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In a sly publicity stunt in London this morning, the BBC confirmed the UK airdate for the return of hit detective drama Sherlock. Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman will be back as Sherlock Holmes and John Watson on January 1, 2014 on BBC One; they return to PBS in the States a couple of weeks later on January 19th. The first episode in the new three-part series is titled The Empty Hearse, and this morning just such a vehicle made the rounds of some Sherlock shooting locations in the British capital, sending Twitter wild – and bringing confirmation of the news from the show's producers. The hearse wasn't entirely empty, though, since it contained a funereal floral arrangement spelling out the New Year's return date which sees the series pick up two years after Holmes was last seen plummeting from St Bart's Hospital in Season 2 finale, The Reichenbach Fall. Here's a pic courtesy of the BBC:
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Great news it has been too long.
A wonderful, fresh approach to Sherlock, and I was so hoping it would return. The story lines were ingenious. The actor(s), well they speak for themselves. Sherlock, they could not have chosen a better actor for the part. Doctor Watson, younger (good), intense, and unexpected. The American version (NO COMPARISON), and a woman, Dr. Watson (give me a break). And then they went to London, come on now. Ratings must be way down for them to try that stunt. Waiting in anticipation for the new season.
"Elementary" is a better show than "Sherlock" nearly all the way around — more plausible plots (Moffat never wrote one that made sense upon ten minutes' consideration) and not at all dependent on queer-baiting. (IF they'd actually have Sherlock and Watson get together, I'd respect "Sherlock" more – but all they do is tease their fanatical audience with a relationship that, as the writers have made clear, will never happen. But the fangirls keep licking Moffat's boot as he treats them with total contempt. It's sad, really.
That said, I think Cumberbatch and Freeman are terrific actors who hopefully will move on to better things.
Oi, screw you mate. Elementary is nothing more than Americinazed hipster garbage, hell CSI is more interesting than any of the crap Elementary did. If it wasn't just stupid making Watson a female (played by the Asian Jessica Alba herself aka Lucy Liu), but having the fricking nads to make Moriarty a female and have HER be romantically interested in Holmes is one massive middle finger.
The whole original point of Sherlock Holmes and Watson is that it was the ultimate symbiotic relationship…the original 'bromance'. When you translate into a modern era of course people would assume they were gay. The show teases it NOT to get them together, but rather to show that the type of relationship in the books can exist in modern times and how it would be interpreted. Sherlock in the books is not interested in women romantically, or, really in any aspect…he's only interested in Irene because she bests him. Making many, many female characters populate 'Elementary' negates the Sherlock canon. Also, while Sherlock modernizes the original stories, only using stories that appeared in Doyle's original, Elementary creates it's own. Sherlock is an update, taking Doyle's stories and placing them in a modern age, while Elementary is more like fanfiction, taking the characters and gender bending, creating new cases. Not arguing that Elementary is a bad show because of that (although I couldn't get past the pilot), but saying that it's doing a very different thing…
If it's not Jeramey Brett who cares
The best Sherlock Holmes was Jeremy Brett version, this Sherlock uses gay bait, no wonder they have so many fangirls.
Still think the 40's Rathbone Sherlock is my favorite (not the best acted). As for Johnnie Lee Miller's Sherlock, I think his acting along with Spader's on the Blacklist is the best on network TV.
I am looking forward to it. Will this be filmed back in the Victorian era ( hope so!) or in modern times. I do so miss Jeremy Brett. Is there a place I an see season one? I missed it here in the States. Thanks!
It's entirely obvious you've never watched Elementary. I enjoy Sherlock a great deal, and at a great straight-up update of the books, but Elementary is an amazing adaptation and Johnny Lee Miller's Sherlock is incredible.
As for your contempt for making Watson and Moriarty female, I think you have some misogyny you need to work out.


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The Washington Post takes an in-depth look at all the petty, childish and absurd reasons Bill Clinton and Barack Obama don't get along. Among them: Not enough "phone calls on a somewhat regular basis." Of course this is probably one of those minor rifts that the media exaggerate for the sake of ratings. Remember how Hillary Clinton was supposed to lead a rebellion at the convention?
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When the former president takes the convention stage tonight on the eve of Obama's historic nomination, seizing however briefly the undivided attention of his party and the nation, he intends to do what is expected of him, according to many friends and associates, and try to convince the public that Obama has the toughness and wisdom to be commander in chief. But though the speech might be as important to Clinton as it is to Obama, those close to him say he will deliver it with lingering feelings of estrangement that have surprisingly little to do with the fact that Obama defeated his wife in the primaries.
"Obama does not like Clinton, and Clinton knows it," asserted one longtime Clinton adviser, a refrain that several compatriots repeated almost word for word, though occasionally in stronger terms.
[...] Clinton associates, long familiar with his habits and rhythms, say it would take little more than phone calls on a somewhat regular basis to keep him satisfied. Attention has always been Clinton's lifeblood. "We all know that he wants to be loved. Just call him. Call him any time of day or night," said one associate. "Talk to him about anything. Talk to him about the Olympics or what he thinks about a certain congressional district or even about the New York Times Sunday crossword puzzle. Obama could even put the phone in a drawer and just let President Clinton talk away. It wouldn't take much. It could be so easy."
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GLENDORA is a well-managed city that sees itself as forever raising the bar on suburban contentment.
It didn't become known as "The Pride of the Foothills" for nothing.
But there is tension as ever between what in the Glendora political spectrum might be termed conservative vs. conservative: Slow-growthers who want to see no change at all to the mostly residential town of 50,000, and Chamber of Commerce types who don't want to see much development either, but want some increase in business to provide a better tax base, convenience to citizens and financially attractive real estate deals.
The tension led to a recall of slow-growthers almost a decade ago, and it's unlikely to ever go away as a dynamic in the otherwise placid place.
The city has never lacked for citizen volunteers from both camps ready and willing to give back by serving on committees, commissions and the City Council. But two incumbents - including current Mayor Ken Herman - are stepping down from that service, and there will be just one incumbent running for the three contested seats in the March 8 election.
