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There are renewed fears for the future of Australian racing with new figures showing punters are flocking to a controversial betting service that will cost the industry millions of dollars a year.
Senior racing executives have been concerned about online in-play sports betting, which allows punters to bet on a sports match after it has started, something gambling companies started offering it last year in a potential breach of federal law.
But these concerns have deepened after betting agency William Hill revealed this week its turnover on the Australian Open has surged 80 per cent in a year driven largely by a 300 per cent increase in in-play bets while its in-play bets on Big Bash League cricket have surged more than 1000 per cent.
In a recent submission to a federal government gambling revue, Greyhound Racing Victoria said in-play betting would severely affect revenue and cost the racing industry up to $10 million a year.
Racing Victoria also expressed its concern and its dismay in its submission and said the service would grow by luring punters away from traditional products.
Online in-play betting has been widely condemned by anti-gambling advocates and in July the Australian Communications and Media Authority said it was concerned the service was illegal.
It referred complaints to the Australian Federal Police, which later said it would not investigate further due to "case prioritisation issues".
It is understood the federal government is currently considering whether to legalise the service or ban it completely as part of its wide-ranging review into gambling that is expected to be finalised later this year.
William Hill is currently embroiled in another controversy, with its sponsorship of the Australian Open this year marking the first time a grand slam tournament has ever partnered with a gambling company.
The arrangement has been widely condemned since match-fixing allegations in tennis surfaced earlier this week.
Racing betting funds the industry but has seen its dominance eroded in recent years as sports betting has grown increasingly popular.
Twenty years ago racing wagering turnover was almost over 50 times that of sports betting.
It is now less than five times as large with around $22 billion gambled on racing annually compared to $4.5 billion in 2013-14.


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A Doncaster bus service is set to help shoppers save money this Christmas.
Customers on Stagecoach Yorkshire's 70 Park and Ride, serving White Rose Way to Doncaster, can benefit from a £1 day ticket per person, and journey times of 15 minutes into the town centre.
Paul Lynch, managing director of Stagecoach Yorkshire, said: "We know Christmas can be an expensive time for many families so this is our way of giving something back to the community with an offer designed to help people save money during the festive season.
"The Park and Ride service was introduced to increase local travel options and it has been very popular since launching at the start of the year.
"The £1 day ticket provides our customers with a value for money, fast and convenient alternative to taking their car into the town centre, where parking can be costly and limited."
Passengers can avoid the stress and cost of town centre parking on the service, which operates every 15 minutes from Monday to Saturday.
Stagecoach Yorkshire launched the route in January 2013 to serve Frenchgate Shopping Centre from White Rose Way Park and Ride site.
They run every 15 minutes from 6.50am to 7pm.

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Report summaryWood Mackenzie forecasts annual Industrial Production (IP) indices to the year 2035 for Canada, Mexico and USA. Forecasts are updated on a quarterly basis. This report contains a download of our complete North America IP dataset.
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Santon PremierPlus Solar Indirect Unvented Hot Water Cylinders
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CONCORD - Gov. John Lynch today urged the legislature to support legislation this year to prevent against identity theft. The House Commerce Committee is holding hearings this week on a number of bills related to the topic.
"Too many New Hampshire citizens have seen their identities stolen by criminals, jeopardizing their credit and entangling them in legal problems. We must do more to protect them," Gov. Lynch said.
In a letter to the House Commerce Committee, Gov. Lynch urged support for legislation to ensure that citizens know when their personal information has been stolen.
"Our citizens rely on New Hampshire businesses and credit institutions to protect their personal information," Gov. Lynch wrote. "By requiring prompt disclosure of security breaches, our citizens will be in a better position to react in a timely manner to potential threats against the misuse of their identities."
Gov. Lynch also urged that the legislature protect identity theft victims from damage to their credit ratings.
"Victims of identity theft need to be treated fairly when they apply for a mortgage or other form of credit. In order to assist our citizens in maintaining their good credit, we need to make sure they have some control over their credit reports," Gov. Lynch wrote, urging support for a "security freeze" on the disclosure of credit reports of victims of identity theft to ensure criminals can' t use stolen identities to get credit.
Praising the efforts of the legislature and law enforcement to address the growing issues of identity theft and cyber crime, Gov. Lynch promised to work with the House and Senate to address this challenge.
"I look forward to working with the House and Senate during the upcoming session to pass a comprehensive identity theft bill that protects the identities of our citizens from being exploited, while recognizing the operating needs of those businesses and industries that responsibly utilize computers and electronic information to grow our economy and provide necessary services to our citizens," Gov. Lynch wrote.
Governor Lynch Urges Greater Protections Against Identity Theft
CONCORD - Gov. John Lynch today urged the legislature to support legislation this year to prevent against identity theft. The House Commerce Committee is holding hearings this week on a number of bills related to the topic.


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Wilburton Fireworks Display
Saturday 5th November 2016The next fireworks event will be on Saturday 5th November, 2016. The theme this year will be the Olympic Games (didn't we do well?).
Bonfire lit at around 6:30pm
Fireworks start at around 7:30pm
Event finishes 9:00pm
Free parking is available, but please walk if you can!
Our fireworks event is a fundraiser for local good causes - the people who organise the event, and those who help out on the night, are all volunteers.
We would like to thank everyone who came to see our fireworks or to help out at the event last year! The event was a great success!
All the proceeds from our display go to local good causes, in recent years we have supported:
Since 2006, we have donated over £25,000 to local good causes, and over £50,000 since the fireworks began in 1977. Everyone involved in the display is a volunteer, giving up their time free of charge. Without the volunteers, the display could not happen, so please come along, enjoy it and support local good causes.


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The attack, which according to CCTV footage took place at 6:27pm on Thursday (Nov 10), occurred after pump attendant, Usaman Satapoh 32, refused to serve motorist, Pariwat Ponsamak, 30, because he did not switch off his engine as asked.
The incident went viral in Phuket social media circles late on Thursday night when CCTV footage surfaced showing an angry motorist pulling up at a Shell petrol station in Mai Khao in his black Honda sedan while the pump attendant was serving another driver.
The motorist exited his car, bearing Phuket licence plates KorThor 5577, and kicked the pump attendant in the back, which forced the attendant's face into the side of the car he was attending to, injuring his chin. (See story here.)
Both men went to Tha Chatchai Police Station following the incident and Pariwat apologised to Mr Usaman. Police were told by Mr Usaman that he did not want to press charges so both men were released.
However, yesterday (Nov 11), Tha Chatchat Police Chief Col Prawit Suthiriangaroon ordered Deputy Superintendent Lt Col Watcharin Jirathikanwiwat to bring both parties back to station after comments were made on social media demanding justice for Mr Usaman.
Once called back Pariwat was charged with assault and fined B500.
Col Prawit said that he pressed the charges against Pariwat to set an example for the general public to think hard before they take matters into their own hands.


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In my dream the guy I like was being unusually affectionate and touchy. In real life I blush easily so when I started blushing in my dream it wasn't a big deal. Except that my body felt hot in real life. When I woke up my whole body was very warm. Has this ever happened to you where you blush in your dream and in real life?
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How to Rip 2D DVD to 3D Video?
