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Sleepy Belgrade in two moods
The news that the once all-powerful Slobodan Milosevic is in detention is slowly sinking in for the citizens of Belgrade after two tense, sleepless nights.
It is a development that divides opinion, just as Mr Milosevic does himself.
The young are more likely to be celebrating than the old.
"If someone had told me a year ago that this would happen, I wouldn't have believed it," said Dalibor, aged 27, smiling as he sold newspapers to passers-by.
"I felt so happy and relieved, especially since he was seized without bloodshed," she said.
Snezana Velimirovic, a 40-year-old office worker, said she and many of her neighbours had not slept for two nights.
"When I heard the news, I threw several firecrackers," she said.
However, a 65-year-old housewife, Gordana, was unhappy.
And a Croatian Serb refugee, Marija, aged 54, said: "Milosevic was not to blame, he only wanted to preserve Yugoslavia and protect the Serb people."
Belgraders were also divided on how Mr Milosevic should be treated by the courts.
While exulting in the arrest, Vlada Stevanovic said she did not think the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague was impartial.
And Branko, wandering round a busy market, said the arrest was "sponsored by Nato and its servants" in Yugoslavia.
Borka, a pensioner living on the country's average pension of $60 a month, said it was wrong for Serbia to arrest and extradite its own people.
"It's so typical of the Serbs, to fight each other all the time," she said.
Dragan, a taxi driver, said Mr Milosevic had been taught a lesson in realpolitik.
"He thought he could defy the whole world, including the United Sates," he said.
"But he forgot the old rule - you don't fight with the boss."
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01 Apr 01 | Europe
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An immigration lawyer and two associates have been charged with obtaining fraudulent work visas for immigrants in a scheme that authorities suspect involved laundering of money by purchasing cemetery plots.
"Cemetery plots are certainly a novel way to attempt to launder the proceeds from criminal activity, but as this case shows, we will follow the money trail wherever it leads," Immigration and Customs Enforcement director John Morton said in a statement Friday.
Attorney Kelly Einstein Darwin Giles and associates Joseph Wai-man Wu and his wife May Yin-man Wu are charged with visa fraud for creating shell companies to file applications for about 100 skilled foreign workers who each paid between $6,000 and $50,000, authorities said.
Authorities have sought to seize 30 cemetery plots and 20 plaques at Rose Hills Memorial Park and Mortuary they suspect were purchased with the cash.
A receptionist at Giles' offices declined comment. Messages seeking comment were left for Wus' attorneys.
Federal authorities started probing the group two-and-a-half years ago.
The defendants ran the East West Law Group in West Covina, Calif., and a series of fictitious companies over the span of a decade, court documents said.
The group and its owners collected at least $830,000 and told the immigrants to lie to investigators, the documents said.
It was not immediately clear what would happen to immigrants who obtained visas through the alleged scheme.
ICE spokeswoman Virginia Kice said a number of the visaholders were cooperating with investigators.

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Bozeman Bike Thief Forgets About The Cameras! [Photos]
Stealing is never right, but it's even stupider that someone might do it in a public place that is under surveillance. According to Justin Brodin's Facebook page he recently had his bike stolen from a Bozeman establishment.
The poster he made already has over 475 shares on Facebook— You can only run from the law for so long Bike Thief Beezy!
Justin's words to The City:
BOZEMAN, the hunt is on! I got a case of beer and 2 tickets to Fast Furious 6 for the first person to give me a name!
As for the thief, offer is still on the table to return. Leave my bike behind the black covered trailer in the parking lot of my apartment complex (719 S Church Ave.) and I'll forget this ever happened..


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Weld County Commissioner Sean Conway made a blatantly false claim in a 9News Denver story that ran Thursday evening. In an effort to push back on the state's efforts to provide "setback" protections for local homeowners near drilling and fracking sites, Conway claimed that new requirements increasing minimum setbacks would have prevented a cheese factory from opening in Greeley.
A little background: The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) has preliminarily agreed to increase the minimum distance between an active drilling operation and an occupied building to 500 ft. Conservation groups have urged the commission to go beyond this.
Yesterday, Mr. Conway wrongly stated that the new setback rules would have prevented the Leprino Cheese Plant from opening in Greeley because of three existing wells on the property. This is blatantly untrue.
The law allows new construction to proceed within 500 ft. of existing or proposed oil and gas development with an agreement between the landowner and the mineral owner.
Here are the relevant portions of the new rule:
604.a.1: …No Well or Production Facility shall be located five hundred (500) feet or less from a Building Unit except as provided in Rules 604.a.(1) A and B, and 604.b.
604.b.2: A Surface Owner and mineral owner or lessee may agree to locate future Building Units closer to existing or proposed Oil and Gas Locations than otherwise allowed under Rule 604.a…. [ Read the full rule]
There is a question whether 500 ft. is enough to keep residents safe from the effects of drilling operations, but that's another discussion. To ensure Colorado is embracing a truly balanced approach to energy development, we need to guarantee that our elected officials make accurate statements.
Commissioner Conway either didn't read the new rule before giving his sound bites, he didn't understand the rule – in which case he probably shouldn't pretend to be an authority on it – or he was simply looking to create a false example regardless of the truth.


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I just purchased my first home. The only downfall is that there is wood (wood the you would use to build a fence or a barn)screwed into the family room and kitchen floors. Most of the screws are stripped or painted over. Besides using a pry bar and some muscle, what would be the best way to tackle this project? Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated. Hopefully I will have pictures to post soon.
Thanks in advanced.


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It's Peter time tonight at the Merc as it was last month and will be again next month.
Consider: drummer Peter Buck in February, guitarist Peter Sprague in April and of more immediate importance, jazz pianist Peter Smith tonight at the Old Town Temecula club for the second time in three weeks, though in a different role.
Then it was as leader of his trio, and tonight it will be as accompanist for "shy guy" singer Mark Winkler. Bassist Hamilton Price will make it a threesome.
For the multitalented Smith, it will mean a trip down a crowded freeway from his home in Los Angeles, but it beats jet flights to New York to accompany chanteuse Rozz Nash or collaborate with her on writing songs.
"It wasn't so bad at first, because I had other things going for me in New York when I settled on the coast six or seven years ago," said Smith, who was born and raised in White Plains, N.Y. "I was still taking some jobs in the theater, but I have put my acting career on the back burner now and I am not working as closely with Rozz. So my life sure is more manageable."
Smith is a classically trained pianist with a degree from Columbia University whose father is a jazz vibist.
"Sure, I began studying piano before I was 5, but I was exposed to a lot of jazz when I was growing up ... Ella, Horace Silver, Oscar (Peterson), but another pianist, Wynton Kelly, has impacted my playing more than any other musician," Smith said. "I still listen to his CDs a lot, and when I do, I can always find something new."
Smith had somewhat of a pinball-machine career before settling permanently in the Southland. His first stop after leaving New York in the late '90s was at the University of San Diego graduate school to obtain a degree in acting. In the process of earning a degree, he surfaced on the Border City jazz scene, primarily as a sideman with trumpet player Gil Castellanos.
Then it was a return to New York that lasted a couple of years until the Smiths moved to Los Angeles in 2005 to escape the East's foul winter weather for a family that would soon be enlarged.
"I thought the move West would mean fewer gigs because New York is a good place for jazz musicians, but just the opposite has been true," Smith said. "I have more work out here than I ever did in New York."
Smith has played with a slew of jazz artists including Ralph Penland, Bruce Forman and Roy McCurdy.
Nevertheless, he still has carved out enough time to write a screenplay he hopes will be picked up by a Hollywood studio. Smith has named the movie-to-be "Blue on Green" since it focuses on the relationship between Miles Davis' band, which was all-black other than introspective white pianist Bill Evans. It was during this period that Davis recorded his groundbreaking "Kind Of Blue."
"It won't be inexpensive to produce," Smith said. "The rights to the music alone will be very costly, and to do it right, the cast has to be the right mix. I guess what I'm saying is, I wouldn't want to have the film be done on the cheap."
Meanwhile, Smith appears on television commercials occasionally ---- one of the newest is for a computer service provider ---- but retains the William Morris Agency to handle the business end of his career.
"Well, not everything," said Smith of his arrangement with the agency. "I also maintain a private teaching practice and I deal with my students directly. If there is another Wynton Kelly out there, I want to be with him from the very start."


