until the recently created Connecticut Airport Authority came up with a more detailed plan,'' Kane said. "Now, the governor says Democrat leaders will work to 'develop an appropriate set of economic development tools' for the airport's growth.
"I continue to ask the governor, what are you waiting for?'' Kane said. "Greater Waterbury is at 11.2 percent unemployment. Is Connecticut 'open for business' - as you are fond of saying - or isn't it? The governor's lack of vision has caused a pro-jobs bill to crash and burn."
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Individual and family appointments are available for personal financial management topics such as: developing a spending plan, getting out of debt, using PowerPay, Thrift Savings Plan (TSP), home buying, car buying, saving for college, preparing for baby, investing, saving for retirement, etc.
Personal Financial Management classes are offered to all First Term Airmen at FTAC. he cost of living in the Spokane area is lower than metropolitan areas such as D.C. and coastal areas. It is higher than that of installations located in a more rural community. There is no Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) for this area.
Temporary Lodging costs are $35 - $62, depending on availability (not on rank). Members in PCS status are usually authorized up to 10 days Temporary Lodging Allowance for CONUS to CONUS moves (both bases, not each), and up to 5 days for OCUNUS to CONUS moves.
A one-bedroom apartment averages near $650. The median purchase price for a home in nearby communities is betwen $112,000 and $180,000. Average costs for temporary housing are at or above the per diem rate of $83. Average monthly utility payments (energy and water) are $150 - $350 (will be higher in winter than summer).
Minimum car insurance coverage requirements are a liability policy with limits of at least 25/50/10. This means: $25,000 for injury to another person; $50,000 for injuries to all other persons; $10,000 for damage to another's property.If you need emergency financial assistance while en route, you may contact the family center of ANY branch of the military. Go to, or call, the nearest military installation. You will most likely reach the base operator, who can transfer you to the family center. If it is outside of duty hours, the operator may put you through to the Command Post.
If there is no military installation nearby, you may contact the American Red Cross. Other agencies which may assist include the local Salvation Army, local hospitals for a medical emergency (be sure to contact Tricare as soon as feasible), and American Automobile Association or other roadside assistance to which you subscribe. Many communities also have a 2-1-1 number to call for referral to many assistance agencies.
If you will be delayed in getting to your new installation, be sure to contact your sponsor and/or your new supervisor.
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A tale of two Fort Lauderdale police departments
Broward Public Defender Howard Finkelstein thinks Fort Lauderdale police have a racist attitude towards blacks and he's had enough of it.
His latest salvo came in a letter last week to Mayor Jack Seiler, telling him "the morally offensive and unlawful practices that have been employed against those that live in predominantly black communities within your city must stop immediately."
However, it's clear the two men don't see eye-to-eye.
"Do I think we are targeting African Americans in the city of Fort Lauderdale? Absolutely not," Seiler said. "Whether a criminal is white or black, we're going to respond the same way."
Finkelstein said he heard about problems black residents encounter firsthand during a recent forum he attended that was hosted by the NAACP.
"It wasn't street people yelling and screaming," Finkelstein said. "It happens in the neighborhoods because these people have no power ... It's nothing but institutionalized racism."
Seiler said he's been to meetings at Dorsey Bend and other predominantly black communities over the past several months and hasn't received any complaints.
"The feedback was appreciative and very positive," Seiler said.
Among Finkelstein's concerns, he wrote "neighborhoods should not be held under siege" by a "militarized 24 hour video surveillance truck." Seiler said the vehicle – called the "Peacemaker" – is deployed at the request of neighborhoods.
"If the people in Victoria Park asked us to bring the Peacemaker in, we'd bring it in," Seiler said.
Seiler said the police department has come a long way, pointing to Chief Frank Adderley, who is black, and its diverse force.
Finkelstein isn't impressed.
"I don't think the chief is in control of what's happening," Finkelstein said.
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My Name is John and I have been keeping aquariums and breeding fish for over 2 years now. I am excited to be a part of this forum and look forward to learning, helping and sharing with you all.
Thanks John
Welcome to TFK, John. Glad you have you join us! Do you have any pics you can share of your tanks?
What setups are you currently keeping? Where in New York are you from?? :-)
new york..new york.... bright light and sky scrapers ^.^
Thank you for the welcome.
I need to take new pics of my tanks as I am in the middle of re-arranging my fish room which will accomadate 4 strain of guppies (of which 2 strains are coming in from Thailand next week). But I have uploaded 2 vids to youtube last night of my 20 High and 29 gallon tanks. Here is the link:
YouTube - Jodakini's Channel
Hey John-
That is one beautiful betta you have! Stunning. I liked the other video too, you may have thought you were faceless on the internet but I saw you in the reflection, lol.
