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Spaghetti squash has a unique texture that shreds into spaghetti-like strands when cooked. In this recipe, the fresh herbs are roasted with the squash and removed before serving, leaving the subtle, fragrant flavor of rosemary and sage.
- 1 1/2 cups gluten-free low-sodium chicken or vegetable broth
- 2 large sprigs rosemary
- 2 large sprigs sage
- 1 (3- to 5-pound) spaghetti squash, halved lengthwise and seeded
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 tablespoons chopped parsley
- Salt and pepper to taste
Preheat oven to 375°F. Pour broth into a 9- x 13-inch baking dish. Using a knife remove rosemary and sage sprigs and toss into broth. Arrange squash in dish, hollow sides down, and roast until rind gives easily when pressed and flesh is just tender, 35 to 45 minutes. (Be careful not to overcook squash since it will become too soft and soggy.) Transfer squash to a large plate, hollow sides up, and set aside until cool enough to handle.
Using a fork, scrape squash out of rinds and transfer to a large bowl. Add butter, parsley, salt and pepper and toss gently. Serve immediately.
Per serving (about 11 oz) : 110 calories (40 from fat), 4.5g total fat, 2.5g saturated fat, 10mg cholesterol, 280mg sodium, 17g total carbohydrate (4g dietary fiber, 7g sugar), 2g protein


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Hometown Barbecue Sings the Ballad of Beef Ribs
Hometown Barbecue
454 Van Brunt Street (at Reed), Brooklyn, NY 11231 (map); 347-294-4644; hometownbarbque.com
Setting: Massive meatery with a good balance of honky tonk kitsch and genuinely warm design
Service: Order at the counter from a genial meat cutter
Price: About $25 a head for food
Must-Haves: Beef rib, sausage, brisket, lamb belly
Compare To: Mighty Qunn's, BrisketTown, Hill Country
Recommendation: Recommended, editor's pick. Some of the barbecue is better than others, but Hometown's best offerings and generally fun dining experience make it a destination.
One day, Billy Durney decided that beef ribs, the brontosaurs of the barbecue world, weren't big enough. So he made them bigger.
Now he buys them in three-bone sections, removes the middle bone "so no one gets stuck with a small piece," and portions the hunks into two bricks, each weighing more than a pound. He rubs them with salt and pepper, smokes them for 12 to 14 hours, and serves them to customers who realize, with a touch of fear, that their eyes were bigger than their stomachs.
Eating a whole barbecued beef rib is always a hearty challenge, but at Hometown Barbecue, Durney's massive restaurant on the Red Hook waterfront, it's an event unto itself. Should you and your party make your way through an entire rib, you'll have room for little else. Should you give up halfway, you'll be blessed with the makings of a hash of champions.
The rib is a fitting metaphor for Durney's beast of a restaurant. Both are ambitious and daring, a little inconvenient, and entirely rewarding.
Hometown was supposed to open in late 2012, but its location, at the tail end of Van Brunt street where the land fast turns into water, set it square in the sights of Hurricane Sandy. When the sun rose on a devastated Red Hook, Durney could have thrown in the towel. But he and his business partner drained the flood waters, made repairs, and finally opened in the fall of last year. As if daring another storm to cross its path, Hometown remains in its waterfront location, across a parking lot from Fairway.
We paid a visit in its early days and found promise but also some flaws—a lovable down-home setting serving beautiful meat that was short on the seasoning to make it shine. This happens; barbecue restaurants don't so much open as they slowly unfold, and the wait for Hometown has, by and large, paid off.
That Beef Rib ($22/pound) is the single best thing you'll eat there; its thick coat of cracked peppercorns gives way to delicately smoky meat that barely holds itself together, just enough to cling loosely to its bone. The flesh is resoundingly rich, as short ribs always are, but it eats more like a tender steak than a piece of stew meat. It has substance and a point of view on how short ribs should be enjoyed.
Texas-style Brisket ($26/pound) doesn't lag far behind. It's juicy, well-marbled, and seasoned no more than it needs to be, juggling smoke, salt, and pepper but never forgetting its beefy foundation. On one visit it was merely good; on another, it was as delicious as any in New York.
For all of Hometown's bigness—the restaurant sprawls 4,500 square feet over two dining rooms—it's not about bluster. Durney avoids the mistakes of many New York pit masters and doesn't kill his meat with smoke. "Smoke should only be one flavor of barbecue," he points out, and despite his range of rubs and selection of sauces, I get the sense that he prefers his meat to speak for itself.
Perhaps that's why pulled Lamb Belly ($24/pound), washed in its own fat, smacks of a precisely calibrated gaminess, and why the pork Sausage ($16/pound) has such a measured heat beneath its snappy casing. Durney's Jerk Chicken ($8 quarter, $14 half) manages to be subtle but not boring. It plays second fiddle to the red meat, but it's lightly spicy, tender, and—I say this is a compliment—it really does taste like chicken.
Some cuts are better than others—like most New York barbecue joints, the Pulled Pork ($20/pound) and Pork Belly ($26/pound) fall well behind the beef. On repeated visits my shoulder came out dry, with too much fat rendered out to properly lubricate the meat. And experimental dishes like sweet wings and barbecue tacos are only distractions from the smoked meat.
There are forgettable Baby Back Ribs ($15 half rack, $29 whole) too, but fortunately, they're on the way out. They'll be replaced by two options: full spare ribs, which weren't around for me to try, and jerk-rubbed baby backs. The latter are coated in a spicy, ginger-speckled seasoning, smoked for three hours, and then charred under a broiler to blacken the crust. Traditional ribs? No, but they're some tasty hunks of pork.