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OTTAWA - Next stop Moscow on Rugby Canada's road to Rio, where sevens will make its Olympic debut in 2016.
The Canadian men's and women's sides made history in front of 2,000 flag-waving fans at Twin Elm Park Sunday, capturing gold medals in the first North America Caribbean Rugby Association championship held in this country.
By doing so, both teams earned a berth in next year's World Cup in Russia, where they will be joined by their American counterparts, who also qualified.
The Canadian women steamrolled the competition on the way to their title, running up scores without conceding a single try all weekend. The women capped a perfect tourney with a 46-0 win over finalists Trinidad and Tobago after dispatching Mexico 42-0 in the semis.
The men enjoyed a similar undefeated path, but ran into some tough competition from Team USA in the highly-anticipated and hotly-contested final.
With the score deadlocked in the final minutes of the game, Canada's Sean Duke stripped the ball and found some space along the sidelines, running nearly the length of the pitch, breaking a tackle and scoring the game-winning try in a 26-19 victory.
"I saw a whole lot of field when I first got the ball," said Duke. "I knew I had my man beat and I just took a few hard steps forward. They had one man back who got a hand on me, but I was lucky to get away and have just enough in the tank to get over the line."
The Americans staked an early lead off a converted try from star Luke Hume, but the Canadians stormed back with three straight tries before halftime, including back-to-back strikes from John Moonlight, to take a 19-7 lead into the break.
Team USA clawed its way back to even footing with a pair of quick tries early in the second half, setting the stage for Canada's late-game heroics.
Canadian coach Geraint John said the team achieved both of its goals with the victory.
"We wanted to qualify for Moscow, and we did that, but we really wanted to win the tournament," said John, whose squad returns to the international circuit with a tournament in Australia in six weeks.
"We showed great intensity and great physical presence and determination in that final. USA came back in that second half but I thought we showed composure, we had patience, and it was nice to score that final try."
The Canadian and American squads were on a collision course throughout the entire tournament, each team dominating their respective pools on the way to the final.
The Canadians have now beaten the No. 1-seeded American side in four straight head-to-head matchups.
"There's a lot more speed (from the Americans) on the field, good hits and physical aggression out there. There's no love lost between the two sides," said John. "There's a friendly rivalry (and) we're all friends off the pitch, but once you step over that white line on the field that goes out the window for about 20 minutes."
The women's side barely broke a sweat, averaging 47 points for through six straight matches, peaking with the win over a scrappy Trinidad & Tobago squad.
Team captain Jen Kish paced the Canadian side with three tries and set an early physical tone in the final, which was never in doubt.
"We never went into the tournament thinking no one was going to score against us, it really occurred to us in the last game. To not let them score on our home soil was a goal we kind of created as we went," said Kish.
"The young girls really displayed well and they turned it on through the whole tournament. We had good momentum and it all just fell into place.
"Now that we're officially going to the World Cup, we're going to take this momentum into the circuit. We're just going to build for the World Cup. It's the only tournament we really care about, until the Olympics, anyway."
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If there's an exploitation filmmaker's heaven, Doris Wishman must be among their amiable archangels. A fascinating combination of cutthroat businesswoman, cinematic auteur and insane maiden aunt, she was one of the few female presences in the decidedly male grindhouse gristmill. She had several crazy career arcs. She started out making nudist camp films, moved on to gritty and grim violence-tinged roughies, and then finally found peace as a part time pornographer (both soft AND hardcore). Even up until her death in 2002, she was making cheap schlock shockers and tawdry smut slasher films.
But one of her most notorious efforts has long been out of the public eye, until now. As an update to the old Roadshow movie of the 40s and 50s, Let Me Die a Woman is one deranged docu-drama. Part hygiene exposé (the subject this time - transsexuals!) part wanton Wishman wackiness, this corrupt combination of sex change surgery footage and post-/pre-op tranny treats is so downright bizarre, it could only come from the lunatic lens of the raincoat crowd's favorite femme.
The Plot:
"Last year...I was a man." (Cue melodramatic music)
Thus begins Doris Wishman's long-in-gestation examination of gender dysphoria, better known as transsexuality. With the help of noted hormone therapist (and expert in hypnosis) Dr. Leo Wollman, we are suddenly thrust into the medical dictionary depiction of a freak show. As the sincere scientist explains all the personal permutations of people convinced of their improper biological sex assignment, we witness group therapy sessions, staged softcore scenes, nude examinations of post and pre-operative candidates, and several sickening minutes of actual sex reassignment surgery (chopping a penis into a vagina, for your laymen), all in an effort to learn more about the medical malady and its psychological effects. Thank God Leslie is there to give us her seventh grade educated spin on the entire issue.
The DVD:
It's about time someone says it, so it might as well be this critic's call to arms - Doris Wishman is cinema. She is the basic, primordial premise of celluloid incarnate. She is sound and image - sometimes in sync. She is art and artifice - usually in the same shot. She combines narrative aplomb with paltry plots, vacant characterization with wickedly three-dimensional dynamics and replaces mise-en-scene with something akin to mise-en-place to render her work a true definition of the vibrant visual medium. Her films are direct representations of raw human instinct, filtered through a discombobulating display of camerawork incompetence. Everything is symbolic in a Wishman film. She'll throw in a shot of feet for the fetish crowd, cover up bad acting with equally damnable overdubbing, and train the lens on a particularly unimportant object so that she'll have coverage, lest the plot need plumping. In essence, Wishman uses every part of the medium, from the resplendent to the retarded, to realize her painfully peculiar vision. She is the American answer to the French New Wave. She is moviemaking deconstructed, laid bare and bewildering so the real truth can be told.
That being said, Let Me Die a Woman should not be anyone's initial foray into Doris's den of inviting iniquities. If you really want to study this grindhouse gold standard, take a trip back to her nudist camp classics like Nude on the Moon, Diary of a Nudist or Blaze Starr Goes Nudist. Then cotton up to the monochrome miscreance of her roughies, including the classic couplet of Bad Girls Go to Hell and Another Day, Another Man. Finish off your lesson in lewdness with some of her more misguided later efforts like The Amazing Transplant, Indecent Desires and the Chesty Morgan double feature, Deadly Weapons and Double Agent 73. When you've endured all these displays in the ways of Wishman, only then can you truly approach (and appreciate) Let Me Die a Woman. Only someone like Doris could dream up a combination throwback to the Roadshow days of live childbirth footage wrapped around a hot button issue like transsexuality. Certainly the 70s saw a lot of interest in the subject, what with Myra Breckenridge and Dr. Rene Richards becoming pop culture counterpoints for the growing interest in alternative lifestyles.
But where this movie differs is in its approach. Knowing that she could not offer the same skin and sin show that exploitation patrons were interested in (but growing tired of), Wishman had to up the ante, and she did it by trying to take a (semi) serious look at the entire subject. Sure, there is a lot of pre-millennial prejudice here (we get a few fleeting attacks on homosexuality) and some shady scientific statements (the injection of fluid directly INTO the breast for ampleness development???) really date the film. But when she focuses on the individuals involved in these life and love struggles, Doris becomes a documentarian supreme. It's natural for her. Most of her movies are of the point and shoot variety, so setting up a camera and letting Leslie tell her life story, or letting Dr. Wollman explain away some obtuse medical procedure becomes compelling stuff. Even if we soon realize that almost everyone is reading off cue cards (and some VERY badly, I might add), we still sense a legitimate desire to paint these people as genuine, authentic and horribly hurt by the lack of social understanding.
The more subtle examination sequences are also intriguing. Seeing some of the individuals pre and post-op is spellbinding, since they really do make us question the concept of gender. Leslie makes a fine Latina lass. Another famous face, a NYC activist icon named Debbie, is a little more concerning. It is the latter that we see the most of, from a sequence of her inserting a large metal wedge into her man-made vagina, to an up close display of her newly reshaped private parts (complete with the doc's digital exploration...hmmm). Deb even gets a fake sex scene with some unknown stud. It is obvious that Wishman is trying to de-mystify the make-up of these surgically altered entities, but it still kind of smacks of the sideshow - in a less exploitative way, if that is possible. Indeed, everything about Let Me Die a Woman is sensationalism for the sake of a selling point. All the dramatized scenes of actors faking fornication are just the dressing for what is already an inherently interesting idea. But Wishman was wise to the ways of the grindhouse, so a little smut had to find its way into the mix.
And then there is the operation footage. It's bad (especially if you're a man) but it's not as nasty as the hyperbole surrounding it. Indeed, the live birth of twins via Cesarean in any Mom and Dad type movie is far more nauseating than these quick few clips of skin stretching and snipping. If anything, the post-operative procedure is the most revolting - stitches in full view, wound 'plugged up' with a plastic tube to prevent 'unintentional closure'. In truth, the far more unsettling scenes involve a tranny making love to a man, full guy groins grinding into each other in enflamed foulness. Or a sequence where a pretty prostitute drops trou to expose her peanut pecker, and then proceeds to take a shower and bath the little button. If you've ever watched an episode of The Operation, you've seen much, much worse. But it's all the ancillary atrocities (including the aforementioned pelvic exam) that can make Let Me Die a Woman difficult to watch.
Thankfully, Wishman's wondrous way with a film wins us over in the end. Not content to show us the reality of being a transsexual, she piles on the melodrama (a distraught man seeks advice about his upcoming marriage from Dr. Wollman) the surrealism (a strange insert scene of a couple copulating, shown in its negative image form) and copious scenes of pretend paramours (including porn stars Harry Reams and Vanessa Del Rio) doing the dirty boogie. Taken all together, it's like Wishman's version of Godard's Masculin/ Feminin, a true attempt at reducing gender and sexuality to its basic component parts. As our gloriously disgruntled guide, Dr. Leo Wollman is a shifty eyed sensation. Reading his lines so rigidly that there's no time to interject emotion or concern, this quasi-quack appears like the patron saint of Estrogen as he champions counseling and smacks patients on the behind to inject them with another dose of maleness eradicator. Jaw-droppingly divine, completely original and purposefully obtuse, Let Me Die a Woman has long been the Mount Everest of many a Wishman fan. Who knew finding it and finally climbing it would be so remarkably rewarding.
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And guess whose coming along for the alternate narrative ride? Why, it's 'Leslie', 30 years older and as many years sassier. Able to pick apart Wishman and her filmmaking facets (including monies owed and credit denied) now that the director is dead, she is a feisty companion to Bowden's more mannered approach. Together they explore the history of the film, how her footage was shot, and her reaction to the sequences that were added without her knowledge (including the softcore and surgery material). Quick with a quip and ripe with ridicule, Leslie is a fine catty counterpoint to Bowden's outright Wishman worship and this means we get a lively and illuminating discussion - just what a film like this needs.
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SCOTT JAGOW: Did you just write a big fat check for the mortgage? I feel your pain. Today, the Census Bureau came out with the latest stats on housing costs and in almost every state, people are spending a bigger chunk of their incomes on the roof over their heads. Hillary Wicai reports.
HILLARY WICAI: Housing advocates warn many homeowners are going to have a harder time hanging on to their homes.
The government says housing shouldn't ideally be more than 30% of household income, but today's data from the Census Bureau show 34.5% of homeowners with a mortgage had housing costs that topped that mark in 2005. That's up from about 27% in 1999.
Jeffrey Lubell is with the Center for Housing Policy, a nonprofit that works on the nation's housing challenges. He says incomes aren't keeping up with housing costs.
JEFFREY LUBELL:"What we're seeing with housing prices going up is that property taxes are going up, property insurance rates are going up, families are increasingly taking out exotic mortgages that are putting their homeownership status at risk."
While the housing market has softened in many areas, home prices are still higher than they were at the start of the decade. Median home values jumped 32 percent from 2000 to 2005 to $167,500.
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LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT HATE CRIMES PREVENTION ACT OF 2007 -- (House of Representatives - May 03, 2007)
Ms. PELOSI. I thank the distinguished chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Mr. Conyers, for yielding time, but more importantly, for bringing this important legislation to the floor in his ongoing, long commitment to justice in our country. And I want to commend Congresswoman TAMMY BALDWIN and Chairman BARNEY FRANK for their leadership. It is an honor to call you colleague. Thank you for giving us the opportunity today to make America more American.
Every day we come to this floor, we honor the tradition of our Founders, that every person is created equal, and that we are all God's children. Every day that we come to this floor, we pledge allegiance to the flag, and at the end of that pledge we say ``with liberty and justice for all.'' That is what today is about. Because in the preamble to the Constitution, which we take an oath to, we talk about forming a more perfect union. Our Founders knew that our Constitution had to be amended. They knew that we had to move to a more perfect union in terms of legislation to reflect the values of our country. And so we are here today to extend to the hate crimes legislation others who have had hate crimes committed against them. The record is clear.
What I am so interested in is the fact that so many law enforcement organizations have endorsed this legislation. My colleagues have spoken very eloquently as to why this is about the values of our country. They have spoken very clearly about the need for this legislation. And if it has been said, I think it bears repeating that the law enforcement organizations, many of them, including the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the National District Attorneys Association, the National Sheriffs Association, the Police Executive Research Forum, as well as nearly 30 attorney generals across the country, support need for Federal hate crime legislation. They are joined by more than 230 civil rights, education, religious and civic organizations who have voiced their support. Let us be clear that this Congress, this House of Representatives, have heard their call.
Hate crimes, as have been said, have no place in America, no place where we pledge every morning ``with liberty and justice for all.'' We must act to end hate crimes and save lives.
Mr. Speaker, the legislation will help prevent bias-motivated violence based on religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin or disability, while respecting the first amendment rights of free speech and religious expression. It increases the ability of State, local and Federal law enforcement agencies to solve a wide range of violent hate crimes.
We in our country take pride in saying that we are moving to end discrimination of all kinds. Today, we have an opportunity to end discrimination and the violence that goes with it that equal a hate crime. So whatever you may think of any one of us, based on our ethnicity or our gender or whatever, you have no right to act upon that opinion in a violent way. Who would disagree with that? That is why I hope that we can send a clear message from the Congress that this Congress does not agree with that and pass this legislation.
Who of us can think of the story of the Shepard family and the Byrd family and so many examples that we have of this and not say that is wrong. And at the very least, we can pass legislation that tells Federal authorities that they can assist State and local authorities in enforcing the law. Over 100,000 hate crimes reported since 1991. There are so many more that go unreported, many of them unprosecuted.
So today, let us take this step forward that is consistent with the values of our Founders, both in terms of all being equal, and our faith that we are all God's children, but also consistent with the call and the preamble to form a more perfect union.
Again, passing this legislation makes America more American. I urge a ``yes'' vote.
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YAK Car Pic of the Day
by Jim Corbran - posted 12:00 am, October 5, 2013
When Lincoln-Mercury dealers began selling the 1960 Comet, there was no indication anywhere on the car that it was a Mercury — it was just a "Comet." Same goes for the nearly unchanged 1961 Comet like this one; Mercury badges didn't appear on the Comet until the 1962 models debuted. Why, you ask? Because when it was designed, the Comet was supposed to be a compact Edsel, which shouldn't surprise anyone once they get a load of that rear-end styling. Ford (thank you, Robert McNamara) had decided almost from the day the first 1958 Edsel hit the showroom that the marque wasn't long for this world — the Edsel was a dog that never had its day. The Comet, and the Mercury Comet, fared much better, sticking around as a nameplate (off-and-on) until model year 1977, when they were thinly (very thinly) disguised Ford Mavericks. We found this white example yesterday while traveling through Cheektowaga.
— Jim Corbran, You Auto Know


