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DUBAI: Citing what she had been "recently seeing on the news", a female shopper described as regularly confused by friends has expressed her concern about Islamist rebels gaining ground in the mall.
"It's just terrible, isn't it?" Hattie Bronwyn-Major, a 57-year-old American on vacation in Dubai, told fellow shoppers in the Mall of the Emirates. "Especially as it's the Shopping Festival. I just hope French airstrikes and increased troop presence prevents the insurgents from interrupting the sales as it'd really put a dampener on my holiday," she added.


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May 24—This summer, school nutrition staffers across the country, including Clark County (Nev.) Food Service Assistant Director Virginia Beck, will create menus that will be approved by their states and appreciated by their students.
While the CCSD ponders the serving sizes for chicken nuggets and peach cups, 40 minutes away, a veritable army of chefs goes to work every day on the Las Vegas Strip. For a glimpse at what the new school lunches could be, Las Vegas Weekly tapped that talent base and sought out a pair of local chefs willing to take on a challenge: Cook us a school lunch that meets the USDA's regulations and doesn't taste like the cafeteria line.
One example was Luxor Assistant Executive Chef Gerald Trujillo, who create spaghetti and meatballs with whole grain pasta, turkey meatballs and used homemade salad dressing on a side sald for his school meal.

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With the National Organization for Marriage's March for Marriage just around the corner, the group is quickly gathering up the endorsements.
However, NOM would do better than to not let certain people endorse its march because they contradict its false message of simply "defending marriage" without malice towards the gay community.
Let's look at the recent endorsement NOM received from Focus on the Family's Tom Minnery:
Pay no attention to Minnery's wilted delivery and inaccurate claim regarding how God endowed marriage to be one way since the beginning of civilization. For my money, I am drawn to the nonsense he says about children needing the best chance to have a mom and a dad.
One would think he wouldn't have the audacity to make such a statement regarding children and parents when one remembers how he got busted during a Congressional hearing by Sen. Al Franken in 2011 for attempting to distort a study in order to make a negative assumption about same-sex families:
And then there is former senator and now head of the Heritage Foundation Jim DeMint:
One has to give it to DeMint how he seems to have memorized NOM's talking points. I especially liked it when he said that all Americans have the right to live as they choose, but do not have the right to "redefine marriage." But not for the reasons that you think.
You see, DeMint doesn't actually believe that. What he does believe – and he said this in 2004 and 2010 – is that gays and sexually active unmarried women should not be allowed to teach in schools
So why is this important? Because of how NOM attempts to claim that it and those who support the organization, who supposedly believe in so-called traditional marriage, are being bullied and unfairly labeled as bigots
But recently, we got a good look at the vile anti-gay animus which many NOM supporters embrace. And today, we see the same animus, albeit tapered down, by two prominent individuals who support NOM and its march.
It all leads to the simple conclusion that NOM's whinings of unfairly being labeled as bigots is just a dodge to gain sympathy.
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walker shotgun
this will stir things up,a taylor & co. conversion cylinder in a colt walker and 2-1/2" .410 shotshells in the cylinders for a helluva a manstopper plus other loads are available once you go the shotshell type.the cylinder is 3" for those of you wondering and should be able to withstand the loads.
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yes, you could do that. OR, you could just load the cap and ball cylinder like a shotgun instead, for the same result.
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didn't think of that,thanks for killin my buzz,just jokin your right though
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Conversion cylinders aren't bored straight through anyway, they're chambered.
Do they still make 2 1/2 " .410's?
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Um, Just looked at the Taylors sight & I see where they offer the .45 Colt chambering but not something spacific for the .410 chambering although you can load a .410 into a .45 Colt chamber.
Like Deadguy stated, I'd just save my $$$ & just load the Percussion cylinder with a healthy shot load.
I know that my 60' Army & my 58' NMA's will take a load of:
15gr. FFFG Goex.
piece of cereal box for over powder wad.
15gr. #9 or #7 lead shot, this is using the same measure that the powder was measured with.
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Cap & it's ready for some Snakes up to 5 yards.
With the Walker you may be able to get 25gr./25gr. or maybe close to 30gr./30gr. in those massive chambers & substitute the shot for something like #5 or #3 as well for more of an effect but just remember even if you did get the cylinder & used the .410 in them or loaded the chambers like I mentioned this will only be effective for maybe 10 yards MAX because of the effect that the rifling plays on the shot as it goes through the barrel.
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I know you can load a .45 Colt into a .410 chamber. I didn't think it worked the other way around.
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there interchangeable just look at the new taurus judge it's an either or revolver and yeah you can still get 2-1/2" shells.i just like stikin with the bp theme but comin up with new age mods for us to use.
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Its funny I picked up a Walker a few weeks back and pondered the same thing, a 2.5" 410 shell will fit with room for the cylinder to be cut and chambered. That would be awesome if someone would make a conversion cylinder for 410/45 lc in the Walker.
Also 410 will not just fit into a 45 lc chamber nor vice-versa. Guns that are able to shoot both rounds (Taurus Judge, Thunder 5, NEF survivor) have special chambers/bores to handle both rounds. The two have the same rim, but the case dimensions are different.
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there can't be but so much difference in the two otherwise you would have designated chambers in the revolvers chamber.taylors&co. makes the walker conversion cylinder,it would be nice to see if someone has actually tried this to see if it really works. anyone out there tried this? please post.
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As soon as you enter the bar you find yourself in the heart of the establishment: a warm and friendly environment in which to sink a few pints or enjoy a good meal that makes it a pub first and foremost.
It's your classic country pub: a huge inglenook fireplace, flagstoned floor, wooden tables and yellow walls.
The Museum has eight rooms, half of which are in the main house: three cottage-style bedrooms with white bathrooms, plush furnishings and antiques and the large, four-poster General's bedroom, so named after the archaeologist General Augustus Lane Fox Pitt Rivers who built the inn to offer accommodation for visitors to his museum in the 1800s. The only disappointment is the four stable rooms, which are small and lack the character of the main house rooms, despite being freshened up with some designer wallpaper since new owners took over two years ago.
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ODC honored for quality programs, manufacturing
The Occupational Development Center Inc. has received the National Industries for the Severely Handicapped Certificate of Achievement for 2009. The certificate was presented in recognition of the high standards of performance maintained through the past year in providing products for the federal government under the Ability One Program.
In evaluating a community rehabilitation program's eligibility for the award, NISH considered the following criteria: the length of time the company has had a product on the Procurement List; the consistent record of accurately fulfilling contracting requirements; the timely submission of reports; the adherence of Ability One regulations; and the procurement agency's overall evaluation of contract performance. ODC excelled in all of these areas.