Hometown's Sides ($4 to $8) stay traditional: there are candy-sweet baked beans, heavily stewed collards, and gooey queso-inflected mac and cheese. I'm most partial to the sweet cornbread and lightly pickled cucumbers, which complement the meat the best and remind you that it's the star of the show.
Well, that's partially true. Hometown's meat can be great, but so is the house it lives in, perhaps the most pleasant barbecue dining room in New York. For all the honky tonk kitsch—a super-sized American flag mural, some meat-themed door handles—it avoids the impersonal persona of a barbecue theme park, instead capturing the roomy splendor of what restaurants must feel like outside of New York's real estate bubble. This is all a crafty illusion, but when Aerosmith hits the stereo, it just feels right.
It better, because Hometown is a schlep to get to. It's as far as possible from the nearest subway and a few blocks south of Van Brunt's restaurant row. But even on a Tuesday night, green cabs circled around the Smith and 9th Street station, and by car, the restaurant is a short metered fare away. Once you're there, its grand scale and friendly counter servers make it feel like a destination worth reaching. Locals look happy too, especially when live music plays on Friday and Saturday nights. Even better, the restaurant is so damn big you can still carry on a conversation while the band goes on.
Should you pay a visit, do so early, especially on prime nights, as the best cuts sell out well before closing. Hometown opens for dinner at 5 p.m. (note: closed Mondays) and may run out of food by 9, though the bar, with solid beer and skippable cocktails, stays open later. Currently the restaurant sells a limited menu of sandwiches during weekend afternoons, but it will soon switch to its full menu from noon onward.
Come busy nights, a line snakes from the meat counter all the way out towards the front door. At first I was worried about getting crowded out, but the restaurant's big enough to take all comers. Like Red Hook itself, Hometown feels like a well-loved, terribly-kept secret, counting down the seconds until the rest of the city realizes it's there.
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Police: Murder suspect has extensive criminal past
Cortrell Rose faces charges in death of Lenora Edhegard
The man accused of killing a woman and leading officers on a chase in Jackson was denied bond in court today.
Officials say Cortrell Rose faces murder charges, kidnapping charges, a felon in the possession of a gun charges, also not registering as a sex offender charges, and stealing a car.
Police say he has an extensive criminal history, according to police.
Investigators said Cortrell Rose was found hiding behind a soda machine in a Walmart store after being cornered by police.
Rose faces charges in the death of 60-year-old Lenora Patsy Edhegard. He was captured Tuesday.
Authorities launched the investigation after Edhegard failed to show up at the law firm where she worked.
Police said Rose agreed to show police where Edhegard's body was after being interrogated.
Family members were still in tears Wednesday when they spoke with WAPT reporters.
Edhegard's daughter-in-law said it was obvious something was wrong when they went to her house on Tuesday.
Police said Rose has been convicted in several counties of crimes ranging from attempted robbery to gratification of lust. Court records show Rose touched a child.
Officials with the Mississippi Department of Corrections said Rose was released on parole in May 2012.
Rose's neighbor, Mike Barker, said he has talked to Rose in the past.
"I tried to get him to tell me what he was on probation for," Barker said.
Barker said he was uncomfortable knowing that Rose is a sexual predator.
"(I was) very nervous, very scared. I let my boys roam around -- but not anymore," Barker said.
Rose's neighbors said they feel it's ridiculous that Rose was able to roam their streets for a whole month without them being notified.


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Exile on Main Street Recap and Review
Supernatural has never had a bad premiere.
Season 1, the pilot, introduced us magnificently to the brothers (and their chemistry) as well as the premise of the show and the overarching mystery of the season.
All premieres after have followed suit. Season 2's "In My Time of Dying" flows directly from the finale and shocks by the credits. Season 3 is probably the weakest, but maybe I just say that because Isaac's death disturbs me so much. Season 4 brought Dean back from hell, with all attendant angst, and while Season 5's jumpiness at the beginning made it a little difficult to figure out, it threw us headlong into the war.
Bottom line: The Season 6 premiere had a lot to live up to. So let's see how it did...
First we get the new image (I like the blue) "One Year Ago" recap, followed by "Now" over Dean's new life. That stupid alarm that EVERY ALARM CLOCK SOUNDS LIKE goes off, but Dean's already awake. Wow, he looks young for some reason. And despite the coziness of the shot, you can tell by looking at him: Dean's not okay.
In classic Supernatural style, we get awesome music ("Beautiful Loser" by Bob Seger) with clips of Dean in his new life interspersed with comparable scenes from the past. It's fabulously done, amusing and poignant. I love seeing Dean happy, at the same time mourning what he's (and we've) lost.
I found myself thinking "that's Jensen, not Dean." There were subtle but powerful differences—the way he wears his hair, the now-famous tucked-in shirt. He moves easily, smoothly, not the always-alert stalker-Dean charging around, bent under the weight of his life and responsibilities.
Ahhhh, but there's the shotgun under the bed. He's not completely changed.
Despite the weapon, he seems fully immersed in his new life. A new friend ("pest control," he tells him when he asks about his past). A partner—he doesn't hesitate in his affection and cuddling with Lisa. Easiness with Ben, when in season one, he had no answer to Sam's "Name two kids you even know."