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It should work!!!!
Trying to help a friend on SaveMiiFrii
He bought the after market gamecube controller $7. Will that work or does it have to be official controller?
This after market is sold at walmrt. no funky feature on it.
It should work!!!!
Only one way to find out. I will tell you though that I tried an after market one and it did not work. Of course it had "funky features on it".
I should also let you know that SaveMiiFrii will not work if:
- The System Menu has been removed
- The System Menu IOS has been removed
- You can not use the recovery menu to fix a brick if the System Menu is the same or higher as the update on the disk. The game disk update must be higher then what is on the Wii.
- Will not fix a banner brick.
Q: If System Menu failed for some reason. Will priiloader still work when you hold the reset button?
At what point when a priiloader will not work?
Priiloader is merely brick prevention more than anything else. It generally will preserve a path to HBC (for example: to uninstall an offending wad). But if you get a full brick, it won't help --- only BootMii/boot2 will help you locally. Otherwise if you have a NAND backup, time to PM one of our folks here who do that sort of work for a reasonable fee.
Priiloader should work if you have a banner brick or some other kind of minor SM corruption. If you remove the SM or it IOS then you also remove Priiloader. A bad theme install can also remove/corrupt Prilloader.
We were following this..Recovery menu Brick Fixing with SaveMiiFrii &autoboot disks
Followed the path first and we end up to Install New System Menu.
He was installing a theme that was found from ytube. Then after he power cycled he got this green vertical lines.
He does have priiloader and bootmii is ios.
When he tried to hold reset - nothing is happening.
My friend does NOT know about this forum until he called me about his issue.
Now I think this post should go to Brick only thread.
1. Never, ever follow a FAILTUBE guide (unless a wiihacks guide has it for a specific step).
2. Never, ever fool with custom themes --- it requires at MINIMUM BootMii/boot2 and a NAND backup for good measure.
3. If you have a NAND backup, you'll have to contact a NAND programmer (streamlinehd and krafter in the USA; Bad_Ad84 in the UK; Erikie in the Netherlands) to recover it.
4. If no NAND in #3, time to junk it/part it out on Flea Bay... that's a very nice doorstop you have there (unfortunately).