Ripping 2D DVD to 3D video is not a rocket science, all you need is just a professional 2D to 3D DVD ripper software. Sothink DVD Ripper is a powerful DVD ripper program with 3D feature included, which also acts as a professional 2D to 3D DVD ripper that capable of ripping normal 2D DVD to multiple 3D videos, either the normal 3D format videos or advanced 3D format videos like 3D H.265 videos, 4K.3D videos, etc.
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Get Sothink DVD Ripper started, and choose DVD Ripper from the welcome screen when it runs.
Place the DVD disc you want to rip into the optical drive, or navigate it through the Add buttons if it has already been in. You can also simply drag & drop it into the main UI for loading when it comes to be an ISO file or a folder.
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After source loading, click the profile switcher to choose one 3D video format from the 3D Format part. Following, select the titles, audio tracks and subtitles you need.
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Jeffrey T. Nagasaki
About Jeffrey T. Nagasaki
Jeffrey T. Nagasaki brings more than 30 years of experience to his current position as founder of Nagasaki & Associates in Torrance, California. Since opening the sole proprietor firm in 2005, Jeff Nagasaki has provided real estate consulting and valuation services for both the public and private sectors following the Uniform Standards of Professional Practice. He gained expertise in his field through years of appraising and valuating property throughout Southern California. Jeffrey T. Nagasaki launched his career as an Assistant Vice President working with Security Pacific National Bank, where for seven years he conducted real property valuations for retail, office, industrial, and various residential properties, including condominiums, subdivisions, and single-family homes. He later joined Lea Associates, Inc., where he spent 20 years as Senior Vice President responsible for the company's real estate appraisal and consulting services. He gained expert knowledge in various property rights, such as leased fee, fee simple, and leasehold interest.
Educated in California, Jeff Nagasaki earned a Bachelor of Science in Business from California State University, Long Beach. He specialized in real estate finance and financial management. Beyond his undergraduate studies, he has continuously expanded his knowledge of the industry through seminars and completion of courses offered through the Appraisal Institute, a global organization for professional appraisers, in which he holds membership. Nagasaki also holds associate membership in the Institute of Real Estate Management and certification with the State of California as a General Real Estate Appraiser.
Jeffrey T. Nagasaki's superior qualifications and experience allow him to serve as an expert witness in court matters related to real estate. He has testified before the Superior Courts of several California counties, including Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside, and Orange. He also supplies expert witness testimony for binding and non-binding arbitration hearings.
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Since 2005, Jeffrey "Jeff" T. Nagasaki has owned and led Nagasaki & Associates, located in Torrance, California. To stay up-to-date with changes in the industry, Jeffrey T. Nagasaki belongs to the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM), where he is an associate member.
An international community of real estate managers, the IREM promotes management through education. Established more than 80 years ago, the organization today has more than 18,000 members and 550 corporate members.
The IREM hosts events, leadership gatherings, and conferences for members to develop skills, build their network, and share information. The 2016 Leadership and Legislative Summit will take place from April 9 through 13 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC. The 2015 event brought together more than 400 real estate management professionals to discuss the future of the industry. Attendees met with members of Congress and sought to elevate their business with politicians and industry experts, in addition to hearing from keynote speakers Michael McKee, chief executive officer of Bentall Kennedy US, and Joe Stettinius, DTZ chief executive.


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This na home is located at 1 Mcburg Rd in Frankewing. 1649555 was built in 0 and has 0 bedrooms1 Mcburg Rd, Frankewing - MLS 1649555 Close
Land for sale in Frankewing, TN at 1 Mcburg Rd. This land is priced at $4,158/acre.
Great track of land convenient to both lincoln and giles county just minutes away from exit 14. Water Tap already in place so Come build your dream home or start your mini farm here today on this 12+ acres for $49,900. Great views in beautiful country.
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Book Review: Deadfall Hotel / Author: Steven Rasnic Tem / Format: Paperback / Publisher: Rebellion / Release Date: May 10th
The premise may bear a resemblance to The Shining, but Steve Rasnic Tem's fourth novel is a very different beast altogether. Its intention is not so much to terrify but to hypnotise, which Tem does through his beautiful and evocative prose. Like Glen Duncan's The Last Werewolf, this is a fine example of the new wave of literary horror that is sweeping into bookshops. Deadfall Hotel's hero is trapped in a nightmare of loss and grief, given metaphorical form by the rambling gothic hotel and its mouldering denizens.
To be honest, not a lot happens: this is not the kind of novel that relies heavily on plot development, but one that seeks to conjure a state of mind and sustain it - and for the most part it succeeds admirably. The haunting, lyrical atmosphere of the book draws the reader in and holds you within the hotel's walls. There are suspenseful sections, in particular, a superb chase sequence involving a legion of hellish cats, but action and horror are not what Deadfall Hotel is about.
Tem's novel has been described as a cross between Mervyn Peake (Gormenghast) and Edward Gorey in creating a phantasmagoric setting for the exploration of horror in the collective unconscious. Like Peake and Gorey, Tem has an illustrator's eye which finds some expression in the actual illustrations which punctuate the book. The cover, for example, is delightful and I would have liked to have seen this approach taken further, with more drawings throughout to visualise the hotel and its strange guests.
Some may find Deadfall Hotel's protagonist, Richard, a bit passive, caught – as he is throughout – in the inertia of grief for his dead wife. But this is a minor criticism of a rather beautiful and darkly enchanting novel.
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text: PoliticsThaksin lawyer on Thai protests Robert Amsterdam tells Al Jazeera international mediation is way to resolve conflict. 18 May 2010 06:30 GMT | Politics, Asia Pacific Robert Amsterdam, an international human rights lawyer acting on behalf of Thaksin Shinawatra, the deposed Thai prime minister, speaks to Al Jazeera about the political standoff in Bangkok. Amsterdam says international mediation is the way to resolve the conflict.Source: Al Jazeera


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I noticed on the Cake Challenge that a dehydrator was being used to speed up (I'm assuming) drying of fondant and gumpaste. Does anyone here use one with success?
Hi, I have one and always wondered if it could work but i never tried it. at the moment i have no flowers to make but when i do i will try it out and post about it. I hope someone else has tried it and can tell.
i wondered the same thing
please i would love to know also
the contests use it b/c of the time limits. for the rest of us, I think as long as you plan ahead you should be fine. it dries pretty quickly as is. you also can speed it up by putting items in the oven with must the light turned on. But even a good size lump of gumpaste (think base for a large rose) dries rock solid overnight
My flowers are really thin. I made them Friday and they still are not hard. They are soft and lose their shape if I take them out of cups I have them in. I'm dying to use them on a cake, but I'm having to wait and wait! Frustrating.
P.S. might be the really nasty humidity we are having here is So. Calif.
LOL That is funny you posted this I just finished watching it on our DVR and I rewound it to see if it was really a dehydrator she used and thought I would give it a try to when I got the chance
I also was really taken with the idea of marblizing the fondant but I would use more of a pastel color scheme not so dark.
I don't know about a dehydrator but I have a dehumidifier running in the art room while working on the royal frosting, gumpaste flowers and 50/50 items. It really is helping tremendously!!!
I am currently in the process of using my dehydrator on some very thin painted stars...Only been in less than an hour and I can pick them up and only move slightly, almost stiff :0) Super excited!