It's nice to see his normal reaction to a scream in an abandoned building, though. He doesn't hesitate here, either, and he's packing a gun in his beater construction-guy truck. The abandoned building yields ominous gouges and some blood, but no victim. A pretext call to the police gets him nothing but suspicion from Lisa. Uh, oh, he's lying to her. Not a good omen. Is it bad that I loved how smoothly he covered?
"It's eleven thirty."
"It is? That explains why he was asleep when I called him."
And now we see that his easy, comfortable, normal life has undertones. He checks outside again, makes sure the demon trap under the rug is intact. Now he's clearly uneasy, and we wonder if the routine had all that subtext before the scream, and we just didn't see it from the outside.
The next scene made me feel like I was watching a feature-length thriller. More gouges, in a telephone pole, a billowy sheet (loved that shot!), a shed door. Dean's flinching at the little yappy dog evokes memories of "Yellow Fever." But our moment of amusement is over when he finds sulfur.
Lisa catches him gearing up from the Impala's trunk, under tarp but at the ready. I like that Dean has clearly told Lisa all about himself. She asks if he's hunting something, doesn't question or argue against his desire to send her away and keep on the hunt.
Now, if you read the opening credits (or attended the July Salute to Supernatural in New Jersey), you know what's coming. After a few creepy teasers (flickering light, rolling ball—why is it always a rolling ball?), suddenly we have...
THE YELLOW-EYED DEMON, aka scenery-chewing Fred Lehne!
He tells Dean "you had to know we were coming for you." You know, I thought that, too, at the beginning, that just because the apocalypse was over didn't mean all the evil monsters stopped wanting Dean's head on a plate. But then I remembered the Enochian carvings in his ribs kept him hidden. That's why he's been safe for a year. Isn't it?
Shocking moment number one: As YED chokes Dean into unconsciousness, Sam stabs him with...milk? Yeah! But wait, then Dean gasps awake...and we go to commercial. Was it a dream? But no, when we get back (yay, Harry Potter trailer!), he's waking again, and Sam's still there.
Right off the bat, Sam bothers me. He's cold. Gone is the well of emotion Sammy drew from. He's flip and actually looks a little smug when Dean finally hugs him. He "proves" he's Sam by drinking salted holy water and cutting his arm, but that stuff doesn't work on angels, and Lucifer was an angel. I don't know if this is a hole or something that might come up somewhere along the line.
Now Sam reveals how long he's been out of the cage—almost the entire time—and we see the Real Dean again. "I wanted my brother!" Sam still sounds cold in his logic, and acts almost bored with the tedium of relating his story to Dean. I almost hate him. But on the other side of it, the old Dean would have punched Sam in the face. I wanted him to punch Sam in the face. He doesn't seem to have that bottomless pit of anger he's had since Dad died. Hmmmm.
Worse than if Sam had been hunting alone for a year, however, is the truth—he's been hunting with family. Campbells, who grew up as hunters, but who never knew about Sam and Dean. And here's "shock" number two (again, only if you didn't read the credits and managed to avoid all spoilers). Grandpa!
I wonder if Samuel remembered Dean's trip back in time. I was never clear on if that was real for those in the past, or only for Dean. Samuel sure treats Dean as if they'd met before. He's been returned to life, too, pulled from heaven. Even though he says he wanted to tell Dean everything but deferred to Sam's wishes, he strikes me just as cold as Sam.
So let's get to the monster of the week. It turns out Dean's hallucinations were due to poisoning by djinn, who can pass for human and kill with a touch. They came after Sam, apparently for revenge, so the hunters knew they'd go after Dean next. Realizing he left Lisa and Ben vulnerable, "Take me home!" Dean demands, and who would think that would be one of the strangest things ever said on this show?
The guard they had on Lisa and Ben is dead, and the house is empty, and we finally get a glimpse of the old Sam, torment on his face as he comes in and exchanges a despairing look with Dean.
Lisa and Ben were still at the movies, though, and come home safe. Dean tells them he's taking them to a friend's house. But before Ben goes upstairs, Sam comes in, and Lisa immediately recognizes him and the import of his appearance.
Suddenly we jump to Bobby's. He's sadly not pleased to see Dean. "if you're here, there's something wrong." He lets them in, sends Ben upstairs ("Don't touch the decor. Assume it's all loaded.")...and is totally unsurprised when Sam appears.
Poor Dean. They left him alone to be happy, to have a life and a family and a home, but he's far more alone now. He reveals how hard it was—he was out of his head with grief, drank too much, had nightmares...
Sorry, Bobby, but I'm with Dean. I guess they had good intentions, but I'm sorry, letting him believe Sam was in the cage could never be balanced by what he gained. Not even the love he clearly has from Lisa and Ben.
Dean takes a moment with Lisa, apologizing for bringing this stuff to her, for not knowing it would lead to this. And Lisa becomes my favorite person when she says "when a guy who just saved the world shows up at your door, you kind of expect him to have issues" and when she tells him it was the best year of her life. She turned out to be exactly the kind of woman Dean needed. Maybe when the show is over, he can wind up back with her. :)
Dean returns to the "family." I don't like them. They're patronizing and seem to be plan-less, and excuse me, but Dean's only been out of it for a year. Samuel was out, what, 35 years? More? Dean's far more professional. (And he responds accordingly!) That other cousin looks like Rick Schroeder, BTW.