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Ham radio in the 21st century
The first wireless communicators were by definition all amateurs. Guglielmo Marconi himself, generally regarded as the inventor of radio, once famously remarked that he considered himself an amateur. In the early days of radio, commercial, government, and amateur stations shared the same spectrum, sending broadband spark-generated transmissions modulated by on/off keying using Morse code to convey messages. This practice resulted in a horrendous amount of interference among services until the government stepped in and assigned various services to specific bands.
Government and commercial stations were assigned the supposedly more useful, less-than-1500-kHz, long- and medium-wave spectrum, and the amateurs were banished to the less-than-200m wavelengths with frequencies higher than 1500 kHz. The experts of the day regarded these bands as worthless for long-distance communications.
The amateurs soon discovered that long-distance communications were actually easier at these frequencies. New allocations were then created to give government and commercial stations some of the "good" spectrum. However, a handful of slices of the spectrum were reserved for the amateurs. In the late 1960s, amateurs laid claim to all of the apparently useless frequencies higher than 30 GHz. Since then, as technology has marched on, other services have discovered that these frequencies are useful; amateurs currently enjoy exclusive rights to the frequencies greater than 300 GHz.
Part 97 requires that amateur stations obtain licenses before they can transmit. The process for getting a ham-radio license has evolved over the years. Long ago, an applicant had to pass a rigorous technical exam that included drawing schematics from memory. The exams have changed considerably. All of the questions are now multiple-choice and cover technical, operating, and regulatory topics, and all of the questions and answers—both right and wrong—are available in the public domain. Furthermore, the governments of many countries—notably, the United States—have effectively outsourced the job of testing.
The US amateur-licensing process no longer requires knowledge of Morse code for any class of license. This requirement has historically been a major impediment for many technically skilled individuals who were interested in ham radio but who could not or would not conquer Morse code. Ironically, the portions of the bands reserved for CW (continuous-wave) operation are busier than ever, as new licensees discover that narrow-band modes are more effective for weak-signal work than are wider-bandwidth modes, such as SSB (single-sideband) voice.
Many amateurs make contacts using voice modes, primarily SSB mode on HF and FM on VHF and UHF. The signal- processing capabilities of a soundcard-equipped PC that connects to an HF SSB or a VHF FM transceiver have driven the emergence of new modes. Even a modestly equipped PC has sufficient speed to generate and decode the FSK signals for conventional radio teletype.
Experimenters have created modulation schemes and accompanying protocols, complete with forward-error correction, which enable direct keyboard-to-keyboard contacts even with low power and small antennas. The variety of FSK and PSK signals being used create unusual buzzing and chirping sounds when traveling to a speaker, and computers easily demodulate them and turn them into legible text. Some ingenious hams even use the PC's signal-processing capabilities to emulate the signals that World War II-vintage mechanical text-to-radio systems, such as Hellschreiber, generated.
Some hams also engage in transmission of full-motion video signals—usually on VHF or UHF bands, on which sufficient bandwidth is available. Others transmit still pictures on HF, using voice-bandwidth signals and a PC. Data networks have also evolved using various systems, including TCP/IP.
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SUNNYVALE, Calif. Virage Logic Corp. will develop memory compilers based on the single-transistor SRAM technology of embedded-memory vendor MoSys Inc. The fourth-generation Custom-Touch compilers are being designed expressly for use with the 0.18- and 0.15-micron standard logic processes of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC).
According to the companies, these memory compilers enable system designers requiring ultra-dense memory to easily embed large quantities of cost-effective memory in their designs.
By combining the Custom-Touch compiler technology of Virage Logic with the 1T-SRAM memory technology of MoSys, customers will be able to rapidly generate the high-capacity memory configuration of their choice at any stage of the design cycle, said the companies.
The compilers are said to facilitate "what-if" analysis and performance trade-off decisions early in the design cycle.
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i am sure that some one has asked this question before but i cant find it i am looking for a perfect pass for my 06 outback v i call the local dealer and they wanted $2000.00 is cheaper any where else and can i install it myself
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I got mine for about 1350 at my dealer. Perfect Pass Wakeboard Pro. I know that's probably not what they go for typically, but my wife arranged it for my B-day and she loves to negotiate. She probably promised we'd buy a new boat thist summer (which we did).
Did you ask for a discount? If you don't ask, you don't get. Doesn't hurt to try.
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You should be able to buy it direct or anywhere online for $1000 to about $1300 depending on the model and options. I believe that PP also gives a $100 discount to members of waterskiing clubs and members of groups like AWSA. Maybe someone else here knows more about that and can comment. $2K seems way out of line even if the dealer were to do the install.
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It is $1100 list HERE
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If you plan on going to a Sabres game, expect extra security.
The team has announced enhanced security for home games at First Niagara Center in downtown Buffalo beginning with Tuesday's game.
All fans entering the arena will be subject to a handheld wand screening.
The wands have been used on a limited basis at the arena, but now will be fully implemented to use on each fan per league-wide security policies.
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Creating the Enterprise Bean
DukesBirthdayBean is a stateless session bean. Stateless session beans are enterprise beans that do not maintain a conversational state with a client. With stateless session beans, the client makes isolated requests that do not depend on any previous state or requests. If an application requires conversational state, use stateful session beans.
To create DukesBirthdayBean, create one Java class: DukesBirthdayBean, the enterprise bean class. DukesBirthdayBean is a local enterprise bean that uses a no-interface view, meaning two things. First, a local enterprise bean is only visible within the application in which it is deployed. Second, enterprise beans with a no-interface view do not need a separate business interface that the enterprise bean class implements. The enterprise bean class is the only coding artifact needed to create a local, no-interface enterprise bean.
DukesBirthdayBean will be packaged within the same WAR file as the Facelets web front-end.
Create the DukesBirthdayBean Enterprise Bean Class
Follow these steps to create the enterprise bean class in NetBeans IDE.
- Select the firstcup project in the Projects tab.
- From the File menu, choose New File.
- In the Categories pane, select Enterprise JavaBeans.
- In the File Types pane, select Session Bean.
- Click Next.
- In the EJB Name field, type DukesBirthdayBean.
- In the Package field, type firstcup.ejb.
- Make sure Stateless is selected under Session Type.
- Click Finish.
You should now see the DukesBirthdayBean.java file inside the firstcup.ejb package in the Projects tab. The DukesBirthdayBean.java file should also be open in the editor pane.
Add a Logger Instance to DukesBirthdayBean.java
Add a java.util.logging.Logger instance to the session bean for logging events.
- Directly after the class declaration, paste in the following field definition:
private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger("firstcup.ejb.DukesBirthdayBean");
This code creates a logger for the session bean.
- Right-click in the editor window and select Format.
