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Let us be honest. Food and nutrition issues get little policy attention from decision-makers. The lack of action is not due to a lack of knowledge by the latter. Other gaps are at the root - gaps that denote a deliberate choice of not attending to food and nutrition matters. It is ultimately power relations that affect policy choices. Policy processes can only be fully understood if analyzed politically. Consciousness raising and social mobilization are indispensable to influence policy processes. Research organizations have hardly engaged in this consciousness raising; most of them are rather conservative; they think that if decision-makers have more and better knowledge they will indeed take urgently needed decisions. But decision makers never go against their own interests. What is missing is to focus on what to do about the need for structural changes that address the basic causes of preventable hunger and malnutrition by organizing pressure from below; thus the importance of empowering claim holders.
I think that from economic growth to food security it is important to apply a new concept: eco-bio-economy. Eco-bio-economy can be considered an attempt for a new shared vision of eco-economic and bio-economic development, which brings together integrated disciplines: economy, ecology, biodiversity, eco-economy and the bio-economy and focuses on developing smart integrated sustainable world. In all these areas, eco-bio-economy ideas allow valuable contribution of social economy, the economic welfare of solidarity, social responsibility and corporate governance, as applied to future elements that could be used practically integrated in a multipolar world for a healthy and environmentally enhancing and promoting intelligent, creative and innovative, sustainable economic development. The high-level political decision and modern diplomatic instruments are expected catalyst and need an equation eco-bio-political and global economic success. According ecobioeconomice paradigm, a sustainable economy respects the "offer" of ecosystems is dependent upon all its resources, such as fisheries, forest resources, pastures and hayfields, arable land, etc.. As long as demand does not exceed sustainable yields can be sustained accepted limits of natural systems.
Savings based on wrong signals received from the markets on demand, will lead to irrational decisions increase the supply of products (mainly agricultural) decisions are "recipe" best for the destruction of natural systems. Under these conditions the modern economy should be based on fundamental rules of natural and artificial ecosystems (anthropogenic or anthropogenic).
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Dr. Ipate Iudith
Romanina Academy
Dear moderator and fellow contributors, your comments has been very interesting and insightful thus far on the present discussion. We would like to make our contributions to question one:
Can you share specific experiences in which social protection and better food security governance have led to advances in local food security and improved nutrition?
As you all know food security is a major issue in our world today which has brought about an increase in demands for agricultural products. As a result, the Caribbean has brought about the initiative to grow more food in Guyana so as to satisfy these expanded markets for traditional and non-traditional agricultural products. Hence the Grow More Food Campagin was launched so as to meet these requirements. Below are two of the projects under this initiative:
1)The Ministry of Agriculture implemented the Rural Enterprise and Agricultural Development Project (READ) in 2009 of which it is still ongoing. This project contains an agricultural diversification strategy for both traditional products (rice and sugar) and nontraditional products (fruits, vegetables, spices) intended for the poor rural households. These products represent an opportunity for growth in Guyana and as such it promotes Guyana export capacity. READ falls under the 'Grow More Food Campaign' seeks at increasing the provision of food in Guyana. The small farmers(both men and women) gained by the improved technologies in production, improved rural income, availability of support and assistance to resource the small farmers, and the development of linkages between rural producers and distributors (wholesalers and retailers). The benefits that the small farmers acquire led to a greater yield and as such an improved quality of the produce of their fruits and vegetables. The Rural Enterprise and Agricultural Development project focuses on training the farmers in areas of rural enterprise (business ventures for farmers) and market development. The training and techniques famers gained will strengthen the human and social capital in the rural areas which will increase the self reliance when addressing challenges they may faced.
2)Also in 2009, The Ministry of Agriculture initiated the Rice and Beans Project for the Hinterland communities. This project support rural development through increasing the cultivation of rice and beans (such as black eye beans) in Moco Moco. At the first harvest, more than 2000 bags of rice paddy and 4200 pounds of beans were produced. Accessibility to affordable food was provided and the development of dietary supplements in the Amerindian communities increases the nutritional intake of the residents. The expansion of these two food groups gives a direct attainment of food security since these areas are relatively food insecure. The Rice and Beans project is feasible and as such it was expanded to other Amerindian communities to become food secure. By utilizing the savannah lands and dealing with legumes, a bond was constructed for storing equipments, machines and chemicals. Human capital in the Hinterland communities was acquired through the support of The National Agriculture Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) by training the Amerindians modern agriculture methods. Significantly, the Rice and Beans project secured employment opportunities for the people.
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Hi!, Everyone,
On the important subject of food security and nutrition I have to say that we as development professionals, funders, governments, etc. have miserably failed jointly in providing adequate quantities of food to the poorest sections. While there are huge disparities with regard to food production and availability of food, there remain grave concerns on the point of ensuring nutrition security among communities. Childhood malnutrition and food defficiency among the poorest (often land insecure) communities remain major problems even as we approach the MDG target of 2015.
On the issue of food security and better nutrition I have two points to make...
i) Governments worldwide, including in India have not really done enough on these points and many a times they have left the job half done. Though numerous agriculture development measures and public distribution system and other food distribution programmes are operational in India they have suffered from huge leakages and programme innovation, thus failing in meeting the desired objectives. For the past couple of years there has been discussion regarding the promulgation of a Food Security Bill which promises a lot but falls short of explaining how it will achive the stated objectives in the current scenario.
ii) While most of the programme interventions have pointed towards addressing malnutrition and nutrition security through "external supplementation" there has been little effort for promotion of home based food production through kitchen garden or nutrition garden. I strongly believe that large scale and long term nutrition garden programmes designed for the poorest could be beneficial in achieving better household nutrition security. I have seen with minimal monetary inputs but with close facilitation poor families having even small plots of land have been able to grow a variety of vegetables, greens, tubers and fruit trees to feed to the family food basket. There is a need of proper packaging of the existent government programmes such as the seed mini kit, backyard plantation programmes and such an intervention can be implemented in a wide scale.
Neverthless it still intruiges me why Governments fail to take up programmes that would directly benefit the poorest in the most simple and easy manner...
Greetings all,
We begin our contribution to this discussion by addressing the first question posed:
1. Can you share specific experiences in which social protection and better food security governance have led to advances in local food security and improved nutrition?
It has been recognized that developing countries have shared experiences that regurgitate the importance of social protection and better food security governance towards the advancement of local food security and improved nutrition. It is only fair for one to remain cognizant that any mechanism implemented towards social protection will not yield immediate results, but rather reap long term benefits.
One project implemented under the Food & Nutrition Security Strategy of Guyana & facilitated by the Government of Guyana in collaboration with the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation for Development (S.A.I.C.D.) & the Guyana Rice Development Board (G.R.D.B), was the Hinterland Rice & Beans Project in Administrative Region 9-Upper Takutu/Upper Essequibo, where the Region is home to about 400 people. This programme was established with the provision of 150 acres for rice cultivation & 15.5 acres for beans cultivation in Moco Moco. In September 2010, approximately 82 acres & 11 acres of rice & beans were harvested respectively, which is equivalent to approximately 25 bags of paddy per acre & 900 pounds per acre of beans. Through the implementation of the project, indigenous communities were observed to become more self-sustaining; to generate employment within the communities instead of searching for jobs elsewhere (the city) and to improve the overall livelihoods of residents, thereby contributing to food security in the village & by extension the economy.
Additionally, Guyana undertook the "Grow More Food" campaign which aimed at increasing the level of food production in Guyana by implementing a market led approach. This is a 5 step plan that includes the Agricultural Export Diversification Programme, the Rural Enterprise & Agricultural Development Programme, & increased investment in drainage & irrigation & by extension the maintenance of rehabilitated structures. More so, the establishment of the Guyana Livestock Development Authority along with improved extension services in 2008 benefited rural farmers, agro-investors & exporters through an increase in food production & a more productive means of livelihood. In addition to the increase in export, all of the above contributed to Guyana accomplishing the UN Millennium Development Goal of eradicating hunger.
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In improving a countries food security and nutrition status one must recognize the inherent linkage they have with social protection and food governance. Below are just two occurrences in which the former led to improvements in food security and nutrition:
'Guyana's achievement of Food security has resulted from programmes established …. to ensure that the nation is producing enough food to feed every single household' (Guyana's Government Information Agency: GINA).The Ministry of Agriculture in Guyana has been spearheading the food, nutrition and security initiative which has seen the implementation of several major projects that directly address issues pertaining to food security within the context of the 'Grow More Food Campaign' (which was implemented to ensure that Guyanese had adequate food available for themselves and excess to export to Caribbean countries as well as other outside territories). The Agricultural Export Diversification Programme (ADP aims to increase Guyana's export growth rate and reduce its volatility), the Agricultural Support Services Programme (ASSP aims to increase rural incomes by increasing the efficiency of agricultural production), the Rural Enterprise Development Project and the Rice and Beans Project for Hinterland Communities (this project directly targets the attainment of food security within the Amerindian Communities since these communities are the most vulnerable in this respect) are some of the major programmes. These programmes are encompassed in Guyana's National Food and Nutrition Security Strategy (2010-2020).
Rapid economic growth has been the main vehicle by which most Asian countries have reduced poverty and enhanced food security (World Bank, 1993). Governments can do many things to improve food security at the household and individual level and most countries in Asia have programs to do so. Rural education accessible to females and the poor, family planning and child-care clinics in rural areas, nutrition education, and extension specialists helping to improve home gardens are just a few of the possibilities (Block et al. 2004). Some Asian countries were successful at improving food security among their citizens by basing their strategies on two important elements which they have some degrees of control over. These two strategies are the sectoral composition of income growth (which focused on growth that reached the poor i.e. "pro poor growth) and food prices (where government's stabilized food prices particularly rice prices since it is the main staple food). The stabilization of food prices ensured that short term fluctuations and shocks did not make the poor even more vulnerable to inadequate food intake (Timmer 1991, 1996).
Reference: Food Security and Economic Growth: an Asian perspective
We are in total agreement with Mr. Tim Willams. Equitable and strong economic growth of a country is based in part on growth of the agricultural and rural economy of low-income communities and goes a long way in enhancing access to food and improving nutrition of the very poor. However, some of the changes made possible through economic growth take time to bear fruit and the neediest population groups often cannot take immediate advantage of the opportunities it generates. Therefore, reducing hunger requires specific attention to both small- and large-scale interventions. Hence, the Peanut CRSP Initiatives undertaken by the Society for Sustainable Operational Strategies (SSOS) and the MOE in region 9, in Guyana is advantageous.
The success of the Expansion of the Ministry of Education's School Snack Program in the Rupununi Region (Target Region) has been impressive, this conclusion was made based on the 2010 annual report (most recent) of the School Feeding Programme. In detail, " Between the period of January 29, 2010- December 2010 numerous strides had been made; by the end of December 2010 the program had surpassed its target, reaching 41 villages (the target was 33), Total snacks served reached 311,345, 23 SSMCs (School Snack Management Committees) received startup loans to purchase basic raw materials and pay salaries for the first two months; of these, 16 repaid their loans fully before the end of the year, Over 40 women were given full time jobs managing their respective programs, New markets for peanuts, cassava and fruits earned farmers over $8 million, and Over $22 million was injected into 41 communities, creating a multiplier effect and making a significant impact on the quality of village life." Executive Officer, SSOS
Dear Colleagues,
I am giving the link and also trailing a doc just published, as it addresses most of subjects being covered by this consultation process and will also be very useful to each one of us in case you do not have access to it.
The fact is that the world produces twice the amount of food we need (most in post harvest and or storage losses) but still about half the population does not have access to nutritious food resulting in hunger and malnutrition as they do not have the money to buy. This paper does have a number of answers.
Study: Sustainable Farming Proven to Increase Yield at Zero Cost
Increasing Cropping System Diversity Balances Productivity, Profitability and Environmental Health
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Hi everebody!
I`m working in Brazil for a long time ago, since 1977, with the rural credit. Recently, We`ve some importants sucess to reduce the poverty. Now, we`need advance on forms to garante polices and actions sustentable. I think weed we need to do more for the the better goverance, social participation and monitoration and avalation on publics policies.
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This is a very interesting topic yet again which you have started. SOFI is very right again to note that the figures of those living in food insecurity areas are very high. But allow me to add that even when food may be available and in abundancy in many areas but can not be accessed in other many areas again.
In my humble contribution, I still feel our governments can actually play a very vital role in making sure that our people are food secure in both rural and ubarn areas. First and foremost, it is actually true that some of the best policies which can be employed by our leaders are the pro-poor growth policies. With their emphasis and target at the most vulnerable, most poor and most disadvantages, these policies can help uplift these souls from the jaws of poverty and subsequently food secure them. Unfortunately, most of our governments maybe have not seen the significance of these policies.
Secondly in my country Zambia, talking about food security is sometimes very annoying and embrassing. Zambia is one country in southern Africa which harvests most grains but again one which losses the most grains because of lack of planning by those intrusted to secure our grains. Most of the grain (maize- staple food) which has been secured using so much public funds will soon go to worst because of lack of planning from those intrusted to make sure all this maize is safe. It is very sad to note that our leaders talk on many platforms (proudly) how much grains the country has harvested and how much the government has bought from the farmers from last season. A few days later they are on the same platform inspecting huge wastage biles and biles of the same grain. Meanwhile so many of our people are going without food in many parts of the country. How can a country be food secure like this? With the onset of the rain season, it will be an every day news to see wastage maize after the government has spend so much public funds to secure all the staple food gains which were grown last season.
We are still using tents to cover and safe guard the maize and other grains bought by public funds all which can help provide food for our people. A hungry country is a dangerous country. It is here where we really need to take serious stoke of all the grains we have ande safe guard it jelously. This can only be done with better planning and commitment by our leaders at the same time implementing policies which look at the poor person and uplift him from the trap of poverty otherwise I am afraid, we will continue to be counted and add on the numbers of those who are food insecure in the world.
George Akalemwa
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1960 Pontiac Catalina Trip - Driver's SeatWritten by on November 4, 2010 A Bit Saddle Sore, But No Worse For the Wear
Hi gang, hope all's well! I don't know about you folks but a lot has happened on my end since last month's Driver's Seat. Let's see, I indeed made it home from Colorado behind the wheel of Candy's new project car (a '60 Catalina two-door hardtop). The trip wasn't without a bit of drama but, all in all, it went rather well.
I made it in about 18 hours, driving straight through, and the car managed to stay together until I got home to SoCal. Unfortunately, the morning after I got home, the tired old Hydromatic bit the dust-though it did leave me with low and reverse so I can at least jockey it into position in my driveway/work space/suburban boneyard. Aside from my near constant conversation, cajoling, "that a girl," and pleading with that ol' Hydromatic not to let me down, the most entertaining part of the trip came that evening when the temperature cooled off enough to roll up the windows for a while. Shortly after I did so it got a bit stuffy so I reached down and opened the outside air vents-well, it did help a bit by letting some fresh air into the cabin, but along with that sweet Rocky Mountain air came a near constant blast of white fluff! And I don't mean just a few tufts-I'm talkin' drivin' a snow globe on wheels kind of situation. Apparently the mice that'd been devouring the rear seat cushions were simultaneously stripping it and hauling the stuffing into the kick panel vents, where they were constructing condos. At any rate I survived, though I'm sure the folks at my next gas stop must of thought I was on the losing end of a pretty nasty pillow fight.
About a week after that adventure I was ready for another, so upon an invite from my pal (and publisher) Tim Foss to join the STREET RODDER gang on a leg of the Road Tour I happily agreed to a road trip from SoCal to the NSRA Street Rod Nationals in Louisville, Kentucky. Only this time I'd at least be behind the wheel of my freshly driveable but thereto untested '29 Model A pickup. Hey, what the heck? Where's the sense of road trip adventure when you're sure you're gonna make it? Heck, I figured I had a 50-50 shot, and I'd been up against worse odds in the past and usually came out on top. Though, not this time ...
The first part of trip, say the first two hours or so, were uneventful. The balance wasn't. In fact, me and my pickup only made it to about 100 miles west of Oklahoma City-well, I actually made it all the way to our destination (thanks to a kind offer of a ride by trip-mate Ed Zinke), it was the Model A that bought the farm in Oklahoma.
Anyway, I'll elaborate a bit more next month in my Nationals event coverage and try and share some images as well as my tale of what happened on the trip on the CLASSIC TRUCKS website in the next few days.