"Nice house." Something about Grandpa Samuel is bothering me. He's too controlled. The Samuel we met in "In the Beginning" was passionate and protective. We get a flash of the old hunter as he describes the upheaval in the supernatural world, but his "we're blood, join us" speech still rubs me the wrong way.
The djinn are watching, not moving in, so Dean sends the Campbells away in order to be better bait. He and Sam talk a little. Sam doesn't want to talk about being in the cage. But if he was removed almost immediately, how much could he really have endured? Will they ever reveal it? If they follow pattern from past seasons, it'll come out eventually.
Sid and his wife are being killed next door, so Dean takes off, going to try to save them, while Sam yells that they're already dead. Dean gets attacked—the female reveals that the djinn killed was their father. They poison Dean and leave him for dead, joining their brother(?), against whom Sam is faring much better. I guess the differences in their fighting is supposed to illustrate that Sam's been doing it for a year and Dean's lost his edge, but I don't like the redundancy in the attacks on Dean.
Who's hallucinating again. Lisa and Ben in danger, YED after them. Lisa winds up on the ceiling, Ben drinking demon blood, all Dean's nightmares in vivid detail. YED says "This...something else...there's something coming for this one [Ben], and you can't stop it." Oooh, is that just the hallucination, or foreshadowing?
Sam fights like his old self, too, but is losing when Samuel gets the drop on the demon attacking him. But he sends Sam to get Dean, and instead of killing the female djinn, they capture her, hustling her to the van before the boys come back. Great. Secrets. Yeah, I trust dear old Gramps.
So Dean's okay, despite the double poisoning. Samuel and the cousins are gone, Sam's going to meet them, but Dean says no, he's not going. Sam's argument feels disingenuous or something. You know what it is? He has the same tone Meg!Sam had when he was talking to Jo, in "Born Under a Bad Sign." Then he says something that really gets to the heart of how much he's changed. Dean says he's a liability, he did something stupid, but Sam says no, Dean cares, and Sam wouldn't even have thought to try. That it's better with Dean around. But there's still not much emotion behind the admission, which makes me ache.
Dean tries to give Sam the Impala, but he easily declines. Okay, he has a sweet car, too, but it's no Metallicar. When he says, "It was really good to see you again, Dean," it sounds like any person who ran into a friend they hadn't seen in a while. Not a brother who'd given his life to save his only family, and been saved the same way.
Oooh, they got new promo shots! Sam looks hot in leather, with now!Sam hair (instead of season 2 hair). Dean's hot, too. The preview for next week looks awful (in a horrorific way, not a badly done way!). But Sam seems more like the guy we've loved for five years, and it looks like they'll be pulling Dean back to the life slowly. I like that. His year with Lisa and Ben has been significant. His fight to shed his old life was a true battle. It makes sense that he'd want to hold on to it, and it's more natural to ease into the new reality than to just abruptly change everything, as TV writers are wont to do.
So, let's analyze this. Obviously, this is just my take, and your mileage may vary. :)
My husband felt a lot of the episode was slow. I thought those slow parts were unnervingly tense. Production values were high—music and editing and scene and cinematography were excellent, and I think the writing was, too. I have no qualms about overall quality this season.
I LOVED the first third of the show (OH! Including the new title card, shattering glass!), and when I break down the new reality, I'm satisfied. All of what we writers call GMC (goals, motivation, and conflict) are there. It makes sense that Sam would be cold and closed off after his experience. When Dean came out of hell, he still had his brother to protect. Sam did, too, but his choice to protect him was to stay away, which removed Dean's influence on him and vice versa. Instead, he's been with these hunters who were raised to be cold and removed. Unlike the Winchesters, who hunted out of anger and pain and even love, the Campbells hunt out of legacy and expectation.
Dean's choice to stay makes sense, too. His brother isn't who he used to be, and he allowed Dean to be tormented for a year. He's fought for the life he created, and he's not ready to give it up. Besides the fact that he set up Lisa and Ben to be in danger, and can't leave them vulnerable to it.
The only thing that concerns me is the sense through two-thirds of the episode that everything was off. The entire world of Supernatural has changed, and it doesn't fit all that well. Shows that last this long often stagnate as they try to hold on to what made them great. Other shows try to evolve and fail. We can't really tell from one episode, but hopefully, Supernatural's evolution will be the rare success.
So now it's your turn! What did you think?


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Phone calls
The obvious appeal of the Verizon iPhone (versus its AT&T equivalent) is the network. Many users say that Verizon's coverage tends to hit more of their critical areas than AT&T's does, and that the calls manage to stay connected better. There are certain cities that tend to run into this problem with AT&T more than others (anecdotally, we've rarely managed to complete a phone call on AT&T while in San Francisco), and it can vary a lot even on an individual basis.
Here in Chicago, AT&T's coverage was not particularly impressive when the iPhone first launched in 2007—there were plenty of pockets in heavily populated areas of the city with little or no coverage at all—but that has changed significantly over the years. Still, Verizon fans often extol the virtues of the network, so we placed a number of calls using both devices to see if we could tell a difference in call quality or coverage.
First, we'll say that we had a hard time finding those pockets of no-AT&T-but-still-Verizon coverage that we used to find years ago. There were places, however, where we would get fewer bars of signal on the AT&T iPhone than on the Verizon iPhone. Regardless of bars, though, we felt that the AT&T iPhone sounded more "tinny" than the Verizon iPhone when we made calls from the same locations. The Verizon iPhone was slightly less tinny in all cases, so that was a plus, but it was also noticeably more quiet (despite us making sure that both phones were on the same volume level).