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After sampling some local favorites at Reading Terminal Market, George heads with Mike Solomonov and Steve Cook to their hit restaurant, Abe Fisher, to cook a traditonal Jewish dish. But before their dish is done, the guys stop by Rooster Soup Co. to get in a quick appetizer before their main course.
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Pizza lovers, get ready: pizza cakes may become a new food trend.
According to this Daily Mail report, a Canadian pizza chain named Boston Pizza is polling its customers about what new items they want to see on the restaurant's summer menu. Customer support is overwhelmingly in favor of the "pizza cake," a multiple-layered creation featuring a pizza dough crust that wraps around the cake, and divides the layers of cheese and meat included inside the gut-busting culinary creation.
The restaurant chain has not released any information about how much a pizza cake would cost if becomes a menu item.
The pizza cake isn't the first novelty offering the pizza chain has created. As part of its Pizza Game Changers promotion, the restaurant chain offers pizza sliders and pizza tacos.
If the pizza cake becomes a reality, American pizza fans can enjoy a slice as well, because Boston Pizza has dozens of U.S. locations.


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What's the value in switching to the cloud?
If your business is not already seeking to reduce IT costs or looking to increase the agility of its IT environment with a cloud solution, why not? There are a range of benefits cloud services can provide that don't end with cost savings. Consider the efficiencies the cloud creates in automating services, increasing storage options and casting off high-maintenance legacy systems. This SunGard white paper looks at the different cloud components, from infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and software-as-a-service (SaaS), and how choosing the right cloud from the right vendor can satisfy almost any business' needs.
Provided by: SunGard Availability Services Topic: Cloud Date Added: Feb 2012 Format: PDF