- Right-click in the editor window and select Fix Imports, then click OK.
Add a Business Method to DukesBirthdayBean that Gets the Average Age Difference of firstcup Users
Add a business method to the DukesBirthdayBean session bean to call the findAverageAgeDifferenceOfAllFirstcupUsers named query in FirstcupUser that returns the average age difference of all users.
- Below the class definition, add a @PersistenceContext annotation and field of type EntityManager:
@PersistenceContext private EntityManager em;
- Right-click in the editor window and select Fix Imports.
- Add a business method called getAverageAgeDifference by copying and pasting the following code:
public Double getAverageAgeDifference() { Double avgAgeDiff = (Double) em.createNamedQuery("findAverageAgeDifferenceOfAllFirstcupUsers") .getSingleResult(); logger.info("Average age difference is: " + avgAgeDiff); return avgAgeDiff; }
The named query in FirstcupUser is called by using the EntityManager's createNamedQuery method. Because this query returns a single number, the getSingleResult method is called on the returned Query object. The query returns a Double.
- Right-click in the editor window and select Format.
Add a Business Method for Calculating the Age Difference Between Duke and the User
Add a business method that calculates the difference in age in years between Duke and the user and creates a new FirstcupUser entity.
- Add a business method called getAgeDifference by copying and pasting the following code:
public int getAgeDifference(Date date) { int ageDifference; Calendar theirBirthday = new GregorianCalendar(); Calendar dukesBirthday = new GregorianCalendar(1995, Calendar.MAY, 23); // Set the Calendar object to the passed in Date theirBirthday.setTime(date); // Subtract the user's age from Duke's age ageDifference = dukesBirthday.get(Calendar.YEAR) - theirBirthday.get(Calendar.YEAR); logger.info("Raw ageDifference is: " + ageDifference); // Check to see if Duke's birthday occurs before the user's. If so, // subtract one from the age difference if (dukesBirthday.before(theirBirthday) && (ageDifference > 0)) { ageDifference--; } // create and store the user's birthday in the database FirstcupUser user = new FirstcupUser(date, ageDifference); em.persist(user); logger.info("Final ageDifference is: " + ageDifference); return ageDifference; }
This method creates the Calendar objects used to calculate the difference in age between the user and Duke and performs the actual calculation of the difference in age.
Similar to the DukesAgeResource.getText code, getAgeDifference subtracts Duke's birthday year from the user's birthday year to get a raw age difference. If Duke's birthday falls before the user's, and the raw difference is more than 0, it subtracts one year from the age difference.
A new FirstcupUser entity is created with the user's birthday and age difference, then stored in the Java DB database by calling the EntityManager's persist method.
The final age difference is returned as an int.
- Right-click in the editor window and select Format.
- Right-click in the editor window and select Fix Imports, then OK.
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For the arhae (the unity coins) – I was looking for an old jewelry box, but was not able to find anything to my liking, so what I did was spray painted an old jewelry box that I found at a bazaar bronze, it looked great plus it was just that an old jewelry box! authentic! ;) For the coins inside since we love to travel, I used coins from different countries that we both visited and had it chromed at a local hardwear store.


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In a lawsuit against Northwestern Memorial Hospital, a 34-year-old man claims doctors accidentally injected him with green clothing dye that damaged his lungs.
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Goodwin says he went to the hospital's emergency room in April 2010 as a result of a brain aneurysm and had surgery. There, doctors doing a follow-up procedure mistakenly used "Brilliant Green dye," which is sometimes used to color silk, wool and other fabrics, the lawsuit claims, adding that the dye is "extremely poisonous."
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Earlier this week, Warner Bros. Interactive announced a new initiative to revive its classic franchises, starting with arcade favorite Gauntlet. In a brief demo featuring all four classic heroes, we slaughtered mummies, hoarded gold, and yes, shot the food.Unlike the classic game, the four heroes (Warrior, Elf, Wizard, and Valkyrie) function very differently. I took my favorite (the Elf) out for a spin and wasn't disappointed by the updates developer Arrowhead Game Studios (Magicka, Helldivers) gave to the class.The ranged characters are controlled like a twin-stick shooter, with arrows and spell bolts firing in 360 degrees with the right thumb stick. The elf can also fire a targeted shot and an explosive arrow, the latter of which is on a cooldown.The valkyrie can dash and throw her shield. The Warrior can slam the ground and spin for an area of effect attack. The wizard has access to three schools of magic. On display was a vacuum bomb, fireball, and chain lightning.As our four-player party progressed through the crypt, we encountered a number of classic Gauntlet features. While mummies lumbered at us as we entered rooms, we also were surprised as generators sprung up from the ground. The first of these we ignored and suffered the consequences. The room became filled with the undead quickly, and when we finally stemmed the tide, the floors were covered with blood.Yes, mummies in the new Gauntlet bleed. The classic Gauntlet key conundrum returns. There are never enough to unlock all the doors, so maneuvering for the best look at what's behind each door is the best bet. It's still a gamble though, and you never know quite what will be waiting for you.As I mentioned earlier, you can shoot the food (though there is no announcer to chide you for it). The lack of the voiceover certainly helps with immersion, but it's a classic Gauntlet feature that I was hoping might be included (especially since he used to warn players when they were low on life).The good news is that your health doesn't automatically drain (no one is trying to get you to pop in the next quarter) and gold is shared amongst the party. Relics, however, are not.We found speed boots and an ice shard on our quest. The former gives players a temporary burst, with the latter seemingly causing an area of effect attack. These are triggered abilities with their own cooldown.Right now Gauntlet is on track for Windows and SteamOS this summer. There are currently no plans to bring it to console, and it supports four players locally or online.As a fan of the original, I was pleased to find most of what made Gauntlet such a wonderful experience in my youth intact. Arrowhead is using its experience with top-down combat and blending it with one of Warner Bros.' many Midway acquisitions, and so far, the formula is working.
I really wish I would be able to play this.
Absolutely cannot wait. Hope it gets to consoles
Ahhh I want the announcer lol
So the classic characters are there, but what about the unlockables? I loved playing as the Jester and the Knight. Hell I came up with my PSN, Dying_Jester, from how sour my luck was when I played as the Jester.
No Announcer, No sale. It was a Heroic Effort, WB, but unfortunately, you "Shot the food" on this one.
I can't wait for this.
So are all controls twin shooters or just the elf. Also can u change it out of the twin shooter modes? I do not like twin shooter games, they are very unreliable.
I'm just going to keep saying this on all the articles for this game so sorry in advance, but...
The arcade version of Gauntlet Legends > this.
if it comes to consoles, it might sell well.
I am super excited!
What?! No 'Warrior needs food badly!'?! Nope, no sale. Add it in, and release on consoles, and you got yourself a sale.