On the receiving side, the person taking our calls said that we were "quite a bit louder" when we were using the AT&T iPhone, but other than volume, we reportedly sounded the same on both devices. We were unable to get a call to drop on either device, though we know from experience that call drops only seem to happen when you're on the most important call of your life. We've had enough AT&T call drops in the past to believe our trusted friends when they say the Verizon iPhone doesn't drop as many, but we were unable to trigger this phenomenon ourselves over a period of several days.
It's worth noting that not all phone-call-related behaviors are the same between the AT&T and Verizon iPhones thanks to the limitations of CDMA. Apple has posted a support document to outline the differences when dealing with things like call waiting, caller ID, conference calls, and putting a call on hold. ("CDMA networks do not offer the ability to place a call on hold," Apple writes. So, hope you weren't planning on doing that on your Verizon iPhone anytime soon.)
Hotspot feature
The Verizon iPhone—for the time being, anyway—is the only iPhone that allows users to set up a personal WiFi hotspot without any kind of jailbreaking shenanigans. With it, users can share their Verizon 3G connections with several devices at once over WiFi for $20 extra per month, but it can also connect via Bluetooth or USB to a computer for tethering (which the AT&T iPhone also does).
The great part about the personal hotspot feature is that it's so easy to use. You can access it by going into the iPhone's settings and then tapping on Personal Hotspot, located near the top. When you turn it on, the phone immediately starts broadcasting the device's name as the WiFi SSID and assigns a default WPA password, which you can change. There's no way to run the hotspot feature over WiFi and not offer some kind of password protection, and you don't get to choose between WPA and WPA2. If you choose to assign a different password than the one it chooses, it must be at least 8 characters long.
When you connect a device to your Verizon iPhone's hotspot, the phone begins displaying a blue bar across the top of the screen to indicate that users are connected. Helpfully, it even shows how many users are connected so that you always know whether someone is using the connection or not. This is helpful because, as you likely know, the Verizon iPhone cannot do data and voice at once thanks to the limitations that come with CDMA. While this may not affect your life while you're walking around town with your phone, it may affect you when you're sharing the device's 3G connection with others.
When we tested the hotspot feature and then took a call, all devices that were previously connected to the network remained connected. All network activity stops until the call is over, but the connection to the WiFi network itself remains on. When the call ends, network activity resumes without you having to do anything extra (except perhaps refresh the page you were trying to load), so that's the upside. This is the main area where we can see the lack of simultaneous data and voice being an annoyance, though, so if you plan to use the hotspot feature regularly, be sensitive to the fact that your calls will cut everyone off from the Internet.
As for data speeds when sharing the 3G connection over WiFi, keep in mind that you'll never get speeds that are faster than the phone itself can get, so refer to our network testing section if you want harder data on what to expect.
Subjectively, we found the speeds to be tolerable when connected via laptop. Loading webpages and doing general work was fine and felt only marginally slower (if anything) than using a "normal" connection. Video and audio streams (such as those from YouTube or Pandora) ran fine without hiccups, though downloading a 2.5MB PDF took a little longer than we would have liked under normal circumstances.
Obviously you wouldn't want to be torrenting massive files or conducting a huge Dropbox sync, though—this is the kind of connection you want to share with your laptop when you're trying to get some work done or checking in online while out and about, not amassing the world's largest porn collection. Save that for when you get home.
Battery life with hotspots and beyond
As an iPhone, the Verizon iPhone's battery life is largely the same as the AT&T iPhone, which is to say it's significantly better than the iPhone 3G or 3GS, but not quite as good as the original iPhone. With regular "casual" use (the occasional phone call, some Web browsing, posts to Twitter, listening to music), we could get the device to last a couple days before the needed to refuel. Your milage may vary depending on your own usage patterns.
What we really wanted to see was how the battery would fare when using the device as a WiFi hotspot. We tested it several times with between one and three simultaneous connections—there was always at least one device using the connection, while the others were phones that occasionally hopped off the WiFi as they went to sleep and back on as they were unlocked.
We were able to consistently get about three hours' worth of hotspot usage on 50 percent of the iPhone's battery, indicating that it could very well offer hotspot services to other devices for between five and six hours on a full charge. Compared to a standalone hotspot device like the Novatel MiFi or Sierra Wireless Overdrive (the latter of which we have lots of experience with), this is pretty phenomenal. The Overdrive rarely lasts us much more than two hours, and that's on a full charge. The same applied to the MiFi on Verizon the last time we tested it.
So, if you find yourself in need of a hotspot and don't mind sharing your maybe-not-so-fast-but-generally-tolerable Verizon 3G connection, we really recommend using the Verizon iPhone. The battery life and ease of use is great, not to mention that you're likely to always have your phone on you (unlike a standalone hotspot device). Just be careful not to bump up against Verizon's 2GB data limitation for tethering/hotspot use—if you find yourself needing more, then you might want to investigate some of Sprint or Clear's (currently unlimited) 4G offerings instead, or tether an AT&T iPhone the old fashioned way to get 4GB of data.
At least in Chicago (and, according to anecdotal evidence from our readers, mostly everywhere else too), AT&T's network performance on the iPhone is consistently faster than that of Verizon when it comes to bigger downloads. (This is the case even when the Speedtest numbers put Verizon first, showing that Speedtest alone isn't the best real-world example.) When it comes to moderately sized or even small downloads, the two aren't going to seem much different to the naked eye without a stopwatch.