Nice tanks and looking forward to seeing more, especially after you get your 20gl betta/cory tank fully planted. :-D
hello and welcome.
nice videos. :-D
Hi John,
Welcome to the forum. I enjoyed your tank videos and am in love with your betta.
Welcome to the forum! I just acquired a few Guppies of my own and I am trying to figure out what to do with them. They are currently in a 60 gallon with Tiger Barbs, Gourami and Rainbow shark also a bunch of Platys. I know they don't belong in there but they showed up one day. Now I am trying to figure out what to do with them. I bought a new tank for them last night but am thinking of returning it. So far they are getting along just fine with the current residence.
welcome... I am new also..finding lots of great information here
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A panel of experts consisting of car designers, robotics specialists, Art Center faculty and (presumably) Stephan Hawkings' wheelchair looked at all the entrants and decided that the Slipstream is the coolest dog in the window. To refresh your memory, around town the Slipstream rides upright on two wheels and occupies 1/5 the space of a conventional car. Once on a specially built freeway (also called Slipstream), the Slipstream lays down like a regular car, deploys rear fins and can hit speeds exceeding 250 mph. Jalopnik would like to point out that the Slipstream's top speed is a full 50 mph slower than the Vector A-WX-8. Just sayin'. In conclusion,
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EX-MU QB Smith shines in Jets' victory over Bengals
Saturday, November 27, 2010
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Brad Smith's left shoe popped off and he just kept running.
There was no way the New York Jets' Mr. Do-It-All was going to slow down. Not with a clear path to the end zone ahead.
"I was running and trying to stick my shoe back on," Smith said with a big grin, "but after a while, I just said, 'Forget it.'"
Who needs two anyway, right?
Smith's one-shoed, 89-yard kickoff return Thursday night sparked New York to a 26-10 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals that sent the Jets to the secondbest start in team history. The versatile wide receiver, a converted University of Missouri quarterback, also had a 53-yard touchdown run.
"He's a phenomenal athlete," coach Rex Ryan said. "Everything we ask him to do, he does."
With or without all of his footwear.
"I think all that running in the backyard with no shoes on with my brother," Smith said, "that helped."
Hours after New England beat Detroit to improve to 9-2, New York matched the Patriots with its fourth straight victory to set up a meaty Monday night matchup Dec. 6 in Foxborough, Mass., for first place in the AFC East.
"The NFL couldn't have scripted it better," Jets safety Jim Leonhard said.
New York's impressive start is eclipsed only by the 1986 squad that won 10 of its first 11. And the Jets did it by overcoming a sluggish first half and sending the struggling Bengals (2-9) to their eighth straight loss.
It looked as though New York was headed for yet another frenzied finish. The Jets had consecutive road overtime victories followed by a nail-biter Sunday, when they scored the winning touchdown with 10 seconds left against Houston.
But it took New York only two plays to go ahead after halftime in this one. Mark Sanchez hit Santonio Holmes for 16 yards, then Smith used superb blocks by Dustin Keller and D'Brickashaw Ferguson to speed down the left sideline untouched for a 53-yard TD run.
"I would've felt sick if I didn't score because of how well it was executed," Smith said.
Early in the fourth quarter, Smith took a kickoff, got a few big blocks and made a nice cutback before losing his shoe midway through the return.
"You want to be a catalyst when you're on the field," Smith said. "That's what it's really about that when you're down a little bit, just being able to be a spark."
Smith had three carries for 55 yards, a catch for 23 yards and the long kickoff return, accounting for 200 all-purpose yards.
About the only thing he didn't do was throw a pass.
"I know," Smith said, smiling. "Now that would've been sweet."
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It has been confirmed that rapper Juicy J (Three 6 Mafia) is offering a $50K scholarship to the winner of a twerkin' contest.
Fifty thousand big ones will be handed over to the best, ugh, "twerker" and as you may have guessed, this is not going over too well with what we think may turn out to be many of the female persuasion.
Seeka tha Teacha, head of the Hip Hop Liberation Army along with colleagues Abena Afreeka and Sis Tricey are too pissed off and are calling for a boycott of the rapper's CD. Appearing on the weekly rap program, "Militant Minded Radio," they presented a lively discussion on this display of what can be called a byproduct of misogynistic thinking. We ask for your forgiveness in advance as the speaker's did not identify themselves so we had to play a guessing game.
"There's no honor in getting a scholarship for shaking your behind….I think its degrading," says one of the women we think may be Seeka Tha Teacha, a mother. "Why would you want to get a scholarship for that when there's a lot of intelligent women out here who use their brain. Why don't you give them some money," she continues, adding that she would never want her daughter doing anything like that.