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Decatur, GA - Billy Jim Carver was sentenced to life to be served in the state penal system by Chief Judge A. Wallace Cato.
The jury trial on Carver was tried by District Attorney Joseph K. Mulholland, November 13, 2012.
Carver was convicted of one count of felony Aggravated Child Molestation, two counts of felony Child Molestation, and one count of felony Exhibiting Pornography to Minors by an impaneled jury.
Joe Mulholland commended the diligent work from the Decatur County Sheriff's Office on this case.
Mulholland also applauded the attentive jurors impaneled for the three day trial.
"We had a very good jury pool,. Our office with the help of the Decatur County Sheriff's Office was able to secure convictions on this case" stated Mulholland. "Because of their diligent work, a child predator will never again harm our children."
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Related Media: Appendectomy
The appendix is a small, tube-like organ that hangs from the large intestine. Appendicitis is inflammation of the appendix. The appendix has no known function.
Appendicitis usually occurs when the appendix becomes inflamed. This can be caused by something trapped in the appendix, such as:
The lining of the appendix continues to produce mucus. It has no place to go. Bacteria normally found in the intestines build up and make toxins in the lining of the appendix. Pressure builds and causes severe pain in the abdomen. The wall of the appendix can break open. The contents of a ruptured appendix can spill into the abdominal cavity. This causes serious redness and swelling. This is called peritonitis. It can be fatal.
Risk factors that can increase your chance of developing appendicitis include:
Symptoms usually happen quickly. Pain usually increases during a 6-12 hour period. Patients may have some or all of the following symptoms:
If the appendix ruptures, symptoms include:
Symptoms may be different in infants, children, pregnant women, and the elderly.
Get medical help right away, if you have severe pain in the abdomen. Appendicitis can be hard to diagnose. Symptoms vary and can be similar to symptoms of other diseases.
The doctor will ask about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done, including:
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All of science can be regarded as motivated by the search for rules behind the randomness of nature, and attempts to make prediction in the presence of uncertainty. Chris Budd describes the search for pattern and order in chaos.
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Knights of Columbus member Edwin Krajewski (left) drops off turkeys, an assortment of food, cleaning supplies, and toiletries, with an estimated total value of $230 at the Perkins County Food Pantry. Jean Hovorka, on behalf of Father Pfeiffer and the Perkins County Ministerial Association, accepted the annual donation from the Knights of Columbus last week. (Photo by Jan Rahn)


