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Walking the line between fine art and craft, Brent Owens has a characteristic style of woodworking that he incorporates with a somewhat irreverent sense of humor and applies to a myriad of subjects. Conspicuously hand-carved, embracing the flaws and all, Owens enhances his imperfect look by selecting wood with notable imperfections. The casual woodwork is not a comment on Owens' talents. Rather it is done to emphasize the fact that the human hand has influenced the material. Conceptually, Owens works from the notion that humans have a tendency to render nature amenable to their own agenda. Describing this "healthy disrespect for nature" as a "shameless manipulation of a gorgeous natural material," Owens considers his woodworking to be "imposing his own desires on the material" in the name of progressing culture.
Owens' exploration of craft takes him in several directions. His "Turkish rugs," for instance, are carved freehand and modeled after Googled images. These works are juxtaposed with carved paintings of appropriated text of medical queries and responses, which have been translated from Chinese to English. The results are a mix of park signage and conceptual art exhibited as a confused mix of words that have lost the nuance of human translation. The works becomes symbolic of how epically the human desire to understand and control everything so often fails.
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If Newport Lights didn't exist, I wouldn't smoke
Well, I got my wish. I just discovered the FSC Newport Light. I thought I had gotten the pack wet somehow, it dried, and thus creating the discusting cirarette. Bought another pack, and thought the carton I was purchasing from was difective. The 3rd pack purchased, was confirmed by a friend, to be FSC cigarettes. I hate them. They taste stale, less menthol flavor, and the sensation is all wrong. They are terrible and will most likely make me quit smoking, so in gratitude, I thank the tobacco company for taking away my Newport Lights.
Welcome to the wonderful USSA. Thanks to the idiot communists running this country we are now told what we can and can not smoke. I still have 33 cartons of Marlboro non-FSC stockpiled in the closet but eventually I will run out. What a sad state this country is in.
YOU must be one in a million! Everyone I know & hear on the net has had terrible health problems they never had before like coughing & choking, throwing up, terrible headaches etc. Even my dog got very sick just being around them.
They suck. I've never even smoked a regular cigarette before and I can tell it's not normal you have to practically rip on cigs to get any smoke. Smoking a 100 is almost impossible. I don't care what the companies say they taste like paper not tobacco and when they reach the bands there's nasty brown crap around the cig. The way everyone smokes that I know is that they take huge drags all the time and hold in the smoke because they can barely feel it. RJ reynolds in opposing the measure said they should study smoker behavior for the cigs. Even if the chemicals have no effect everyone is inhaling more tar and more nicotine wasn't that why lights aren't safer. To top it off I did a test and abut half the cigs burn down to the filter even when there's barely any wind. Marlboros are the worst they burn really fast to the band and go past it slowly. The paper costs six times as much to produce and there's a requirement in a lot of states that you have to use that paper even if your companies cig goes out without it.
FSC - Hate them
FSC - The last enjoyment taken from smoking.
First it was no smoking at work, then only outside, then (I work in a hospital) no smoking on our property.
A few of us are still smoking outside, instead of our car and that must have irritated people who make the laws. So some genius decides how he can get all of us angry at one time. Well........it worked!
We all pay enough taxes (that pay for everything) by smoking, that we should have stopped this.
I honestly cannot taste the difference at all.
The only thing different to me is that they burn all lopsided and go out too easy.
I definitely prefer to find my brand of choice without FSC, but I suppose I can live with it.
"Let it roll."
-George Harrison
Sally mentioned that all cigarettes have burn accelerators in them. In the past I had read that tobacco doesn't burn well by itself so they add salt peter to it to make it burn better. Maybe salt peter is the burn accelerator. Anyhow, here's a thought, you want to make a fire safe cigarette why not just take out the burn accelerators or the salt peter or use less of them. Seems to me like that would make it a fire safe cigarette without adding more chemicals to our cigarettes. Let's see, first make the cigarette burn faster and then add something to it to make it go out. That is something only the government could come up with.
