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The 6-foot-5, 235 pound rush end out of Kaplan, La. may or may not take the five allotted official visits.
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With the help of modern science, pro-lifers have pretty much won the argument that a baby in the womb is a human life, there being little difference between a child in the womb and a child outside the womb. But that doesn't mean pro-abortion zealots are necessarily changing their beliefs. To an increasing number, this just means that it is also fine to kill the child outside the womb.
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Samsung Electronics' Device Solutions Division is dedicated to preserving the environment in which we operate in. We also hold environmental science classes for elementary school children near the complexes to promote scientific knowledge and environmental awareness.
As part of the effort to the natural environment of our local communities, Samsung has been working hard to improve water quality in streams by using EM (Effective Micro-organisms) mud balls since 2009. Once employees and students make the EM mud balls, they are placed in the streams near Giheung and Hwaseong.
The EM mud balls become effective breeding grounds for micro-organisms that remove pollutants and odor sources in the streams.
Since 2007, Samsung has been running an 'Environmental Science Class' for elementary school students in local communities. Every year, about 600 elementary school students participate in the program to conduct experiments and learn more about science and the environment.
About 60 employees volunteers as teachers in the Environmental Science Class and complete the Junior Engineer Achievement program of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea to make the science class easy and fun for students.
Samsung Electronics' Device Solutions Division is expanding its activities in partner elementary schools to operate an eco-experience program in 2013. Through activities such as hands-on experience in mud flats and forests, Samsung is striving to teach students about the value of life and the basic principles of the ecosystem. Approximately 1,000 students are expected to participate in the program: all 4th grade students in five participating partner elementary schools.


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Could your Valentine's kiss give you lead poisoning?
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(Reuters) - If you're going to be on either end of a kiss this Valentine's Day, you might want to consider smooching bare-lipped. Most lipstick contains lead.
Lead has been banned in paint since 1978 because of its toxicity at low levels, but it still shows up in small amounts in some of the best-selling lipstick brands.
The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, which did an analysis of a study of lead in lipstick conducted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, wants consumers to know that most of the 400 different lipsticks tested were positive for the substance (link.reuters.com/caz56s).
"Recognizing that there is no safe level of lead exposure, we need to be protecting women and children from all levels of exposure," said Stacy Malkan, co-founder of the campaign -- a non-profit coalition of environmental- and cancer-prevention groups.
Malkan's group wants the FDA to set a limit for how much lead lipstick can contain and to study whether there are any dangers to having the substance applied to human lips, particularly the lips of children and pregnant women. "We know that ingestion of lipstick happens. It gets into our bodies," she said, noting that lead accumulates in people.
The group said that five of the nine lipstick brands with the most lead are sold by L'Oreal, the world's largest cosmetics maker.
L'Oreal's "Color Sensational" Pink Petal had the most lead of any lipstick tested at 7.19 parts per million. By comparison, children's products sold in the U.S. are forbidden to have more than 100 parts per million of lead.
"The FDA's independent study, which will be published in the May/June 2012 issue of the Journal of Cosmetic Science, confirms that lipsticks pose no safety concerns for the millions of women who use them daily," L'Oreal said in a statement sent to Reuters. "The lead levels detected by the FDA in the study are also within the limits recommended by global public health authorities for cosmetics, including lipstick." Continued...


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At UW-Stout, Wisconsin's Polytechnic University, we are inspiring innovation.
Please accept my warmest greetings to the University of Wisconsin-Stout, Wisconsin's Polytechnic University. I hope you find it as special as I do.
We take pride in many things at UW-Stout: our polytechnic designation, winning the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, our eStout laptop program, the modern facilities, our partnerships with business and industry and our growing enrollment.
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PanLem is an experimental expert web interface for exploring and editing the PanLex database. It is designed to test the concept of PanLex as a localization tool (interacting with PanLex while also using PanLex to translate the interface into any language chosen by the user). It is used mainly by our developers and is not intended to be easy for the general public to use.
The special feature of PanLem is that all messages to you are "lemmatic": They consist of words in dictionary form (lemmas, i.e. PanLex "expressions"), not sentences. So PanLem uses PanLex as its localization engine and tries to localize itself into all of its 9,000 language varieties. In this early stage, the results are often inadequate, but as PanLex grows it will get better at translating the PanLem interface into all languages.
PanLem requires browsers that comply with certain Internet standards. Some older browsers don't comply or are extremely inefficient in processing certain elements. These include Safari 5.1.0–5.1.3 and Internet Explorer 1–7.
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Rancho Cordova Cuts Costs With LED Street Lights
The city of Rancho Cordova has started replacing all 4800 street lights with new LED lights.
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LED street lights save as much as 60% on energy costs and last four times as long.
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- Step 1: Engage Stakeholders and Partners
- Step 2: Assess risks and impacts
- Step 3: Develop code of conduct
- Step 4: Communicate and Train across your supply chain
- Step 5: Monitor compliance
- Step 6: Remediate violations
- Step 7: Independent review
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An audit typically consists of several steps, listed below. As appropriate, other steps can be included in an audit, such as interviews with trade union representatives. Click on each step below to learn more.
- Arrival at the worksite
- Opening meeting with management
- Walk-through of the worksite
Company practice varies in terms of whether worksites are notified in advance of an audit (an "announced audit"). However, best practice in this area normally is unannounced audits. No one at the worksite should be notified in advance that the audit team will visit on a particular day.
The purpose of the opening meeting is to explain the audit process to the worksite managers, including the portions in which management is or is not requested to participate. This is also the time for the team to request the documentation needed for the audit; management may need some time to assemble those documents after the meeting.
The purpose of the walk-through is to observe conditions in the factory and any associated locations such as cafeterias and dormitories. This allows the audit team to get a sense of any discernible social compliance concerns; for instance, the auditors may observe workers that appear young, possibly below the minimum age. The team should observe, but not disrupt, the flow of work in the factory. Auditors may choose to speak with workers briefly, but not in a manner that would interrupt their work or put the workers in any jeopardy. The walk-through is also a good time to examine safety equipment, emergency exits and timekeeping systems.