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A Laughter Club member was devastated when his uninsured shop burned down. He was ruined; the fruit of twenty-five years of hard work vanished, leaving him in debt with no means of supporting himself and his family. Members of his Laughter Club pooled together and raised money to rebuild his shop and provide new stock, rebuilding the life of someone they held dear to themselves.
Similarly an elderly Laughter Club member was shattered when her husband of more than forty years passed away, leaving her alone in the world. She had married early and never worked. Feeling her life was over, she went into a black depression, refusing food and not leaving her bed. Fellow Laughter Club members arranged medical care and medication, and took turns staying with her throughout the day, bringing her treats and cajoling her to eat, but most importantly, being there for her and providing emotional support. After three months she recovered. Convinced that her life would have ended without Laughter Club, she started a new Laughter Club in a nearby school where she runs daily Laughter sessions for students, to this day.


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This busy sports Saturday is interrupting my college football watching ( Good job Bruins! Way to win a very tough road game. Young Lance Kiffin is looking pretty wobbly in Tennessee already).
The U.S. Open rainout is the only thing that made this a Saturday where I could manage my sports intake (thanks Rafa for dispensing with Gonzalez in about 32 minutes this morning before the rain started) and participate in the rest of my life.
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Every 79 seconds a thief steals someone's identity, and with those IDs thieves stole a total of $100 million just last year.
Local law enforcement officials say identity theft is a growing problem in our area, one that hit too close to home for a Loves Park woman.
For nearly a year Barbara Cartsens has been tracking down the woman who stole her identity and working to keep credit cards and personal information out of the woman's hands.
"This doesn't happen to me. You go through and think this happens to other people," said Cartsens.
In March of 2002, American Express alerted Cartsens that someone tried to apply for a credit card in her name. She later discovered some had applied for dozens of cards in her name and many were already in the mail.
"Your Social Security number is out there everywhere," Cartsens said. "It's scary knowing all she needed was my name and Social Security number. She knows nothing else about me and she can get a credit card in my name."
By spending eight hours a day on the phone for several weeks, Cartsens discovered a woman using a P.O. box in New York was responsible and that woman also had a state ID in her name. But police couldn't help Carstens because she'd lost no money.
"Basically they told me their hands were tied because it's non-threatening crime," Cartsens said.
Non-threatening or not, it's consumed hundreds of hours of Cartsens' time, taken away her sense of security and created credit troubles.
"It creates major hassles for the people who it happens to, and many say it's like part of them has been stolen," said Paul Logli, Winnebago Co. State's attorney
Logli says ID theft is a hard crime to track down and even harder to prosecute.
"It might make somebody feel better if somebody is going to prison, but that interferes with the payment of restitution," said Logli.
Logli says restitution is rarely successful, and victim's like Cartsens spend the rest of their lives trying to battle the false identity.
"The credit cards I will know about because of the reports. The others things she's gotten in my name, I won't know about until they track me down later," said Cartsens.
The woman in New York applied for credit cards in Cartsens name as recently as last November, and just changed Cartsens birth date on her credit report.
Experts recommend taking these steps to prevent identity theft.
First shred pre-approved credit card offers, secure your mail, monitor your credit report for any changes, and put fraud alerts on your information by calling the three credit agencies:
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TransUnion: 800-888-4213 (fraud div.- 800-680-7289)
Experian: 888-EXPERIAN (fraud div.- 888-397-3742)
Equifax: 800- 685-1111 (fraud div.- 800-525-6285)
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Douglasville, GA -- April 24, 2012 --
A Douglas County judge has accepted a guilty plea in the November 2010 stomping death of teen Bobby Tillman.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports Emanuel Boykins pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole Tuesday. He would be eligible for parole after serving 30 years.
The 18-year-old Tillman was beaten to death in front of a Douglasville house where two teenage girls were throwing a party. He died from a tear to his heart that happened during the beating.
Boykins, Tracen Franklin, Quantez Devonta Mallory and Horace Damon Coleman, were all charged in the killing. According to Kimberly Coleman, an attorney who works with Bruce Harvey, Franklin's lawyer, Franklin faces the death penalty.
Lawyers: Teen Agrees to Guilty plea in party death
Douglasville, GA (AP) - Lawyers say an 18-year-old who
prosecutors say threw the first punch in a brawl at a Douglasville
party that left a teenager dead has agreed to plead guilty to a
felony murder charge.
Douglas County District Attorney tells The Atlanta
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the death of 18-year-old Bobby Tillman. Boykins' lawyer Jason
Swindle says his client decided to agree to plead guilty June 29 to
avoid a trial where he would risk the death penalty.
The cases against three other men charged in Tillman's beating
death are still pending.
Authorities say the attackers apparently targeted Tillman after
one of the suspects was hit by a woman at the Nov. 6 party and
vowed to strike the next man who passed by.
Three of four suspects charged with murder in the stomping death of an 18-year-old in a shocking unprovoked attack at a house party have told reporters they are innocent.
The three spoke yesterday with Atlanta television stations about
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The fourth suspect declined to be interviewed.
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death. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation performed the autopsy.
Friends of Tillman's gathered last night and remembered him as a
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DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. (AP) --
The Douglas County coroner says a teenager killed at a party died as a result of his heart being lacerated while he was being kicked and stomped.
Coroner Randy Daniel said Tuesday that 18-year-old Bobby
Tillman's heart was cut during the beating early Sunday, probably
by a broken bone.
Daniel says the heart laceration caused Tillman to lose a lot of
blood very quickly.
Four other teens who attended the party are charged with murder
and are being held without bond at the Douglas County Jail.
DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. (AP) -- Douglas County authorities say a teen
is dead after being fatally beaten during a house party.
Authorities say the teen died early Sunday morning after multiple attackers beat the 18-year-old during a fight.
Investigators say there were about 80 people at the party.
Sheriff's deputies say the homeowners were home during the party
but will not be charged in the killing.
The incident is under investigation. Authorities have not yet
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The Great Comic Book Heroes is widely acknowledged to be the first book to analyze the juvenile medium of superhero comics in a critical manner, but without denying the iconic hold such works have over readers of all ages. Out of print for over 30 years, Feiffer's book discusses the role that the patriotic superhero played during World War II in shaping the public spirit of civilians and soldiers, as well as the escapist power these stories held over the zeitgeist of America. With wit and insight Feiffer discusses what the great comic book heroes meant to him as a child and later as an artist.
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Gamblers' Money Going to the Dogs
... and the ponies, too, as breeders cash in on $92M casino purse
April 2, 2013
WHEELING — West Virginia gamblers and taxpayers subsidized greyhound and thoroughbred breeders with at least $92 million during fiscal year 2012, according to the state Lottery Commission....
How about giving those jackpot winners a tax break-we all know they loose in the end. Even if the gambler uses a player card and spent 20K and wins 5K, they are taxed by WV on the 5K Nobody wins from gambling. What did these zombies do before the slots?
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If you gamble...I can save you money...here's how. Every time you have the addictive impulse to gamble...give me half of your money, I'll give you a good hard ear-slap, and then you go home to your family with money left in your pocket instead of nothing..
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Those that want more money for senior citizen in home care will be happy to know Snyder's amendment provides for an increase in money going to that fund. That's coming from a supporter of the racing industry by the way. The racing industry certainly doesn't have any objection to voters persuading the state to give more money to seniors. Suggesting that would be absurd. Voters voted to bring in slots with money trickling down to WV residents and businesses through racing, where there is very little room for profit so most of it truly goes not to the racing industry itself, but flows through to those it supports. The state brings many, many millions in tax money from gambling. If more of that money is needed for seniors then that is on the state and the voters to make it happen. The racing industry has nothing to do with it. The original bill was designed to take money out of WV business and workers and give it to out of state casino corporations. Why? That's ludacris.
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I seem to recall that the Governor's family business involves dog racing and there were allegations in a previous election campaign that he had steered considerable amounts of money to his family dog breeding/racing business. Not much was made of that and the media did not report $92 million dollars going to the dog breeders/racers. Thats a lot of Alpo, something like nine times what goes to the senior citizens.And you have to have racing to have a casino, by the law we never passed. Sweet deal for the cronies. Thats a fortune. Oh well we have Earl Ray for nearly four more years or does he have us? None of this has ever been reported but then we mostly just get press releases issued by politicians and special interests printed unchallenged by our watchdog media. Thats sarcasm Sheldon.
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How is it that Wheeling Downs ran at a profit for decades, but now that the casino feels their taxes are too high, they claim the dog races that kept that facility going for years are now a "burden". If I'm not mistaken, once they got gambling passed with the stipulation that gaming was only permitted at facilities with tracks, they started cutting back right away on the races. Since then, they've done everything possible (perhaps not completely intentionally) to hurt the dog racing side of their business.