I have no doubt that whatever they use to make the cigarettes fire safe isn't good for us to smoke. I also don't think they really care because everyone thinks smokers are second class citizens anyhow.
I hate these new FSC pieces of crap. For the longest time I couldn't figure out why I was so sick, I was nausea had headaches my stomach was cramping all the time, my backhurt and my chest would hurt sometimes to. I went to my doctor to talk to him and we were both pretty sure it was just a UTI or that I was prego, still, we had thought I had had a miscarriage a week ago but both tests came back negative he said it was prob just "female" stuff well anyways long story short after talking to my friend last night and him telling me about how these FSC cigarettes have carpet glue in them I started doing some research online and I heard alot of people talking about how they had alot of the same symptons as me when they smoked these cigarettes and their doctores could not figure out what was wrong with them but in the end it was discorved that these cigarettes are causing people to become very ill and the only way to stop it is to quit smoking them so I really hope they ban these stupid things soon. And the part that I hate even more is that they weren't even going to tell us what was in these "FSC" which BTW is illegal.
I smoked the FSC for a couple of months and ended up with headaches, sore throat and dried blood in my nose. I had to give them up; I used to smoke Camel Turkish Golds.
I had been buying RYO cigarettes in Florida for about the last 4 months and have finally just bought a machine and am making my own. Once I quit smoking the FSC, I no longer had headaches, sore throat, nor blood in my nasal passage.
In making these cigarettes because some people can't be responsible, they're obviously exposing us to even more harmful chemicals; ones that we don't even know the long-term effects of. I think it's totally irresponsible. If I was having respiratory problems with only a couple months of smoking them, what on earth are going to be the effects on people who smoke them for years?
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Hello everyone,
I need some help with an issue regarding my sons hair. He was isolated today and was not permitted to attend any of his lessons. Reason for this was because his hair was too short.
I did not get a letter from the school or a note given to my son. I checked the school's policies and their code of conduct and there is nothing regarding hair, only in regards to uniform and female student's wearing make-up and jewelry.
Can they do this? Legally?
for your earlier comments, free range.
I wish more people in education shared your point of view.
I monitored internal exclusion last period today. The pupils in there had half-heatedly completed a couple of worksheets and effectively learned nothing all day.
Well according to the op he was in isolation, which means he was given work but isolated from his peers. He wasn't being denied an education.
Creamteas - that was exactly the point I was making!
Titchy Technically if the child is in school they are receiving an education.
But in my experience the education provided in internal exclusion areas is not comparable to what they would be doing in the classroom. He will not necessarily be following the usual scheme of work, or have access to specialist areas (such as science labs). So whilst they are still being educated, they are denied the education they should have received
So what are the school doing to him titchy ?
Whatever posters' feelings about uniform and hair regulations, let's just be absolutely clear - the OP's child is NOT being denied his education. I doubt there is any state school in the land that would EXCLUDE (as opposed to an internal exclusion) any child just for uniform infringements. In addition any child that is excluded, is also provided with an education elsewhere.
So let's not believe that this child, or any other, is being denied an education because their hair or skirt is too short.
freerangeeggs I hope my (currently reception and pre-school aged) kids encounter as many teachers like you as possible in future! I am amazed and horrified at the idea of excluding a child from education for a haircut. And to those saying 'ah but lawyers can't have pink hair' - well I have a sneaking suspicion that the top set, engaged, clever child with pink hair that freerangeeggs mentioned, once they'd got their a-levels and a law degree, would probably work that one out for themselves without too much trouble. Though probably they would have the sense to choose a profession where pink hair is neither here nor there. I know a rather distinguished professor at a top university who has a fine head of purple/pink/green/orange hair, depending on her mood and the seasons, and it doesn't seem to have held her career back.
schools HAVE to make their kids employable
Many jobs are boring ,mundane .