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Peter Georgi; Richard Dale; Mark Hedgecoe; Nick Green; Peter Oxley; Andrew Sachs; Chris Hartley; Jenny Bowers; Peter Parnham; Tim Murrell; Gerard Evans; Alan Parker; Tim Goodchild; BBC Concert Orchestra.; British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service.; Discovery Channel (Firm); ProSieben (Firm); Warner Home Video (Firm)
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|Originally broadcast as television program in 2003.
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Special features: On location (segments including interviews with actors, movement director and physical effects supervisor); Production interviews; Storyboard to animatics to film (a side-by-side comparison shows the development of two computer animated sequences); Animatics; Storyboards; Original score; Fact files; Photo gallery; Trailers.
|Photography, Chris Hartley [and others] ; art director, Jenny Bowers ; costume, Academy Costumes ; music performed by BBC Concert Orchestra ; film editors, Peter Parnham, Tim Murrell, Gerard Evans ; music, Alan Parker ; production design & visual effects director, Tim Goodchild.
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Last weekend, I participated in the first annual Brooklyn Bridge Pup Crawl [3]to raise money for three animal shelters across the country.
We all received Lulu light-up leashes [4]for our pups, waited until sundown and walked over the bridge, lighting up the night to bring awareness to homeless animals. It was a fun way to meet other dog lovers, hang out with our pets and benefit a good cause.
It turns out that September and October is a popular time for rescue groups to organize fundraising dog walks. Courses range from less than one mile to more than six miles, although most are around two miles.
Besides the walking part, many of these events have all sorts of fun activities like agility demos, doggy massages, costume contests, live music, animal psychics, face painting and more.
Here is a sampling of events that I found online (I'll be at the Hounds on the Sound [5]event to benefit the New Rochelle Humane Society!).
Saturday, October 3rd
Sunday, October 4th
Saturday, October 10th
Sunday, October 11th
Dog walks have become so popular that some "human" organizations are inviting dogs to their events. AIDS Walk Wisconsin on October 10th welcomes dogs who will have their own registration area. Four-legged participants will receive treats in exchange for their pledge forms. And the Hadley School for the Blind is putting on Hounds for Hadley Dog Walk on October 24th in Winnetka, Ill.
Who can resist a day with the pups for a good cause?
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[2] https://thebark.com/category/author/joanna-lou
[3] http://www.thepupcrawl.com/index.html
[4] http://www.lululeashstore.com/home.asp
[5] http://hots.ny-petrescue.org/
[6] http://www.greyhoundrescuene.org/events.html
[7] http://www.mcspcadogwalk.org/
[8] http://www.fairoaksdogwalk.com/fodw/index.html
[9] http://www.woofstocknorcal.com/eldoradoindex.html
[10] http://www.lowellhumanesociety.org/stepsforpets.html
[11] http://www.hart90.org/DogWalk2009.aspx
[12] http://www.nashvillehumane.org/events/event.php?eventname=2009%20Mutt%20Strutt%3Cbr%3EOctober%2010%3Cbr%3ERegister%20Today
[13] http://action.humanesociety.org/site/TR?pg=entry&fr_id=1040
[14] http://www.dogtoberfest.org/
[15] http://www.kintera.org/faf/home/default.asp?ievent=322205
[16] http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/Clubs/SCAVMA/dognjog.html
[17] http://www.libertyhumane.org/dogwalk.php
[18] http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/bingosfoundation.html#Events


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Stepping up their efforts to promote safe driving to high school students, Sheriff's deputies conducted checkpoints at two schools in Santee yesterday morning and wrote several tickets for safety and other violations.
Deputies were looking for two things: provisional licenses and seat-belt violations.
In the past two months, three teenage boys who were not wearing seat belts have died in separate rollover accidents. Two of those accidents were alcohol-related, investigators said.
A fourth teen who was wearing a shoulder harness but no lap belt died while speeding home from a football game.
One of the drivers had a provisional license, which is issued to new drivers between the ages of 16 and 18 and lasts for one year. Teens are not allowed to drive with passengers under the age of 20 unless a licensed driver 25 or older is in the vehicle. Additionally, they are prohibited from driving between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.
At yesterday's checkpoints at Santana and West Hills high schools, deputies issued 36 citations covering 50 violations, said sheriff's Sgt. Scott Hill.
Several students were issued "fix-it" tickets for infractions such as not having front license plates or proof of insurance, tinted windows and windshield obstructions, Hill said.
Others received more serious citations for not wearing seat belts, one was cited for talking on a cell phone and four students were written up for not wearing helmets while on bikes or skateboards.
Deputies also ticketed a 17-year-old boy with a provisional license who was illegally driving three other students to school. He told deputies he knew that it was wrong, Hill said.
Matt Walker, 18, a Santana senior, wasn't too happy after getting pulled over in his older-model Dodge Ram pickup. He was cited for not having a front license plate. He admitted to having been warned before and said he would get the plate as soon as he had the money.
Teresa Palombo, who has a 16-year-old son at Santana High, appreciated the traffic enforcement. She said it's important that children understand the importance of driver safety and for them to know that they will be held accountable if they are doing something wrong.
Palombo said the recent deaths of the four North County teenagers was troubling.
"It made be feel so sad because they had so much potential," she said. Palombo said she and her husband spend a lot of time taking their son out for driving lessons on freeways and in the rain.
Hill said deputies will conduct similar checkpoints throughout the holidays and into the new year. He said the approach is twofold: enforcement and education.
"Drive safely, be careful, obey the laws. That's what's going to save their lives," he said.
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About the opponent: Saints
A year after a 7-9 season marred by the suspension of coach Sean Payton for Bountygate, the Saints returned to form, finishing 11-5 and second in the NFC South behind Carolina. The Saints did so with a pass offense led by veteran QB Drew Brees that finished second in the NFL at 307.4 yards per game, and a defense that improved in its first year under coordinator Rob Ryan, finishing fourth overall at 305.7 yards allowed per game. New Orleans gained a reputation, though, for being exceptional at home in the Superdome (8-0) but more-than-beatable on the road (3-5). But the Saints feel they shed the road monkey by winning at Philadelphia last week in the wild-card round, 26-24. That was the team's first road playoff victory after five losses, including a 41-36 defeat at Seattle in the wild-card round in 2011.