I use my little old dehydrator constantly for gum paste due to the high humidity in my area. It does *NOT* work for me with fondant - it actually melts the fondant and makes an unimaginable mess. I have an inexpensive round stacking unit that is at least 15 years old - something like maybe a Ronco? DH made a couple of "lifters" in different heights for me that fit just inside the lip of the drying rack to hold the lid up higher so that I can dry bigger/taller pieces. I simply could not get anything to dry without it.
I've never had gum paste not dry faster than I wanted it to. Are you using pure gum paste or fondant? The most recent cake I did at the last minute I decided to make a palm tree about 3 in the morning to put on the cake due the next day and it was dry enough to stand in the cake in a few hours. I use Wilton pre-made gum paste.


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On Wednesday 26 February, Max Watson, Wolfson College Fellow and Director of the Political Economy of Financial Markets programme at St Anthony's College, drew on his thirty years of experience at the European Union and International Monetary Fund to outline the key lessons from the previous decades of crisis management that were forgotten in the handling of the Eurozone crisis.
Speaking at an FLJS lecture at Wolfson College entitled Can We Save Countries from Economic Crises? Some lessons from IMF and EU experience over three decades, he drew on examples of economic crises in South East Europe, Asia, and Central and Latin America to identify the successful strategies for tackling crises, and reached an optimistic view of the role of international institutions in bringing about positive change in the future.
On the Eurocrisis, Mr Watson argued that the severe depth and duration of the crisis can largely be attributed to the fact that five key lessons from the previous decades of crisis management had been forgotten:
The lecture was framed as a response to the acclaimed book Why Nations Fail by economists James A. Robinson and Daron Acemoğlu, which analyses the factors that cause nations to be rich or poor, and argues that so-called extractive institutions are responsible for the lack of development and relative poverty of certain nations.
In response, Mr Watson sought to question the intractability of these institutional problems, choosing instead to explore exactly how external actors might improve the economic prospects of countries by targeting such extractive institutions.
Drawing on examples from South East Europe in the first decade of Transition, Mr Watson showed that the most effective way to tackle economic crises was by tackling vested interests, which was successfully achieved in Croatia, where hyperinflation was brought under control and growth stimulated, but which Romania was unable to achieve, where the vested interests proved too diffuse to strip out of the economy.
Besides tackling the internal causes of inflation and stagnant growth, another key lesson for policymakers is the effectiveness of external incentives, such as membership of the World Trade Organization, which, despite some resentment in Asian countries to the number and scope of the conditions applied to WTO membership, can be successful if managed appropriately.
Civil society, he found, is another fruitful ground for stimulating economic growth, and international bodies such as the EU can have a role to play in encouraging the emergence of NGOs and a free media, which often proves more effective than top-down interventions such as loans to governments whose economies are failing.
Mr Watson ended with an endorsement of the work of the European Stability Mechanism, and, despite the failures to apply the lessons of previous decades in the handling of the Eurocrisis, expressed cautious optimism on the ability of policymakers to positively intervene in future economic crises.
David Vines, Professor of Economics and Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, gave a response to the lecture by emphasizing the need for countries facing economic instability to avoid transferring risk onto tax payers, and instead, to adopt an outward looking strategy of growth promotion by focusing on increased competitiveness in the global market.
He identified the very nature of the monetary union in Europe as responsible for the length of the adjustment phase following the crisis, and argued that, in cases of extended adjustment such as this, increased lending should be the focus of policymaking efforts as opposed to harsh austerity measures.
A transcript and podcast of the event can be downloaded from the links at the top right of the page.


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- The Forest Ecosystems the ecosystems in which an abundance of flora, or plants, is seen so they have a big number of organisms which live in relatively small space. So, in forest ecosystems the density of living organisms is quite high. A small change in this ecosystem could affect the whole balance, effectively bringing down the whole ecosystem.The Desert Ecosystem Desert ecosystems are located in regions that receive an annual rainfall less than 25. Due to the extremely high temperature, low water availability and intense sunlight, fauna and flora are scarce and poorly developed. The vegetation is mainly shrubs, bushes, few grasses and rare trees. The stems and leaves of the plants are modified in order to conserve water as much as possible.The Grassland Ecosystem Grasslands are located in both the tropical and temperate regions of the world though the ecosystems vary slightly. The area mainly comprises grasses with a little number of trees and shrubs. The main vegetation includes grasses, plants and legumes that belong to the composite family. A lot of grazing animals, insectivores and herbivores inhabit the grasslands. The two main kinds of grasslands ecosystems are Savanna and Prairies.The Mountain Ecosystem Mountain land provides a scattered and diverse array of habitats where a large number of animals and plants can be found. At the higher altitudes, the harsh environmental conditions normally prevail, and only the treeless alpine vegetation can survive. Lower slopes are commonly covered with coniferous forests.The Aquatic Ecosystems The aquatic ecosystem is the ecosystem found in a body of water. It encompasses aquatic flora, fauna and water properties, as well. There are two main types of aquatic ecosystem - Marine and Freshwater. Marine Ecosystems are the biggest ecosystems, which cover around 71% of Earth's surface and contain 97% of out planet's water. Water in Marine Ecosystems features in high amounts minerals and salts dissolved in them. Freshwater Ecosystems on the contrary to the Marine ecosystems, the freshwater ecosystem covers only 0.8% of Earth's surface and contains 0.009% of the total water.
Decomposer is an organism, especially a soil bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate, that decomposes organic material. A consumer is something that produces it's own food. An ecosystem is a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment. A producer is an organism or plant that is able to take energy from the sun and make its own food. A food chain is a series of organisms each dependent on the next as a food source. A biotic is of or relating toor resulting for living things especially in their ecological relations. Abiotic is physical rather than biological, not derived from living organisms. Adaptation is a change or the process of change by which an organism or species become better suited to its environment.
Examples of biotic and abiotic factors in a wetland ecosystem
Some examples of Biotic factors in a wetland ecosystem are turtlehead flowers, water, trees, butterflires, competition, bacteria, carrying capacity, plaintain, ash, and the false foxglove.
Some examples of Aiotic factors in a wetland ecosystem are sunlight, air, climate, soil, water, rocks, and temperature.
Wetland ecosystem
Producer: plants
Primary: dear, owl,fox
Secondary: bird, mouse
Quanternary: bugs
Top predator: gator
Energy enters an ecosystem food chain in the form of sunlight, and leaves the food chain in the form of heat.
The arrows in the food chain represent how food is passed through the food chain.
they find other things of food , then start eating each other or they die from not being able to feed themselves.
wetlands provide values that no other ecosystem can, including natural water quality improvement, flood protection, shoreline erosion control, opportunities for recreation and aesthetic appreciation, and natural products for our use at no cost.
Wetlands have important filtering capabilities for intercepting surface- water runoff from higher dry land before the runoff reaches open water. As the runoff water passes through, the wetlands retain excess nutrients and some pollutants, and reduce sediment that would clog waterways and affect fish and amphibian egg development.
The ability of wetlands to control erosion is so valuable that some states are restoring wetlands in coastal areas to buffer the storm surges from hurricanes and tropical storms. Wetlands at the margins of lakes, rivers, bays, and the ocean protect shorelines and stream banks against erosion.
For many animals and plants, like wood ducks, muskrat, cattails, and swamp rose, inland wetlands are the only places they can live.