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No surprise, another one sided misleading article jammed down the throat of the locals to make everyone feel sorry for the billion dollar casino company. Nevermind that they claimed they needed slots to trickle down to support thousands of jobs supported by racing. Sorry Joe Public, but that no longer fits our casinos agenda. Screw the thousands of people supported in WV by racing, now we want to put them out of business to increase our profits. Oh, and by the way, after we get that accomplished we will still fire the 105 table game workers anyway and replace table games with higher earnign slot machines. What a scam. Worst of all, the Senate President sponsored the bill. Rotten politics at it's finest.
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Didn't the track owners state that they needed voters to approve slots to help the racing industries and the jobs and trickle down economic effect that they had on dozens of other WV businesses? By the way, the WV Racing Assn quoted in the article is the casino's lobbying group and is in now way connected to racing. How disingenuis of this paper, but who is surprised?
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It won't be long until they will consider the track & casino a "Charity" And of course it's well known that "Charities" are non- profit. They all make a profit in one form or another. I don't care if they make a profit but don't think everyone is so stupid and believe them.
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It won't be long until they will consider the track & casino a "Charity" And of course it's well known that "Charities" are non- profit. They all make a profit in one form or another. I don't care if they make a profit but don't think everyone is so stupid and believe them.
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Mr. Jenkins must be deep in the pockets of the track people. Whatever they want him to print, he'll do it. I am no journalist but I am told that they are supposed to get both sides of the story. I guess Simms didn't want the dog people to have the chance to defend themselves. It might work against the image of a poor starving $billion dollar gambling operation.
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I would not care if the place closed either. They can take all the parlors with them. Our priorities as a state are awfully screwed up. The politicians cant resist the poison but the jobless should resist their temptations at the poison. The only difference is that the lawmakers make their gains legal. This is hurting everyone. Shame on our state.
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The slots subsidized the dog racing ever since slots were legalized. That is the way it was set up. That was how many years go? 20 maybe. you never heard the casino cry about it till now. They made their money when their were no other casinos around. When PA casinos opened and treated the players a lot better , Wheeling started phasing out table games. Complimentaries were cut way back and half the tables were removed and replaced with slots. Right before Ohio opened casinos, table games were moved into a small area in the back of the casino. When the middle of july rolls around, those tables will be gone and replaced with slots. Simms will be gone to fleece another community.
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I'm tired of reading about these bums on the front page. It would be one business that could shut down and be a plus for the community. Time to start the daily front page stories about the half marathon.
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Enough of Simms, the breeders, the dogs, and the horses. It would be no loss if the Wheeling casino would shut down entirely. It is doomed anyway so face the music now.
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50% reimbursement for slot purchases? Complaining that it will be reduced to 25%? Everyone else gets 0% on their capital expenditures. Stop corporate welfare!
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10 million for the Senior Citizens and 92 million for dog and horse peeps! Do realize that the gobernor and his family have made a lot of money in the dog breeding business! That is why we have the best political system on the face of the Earth....just ask the politicians!
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In the forthcoming year, the state of West Virginia will spend $497,035 for children with Autism, $7,271,757 for Special Education for exceptional Children and $12,866,163 for education of the deaf and the blind. THAT'S ABOUT 70 MILLION DOLLARS LESS THAN THEY WILL SPEND TO PAY DOG AND HORSE BREEDERS THIS YEAR.
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Parents are finding out that teachers are not villains
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Americans have a habit of codifying everything, taking the essence of an issue and putting a number to that essence so that everybody can understand just how bad things have become.
In many cases, the numbers become more important that the issue itself.
Over the last several years, the numbers have been used to demonize teachers, not only in New York City and Nassau County, but across the nation.
Put together the "facts" that tests sores are falling and few graduates are ready for either college and career and the fact that the percentage of teacher pension costs are increasing, causing cuts to school programs in local districts, and you have the perfect storm that brings the media and school functionaries to the conclusion that both are the fault of the teachers. The conventional wisdom on the part of school officials and media pundits who don't know any better is that teachers are at fault for both failing students and climbing school budgets.
How could it be any other way?
Look at the massive drop in test scores in Nassau County school districts that were announced last week. The media and state education officials were quick to say the cataclysmic drop in scores was due to a new curriculum and higher standards, while, at the same time intimating that perhaps the teachers should have been teaching the skills necessary to do well on the test all along. What they did not say is that for the last ten years, teachers have been forced to teach to the previous test as well as use vital classroom time on test prep that had nothing to do with education.
Fire the bad teacher's, those whose students are failing the test. Close the bad schools and open new ones.
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Who's at fault for failing schools? We are. All the residents of Long Island and across the nation who segregate our children into districts of "haves/have nots" and minority/white. Look at the schools that are failing and are always at the bottom of educational performance lists. They are always schools that are largely minority and/or consist of a largely lower socio-economic population. Let's not fool ourselves into believing that educational reform initiatives such as common core are anything but a waste of taxpayer dollars. Want to improve education? First, let's not compare minority children in crime-ridden, poor, neighborhoods to privileged children from middle class neighborhoods. The educations they're receiving are impacted by a lot more than curriculum. Secondly, demand to dissolve the segregated districts on Long Island. Have kids from Garden City and Jericho sit in classes alongside kids from Roosevelt and Hempstead.
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Cant wait to see what you do with this next! What style will this be? ...the southwestern continent looks just like a dragon head.
The World of Darha:
So this is the current state of my MIP (map in progress) of the world of Darha. As I have been carrying around an idea for a story I would love to turn into a novel sometime in the future as well as creating my own Pen&Paper RPG playing in the very same world as the novel I thought that drawing a map for the whole of it would be a good starting point.
The name Darha is the current headline of the project though I haven't decided yet whether it's going to stay that way.
Technical stuff:
As I am a loyal user of Ubuntu (Linux) operating system and the whole idea of open source software I used to do my cartography with open source vector graphics editor Inkscape (http://inkscape.org/). I personally believe that vector based graphics editors are most suitable for cartography (at least for medieval/fantasy-style mapping) as they concentrate on lineart and enable you to make changes to even the tiniest segment of every single line your draw throughout the whole process of the map. (This is my personal opinion about this. Nevertheless I do not deny that many of the most brilliant maps I've ever seen were done with raster graphic editors like PS. This thread, however is not supposed to start discussions on »raster vs. vector«).
As I already mentioned I used to favorise Inkscape for my mapping for the last couple of years (after drawing with real pencils on real paper and proceeding to PS and then to Illustrator). But lately I decided to switch over to Xara LX (http://www.xaraxtreme.org/) for it has the one thing that Inkscape is still lacking and that (which I can't stand any longer): hardware acceleration.
As my maps grew bigger and bigger and evermore detailed Inkscape got so slow that even zooming in and out took partially up to a minute of time.
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From the beginning on I wanted to create a world as authentic as possible when it comes to geographical principles and natural laws. So I started with creating tectonic plates and their assumed drift:
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After analysing the boundaries of my selfmade tectonic plates I marked the regions in which mountain ranges (brown) and rifts (blue) are most likely to occur:
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Before starting with the actual outlines of the continents and isles I thought how I want this world to look like. I wanted nothing too similar to our world. I started drawing rough shapes and absolutely undetailed shapes to the map and then adapted them to the concept of the continental plates. I did so until I reached the point at which I was satisfied with this approximate arrangement (I identified this point when I caught myself deriving new ideas for my story from the map)
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Next step was to redraw the coast lines in detail and to add isles to the whole of it and playing around with the Contour Tool which created those nice looking parallels of the coastline:
Of course criticism and any other constructive comments are highly appreciated
Cant wait to see what you do with this next! What style will this be? ...the southwestern continent looks just like a dragon head.
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I would appreciate some constructive critique on the tectonics and especially on the mountains and rifts
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The process seems very thorough. WAY more so than I could ever hope to accomplish. Overall the map looks great
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Thanks man. Maybe I'll use it for a tutorial.
By the way: I love your signature!
The tectonics seem pretty convincing to me, but since I don't know jack about tectonics, that probably doesn't really mean a whole lot.
But I do like the landmass layout, and yeah, I see the dragon head too. He's even got some whiffs of smoke coming from his snout - those archipelagos to the north.
I'am still not fully content with the landmass layout ... can't reason, it's a subjective impression.
I think it's just because you've been staring at it so long. The landmasses look fine to me, and the tectonics look reasonable. Onward!