The hotspot feature of the Verizon iPhone is definitely a plus, especially for those who regularly need a 3G connection on their laptops or tablets while on the go. The battery life when using the iPhone as a hotspot is amazing—much better than most standalone hotspots we have used—but the lack of simultaneous voice and data on Verizon could hamper your experience. The AT&T version of the iPhone is expected to gain hotspot capabilities in the near future, though, so this may not be a differentiating feature for very long.
What it really comes down to is your own network experiences where you live, work, and play. Verizon is known for its superior call quality and reduced possibility of dropped calls, though, so if this is an important element for you, it will likely weigh heavily in Verizon's favor.
As for me, I mostly use my iPhone for data (though not usually a ton of it at once), so I'll be sticking with my AT&T iPhone for the time being—at least until my contract runs out or a 4G version becomes available on one of the US networks.


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PORTLAND, Ore. - In just his second game with the Los Angeles Lakers, veteran guard Steve Nash injured his left knee against the Portland Trail Blazers.
Nash appeared to bump knees with Blazers rookie guard Damian Lillard late in the first half Wednesday night and limped off the court. He was helped to the locker room.
The Lakers initially reported the injury was not serious and Nash was able to play. But just 1:16 into the second half it was clear he was struggling and he headed back to the locker room.
The exact nature of the injury was not known. Nash was replaced by Steve Blake.
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Frank Morrison Spillane (March 9, 1918 – July 17, 2006), better known as Mickey Spillane, was an American author of crime novels, many featuring his signature detective character, Mike Hammer. More than 225 million copies of his books have sold internationally. In 1980, Spillane was responsible for seven of the top 15 all-time bestselling fiction titles in America.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Spillane was the only child of his Irish-American bartender father, John Joseph Spillane, and his Scottish mother, Catherine Anne. Spillane attended Erasmus Hall High School, graduating in 1935. He started writing while in high school, briefly attended Fort Hays State College in Kansas and worked a variety of jobs, including summers as a lifeguard at Breezy Point, Queens, and a period as a trampoline artist for the Barnum and Bailey circus.
In 1951, Spillane became a Jehovah's Witness. Mickey and Mary Ann Spillane had four children (Caroline, Kathy, Michael, Ward), and their marriage ended in 1962. In November 1965, he married his second wife, nightclub singer Sherri Malinou, who later posed nude for the cover of The Erection Set (1972), a novel dedicated to her. After that marriage ended in divorce (and a lawsuit) in 1983, Spillane shared his waterfront house in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, with his third wife, Jane Rogers Johnson, whom he married in October 1983. In 1989, Hurricane Hugo ravaged his Murrells Inlet house to such a degree it had to be almost entirely reconstructed. A TV interview showed Spillane standing in the ruins of his house. He received an Edgar Allan Poe Grand Master Award in 1995. Spillane's novels went out of print, but in 2001, the New American Library began reissuing them.


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Congress likely to restore pay for furloughed workers
- The partial government shutdown enters its fifth day Saturday
- Congress likely to give furloughed shutdown workers back pay
- The shutdown led the White House to scrub a presidential trip to Asia
WASHINGTON — Congress entered the fifth day of the government shutdown Saturday with one goal in mind: to ensure that the 800,000 government employees currently on furlough will receive back pay once the shutdown is ended.
The Republican-controlled House unanimously approved 407-0 the Federal Employee Retroactive Pay Fairness Act on Saturday morning. President Obama and congressional Democrats have opposed several proposals offered by House Republicans this week that would fund only small slices of the federal government. But the president and Democratic leaders embraced this move, with the Senate set to vote on it Monday.
After a week that saw leaders from both chambers blaming each other for the shutdown and unable to reach any accord, the agreement on federal workers' back pay was a rare moment of accord in an otherwise intractable standoff over government spending, the Affordable Care Act and the debt limit.
On Saturday morning, Republican and Democratic members of the House of Representatives took to the floor to sing the praises of federal workers and applaud the rare moment of bipartisanship.
"The issue is fairness," bill sponsor Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., said during the morning debate. "It's just wrong for hundreds of thousands of federal employees not to know whether they're going to be able to make their mortgage payment. Many of them live from paycheck to paycheck."
Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., said federal employees have already faced enough economic turmoil in recent years, with pay freezes and a constant cloud of uncertainty hanging over their livelihoods. So he encouraged his colleagues to approve their funding guarantee to ensure they don't turn into "collateral damage" in the shutdown debate.
"This bill is the least we should do," Cummings said.
But hopes of a compromise to end the shutdown seemed unlikely over the weekend. During an interview with the Associated Press, Obama defended the shaky rollout of his signature health care law and said any modifications to the program would have to be negotiated after the shutdown is resolved.
"There are enough votes in the House of Representatives to make sure that the government reopens today," he said. "And I'm pretty willing to bet that there are enough votes in the House of Representatives right now to make sure that the United States doesn't end up being a deadbeat."
Flinching by either side on the shutdown might be seen as weakening one's hand in an even more important fight looming just over the horizon as the combatants in Washington increasingly shifted their focus to a mid-month deadline for averting a first-ever default.
"This isn't some damn game," House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Friday as the White House as Democrats held to their position of agreeing to negotiate only after the government is reopened and the $16.7 trillion debt limit raised. Republicans pointed to a quote in The Wall Street Journal from an anonymous White House official that "we are winning. ... It doesn't really matter to us" how long the shutdown lasts.