"I know Juicy J [is] probably sittin' back laughing at all the women that's gonna come and shake they ass for this money. It's all a game," she continues.


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|Elmo are drawing a tooth, so that he can pretend that has lost a tooth so that he can meet the tooth fairy. He waits and waits and waits, but the tooth fairy don't come to pickup the tooth drawing. He then remembers that the tooth fairy only comes when you are sleeping, so he gets his pillow and places it on the drawing and says goodnight to Bræt and falls asleep.
|Elmo's World: Teeth.
The following segments were cut;Dorothy's Question,The Noodle Family, Kids and Baby, Quiz, Video E-Mail, Elmo's Question and Film.
|Signe arrives and wakes up Elmo and at first he thinks it's the tooth fairy but then notice that it's Signe. He tells her about his plan to meet the tooth fairy and show her his drawing. Signe suggest that they sing a song while they wait for the tooth fairy and they sing "Imagination". After the song Elmo gets an idea and hurries away.
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|Elmo has set the table for a tee party, with room for the tooth fairy, Elmo tells Signe to sit right where she are and he are sure the the tooth fairy will arrive any minute, but theres something he has to do and leaves. Shortly after Elmo returns dressed as the tooth fairy, Elmo tells Signe that it is really him and that he only pretends to be the tooth fairy. Signe then greets the tooth fairy and shows her the tooth drawing. The tooth fairy are impressed by the tooth it's the finest tooth she has ever seen. Signe then offer the tooth fairy some tee and they say goodbye to the viewer.
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Alden Ehrenreich Cast as the Young Han Solo for the 2018 "Star Wars" Anthology Film
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Cards, Comics & Collectibles, the official retailer and news source for the Baltimore Comic-Con, is happy to announce that rising superstar James Tynion IV, writer on BOOM! Studios's new The Woods and on DC's new Batman Eternal weekly, will be signing in-store on Wednesday, May 14, 2014 from 2pm to 6pm.
In addition to Tynion's signing, Cards, Comics & Collectibles is also proud to present a store variant cover to Tynion's new title The Woods by Craig Rousseau, which will be available at the store that Wednesday.
Tynion, who got his start co-writing Batman with his former teacher, Scott Snyder, has published multiple titles under the DC banner, including numerous Batman series and the DC New 52 title, Talon.
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January 6, 2013
By Jorge Gomez, U.S. Army Recruiting Command
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SAN ANTONIO (Jan. 6, 2012) -- Sgt. 1st Class Mariela Richardson never meant to be the top Army Reserve recruiter, she just did what she was told. Her first sergeant instructed her to prepare to appear before a quarterly board. That eventually led to her appearance before a battalion, brigade and finally a command board.
"Every time the Army has thrown something at me I've embraced in a positive way," Richardson said. "And I have always learned from it. I take on a challenge because I know I'll learn from it if I make mistakes."
Making it to the final board at U.S. Army Recruiting Command headquarters meant she would be scrutinized by its most senior enlisted leaders and compete against the best in other brigades. None of that mattered as much as the fact that she had flown her daughter away so she could attend the final event at Fort Knox, Ky., because her Green Beret husband was deployed at the time.
"I always think of my daughter. It was my time away from my daughter. I better win this," Richardson said. "That was my motivation."
In spite of the prizes she earned along with the respected title, for her the most meaningful reward was the confidence she gained to overcome difficulties and that the stress of it all was not in vain.
Now as the command's Army Reserve Recruiter of the Year, Richardson has sat next to the USAREC commanding general and the chief of the Army Reserve during pregame activities leading toward the Army All-American Bowl. She has interacted with several All-Americans and met other distinguished youth.
"Coming to the All-American Bowl is a great opportunity," Richardson said. "A lot of Soldiers don't get to see this part of the Army."
She plans to take this experience and talk about it with her potential applicants in Thornton, Colo., where she serves as the assistant recruiting center commander. For her, the experience of the All-American Bowl is another example of how the Army is full of opportunities.
Richardson made that discovery after joining in 2001. She wanted to ensure nothing would complicate her plans to apply for police academy upon reaching age 20. But she grew to love the Army and stuck around longer.
Born in Zacatecas, Mexico, Richardson grew up in Alhambra, Calif., and joined the Army as a green card holder. She became a U.S. citizen in 2005. She has been recruiting young men and women for the past three years with the Los Angeles and Denver recruiting battalions.


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Bangkok, Thailand -- Buddhist sayings recorded by one of Thailand's leading monks are to be released as mobile phone ringtones.
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Police in the United States must not rush to identify the bodies of Hurricane Katrina victims too quickly or they will run the risk of countless mistakes, the head of Thailand's tsunami identification operations said on Monday.