The Challenges of Age Verification
"Establishing the age of job applicants remains a major challenge in many parts of the world. Many companies working in countries where birth records are non-existent have had to devise their own means for determining age. In its 2001 Corporate Responsibility Report, Nike relates its experiences in verifying the age of workers in its partner manufacturers in Cambodia. There, a factory manager seeking to comply with national law and Nike Code of Conduct standards "must deal with a bewildering set of documents presented by a worker, including a record of family births and deaths (the 'family book'), a district registration, voter's registration, and a medical certificate. All carry some form of official stamp. And each can be purchased on the black market for the equivalent of $5."
So long as public records remain unreliable, this challenge will remain for employers seeking to avoid hiring children. Some strategies for addressing the issue include requiring multiple forms of written documentation, requiring prospective employees to undergo medical examinations prior to hiring, carrying out interviews with candidates whose age appears questionable, issuing photo identification cards to all employees, and maintaining a database to flag underage job applicants."
Source: Excerpted from International Finance Corporation, Good Practice Note: Addressing Child Labor in the Workplace and Supply Chain, 2002.
- Worker interviews
- Management interviews
- Interviews with labor brokers and recruiters
- Documentation review
- Age verification procedures and documents
- Master list of juvenile workers
- Selection and recruitment procedures
- Contracts with labor brokers
- Worker contracts/employment agreements
- Worker personal documents that may be in the employer's keeping
- Introduction program and materials
- Personnel files
- Employee communication and training plan - certifications including but not limited to skills training, worker preparedness, government certification programs, systems/policy orientations
- Collective bargaining agreements, including union certification, role of the union and minutes of meetings
- Contracts with and scope of responsibilities of security agencies
- Payroll and time records
- Production capacity reports
- Written human resources policies and procedures
- Occupational health and safety plans and records including legal permits, maintenance and monitoring records, injury/accident reports, investigation procedures, chemical inventories, personal protective equipment inventories, training certificates and evacuation plans
- Disciplinary notices
- Grievance reports
- Performance evaluations
- Promotion and/or merit increases
- Dismissal and suspension records
- Records of employees who have resigned
- Worker paystubs
- Closing meeting with management
- Report preparation
The team should select a cross-section of workers to interview. The selected workers should represent the full diversity of the workplace, and include (as applicable) men and women, migrant workers and local workers, workers on different shifts, workers performing different tasks, members of various production teams, etc. If there are young persons in the facility, a representative group should be interviewed using age-sensitive interview techniques.
Interviews may be conducted individually or in groups, and typically should be conducted both inside and outside the facility. Particularly in cases where there are indications of egregious violations about which employees may hesitate to discuss at work, auditors may need to make time to speak with workers outside work hours and away from the worksite. Auditors should use their audit tools to ensure that they ask workers a comprehensive set of questions. They also should collect copies of paystubs from workers in order to compare them to management-provided payment records.
Interviews also provide workers a chance to voice any other concerns they may have. Workers should be ensured that all responses are confidential and are never shared with management. Your contract with suppliers should include a clause on non-retaliation against workers for participating in an audit; participation in an audit should carry the same worker protections as any grievance mechanism.
Management interviews provide an opportunity to corroborate or find discrepancies in information gathered through worker interviews. The team should interview a cross-section of management including human resources personnel, production supervisors and others. Audit tools should be used to ensure that they ask managers a comprehensive set of questions.
For companies with significant numbers of migrant and contract workers in their supply chains, there is an increasing movement toward interviewing labor recruiters and brokers as part of the audit process. Gaining access to recruiters or brokers for interviews can be a challenge, and is likely to require the supplier's coordination and cooperation. Verité's Fair Hiring Toolkit includes sample interview questions for labor brokers as well as labor recruitment-related questions for managers and migrant workers themselves.
The purpose of a documentation review is to provide tangible proof of compliance and to either corroborate or find discrepancies in the information gathered through workers and management interviews. The types of documents to be reviewed include:
The closing meeting is a time to report to management any code violations found in the facility. Some companies use the closing meeting as a time to request management proposals to remediate problems or to work with management on a corrective action plan (CAP). Other companies use the closing meeting as a time to discuss issues with management, but develop formal CAPs after the audit is complete and the full team has reviewed the audit report.
The audit team prepares a full report of the audit.
The length of an audit depends on the size of the worksite. Most audits take one to two days, but they can take longer if the worksite and workforce are large and/or if significant violations are found that require time to investigate. Audits triggered by a grievance or whistleblower complaint may take longer to investigate, particularly if they require intervention by law enforcement authorities.


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With Japan's markets closed for a public holiday, Hong Kong took the brunt of the selling, which was largely aimed at local property stocks and wiped almost 2% off share prices. The Hang Seng index tumbled 206.9 to 10,829.7 as investors dumped property stocks. Hong Kong developers, formerly the fattest cats in the territory, have been having a thin time as the sickly local economy discouraged property buyers.
The poor state of the market was underlined on Wednesday when Henderson Land, one of the big three developers, reported a 47% drop in net profits in the six months to the end of December. Henderson's shares reacted with an 8% slide and other property counters followed as traders and analysts braced for similar grim tidings from Cheung Kong, the number one developer and flagship company of tycoon Li Ka-shing.
Cheung Kong, due to report after the market close, is expected to unveil a drop in net profits of more than 50% from last year's HK$19.44bn (£1.74bn), and the company's shares dropped almost 2% in anticipation. Net profits came in at HK$7.29bn, far lower than expected.
The pain is not expected to end there for Li as his linked Hutchison Whampoa conglomerate also reports today. Analysts predicted a fall of up to 70% in Hutchison profits, which will be without heavy one-off dealing gains scored in 2000, but will bear the brunt of costly investments in telecommunications networks, including the defunct Global Crossing. In the event, profits fell 65% to HK$12.09bn.
Hutchison shares lost 1.5% but there was a ray of light for the Li family when stock of telecoms provider Pacific Century Cyberworks, run by the tycoon's son, held firm after it unveiled net profits of HK$1.89bn, against a loss of HK$129.29bn the previous year.