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Fontana Hotel Bali, a PHM Collection, Legian
- Free WiFi and free parking
- English spoken
Main amenities
- 136 guestrooms
- Restaurant and bar/lounge
- Full-service spa
- Outdoor pool
- Breakfast available
- Free area shuttle
- Fitness center
- 24-hour business center
- Airport shuttle
- Terrace
- 24-hour front desk
- Coffee/tea in a common area
- Free WiFi and free parking
Feel at home
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- Refrigerator
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Private bathroom
- Premium TV channels
What's around
- In Dewi Sri
- Carrefour Plaza Kuta (22-minute walk)
- Kuta Beach (30-minute walk)
- Legian Beach (20-minute walk)
- Krisna (6-minute walk)
- Kuta Galeria Shopping Arcade (10-minute walk)
- Swiss Consulate (12-minute walk)
- Mertanadi Art Market (15-minute walk)
- Beachwalk (31-minute walk)
- Vihara Dharmayana Kuta (31-minute walk)
- BIMC Hospital (32-minute walk)
More great choices
At a glance
Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 136 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 4 floors
- 24-hour check-in
- Check-out time is noon
Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
Travelling with others
- No pets or service animals allowed
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Airport shuttle (available 24 hours) *
- Free valet parking
- Free nearby parking
- Free RV/bus/truck parking
- Free area shuttle within 3 km
In the hotel
- Buffet breakfast daily (surcharge)
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- Coffee shop/café
- 24-hour room service
- Coffee/tea in a common area
- Barbecue grills
- Outdoor pool
- Pool sun loungers
- Fitness facilities
- Full-service spa
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Pool umbrellas
- 24-hour business center
- Number of meeting rooms - 3
- Meeting rooms 3
- Conference space size (feet) - 1291
- Conference space size (meters) - 120
- Conference center
- Computer station
- 24-hour front desk
- Concierge services
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Hair salon
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Luggage storage
- Porter/bellhop
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Year Built 2012
- Elevator/lift
- Designated smoking areas (fines apply)
- Terrace
- Television in common areas
In the room
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Air conditioning
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Bathrobes
- Slippers
- Premium bedding
- Private bathroom
- Rainfall showerhead
- Bidet
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- 32-inch LCD TV
- Premium TV channels
- Desk
- Free WiFi
- Phone
- Refrigerator
- Free bottled water
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
Also popular with travelers from the USA
Special features
Suma Spa has 10 treatment rooms. Services include massages, facials, body wraps, and body scrubs. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy. The spa is equipped with a spa tub.
Children under 13 years old are not allowed in the spa without adult supervision. Guests under 13 years old are not allowed in the spa.
DiningOpen Grill - Overlooking the garden, this restaurant specializes in Italian cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Happy hour is offered.
Sunny 16 Cafe - This coffee shop serves light fare only. Open 24 hours. Open daily.
Fontana Hotel Bali, a PHM Collection, Legian's small print
Also known as
- Bali Fontana
- Fontana Hotel Bali Kuta
- Fontana Hotel Bali PHM Collection Legian
- Fontana Hotel Bali PHM Collection
- Fontana Bali PHM Collection Legian
- Fontana Bali PHM Collection
- Bali Fontana Hotel
- Fontana Bali
- Fontana Bali Hotel
- Fontana Bali Legian
- Fontana Hotel
- Fontana Hotel Bali
- Fontana Hotel Bali Legian
- Hotel Fontana Bali
The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
Children under 5 years old are not allowed in the swimming pool or fitness facility without adult supervision.
Children under 13 years old are not allowed in the spa without adult supervision.
Guests under 13 years old are not allowed in the spa.
For transfers, guests must contact the property before arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments and can be made by contacting the property before arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
Optional extras
Rollaway beds are available for IDR 250000 per night
Buffet breakfast is offered for an extra charge of IDR 90000 per person (approximately)
Airport shuttle service is offered for an extra charge of IDR 150000 per vehicle (one way)
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
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POS-itive thinking
When Aubrey Allen of Leamington Spa had a shop refit in April this year, getting the point-of-sale features right was a priority. Simple, informative POS, such as posters and recipe leaflets, are effective tools for boosting sales, but in addition Aubrey Allen decided to opt for a new printed window display, a dry-ageing beef cabinet, and a flat-screen TV showing different products and services.
Head of marketing Lucianne Allen says all these measures have boosted sales and led to some record-breaking Saturdays. "In the front window we have had a visual created of one of our beef farmers, so you've got a wonderful image of the farmer with his cattle. People immediately see we have a commitment to provenance," she says.
"Then, when they come in, one of the first things they see is the dry-ageing fridge behind the meat counter, where you can see the ribs of beef ageing in the cabinet. We have found at the point of sale that has been really powerful, the customers love to see the beef ageing and they can point to the piece they want.
"We also had fitted a flat-screen TV, with videos viewing on a loop, so it is a way of promoting different parts of our business. As well as the butchery, we do ready-made meals, so we can showcase those, and we do some catered events from the shop, such as buffets." A fridge full of ready-to-cook meals in foil tubs are stationed in a fridge near where customers queue, so as they watch the POS TV, many decide to add one to their basket, says Allen. "It has really had a positive impact on sales."
In addition, says Allen, on the counter are branded flyers giving more detail about where the meat has come from.
The shop also gave out branded bags last Christmas, when shoppers came in to place their Christmas orders. The bags bore the slogan 'Aubrey Allen, your butcher for life, not just for Christmas'. "It was a bit of fun and it's nice to see Aubrey Allen bags around Leamington Spa," she adds.
The investment at Aubrey Allen was significant, but improving your POS needn't involve huge cost. Changing small things, such as your labels, can give your cabinets a fresh look.
Pentic, the price labels manufacturer, says clean lines and simple products are currently selling well. "People are going for a back-to-basics look at the moment," says Chloe Callow, who is responsible for purchasing and marketing. "In the current climate, we are finding that there has been a desire to return to a more traditional and simple feel in both products and display. Our traditional range is totally in keeping with the current trend for keeping things local."
Branded bags can also be an effective POS tool. Aubrey Allen uses one type relatively new to the market – boss bags – supplied by William Jones Packaging. Boss bags are printed, sealable, waterproof paper bags. Unlike heat-sealed bags, boss bags have a sticky seal, so are far quicker to close up and hand to the customer. According to Alwyn Evans, sales director of William Jones Packaging, boss bags are an effective POS tool because they are so different from everything else on the market.
"It tends to be the progressive, modern butchers who have had a refit and are looking for something completely different in packaging," he says. "They are not for everyone because of the cost element — 10p each for small bags, 20p each for larger ones — but we have found that most of the butchers who have spent a bit of money on a refit or new serve-overs pay particular attention to putting a stamp on their products. Butchers have said it looks slick and it makes the product look nice. If you were to buy some lingerie, you would get it in a nice bag and this is no different."
There is however, a lot of free-of-charge POS that can effectively increase interest and sales. Eblex and Bpex both provide materials to independent butchers, including posters, recipe books and cabinet cards through a number of promotions throughout the year.
According to Mike Whittemore, Eblex retail project manager, the kits tend to reach full subscription very quickly. "The kits are always very popular," he says. "Asking butchers to sign up for all the kits at once makes things easier — it means they don't need to remember to keep applying for kits during the year, because they automatically receive them. While the kits for this year are fully subscribed, we would always like to hear from butchers who would be interested in registering for next year.
According to Whittemore, butchers report it is very effective. "Feedback on the material we produced last year was extremely positive, with butchers rating the kits as 'good' or 'very good' – and all scored over 90%. In addition, they also helped to increase penetration of three new innovative cuts, which have featured in the summer promotional kits for two years in a row: lamb chunkies, centre cut steaks and flat iron steaks."
Indeed, penetration of lamb chunkies increased by 14% (from 42 to 56%), centre cut steaks by 6% (27 to 33%) and flat iron steaks by 17% (27 to 44%). In fact, the cuts proved so popular that many butchers are now stocking them on a permanent basis, Whittemore says. "This is a fantastic result and clearly demonstrates that without a doubt, promotional material really does help to drive sales."
Eblex currently offers four seasonal kits to Quality Standard scheme members and a further two kits, which are available to non-scheme member butchers. These are also supplemented by ad-hoc kits that are introduced to coincide with campaigns and marketing activity.
Eblex produces 1,000 copies of each kit. They are made available on a first-come-first-served basis, although butchers must apply at the start of the year to receive all the kits for the seasons. The latest pack to be produced is due to be released at the end of July and will focus on the health aspects of red meat and seek to quash some of the myths surrounding meat. It will explain that red meat is a positive part of a healthy diet. The kit will contain two posters highlighting the variety of nutrients provided by beef and lamb, as well as a consumer-facing leaflet that outlines the positive role red meat has to play in maintaining good health for life.
"Consumers are constantly bombarded by contradictory messages about red meat and we want to set the record straight," says Whittemore. "The leaflet and posters will provide them genuine facts about the nutritional benefits of eating beef and lamb." Butchers who are not members of the Eblex Quality Standard scheme can access this material by calling 0845 491 8787 or via the website, www.eblextrade.co.uk
Similarly, Bpex provides free POS to butchers, including posters, recipe booklets, stickers and merchandise, such as oven gloves, ties, fleeces, mugs and even boxer shorts decorated with cartoon sausages. Bpex produced around 1,500 kits for each promotion, based on the number of butchers who sign up for the year.
Many of the kits are planned to coincide with PR events such as British Sausage Week and Bacon Connoisseurs' Week, with the aim of helping butchers increase customer awareness and increase sales. A typical kit will include a selection of wall posters and window vinyls with inspirational food photography, and copies of the latest recipe books.
The latest summer kit from Bpex was brightly contained and featured al fresco styled dishes. British Sausage Week 2011 (31 October to 6 November) will be all about 'Legendary Bangers' and the point-of-sale material will be very much in keeping with this, says Bpex.
Claire Holland, product manager for Bpex, who develops the kits, says the recipe books are the most popular item: "We often receive calls from retailers requesting additional stocks of the recipe books. Their feedback tells us that the recipe books are regarded as the most useful item, particularly as a means to educate their customers about the quality of ingredients and how they can be used in a variety of dishes. The feedback is vital, because it is a valuable means of establishing which items within the kits are the most appealing and work best for the retailer and their customers."
There are also private companies that offer free point-of-sale material to butchers. Lamb supplier Ovation New Zealand is one. It is offering POS material to butchers that stock its products and fulfil certain accreditation criteria to become an 'Ovation master butcher'.
James McWilliam, business development manager, says flyers, aprons, cooler bags and a POS pack including posters and recipe leaflets are all available to butchers through Ovation's head office. "From this point the butcher will receive a visit from an Ovation Business Development Manager, who will go through an Ovation 'Master Butcher' accreditation form and the process is complete," he says. "Ovation recognises the unique nature of the butchery sector and has committed resource to provide expert high street-based business development managers with extensive agricultural and processing experience to support the butchers in their understanding of the additional lengths Ovation goes to in ensuring tenderness and the highest quality."
According to McWilliam, good POS tempts consumers to try new products and increases impulse purchases. "It also stimulates the consumers' imagination as to what can be achieved with their purchase," he says. "It gives consumers the confidence to expand their culinary repertoire in the comfort of their own backyard on a barbecue or in their kitchen. For example, a very simple recipe leaflet with three different lamb meals using a range of different cuts, some of which the consumer has never used, can lead the consumer to take the product away and give it a crack."
Good POS can also provide a talking point between butcher and consumer, he says. "Point-of-sale material provides the butcher a great opportunity to advise and engage with the consumer in discussions beyond just the purchase of product. Using point of sale gives the butcher the ability to ensure their loyal customers are informed, supported and feel a little bit special, ultimately providing a premium eating experience and a personalised shopping experience."
However, there are pitfalls. McWilliam says it is important for butchers to make sure the POS material they have on display is specific, relevant and targeted to what is being offered in the counter below. "The point-of-sale material must also be simple and consumer-friendly. There is no point in providing a supporting package if the consumer cannot benefit and gain a positive experience from receiving either recipe leaflets, aprons or cooler bags." If butchers get this right, however, POS can be very powerful. "Relating the product to its finished recipe dish, with pictures of dining experiences to come, changes the leaflets from being informative to inspirational," he says.
For butchers looking to change or upgrade their POS, there is plenty on offer. Chloe Callow of Pentic says the company is in the process of launching new POS labels for meat. "We are in the process of printing a new brochure," she says. "We've got some great new products launching. We have got some brand new ticket shapes, which is new for us because it means having brand new cutters made, we haven't done it for years, including some animal-shaped tickets, which is probably more relevant for children to see where your meat comes from, and with the whole rustic back-to-basics thing, we have got a range of blackboard tickets which are selling really well, which we have expanded upon."
And Eblex retail project manager Mike Whittemore says: "Bright and impactful material has a real role to play in driving sales at any given time. Consumers are always looking for inspiration and a simple, yet eye-catching poster, for example, can help influence or even add to their purchases."
The message is clear: for independent butchers, whatever your budget, you can improve your POS.
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Impeltronics (Mechanicsburg, PA) has announced new pink products for breast cancer awareness month. The pink flashlight pick up tool is also offered in red, blue, silver, and black. Extendable from a compact 6.75" to over 21" long for better reach and includes a flexible magnetic head and tail. This bright Pink Flashlight offers a well-constructed sturdy aluminum casing with a strong stainless steel clip. With powerful magnets at both ends and a telescoping head, this Pink Flashlight Tool offers the ability for the user to find and retrieve objects in hard to reach areas. The magnets in both the head and tail end of the flashlight permit the recovery of magnetic objects. The flashlight head is attached to 3" of sturdy flexible metal for multi-directional applications.
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BE SURE to pick up a copy The Gainsborough Standard this week for the latest news, sports, features and listings.
Inside YOUR Standard this week (available Thursday 31st January):
- TWO Gainsborough paedophiles appear in court - one is put behind bars and the other spared jail
- GAINSBOROUGH man denies kidnap and GBH after 'torture scene to pay off drug debt'
- RIVERSIDE hotel and cinema development protest continues
- OVER 90 per cent of county residents vote against wind farms as opposition speak out
- NEW tax rule launched 'to protect vulnerable and save empty homes'
- GAINSBOROUGH thief 'stole Christmas presents'
- HAVE your say on 'huge town growth'
- MEET the candidates for Gainsborough East Ward WLDC election
- TAKE a sneak peek inside your NEW LOOK Gainsborough Standard - COMING SOON
- FEATURE: We meet local girl with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
- WIN! Tickets to see Mr Honk kids' show live at Trinity Arts Centre
- TRINITY FC boss calls on town to get behind team ahead of Boston clash
- COMFORTABLE win for Trinity
- PERFECT 10 for Striders
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It's official: any respect I had remaining for Selena Gomez is gone, because bitch is once again riding Justin Bieber's douchey baby dick. I'd been holding off writing about this shit until I knew for sure, but now I know that unlike Kris Jenner's face, this crap is real.
People started speculating a little while ago that the Disney version of Rihanna and Chris Brown were back together again when Bieber posted a picture of them being all affectionate on Instagram, only to delete it shortly after (bitch please, once a celebrity Instagrams something it is on the internet FOREVER).
Bieber posting the pic didn't fully convince me that these two were back together. No, what really got me was when they went to bible study together. No, I'm not even joking.
Last Wednesday, "I'm a big girl now, I can be sexy!" Selena and Vanilla Ice 2.0 Justin went to a fucking Bible Study class together in L.A. When I read that shit, I felt like Alex Vause whenever Pennsatucky got on with all her Jesus bullshit (yes, that was an "Orange is the New Black" reference). I mean, I did some next level eye rolling. I was like Lucille Bluth, FOR REAL!
Apparently the two were all touchy feely during Bible study, because there is no better place to engage in PDA than at BIBLE STUDY!
I mean, Bible study, really?! Who the fuck are these two idiots trying to kid?! I mean, I expect this sort of dry heave inducing fuckery from Justin, but Selena?
A source says their relationship is different this time and that Justin wants to give up his bad boy ways. The source then added:
And what's really been making a difference is that they have both praying together and you can tell what an impact this has been making on the both of them, especially Justin.
And with that, I couldn't take any of this shit seriously. Maybe Bieber finally got a sense of humour and this is some big ass joke he's playing on everyone, I don't know. Either way, they're both fucking idiot kids and I'm sure they'll break up again, get back together, convert to Hinduism, go on some sort of weird spiritual retreat, go visit the Dali Lama, Instagrm about their intense Hindu visit with him, have someone point out that the Dali Lama isn't Hindu, break up, Bieber will fuck some model that's depressed she turned 30 and just wants to feel young and stupid again, they'll get back together, and so on and so forth. Whatever forever.