The Dharma Mata Hermitage aims to give women the opportunity to enjoy the spiritual life - long the preserve of men
Bangkok, Thailand -- There were piles of dharma books. The words on the pages sounded nice, thoughtful, soothing. But Manasikul Ovatpesuch felt it was not enough. She needed some other answer to life's foibles.
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam -- The Viet Nam Buddhist Seminary in Ho Chi Minh City on August 28 held a graduation ceremony for 342 monks and nuns from pagodas in southern provinces.
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Police in northeastern Thailand issued arrest warrants Wednesday against machete-wielding monks and novices who brawled over a woman and urged their abbot to preserve the reputation of Buddhism by disrobing them.
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia -- The Young Buddhist Association of Malaysia (YBAM) has initiated a month long program to usher in the 48th year of Independence of modern Malaysia. The celebrations - with this year's theme "Keranamu Malaysia; Peace, Patriotism, Virtue" - will last through September 18, 2005.
Bangkok, Thailand -- The Culture Ministry is planning to publish and distribute 500,000 volumes of the Tipitaka Buddhist canon to government agencies, private organisations, hotels and hospitals, as well as the general public, as part of its drive to revive faith in the religion. Yesterday, the ministry's Religious Affairs Department held a seminar to discuss how to prevent people in Thailand from straying further from the Buddhist way of life.
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Dale Earnhardt Junior is the third Hendrick driver to earn a pole this season. Now maybe he can be the first to win a race.
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The US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation held a hearing this week on "The Cable Act at 20". This hearing was intended as a follow-up to the Commerce Committee hearing on April 24 which focused upon online video. The hearing highlighted to us that Congress is paying particular attention to the regulatory matters which drive so much of the industry's structure. This kind of event should be viewed as inevitable, especially when there are beneficiaries of government policy whose privileges come at someone else's expense. However, the more that time passes, the more likely it becomes that Congress will take up related matters in the form of new legislation.
For a refresher on the topic, retransmission consent and must carry rules are embedded in the Cable Act of 1992, and effectively require cable operators to involuntarily carry local broadcast television signals or, alternately, to negotiate with local broadcasters for the right to carry those signals. These rules replaced a compulsory copyright license (embedded in the 1976 Copyright Act) which allowed cable operators to retransmit over-the-air the broadcast signals without compensating broadcasters beyond paying them for copyright fees. The law was challenged by much of the cable industry, and eventually was affirmed by the Supreme Court in 1997. For some time, our lay-person's view has been that the under-pinning of the court's ruling was weak, to the extent that it presumed technology was static. From that perspective, the benefits associated with the ruling are not necessarily perpetual.
Since the Cable Act's passage, licensees of local broadcasting signals extracted significant value from the rights embedded in the law. Broadcast network groups were able to expand the deployment of their cable networks, as negotiating with a cable operator to launch a new cable network and receive compensation for that new network was initially more mutually advantageous than simply asking cable operators for direct payments. Independent broadcast groups who were unwilling or unable to develop cable networks were able to ensure that they could offer nearly 100% potential reach to local advertisers, substantially improving their ability to generate revenues from their properties. For the most part, cable operators and other MVPDs simply passed the cost along to consumers (and preferably, from the MVPDs' view, at some mark-up).
However, the topic of retransmission consent has become increasingly pronounced in recent months, not just because of carriage disputes between broadcaster-programmers and distributors which have recurred with regularity over the past decade, but also because of the launch of venture-funded Aereo and the related prospect that a de facto distributor may avoid paying meaningful compensation to broadcast licensees. It's equally become an issue in the context of assessing the value of CBS (CBS, BUY) and other stocks with broadcasting assets given increasingly widespread expectations for significant direct revenues associated with retransmission consent rights.
Video delivered over IP services should not be a near-term cause for a negative concern to investors or the industry at large. Assuming such services survive court challenges, the negotiating leverage conferred to distributors by virtue of threatening to launch their own white-label IP-delivered video service or by licensing Aereo's technology seems to us to be limited over a relevant time horizon (i.e. the duration of carriage agreements which could be between three and seven years in length) as:
The real risks are that the retransmission consent regime – weak foundation and all – implodes as regulators or courts revisit the underlying rationales for the rules and their legal basis. In our view the biggest risk to broadcast station licensees is that any of the above factors – including the provocations by the industry in the courts towards Aereo – could indirectly lead to a reversal of public policy and a resumption of the compulsory copyright license. For example, heightened attention to the flaws embedded in the 1992 Act could, in a future legislative session, lead to the adoption of a new law such as the one proposed by Senator Jim DeMint last year ("The Next Generation Television Marketplace Act"). DeMint's legislation would repeal retransmission consent rules and the compulsory copyright license. This would probably result in a status-quo industry structure in the short-term after it were enacted, although cable operators would incrementally gain leverage in their negotiations vs. present rules, and so stand-offs could become more pronounced as distributors and programmers attempt to assert which side was more powerful. But more practically, the process of turning a bill into a law would involve many uncertainties and many more compromises, such that outcomes could negatively impact broadcasters.