We like and endorse the remaining incumbent, Doug Tessitor, for re-election, along with challengers John Fields and Jason Nagy.
Like most of the candidates we spoke with from the big field of seven, Tessitor, a two-term incumbent who was a leader in the recall movement, wants to see Glendora City Hall take the lead in a new political movement: Bringing rational pay and benefits packages back to municipal government before California cities are bankrupted.
For instance, the council recently negotiated a contract with City Manager Chris Jeffers that eliminated the absurd perk "administrative leave" offered by so many local cities to upper management. Employees don't need or use the leave; they just take it with them in the form of cash when they retire or resign. Tessitor wants to eliminate the perk entirely.
Tessitor is part of a post-recall council that has really beefed up the city's retail choices, including the very successful The Marketplace shopping center and Diamond Ridge. He is regionally valuable as well for his service on the Gold Line Construction Authority.
John Fields is quite literally a Chamber of Commerce type - a Glendoran since childhood in 1959, he has through a diverse business career managed the chambers of West Covina and El Paso, Texas. With degrees from Cal Poly Pomona and Claremont Graduate University, he kept his education local as well.
Fields joins Tessitor in saying the primarily bedroom city needs more of a daytime population with the right kinds of employers. He wants to improve the city's portion of Route 66 with corporate headquarters, a clean-tech, high-tech corridor along the lines of what Monrovia has done with Huntington Drive. "Why did we let Rainbird slip away?" he quite rightly asks of the locally founded firm. "That was legendary in Glendora." Fields wants to cut city government costs by seeing what can be contracted to the private sector and by sharing functions with other city governments: "We need to think more regionally," he said.
Newcomer Jason Nagy, a Realtor with extensive contract negotiation experience, brings a wealth of good ideas about ways to make Glendora fiscally stronger. He wants to be aggressive about moves to a two-tier pension program for all city employees, and to quite soon make retirement mostly employee-funded as it is throughout the private sector. The Glendora High and APU graduate also has entrepreneurial ideas for better investing the city's prudent reserves and using some reserves as well to incentivize businesses to move to the city.


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The Opera House has confirmed there is no start date for the proposed $350 million-plus renovations of the Opera Theatre because funding for the ambitious project has not been secured.
That could mean Joern Utzon's vision is put on hold once again.
The two major users of the venue, the Australian Ballet and Opera Australia, this week confirmed they had locked in their seasons at the Opera House for the next three years.
They have done so based on the assumption that work will not have begun by then.
The project, that would restore the Opera Theatre to Utzon's original specifications, involves closing the theatre for an overhaul of the acoustics, sightlines and stage.
The NSW Government originally committed about $70 million towards a smaller plan to renovate the exterior of the building and the Opera Theatre's antiquated orchestra pit. But it said no to footing the $300 million-plus bill for the bigger renovations.
In February last year there were signs that NSW Treasury was considering ways to help finance the massive refurbishment.
The revised plan was announced late in 2003 by the chief executive of the Opera House, Norman Gillespie.
It was unofficially costed at more than $300 million, and the Opera House's architect, Joern Utzon, was commissioned to create an expanded blueprint for the overhaul which is due to be released in the middle of this year.
The executive director of the Australian Ballet, Richard Evans, said the company was still waiting for "firm advice" on when the renovations would begin, and had in the meantime locked in its Sydney seasons at the Opera Theatre.
He said that there had been discussions with the Opera House about the matter, and it had also been raised in a meeting with Mr Gillespie this week.
In case the work got the go-ahead sooner than expected, he was confident that the Opera House Trust would be able to offer alternative venues.
The trust has been in talks with the Lyric Theatre at the Star City Casino in Darling Harbour and the Capitol Theatre in Haymarket on behalf of the ballet.
Opera Australia said it was adopting the same cautionary strategies as the Australian Ballet.
"We're planning on being in the Opera Theatre for 2006 and 2007, and we're also planning [to be there] in 2008, with contingency plans for other theatres," a spokeswoman said.
Mr Utzon was invited by Mr Carr to oversee the major upgrade of the Opera House in 1998.
Mr Carr announced at the time that the NSW bid for federation funding to help restore the interiors had been unsuccessful, but the work would proceed.
Mr Utzon was forced out of the project before work had begun on the building's final stage.
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After 4 Years, A Bar Owner Is Vindicated
A jury in Queens Supreme Court decided this week that a local bar owner was not responsible for a September 4, 2005 knife assault that left a man gutted.
The Beautiful Palm Garden Pub on Rockaway Beach Boulevard at Beach 114 Street was the scene of the brutal stabbing assault that night, when the barmaid's boyfriend slashed an underage patron across his stomach and then stabbed him in the chest following an argument, police said.
Court records say the victim's intestines spilled out of the gaping wound to his midsection. "He was cut just above his beltline all the way from one side of his abdomen to the other," a witness told The Wave.
The pub's owner, Owen Baxter, said the confrontation started inside the bar when Mark Sciortino, 20, made a "disrespectful" comment to the bartender, JoAnn Waters. Michael Vola, Waters' boyfriend, had words with Sciortino, which prompted Waters to ask Vola to leave.
Baxter contends that Sciortino was told he could not drink with the six other people with whom he came in, and said that's where the trouble may have started.
Police didn't say who initiated the violence, but a witness saw Vola pull Sciortino in towards him and stab him with a large knife while the two were out on the street, according to court records. Vola fled on foot but was apprehended less than a block away by two police officers, Villani and Johnson, at his apartment located at 183 Beach 114 Street.
Vola was charged with attempted murder, two counts of assault and criminal possession of a weapon, according to a spokeswoman for Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown.
He was tried in 2006 and was convicted and sentenced to eight years in prison for the assault.
EMS brought Sciortino to Jamaica Hospital where he immediately underwent surgery.
He recovered fully and sued the Beautiful Palm Garden Pub and its owner, Owen Baxter, for allowing Vola to continue drinking after he was already "visibly intoxicated," thereby becoming responsible for the attack.
After hearing five days of testimony, however, the jury of six men and women decided that the bartender did not serve alcohol to Vola when he was visibly intoxicated and that the owners of the bar did not allow it to become a "disorderly place."