Warnings by US stockbrokers that semiconductor giant Intel's earnings may be weaker than predicted hit technology stocks around the region, with investors also looking nervously at the consolidation of the chip industry in Japan. Toshiba and Fujitsu are reported to be planning to link their chip plants following the news of the planned merger of the semiconductor operations of Hitachi and Mitsubishi Electric. Such a deal would cement Toshiba as the world's second-largest chipmaker after Intel.
The weakness in technology stocks took Korea's Kospi down 1.94 points to 885.54, while Taiwan's Weighted Average dipped 12.54 points to 6046.52 but Singapore's Straits Times index rose 1.8 to 1803.7.
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So I've seen this issue pop up in threads from time to time and I'm experiencing it bad.
My boost is spiking sometimes as high as .14 MPa (yikes !) and then wavering up and down pretty quickly. It is worst in 4th or 5th gear going WOT at 3K rpm (freeway passing) It does it to a lesser degree in 3rd also. I've seen others with this problem resorting to a new BCS or a manual BC.
Mileage on the car is 170K and I've been running the same PDX tuning maps for 3-4 years. I've been experiencing this problem slightly for a while, but it's gotten progressively worse esp. the last week. That makes me think that something mechanical is gradually failing. It doesn't seem like the BCS would do that. I'm wondering if either the waste gate actuator (diaphragm) or the BPV (spring) could be responsible. Any ideas ?
BTW, I just got back from a 4000 mile road trip so I can't throw much cash at the car right now, and believe I have a spare BCS somewhere to try for troubleshooting purposes. I'll drop that in tomorrow, and yes I checked for vacuum leaks.
I had this issue a few years back, turned out to be the BCS. So that would definitely be the first thing I tried.
but shouldn't you be running about .14 MPa (~20 Psi) anyways?!
No, I'm mapped for around 16-17 PSI max.
Problem solved ! I ran some electrical parts cleaner through the BCS (with test connectors, so it was cycling) and the restrictor pill, reset my map and did some 3rd gear "tuning" using some empty on-ramps. Not sure which was gunked up, but it smoothed things out right away. I'm only hitting 14.5 PSI so far, but a little aggressive driving should bring that back up. I like it when I don't have to spend money to fix my car !Thumbs Up
congrats!...glad another bug wagon is healthy!
Can you explain your fix a little more.
I'm kinda a n00b with this stuff and I'm having the same issue you are..
The BCS (boost control solenoid) is on the strut tower, passenger side. It has two vacuum lines running to it and a two prong electrical connector. I took off the vacuum lines, the two 10mm nuts that hold the BCS to the car, and clipped the two green test connectors (under dash, left side) together. Plugging those together puts the car in test mode, which cycles the fans and basically all the sensors etc. when the key is on (don't start it) I sprayed a little electrical parts cleaner into the nipples that the vacuum lines attach to in short bursts a few seconds apart, disconnected the green clips and put it back together.
I also cleaned out the vacuum lines that attach to the turbo, T connector, and waste gate actuator since that is where the restrictor pill lives. I used the same cleaner, sprayed into one end, blew through it and then the other. I put my thumb over the line that T's off so that the cleaner and air blew only where it needed to. Again, put it back together and off I drove.
First though, I used the reset ECU and switch map functions of my access port, just re-entering the stage 2 map I always run. The way you "train" the ECU to hit boost levels correctly (without a dyno) is to run WOT (wide open throttle) in third gear to red line a few times. I use empty on ramps to do this, as redline in third is around 85-90 mph, and you need to be able to hold it at WOT all the way for it to work correctly.
I took the car back out for a few more miles and it's running great ;)
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LONDON (Reuters) - Global brand powerhouses like Mattel, Nike and Wrigley's use research companies who recruit children as young as seven across Europe, America and developing economies to sell their wares, a new book on consumerism says.
Child recruits, or "brand ambassadors," are paid with free gadgets, toys, video games or mobile phones after being groomed into perfecting the art of the hard sell by putting pressure on their peers to acquire the latest products.
"Who's your child working for?" the book, entitled 'Consumer Kids' asks in its introduction. The question is designed to scare, of course, but the authors say it should not be dismissed as scaremongering, because the answer may be truly frightening.
"It's quite shocking," said Ed Mayo, co-author of 'Consumer Kids' and chief executive of the British government-backed Consumer Focus campaign group.
He is describing the story of Sarah, a bright and busy little girl, who at age seven has been recruited by the specialist youth marketing firm Dubit through an online children's chat room to work as a sales agent for the Barbie Girls MP3 player, made by the U.S. toy firm Mattel.
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SHEIKHUPURA, Pakistan, October 11 (CDN) — A young Christian has been jailed for nearly eight months and his family was attacked after a Muslim friend framed him for murder, he said.
Yassir Masih, 18, has been locked up at Sheikhupura District Jail since his arrest in late February. In an interview at Narang Mandi police station at that time, Masih said that on Feb. 17 his Muslim friend Muhammad Mubashir came to his house late at night and asked him to accompany him on "an urgent piece of work."
Residents of Pandori village in Sheikhupura district, Mubashir and Masih went to the home of Muhammad Imran, who was in love with the same girl as Mubashir; Masih said the two one-time friends often quarreled over her, with bitter enmity eventually developing between them.
"Being a friend, I went with him, reluctantly, and we soon arrived at the door of Muhammad Imran," Masih said. "Muhammad Mubashir knocked on the door, and as soon as Muhammad Imran opened the door, Muhammad Mubashir opened fire with his pistol, killing Muhammad Imran on the spot."
The gunfire awakened villagers, who gathered and began to search for the killer, Masih said. Frightened of the mob and not wanting to put his family in danger, Masih did not return home but fled with Mubashir. The two young men hid in a field of crops, where they decided to leave the village until passions cooled, he said. As Masih left the village, however, he was unaware that Mubashir had melted into the mob that was looking for the killer, he said.
"Later Muhammad Mubashir went to his house and slept in his warm bed that shivering cold winter night," Masih said.