Broadcast licensees would not simply become cable networks if they lost the advantages derived from retransmission consent rules. While it can be appealing to presume that if broadcasters lost negotiating rights as a result of new rules, they would simply return their licenses, sell their TV stations and re-position themselves as cable networks, enabling them to negotiate for carriage on the "open" market. This ignores that advertising revenues could suffer greatly, as the distinction between broadcast and cable would be rendered meaningless.
The reason for this is that there is a meaningful difference today between national broadcast and national cable because broadcast television can claim – and often achieve – substantially more reach vs. cable. This reach advantage is what causes advertisers to pursue negotiations with the relatively small number of broadcast networks first, before negotiating with cable networks in the Upfront marketplace. Because negotiations occur with a relatively small number of sellers who can tacitly collude more easily than if their numbers were greater, relatively high price points can be realized. By contrast, if the four broadcast networks found themselves directly (rather than indirectly) selling against another half dozen broadly distributed cable networks, they would find pricing would become much more competitive and generally fall as advertisers became increasingly indifferent between their suppliers, and as the now-ten broadest reaching networks competed for budgets more aggressively. Common ownership of some of these cable networks (i.e. USA and NBC) did not benefit parent companies in the past because of divergent dynamics (i.e. a head of sales of both networks would give away lower-priced inventory on one network in order to capture volume for the combined group) which can further undermine pricing integrity.
Given these circumstances, we think the become-a-cable-network approach will prove to be unrealistic.
Nothing is likely to change in the near-term, but anything is possible in the long-term. Regardless of noise out of Washington DC or from the courts deliberating on the future of IP-delivered broadcast signals, we see little which will change the prospects for broadcasters to generate revenues from retransmission consent over most investors' time horizons. We're unaware of any efforts in the courts to actively challenge the retransmission consent regime, and even if one were initiated today it would be at least five years (if not longer) before any final resolution. Thus, by the time current laws could be over-turned, many other changes will have taken hold across the industry.
For example, we believe it is appropriate to assume that set-top boxes will eventually (and universally) have IP and QAM-based tuners. Consumers will gradually and broadly upgrade their data services for reasons unassociated with television viewing and lead to an installed base of infrastructure with the capacity to deliver IP-based video en masse. Further, compression technology improvements may render many of today's infrastructure limitations as moot. While we're looking into our crystal ball, it's worth calling out that at some point in time, a thumb-drive could offer sufficient volumes of data storage such that any given day's non-live television programming might most efficiently be delivered to households via the US Postal Service.
For now, we believe it remains reasonable to assume broadcast licensees can generate rising revenues from retransmission consent negotiations. Affiliate deals which are being cut today offer significant long-term visibility, and for many years into the future we expect similar deals to be negotiated between broadcasters and distributors, regardless of technology's evolution. But change, as in most facets of business and life, is inevitable. These revenue streams are not likely to last forever. With luck on the broadcast licensees' side, they may be replaced with something even more lucrative (and as long as broadcasters satisfy important public policy objectives, they will probably continue to benefit from implicit or explicit regulatory support).
Under any circumstance, broadcasters benefit from the status quo despite technological change around them, which can't be stopped under any circumstance. But legal protection is another matter: broadcasters should hope that their efforts to use the law to restrain the growth of technology won't have the unintended consequence of unleashing regulatory changes which will not prove as beneficial as those regulations which are in place today.
Brian Wieser, CFA
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SHARJA, United Arab Emirates -- "Smile! You are in Sharja." A billboard next to the desert state's modern highway flashes this welcoming message to visitors as they enter from neighboring Dubai. And Sharja's economic planners are scrambling to make sure that visitors -- particularly businessmen--get the message.
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Anyone Can Be A Victim (And Get Out Of Jail Free If You Act Fast)
Clause By Clause With Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill
Jim Burroway
February 15th, 2012
Uganda's proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill has been re-introduced into Parliament and is currently in the hands of the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee. As the Committee considers what to do with the bill, there has been considerable confusion over what would happen if the bill were to become law. Most of the attention has focused on the bill's death penalty provision, but even if it were removed, the bill's other seventeen clauses would still represent a barbaric regression for Uganda's human rights record. In this series, we will examine the original text of bill's eighteen clauses to uncover exactly what it includes in its present form.