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A Bit of Cockney Dyer, Ritchie, Loach ....and a bit of a mess.
Lunatic is essentially like a GCSE (note: not A' Level) media or drama project and a rushed one at that. The mentioned lack of editing seems to be in place because either they couldn't be bothered or couldn't actually find a semi skilled editor. The script seems to be totally improvised and doesn't seem to have advanced beyond treatment stage. Improvisational material is famously hit and miss even when skilled actors and Directors are in charge and seeing as none of the actors have skill here.... and the director certainly has none this aspect falls totally flat on its face. Indeed The acting is of such a poor quality, as is the camera work, that you are constantly drawn to the fact that you are watching a really poor narrative. Suspension of disbelieve is never contemplated, never mind reached. At one point I wondered if this was a Brechtian approach before realizing very quickly that it was an approach borne of utter ineptitude.
The story itself is sub Nick Love Danny Dyer territory lacking any charm, in fact in comparison it makes the work of Nick Love as complex as Godard or Lars Von Trier and as technically accomplished as Kubrick. If that sounds like hyperbole I would challenge you to watch the film were it not for the fact that pernicious clichéd representations of London and Londoners like this should be ignored. The pernicious aspects of the film come to the fore trivially with a casual misogynistic approach and constant stream of swearing that eventually indicates a lack of imagination. More seriously though the 'dip' into the world of the pedophile is hackneyed and reactionary whilst at the same time hypocritical in being exploitative. the subject of pedophilia is introduced not in any organic part of the narrative but simply as a means of the writer director to stand on a soap box and preach anger, which while understandable on a base level is neither enlightening nor engaging. This is exactly the type of coverage pedophilia gets in the red top newspapers which Chris Morris lampooned so cleverly in Brass Eye.
It is a painful film to watch. Not in any engaging way about the story itself...It is literally painful to sit through. It may provide initial laughs considering some promotional material mentioned Hitchcock and Scorsese as comparisons but after ten minutes one realizes how dull Lunatic is. And therein lay the real problem, minuscule budgeted films that are downright bad can often be very amusing one time over but only if they have ambition, Lunatic has none. This is simply a cynical ploy to ride the Nick Love, Guy Ritchie Cockney bandwagon whilst also wanting to be partly a Ken Loach film. The result is a terrible unwatchable mess unfortunately. Its a shame in hindsight they didn't actually try and remake Goodfellas in London.... in fact they could have remade on Golden Pond in London. I do not jest when I say I would have likely preferred the end result. And to know this won an award from an unheard of niche festival! I genuinely have curiosity for the films which were beaten.....The mind boggles!
Review Score = 1/10
The Departed (2006)
I just saw this on FilmFour (uk)and wanted to say how great it has aged. I saw the departed when it came out and thought it was good but something about the hype detracted from it. The fact that it was a remake also impinged. Looking at the deprated now though one of the first things to stand out is the quality of the cast. Great actors turning in top shelf performances bar none. It might be the last great Nicholson performance as well. Leonardo is excellent and Ray Winstone shines. The narratiive itself drives forward and is pleasingly complex - it fills up the long runing time well. There is no shortage of brilliant individual scenes either. It surely has the best bravura opening of any Scorsese film - 18 mins before a title. I realize I am frothing, I just love this film and it seems to be aging like a fine wine. I prefer it to Goodfellas for example now although that would of been unthinkable when the departed came out. One of Scorseses tighest and best films I think.
Hung (2009)
Alexander Payne's foray into T.V is unmitigated success.
HBO again scores a success with a comedy / drama series following the life of a male prostitute. After an initial shaky start this series has warmed up to be an amusing tale with dramatic sophistication populated by well observed characters. The series manages to handle its source material well being human without being mawkish, while the quality that Alexander Payne resonates is stamped all over this series. Like Paynes work the comedy is in the subjects themselves with a fine line between tragedy and comedy being drawn. special mention here has to be given to the woman as the down trodden pimp. Fans of well written television with edgy subject matter would do well to check it out. With this new series along with the new eastbound and Down HBO continues to be head and shoulders above all other networks when it comes to artistic merit. Not perfect but Hung after six episodes is starting to hit its stride.
Drag Me to Hell (2009)
Sam Raimi has made his 'Jaws'.
Drag me to Hell is, really, a throwback in so many ways to the fun of The Evil Dead 2. The camera angles, the excellent score - it all recalls how Raimi played with us in his earlier trilogy. What has changed however, is the sense of pace. We know its coming and Raimi employs all his skills to draw out the tension. The thrills are all there in place, I jumped like there was an electric buzzer under my seat. Perhaps a little too much CGI is indulged in but its easy to forgive in a film as wicked and blackly comic as this. I genuinely found the film disturbing for a 15 as well, again I think this is a mark of tension that Raimi creates with the score and camera work throughout the film. So incredibly refreshing to see a horror film with out the hallmarks of the recent saw franchise. Special mention for the ending, which has conviction and guts and was the proverbial cherry on top of the cake. throughly entertaining.
A Complete History of My Sexual Failures (2008)
narcissistic, shallow and vapid exercise.
This documentary starts out interesting enough, the honesty of Waitt and the vicious rejections of his ex girlfriends are disarming and lead us to feel In tail empathy towards the thirty something film maker. From here on in though, as Waitt turns the film from a meditation on failed relationships to a discourse on his impotence, he himself becomes vulgar and comes across as an entirely obnoxious person. Furthermore Waitts interview technique comes across as cold bordering on ignorant and even passive aggressive.
Its impossible to tell if this is a persona that the film maker dons to illicit frustrated responses from the participants he tracks down or if this is actually how Waitt is in reality. Its clear that by the time Chris Waitt is staggering the streets in a Viagra induced stupor asking as many girls as he can if they will sleep with him in the most uncharismatic manner that we have lost all empathy for him and completely understand the hostility shown to him at the start of the film. I found myself hoping that one of the girls approached on the street or one of the men with the girls would end up lumping him. Clearly Waitt feels that wielding a boom Mic a la Nick Broomfield gives him the right to be completely offensive. The stunt itself is pre empted by a childish and phony sequence in which Waitt takes six or seven Viagra pills while waiting for the first to kick in, feigning ignorance of what taking a large amount of Viagra might do.
As stated Its clear that Chris Waitt has taken a Broomfield / Louis Theroux style approach to his material but he simply does not have the charm to pull it off. The aforementioned film makers are famous about making films about diverse subjects but in the process also making films that say a great deal about themselves and therefore making themselves the principle players in the unfolding drama. Here Waitt has got the balance horribly wrong, he is making a film about himself, so conversely it would have merited the final film to step back and be more objective and let others speak about him. But Throughout the film Waitt discredits the participants (calling one ex girlfriend a psychopath is one such example) and and is constantly pushing his own interpretation about himself. Its is all him and what he wants. This all makes for a very ugly spectacle, entirely self consumed and entirely cold and unflinching. When his behaviour gets notable bad at points in the film Waitt is quick to insert a validation and some ponderous music but it all feels very mechanical, like an inserted unsubtle disclaimer. The only part I did relate to was the end when Chris meets his ex who is now having a child, this seems to be the only time that the mask slips and we see Chris as a sympathetic character. It is a shame that this interview is edited to the point where it is just a very few exchanges between the pair before showing an emotional meltdown. but it is too little too late and the film fails under the weight of all that has gone previous and the final 'happy' ending and new relationship feels trite. disingenuous and unpleasant. What Nathan Barley might have made given a video camera. Gets only minimal marks for being polished.