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By Karen Jowers, Air Force Times
Use of food stamps in commissaries continued to rise last year, although not as sharply as in previous years, while redemptions through the nutrition program for women, infants and children have declined, according to Defense Commissary Agency data.
In fiscal 2013, commissary patrons redeemed $103.6 million worth of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, formerly known as food stamps. That's up 5 percent over fiscal 2012. The number of transactions rose by 2 percent, to 968,358.
SNAP redemptions in commissaries began climbing in 2009 when eligibility rules were expanded due to the national economic stimulus programs. But the growth appears to be leveling off.
Commissary officials track the number of transactions and the dollar amount, but they don't track the status of those using the benefit, so there is no way to compare usage among retirees with active-duty members, for example.
But other research indicates that troops who use SNAP "tend to be ... in junior pay grades with larger than average households," Pentagon spokeswoman Joy Crabaugh said. "Military members normally 'promote out' of the need for additional subsistence benefits, due to the corresponding raises in basic pay and other allowances as one moves to a higher pay grade."
SNAP eligibility is based on income and family size. For example, a family of four with gross monthly income of up to $2,552 would qualify under the guidelines as of Oct. 1.
The latest Agriculture Department data show 5,000 active-duty military families received SNAP benefits in 2011, about 0.01 percent of participants nationwide and about 0.36 percent of the active-duty military population.
In calendar year 2012, there were 421 military families who qualified for the Family Subsistence Supplemental Allowance program, Pentagon spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Nate Christensen said.
FSSA is a voluntary program intended to boost a service member's income so they may stay off the SNAP program. The allowance is based on household income and household size, with a top payout of $1,100 per month. Information on that program is at www.dmdc.osd.mil/fssa.
Income guidelines for WIC recipients are higher, so more military families qualify. In the continental U.S., a household of four could have an income of up to $3,631 a month and qualify for WIC.
That program provides food and nutrition education for pregnant and breastfeeding women, infants and young children. It is not known how many military families are on WIC nationwide; military families also redeem their benefits in civilian stores.
The overseas WIC program, administered by DoD, counts about 16,000 beneficiaries.
In fiscal 2013, more than $29 million in WIC benefits was redeemed in commissaries; a drop of 6 percent from fiscal 2012. Transactions totaled about 1.7 million, a decrease of 8 percent
Those numbers don't track with the national trend; Agriculture Department data for the first nine months of the fiscal year show an increase of more than 6 percent over the previous year.