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1864 - Union General Ulysses S. Grant makes what he later recognizes to be his greatest mistake by ordering a frontal assault on entrenched Confederates at Cold Harbor. The result was some 7,000 Union casualties in less than an hour of fighting. Grant's Army of the Potomac and Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia had already inflicted frightful losses upon each other as they wheeled along an arc around Richmond—from the Wilderness to Spotsylvania and numerous smaller battle sites—the previous month. On May 30, Lee and Grant collided at Bethesda Church. The next day, the advance units of the armies arrived at the strategic crossroads of Cold Harbor, just 10 miles from Richmond, where a Yankee attack seized the intersection. Sensing that there was a chance to destroy Lee at the gates of Richmond, Grant prepared for a major assault along the entire Confederate front on June 2. But when Winfield Hancock's Union corps did not arrive on schedule, the operation was postponed until the following day. The delay was tragic for the Union, because it gave Lee's troops time to entrench. Perhaps frustrated with the protracted pursuit of Lee's army, Grant gave the order to attack on June 3—a decision that resulted in an unmitigated disaster. The Yankees met murderous fire, and were only able to reach the Confederate trenches in a few places. The 7,000 Union casualties, compared to only 1,500 for the Confederates, were all lost in under an hour. Grant pulled out of Cold Harbor nine days later and continued to try to flank Lee's army. The next stop was Petersburg, south of Richmond, where a nine-month siege ensued. There would be no more attacks on the scale of Cold Harbor.
Richard Henry Webb, a young Wilmington Quaker, joined the Fourth Regiment Delaware Volunteer Infantry in 1862. Despite their commitment to pacifism, some Quakers fought in the Civil War to help end slavery. The Fourth Delaware first saw action at Cold Harbor, Virginia, on June 2, 1864. Twenty-four year old Lt. Webb was killed in action that very day.


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Faridabad: Two girls in Faridabad sustained burn injuries after an unidentified person allegedly threw acid on them on Monday.
Police said that the incident took place in the afternoon when the girls, both high school students, were on their way home from school.
The girls were rushed to a nearby hospital by passers-by. "The man who threw acid on us seemed to be old and was wearing dark glasses," one of the girls has told the police.
A case is being registered by the local police and a drive to apprehend the culprit has been initiated.
Recently, the Supreme Court asked the Centre to call a meeting of all states on acid attacks and submit a report within 6 weeks. The court directed the Centre to convene a meeting of Chief Secretaries and Home Secretaries of all states to decide on banning the sale of acid and the treatment, rehabilitation, and compensation of acid attack victims. The apex court also said a separate fund for compensation for victims should also be discussed at the meet.


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A first guiding principle with the
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to the more institution-centric Learning Management System (LMS).
Learning is very personal and thus can differ from learner to learner.
Learning is also social and thus a digital tool needs to allows for
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The learner is the author of his
portfolio. Only he can decide who shall receive access to his entire
portfolio or parts of it. The social aspect is realized through
collaborative functionalities.
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(e.g., advisor, prospective employer, etc.).
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people. These permissions can be time-restricted. Permissions are not
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author (default setting).
In general, everybody who has an account
can create groups and invite others to join or create an open group.*
Group members can then use discussion forums in the group, share files
and create pages collaboratively. * An administrator could restrict that
to just certain roles within the system. This then depends on the
institution that installs Mahara.
It does not matter whether you are a
student or faculty to create groups and to join them. However, faculty
can get the "staff" role that allows them to create controlled groups
which students cannot leave and which allow students to submit pages for
feedback. While they are submitted, students cannot make changes on
them thus allowing faculty members to give feedback on a page without it
Mahara has a built-in blogging
functionality which allows users to create as many blogs as they wish.
Blog posts can be tagged. Multimedia reflections via audio or video can
be uploaded to Mahara or they can also be embedded if they already exist
elsewhere online. Blog posts can be re-used in portfolio pages allowing
to create pages that are purpose-built or that contain a number of
Mahara has not been developed as
assessment portfolio and thus lacks some of these functionalities at
present. However, as it is open source software, they can be added if an
institution wishes to create it. Certain data of the creation of pages
etc. can be generated in reports. At present, Mahara is already used for
assessment purposes with the support of its built-in feedback
functionality. Only the easy aggregation of the data is not present.
Mahara can be linked to other systems via
SSO, e.g. by using SimpleSAMLphp. Recently, web services were developed
to facilitate the communication with Learning Management Systems for the
creation of accounts. Future developments include the expansion to
sending of notifications and to the exchange of content. As the web
services stack are not specific to LMS, they can also be used as
starting point for connecting to student management systems.
The combination of portfolio and
collaborative functionalities which help students to build up their
Personal Learning Environment allowing them to use it in a holistic way
with other Mahara users.
Mahara lacks certain assessment features,
and it is at present limited in its personalization. The latter is being
addressed in an upcoming release when skin support is being added.
As Mahara is a community project and does
not have a marketing department, there is no central space to collect
feedback. Here are a couple of links that illustrate for which purposes
users use Mahara and that people do talk about it / present it at
conferences etc. and share their enthusiasm with others]
Please share examples of the successful use of your application to
help students achieve their goals undefined admission to graduate
school, career placement and advancement, etc.
Mahara has been used successfully for
career planning by CareerPortfolio Manitoba and numerous people use it
for creating their résumés online.
Mahara 1.4 has been released recently
(June 2011) with a number of new features. A new version of Mahara is
released approximately every 9-12 months at present, and it is attempted
to coincide that with the academic year in the Northern hemisphere to
allow institutions to upgrade during the summer.
We plan to introduce skin support which will allow individual users to
style their portfolio pages personally instead of just being able to
choose from pre-set designs.
Mahara will receive features which make the management of an
installation that supports multiple institutions more flexible:
Institutions will be able to decide whether they want to allow members
from other institutions to see their members. This feature is important
to large Mahara installations that serve multiple schools / universities
to give them more freedom in the management of their institutional
Mahara has a sitemap feature which allows the sending of information to
an external service to aggregate the information. This feature is used
in New Zealand to publish information collected in Mahara in DigitalNZ, a
service from the National Library that aggregates information from an
about New Zealand.
There have already been a number of new features developed which will
make it into Mahara 1.5: creating and updating of groups via a CSV file,
more flexible use of profile information on profile pages, multiple
file upload, re-usable text boxes etc. All new features will be put into
the release notes.
Company profile:Currently, there are 23 Mahara Partners that
offer services like consulting, development, training, support and
hosting. Mahara is an open source application that is supported by the
Mahara community around the world.
Customer base/size: In August 2011, there were 245 registered
Mahara sites around the world with 271,000 accounts. However, that is
only a fraction of the actual user base because registration is
voluntary and most sites do not register with the community.
Student license pricing model:Mahara is an open source application that can be downloaded and used without incurring licensing fees.
Institutional pricing model:Mahara is an open source application that can be downloaded and used without incurring licensing fees.
Postgraduate/transfer student license model: Mahara is an open source application that can be downloaded and used without incurring licensing fees.