The next day villagers discovered Masih was missing and therefore accused him of killing Imran, he said.
They didn't stop at that, said Khalid Gill, chief organizer for Punjab Province of the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance. Gill said that in order to deprive the wealthy Christian family of their profitable strawberry, wheat, corn and other crops, Mubashir's father, Muhammad Gulfam, filed murder, arms possession and terrorism charges not only against Masih but also against his 50-year-old father Abid Masih, as well as brothers Khalid Masih, 30; Asif Masih, 23; Ashir Masih, 15; Faisal Masih, 13; and two others unnamed.
"Most of the Muslims in the area harbored jealousy against the prosperous Christian family," Gill pointed out, explaining why Gulfam also pressed charges against members of Yassir Masih's family.
Additionally, the angry villagers on Feb. 18 overran the property of Masih's grandfather, Rehmat Masih, where four of the late patriarch's sons lived; the mob beat women and children with clubs and looted appliances, clothes and other household items, Gill said.
"Nothing was left of use for the Christian family," Gill said.
He added that the villagers ransacked Yassir Masih's home and burned 20 acres of his fields on Feb. 18. The village comprises about 2,000 Muslim families and only 15 Christian homes, he said.
Officers from Narang Mandi police station arrested Yassir Masih later than month. He and his family members told officers that Mubashir shot Imran, but police listened only to the lies of the plaintiff, Masih said.
On Feb. 19 Yassir Masih's mother, Shamshad Bibi, went to the Narang Mandi police station to file a complaint against the Muslim villagers for attacking and looting their house and burning their crops, Gill said. Police filed a case against the attackers but so far no one has been arrested, and "all the Muslim leaders who instigated the Muslim mob to attack are still at large," Gill said.
At the same time, Narang Mandi police have arrested not only Yassir Masih but his brothers Ashir Masih and Asif Masih, 15 and 23 years old respectively, Gill said. While Yassir Masih has been incarcerated at Sheikhupura District Jail, Ashir Masih and Asif Masih were interrogated by Criminal Investigation Agency officers and have been kept at an undisclosed location since Feb. 18.
The accused Christian's father, Abid Masih, as well as Khalid Masih, were still in hiding at press time. Police exonerated young Faisal Masih of all charges on Sept.1. Gill said that the 13-year-old boy had moved to an undisclosed location.
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Already suppressed Christians say bill is designed to control growth.
THIMPHU, Bhutan, July 21 (CDN) — Christians in this Himalayan nation who are still longing to openly practice their faith were disheartened this month when the government proposed the kind of "anti-conversion" law that other nations have used as a pretext for falsely accusing Christians of "coercion."
The amendment bill would punish "proselytizing" that "uses coercion or other forms of inducement" – vaguely enough worded, Christians fear, that vigilantes could use it to jail them for following the commands of Christ to feed, clothe and otherwise care for the poor.
"Now, under section 463 [of the Penal Code of Bhutan], a defendant shall be guilty of the offense of proselytization if the defendant uses coercion or other forms of inducement to cause the conversion of a person from one religion or faith to another," reported the government-run Kuensel newspaper on July 9.
"There was always a virtual anti-conversion law in place, but now it is on paper too," said a senior pastor from Thimphu on condition of anonymity. "Seemingly it is aimed at controlling the growth of Christianity."
Kuenlay Tshering, a member of Bhutan's Parliament and the chairperson of its Legislative Council, told Compass that the new section is consonant with Article 7(4) of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Bhutan, which states, "A Bhutanese citizen shall have the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. No person shall be compelled to belong to another faith by means of coercion or inducement."
He said that the National Council had proposed that offenses under the proposal be classified as misdemeanors, punishable by one to less than three years in prison.
Tshering said that the amendment bill "may be passed during the next session of Parliament, after the National Assembly deliberates on it in the winter session."
Asked if he was aware that similar "anti-conversion" laws in neighboring India had been misused to harass Christians through vague terms of "inducement," he said he was not.
Authorities usually act on complaints by local residents against Christian workers, so frivolous complaints can lead to their arrest, said another pastor who requested anonymity.
Of the 683,407 people in Bhutan, over 75 percent are Buddhist, mainly from the west and the east. Hindus, mostly ethnic Nepalese from southern Bhutan, are estimated to be around 22 percent of the population.
There are around 6,000 Christians, mostly ethnic Nepalese, but there is neither a church building nor a registered Christian institution. The Bible, however, has been translated into the national language, Dzongkha, as well as into Nepali.
The constitution guarantees freedom of religion, but the government has not officially recognized the presence of Christians, whose practice of faith remains confined to their homes.
The Drukpa Kagyue school of Mahayana Buddhism is the state religion, with Hinduism dominant in the south, according to Bhutan's official website, which adds, "Some residues of Bon, animism and shamanism still exist in some pockets of the country," but makes no mention of Christianity.
Still, since Bhutan became a democracy in 2008 after its first-ever elections – following more than 100 years of absolute monarchy – people have increasingly exercised their freedom, including religious choice.
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Home and Culture Minister Lyonpo Minjur Dorji told Compass that Bhutan's government had "no problems" with Christianity or any other faith.
"But Bhutan is a small country, with a little more than 600,000 people, and a majority of them are Buddhist," Dorji said. "We have Hindus, also mainly in southern parts. So why do we need more religions?"
Buddhism is closely linked with political and social life in Bhutan. Dorji's office sits in a gigantic monastery in Thimphu known as Tashichho Dzong. Buddhism unites and brings people together, Dorji said, explaining that the social life of a village revolves around its dzong (monastery).
Dorji said India's multi-religious society had led to tensions and bloodshed.
"India can survive riots and unrest," he said, "but Bhutan may not, because it is a small country between two giants [India and China]."
With leaders who have been proud that they have not allowed it to be colonized, Bhutan historically has been keenly concerned about its survival. Bhutan's people see their distinct culture, rather than the military, as having protected the country's sovereignty. And it is no coincidence that Dorji's portfolio includes both internal security and preservation of culture.