"I'm glad that this is over," Baxter told The Wave this week. "It was a terrible incident and I am happy that it's finally closed."
The pub has been closed for several years, Baxter says, because of the civil lawsuit brought by Sciortino.


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PORTSMOUTH NH—June sales of single family homes among the 13 sample seacoast towns recorded a 6% monthly gain, making June the strongest month of the year to date, according to the Seacoast Board of REALTORS.
After May's record month, a less typical June could have been expected. June is normally the strongest month of the year. However, once again that tradition was upheld albeit the 105 sales recorded was one less than last June.
Two new all-time records for any month were set in June with 37 sales in the $400-$700,000 price range (up 76% from last month) and in the $700,000 to $1million range with nine sales, three more than last month.
Second quarter results were up 8.8% from a year ago and 77% from the first quarter. For the year, total sales are up 9.1% from 2011.
Meanwhile, the year's condo rally cooled with sales off 13.7% from last month but still up 18.9% from last year. The month set a new high for the year in sales from $600,000 to $1 million with four sales. Second Quarter totals reveal a staggering 33.6% gain from 2011. Total condo sales for the year are a robust 27.4% ahead of 2011.
"The market is continuing to recover," said Lauren Kane, President of the Seacoast Board of REALTORS. "Improving sales in the higher price points is significant because there hasn't been a lot of movement in that bracket in the recent past. It's encouraging that buyers recognize opportunity and are taking advantage of it."
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Southwest Precinct Police website coming this summer as part of SPD reform
Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn spent part of Feb. 14 updating his city on progress they have made with SPD 20/20 Initiative, a 20-part plan to improve officer training, transparency, public trust and policing tactics over 20 months.
Part of the progress report includes new details that each Seattle Precinct (including the Southwest Precinct covering West Seattle and South Park) will have their own website by summer of 2013.
"Web pages specific to each of Seattle's five precinct are in development …," according to a published 20/20 report. "These pages will include blog space reserved for precinct commanders for direct interaction with precinct residents and stakeholders."
Currently, the Southwest Precinct web page includes contact information, an address and any SPD Blotter news items pertaining to the area. The expanded website should provide the community with more opportunities for personal interaction with local law enforcement.
"We are about half way through our timeline for reforming the Seattle Police Department in 20 months, and significant progress has been made. I encourage the public to visit seattle.gov/spd2020 to learn more about our changes to recruitment, training, transparency, community outreach, use of data in policing and much more," McGinn said.
Additional highlights from the Mayor's update include (from his office):
• Review of uses of force: SPD now has a Force Review Board, designed on the model of the Firearms Review Board. It meets each week to review every use of force by every Seattle Police officer and draw conclusions about whether the use of force was handled correctly. We have also recruited and trained a Force Investigation Team to respond and investigate at the scene of a use of force incident.
• Data-driven policing: SPD has piloted and tested evidence-based "hot spot" policing (the "Koper Curve" model) at the micro level to address location-based crime and disorder problems in each of the five precincts. Additionally, statistical tools are used to measure the effectiveness of the tactics employed. This has created a significant shift in the culture of policing within the Department, away from random patrol to addressing disorder closer to the origins of its cause. The purchase of "PredPol" (a predictive policing, algorithm based software using forensic anthropology) has enabled us to leverage existing mapping software to utilize predictive analytics in the tactical deployment of officers.
• Training: SPD now has a full time Race and Social Justice Initiative program coordinator. By the end of 2013 all sworn and civilian officers will take part in the RSJI training, "Race: The Power of an Illusion". SPD is working with Tribes across Washington including the Lummi Nation and Tulalip Tribes to develop specific training for officers on issues affecting our Native American population. Street skills training has been expanded to address the difficult problem of low level offenses from escalating. By the end of 2013 in all SPD officers will be trained in Crisis Intervention Team tactics, which focus on de-escalating interactions with people in mental health crisis.
• Transparency: SPD last year launched Tweets by Beat, an interactive 9-1-1 crime map with real time updates, and precinct specific webpages are coming soon.
• Community Outreach: In 2012 we launched our Safe Communities outreach initiative, talking to thousands of residents and building better relationships between our officers and our community. We have appointed our Community Police Commission, who will provide civilian oversight to the implementation of 20/20, the Settlement Agreement and the Memorandum of Understanding with the Department of Justice.
• Recruitment: SPD will eliminate the $25 fee application fee for all those interested in applying, made plans to increase the number of opportunities for testing throughout the year, and worked with community-based organizations to recruit potential candidates from various communities that reflect our diverse city.
A full 20/20 Initiative update can be found at http://www.seattle.gov/spd2020/docs/SPD2020_STATUSUPDATE_WEB.pdf
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The Foundation's first project was facilitating the creation of the Morrison Knudsen Nature Center in Boise. In the past 25 years, its mission has grown. Today it holds gifted funds, properties and conservation easements to preserve their conservation values and leave a lasting legacy for future generations. It also provides funding support for a wide range of programs that focus on habitat preservation, public access, wildlife management and conservation education.
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Melting moment for Tony nominee
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A prominent criminal psychiatrist and a writer for The New Yorker have accused the English playwright Bryony Lavery of lifting parts of dialogue, structure and characters from their work and using them in her Tony Award-nominated drama Frozen.
The psychiatrist, Dr Dorothy Otnow Lewis, and the writer, Malcolm Gladwell, say that they have found at least a dozen instances of word-for-word plagiarism in the play, as well as thematic and biographical similarities to a 1997 New Yorker profile of Lewis by Gladwell and a 1998 book by Lewis.
Lewis, a well-known expert in the psychology of murderers, said she first became aware of the alleged plagiarism about two months ago after she was asked by a member of the Broadway production team of Frozen to take part in a discussion with audience members about the play.
Lewis had not seen the play, which involves an American psychologist interviewing a serial killer, but as a result of the request she read the script.
"I was absolutely staggered," said Lewis, who is a professor at the Yale University Child Study Centre. "I felt I'd been robbed. She'd lifted my life."