text: Hello to every one in this forum, since last December these are the components of my home theater: Receiver: Pioneer VSX-D710S Speakers: Sony: SAVE-325 Subwoofer: Sony SAWM40 DVD Player: Panasonic DVD-RV30 And a 4:3 CRT 29" Samsung tv I have the main speakers connected to the level input of de SAVE´s subwoofer and from there to my front left and right output of my receiver, the wm40 is connected by the subwoofer pre out of the 710 and all my speakers are set as small. Well this is my problem, I have recently downloaded the NCH tone generator to make some test on my subwoofer (Just wanted to know if there was any frequency disappearing because I doesn't have an spl meter yet) and see how the crossover was working, so I connected my computer to an analogical A/V input and run my tests from there, the tests for the subwoofer were fine, all the frequencies were present but not at the same level and after a while I find why, the crossover wasn't working at all, it doesn't matter what was the value of the crossover, the tones were always in the wma40 and in the front speakers. After that I connected the main speakers to the level inputs of the wma40, configure them as large, and turned off the subwoofer in the receiver setup, I run the tones again but playing with the sub crossover and this time it works in the opposite way, the tones disappeared from the sub but not from the speakers, I don't know what is happening, Does my receiver has a problem with the crossover or there is something that I made wrong?, Why is the sub crossover letting frequencies go to the speakers?, can you also recommend me which of the two speakers arrangements that I have described will work better. I will appreciate any help you could give me thanks.