I have coped with such jobs because my education allowed me to find other ways to nourish my mind and spirit .
I do so hope that this factor is included in the "making kids employable " .
freerangeeggs I wish you'd taught my son .
Uniform infringements are used subjectively in my experience, so not everyone who breaks the rules gets punished.
My eldest two DS were both very different pupils, one was academic, engaged positively and was a high achiever. His many and varied uniform infringements were never picked up on. The other one was not academic, hated school and did the minimum if that. He was not let off any of the uniform rules and attended many a DT as punishment (which only served to make his dissatisfaction with school greater).
The school always denied the difference, but it was there.
First of all, it's not me that makes my school policy. I tell the boys to do up their top buttons, tell the girls to pull their skirts down, etc just as often as I'm required to do. I'm glad I went to university for five years so that I could complete this difficult and important task. So the suggestion that I somehow impart to my pupils the opinion that 'appearances don't matter' (not my opinion that they don't - but yes, it's my opinion that they shouldn't) is frankly stupid and not based on anything I've said in my previous posts.
My suggestion in my previous post was that short hair is associated with certain racial and socio-economic groups and as such any rule against it will disproportionately affect children from those groups.
That's fine. Have a rule, even if it is pointless. But when the result of an infraction is the exclusion from education of a child whom the school is supposed to serve, you've crossed a line. It is no longer in the child's best interests and as such you are doing that child a disservice.
At the very least this is an over-the-top response to a minor infraction. I have seen children swear and shout at teachers, cause fights with other pupils, bully and throw chairs who received lesser punishments than this child has received for letting his mum cut his hair short.
And to the poster who said that "gender, race and sexuality don't matter" - you must be very naive.
There are very few jobs where a smart, clean appearance isn't required. I'm self employed and could turn up in whatever get up I wanted, however the business people who employ me may not be so impressed. New clients are offered a free hour of my time and, in that short time, I have to sell myself. That doesn't mean Burberry and Sorbie haircuts but it does mean smart and well kept.
It's reality.
i struggle to believe you are a teacher free range, if so you do your pupils a huge diservice if you have them think that appearances don't matter, or that many jobs do not have dress codes - even asda have uniforms!
Appearance and conformity - to an extent - are pretty crucial in a lot of professions. I'm a lawyer - we have policies at work about dress code and appearance. Clients expect professional standards and appearance is part of that. Might not be right, but it is the way of the world. Children need to learn that as they get older and apply for jobs (even Saturday jobs), they need to look smart and well-turned out (as well as learn to smile, have good posture, good handshake, eye contact and confidence).
It's a reality of life that people are judged for their appearance- I don't think that's going to change, and I don't think I want to fight to change it.
Appearances matter- gender, race, sexuality don't.
fair enough, but I am the person doing the hiring. get your pupils used to it.
Maybe if you, and others like you, are valuing appearance over skills and suitability then you're a much bigger problem that I am.
private school parents are able to create connections that state school kids have to find for themselves
sorry, but as an employer and hirer of subcontract firms, piercings, shaving and tattoos all SCREAM intellectual insecurity - and given the choice of 'comfortable' business contacts or 'edgy' ones, edgy lose out every time
skin colour is NOT the issue - my biggest problem is tattoo blue after all.
schools HAVE to make their kids employable - and if you think appearance is not integral to that, you are the problem.
Well he's not in a workplace. He's a child, in a school, and entitled to an education.
I'm a teacher. I don't understand all this bullshit about uniform. I think uniforms are a great idea, if they're practical. As it is, I watch children every day operate heavy machinery/cook/draw and write creatively wearing shirts (buttoned up to the top) and ties. Ties ffs! In a workshop!
And then schools just have to go and take it a bit further, often claiming that uniforms help children to prepare for the workplace. Because it's a difficult thing to learn, y'know - wear a tie to work.