Lewis alleged that Lavery used her 1998 autobiographical book, Guilty by Reason of Insanity, about her experiences treating killers, as the basis for the character of the American psychologist in Frozen. Her suspicions were heightened when she saw the play, she said, and when she discovered that Lavery's script also contained several lengthy passages that were identical or almost identical to a 1997 profile that Gladwell had written about her work and the work of her research partner, Dr Jonathan Pincus.
Documents provided by Lewis's lawyer, Martin Garbus, seem to bear out her claim. Early in Gladwell's article, for example, he quoted Lewis talking about her patients. "I just don't believe people are born evil," Lewis said in The New Yorker article. "To my mind that is mindless. Forensic psychiatrists tend to buy into the notion of evil. I felt that that's no explanation. The deed itself is bizarre, grotesque. But it's not evil. To my mind, evil bespeaks conscious control over something. Serial murderers are not in that category. They are driven by forces beyond their control." In the second act of Frozen, the character Agnetha, the psychologist, delivers the same speech, identical except for one word, the extra word being "but".
In another instance, Agnetha sums up her view of the nature of murder. "The difference between a crime of evil and a crime of illness," she says, "is the difference between a sin and a symptom."
That same sentence appears near the end of Gladwell's article, where it is used to describe Lewis's beliefs. As well, Lewis says Lavery borrowed several biographical elements from her book to fill out Agnetha's character.
Lavery would not comment on the allegations.
The play, which was nominated in May for a Tony Award for best play, was first produced in England in 1998 and played at its Royal National Theatre in 2002. Frozen was recently staged in Sydney as part of the Sydney Theatre Company season, starring Helen Morse and Frank Gallacher.
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Below are some examples of the projects recently undertaken by the International Human Rights Clinic. Descriptions of Clinic projects undertaken in partnership with the Avon Global Center for Women and Justice are available on the Avon Global Center website. Please contact us if you would like further information on these projects.
Petition against US Military at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
In January, the Clinic filed a petition before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on behalf of twenty service men and women who were sexually assaulted while serving in the U.S. military. The petitioners faced retaliation from their Chain of Command for reporting the incidents, and none received sufficient access to judicial remedies. Click here to learn more.
Amicus Brief on Women's Reproductive Rights
Clinic members are working with the Center for Reproductive Rights to research and draft a background memorandum on legal standards and policies relating to access to emergency contraception for survivors of violence in South Asia (with a focus on Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh and India) for an upcoming litigation workshop in Nepal. The Clinic will also use this research for an amicus brief to be submitted with CRR's Asia Program on a public interest case initiated in India. This case, filed by the Human Rights Law Network in the High Court of Punjab and Haryana, calls on the government to protect women's reproductive health by providing access to a full range of contraceptive methods, information and services, and consequently end violations of women's fundamental rights arising from this lack of access. The petition alleges that women face serious barriers due to flawed state policies and the failure of the state government to implement national-level policy guarantees.
Report on Refugees in Turkey
The clinic is undertaking a study for the Refugee Solidarity Network on the rights of refugees in Turkey. Turkey hosts 70,000 asylum-seekers from Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia, as well as nearly a million displaced Syrians, making it the 6th most significant host country in the world. In April 2013, Turkey passed its first-ever comprehensive legislation on asylum and refugee issues including the establishment of a new civilian agency, the Directorate General for Migration Management, tasked with administering a new Refugee Status Determination (RSD) procedure (a legal process to identify whether someone is a refugee). The new legislation will bring many changes to the current parallel UNHCR-government procedure. The goal of the project is to conduct research and fact-finding to help prepare local NGOs for this transition. The Clinic has been asked to prepare a report that examines similar transitions that have occurred in other countries. The report will conclude by offering recommendations for the government of Turkey, NGOs working there on refugee protection, and UNHCR.
Report on Clinical Legal Education in India
The report, "Promoting Clinical Legal Education in India: A Case Study of the Citizen Participation Clinic" is the product of a unique collaboration between the Good Rural Governance and Citizen Participation Clinic at Jindal Global Law School and the Cornell International Human Rights Clinic at Cornell Law School. Students at Jindal and Cornell participated in a joint clinic by videoconference from January to May, 2012 and prepared this report. The Report points out that most law schools in India lack robust clinical legal education programs. Clinical legal education is essential to preparing law students to practice law effectively and promoting access to justice for marginalized groups. The report recommends that law schools mandate that trained faculty directly supervise students undertaking legal work, provide credit to students who engage in legal aid services, and ensure low student-teacher ratios. Additionally, the report recommends that the Bar Council repeal its prohibition against professors and students practicing law before courts in India. The report describes the key features of the Citizen Participation Clinic, which aims to address the disconnect between the Indian Constitution's promise for a dignified life for every citizen and the reality of undignified human existence for the majority of the population, particularly in rural India. That Clinic is one important example of a successful clinical model that can be adopted by other law schools in India to engage with their neighboring communities and to train law students in important lawyering skills.
Panel Discussion: "International Human Rights in the Colombian Constitutional Framework"
Panelists from the United States and Colombia discussed how the Colombian Constitutional Court has utilized international law to protect the rights of indigenous peoples, the ways in which the Colombian constitution deviates from international human rights obligations relating to the right to education, and the litigation and other advocacy work in which panelists are engaged, including cases before the Colombian Constitutional Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
Public Interest Litigation Brief on Witch Hunting in India
The Cornell Law School International Human Rights Clinic wrote a brief that was filed by the Human Rights Law Network, a prominent public interest law firm in India, in the State of Jharkhand seeking to end witch hunting practices. This public interest litigation asks the government to enforce current laws prohibiting witch hunting, enact stronger legislation, and provide support services to victims of witch hunts. Witch hunting, a practice in which an individual is accused of being a witch and is then beaten, tortured, or killed, has resulted in the death of at least 2,500 Indian women in the last fifteen years. The victims are primarily women who are widows or other marginalized members of society, who are used as scapegoats for some harm that has befallen the community. While the Indian Penal Code and the Jharkhand Prevention of Witch (Daain) Practices Act prohibit naming a woman a witch and using violence against her, these laws are poorly enforced and contain very weak punishments. The Clinic's brief addressed the international law implications of India's failure to protect the victims of witch hunting.