If you've been paying attention to the clauses we've examined so far, you may have noticed that the proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill tries to divide the gay world between aggressors and victims. Clauses 5 and 6 detail how "victims" are to be treated under the law:
5. Protection, assistance and payment of compensation to victims of homosexuality.
(1 ) A victim of homosexuality shall not be penalized for any crime commuted as a direct result of his or her involvement in homosexuality.
(2) A victim of homosexuality shall be assisted to enable his or her views and concerns to be presented and considered at the appropriate stages of the criminal proceedings.
(3) Where a person is convicted of homosexuality or aggravated homosexuality under sections 2 and 3 of this Act, the court may, in addition to any sentence imposed on the offender, order that the victim of the offence be paid compensation by the offender for any physical, sexual or psychological harm caused to the victim by the offence.
(4) The amount of compensation shall be determined by the court and the court shall take into account the extent of harm suffered by the victim of the offence. the degree of force used by the offender and medical and other expenses incurred by the victim as a result of the offence.
6. Confidentiality.
(1) At any stage of the Investigation or trial of an offence under this Act, law enforcement officers, prosecutors, judicial officers and medical practitioners, as well as parties to the case, shall recognize the right to privacy of the victim.
(2) For the purpose of subsection (1), in cases involving children and other cases where the court considers it appropriate. proceedings of the court shall be conducted in camera, outside the presence of the media.
(3) Any editor or publisher, reporter or columnist in case of printed materials. announcer or producer in case of television and radio, producer or director of a film to case of the movie industry, or any person utilizing trimedia facilities or information technology who publishes or causes the publicity of the names and personal circumstances or any other information tending to establish the victim's identity without authority of court commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty currency points.
(Note: 1 currency point is 20,000 Ugandan shillings, or about US$8.60)
From the very first statement of clause 5, it becomes immediately obvious that this is a huge get-out-of-jail free card for anyone who is caught in the act of same-sex relations (or, as we have pointed out before, perhaps simply in the act of "touching" "any part of of the body" "with anything else" "through anything" in an act that "does not necessarily culminate in intercourse") and quick enough to be the first to claim that he or she is a "victim." Say, for example, if police should burst into your bedroom while you are there with another person of the same sex, and you are caught red-handed being handled "through anything" in an act that "does not necessarily culminate in intercourse," all you have to do is claim to be the victim, that the other person made you do it, and right away you are free from prosecution.
Not only that, but they'll help you testify in trial that, yep, sure enough, you were the victim, not the perpetrator. Not only will you escape a lifetime in prison — or even the hangman's noose — but you will be awarded compensation for all of your trouble.
In other words, this provision is an open invitation for anyone to try to escape serious trouble by claiming to be a victim in the whole mess, no matter how much consent or how little actual sex took place. And come to think of it, these clauses are more than just open invitations, they practically beg one partner to rat out the other, and through the compensation clause, the law will literally pay them for doing so. And the bill offers the perfect escape hatch for the quick-witted or the well-connected: no one even needs to know that you were involved because the confidentially clause will ensure that your name stays out of the papers and television.
Bribe-taking throughout Uganda's police and legal system is notorious, and the opportunities are rife for these two clauses to be abused in order to secure a conviction — as well as to let off scott-free anyone who may be in a privileged position to bribe or otherwise convince prosecutors into determining that they were the "victims."
Clause By Clause With Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill:
Clauses 1 and 2: Anybody Can Be Gay
Clause 3: Anyone Can Be "Liable To Suffer Death"
Clause 4: Anyone Can "Attempt to Commit Homosexuality"
Clauses 5 and 6: Anyone Can Be A Victim (And Get Out Of Jail Free If You Act Fast)
Clauses 7 and 14: Anyone Can "Aid And Abet"
Clauses 8 to 10: A Handy Menu For "Victims" To Choose From
Clauses 11, 14, 16 and 17: Nowhere To Run, Nowhere To Hide
Clause 12: Till Life Imprisonment Do You Part
Clause 13: The Silencing of the Lambs
Clause 14: The Requirement Isn't Only To Report Gay People To Police. It's To Report Everyone.
Clauses 15 and 19: The Establishment Clauses For The Ugandan Inquisition


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Baltimore County Police Officer Michael Schmitz
School Resource Officer, Stemmers Run Middle School
Like a lot of police officers, one of the main reasons I chose this career was to make a positive impact on people's lives. Looking back over my years on the force, one of the real highlights for me has been the Shop with a Cop program. For the past 12 years, on a Saturday in December, about 100 disadvantaged children are assigned a police officer, who picks them up in their squad car and accompanies them on a Christmas shopping trip to the Hunt Valley Walmart followed by a nice meal at Outback Steakhouse.