What this comes down to, as unfortunately is the case with many English schools today, is marketing. Look how smart our children look! That MUST mean we're doing a good job. Look, OFSTED! They're wearing blazers! God forbid they should get a 'chavvy' haircut like those working class children.
I'm speaking from experience when I say that black/working class children are disproportionately affected by these ridiculous, pointless rules. The 'education' children receive in exclusion is NOT good enough to make up for time they lose in class. I've seen some very vulnerable children punished this way and it makes me very, very angry.
This is what comes of schools that are more interested in outward appearances than they are in children's wellbeing and learning. The best school I ever worked in had a lax uniform code; children came in with their hair dyed every colour under the sun. On one memorable occasion one of my clever, funny, hardworking top set boys came in with neon pink hair. The ethos was inclusive and warm, the discipline was the best I've ever seen and the children were heavily involved in various activities in the local community. The school is in the Good Schools Guide and had fantastic results.
These teachers need to find something more important to occupy their time than writing lists of approved haircuts.
is it in the school rules?
it is at our school.
race is not the issue
decorum is
stop conflating issues
number 2 or 3 cut is just fine
number 1 cut is provocative in most situations - ESPECIALLY later workplaces ...
This makes me absolutely fume.
As soon as I read the OP, I wondered if the child was black/mixed race. I have seen this punishment meted out to many children of these backgrounds and as far as I can see it's institutionalised racism that for some reason is considered to be acceptable and remains unchallenged.
The children likely to get these styles of haircut are disproportionately black/mixed race/working class/male. The style is considered innappropriate partly because it is associated with these groups.
Exactly how is his (practical, sensible) hairstyle affecting his education or that of other pupils?
If it was my child I would absolutely flip my shit if he was excluded for this, school rules or no. This needs to be challenged more often.
Our school says no shorter than a grade 3, no hair dyes, no shaved patterns etc but it is all written down in the policy documents.
In fairness it does sound like a very extreme hair cut (less than grade 1 is a skin head surely?) so I can see why they aren't happy. Have you asked them to clarify the policy and explain how he will be supervised this week?
My DS1 had a one week break and lunchtime isolation because his hair was deemed to be too short. The school said it was too aggressive looking - He had a number 1 cut all over that was not aggressive. He was able to go to lessons with the other children, but not socialise with them at break times.
I was so angry (and aggressive) as it was me who had decided to cut his hair that length and not him. Also it was that length when he started in September and nobody said anything. It was so unfair.
I spoke to the Head of Year three times in the week to express my 'concern' and threaten to escalate this to the Headteacher, but on the Friday they said it had grown sufficiently for him to be able to have his breaks with his friends from the following Monday. How convenient! It did not look any different or less aggressive.
My DD's school (also in Essex) has a stated policy of no 'unnatural' hair colours, or internal exclusion, but nothing about LENGTH of hair.
And it seems hit and miss as to whether a child gets put into isolation for unnatural hair colour too. Y7's will definitely get put in iso, Y8 too. Y9 onwards is more subjective, and a dark red or plum is often OK, but a bright pillar box red, or bleached and dyed blue/green/pink will still get put in iso.
DD (Y10) currently has her hair a deep burgundy shade, done at the start of the summer holidays and STILL not faded or grown out much, and nothing has even been mentioned - but that might be because DD lucked into the one form tutor whose hair is a different bright colour each week.
My friend's DD, however, has a really strict form tutor, and was put in iso for two pale pink, washed out streaks in her fringe left over from a weekend dance show...
But for a buzz cut?! Really?!
Your poor son must be freezing
Our school - anything shorter than #2 for boys is a no no.
And the weather is cold - amazed he let you!
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If you looked at the MTA's website in the days following Hurricane Sandy, you probably saw a subway map (pdf) that wasn't what most straphangers were used to.
To protect New York City's subway system, all transit shut down in advance of the storm. But then the under-river subway tunnels flooded, and the MTA had to convey to riders what was and wasn't running.