Amicus Brief in Support of Petition on the Right to Free Education in Colombia
Clinic students submitted an amicus brief (also available in English) in support of a petition to the Colombian Constitutional Court challenging the constitutionality of the General Education Law's provisions permitting educational institutions to charge enrollment and other school fees, including at the primary level.
Conference in Cali and Bogota on the Right to Education of Minorities in the Americas
In collaboration with the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights (RFK Center), Association NOMADESC, the University of Valle in Cali, Colombia, the University of Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, and the University of Virginia School of Law International Human Rights Clinic (UVA Clinic) planned, prepared and implemented a two-day, multi-city conference to continue an important dialogue among local, national and international leaders, remain accountable to local communities and promote grassroots advocacy to improve the right to education of minorities in the Americas. The conference included a keynote address by United Nations Independent Expert on Minority Issues Gay McDougall and launched the in-depth report on the state of the right to education in the Americas authored by the Clinic and its partners (see below). Read the Conference Outcome Document (English & Spanish) brochure (Spanish), program (English & Spanish) and press release.
Presentation to Colombian National Congress and Public Interest Law Group at University of Los Andes Law School
Clinic students prepared a presentation for the launch of the Campaign for the Right to Free Education in Colombia and led a roundtable discussion to think strategically about how to ensure free education for all in Colombia.
Amicus Brief supporting Public Interest Litigation (PIL) on Safe Pregnancy in Bihar, India
Clinic students prepared an amicus brief outlining the international legal framework and government obligations supporting a petition that urged the Indian government to ensure safe institutional deliveries and to fulfill the service guarantees provided for in the National Rural Health Mission's Framework for Implementation.
Right to Information Act Request to Indian Government for data and methods used to calculate the Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR)
In collaboration with the Human Rights Law Network and the faculty and students at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, the Clinic submitted a Right to Information Act request to access the raw data and methods that the Indian government uses to calculate its maternal mortality statistics. These data and methods will be evaluated to ensure accurate reporting of MMR in the country.
Judicial Training Manual on Fair Trial Standards for Trial Judges in India
Students researched and drafted a manual used for in the official Indian training program for trial judges in India. The manual covers rules relating to arrest, detention, trial procedures, and sentencing. For each phase in the criminal process, the manual describes the applicable international and Indian statutory law, how current legal practice deviates from the law, and suggests ways in which the judiciary can help bridge the gap between law and practice.
Hearing of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on the Right to Education for Minorities in the Americas
Students wrote a report (also available in Spanish) for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights dealing with access to education for minorities in Colombia. The Clinic presented the report in a hearing before the body in Washington, D.C. on March 12, 2008. Witnesses from Latin America, our client organization, and Professor Kalantry testified at the hearing. In researching the report, students conducted field-work in Colombia during December 2007, where they interviewed Afro-Colombian leaders, indigenous community members, a constitutional court justice, a senator, the vice-minister of education, and local school teachers. The purpose of the hearing and our project was to draw attention to limits on access to education for Afro-descendants and indigenous peoples in the Americas.
Intervention in the European Court of Human Rights on Reproductive Rights on Behalf of the Special Rapporteur for Health
Students drafted an amicus brief on behalf of Paul Hunt, the U.N. Special Rapporteur for Health, for a case in which the petitioner was denied the right to receive prenatal testing. In a landmark decision in May 2011, the ECHR found in favor of the party supported by the Special Rapporteur and the special Rapporteur's amicus was described in the decision:
Brief in the Federal Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Interpreting the U.N. Convention Against Torture
Students drafted and filed briefs to the Federal Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit for case in which we are arguing that deporting our client to Haiti where he is likely to die in a Haitian prison for lack of medication, food and water violates U.S. obligations under the U.N. Convention Against Torture.


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Media, War & Conflict
|Ben O'Loughlin
|Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
|Sarah Maltby
|University of Sussex, UK
|Laura Roselle
|Elon University, North Carolina
|Nicolette Barsdorf-Liebchen
|Bournemouth University, UK
|Debra Ramsay
|University of Exeter, UK
Communication & Media Studies | Political Science & International Relations | Sociology
Media, War & Conflict is a major international, peer-reviewed journal that maps the shifting arena of war, conflict and terrorism in an intensively and extensively mediated age. It explores cultural, political and technological transformations in media-military relations, journalistic practices, new media, the arts, and their impact on publics, policy, and outcomes of warfare.
Media, War & Conflict is the first journal to be dedicated to this field. It publishes substantial research articles, shorter pieces, book reviews, letters and commentary, and includes an images section devoted to visual aspects of war and conflict. The journal bridges communications, political science, sociology, history, cultural studies and other disciplines. It solicits submissions not just from academics but also professionals and practitioners working in areas related to this subject matter. The editors are looking for innovative, readable work that raises new issues as well as articles that examine new facets of traditional topics.
Media, War & Conflict operates a strictly blinded peer review process in which the reviewer's name is withheld from the author and, the author's name from the reviewer. The reviewer may at their own discretion opt to reveal their name to the author in their review but our standard policy practice is for both identities to remain concealed.
Topic coverage includes:
- Practices, cultures & ethics of covering wars, terrorism and political violence
- Impacts of war and violent conflict upon media
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- Art, aesthetics, film and war.