The constitution, adopted in July 2008, also requires the state to protect Bhutan's cultural heritage and declares that Buddhism is the spiritual heritage of Bhutan.
A government official who requested anonymity said that, as Tibet went to China and Sikkim became a state in India, "now which of the two countries will get Bhutan?"
This concern is prevalent among the Bhutanese, he added.
Sikkim, now a state in India's northeast, was a Buddhist kingdom with indigenous Bhotia and Lepcha people groups as its subjects. But Hindus from Nepal migrated to Sikkim for work and gradually outnumbered the local Buddhists. In 1975, a referendum was held to decide if Sikkim, then India's protectorate, should become an official state of the country. Since over 75 percent of the people in Sikkim were Nepalese – who knew that democracy would mean majority-rule – they voted for its incorporation
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Bhutan and India's other smaller neighbors saw it as brazen annexation. And it is believed that Sikkim's "annexation" made Bhutan wary of the influence of India.
In the 1980s, Bhutan's king began a one-nation-one-people campaign to protect its sovereignty and cultural integrity, which was discriminatory to the ethnic Nepalese, who protested. Their non-compliance, however, resulted in a harsh crackdown by authorities, leading to the expulsion or voluntary migration of over 100,000 ethnic Nepalese, many of whom were Christians, to the Nepal side of the border in Jhapa in the early 1990s.
"Bhutan did not want to become another Sikkim," said a local resident, explaining why the government did not tolerate the protests.
Bhutan is also rigorous in implementing its laws related to the use of the national language, the national dress code and the uniform architectural standards throughout the country to strengthen its cultural integrity. Bhutanese men are required to wear the gho, a knee-length robe tied at the waist by a cloth belt, when they go to work or attend a public function. Women have to wear the kira, an ankle-length dress clipped at one shoulder and tied at the waist. Non-compliance can lead to fine
and imprisonment.
Brighter Future
One hopeful pastor said he expects the government to officially acknowledge the existence of Christianity in Bhutan in the near future.
"Religious freedom will be good for both Christians and the government," he said. "If Christians are not officially acknowledged, who will the government go to if it wants to implement an executive decision related to religious communities?"
Explaining the reason for his hope, he recalled an incident in the Punakha area in January, when a house under construction was demolished after rumors that it was used as a church.
"The house owner, a Christian, went to his majesty [King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck] and told him he was not constructing a church but would have worship with other believers on Sundays," the pastor said. "The king allowed him to build the house."
He also said that a delegation of Christians met with Prime Minister Lyonchen Jigmey Thinley in May 2009, who reassured them that there would be more freedom soon.
Christianity is gradually growing, but through word-of-mouth – testimonies of those who have received healing from sickness – and not public preaching, he said, adding that Christians needed to understand and be patient with the government, "which cannot and should not make changes or give freedom overnight."
Christians' Skulls, Bones Used for Buddhist Ritual
The ambiguity in Bhutan over the status of Christians has brought with it a new difficulty: A national daily recently reported that at least eight graves of Christians had been exhumed and the skulls and thigh bones extracted for a Buddhist ritual.
Although the report marked the first time the practice had made the news, Christian leaders said more than 100 graves have been dug up as the trade in human bones has been going on for more than five years.
A local resident of the Lamperi area, near Thimphu, identified as Namgay, told the Bhutan Observer that he found eight graves in a "secret forest graveyard" that had been exhumed by hunters of craniums and thigh bone.
"We saw skulls without craniums and a hand sticking out of a grave," he was quoted as saying in the daily on May 27.
A human skull garners between 5,000 ngultrum (US$105) and 10,000 ngultrum (US$211) in Bhutan, with men's skulls considered more valuable. The skull of a man affected by leprosy is not considered ideal for purification. Rather, such skulls are considered best for rituals to subdue evil spirits.
In a visit to the graveyard, the Bhutan Observer found at least eight graves freshly dug up. "Hand gloves, khaddar [a coarse homespun cotton cloth], a currency note, a wooden cross, and a wooden hammer lay scattered all over," it reported.
The daily said the graveyard apparently belonged to the Christian community in Thimphu and nearby areas.
"Christians in the country say that there should be an official recognition that there are Christians in the country, and other things like burial rights will naturally follow," the report noted.
A local pastor told Compass that since Christians did not have a burial ground, they buried their dead in forests.
"More than 100 bodies have been dug up, even though we have changed several locations for burial," he said. "I wonder how the traders in human bones discover these locations. Where do we go now?"
Some local residents reportedly believe that a Christian grave brings bad luck.
Damcho Wangchu, a resident of Thinleygang area, told the daily that the area surrounding the graveyard was holy. He attributed all misfortune in the area – including storms, the death of three students and of four others – to the Christian cemetery.
"We never experienced such misfortunes in our gewog [cluster of villages] before," he said.
The daily explained that the tradition of use of human skulls and thigh bones in Buddhist rituals was as old as Tantric Buddhism itself. "Thoepai Dagpa is a generic name for the text that illustrates the use and study of quality of skulls," it reported.
Tantric Buddhism, widespread in Bhutan, involves rituals as a substitute or alternative for the earlier abstract meditations.
An editorial in the same newspaper noted, "Our hunt for the criminal will probably lead us from the unplanned graveyard to the sacred altar."
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Boss Creations, a new holiday décor company, has introduced the new "CHRIST-mas" Tree™, featuring the unique trait of a trunk in the shape of a wooden cross. Company owner Marsha Boggs says the tree was specifically designed to counter the "war on Christmas," reports Boss Creations in its press release.
"When I became a Christian a few years ago," says Boggs, "I was appalled by the secularization of the Christmas holiday. When retail stores started substituting 'Happy Holidays' for 'Merry Christmas,' and schools began calling their Christmas programs 'Winter Plays,' it all seemed ridiculous to me. That's why we have created products that remind people what the Christmas season is really all about – the birth of Christ."
The "CHRIST-mas" Tree™ is size adjustable up to 7.5 foot tall to accommodate various ceiling sizes. Additionally, the company offers ornaments, wreaths and gift items all with Christian-based themes.