Saw IV (2007)
Very Poor
saw 3 was looking a little tired although it did have some creative deaths and some gruesome endings. saw 4 shows the franchise in decline. We knew all we needed to know about the motives of jigsaw from the first three films. Now Jigsaw is dead we are subjected to a sequence of largely pointless and frankly dull flashbacks to flesh out his story further. It also removes all the remaining mystique of the character. I don't feel I need to know jigsaw acts the way he did primarily through his wife losing a child. As a narrative arc it just lacks any involvement or cohesion.
In the purely visceral category of gruesome deaths and drawn out torture scenes I found the film also largely lacking the impact of the other three films. I found the most disgusting part to be at the start wherein Jigsaw is subject to the autopsy. But if thats all you want from film, Go on youtube and find the real thing.
In general disappointing and a departure from the other films I thought. The most horrific thing in general is that the end leaves the door ajar for yet another sequel and with the way this is performing at the box office I wouldn't be surprised if we got one. Jigsaw communicating from beyond the grave to his followers perhaps?


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Pinball is one of the very few games you can't play for real with a controller on a digital screen. Even with all the electronic counters, doohickeys, and bleeps emanating from the machine, it's still a game about the physics of a metal ball ricocheting around.
The folks at Skit-B are blurring the on digital-analog retro gaming even further with its Duck Hunt-themed pinball table. It's not just adorned with Duck Hunt-inspired art, either. This thing is a PC-Pinball hybrid that lets you play the NES classic using a pinball machine as a controller.
Knocking a ball into any of the bumpers nets you a duck kill. Meanwhile, losing a ball will have you laughed at by that blasted, snickering dog. Since a pinball game is a bit more complicated than pointing a light gun controller at your TV, Skit-B also added some new scoring multiplier elements for when you roll your ball on the outside lanes of the table.
According to Kevin Kulek of Skit-B, this digital-electromechanical hybrid took about a year to complete. As for the table itself, the team had to sacrifice a 1962 Williams Valiant machine—an antique for sure, but Skit-B says that it was pretty "far-gone" anyway.
If you want to check out more awesome pinball projects, Kevin Kulek is also working on a wicked Predator Pinball machine.
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Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was almost in Star Trek: Nemesis. She was this close to being a guest at Riker and Troi's wedding. Why did this nugget come up? Because Sir Patrick Stewart, Albright, and Wil Wheaton were recently talking on Twitter. Albright even posted a picture from her visit to the set. So, in other words, this has been your PSA for why Twitter is amazing.
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My first computer experience was playing with a TRS-80 Model I back in 5th grade, when one of my teachers brought it in to class for a few days. I followed all the computer magazines I could get my hands on - Byte, 80 Micro, Popular Computing, Creative Computing from time to time, A+, Nibble, and more. I lived my computer dreams vicariously through the magazines, because I couldn't afford a real computer of my own. When I was finally able to buy a TRS-80 Pocket Computer, I still lived vicariously - because nice as it was, it was still horribly underpowered compared to a full desktop computer. (1.9 kilobytes of RAM - that's smaller than the size of this post!) I read the pages and dreamed of machines I wanted to own - the TRS-80 Model 100, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and QL, the Otrona Attache, the Workslate, the Epson HX-20, and more. (In the last few years, as people began unloading older systems on eBay, I've been able to pick up a number of them for reasonable prices.)
So I've lived through a lot of different waves in the computer world. I missed the initial microcomputer wave - the kit-builders who assembled S-100 systems like the Altair 8800 and the IMSAI 8080 from bags of parts, ran CP/M on them, and hooked up display terminals just to be able to communicate with them - but I did come in on the second wave. The TRS-80 Model I, the Commodore PET, and the Apple ][ were the first mass-produced microcomputers, the first that could arguably claim the "personal computer" label, and marked the first mass expansion of computer adoption. I was able to watch it unfolding, and that's given me a rather jaundiced view of many 'recent' buzz-trends in computing.
In the Beginning Was the Command Line? No. In the Beginning was the ROM-based BASIC prompt... well, actually, punch cards. And then little toggle switches on the front of the system cabinet. (What, you thought those switches and blinkenlightsen on the front of the IMSAI 8080 were just for show?) But for the first mass-adoption wave that started with the 1977 Trinity, and the home computer wave that followed, the BASIC interpreter built into the computer was the first thing users saw when they turned on the machine. And they could type in program listings that were included in most computer magazines, and it was Good. And it let them write their first "Hello, World!" program, and it was Good.
And yea, the Fans of the Computer were much pleased, and wrote introductory programming articles for Popular Computing starring Sherlock Holmes teaching Dr. Watson to program. (I Kid You Not.) And it was proclaimed that the Age of the Computer was upon us, and that everyone would have a computer in the home, and that everyone would learn to program. And it was said that this would lead to a revolution in society, that learning to program would make everyone better at critical thinking, to the greater benefit of all. And Lo!, the sales of the Atari 400/800 and the Commodore 64 did skyrocket, and the great Cosby did speak for the TI-99/4A, and Coleco did show a TV commercial proclaiming the Adam capable of temporal shifts. ("Adam, my time-travel program!") And all were sure that this would come to pass.
And then the bottom dropped out.
It turned out that by and large, the people buying these millions of first-generation home computers weren't interested in learning how to write their own recipe programs. The home computer market cratered, much like the home videogame market had, and most of the first-generation systems ended up getting stuffed in a closet somewhere, or on garage sale tables for $10. The 'computer in every home' had to wait another decade or two, and it wasn't because society in general was interested in learning how to program - it was because the GUI made computers easy enough and powerful enough for average people to use without learning to program.
So when I see someone touting an operating system that requires users to get down into the guts and tinker with it to make it work the way they want, and that this will lead to Wonderful Things because the users will know how the computer works, and will have more control over it and can make it do more... you'll pardon me if I'm skeptical.


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Food and film have been a potent combination ever since Orson Welles printed the first cut of Citizen Kane on Fruit Roll-Ups. Experience the best of celluloid and snacks with today's Groupon: for $5, you get $10 worth of cappuccino, café fare, and movies at Fellini Film Cafe, located on Cincinnati Street.
Part eatery, part art-cinema store, Fellini Film Cafe provides a haven for screen savorers to grab a European-style espresso and relax under the glow of a foreign film. Browse the amply stocked art house video boutique for a rare rental ($3 for three nights), or purchase a disc to bolster your collection of foreign and alternative gems. Feed bellies as well as minds with a stop at Fellini's cozy café, featuring an appetite-appeasing array of sandwiches, salads, and desserts. Patrons can sip on a smooth cappuccino ($2.75) and indulge in the café's signature Mexican torta ($5.75) while they watch an independent or foreign film, which are screened nightly at 7 p.m. Previously screened films include the emotionally powerful Danish drama In a better World and the animated French comedic drama The Illusionist, and movie buffs can expect future screenings to feature films from several other countries, including Mexico, Greece, and Kentucky.