It all started back in the summer of 2001 when I was approached by my friend, Kim Coles, who works as a marketing manager for Outback Steakhoue. She told me about a great program called Shop with A Cop that a Virginia Outback was doing for Christmas, and she wanted me to start here.
The program motto is, "every child deserves a Christmas," and as nice as it is to make sure a child has presents to open on Christmas morning, the really heartwarming thing is that most of the time, the officers have to basically force these kids to buy something for themselves. They are so intent on buying gifts for their Mom, siblings and other relatives, that they spend their whole $100 allotment. That's when the officers usually pull out their own wallets and really give back.
I remember my first Shop with a Cop buddy, a young boy from a rough neighborhood whose mother was a recovering heroin addict. He was intent on buying gifts for his younger siblings and his mother. I added some more money to the equation and he bought some things for himself. When we headed back home in the police cruiser that day, I asked him how his day went. I'll never forget his reply that "it was the best Christmas ever!" This is what a police officer comes on the job to do - make a positive difference. I often wonder if I was able to have a lasting effect on his life and what ever happened to that boy – he'd be about 16 now.
We started in 2001 with funds we raised ourselves and were able to include 25 kids. After the first year the Optimist clubs jumped on board and made the commitment to raise the money to fund at least 100 children each year and they have done that for 11 years, amounting to more than 1,100 children total so far. Baltimore County's program is now the largest Shop with a Cop program in the state. The Optimist Clubs not only raise the money but they are also the cheerleaders for the children and police as they enter the Walmart to start their journey.
Over the years I have talked with police officers who have been a part of this event and ask them what it means to them. They all say they had a great time and several of them have continued to come back year after year. Officers have also told me that over the years, some of these children have approached them and said that prior to being a part of Shop with a Cop they didn't like the police, but afterwards they saw police officers in a more positive light.
This year will be no different when the 110 police officers from all over the county show up to met their new friends (children) at their stations this Saturday at 0700hrs. During this short time we spend together with the children, we hope that it brings joy to them and their families, not just on Shop with a Cop day, but for years to come. Remember every child deserves a Christmas!
Police Chief James Johnson
When we talk about crime statistics, we too often overlook clearance rates – the numbers that tell us whether a police agency is doing a good job of solving crime.
Here in Baltimore County, our clearance rates are excellent, well above the national average.
In fact, the Baltimore County Police Department's clearance rates are so good that the U.S. Department of Justice has featured BCoPD in a September 2013 publication, "Homicide Process Mapping, Best Practices for Increasing Homicide Clearances."
This 54-page study examined seven law enforcement agencies throughout the U.S. with outstanding homicide clearance rates, seeking to understand what these agencies are doing right. BCoPD is one of these model agencies.
The introduction to the study says, "Although the national clearance rate average has continued to drop, some individual law enforcement agencies have excelled in clearing homicides, with clearance rates of 80 percent and higher. The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) wanted to understand how some agencies were so successful in their homicide investigations."
Researchers from the Bureau of Justice Assistance visited our Homicide Unit to examine our staffing, management, resources and investigative strategies. The publication will be used by other law enforcement agencies interested in improving their homicide investigations and clearance rates.
In law enforcement parlance, "clearance" means that a case has been solved because the offender has been identified and either arrested, has died or the homicide ruled justifiable.
The DOJ study focused on 2011, a year in which BCoPD's 83.3 percent homicide clearance rate far exceeded the national average (62 percent).
More recently, in 2012, the national clearance rate for homicide in 2012 was 62.5 percent. Baltimore County's clearance rate was 95.7 percent.
Our clearance rate for all Part I violent crime – the most serious crimes, including rape, robbery, and aggravated assault – has exceeded the national average going all the way back to 1995.
Here are the most recent 2012 clearance rates for Part I violent crimes other than homicide:
• Rape -- BCoPD, 69.7 percent; national average, 40.1 percent
• Robbery – BCoPD, 48.4 percent; national average, 28.1 percent
• Aggravated assault – BCoPD, 84.1 percent; national average, 55.8 percent
In 2012, our clearance rate for all Part I violent crime – homicide, rape, robbery and aggravated assault – was 71.9 percent, or 25.1 percent higher than the national average.
The clearance rates for property crime typically are lower than for crimes against people because there often is no contact between the victim and the suspects; detectives may not even have a suspect description to use during their investigation. Even with those challenges, clearance rates for Part I property crimes such as burglary, theft and motor vehicle theft were 14.1 percent above the national average.