- Visuality and other modalities in war & conflict
- War, terrorism and political violence in popular culture
- Media, archives & memory; mediated commemoration
- Audience understandings of war and conflict; public diplomacy
- Media-elites relations and their impact on conflicts and their coverage
- Military communications and media strategies
- Media in conflict resolution, reconciliation and community-building
- Relationships between media and the technologies/politics of intelligence and security
- Cybersecurity/cyberwar/cyberconflict
- Web 2.0 or 3.0, social media, new media and war
We particularly encourage submissions from the following academic disciplines and practitioner communities:
- International Relations, Politics, Security Studies
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- Artists, Photographers, Film makers
- Military and Security
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Media, War & Conflict is a major international, peer-reviewed journal that maps the shifting arena of war, conflict and terrorism in an intensively and extensively mediated age. It explores cultural, political and technological transformations in media-military relations, journalistic practices, new media, the arts, and their impact on publics, policy, and outcomes of warfare.
|Sean Aday
|George Washington University, US
|Samar al-Roomi
|Kuwait University, Kuwait
|Stuart Allan
|Bournemouth University, UK
|Hussein Amin
|American University in Cairo, Egypt
|Gwen Bouvier
|University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK
|Maura Conway
|Dublin City University, Ireland
|Trevor Davies
|Photojournalist, UK
|Alan Davis
|Institute for War and Peace Reporting, UK
|Myriam Dunn
|Center for Security Studies, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
|Mohammed el-Nawawy
|Queens University of Charlotte, USA
|Shahira Fahmy
|University of Arizona, USA
|Tom Fenton
|former CBS News, UK
|Eytan Gilboa
|Bar-Ilan University, Israel
|Marie Gillespie
|The Open University, UK
|James Gow
|King's College London, UK
|Phil Hammond
|London South Bank University, UK
|Zoe Hibbert
|Charles Sturt University, Australia
|Andrew Hill
|The Open University, UK
|Richard Jackson
|University of Manchester, UK
|Stephen Jukes
|Bournemouth University, UK
|Richard Keeble
|University of Lincoln, UK
|Cinny Kennard
|National Public Radio, USA
|Greg Kent
|Roehampton University, UK
|Sahar Khamis
|University of Maryland, USA
|Phillip Knightley
|Quil Lawrence
|BBC/Public Radio International, USA
|Justin Lewis
|Cardiff University, UK
|Steven Livingston
|George Washington University, US
|Sarah Maltby
|University of Sussex, UK
|William Merrin
|Swansea University, UK
|Susan Moeller
|University of Maryland, USA
|Jay M Parker
|Georgetown University, USA
|Greg Philo
|University of Glasgow, UK
|Albert C Pierce
|National Defense University, USA
|Lawrence Pintak
|American University in Cairo, Egypt
|Piers Robinson
|University of Manchester, UK
|Laura Roselle
|Elon University, North Carolina
|Neil Ruigrok
|University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
|Jamie Shea
|NATO, Belgium
|Philip Taylor
|University of Leeds, UK
|Howard Tumber
|City, University of London, UK
|Ingrid Volkmer
|University of Melbourne, Australia
|Gadi Wolfsfeld
|Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
|Barbie Zelizer
|University of Pennsylvania, USA
|David Zurawik
|Baltimore Sun, USA
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Issues, not member trolling, led to AARP membership
This week I finally took the plunge.
After receiving gentle reminders for the past year or two about joining AARP, I decided to become a dues-paying member.
The mail started coming, it seems, when I hit 55, and frankly, I didn't appreciate it one bit. With people living longer, it doesn't make sense to think of 55 as a "senior." For those who end up as centenarians, that age is just slightly on the downhill side of midlife.
It's not that AARP was annoying about their offers. They didn't call repeatedly and at all hours and like the Telefund folks, and they only sent out cards of invitation referencing free gifts and discounts. It was that age where the "senior" bar was set that I found annoying.
In the end, it wasn't the perks that prompted me to pay the annual membership fee. I did so after hearing the state AARP president discuss the organization and all it was working toward that tipped the scales.
James Wall spoke recently in Waynesville and outlined some of the activities AARP is involved in, including a program to package and distribute nutritional meal packets to the elderly who may not have enough to eat. He also discussed the organization's efforts to give a voice to those who often are not heard.
I like the way the national organization is approaching discussions on the Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security programs that are a lifeline to many seniors.
The nonpartisan organization has contracted with highly credentialed staff members from two opposing think tanks — the Heritage Foundation on the conservative side and the Brookings Institute on the liberal side.
There are 15 Medicare reform proposals and 12 proposals to revamp Social Security currently before Congress. The organization has booklets summarizing each plan, along with a brief analysis from the opposing analysts. In some cases, the pro and con points are made by a nationwide health care company.
I found the summaries extremely helpful and, in analyzing my personal take on the information, discovered my position on the solutions had little to do with whether they were backed by liberals or conservatives. Knowing the issues rather than just the labels made a difference. It was encouraging to see that ideas exist to address these complex issues, and I found they are ones where bipartisan support should be achievable.
I hope AARP has found the perfect way to get discussions on vital issues facing our nation off dead-center and break the partisan gridlock we have seen in Washington, D.C. that has paralyzed us as a nation.
Unlike the political campaign ads we will be barraged with as the election approaches, I feel like I can trust this information put together by AARP on issues we must confront to get our fiscal house in order.
In that end, that's what prompted me to get over the feeling of annoyance about premature recruiting and join AARP.


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Personal Values & Core Beliefs are so cliché.
If you ask me, this topic has been beat to death, leaving most of us with a bland taste in our mouth, eliciting an autopilot nod as a voice in our head says, "blah blah blah blah, I already know what my personal values and core beliefs are = B-O-R-I-N-G."
In fact, if you are still reading this, I applaud you – and I'll do my best to make it worth your while.
For Transformation Tuesday, my goal is always to push your buttons just a bit, to make you think. As you dig around beneath the surface, asking uncomfortable questions and addressing buried topics, your mindset begins to transform. This week is no exception.
Where did your personal values and core beliefs originate?
Many of us were indoctrinated with a specific system of programs from which we operate in daily life. This 'programming' may have occurred in childhood, and may revolve around politics or religion. I honor those of you who have paused to ponder your personal values, exclusive of any prior programming, especially if you have also clearly identified your individual guiding compass, based on your deepest core beliefs.
I honor this effort because it is somewhat rare. As Mask Wearers, most have not taken the time to delve too deeply into our own individuality. Exploring and revealing the "real" you takes courage, and that's why we're doing it together. Question for you:
What are the guiding principles in your life?
If you quickly rattled off a Sunday School version for your answer, I beg you to dig just a little bit deeper.