At issue in the shutdown is a temporary funding measure to keep the government fully open through mid-November or mid-December. More than 100 stopgap continuing resolutions have passed without much difficulty since the last shutdown in 1996. But Tea Party Republicans, their urgency intensified by the rollout of health insurance marketplaces this month, are demanding concessions in Obama's health care law as their price for the funding legislation, sparking the shutdown impasse with Democrats.
"I was disappointed when certain parts of the federal government were forced to shut down because Senate Democrats refused to make any changes whatsoever to the deeply flawed health care law known as Obamacare," said Texas Sen. John Cornyn in the GOP's weekly address. "Republicans are eager to end the shutdown and move ahead with the fiscal and economic reforms that our country so urgently needs."
Obama has repeatedly said he won't negotiate on the temporary spending bill or upcoming debt limit measure, arguing they should be sent to him free of GOP add-ons. Congress, whether controlled by Democrats or Republicans, routinely sent Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush, "clean" stopgap spending bills and debt-limit increases.
"The American people don't get to demand ransom in exchange for doing their job," Obama said in his address. "Neither does Congress."
House Republicans appeared to be shifting their demands, de-emphasizing their previous insistence on defunding the health care overhaul in exchange for reopening the government. Instead, they ramped up calls for cuts in federal benefit programs and future deficits, items that Boehner has said repeatedly will be part of any talks on debt limit legislation.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and other Democrats blocked numerous attempts by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, to approve House-passed bills reopening portions of the government. The Texas Republican is a chief architect of the "Defund Obamacare" strategy and met earlier this week with allies in the House and an aide to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., to confer on strategy.
In a lengthy back-and-forth with Reid and other Democrats, Cruz blamed them and the White House for the impasse and accused them of a "my way or the highway" attitude.
But Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., likened the Republican strategy to "smashing a piece of crockery with a hammer, gluing two or three bits back together today, a couple more tomorrow, and two or three more the day after that."
The shutdown led the White House to scrub a presidential trip to Asia, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics delayed its customary monthly report on joblessness as impacts of the partial shutdown spread.
Ironically, Boehner and the leadership more than two weeks ago outlined a strategy that envisioned avoiding a shutdown and instead using the debt limit bill as the arena for a showdown with Obama. Their hope was to win concessions from the White House in exchange for raising the debt limit and agreeing to changes in two rounds of across-the-board cuts, one that took place in the budget year that ended on Sept. 30 and the other in the 12 months that began the following day.
The strategy was foiled by the "Defund Obamacare" movement that Cruz, Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and Tea Party groups generated over the summer.
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You are an employer in the city and you want to follow the law. You know that it is illegal to employ anyone not authorized to work in the United States; that is why they are called "illegal aliens." So, you put a "citizens only" restriction in your help wanted ad.
If you did that, you yourself would be breaking the law.
It is illegal in New York City to discriminate on the basis of national origin or citizenship status, and, while employers are required to verify that employees are authorized to work in the U.S., it is also illegal to so overdo the verification process that it effectively discriminates against the applicant.
The issue of non-citizen employment is clearly a minefield for employers, which is why the City Commission on Human Rights recently held a forum for employers entitled "Preventing Immigration-Related Employment Discrimination."
Many industries in New York employ more non-citizen immigrants than American citizens. This is certainly true of hotels. But other affected employers include those in the car rental business, home cleaning services, city agencies, YMCA, tour bus companies, housing complexes, banks, credit unions, nursing homes, hospitals, and a television station. All of these showed up for the forum.
"We're trying to make them aware of the law," said Betsy Herzog of the commission. "Even with immigrant employers, they don't always know the law. The paperwork is complicated."
Since 1986, all employees have been required to fill out I-9 forms for Employment Eligibility Verification. It lists 10 documents, such as a U.S. passport or Unexpired Employment Authorization Card that on their own establish identity and employment eligibility. Problems arise when an employer insists on one form of verification to the exclusion of others or insists on multiple documents when one alone will do.
Rachel Pomerantz, a law enforcement attorney with the commission, said, "The more you know as an employer, the less likely you are to have someone sue you for employment discrimination." She noted that the city human rights law covers more than the federal law does.
Pomerantz told the employers that it is never a good experience to have a complaint filed against you, even if there is no finding of discrimination, and said that the commission will "try to intervene before the complaint is filed," because sometimes "it is a matter of hurt feelings and can be resolved with a call." She noted that the city's human rights law and rules of practice for administrative hearings can be read online. She warned employers who have a complaint filed against them not to compound the problem by retaliating against the aggrieved employee. "We're here as a resource," she said, and urged them to call the Law Enforcement Bureau at 212-306-7450 when a question arises.
Common complaints from immigrants include discrimination based on their accents, unless it would interfere with their ability to do a particular job. "Exceptions are narrow," she said. ""You can't refuse to hire someone because you don't think that your customers will like the accent." It is also illegal to enforce English-only rules in a workplace during breaks and lunch. "There has to be a job-related necessity," she said.
Similarly, dress codes cannot discriminate against a "foreign look," such as wearing a sari, unless there are safety concerns. "You can have a uniform, but everyone has to wear it," she said.
Anthony Archeval, senior trial attorney with the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices, offers a video for employers, "Going Too Far," and promises to educate employee and employer groups who contact them at 1-800-255-7688 (or 1-800-237-2375 for the hearing impaired). In his experience, discrimination is not a result of evil intent, "but of a misunderstanding of the law."