Legal fights over Christmas symbolism continue to create headlines such as a recent ban on religious songs in a New Jersey school district where the federal appeal judges noted "such songs were once common in public schools, but times have changed." Lawsuits regarding Christmas trees being taken down from public buildings have sparked anger across the country. Boggs says Boss Creations' mission is to uphold the traditional meaning of the Christmas season, and from their sales, the company will be supporting two non-profit organizations that work as advocates for religious freedom.
A portion of the proceeds of all "CHRIST-mas" Tree™ sales will go to support the American Center of Law & Justice, an organization recently hailed by BusinessWeek as "the leading advocacy group for religious freedom," as well as to the Liberty Counsel, a nonprofit litigation, education and policy organization dedicated to advancing religious freedom, the sanctity of human life and the traditional family.
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Osman Imin freed after two years; concerns remain over incarcerated Alimjan Yimit.
LOS ANGELES, November 24 (CDN) — A Uyghur Christian in China's troubled Xinjiang region was released last week after serving two years in a labor camp for alleged "illegal proselytizing" and "leaking state secrets," according to Compass sources.
House church leader Osman Imin (Wusiman Yaming in Chinese) was freed on Wednesday (Nov. 18), sources said. Authorities had called for a 10-15 year prison sentence for Osman but significantly reduced the term following international media attention.
An outspoken leader of the Uyghur church in the northwestern region of China, Osman was first arrested in 2004 and kept at a detention center in Hotan, southern Xinjiang. Local sources said his arrest was almost certainly related to his church work.
There he was chained to a metal bed in winter and frequently beaten while interrogated. Osman was released on bail on Nov. 18, 2004, but bail was canceled in October 2006. On July 26, 2007, he was again placed under supervised house arrest and finally detained by police on Nov. 19 of that year on the charge of "revealing state secrets."
Authorities denied him access to a lawyer, and in June 2008 a court rejected his appeal without explanation.
Authorities eventually moved him to the labor camp outside Kashgar. While in prison Osman was forced to work 12 to 15 hours a day, and his health quickly deteriorated. He was reportedly suffering malnutrition throughout his confinement.
Osman and his wife Nurgul have two young daughters.
Still in arbitrary detention in the region is another Uyghur Christian, Alimjan Yimit (Alimujiang Yimiti in Chinese). Officials initially closed the foreign-owned business Alimjan worked for in September 2007 and accused him of using it as a cover for "preaching Christianity." He was then detained in January 2008 on charges of endangering state security and was formally arrested on Feb. 20, 2008 on charges of "inciting secession" and leaking state secrets.
Court officials returned Alimjan's case to state prosecutors in May 2008, citing lack of evidence. Last May 21, government sources told Alimjan's mother that the Public Security Bureau (PSB) in Kashgar planned to quietly sentence him to three years of re-education through labor, thereby circumventing the court system.
Under Chinese law the PSB, which originally filed the case against Alimjan, may authorize such sentences without approval from the court or other state agencies.
Court authorities have returned Alimjan's case to state prosecutors, citing lack of evidence for charges of "leaking state secrets" and "inciting secession." Family, friends and work colleagues have insisted that Alimjan is a loyal citizen with no access to state secrets, and that his arrest was due largely to his Christian faith and association with foreign Christians.
In Xinjiang's politically charged environment, Alimjan's family and friends fear he could face execution if he were wrongly linked with alleged Uyghur separatists.
Sources said there appears to be a concerted effort to shut down the leadership of the Uyghur church in a restive region where authorities fear anything they cannot control. The region of ethnic Uyghurs has come under a government crackdown the past two years as long-simmering tensions erupted.
Disputes over ownership of Xinjiang's land and rich mineral resources have led to resentment between Uyghurs – native to Xinjiang – and Han Chinese. Religious differences are also an issue, with a vast majority of Uyghurs practicing Islam, while most Chinese are officially atheists or follow Buddhism or syncretistic folk religions. Only a handful of China's estimated 10 million Uyghurs are known to be Christians.
As part of authorities' apparent effort to clamp down on Christianity, they have disbarred several lawyers involved in the defense of Uyghur Christians, including Alimjan's attorney, Li Dunyong. He was effectively disbarred at the end of May when Chinese authorities turned down an annual application to renew his law license.
Zhang Kai, another Beijing lawyer who had defended Alimjan, suffered the same fate.
Authorities failed to renew licenses for at least 15 other lawyers who had defended civil rights cases, religious and ethnic minorities and political dissidents, according to watch group Human Rights in China.
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Defectors' descriptions add to evidence of strong but severely persecuted church.
DUBLIN, April 24 (Compass Direct News) – Eom Myong-Heui of North Korea was a loyal communist in the Workers' Party of Korea before she became a Christian under the influence of her business partner – a missionary who was later arrested and tortured into revealing that Eom was a believer.
Authorities placed Eom into a detention center in her hometown of Moosan and tortured her into denying her faith – but her incarceration continued under appalling conditions. Officials eventually released her due to her previous national loyalty. Now an assistant pastor at a church in Seoul, South Korea after a harrowing escape from her home country, Eom relates a journey that is part of a growing body of evidence of a strong – and severely persecuted – church in North Korea.
"A lot of people ask me if there really are people in North Korea who believe in Christ," she said. "Do you really think that the missionaries who were there and all the believers who meet underground are all dead?"
Even as the North Korean government this month allowed two high-profile, U.S. Christian bands to perform at a music festival in Pyongyang, the fear of punishment authorities have instilled in North Korean Christians keeps most of them from publicly revealing their faith. As many as 400,000 Christians are estimated to worship secretly in the country, and Suzanne Scholte, head of an association of some 60 groups campaigning for change in the country called the North Korean Freedom Coalition (NKFC), estimates that more than 200,000 North Koreans are held in political prison camps for various perceived "disloyalties" to the regime, including adherence to Christianity.
Christian support group Open Doors estimates that of the 200,000 people incarcerated in political prison camps, at least 40,000 are Christians. Under North Korea's policy of juche, or self-reliance, citizens may worship only President Kim Jong Il and his late father, former ruler Kim Il Sung.