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Sydneysiders enjoyed a final burst of summer on Thursday, experiencing the warmest day for this late in autumn in 28 years.
Temperatures in the city reached 29.6 degrees at lunchtime, eight degrees above the late-April average and half a degree warmer than May 5, 2012.
The last time Sydney has been warmer later in the autumn season was in 1986, when the city reached 29.7 degrees on Anzac Day.
Residents made the most of the warm day by flocking to parks and beaches in numbers not seen at this time of year in decades.
North-westerly winds have been dragging very warm air from western NSW, where heat has been able to build due to a lengthy run of northerly winds under clear skies (western NSW has been reaching the low-to-mid 30s).
The warm weather will not last long with a gusty southerly change this evening cooling the city by 7 to 10 degrees.
Anzac Day will only warm up to 21 or 22 degrees across the city because the southerly winds will bring cloud and a few showers.
Looking further ahead, there is some good news for those who like the warm days. Temperatures in the mid 20s are expected on Saturday and Tuesday just ahead of cooler changes.
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Chicken Salad and Avocado Sandwich
Recipe by puppitypup
I love chicken salad and I love avocado, so I figured I might as well put them together. Oops! Fixed mistake on mayo amount May 2012.
Top Review by Gagoo
An excellent flavor to this chicken salad - even DH loved it and he doesn't care for any type of sandwich salad. The only thing I would do differently next time, and there will be a next time, is add additional jalapeno - possibly 3 or 4 teaspoons - could not even tell there was any jalapeno in the salad. Instead of making sandwiches I put the salad into large hollowed tomatoes - will be even better when the tomatoes are in season:) There was enough left over for a second lunch or dinner too - a plus. Thank you for posting puppity.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 8 ounces cooked chicken breasts
- 2 tablespoons chopped pecans
- 1⁄4 cup finely chopped celery
- 1⁄4 cup finely chopped red onion
- 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- 1⁄2 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon canned diced jalapeno
- 1⁄8 teaspoon kosher salt (less if table salt)
- 3 tablespoons mayonnaise (more or less, to bind salad)
- 4 slices bread
- 2 tablespoons mayonnaise or 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard, for bread
- 1 avocado
- 2 slices provolone cheese
- 2 romaine leaves
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- Chop cooked chicken into 1/4-inch cubes and place in medium bowl.
- Add pecans, celery, red onion, Dijon mustard, lemon juice, jalapeño and salt. Then add just enough mayonnaise to bind salad together.
- Stir to combine and adjust seasoning as desired.
- Spread mayonnaise or Dijon mustard on the bread, mash half a avocado on each sandwich and top with provolone and romaine.
- On other half of each sandwich add the chicken salad, then put the two halves together and enjoy!
- To prepare the cooked chicken, try cooking them in pineapple juice. It gives them a very nice flavor.


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Over the years, I've seen it all - countless women, including my BFF's and family, falling prey to the same old bra mistakes. It's not their fault really, the industry hasn't done a great job at keeping them informed. I'm here to clear things up once and for all...
Mistake #1: Throwing your bras in the washing machine.
I talked about this in a past blog post, but washing machines wreak havoc on the elastic, spandex and memory foam, causing them to wear out much quicker than they should. Instead of tossing your bras into the wash, spend five minutes hand washing them with our Lingerie Care Kit. All you need is a dab of soap and some warm water, and you'll have a squeaky clean bra in no time.
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Most women I know simply strap their bra on and head out the door, but this can lead to ill-fitting bras and ultimately make it feel like you're wearing the wrong size bra. Instead, once you put your bra on in the morning, stand in front of a mirror and lean forward, gently lifting your breasts upward into your bra cups so that they fill them out. This will help them sit where they're supposed to in the center of your bra cups and ensure your bra fits perfectly.
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When trying on a bra for the first time, make sure you're wearing your bra on the loosest hook - not the tightest. Since bra bands and straps are often made of elastic or spandex (materials that can both stretch out over time), the loosest hook is the best option so that you can still tighten the band as your bra naturally stretches over time.
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– Bob Vargo, Anaheim Hills
A. The Department of Motor Vehicles has strict guidelines on who should have disabled- parking privileges. But who doesn't remember the 1999 mini-scandal when 19 current or former UCLA football players illegally had them?
According to the state Department of Motor Vehicles, there are 345,062 disabled-person license plates issued; 2,746 are registered to motorcycles.
Always remember this: Many people we see with a special plate or placard and a perfect gait are worthy of the up-front parking spaces.
"Not all disabilities are apparent or observable, such as heart or lung disease," says DMV spokesman Mike Miller.
To get a disabled-person plate or placard, a medical doctor, chiropractor or optometrist must sign off on it. The DMV then considers whether the person can operate the car, truck or motorcycle properly.
Miller invites people who know of motorists wrongly using the plates or placards to tip off DMV officials at (800) 777-0133.
– Rudy Mariman, Newport Beach
The 22 will have car-pool lanes by December. But there will not be ramps connecting the 5 and 22 car-pool lanes.
There isn't enough room to add any at the Orange Crush – where the 5, 22 and the Orange (57) Freeway all shake hands.
The nifty car-pool ramps reduce congestion. Without them, car-pool motorists must weave out and back into car-pool lanes, slowing traffic behind them.
– Mario Ulloa, Anaheim
A. Well, Mark Miller will tell you it isn't broken.
He is Fullerton's city traffic engineer, and he says the yellow-arrow light works well.
"It's very effective and we feel it's safe – or we wouldn't be doing it," Miller says.
Only several cities in the state have them as part of a study by the federal government to determine their worth.
The flashing yellow arrows allow more vehicles to move through the intersection, as the lights would otherwise be red arrows.
They are meant to tell the driver: Make a left turn if you want, but be careful.
There have been a couple of accidents when motorists going left turned in front of oncoming traffic. But Miller says overall he figures they are safer: Fewer people are running red lights, fewer cars and trucks are backed up in the turn lane.
For you, Mario – and other opponents of the yellow arrows – there is bad news.
A couple of months ago Fullerton added a fourth yellow-arrow intersection, and Miller estimates that two or three more are coming.
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Posted to Reddit today was a thorough run through of what's on the new Nexus 5 smartphone. YouTube has also got the scoop on it with a video.
The Nexus 5 and KitKat Android update will very likely have a price tag of $349 dollars. The release date may be November 1st.
A complete backup solution resembling what iCloud has on the Android could be onboard the Nexus 5.
The Nexus 5 is said to feel like the dazzling G2 does in one's hands but lacking the volume controls that are on the back panel of that device. With some improvements for the camera that won't be anything like the S4/iPhone 5s, the Nexus 5 promises to be a unique experience.
A German and Italian website as well as information posted on Google +, all carry additional information on what to expect from the new Nexus 5.
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"Data loss via USB Flash drives are a big problem in the corporate world. A recent study by the Ponemon Institute and commissioned by Kingston found nearly 50 percent of organizations lost drives containing sensitive or confidential information in the past two years. It's astounding that 67 percent of those companies confirmed they had multiple loss events and in some cases, over 10 separate events."
"USBs are so commonplace in organizations that it's far too easy for rogue Flash drives to enter the workplace and create opportunties for inbound infection or outbound data loss. In fact, in a recent study that Kingston released with the Ponemon Institute, 72 percent of employees use free drives collected at conferences, tradeshows or business meetings, despite working in companies that offer 'approved' USB options."