That's Chuck Gordanier's job, and he began booting up his Mac before the storm even ended.
He's a manager at the transit agency. His task was -- and is -- to quickly translate the continuous service changes into a stripped-down map. So he began subtracting subway lines and stations. At first he thought the result was almost too harsh.
"But then once I saw this I thought 'hey, that kind of fits the mood, doesn't it?'" he said. "So I just kept stripping it down, taking everything off. The ferries weren't going, why should they be there? The parks were closed, remember? So why should the parks be there? So I just took out everything that wasn't actually happening and ended up with this."
'This' is the subway recovery map, and it's a stark contrast to the normal one. No perks, like neighborhood names, landmarks, or even the street grid. Just colored lines on a gray and white background showing what's operational, and shaded out lines showing what isn't. Gordanier's been working 14-hour days to keep the map current. As in: power's been restored to lower Manhattan? Color in the 1 train. The Joralemon Tunnel's been pumped dry? Color in the four and five. Lather, rinse, repeat.
"When I had it done," he said, "and it was right, then we'd put it on the website right away and we'd roll out a quickie print version to post." Gordanier says it's a matter of turning on and off some of the 50-plus layers that make up the map. He demonstrates how to power up the G line. "First I've got to find the G train layer," he said, clicking the mouse to unlock it. "There's the G train--see that, 30 percent? Boing. There it is. Full strength."
(He got to do that for real Wednesday, when it began running again.)
Gordanier says he'll keep updating the MTA's subway recovery service map until things get back to normal. Until then, it's a work in progress.
"Today, later," he said, "it will probably be different."
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DUI Breathalyzer Accuracy
Breath analysis is by far the most commonly used method of testing for blood alcohol concentrations in DUI cases. While not as accurate or reliable as blood tests, it has generally been regarded as acceptably accurate for use in DUI investigations, if administered correctly. This regard is beginning to erode, however. An example of this is the comment of Dr. Michael Hiastala, Professor of Physiology, Biophysics and Medicine at the University of Washington:
Breath testing, as currently used, is a very inaccurate method for measuring BAC. Even if the breath testing instrument is working perfectly, physiological variables prevent any reasonable accuracy.... Breath testing for alcohol using a single test method should not be used for scientific, medical or legal purposes where accuracy is important. [Hlastala, Physiological Errors Associated with Alcohol Breath Testing, 9(6) The Champion 19 (1985).]
A number of scientists who have conducted studies of breath-alcohol analysis have concurred with Dr. Hlastala in concluding that breathalyzer accuracy is inherently unreliable. Thus, for example, one study determined that breath readings vary at least 15 percent from actual blood alcohol levels. (Simpson, Accuracy and Precision of Breath-Alcohol Measurements for a Random Subject in the Postabsorptive State, 33(2) Clinical Chemistry 261 (1987)). Furthermore, at least 23 percent of all individuals tested will have breath results in excess of true blood-alcohol levels. The author concluded that, "[g]iven the choice, it would seem that if a conclusion is to be made about the BAC of a random subject, especially when the conclusion can have serious consequences, it would be far preferable to make it on the basis of a direct [blood] measurement...."
In another study, conducted by members of the toxicology section of the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene, only 33 percent of the breath test results correlated with corresponding blood tests. Reported in 32(4) Journal of Forensic Sciences 1235 (1987), the study involved a survey of 404 actual drunk driving cases in Wisconsin in which DUI defendants had been tested on a Breathalyzer (either the Model 900 or 900A) as well as by blood analysis. The two tests were considered to correlate when there was a difference of .01 percent or less.
One interesting aspect of the study was that in 11 of the DUI cases, the defendant was shown to be intoxicated using one of the tests but not intoxicated when using the other.