Institution service agreement model:That depends on whether the institution has its own installation or whether it uses a hosted service.
Online support information: On wiki.mahara.org administrator
and user guides are accessible. They can also be added on to. Often,
institutions have created their own guides. On www.mahara.org, users can
connect to other community members in the forums and ask their
Institutional support services (Free): Not applicable as Mahara is open source software. If it is hosted for an institution, the fees are set by the provider.
Institutional support services (Feebased): Not applicable as Mahara is open source software. If it is hosted for an institution, the fees are set by the provider.
IT staffing requirements: That is dependent on the size of the installation, if it is self-hosted or not and how many users are supported.
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From the Rocky Mountain News
Denver's 'survivor' ready to move on
By Michael Mehle, Rocky Mountain News
October 12, 2002
Ghandia Johnson knew she'd spark some heat on Survivor: Thailand, but the "Denver Diva" didn't count on getting burned by the show's first sexual scandal.
"I expected attraction from other males. I am a pretty girl," Johnson said on Friday. "But I never expected the inappropriate advances."
In the show's second week, Johnson - a legal secretary at Denver's Holm Roberts & Owen - accused tribemate Ted Rogers of grinding against her while they slept at night.
Rogers owned up to the uninvited advances, but said he was confused in his sleep and thought he was back home, next to his wife.
Unappeased by the apology, Johnson campaigned to boot Rogers off the island, but her ire boomeranged.
On Thursday, Johnson - nicknamed the "Denver Diva" by one of her dissenting tribemates - was the fourth cast member ousted from the show.
Afterward, she admitted that she let her emotions waylay her strategy to win $1 million.
"It did cross my mind: what was the most important thing?" Johnson said. "I was a married and devoted woman. I didn't go on the island with a desire to have an affair or an illicit romance. It really insulted me. For the preservation of my own self-respect and integrity, I had to do that."
Back home in Denver, Johnson had to watch episodes in which camera edits showed her canoodling with Rogers, her hand on his leg, or snuggled against him at night.
"I'm thinking that they're trying to get some ratings, trying to play up the sexual drama," she said. "When I saw that scene with my hand on his leg, I totally didn't remember doing that. To me, it was so insignificant."
Harder still, she had to relive the inappropriate island action while watching the show with her husband, owner of a Denver hair salon.
"My husband was upset," she said. "Someone's up against your wife, you get upset.
"We have a strong, wonderful marriage. I adore him. He took care of the babies seven weeks without a complaint. For him to do that, and then see this, it was tough. But we're more in love than we were before."
And, after a round of interviews from New York Friday, Johnson is ready to move on.
"Emotions were just really high," she said. "I'm just hoping that they kind of diminish. You lead a much a happier life. Just let it go."


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"I'm mad I lost, but happy that my coach is happy for me because I worked hard throughout the tournament."
Related quotes
"Colin just got better as the tournament went on. All of his hard work throughout the whole year paid off for him to be a state champion."
"Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too."
"But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat. 'We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
'You must be," said the Cat. 'or you wouldn't have come here."
"Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art."


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I've got two new covers out of some anime music.
They aren't here but I have uploaded them to my youtube so be sure to head on over there and listen and subscribe blah blah...You know :)
First cover is a acoustic guitar and piano cover of the One Piece opening "We Go". Love the song and learnt it on piano so figured I'd just jam it out on Guitar :D
It is here -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH-x_W3Rt_Q
Second cover is me playing Nagisa's theme from the anime Clannad. Super sad anime and the song is amazing so I just had to cover it. Surprisingly easy to learn and play on harp but was fun none the less!
It is here -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or5xHpEx670
Anyway, if your wondering why they aren't here on Newgrounds well I've been subject to a bit of a 0 bomb campaign recently and though I said to myself I wouldn't let it get to me, it honestly has. A lot of my songs were crushed into the ground simply because I spoke up on the forums about something...
Anyway it has discouraged me a bit from using this website because the 0 bombers outnumber my regular fan voters (Even though I've 100+ fans...), not meaning that there are 200 0 bombers, just that of all my "fans" there is only like 10 regular voters :L
Anyway, check em out on the YTs, I'll upload a original DnB track here on NG soon.
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Why America Needs Caitlyn Jenner's New Series
Some would say The Caitlyn Jenner Show debuted last month, when her Vanity Fair cover all but broke Twitter. Indeed Jenner has sparked a massive moment for the transgender community, but there's still plenty of work to be done: 89 percent of people in America say they don't know a transgender person, according to one poll. Another survey found 24 percent aren't sure what transgender means. That's why America needs her new E! docu-series (the elegant way to say reality show), "I Am Cait," more than ever.
Now that Jenner is the face of the trans community to many, the bar for the premiere episode has been set sky-high. And the scrutiny will be too.
Early criticism of Jenner's coming out has largely focused on her bombshell appearance. Elinor Burkett's controversial New York Times op-ed chided Jenner's "idea of a woman" as a "cleavage-boosting corset, sultry poses, thick mascara, and the prospect of regular 'girls' nights' of banter about hair and makeup." Lip gloss and nail polish loomes large in the first glimpses of "I Am Cait."
But if you consider what it must be like to be a 65-year-old woman who has never been able to freely, outwardly express herself, including her clothes, hair, and makeup, the freedom to rock a fresh manicure doesn't seem so inconsequential. As Jenner says in a preview, the show is about "getting to be who you really are."
Many are also jumping to harp on her show for not reflecting the issues common to most transgender women who, unlike Jenner, don't have easy access to physical or mental health care, much less hormone therapy or facial-feminization surgery. Jenner lives quite safely on a bluff overlooking Malibu, while statistics say trans women are at a disproportionately higher risk of murder than others. (Jenner will try to touch on these issues on "I Am Cait" by meeting with the parents of Kyler Prescott, a transgender teen who committed suicide this year.)
All that said, even if the docu-series stars the most #firstworld transgender woman in history, even if is a frothy E! production, it's still an opportunity to show all of the ways that Jenner is a human woman like any other to the masses — someone who freaks out before her mom comes to visit, someone who has tense moments with her kids, someone who lies awake at night worrying about whether she's making the right decisions. (Also, someone who laughs at herself when realizing she bought the same little black dress as her ex-wife.)
On E! or not, at times superficial or not, America needs this show now. It needs to know trans men and women and their struggles on a deeper level. Sometimes a TV show isn't just a TV show — consider that, in 1997, it was shocking for Ellen DeGeneres character to say "I am gay" on her sitcom. Today, gay marriage is the law of the land. "I Am Cait" won't singlehandedly overhaul ignorance and prejudice about the transgender community. But if it makes it a little harder for someone who has never met a transgender person to reduce them to an abstract idea instead of a human being, it's a start.