"The size of data breach incidents is likely the largest contributing factor to many organizations turning a blind eye toward using secure USB Flash drives. In a recent USB security study we released with the Ponemon Institute, 42 percent of companies report having more than 50,000 USB drives in use in their organizations, with nearly 20 percent having more than 100,000 drives in circulation."
"At the end of the day, human error more so than malicious intent is the most often cause of missing USB Flash drives. It doesn't matter though from a regulatory perspective how a drive goes missing and data gets 'in the wild.' Organizations need to acknowledge the likelihood of loss and attach real consequences if employees do not report lost drives. According to the Ponemon Institute, on average 74 percent of missing USB drives were attributed to negligence and 65 percent of respondents believed employees in the organizations would not report a lost USB drive to authorities."
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"Users would rather ask forgiveness than permission. So if there are no clear policies communicated around USB usage, an organization cannot expect uniform behavior in their use. A Ponemon Institute study found that only 29 percent of organizations feel they have 'adequate' policies to prevent USB misuse. There are many companies that have a policy at some level but too many of these very same organizations don't even enforce it. It's clear that setting policy is only the first step, but it's an incredibly important one."
"Many organizations fear that any attempt to control a device like a USB is likely to be ineffective and costly, both in terms of budget and loss of productivity. However, a simple analysis of what an organization needs and understanding that there's a range of easy-to-use, cost-effective, secure USB Flash drive solutions can go a long way toward enabling organizations and their employees to get a handle on the issue. There is simply too much at stake with company information on unsecured USBs and the chance drives could go missing."
"While it's easy for some to condemn USBs as an unnecessary risk, the portability and focused use are also the greatest asset from a security perspective. With the right technology and policies in place, USBs can be a key part of a data security strategy."
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How John McCain and Ann Kirkpatrick Are Courting Latino Voters
Latinos could decide who'll be the winner of the tight U.S. Senate race in Arizona.
Latino voters in Arizona have a chance to play a major role in deciding whether Republican John McCain holds on to his U.S. Senate seat or hands it over to Democrat Ann Kirkpatrick.
Latinos make up 25 percent of Arizona's eligible electorate and 17 percent of the state's registered voters. And in a race that polls show is tightening, even a small number of votes can decide who wins.
Both candidates, who still need to win their respective primary elections, are aware of the role Latino voters will play in the November election and are stepping up their outreach to this growing voting bloc.
McCain, who is seeking a sixth term in the Senate, has a Latino coalition called Unidos con McCain that he launched last October at Desert Sky Mall in West Phoenix. The coalition's co-chairs include Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Lea Marquez-Peterson.
The coalition has been instrumental in setting up roundtable discussions between McCain and Latino leaders. So far, such events have been held in Tucson, Nogales, Sierra Vista, and Phoenix.
The senator's campaign, which includes a Hispanic outreach director, also has hosted a number of bilingual phone-banking and canvassing events. In addition, it has released bilingual digital ads that appear on social-media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
"We really are targeting the Hispanic community, which we feel that the senator has a lot in common with," McCain spokeswoman Lorna Romero told New Times.
U.S. Sen. John McCain meets with volunteers before a recent bilingual phone bank in Mesa.
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Kirkpatrick, meanwhile, has been doing her own Latino voter outreach.
She has been holding roundtable discussions with small groups of Latino leaders and doing interviews with Spanish-language media outlets. This weekend, she'll launch several field offices in areas with large Latino populations.
"Latino voters will decide who the next senator from Arizona will be," Kirkpatrick's campaign spokesman D.B. Mitchell told New Times. "We know that, and everybody else knows that. That's why we're working our butts off to make sure that Latinos know who Ann is, that they know her story, and that they know why she's going to be the best person to represent them in the Senate."
Kirkpatrick doesn't have the same level of name recognition among Latinos as McCain does. Many Latinos know who McCain is, in part, because he was a member of the "Gang of Eight" senators who crafted a comprehensive immigration-reform bill that included a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. The bill, introduced in 2013, passed in the Senate but stalled in the House of Representatives.
Kirkpatrick's campaign is working hard to improve the congresswoman's name recognition among Latinos. Its efforts include going door-to-door in Latino neighborhoods and hosting events where Latinos can meet Kirkpatrick.
The campaign also recently hired Raquel Terán, the former regional director of Mi Familia Vota who's well known among the Latino community, as its political director.
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Kirkpatrick's campaign also aired a Spanish-language TV ad on Univision in the Phoenix and Tucson markets during the Copa America soccer games this past month. The spot reminds Latinos of the time McCain called for the completion of the "danged fence" during his re-election bid six years ago.
The "danged fence" ad didn't sit well with many Latinos, especially those who considered McCain an ally in the fight for immigration reform. But facing a difficult primary challenge from a Tea Party-backed conservative in 2010, McCain changed his tone on immigration and called for tougher border security.
"John McCain has become somebody who will walk away from these bills any time they stop being politically convenient," Mitchell said, referring to immigration-reform efforts.
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She added that even though McCain came out in support of Donald Trump — which also didn't sit well with Latinos — he thinks the presumptive Republican presidential nominee's plans to build a border wall and deport millions of undocumented immigrants "are not feasible."
"People try to spin his record however they want, but the reality is he has been pushing for immigration reform even when it was unpopular among his party," Romero said, adding that McCain worked with the late Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy to try to pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill in 2007.
Kirkpatrick faces her own challenges. Many Latinos still remember that she missed the House vote on the DREAM Act in 2010. The bill — which McCain voted against even though he co-sponsored it in 2003 and 2004 — would have paved a path to citizenship for undocumented young immigrants who came to the U.S. as children.
In a radio interview earlier this month, Kirkpatrick said she missed the vote because she had a medical procedure scheduled that day. But she said she would have "rolled in" on a wheelchair or a gurney if her vote were needed to get the bill passed. The bill passed the House by a margin of 216-198 but failed in the Senate.
"I continue to be a very vocal advocate and supporter of the DREAM Act," Kirkpatrick added.
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Information Design
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J.J. Sedelmaier looks at "50 Years Of Schwinn Built Bicycles," an illustrated tome published in 1945.
The Interior 'Information Architecture' of Ann Toebbe
Ellen Shapiro explores the "information architecture" of Ann Toebbe, who creates intriguing collages of floor plans made from cut paper and gouache .
The Vintage Speedball Textbook
I once found a set of Speedball pen nibs as a kid. I was familiar with conventional pen and ink usage, but had never seen nibs like this before. It wasn't until taking a calligraphy course in college (with Professor Don Anderson, author of "The Art Of Written Forms") that I ran across them...
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Waterhouse Cifuentes Design has released signed and unsigned posters of the New York City Subway Diagram, which they made with Massimo Vignelli for the MTA.
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The creators of War Ink found a form through which they could honor the sacrifices of veterans, and create a bridge between veterans and civilians: tattoos.
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Steven Heller offers a look back at a French infographic from the 1930s.
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I am writing this letter for you as a petition for joining you to study as hard as I can do and get a bachelors degree in biology. I consider myself a good student and I hope that you think so too after you read my letter.