Jung Eun Hye, one of several North Korean refugees expected to speak about conditions in the country at events in Washington, D.C. next week, said that freedom of religion is stipulated in North Korea's constitution, but that "Christians have to risk their lives to have a secret service away from the oppression of the government."
Jung, who faced severe persecution after authorities caught his father and aunt with Bibles in their possession, said he did not know that any churches existed in Pyongyang until he escaped from North Korea. While a handful of government churches do exist in the capital, Jung is one of many refugees who believe that these churches exist only to "deceive the outside world."
"Here is my question," said Jung. "If North Korea has freedom of religion, why does the government arrest, kill or imprison Christians in camps from which they never return?"
Testimony from various sources confirms that the government actively seeks out Christian groups and meeting points and imprisons Christians solely because of their faith. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) last year reported refugees saying that Christianity remained a key factor in the interrogation of people repatriated from China to North Korea. Border guards reserved the harshest punishment for those who admitted having any contact with Chinese or South Korean Christians.
"There is no freedom of belief or religion," one refugee stated. "[We are taught] that if one is involved in religion, one cannot survive."
Former police and security officers interviewed for USCIRF's report admitted that their superiors had instructed them to play the role of Christians and infiltrate "underground" prayer meetings in order to incriminate, arrest, imprison and sometimes execute believers in North Korea.
'Abyss of Death'
A delegation of North Korean refugees recently described their experiences ahead of events on Capitol Hill from Sunday (April 26) through Saturday (May 2) as part of North Korea Freedom Week.
Kim Young Soon, a refugee who spent nine years in a prison camp, said North Korean ruler Kim "is pushing the people into the abyss of death. In such a society, no one can trust anyone."
Authorities sent Kim Young Soon and her family to prison camp No. 15, otherwise known as Yodok, after she made a seemingly innocent comment about the regime.
"Every mountain and field in Yodok was covered with dead bodies because of malnutrition and hunger," Kim said. She described waking at 3:30 a.m. to run six kilometers (nearly four miles) to her assigned workplace and surviving on a diet of unripe, salted corn. Her parents and two of her sons died during their incarceration; border guards shot her third son when she fled with him to China shortly after their release.
Former prisoner Jung Gwangil said prison guards sadistically controlled inmates through collective punishment.
"If I did something wrong, all the members of the group I belonged to were punished," he said. "When guards withheld food or switched off heaters in the middle of winter, fellow prisoners would sometimes beat the responsible inmate to death."
Another former prisoner, Kim Tae Jin, described being left naked in a freezing cell and forced to sit on quicklime in the rain, resulting in severe burns to her skin.
"Even now, there are people who cut their own fingers off to avoid hard labor, who disguise themselves as madmen, or who lose their arms from beatings because they believe in a God who supposedly doesn't exist," she added.
While she was in prison, she said, a fellow inmate known only as Park formed a small "fellowship" of seven Christians. Prison guards eventually caught Park, beat him severely and asked him, "Who told you about the existence of God?"
"Do we have to be told about the existence of the sun to know that it's there?" Park replied. "We learn its existence by feeling its warmth."
Perilous Journey
In such conditions, the journey to faith is perilous for North Koreans – or nothing short of miraculous in the case of Eom, an assistant pastor at Seoul's New Pyongyang Full Gospel Church (a fellowship for North Korean Defectors associated with Yoido Full Gospel Church).
She was extremely loyal to the regime until she made contact with a South Korean-Chinese Christian businessman.
"It's very hard to live in North Korea, so if you don't secretly do business, you can't survive," Eom said in sharing her story with members of another large church in Seoul, South Korea. "So for a few days I just kept being polite and agreeing with whatever he said about God, even though I knew he was wrong … but then God started to change my heart."
Eventually the missionary gave her a small New Testament.
"I enjoyed it," she said. "The teaching to love your enemy, give him food if he's hungry, give him water if he's thirsty. I also took to heart the words about loving each other."
Eom asked a superior why North Korea didn't have a religion other than worship of the Kim family.
"His eyes got big and he told me that religion was poison," she said, "and that if I tried to learn about Christianity I would automatically become a traitor."
As a teacher, Eom knew what happened to children of traitors and immediately began to worry about her two daughters. When police arrested the missionary and someone warned her that she could be next, Eom packed a small bag and assured her youngest daughter that she would return in three days.
"At the time," she told the Seoul congregation, "I didn't realize that this trip would bar me from ever entering the country again."
Detained by police, she said, she could not understand why the authorities were so concerned about whether she was a Christian instead of asking about her business activities. After her release and unable to rescue her daughters, she escaped to China, where she was arrested twice and told, "If we arrest you again, we will kill you."
From China Eom made a dangerous journey via Myanmar to Thailand, where she spent six months in a detention center before being granted asylum in South Korea in 2002.
"This is a most critical time for the North Korea human rights movement," said Scholte, head of the NKFC and president of the Defense Forum Foundation. "We either advance these issues now with the opportunity that comes from a new administration and a new Congress, or we see another decade of death and despair for those whose great misfortune was to be born under the Kim Jong Il dictatorship."
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It was only a very short while ago that my region of New South Wales (in Australia – Bulahdelah to Tea Gardens) was in the grip of its coldest winter in many years. In fact last weekend the region was in the middle of an east coast low that brought cold temperatures, torrential rain and gale force winds, resulting in flooding around the lower areas of Bulahdelah, as well as some wind damage with fallen trees, etc. Exactly a week on and the surrounding rivers are still to return to their pre-flood levels, yet we are basking in summer-like conditions, with the temperature today expected to be in the high 20s or even perhaps 30 degrees Celsius. Last week the temperature was in the low to mid teens.
What a strange time spring is with such fluctuating weather conditions. The rain is expected to return tomorrow, however, this will be on the back of the season's first thunderstorms if the predictions turn out to be true. Certainly the 'feel' today is that thunderstorms arriving this afternoon would be the expectation.