At least one court has even reversed DUI convictions on the grounds that breathalyzer accuracy is inherently unreliable. In State v. McGinley, 550 A.2d 1305 (NJ. Super. 1988), the New Jersey Superior Court, Law Division, considered the consolidated appeals of four DUI defendants whose convictions involved Breathalyzer tests. Although noting that the New Jersey Supreme Court had essentially taken judicial notice that the Breathalyzer models "900 and 900A are scientifically reliable," the court nevertheless felt free to consider new scientific evidence not previously available - evidence based in large part on the work of Dr. Kurt Dubowski:
The scientific evidence upon which the defendants rely shows the following: (1) The breathalyzer is designed to test persons having a 2100/1 blood-breath ratio. Such ratios in fact vary from 1100/ 1 to 3200/i and the variance can produce erroneous test results. High readings are produced in 14% of the population. (2) The temperature of the machine itself varies, affecting test results. (3) Body temperatures vary, affecting test results. (4) Hematocrit (the solid particles in whole blood) levels vary, particularly between males and females, affecting test results. These sources of error make breathalyzer test results suspect and, to insure reliability, require the substantial reduction of blood-alcohol percentages based on a translation of those results. The leading expert in the field, recognized as such by both State and defense, is of the opinion that the reduction should be .055. [550 A.2d at 1306.]
Dr. Dubowski has long advocated strict procedures for minimizing the many sources of error in DUI breath testing. One article entitled Quality Assurance in Breath-Alcohol Analysis, 18 Journal of Analytical Toxicology 270 (October 1994), he identified four "necessary safeguards" for breath testing:
- A pre-test deprivation-observation period of at least 15 minutes;
- Blank tests immediately preceding each breath specimen collection step;
- Analysis of at least two separate consecutive breath specimens, taken two to ten minutes apart (different results from duplicate analysis may indicate such problems as radio frequency interference);
- An appropriate control test accompanying every subject test.
Due largely to the inherent unreliability of breath analysis in DUI cases, the National Safety Council Committee on Alcohol and Other Drugs has recommended that at least two separate breath samples be collected and analyzed individually. As reported in a letter from Dr. Dubowski published in 9 American Journal of Forensic Medical Pathology 272 (1988), the Committee further recommended that the breath samples be collected at intervals of at least two and not more than ten minutes. This process of duplicate analysis has been widely advocated by experts in the past, most notably (and vociferously) by Dr. Richard Jensen. A 1995 Colorado Department of Health study indicates that, as of that time, 26 states provided for duplicate breath analysis in DWI investigations, while 22 required only a single analysis. Of the 26 requiring two tests, 14 accept the lower of the two as the legal result and two states average the two results; most require that the two results be within .02 of one another. The material on duplicate breath testing referred to is the following:
At least two separate breath samples should be collected and analyzed individually in performing any quantitative evidential breathalcohol analysis. The breath samples should be collected at intervals of not less than 2 nor more than 10 minutes, after an initial deprivation period of at least 15 minutes. Reported breathalcohol analysis results shall be truncated to two decimal places; and all results obtained shall be reported. Consecutive breathalcohol analysis results within 0.02 g/2lO L without regard to sign, shall be deemed to be in acceptable agreement.
National Safety Council, Committee on Alcohol and Other Drugs, "Recommendation of the Subcommittee on Technology," Appendix M, page 145 (1996 printing).
Whether acceptably accurate or not, breath analysis in DUI investigations is the most convenient and economical method for the police, and the most convenient and least embarrassing or painful for the arrestee. As a result, the California DUI attorney will probably encounter some sort of breath analyzing instrument in 70 to 80 percent of his drunk driving cases.
There are a number of different breath analyzing machines in use today. The most common among these are: Intoxilyzer 5000, Intoxilyzer 9000, BAC DataMaster, Intoximeter EC/IR, Draeger AlcoTest 7110 and the portable Draeger AlcoTest 7410. All of these appear on the California Department of Justice's list of approved devices, and each law enforcement agency in the state is free to use whichever ones they choose.