My name is Lucero Esmeralda Rojas-Gonzalez, I am in my senior year at El Dorado High School and in my whole time at this school I have put all my effort and have given all of me on my courses and extracurricular activities to be a good student. I don't like to give up and I love being the best at everything.
My grades right now are really good, I learn fast and always try to learn more. I have done as many extracurricular activities as I could to try new things. What I liked the most is track. My experience in Track and Field was really good because joined in 6 months after everybody else but I did not stayed in the back, I was always pushing myself the way I do with everything else.
It would be great if you consider all my skills and have a good expectative on me, because I really want to join you, I promise I will be on top of everything, I will try to be the best because I always give the best of me.
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The purpose of this letter is to recommend and support my friend Jennifer Olivas, whose dream and desire is to attend the University of Texas at El Paso, I hope my words can convince you of considering letting her in your school.
Mrs. Jennifer Olivas and I have been friends since our Freshmen year in High School, and I can tell that she will do anything in her hands to be the best student, because she likes to be on top. She has many physical and mental skills and abilities that are very strong.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again… Oh, what a lovely world we live in when the 1977 shlock classic The Incredible Melting Man can see the light of day on Blu-ray. The Scream Factory has finally announced a release date for this gooey sequel!
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The SCREAM FACTORY invites collectors to dive into 70s gooey cult classic THE INCREDIBLE MELTING MAN, debuting on Blu-ray for the first time on July 30, 2013. Featuring "excellent makeup effects" (Leonard Maltin) from six-time Best Makeup Oscar® winner Rick Baker (An American Werewolf In London, Ed Wood, Men In Black) and written and directed by William Sachs (Galaxina, Exterminator 2), The Incredible Melting Man delivers the gelatinous goods while humanizing a character rapidly losing his humanity. In short: It's bloody good! The Blu-ray is priced to own at $19.97 SRP.
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He was once the hero… now he's the hunted! Colonel Steve West has just returned from an incredible history-making flight to Saturn when he is hospitalized with an ailment that baffles the entire medical community. His flesh is melting, and to stay alive he must consume human flesh and blood. The infected Colonel West escapes from the doctors' supervision and hides in the surrounding community where he begins to hunt for human flesh. Who can stop the Incredible Melting Man?
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What to do when you're stopped by the police and carrying...
I searched and didn't see this topic come up, and since on the other forums that I've visited this question always comes up I figured I'd post about it...
Now, I am an avid gun enthusiast, some could even say a gun nut. Most of the guys I work with are too, so don't think we are all against armed citizens. I fully support concealed permits and believe everyone should get one.
As a LEO, we don't like surprises. Usually, if you're being pulled over, we already know whether or not you have a permit if we run your plates. Sometimes it doesn't show up due reasons unbeknown to me. Either way, it pays to announce if you have a permit and whether you are carrying or not; it helps put the officer at ease.
Generally, if you are being pulled over, we appreciate if you turn your interior light on before we get to your car. This is not required by law in our state, but allows us to see that you are not hiding something. When we make our introduction, please please please keep your hands on the wheel and say "I have a carry permit in my wallet and I have my weapon (insert location here but do not reach for it) or I do not have my weapon. This will go a long way with cops. 1) It lets us know you are legally carrying and at the very least lawfully able to get a permit. 2) It helps make a stressful situation less stressful.
At this point, please be cooperative to what the cop asks you to do. Each cop will have a different approach depending on the situation; some may ask you to step out, etc. We're not trying to be jerks about the situation, please realize we just want to go home at the end of our shift.
In most of the contacts I've had, I've spent more time talking about choice of carry guns then the actual reason for being pulled over. I also am not a traffic Nazi, so you really have to do something egregious for me to write a ticket... Likewise, I have yet to encounter someone who is legally carrying a gun to have been a complete jerk, and I hope to keep that streak going.
If this has been posted before, then you have my apologies. I used the search and didn't find the topic...
Thanks for the useful info. I have a CCW in two different states, and I did not realize that a license plate check would make that known to a police officer when making a stop. I will take that into consideration when I do get stopped, something that does not happen very often, I might add.
back in texas when i lived there and did the ccw thing the few times i was stopped i handed over my DL and CCW. i didnt hand the gun over or even offer to show it or where it was until the officer asked.
had an officer one instance try to clear my pistol with it pointed at his belly...
Good info. A 10-28 of my plates gets you nothing but the name of the leasing company. I DO run into license or DUI checkpoints now and again- I have my DL and my CCW permit together, interior light on if at night, and simply say "Good evening officer (trooper, deputy, etc) Concealed weapons license holder- and hand them both together. Some states (not my home state) REQUIRE that you advise the LEO if you are carrying.
I have seen some folks recommend that you say nothing- but I figure why the hell would I want to spike someone's blood pressure, and get the barrel of a SIG stuck in my ear for scaring the guy out of a month's growth?
Only response I have ever had has been "Appreciate you letting us know. Have a great evening."
The funny one was not a LEO, but airport security- at the parking garage. EARLY morning flight- as I was pulling up to the gate at the parking garage, uniformed security officer was stopping each car. Rolled down window- "Good morning, sir. Do you have any weapons in the vehicle?" " Yes" Stunned silence. " Are...are they in the trunk?" "No." More stunned silence. "I am a concealed weapons permit holder. There is a sidearm on my belt, left side. Here is my permit." Puzzled examination. " Do...do you have any weapons in the trunk?" "No. Want to look? I'll pop the trunk." Opened trunk, he took a glance at the HUGE pile of crap in my trunk, closed it, said thank you.
I felt SO much safer after that. :rolleyes:
ETA: when running plates.
Having DL with permit is a good idea; forgot to mention that.
I have been pulled over once and was involved in an accident once. Both times I handed my Permit with my DL and said, "I don't want to scare you
." Both times the officer was polite and calm. When I was in the accident I had a bunch of phone books in the back of the pick-up that I use for ballistic testing. The state trooper was more interested in my test results than my carry weapon. Once he realized I am a reloader we spent 20 minutes discussing rifles while we waited for the tow truck. Great guy. He really helped me get going. I even sent a letter to his supervisor thanking him for the help.
Good post HighSpeed. People should review what their state's rules are concerning concealed carry permit holders and LEOs.
Chuck D
If I keep my pistol in my glove box or center console then its between me and myself. I keep my registration separate so I do not have to open anything.
CCW the license plate check thing changes from state to state. I think in Ohio you have to inform the officer but in Florida you do not. I do not.
Last thing I want is some gun hating LEO hassling me and overhandling my firearm or worse accidentally shooting himself or me with it because he is unfamiliar with it.
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Teatru Manoel will be organising 'Baroque Festival 2017: The Phoenix Nest' on Monday, 16th January 2016 at the Museum of Archaeology in Valletta.
Performed by Hathor Consort:
Hathor Consort was founded by Romina Lischka in 2011 with the aim of interpreting renaissance and baroque consort music in various instrumental combinations based upon the viol.
The ensemble takes its name from the goddess Hathor, a mother deity of ancient Egypt. Worshipped as "Mistress of the West" she welcomes the dead into the afterlife and is regarded as a goddess of dance, art and music. Hathor is also known as the primordial mother or receiving element and embodies the principles of love and all concerning the heart.
Further information about this event can be obtained from the Manoel Theatre by phoning on 00356 21222618 or visiting http://goo.gl/cpPnPR.