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This truck is my current "ride", a 1967 D100 pickup. It is a shortbed, V8 (318 cu in.), Custom Cab. It was a late '67 truck built in the St. Louis plant (the vast majority of these trucks were made in Warren, MI). There were only a few over 3,200 short bed V8 Dodges made in '67, making this truck pretty unusual.
I bought it from the family of the original owner and it has 56,000 miles. The paint and body work were completed in the Spring of 2013.


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We have reached the Turnaround deadline in the Kansas House. This past week we worked 59 bills on the House Floor. Those bills are now ready to be worked by the Senate, and the House will prepare to work the bills sent to us by the Senate. At this point in the session, all bills have been considered and passed by their committees and passed out of their House of Origin, or they are "dead" for the session. If a bill is referred to an "exempt committee" at any point during its tenure, it is exempt from this deadline and can be considered at any time during the session. These bills are called "blessed." House exempt committees are Tax, Federal & State Affairs, Appropriations, and Calendar & Printing.
There are several "blessed" bills upon which I have cast a suspicious eye. Remember, when you see great efforts being made to keep a bill alive, the first thing you should ask yourself is why your legislature has such a strong sense of urgency to pass this legislation, and why said legislation is necessary in the first place. I often jokingly refer to bills that don't die as "zombie bills," but truly, there is nothing funny about many of these pieces of proposed legislation. It is important to remember to stay vigilant until the conclusion of legislative session in even-numbered years- only then is all potential legislation truly "dead." I do not often speak for my fellow legislators here in northeast Johnson County, but I can say with conviction that the five of us want to hear from you about proposed legislation that concerns you.
The Transparency and Accountability Act continues to generate conversation in and out of the Statehouse. As many of you may recall, I researched, wrote, and introduced legislation that would make it a statutory requirement for the Kansas Legislature to live-stream video and audio of all of our committee and chamber proceedings on the Internet. The bill that I sponsored, HB 2438, the Transparency and Accountability Act, stalled largely in part to the nearly $1 million fiscal note that was attached to the bill.
I worked with Senator Kay Wolf to craft a smaller-scaled, fiscally conservative version of the Transparency Act. SB 413 (also referred to as the Transparency Act) requires audio and video streaming in the four largest committee rooms. It does not include audio and video in the House or Senate Chamber. This bill, while much smaller than what I initially pursued, is a step in the right direction. It is an exempt bill, meaning that it can be worked or heard at any time in the Session. It is currently in the Senate Fed and State committee, awaiting a hearing. I have been told that a hearing will be scheduled for March- so I am actively seeking people to provide written and/or oral testimony in favor of the bill. If you want to help by providing testimony, please contact me. This is your state government that you all pay taxes for- and I firmly believe that our proceedings should be easily available to you in all media forms.
In an effort to keep our readers better informed about the state government actions that impact our communities, we will again be featuring regular update columns during the 2014 session from northeast Johnson County's elected officials: Rep. Barbara Bollier, Rep. Stephanie Clayton, Rep. Emily Perry, Rep. Melissa Rooker and Sen. Kay Wolf. Check back on Mondays to find out what's been happening the past week in Topeka. Rep. Clayton submits this week's update:


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Azeri has been a dominating performer in 2002, winning seven of eight against fillies and mares, including the Apple Blossom Handicap (gr. I) in her lone excursion away from her California home base, where she's won three other grade I races and two grade II events. Her Oct. 2 triumph in the Lady's Secret Breeders' Cup Handicap (gr. II) was a thing of beauty. If she adds the Breeders' Cup Distaff (gr. I) to her list of credentials, Azeri deserves consideration for racing's top honor. Judge her by what she's done, not by what she hasn't.
If the first week of October is any indication, racing fans are in store for an unforgettable autumn afternoon in Chicago, when the $13-million Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships visit Arlington Park for the first time. Sensational performances were witnessed on both coasts as the Oak Tree Racing Association and New York Racing Association presented their major Breeders' Cup preview cards. Not to be outdone was Keeneland, whose "FallStars Weekend" more than lived up to its name as championship contenders in a number of divisions showed their very best. There doesn't figure to be a dull moment in any of the eight grade I championship races at Arlington Oct. 26. This could be one of those years when the winner of the day's biggest race, the $4-million Classic, isn't the headliner. That happened in 1991, when 2-year-old sensation and Juvenile winner Arazi stole the thunder from Black Tie Affair, who wired his field in the Classic en route to Horse of the Year honors. Back in 1991, the pre-Breeders' Cup favorite for Horse of the Year was In Excess, who had reeled off four consecutive grade I victories in New York. But the son of Siberian Express floundered in the Mile after trainer Bruce Jackson opted not to run him in the Classic. This year, with no dominant runner in the older male division, attention will turn to the top 3-year-olds pointing for the Classic: War Emblem, winner of the Kentucky Derby (gr. I) and Preakness (gr. I); Came Home, who avenged his lone 2002 defeat in the Kentucky Derby by defeating War Emblem in the Pacific Classic (gr. I); and Medaglia d'Oro, winner of the Travers (gr. I) and a close second in the Belmont Stakes (gr. I). If none of those three wins the Classic, Horse of the Year voters may have to go shopping in a division outside of the 3-year-old male and older male categories, which have provided 15 of the last 18 winners of Horse of the Year, beginning in 1984, the first year of the Breeders' Cup. Hopeful Stakes (gr. I) and Lane's End Breeders' Futurity (gr. II) winner Sky Mesa has looked very good in all three of his starts, as has fellow Bessemer Trust Juvenile candidate Vindication, winner of the Kentucky Cup Juvenile (gr. III). The same also can be said of unbeaten Storm Flag Flying, the leader of the Juvenile Fillies division and winner of two grade I races. However, it says here a 2-year-old going 4-for-4 is short of a Horse of the Year campaign. Most Horse of the Year voters apparently believe fillies and mares have to defeat males at least once to qualify. Lady's Secret, Horse of the Year in 1986 (the most recent filly so honored), won that year's Whitney Handicap (gr. I) over males and placed against males in the Metropolitan Handicap (gr. I) and Philip H. Iselin (gr. I). Three years earlier, the French filly All Along swept a trio of North American grade I grass races over males and received top honors. Moccasin, a 2-year-old filly who shared 1965 Horse of the Year honors with Roman Brother, never stepped outside of her division, in which she won eight consecutive races. Horse of the Year fillies before her were the back-to-back duo of Twilight Tear (1944) and Busher (1945), both of whom defeated males on multiple occasions.