Revisiting Your Personal Values and Core Beliefs
This exercise will help you identify a layer of "you" that may not surface without a bit of prodding. No matter how much 'work' you've done, it is always valuable to revisit your personal values and core beliefs.
If you feel uncomfortable or threatened in any way, please accept my apologies in advance, and know that your willingness to revisit this topic is directly proportionate to your desire to take off the mask(s) that you wear.
- Where did your belief system come from?
- Was it passed down to you from your parents?
- Have you ever taken the time to personally deliberate on the most meaningful virtues you choose to embody in your life?
- Do you assume that your personal values and core beliefs are the same as a political viewpoint or membership in a specific church?
- Have you accepted the values and beliefs of an organized system without pausing to consider how your own moral compass guides you, without the influence of ….. ?
Perhaps your personal values and core beliefs DO include political perspectives, as well as your preferred doctrine. Let's experiment for a moment.
- Take a giant step back from the labels you might currently identify yourself with.
- Forget being a Christian, or a Democrat, or a Feminist (or any other similar label).
- Deep down within your own soul, what are your guiding tenets?
- What are the directions on your own personal compass?
- What virtues are the most important for YOU to embody in your life?
These phrases are very important to me, and as I continually revisit my answers to the questions posed today, my guidance system is refined. I hope you have a similar experience.
- Answer each of the questions – you may want to start a journal or a blog to reflect on your journey.
- Share your thoughts with us! (Leave a comment, make a post in the Facebook Group, or even shout out on Twitter!)
- Write out a Guiding Statement (similar to a mission statement) that describes and defines your personal values and core beliefs.
Extra Credit / Creative Expression:
– Create a visual representation of your Guiding Statement. Share with us via social media and use hashtags #transformationtuesday or #butterflymaiden.
I look forward to hearing your answers to this week's discussion questions.
With mucho a latte of love and respect,
I think personal values are the b.


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Feb 14, 2012
Happy Valentine's Day!
Hope you all have a great day!
Sep 3, 2011
Italian for Dinner!
There's nothing like homemade sauce with fresh tomatoes, chives and basil from the garden. Then some olive oil, garlic and mozzarella cheese to dip in it!
Had a great day in Woodstock, NY meeting with a new client. Some really delicious drinks! check it out: http://www.pressandblend.com/PRESSANDBLEND/pressandblend_home.html.
Aug 29, 2011
Chocolate Raspberry Cupcakes
Here they are! The cupcakes I keep talking about...they are so delicious. Made with chocolate frosting on the outside and chocolate chips and fresh picked raspberries folded inside. Perfect with a glass of milk!
Happy Monday!
Aug 25, 2011
In my glassware series! I got this little blue glass at the antique store in Hyde Park, NY. One of my first purchases from this store. I found soooo many beautiful antiques in there, it's amazing!! I absolutely love this cobalt blue color.
I picked one of my mother's favorite plants, the buganvilia, to put with this piece. The two colors look great together! Check out the rest of this series throughout my blog...
Aug 22, 2011
I went to 2 different antique stores today in Hyde Park! I found this plate, bread board, little blue glass and these 2 old photographs. I can't wait to use them in pictures! (Thought I'd share my findings with you all!)


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Archive of the CPHA 2008 Annual Conference
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Public Health in Canada: Reducing Health Inequalities through Evidence & Action
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The Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA), with its collaborators, was pleased to host its 2008 Annual Conference. Themed "Reducing Health Inequalities Through Evidence and Action", the conference was held at the World Trade & Convention Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia from June 1 to 4, 2008.
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They've been waiting and watching. Now six young and hungry super middleweights with a combined record of 109-3 will get their chance to showcase their talent tonight on ShoBox: The New Generation at 11 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the west coast) live on SHOWTIME®. Unbeaten Marcus "Too Much" Johnson (18-0, 14 KOs) battles Derek "The Black Lion" Edwards (25-0, 13 KOs) in the 10-round main event of the exciting tripleheader being billed "The Next Generation of Super Middleweights". The fights will take place at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago. Donovan "Da Bomb" George (19-0, 17 KOs) will face Osumanu Adama (17-1, 13 KOs) in a 10-round co-feature tilt and Edwin "La Bomba" Rodriguez (13-0, 9 KOs) will take on Kevin Engel (17-2, 14 KOs) in an eight-round affair to open the telecast. "You could call us the Baby Super Six," said George. "None of us are really established but I'm familiar with all the others and think it's a great idea to showcase the next group of upcoming super middleweights. It's great for boxing. The division is so stacked. I'm so fortunate to be in this weight class because there are so many good fights for me once I get my name out there."
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Posted by Thomas Husson on October 23, 2009
Let's be a bit provocative after this week's announcement from Apple letting us know that they had sold 7,4M iPhones during the last quarter (+7% yoy). Apple's stock valuation was even higher than that of Google (as of October 20, 2009): $179 bn vs $173 bn. I am not a financial analyst so I won't comment the results from a profitability perspective, but would just like to throw out a couple of ideas to discuss whether this trend will last in 2010. Let's add a pinch of salt without taking into account the fact that Apple could (and certainly will) surprise us with new products.
Beyond the terrific iPhone user-experience, the power of Apple's marketing and the AppStore's ecosystem, part of the success is due to Apple's new business model introduced in July 08. When launching the 3GS, they also announced lots of international (and non-exclusive) deals with operators worldwide and finally accepted to let operators subsidize the device. No doubt there is a huge consumer demand for the iPhone but operators will have to solve a complex equation. It is a little dirty industry secret that many carriers are analyzing the profitability of the iPhone model:
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My answer to this question was, "never" until a couple of years ago. Sure, I was more likely to make a phone call on my cell phone than on my computer, but that is to be expected - it has traditionally been designed to be a voice communication device.
Opting for my cell phone rather than my laptop first started for me a couple of years ago. I began using SMS as a substitute for email. Then I started using email on my Blackberry because it would boot faster than my computer. Next came Google SMS - for me it was soooo much faster to get a phone number for a business through Google's SMS service than to call (ok, which costs money) or look online. Then, I got an iPhone and started downloading all kinds of applications. Some I barely use, but .... there are quite a few that I use rather than comparable experiences on the PC. These include Facebook (I'm more likely to be doing something interesting when I'm out and about), Scrabble (tallies the score for you), and maps (stopped printing all those maps out) among others.