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WASHINGTON, DC (WUSA) -- Three out of four of us will let someone else take the financial hit when we buy a car. But, if you're not careful, buying used could mean buying someone else's problems.
Most of the complaints that come into our WUSA 9 Call For Action team are about that very issue. So here's a "heads up" about something that could save you money.
Two of our viewers learned a painful lesson about what can happen if you're not given the full story about a potential set of wheels.
A Virginia used car lot sells a local man a truck for $5,000. But by the time he fixed all that ailed it, he was out of $10,000! And, a Maryland woman bought a used minivan and was told her car would pass inspection. It might, IF she spends thousands more to repair all the problems that surfaced once she drove it off the lot.
Auto expert and author of "The Car Book" Jack Gillis tells us you can find a reliable used car, but you should avoid those "buy here, pay here" lots. Gillis says you should consider buying from a large, national chain. And, if you work out financing with your credit union or bank, Gillis says it will always be less expensive.
Before you exchange any money, have an independent mechanic inspect the vehicle.
Gillis says a legitimate shop will let you take that vehicle to an independent mechanic. And, if they won't allow that to happen, walk away.
Watch out for flood impacted cars too. They can also end up on used car lots. Gillis offers these steps to protect yourself.
*Open up the trunk and pull up the padding to see if there are any signs of moisture.
*Look for discoloration on door panels or inside the engine compartment.
*If you see anything that looks suspicious, walk away.
And, if you've got a Consumer problem that you just can't fix - contact our WUSA 9 Call For Action team. You can file an online complaint here, or call our hotline at 301-652-HELP (4357).
Written by Lesli Foster
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Vladimir Tarasenko recorded a hat trick as the Blues hammered the Wild, 4-1, in Game Two of their opening-round playoff series in St. Louis.
Carlos Martinez fired six innings of one-run ball as the Cardinals cut down the Reds, 5-2, in St. Louis.
A late surge by the Cardinals gave them a 6-1 win over the Reds at Busch Stadium. Yadier Molina hit a three-run double in the seventh inning to break the tie.
High School Baseball....
Blair Oaks 4 Warrenton 2
Owensville 13 Linn 6
Waynesville Tournament...
Lutheran-St. Charles 5 Sullivan 4
Jason Pominville tallied a goal and an assist as the Wild beat the Blues 4-2 in Game One of their Western Conference quarterfinal series at Scottrade Center.
John Lackey pitched seven shutout innings as the Cardinals blanked the Brewers 4-0 at Busch Stadium. Matt Holiday, Mark Reynolds, Matt Carpenter and Yadier Molina all had... more
The Rams are getting an up close and personal look at quarterback Marcus Mariota. The Heisman Trophy winner out of Oregon came in for a pre-draft visit yesterday.
High School Baseball...
The Blues begin postseason play tonight against Minnesota. They host the Wild in Game One of their best-of-seven, Western Conference quarterfinal at 8:30 p.m.
Matt Holliday singled in a pair of runs in the opening inning to help the Cardinals beat the Brewers, 4-2, at Busch Stadium.
The KLPW Radio Athlete of the Week is Junior Mikayla Espowe with the Union Track and Field Team.
She was 15 years old--an accomplished student-athlete from a loving home, the kind of kid of whom it is said "she has the world going for her."
In November of 2015, her father went in to her room to discover she had taken her own life.
Back in their days, Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft were known for trust-busting. In an era of price-fixing, crony capitalism and corruption their actions helped to create more opportunities in the marketplace by creating competition.


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Kitchen: Preparation Storage Solutions
KraftMaid Storage Solutions return your attention to preparing a delicious meal, not rummaging through your cabinets for that missing bowl. Lazy Susans and roll-out trays provide easy access to small appliances and serving platters, while extended shelves create additional counter space for chopping and mixing. It's time to enjoy cooking again.