text: As part of a major crackdown on Christian churches and human rights groups, Chinese authorities have jailed prominent Christian church leader Hu Shigen, sentencing him to seven and a half years in prison. According to Chinese state media, Hu pleaded guilty to "damaging national security and harming social stability" on Wednesday, though observers claim that the trial has "almost zero credibility." An elder of an "unregistered" Protestant church in Beijing, Hu is to be deprived of political rights for five years, along with his prison sentence. In a trial that lasted several hours, Hu allegedly confessed to being deeply connected to "foreign anti-China forces." Hu's friends said his confession was probably coerced. Xinhua, the state-run news agency, reported that Hu had used unauthorized religious groups to "spread subversive thoughts and ideas." According to the UK Foreign Office, unapproved Christian churches are facing a period of "sustained pressure" from Beijing. In 2014, the government began an operation to remove or demolish crosses placed atop Christian churches throughout the country, euphemistically titled a "beautification" program. The focus of the campaign has been the city of Wenzhou, in the Zhejiang province, where authorities have already removed more than 2,000 church crosses in the Communist Party's crusade


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Edina Realty collects food donations
During March, Edina Realty's Woodbury office served as a drop site for Minnesota's March FoodShare Campaign, the largest food drive in the state, helping Edina Realty offices across the state collect 5,408 pounds and $22,952 in donations -- a 104 percent increase over last year's campaign total.
All the monetary donations and items collected at the Woodbury office were donated to the Christian Cupboard Emergency Food Shelf.
The items included canned and packaged foods; baby items including diapers, formula and cereal; and various household basics such as toilet paper, shampoo, laundry and dish soap, toothpaste and toothbrushes.
"We are pleased that we can contribute to such a worthy cause," said Deb Harren, Edina Realty's Woodbury office manager. "We are grateful to everyone who made a donation at our office including our clients, agents and employees."
According to Minnesota FoodShare, in 2008, there were more than 2 million food shelf visits statewide and food shelf usage continues to climb. During last year alone, 50 million pounds of food were distributed to Minnesota families, and with today's challenging economy, donations will be even more important in 2009.
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Theorem Clinical Research Inc. Experts to Present on Alternative Market Pathway Options and Medical Device Clinical Trial Challenges
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct 16, 2012--Within the upcoming weeks, Theorem Clinical Research Inc. experts will make several presentations about the recently streamlined de novo process, an alternative regulatory pathway to market, and the challenges of medical device clinical trials.
Theorem, a full-service contract research organization (CRO) provides core clinical research and development services and executes successful medical device trials across all risk classifications and approval pathways globally.
Theorem's Vice President of Medical and Scientific Affairs, Medical Devices and Diagnostics, Evan L. Rosenfeld, M.D., J.D., F.C.L.M., will speak about the de novo process October 22 at BIOCOM in San Diego. He will also speak to the Orange County Regulatory Affairs ( OCRA ) Discussion Group October 24 in Irvine, Calif. Rosenfeld will discuss the difference between success and failure in the medical device business and the benefits and disadvantages of the de novo pathway.
According to Rosenfeld, the de novo process is a mechanism for down classification and subsequent 510(k) premarket clearance of low-to-medium risk products, and is a pathway that can improve overall efficiencies and lower the costs to reaching the U.S. marketplace.
In July 2012, President Obama signed into law the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act ( FDASIA ) that shortened and streamlined the previously lengthy and cumbersome de novo process into two steps. The changes are intended to allow companies to get to market much more quickly and without a lot of the prerequisites mandated under the prior law.
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Number halved since 1970s; claim of religious affiliation higher among Mizrahim.
Just 20 percent of Jews in Israel describe themselves as secular, according to a recent poll. Since the early 1970s, surveys that have measured Israeli Jews' affinity to tradition have fluctuated among various communities. But the recent figures represent a new low point for the secular community. For example, in 1974, the number of those describing themselves as secular stood at more than 40 percent.
The new Democracy Index conducted by the Guttman Center at the Israel Democracy Institute, is based on 1,016 interviews. It includes a breakdown along general national and cultural origins, namely Ashkenazim (Jews of European descent), Mizrahim (Jews of Middle Eastern descent) and Israelis (both the subjects and their parents born in Israel).
Of the Israelis, 85 percent claimed some form of religious affiliation, compared with 93 percent of the Mizrahim and 64 percent of the Ashkenazim.
Describing themselves as religious were 56 percent of the Mizrahim compared with 17 percent of the Ashkenazim.
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xp, although I hate not haveing dos, it is very nice
It all went downhill from Bill Gates being born.
Started the death of DOS. Sick of all that DOS crap. Sorry to the people who use it now but it was a pain in the ass to have to make boot disks to free up a few Kb of RAM to run a game under Win3.1.
Also got rid of config.sys /autoexec.bat.
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2K has been an excellent OS for me........Goodbye BSOD!!!! (Well almost)
Yeah, I went for 2k also. NT4 would have been my choice, but I guess one must move with the times. (Although I still don't like using IE as my "Windows Explorer", it irritates to be told that "you don't need to look in this folder", when, if I didn't, I wouldn't be trying).
I've not had a BSOD with 2000 yet. With NT4, (admittedly when fiddling), I got perhaps 2-3 a year.
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>>> 2K's slower on this machine
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i like XP...why? because media player looks dudey
voting for win 2000 (winnt 5.0), when I think I am ready will move to Linux :cool:.
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The energy giant blamed the Government's decision not to subsidise investment in new gas storage and "weak economics" for axing the projects in East Yorkshire and the North Sea at a cost of £240 million.
While widely expected, Centrica's decision leaves the UK increasingly reliant on imported gas. The UK has less than three weeks of gas storage supply, much less than Germany and France, which is used to help meet demand spikes during cold weather.
In March the prolonged cold spell saw Britain's stored gas supplies fall dangerously low, with warnings of supply interruptions.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) ruled out subsidising investment in new gas storage earlier this month, saying it was unfair for the burden to fall on taxpayers. The Government says storage accounts for just 7% of the UK's gas supply, with around half coming from the North Sea and the balance from pipelines from mainland Europe and Norway and shipments of liquid gas.
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A Centrica spokesman said: "This decision was taken in light of weak economics for storage projects and the announcement by the UK Government on September 4 ruling out intervention in the market to encourage additional gas storage capacity to be built."
A DECC spokeswoman said: "The UK has the capacity to deliver twice the amount of gas required on a normal winter's day and has coped well with recent extreme winter conditions. Gas storage, while important, only provides a small proportion of UK total supply. Subsidising storage risks adding significant costs to consumer bills, with the costs of the subsidy outweighing any benefits to security of supply."