More From Vogue:
• Why Millennial Working Mothers Are Leaning Sideways
• Madonna Is Actually a Lot More Like Picasso Than You Think
• Nicole Kidman and Hamish Bowles Talk Fashion and Film at the Met
• Preview the Wes Anderson-Tribute Art Show, Coming Soon to New York
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Prince William and Kate Middleton's secret first night cottage
Instead, the couple and their nearly nine-month-old son Prince George recovered from jet lag at Wharekauhau Lodge in Palliser, a £480-a-night cottage which is situated an hour and a half from Wellington.
The five star resort comprises of 13 cottages and the royals have reportedly taken three for themselves and their staff, including Prince George's nanny, Maria Borrallo.
Set amongst 5,500 acres of a working sheep and cattle farm, the resort sits at the southern end of New Zealand's North Island, and the cottages comes equipped with four-poster beds and heated marble floors.
The resort's website boasts of cottage suites, saying: "Whilst taking in the dramatic vistas, you are able to relax in absolute bliss and forget the outside world. Be at one with nature amongst the sheep that dot the pastures and enjoy deep sofas, fluffy pillows, heated marbled floors, and homemade cookies are just a few of the luxuries that are associated with our 13 Cottage Suites."
As for the adventures the Cambridge's could undertake if they had the time, the site confirms: "With 5,500 acres of private land including ancient forests, peaceful lakes, rivers, and a wild and rugged coast, our guests are spoilt for choice when it comes to a route for walking, mountain biking, horse riding or ATV quad bike adventures."
A Kensington Palace spokesperson refused to comment on the Cambridge's first night accommodation.
The luxurious Edwardian house is owned by America billionaire William Foley and previous guests have included Meg Ryan, Nicole Kidman and Bill Gates.


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San Antonio - The San Antonio Spurs are reportedly set to re-sign free agent forward Richard Jefferson to a long-term contract.
Jefferson opted out of the final year of his contract on June 30 to test the free agent market, forgoing the $15 million he was originally due in 2010-11.
The San Antonio Express-News is reporting Jefferson is en route to San Antonio where he will sign the undisclosed deal on Wednesday.
The Spurs acquired Jefferson in a trade with Milwaukee as part of a three-team deal last offseason. He figured to fit right in with the veteran club, but struggled in recording his lowest numbers since his rookie year in 2001-02.
In 81 games with the Spurs, the University of Arizona product logged 12.3 points and 4.4 rebounds in just over 31 minutes per game.
Jefferson, the 13th overall pick of the 2001 NBA Draft, spent the first seven seasons of his career with the New Jersey Nets. He owns career averages of 17.0 points and 5.2 rebounds in 652 contests.


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FOLLOWING is the second part of our annual summer feature on the questions U.S. naturalization candidates can be asked during a citizenship interview, as provided by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service.
51. What is the executive of a state government called?
52. What is the head executive of a city government called?
53. What holiday was celebrated for the first time by American colonists?
54. Who was the main writer of the Declaration of Independence?
55. When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?
56. What are some of the basic beliefs of the Declaration of Independence?
57. What is the national anthem of the U.S.?
58. Who wrote the Star-Spangled Banner?
59. What is the minimum voting age in the U.S.?
60. Who signs bills into law?
61. What is the highest court in the U.S.?
62. Who was president during the Civil War?
63. What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
64. What special group advises the president?
65. Which President is called the "Father of our Country"?
66. Which President was the first commander-in-chief of the U.S. Army and Navy?
67. What was the 50th state to be added to our union (the U.S.)?
68. Who helped the Pilgrims in America?
69. What is the name of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to America?
70. What were the 13 original states of the U.S. called before they were states?
71. What group has the power to declare war?
72. Name the amendments that guarantee or address voting rights.
73. In what year was the Constitution written?
74. What are the first 10 amendments to the Constitution called?
75. Whose rights are guaranteed by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights?
76. What is the introduction to the Constitution called?
77. Who meets in the U.S. Capitol building?
78. What is the name of the president's official home?
79. Where is the White House located?
80. Name one right or freedom guaranteed by the first amendment.
81. Who is commander-in-chief of the United States military?
82. In what month do we vote for the president?
83. In what month is the new president inaugurated?
84. How many times may a senator or congressman be re-elected?
85. What are the two major political parties in the U.S. today?
86. What is the executive branch of our government?
87. Where does freedom of speech come from?
88. What U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services form is used to apply for naturalized
89. What kind of government does the United States have?
90. Name one of the purposes of the United Nations.
91. Name one benefit of being a citizen of the U.S.
92. Can the Constitution be changed?
93. What is the most important right granted to U.S. citizens?
94. What is the White House?
95. What is the United States Capitol?
96. How many branches are there in the U.S. government?
51. The governor.
52. The mayor.
53. Thanksgiving.
54. Thomas Jefferson.
55. July 4, 1776.
56. That all men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
57. The Star-Spangled Banner.
58. Francis Scott Key.
59. 18 is the minimum voting age.
60. The president.
61. The Supreme Court.
62. Abraham Lincoln.
63. It freed the slaves.
64. The Cabinet advises the president.
65. George Washington.
66. George Washington.
67. Hawaii.
68. The American Indians/ Native Americans.
69. The Mayflower.
70. Colonies.
71. Congress has the power to declare war.
72. The 15th, 19th, 24th and 26th amendments.
73. The Constitution was written in 1787.
74. The Bill of Rights.
75. All people living in the U.S.
76. The Preamble.
77. Congress.
78. The White House.
79. Washington, D.C.
80. The rights of freedom of religion, of speech, of the press, of assembly, and to petition the government.
81. The president.
82. November.
83. January.
84. There is no limit.
85. The Democratic and Republican parties.
86. The President, the Cabinet, and departments under the Cabinet members.
87. The Bill of Rights.
88. Form N-400 (Application for Naturalization).
89. A Republic.
90. For countries to discuss and try to resolve world problems or to provide economic aid to many countries.
91. To obtain federal government jobs, to travel with a U.S. passport, or to petition for close relatives to come to the U.S. to live.
92. Yes.
93. The right to vote.
94. The president's official home.
95. The place where Congress meets.
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United Nations World Youth Report. Youth and Climate Change.
Source: United Nations Programme on Youth
From the introduction:
Climate change is one of the defining challenges of the twenty-first century. It is a challenge that is global in both its impact and its solutions but one that is not shared equally, as developing countries are likely to be among the most seriously affected by and the least able to address the consequences of climate change. Climate change touches every aspect of life and impinges on development efforts, with consequences ranging from immediate to long term. Major adjustments are required to promote more sustainable patterns of production and consumption at both the collective and individual levels. Solid evidence exists that climate change will have a more serious impact than initially anticipated and that adaptation and mitigation will entail significantly higher costs if action is deferred than if the problem is addressed now.