What accounts for our success in clearing crime? The DOJ study answers this question quite well: "A stronger professional fabric, the investment of time and effort to build trust within the community, a willingness to challenge the status quo in performing investigative tasks and" – this last point is especially important – "a professionally developed and trained investigative workforce."
BCoPD has worked hard over the years to give investigators the best technological tools, including skilled crime analysis personnel, forensics and other support services.
But the ability to solve crime starts and ends with hiring, training, retraining and retaining quality investigators – academically advanced law enforcement officers who understand that building a quality investigation is like crafting a fine piece of furniture. It takes time, care, precision and persistence.
The credit for Baltimore County's outstanding crime clearance rates rests largely with our detectives and patrol officers. The work our investigators are doing is as good as, if not better than, that of any agency in the nation. I hope that our citizens are as appreciative of this as I am.
Louise Rogers-Feher
Baltimore County Police Department
Summer is one of our favorite times of year to kick back and relax, but remember — criminals are always on the move. Warm weather may bring more foot traffic to neighborhoods and business districts, but it also brings more criminals looking to commit their next offense.
Don't get the "summertime blues" — use these common sense measures to help prevent crime at your home or business.
Warm Weather Crime Prevention Tips
- Beware of Deception Burglaries and Home Improvement Scams
Be proactive: protect your property.
- Lock All Doors and Windows
Lock windows and doors when you're away. If you're going to be in the back yard, lock the front door.
- Burglars Shun Good Locks and Lights
Consider installing specialty locks, which often deter thieves.
- Neighborhood Awareness: The Key to Crime Prevention
Be alert and aware; always notify police of unusual activity in your community.
- Windows Open and Convertible Tops Down - An Open Invitation to a Thief
Avoid thefts from your vehicle with these simple tips.
- Got a Bike? Engrave It, Lock It or Lose It
Have your bike engraved, and don't forget to lock it.
- ATV Education and Enforcement
Tips to help you keep it legal, ride safely and prevent theft.
- Fraud Often Follows Disasters
Don't fall victim to a scam after a bad storm. When disaster strikes, people are sometimes vulnerable and become good targets for identity theft or scam artists.
- Stay Alert
Witnesses can be a valuable deterrent to a burglary.
- Spring Cleaning
Businesses should get rid of clutter and evaluate (or create) their safety and security plan.
- Hiring Summer Help
Business managers —fill that position with a qualified new employee.
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Home List of Titles Examining the factor structure of the Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory with an Australian general population sample
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/1128
- Title
- Examining the factor structure of the Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory with an Australian general population sample
- Author(s)
- Palmer, Benjamin R.; Manocha, Ramesh; Gignac, Gilles E.; Stough, Con
- Abstract
- It has been claimed that the dimensional structure of the Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i) (Bar-On,1997a) represents a hierarchical model of emotional and social intelligence describing a general factor,five-se cond order factors and 15 primary factors. However,there are several anomalies in the factor analytic methodology employed by Bar-On (1997a),and his interpretation of the results that render the dimensional structure of the EQ-i unclear. In contrast to claims by Bar-On,in the present study a series of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses found evidence for a general factor of emotional intelligence and six primary factors. Differences between the results reported by Bar-On (1997a) and those of the current study are attributed largely to the more appropriate factor analytic methodology employed. Implications and directions for future research are discussed.
- Publication type
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- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. School of Biophysical Science and Electrical Engineering
- Source
- Personality and individual differences, Vol. 35, no. 5 (Oct. 2003), pp. 1191-1210
- Publication year
- 2003
- Keyword(s)
- Emotional Intelligence; Emotional Competencies; Bar-On EQ-i; Factor structure
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- Pergamon-Elsevier Science
- 0191-8869
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Cubs Could Use A Bautista
I simply marvel at Jose Bautista.
He's homered 13 times in his last 21 games and leads MLB with 15 HR.
His 35 intentional walks also ranks first in the bigs, and he's reached base safely in 31 of 32 games this season.
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It contains the well preserved 18th and 19th century manor buildings, a barn and a stable. There are several secular trees in the park, including the biggest fir in the Baltics.
Besides the 18th century dwelling house "Osenieki", there is also the new castle built after 1860, which was renewed and altered in 1912 after being burnt down. Next to the castle there is a memorial stone for writer Martins Kalndruvis (1916 – 1992), whose native house used to be nearby. The tallest European fir in Latvia is growing in the park.
The new castle was built opposite the old manor-house in the other half of the19th century in the style of neo-classicism based on a project by architect T.Zeilers.
(K.Veinberga, J.Zviedrans). The water-mill was built in 1842 and is still functioning. There is a row of ponds and a landscape park with walking paths set up in the mid-19th century next to Lielivande Manor.