Each of these machines utilizes its own mechanism for analyzing the alcoholic content of exhaled vapor. With the exception of the Breathalyzer, however, all use a common method: infrared spectroscopic analysis (the Breathalyzer employs the "wet chemical" technique). These machines operate on the principal that alcohol vapor captured in a chamber will absorb light waves of a certain frequency when beamed through it. The more alcohol present in the chamber (i.e., the higher the percentage of alcohol in the breath sample), the more light is absorbed. In theory, then, determining the alcohol concentration of the sample is simply a matter of measuring the amount of light that reaches a receptor at the other end of the chamber; the more light, the lower the alcohol content in the breath. A computer then translates the figure into blood-alcohol concentration, using the blood-breath partition ratio.
In approaching a DUI case involving a breath analysis, the California DUI defense attorney should be aware that there are a large number of potential problems, both theoretical and operational. There exists a broad range of factors that can render any result of blood-alcohol analysis - breath, blood, or urine unreliable.


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Just picked up a black on black 2009 6M TSI with 30K last night and could not be happier! drives beautifully has great pick up and a blast to drive!
They basically talked me into paying the extra for cerification as they would not close the deal with out it. However it was an even trade for my 2009 Jetta TDI 6M with the same amt. of miles on it.
I was happy with the deal and I guess I get a 2 year warranty out of it as well which my TDI did not have so thats always good.
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thanks meta, i guess my brain was fried after a long day of work and i just missed that line.
Anyways, I tested it. I put my phone in field test mode, and it read -70. Then, I put my phone in the cradle, and it still read -70. I then proceeded to make a phone call to see if that would change anything. Nope, after the phone call, it still read -70. (I'm pretty sure when I was actually calling the person, it switched over to the normal bars).
Perhaps -70 is the best signal possible? Or maybe it works better in a spot with poor coverage?
(This test used a Verizon iPhone 4S, and a 2012 X3 with dock and bmw apps)
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'Kiss of Love' protests rattle Modi's conservative India
By Tony Tharakan
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A mass-kissing campaign against moral policing in a southern Indian city has swept the country, advertised via Facebook, as urban youngsters challenge a deeply conservative society.
Dozens of 'Kiss of Love' activists stole kisses and blocked traffic near a metro station in New Delhi at the weekend, outnumbering a handful of right-wing protesters who see such public displays as a threat to Indian culture.
"It's not about just kissing," said 26-year-old research scholar Pankhuri Zaheer, one of the organizers. "It's about ... inter-caste marriages, inter-religious marriages, live-in relationships."
Minor scuffles broke out between the rival groups as the police steered the rally away from the Delhi office of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a radical group considered the ideological parent of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.
The 'Kiss of Love' activists shouted slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and affiliated Hindu groups seen as self-appointed moral guardians forcing traditional mores on people with a Western outlook.
Police foiled the initial Nov. 2 protest in southern Kerala state by stopping participants reaching the venue. But the Facebook 'Kiss of Love' community page got over 110,000 likes and sparked similar demonstrations in cities such as Mumbai, Kolkata and Hyderabad.
In Kolkata in eastern India, about 100 university students marched last week, carrying posters saying: "Right to love is our democratic right." Another protest is planned in Kerala early next month.
Not everyone is endorsing the campaign on the 'Kiss of Love' community page. "Love is a personal thing. Enjoy it and don't make a drama out of it," reads a comment by Raghu Sharma. Continued...


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SLO Sheriff's Office seeks parole violator
The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help in locating an inmate who violated the terms of his release on parole.
On Wednesday, Feb. 27th, investigators were notified that a GPS tracking device being worn by Ronald Digirolamo had been altered. Digirolamo is a parolee who had served jail time on a felony domestic violence charge. He was later released on February 12 and walked away from the program. The GPS tracker was later recovered in the Grover Beach area.
Digirolamo is not considered a danger to the community. An arrest warrant has been issued.
If anyone has information regarding his whereabouts is urged to contact the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office.