Addressing and adjusting to the challenge of climate change is certain to be a defining feature of the future of today's youth. It is therefore critical that young people educate themselves and become more actively involved in combating this threat. The present Report is designed to assist youth and youth organizations in such an endeavour. It is also meant to affirm the status of young people as key stakeholders in the fight against climate change. The publication comes at a time when efforts to address climate change are receiving unparalleled attention in the international arena, offering youth a unique opportunity for their voice to be heard in the debate.


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Sharing A Track With A Porsche 918 Makes For A Very Good Day
Ever had a day so nice that you get Ice Cube's "It Was A Good Day" stuck in your head all day? That was my afternoon. The weather was perfect, my car was track-worthy again, and someone brought a 918 Spyder to the track. Not to a car show. Not to the Porsche corral outside the track. On the race track.


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Syria Fighting Increases Near Rebel-held Town of Qusair Amid Renewed Reports of Chemical Attacks
Syrian opposition activists say Assad's troops backed by Lebanese Hezbollah fighters are advancing in areas around the strategic border town of Qusair; new reports of chemical weapons attacks in eastern suburb of Harasta surface.
Heavy fighting raged on Monday around the strategic border town of Qusair and the capital Damascus, amid renewed reports of chemical weapons attacks by...
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If you haven't heard it, you soon will.
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Richard Carmona is President Obama's "hand-picked" candidate.
His opponent, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Flake, said it on primary election night and released a web video about it. The state GOP and National Republican Senatorial Committee have begun referring to Carmona as the only candidate "personally recruited" by the President.
There's nothing unique about Republicans trying to hogtie Democratic candidates to President Obama, his health care reform law and his 'failed policies.' They're doing it across the country, including here in Southern Arizona with Ron Barber in Congressional District 2 and Ann Kirkpatrick in Congressional District 1.
It is the most-called play in the GOP's 2012 playbook.
But only Carmona has earned the "hand-picked" label. It stems from a a much talked-about call the President made to Carmona last year.
I asked him about this in March during a sit-down interview and here is what he said:
Carmona said he began contemplating a run in the summer of 2011, and received calls from a number of people, including President Barack Obama.
"It was a very friendly call," Carmona said. "He just said, 'Look, Rich, we know your reputation in Washington. You've worked both sides of the aisle as the Surgeon General and got things done.'"
"He said 'The system is broken, I hear you're considering running. I hope you strongly consider it because we need people like you here. There was no arm twisting."
"He said, 'I'd love to have you here with me. I think we could make some changes that are necessary," Carmona said.
Carmona said nobody hand-picked him to run for U.S. Senate, a decision prompted by his disenchantment with the lack of leadership and finger pointing and blame in Congress.
"The fact this President called me and urged me to run, I look at it as a compliment," Carmona said. "President Bush called me a number of years ago to consider being Surgeon General. How many have two Presidents of the United States call them in their lifetime to ask them to serve their country? I look at that as a positive."
Stay tuned to the Pueblo Politics blog throughout 2012 for news, updates and information about Arizona politics. You can follow Arizona Daily Star reporters Brady McCombs, Becky Pallack and Tim Steller on Twitter.


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Venditto leading in race to fill Peter Schmitt seat
Special elections Tuesday chose veteran politicians as supervisors of the towns of Brookhaven and Babylon and named a replacement for the Nassau legislative seat left vacant last month when Presiding Officer Peter Schmitt (R-Massapequa) died.
Michael Venditto, 31, of Massapequa, beat Joanne Maglione, 42, of Massapequa Park, in the bid for Schmitt's seat.
Venditto was the county GOP's candidate, and Democrats nominated Maglione, also a Republican, to run in Nassau's most heavily Republican legislative district, where they outnumber Democrats more than 2-to-1. Venditto's win gives Republicans a 10-9 majority.
Venditto, son of Republican Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto, has served as counsel to the Republican majority on the Hempstead Town Board. Maglione is a litigator and worked as a deputy county attorney when Democrat Thomas Suozzi was county executive.
Both candidates expressed a desire to reduce the tax burden without cutting services.
In Brookhaven, Suffolk Legis. Edward Romaine returned the town supervisor spot to Republican control when he beat Democrat Brian Beedenbender, capping an abbreviated campaign begun when former Supervisor Mark Lesko tendered a surprise resignation in August.
In Babylon, Supervisor Richard Schaffer, a Democrat, defeated Republican challenger Mark Gallo. "With all of the very serious work we have to do in the storm's aftermath, I'm honored the residents have put their trust in me to help get our town through this terrible tragedy," Schaffer said last night.
Thunderous applause greeted Romaine at The Emporium in Patchogue when he was introduced as supervisor. Romaine said one of his first goals will be to restore power to the town, which was hit hard by superstorm Sandy -- "even if we have to blow up LIPA to do it."
Hanging over the Brookhaven race was the specter of the town budget, which Lesko submitted before resigning. It calls for nearly 150 layoffs, closing facilities, and eliminating some services. It will be the subject of a public hearing Thursday.
Beedenbender, 32, of Centereach, was Lesko's chief of staff. A former Suffolk County legislator, he was elected in 2007 and chaired the Public Works and Transportation Committee. Romaine, 65, of Center Moriches, a two-time county legislator. was elected first in 1985, elected county clerk in 1989, and returned to the legislature in 2005. Schaffer, 48, of North Babylon, was elected to the legislature in 1987, and in 1992 won a special election to become Babylon supervisor. He did not seek re-election in 2001. He was appointed supervisor in January, replacing Steve Bellone.
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MONTREAL, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- A Montreal woman whose brother died across the country on Vancouver Island faces hurdles in getting back his large dog who stayed with him after he died.
Lynda Roy said her brother, Cyril Roy, died in a trailer in a small community Nov. 30 with his white kugsha breed dog named Fred at his side.
The man was diabetic and had gangrene, but his death was ruled due to heart failure from diabetes, she told The (Montreal) Gazette.
It was determined the seven-year-old dog stayed by his side for three days before emergency crews found the man.
Lynda Roy said she wants to get Fred back, but local animal agencies told her they don't have a shipping crate large enough for him. Airlines have a Dec. 15 deadline for shipping animals, as it then becomes too cold to keep them in cargo holds.
She got good news Monday from Walker's Animal Rescue Center in Nanaimo, which said they had an extra large crate they would offer to ship the dog.
Roy said she was relieved to maintain a link to her brother.
"That dog was all he had," she said. "That's why I want to get him here. He's our only link with my brother."