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Beyond Good & Evil 2 concept art shown at Montpellier In Game 2011
Thanks to the wonders of mobile phone technology, you too can see the exclusive Beyond Good & Evil 2 presentation from Montpellier In Game 2011.
Rayman Origins trailer gives travel advice
The latest Rayman Origins trailer's shown 10 ways the little dude can travel through his 2D platforming rebirth, including running up walls and bouncing. The Ubi wunderkind's sumptuous return only ever looks better: check below and see. It's out on November 25 for PS3, 360 and Wii.
Ancel: Beyond Good and Evil 2 going next-gen due to scope "limitations"
Michel Ancel has said that issues with the scope of Beyond Good and Evil 2 is the reason why it's waiting until the next-generation before we see anything else on it.
Rayman Origins middleware to go open source
Rayman Origins is beautiful enough that you'd expect Ubisoft to keep the middleware powering for itself, but it plans to make the tech freely available.
Ancel: Rayman Origins' move to retail due to "the way franchise works"
Michel Ancel has clarified why Rayman Origins made the jump to a retail release, saying it was how "the franchise works."
Ancel: No Beyond Good and Evil 2 this generation
Beyond Good and Evil 2 is still in development, series creator Michel Ancel has said, but it will skip the current line of hardware platforms.
Rayman Origins discussed in latest Game Informer
Ubisoft's Michel Ancel has said in the latest issue of Game Informer that while he has been working on Beyond Good and Evil 2 for "a while" now, he took a bit of a break to work on Rayman Origins.
Beyond Good and Evil HD now available on Live
Microsoft's now added Ubisoft's Beyond Good and Evil HD to its House Party line-up. The title, now available on Xbox Live Arcade, will set you back 800 MS points and comes in at a hefty 1.68Gb. Buy it, play as Jade with her pig friend Pey'j, love it and then demand for the whereabouts of […]
Beyond Good & Evil 2 still being developed; must be "perfect"
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has said work on Beyond Good & Evil 2 has never stopped, and the team is continuing to hammer away on it.
First Rayman Origins episode out this Christmas, being considered for 3DS, PC
Ubisoft will release the first episode of Rayman Origins this Christmas for PS3 and 360.
Ancel: BG&E 2 being developed with as few people as possible to maximize creativity
Good news first: Beyond Good & Evil 2 is definitely alive. If Ubisoft corporate's overly indulgent "yes" didn't convince you, perhaps a reassuring pat on the back from series creator Michel Ancel will do the trick. Now the not-quite-so-good news: Ancel has big, big plans for the game, but he wants to carry them out […]
Rumor: Michel Ancel leaves Ubisoft Montpellier, Beyond Good & Evil 2's future in doubt
"Hello, sir. Yes, and if you'll just sign right here…" "Um, excuse me, but what are you delivering, exactly?" "Why, it's the rain you ordered, of course. For your parade."
Ubisoft: Beyond Good and Evil 2 to be bigger, better than original
Ubisoft's Michel Ancel has told All Gamers that Beyond Good and Evil 2 will be bigger, more immersive and include more investigations. Loads of returning characters are expected, and it'll retain the spirit of the first game, the developer said. Ancel also mentioned that due to the constraints of PS2's Emotion Engine last time out, […]
Beyond Good & Evil 2 in pre-production, says Ancel
According to this JeuxVideo story, Michel Ancel has apparently confirmed that Beyond Good & Evil 2 has been in production for the past year, but Ubisoft isn't decided on whether or not to move into a production phase. The story says that between 10-12 people are working on the game. Don't blame us if some […]
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(NBC) -- A California 911 dispatcher begs a nurse at an independent living facility to perform CPR on an elderly woman who collapsed, fell unconscious and was barely breathing.
During the 911 call, the dispatcher desperately tried to get the nurse to find someone who would try to save the 87-year-old woman if she wouldn't perform CPR herself.
"Is there a gardener ... any staff? Anybody that doesn't work for you, anywhere?" the dispatcher asks, according to the 911 call, which was heard on TODAY Monday. "Can we flag someone down in the street and get them to help this lady? As a human being, I don't, you know, is there anybody that's willing to help this lady and not let her die?"
"Um, not at this time," the nurse says.
Despite the 911 dispatcher's request, no member of the staff at Glenwood Gardens in Bakersfield, Calif. would administer CPR. The nurse at the assisted living facility told the 911 dispatcher it was against company policy to administer the potentially life-saving technique.
The head of the facility said the nurse did follow company policy.
The elderly woman was eventually rushed to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
"Our practice is to immediately call emergency medical personnel for assistance and to wait with the individual needing attention until such personnel arrives," Jeffrey Toomer, executive director of Glenwood Gardens, said in a statement to TODAY. "That is the protocol we followed."
The elderly woman's daughter, a nurse, was satisfied with her mother's care, and the facility is conducting a thorough review, according to a report on TODAY Monday.
The call and the response are raising questions over policies at some senior facilities.
Under California law, unlike at a nursing home, staff members at independent living facilities are not legally required to provide medical aid, according to Mary Winners, an expert on senior care.
"It's really more like a hotel where they will offer you concierge services, you'll get meals, they'll have housekeeping, they'll change your bed, but you can't even get care," she told TODAY.
The dispatcher offered to instruct others on how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation if the nurse wouldn't do it. "I don't understand why you're not willing to help this patient," the dispatcher says.
TODAY contributor Dr. Roshini Raj said she disagreed with policies like Glenwood's, and said the nurse had a moral obligation to help.
"It's certainly shocking where you hear a nurse saying she can't perform CPR on a patient who clearly needs it," she said on TODAY.
"There is certainly, I think an ethical obligation to do it," Raj said. "On the other hand, I suppose this nurse was worried about, she was in jeopardy of losing her job because of this policy."
In this case, CPR could have made a big difference, Raj said, noting that the brain starts to die after four minutes without oxygen. "Every minute was crucial here and that's why the dispatcher was so desperate to start it," she said.
The policy allowed the facility to limit its liability, said Star Jones, a former prosecutor and TODAY contributor, noting that the living center has the right to limit the services it will provide.
"The problem then becomes, are we looking at a legal responsibility or is this a social responsibility?" Jones said, adding that certain factors, like whether the facility accepts federal Medicaid or Medicare funds, may play a role.
"I'd look at all the facts before I'd say this facility did the right thing," Jones said. "She may not go to court, but she does have to go to bed at night and I'm not sure she's going to be able sleep well."
And on the subject of liability, Raj pointed out that good Samaritan laws protect people who attempt to perform CPR.
"Even if you're not trained in CPR, if you attempt it in good faith to help someone, you're not liable," she said.
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WASHINGTON — Losing a job is difficult for anyone — the "what's next" can be be both heart-wrenching or exhilarating.
One Arlington, Va. man has turned reinventing himself into an award-winning film, "The Nextnik."
In 2010, Mike Kravinsky accepted a buyout after 29 years as an Emmy-winning ABC News video editor.
Facing a midlife job loss, Kravinsky's search for a second chapter in life led to launching a website about career and life changes.
"If you're starting something new, it's sort of frightening, because you're basically starting where you were when you were in your twenties," says Kravinsky in a WTOP interview.
Now, Kravinsky's first movie, "The Nextnik" has won local awards, is being shown at film festivals and can be streamed online.
In the film, fictional character Larry Zimmerman was laid off as a company executive after 25 years on the job and at the age of 55.
"He basically has to decide whether he is going to go back into the same field, or just use this as an opportunity to try something new," said Kravinsky.
Kravinksy said the first step toward reinvention is the most difficult.
"The biggest challenge would be 'how do you start, what do you do?'" recalls Kravinsky.
In "The Nextnik," Larry experiments with several careers, looking for the one that's the best fit.
Somewhere in the back of his mind, and always at the front of his passive- aggressive girlfriend's mind, is that Larry could accept another similar job that would pay the bills.
The internal conversation pitting "comfortable but boring" against "new, scary, and a life's dream" is difficult for anyone facing mid-career choices, according to Kravinsky.
"The Nextnik" was filmed on a budget of $25,000 in the D.C. area with familiar locales in Arlington, Fairfax, Leesburg, Va. and Rehoboth Beach, Del.
"The $25,000 was spent mostly on the actors, crew salaries, location fees, meals and insurance," says Kravinsky.
Businesses including Silver Diner in Clarendon, Burke Lake Golf Course, Zephaniah Winery in Leesburg, and GreenMan Juice Bar & Bistro in Rehoboth granted permission to film in exchange for film credit.
Kravinsky says he was able to get the movie made because he personally filled as many roles as possible to keep costs down including writing, directing, producing, editing, transportation, getting meals, and securing locations.
Kravinsky says the sweat equity is worth it to live out his dream.
"I'll feel that I'm getting somewhere in filmmaking when the credits go by on a film one day and one of them will say, 'Assistant to Mr. Kravinsky,'" he says.
"The Nextnik" has been nominated for Best Drama and Best Actor (Rick Kain as Larry) in the Trail Dance Film Festival in Duncan, Okla.
In the role of girlfriend Emma, Connie Bowman won the DC Peer Awards. The film also screened at the Alexandria Film Festival.
Follow @AugensteinWTOP and @WTOP on Twitter.
Sure, you could grill another hot dog. Or, you could try one of these 30 recipes for foods you never knew you could cook on the grill.