For all of these services whereby I opt for my phone rather than my PC, I do so because the experience on the cell phone is more convenient. That means the benefits outweigh the inhibitors to use. When it comes to mobile services, there is convenience when there is value to the immediacy of the information or service, tasks are simple to execute and there is context - like my location.
We lay out this framework in our newly released report, "The Convenience Quotient of Mobile Services: A Facebook Case Study."
Posted by Thomas Husson on October 13, 2009
Many innovative start-ups have pioneered mobile social networking in the last few years: BuzzCity, Peperoni, Fring, Nimbuzz, eBuddy, Zyb, Plazes, Loopt, Foursquare and many others demonstrated the potential of the market.
In the last few months, a bunch of announcements clearly showed that the convergence between mobile and social computing is gaining traction and attracting the largest stakeholders:


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text: hi i have a 2007 (new body style) silverado 1500 and i need to replace the front bumper so i went looking for a used one cuse the news ones cost to much. I found a guy selling a front bumper from his 2008 HD silverado. my question is will it fit on my truck just like it is or do i have to buy extra stuff to make it fit. oh btw the bumper cost 200 bucks so i hope it fits. thanks


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What is preventing you to get it yourself and put it in your name? Out of state on vacation?
Just so I can understand better
The plan is me to buy it online, ship to the FFL under friends name, he pays for background check and does the paperwork to transfer into his name, then when I get home he gives it to me. We are both legal to own.
My alternative plan is to call and ask if the gun shop will hold it until I get home if I buy online.
What is preventing you to get it yourself and put it in your name? Out of state on vacation?
Just so I can understand better
Sounds like an illegal straw purchase to me. You would be asking your "friend" to commit a felony (with such friends, who needs enemies).
I quote from the certification on the back of ATF form 4473: "... if I am not the actual buyer is a crime punishable as a felony under Federal law..." see the whole form:
Why is the friend involved at all?
What he's doing is illegal.
Just buy the gun out of state and have it shipped to an FFL in your state and YOU pick it up after the background check.
The above posts regarding legality are correct as it appears there is some level of shady going on.
It would appear that in Oregon, person to person transfers of handguns are allowed withouth going through an FFL, provided that the recepient is not a prohibited person.
In reading between the lines, it seems that the original poster may not be returning to Oregon for an undetermined amount of time etc. And he wants the friend to take possesion of the gun to hold until he returns from abroad. Confirmation of this would be very beneficial to the original poster.
The issue regarding legality is that on the paperwork (form 4473) there is a field for "are you the actual buyer" etc. If your friend is using your money, he is not the actual buyer, you are and in circumnavigating the system you are in effect planning a straw purchase:
STRAW PURCHASE The acquisition of a firearm(s) from a Federally licensed firearms dealer by an individual (the straw purchaser) for the purpose of concealing the identity of the true intended receiver of the firearm(s)
STRAW PURCHASER A person illegally purchasing a firearm from a Federally licensed firearms dealer for another person, including for unlicensed sellers, criminal users, juveniles, and other prohibited possessors. Straw purchasers may be friends, associates, relatives, or members of the same gang
If you are legal to possess the gun in Oregon, contact the FFL that you plan on the gun being shipped to and explain why your are not home, he should be more than happy to hold the gun until you return to Oregon.
Nevermind guys. The reason I was asking is because I am out of Oregon for about 2 more months. I want to take advantage of a great deal online and have it sent home. Yes, I am in the military. What I ended up figuring out is I called my shop back home and asked if they could receive it and just hold on to it for a few months until I come back and do the paperwork and pick it up. They said yes so as soon as I can pay for it and have it shipped I am good!
Ah, problem (& our puzzle) solved. Glad you got it sorted.
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Revenge is Sweet
Finally, Vas gets a bit of revenge for all the beatings he's taken lately. Of course, he's probably going to get a kick in the knee in about 5 minutes when Fyre realizes whats going on. So todays comic is based on the Poached, Scrambled, or Raw quest, and our Special Guest today is Weohstan, our guilds Tank. It is also based on actual events when I was doing the quest. I think Vas and I had just finished Karazhan and I thought I'd just knock out the raptor daily quickly. Portal to Tanaris, get the quest, run to the Noxious Lair…and none of the eggs are sparkling. I dropped the quest twice, and was bitching about it on vent, and it hits me like a ton of bricks. I feel rightfully stupid as I leave the raid, and eggs begin to sparkle again (its the shell of a killer, Bella!) *ahem*
I KNOW you all have done this too! Wandered around killing hundreds of quest mobs, wondering why the drop rate is do damned low for this quest, when you look down and notice you're in a party, and think, why am I in a party again? OH CRAP! I've done it…more times than I can count. Not much more to say about this comic this week, except that I believe I have drawn the cutest baby raptor ever! ^_^


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Jakks Pacific is celebrating Star Wars Day, May 4, by launching new giant 31-inch figures. The new figures include the Revenge of the Sith 501st Legion Clone Trooper and Shock Trooper. The figures will retail for $29.99.
Tara Hefter, Vice President, Licensing for Jakks, said in a statement, "The legendary clone troopers are as iconic in the Star Wars universe of characters as Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker, and we are excited to add them to our 31-inch Giant Figure line. Our stellar lineup of 31-inch Giant Star Wars action figures will allow a new generation of fans to live out the epic adventures and battles between the Light and Dark Sides of the Force."
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Ok, so alot of people say Microsoft copied apple with "Widget" type applications (that we call Microsoft Gadgets). Yea yea, and Apple copied Konfabulator.
Well…the next step of the evolution of gadgets is being show off…and the possibilities are endless. CePro has an article showing that, through the use of one of those Super remotes with an LCD screen, you can run Windows Sideshow, and get all the info/control you need without disturbing your TV. Can Widgets do that?
Note: Remote has to be compatible with Windows Sideshow.
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