With the arrival of spring comes the expectation of bushfires in the near future. Last season we had a fairly negligible bushfire season, with plenty of wet weather. However, the drought has continued to bite across most of south-eastern Australia and conditions are right for a particularly bad bushfire season, with massive loads of material just waiting to be burnt in the Australian bush. Coastal regions have had plenty of rain, but not too far inland the country remains gripped by drought and perilously low water supplies.
For now though, we are welcoming the arrival of spring and the retreat of what has been the coldest winter for many years.
It has to be the coldest day this winter here on the Mid North coast of New South Wales, Australia. I know I felt extremely cold today and I don't normally feel the cold all that much. It was truly winter today and that for the first time really in more than one winter season.
The high today at Tea Gardens was 9 degrees Celsius – the coldest day that I can remember in a long time. Not only that, there was also a cold wind blowing and a fair bit of rain around as well. A real blast of winter today, that's for sure.
There was a fair bit of snow around the state today as well, with snow in the Barrington Tops and near Walcha, to just name a couple of areas.
More of the rain and winter weather tomorrow as well.
Still – I haven't felt the need to stop wearing my work shorts at work yet. Perhaps I'm a glutton for punishment!


text: ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., Jan. 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Complementing its other new Smart Appliances for 2013, LG Electronics (LG) announced its totally redesigned robotic vacuum, the LG HOM-BOT Square, with improved cleaning technologies and smart capabilities for easy cleaning on virtually any surface. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130102/CG35396) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110203/CG42292LOGO-d) At next week's International CES® in Las Vegas, LG will demonstrate how its HOM-BOT Square offers a significant upgrade in cleaning performance, thanks primarily to LG's newly designed Corner Master technology. This advanced feature set includes improved sensors and longer brushes, enabling it to tackle hard-to-reach places. Ultrasonic and infrared sensors detect obstacles, while the vacuum's Dual Eye 2.0™ cameras scan and map rooms, even when the lights are turned off. The Turbo Mode settings let users manually adjust the cleaner to best match the characteristics of their flooring while Smart Turbo Mode automatically changes its own settings based on the type of flooring. "From the beginning, we jumped into this project with the realization that consumers' rooms aren't round, they're rectangular," said Seong-jin Jo, President and CEO of the LG Electronics Home Appliance Company. "In practically every house around the world, rooms have right-angle corners, so it made perfect sense to develop a vacuum that took this into account. The HOM-BOT Square makes cleaning the hard-to-reach places effortless." While robotic vacuum cleaners typically have only one camera, LG's advanced HOM-BOT Square uses two improved Dual Eye 2.0 cameras to plot out a smarter, faster and more efficient cleaning route. Taking several images per second, the upper and lower cameras scan ceilings, walls and floors, even under dim lighting conditions. This information is then analyzed to generate smarter mapping. At the same time, multiple sensors detect obstacles within a 180-degree field, taking hundreds of surface images to help provide collision-free operation.


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autor: BS-Harou
This extension works similar to auto-complete in Firefox. It remembers your entries into text boxes and next time when you will start writing to any text box on the same domain it will show you a list of the old entries below the text box. You can use shift + pressing the left mouse button on item to delete it. You can also double-click on empty text box to show whole list. If you have any problem then send me a message please, before you write a negative review - you won't be able to change your review in future.
You have to check this two options in opera:config, otherwise extension won't work!
- To rozszerzenie może modyfikować lub dodawać funkcje do jednej lub większej ilości witryn WWW.
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One more thing - the items which were remembered in version 1.41 are no longer available in 1.72 %(
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Unfortunately the items I enter are not remembered half of the time in version 1.72.
Version 1.41 was working fine, but in 12.50 it stopped selecting items in the list via keyboard (instead the builtin opera notes menu pops up).
Also can you please add a setting to ignore autocomplete=off?
And one more issue - after some time items get lost. Is this configurable?
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I wasted an hour reinstalling the whole browser and everything within, just to find out that the enormous lagging of opera is caused by this crappy extension.
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Good one but with Opera 11.60 it keeps tabs loading their thumbnail images so they always have the loader icon over them.
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its leave opera very very slow!!!!!!!!
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seems to be giving me loading problems in some pages, i couldnt load http://www.lg.com/global/index.jsp with it, on a fresh install of opera 11.60
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My page is loaded, but shows a constant reload going on as well as when I pull up the bottom info bar it connecting to a website of vlog.webformix.com when I input this into my browser address it starts the infinit load loop which makes me wonder if someones trying to keep records on my browsing
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How one is supposed to specify exclusions in the "List of sites where buscomplete is disabled"? I tried several possibilities without success:
- http://<siteName>
- http://<siteName>/*
- <siteName>
- <siteName>/*
- full page URL
None appears to work.
Note however that <siteName> is a local Web server, with a simple name, eg. "internal", no www, no TLD.
Try http://<siteName>* ... this works for me, but there might be also some site speicfic problem.
Thanks for the suggestion, but doesn't work with my specific site :-/
Very annoying, because if I can't disable it for this site, I must disable your extension. Indeed, I want to disable it for this site beacause I have the following issue:
- this intranet site allows (among other features) bug tracking
- on a page, acting as a form, there is an edit box, that is displayed as non-editable text by default,
- if one clicks the "Edit" link, then the edit box is displayed and text becomes editable
- for some reason, Buscomplete makes something that leaves the edit box displayed all the time.
BTW, I don't have this issue by using whochan's AutoComplete instead of Buscomplete...
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Wondering why latest version attempts, for each page it is enabled on, to connect to http://buscomplete.widget, thus leading to a systematic error...?
Temporarily fixed using Opera's block content feature.
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Because of this expansion:
page is loaded, but shows a constant load
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clean install and it does this:
Mám stejný problém.
I have the same problem.
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Weirdness when searching in opear addons https://addons.opera.com/addons/extensions/?language=any&no_promo_box=1
Type something on the Search Catalog and find weird output there. Sorry I dont know how to describe it.
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- In 2013, in only 5 working days, Woman published a Royal Baby special to celebrate the birth of Prince George that was distributed in the UK, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
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