text: In 1954, Bill Drabek shoehorned a Ford Flathead into a 1940 Indian Four, creating the Indian V8 that now resides in David Edwards' garage. Drabek put 40,000 miles on that Indian before he died in 1968. Having discovered the unmarked grave of Drabek and his wife Jean, David is now embarking on a project to create a fitting memorial to the talented builder. You can help.


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Encrypted pdf attachments get filtered out because amavisd cannot scan an encrytped file which makes sense.
What is the best way to get around this on a case by case basis?
Will adding the sender to a whitelist work?
Does it need to be in amavisd.conf.in or can the user do it himself in their Zimbra web portal?


text: Ariat was founded with one simple objective - to provide the most technologically advanced riding boots to the world's top equestrian athletes. Ariat boots offer the ultimate in performance and comfort with elegant and traditional styling. Our selection women's Ariat boots are eye-catching and sure to stand out in the barn.


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The mission of Pandoraâs Aquarium, Inc. is to provide information, facilitate peer support, and offer assistance to male and female survivors of sexual violence and their friends and family. Each year, this nonprofit serves thousands of survivors through an online support community, lending library, and retreat weekends.
eBay for Charity
Registered with eBay for Charity.


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Our business is currently running ms exchange 2010. The installation went very smoothly on Ubuntu and I quickly had a number of mailboxes setup. I ran into huge problems trying to transfer everything over from the exchange server to Zimbra.
* Import tools fail. The PST import tool actually crashes Zimbra and appears to cause corruption.
* For some reason when using the outlook connector it doesn't import any emails or contacts you copy into the folders. It does appear to copy calendar items.
Essentially everything I try does not work. I realize that nowhere does it say these tools support outlook/exchange 2010. Are there plans to add support in the near future? Is there another way that I'm missing to import the information?


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Keeping the winter chill out is nothing to take lightly. But heavy, boring jackets and coats shouldn't be an option when you've got a busy day braving the elements. Investing in a great quality jacket or coat is worth every penny because staying warm and protected never goes out of style.
We've picked out some of our favorites from our Zappos Outdoor Shop to get you ready to face old man winter in the best gear around:
Women's: 1. Prana Devan Jacket, 2. Marmot Arona Jacket, 3. Patagonia Down With It Parka
Men's: 4. Marmot Conness Jacket, 5. Prana Rhody Reversible Jacket, 6. The North Face Gatebreak Down Jacket


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Originally Posted By: hondo

Reminds me of a David Allan Coe concert I went to once.
I got loaded and Coe and I mouthed off to each other.
About 1500 bikers got pissed. I apologised quickly to Coe.
Best concert I ever saw. 2 and a half hours of hard drivin Outlaw, classic country, and country rock.

A school teacher that admits drug use!This is a shocking revelation.I pray that you did not do any harm to children while teaching and using drugs.
What kind of a person are you to brag about teaching and drug use?
I pray your filthy soul will be healed.
God loves you.
Please seek help for your addictions.


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South Korean actress, Jeon Ji Hyun, is best known for her role as "The Girl" in My Sassy Girl. Since the release of the romantic comedy in 2001, My Sassy Girl has maintained its rank as one of the highest grossing Korean comedies of all time.
While Jeon Ji Hyun is definitely worthy of her popularity as "The Girl", she should clearly be known for her fashion sense as well. Posing for Vogue Korea, Jeon Ji Hyun is captivating with her classy looks and just the right pop of color.
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Back to our scheduled programming…
May 27, 2010
Welcome back to Newsroom Notes! For those of you that were reading this blog and other content on http://www.logisticsmgmt.com welco,me back! For those that were not, welcome!
As our Group Editorial Director Mike Levans said in a previous posting, LM-and its sister publications Supply Chain Management Review and Modern Materials Handling-are now Peerless Media LLC publications. Peerless is a subsidiary of Framingham, Mass.-based EH Publishing.
While we have not been part of the EH family for all that long, things are going great so far, and we are thrilled and thankful to be in such a terrific situation.
So, now what? Well, for starters, you can expect high quality editorial that you have come to expect from LM over the years, whether it be in the form of online news, blogs, Webcasts, etc. So, in that sense, not much has changed.
Personally speaking, it is my mission every day to find news and information that you will hopefully find interesting, useful, and relevant. That said, it is not an understatement to surmise that NOW is a great time to get back to blogging, given the myriad issues and topics that are floating around these days.
And as the economy slowly recovers, there appears to be an undercurrent of optimism in the freight transportation and logistics marketplace. Naturally, there is a fair amount of uncertainty, too. But at the end of the day, ask yourself this question: Are things better today than they were a year ago? Hopefully your answer is yes.
This answer may be based on increased customer demand for shippers and increased shipper demand for carriers and providers. Seeing how I am not a carrier or shipper, I am basically reading the tea leaves here, but it seems like there has been more good news than bad news of late (the European economy situation notwithstanding….), so let's see what happens as we head into the second half of 2010.
In closing, again, welcome back to Newsroom Notes. You can expect to hear from me once or twice a week, and I look forward to your thoughts and comments.
Best, JB
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text: "Honestly, it might sound cliche', but they teach it that way in New England,'' Moore said. "It's never stop hustling, just do the little things, and play to the whistle. We had a drill that we used to do at the end of practice with the receivers where we were just literally playing their hands. We don't look back for the ball as a DB, it's just when their hands go up we try to break through their hands.