The Department of Justice also has a Telephone Intervention System "for willing employers and workers, to avoid misunderstanding," and publishes a guide called "Look at the Facts, Not at the Faces: Your Guide to Fair Employment."
To have the Commission on Human Rights schedule a workshop on immigration issues for your group or workplace, call 311. The workshops are available in a wide variety of languages and have already been conducted in Spanish, Creole, Russian, Mandarin, African dialects, and, of course, English.
Andy Humm is a former member of the City Commission on Human Rights. He is co-host of the weekly "Gay USA" on Manhattan Neighborhood Network (57 on Time-Warner; 109 on RCN) on Thursdays at 11 PM.


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An old wooden shack and rows of tilted fence posts: In a way, this deserted little patch of Midwestern dirt was the starting point for every airport in the world.
On a cold winter's day I scan a snowy, lonely field north of Dayton, Ohio. Not sure exactly where I am, I wonder for a minute if I'm lost. A National Park Service sign makes it clear what I'm looking at: "The first airport. Exploring Huffman Prairie Flying Field."
Wait. Back up. I don't think I knew about that.
Like millions of other Americans, I was taught that the Wright brothers worked their flying magic in a place called Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Then it hit me: What I'd stumbled onto was the Wrights' outdoor laboratory -- where they took powered flight to the next level.
This 84-acre pasture is where Mrs. Wright's boys let themselves screw up. By learning from each misstep, they were able to develop "a practical and usable machine," said park ranger Robert Petersen.
"This is the Holy Grail," he said. "This is literally where aviation gets its start."
Related: Were the Wright brothers really first?
After the brothers made history at Kitty Hawk, they schlepped more than 600 miles back to Dayton with a contraption that could fly 852 feet in 59 seconds.
That was cool and all — but folks were wondering: Could an improved aircraft do more? Could it transport people from city to city? Maybe. Could it help defend democracy in a world war? Perhaps.
The brothers and their employees had their work cut out for them.
Between 1904 and 1916, according to Petersen and the National Park Service, a series of aviation firsts took place at Huffman Prairie:
-- First controlled turn
-- First circle
-- First controlled bank
-- First figure-eight
-- The "world's first permanent flight school," was established here, said Petersen.
-- Among the first students was Henry "Hap" Arnold, who would become the only five-star general in the history of the U.S. Air Force.
-- Another student was Calbraith Perry Rodgers -- who in 1911 became the first pilot to fly coast to coast.
-- The first "cargo flight," took place out of Huffman Prairie, said Petersen. As publicity for a retail shop, a Wright aircraft flew several bolts of cloth to Columbus, about 55 miles away.
"So, yeah," Petersen said. "It is the world's first airport."
Hold on now. Other experts aren't so sure about that word, "airport."
"That's not really an airport," said historian Deborah Douglas, curator of Science and Technology at the
MIT Museum
. "An airport has to do two things: get airplanes in and out of the sky safely and it has to transfer people and goods from one mode of transportation to another. If you're not doing those things, then I'd say you're not really an airport."
No other place, as far as I can tell, calls itself the "first airport."
College Park Airport, a tiny facility outside Washington, D.C., has a good shot at the claim, said Douglas. However, it avoids the controversy by simply calling itself the "oldest continually operating airport in the world."
"If someone says 'first airport in America,' you could argue Kitty Hawk," said Chelsea Dorman, program coordinator at the
College Park Aviation Museum
. "But we've been flying here since 1909 and that's our distinction."
Related story: Were the Wright brothers really first?
Another airport, Pearson Field, which serves southwestern Washington state, says it started four years before College Park, in 1905, as a landing facility for a blimp. But its website calls it "one of the oldest operating fields in the U.S."
The actual word "airport" wasn't used until 1919, when a newspaper coined it to describe
Atlantic City, New Jersey's Bader Field
, which opened in 1910. Now closed, Bader was "the first municipal airport in the U.S. for both land and seaplanes," according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
"For academic historians, we find that 'firsts' are really, really hard to establish," Douglas says with a laugh. "They're hard to know."
Related: World's most terrifying airport
Whatever the case, by the end of the first decade of the 20th century, America needed more landing and takeoff locations to support U.S. air mail deliveries. That spurred the creation of airfields in New York and Philadelphia.
Across the Atlantic, European aviators were establishing prototype airports, too. Spurred by World War I, cities there eventually established London's Croydon Airport, Berlin's Templehoff and Le Bourget in Paris.
Back in Ohio, the Wrights faced a few surprising challenges. The landowner allowed the Wrights to use the field under the condition that they moved the horses and cows out of the way first, said Petersen. "Sometimes there were issues."
Another problem: how to get airborne. The plane's engines weren't much more powerful than engines for riding lawn mowers. Nature wasn't always cooperative either. Ohio winds aren't quite as gusty as the beaches of Kitty Hawk.
Solution: Use a catapult.
Here's how it worked: The plane sat at one end of a 240-foot-long wooden rail atop a wheeled trolley. Ropes and pulleys connected the trolley to a 1,600-pound weight suspended from a 20-foot-tall wooden derrick. With the plane's engines revving, the weight was dropped, propelling the craft down the rail and -- one hoped -- into the air.
"This becomes the forerunner of catapult systems used to launch planes from aircraft carriers today," Petersen said.
A replica of the catapult derrick stands at the site, along with a replica of the Wrights' hangar, built on the exact spot of the original.
Because Huffman Prairie is part of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, it has remained virtually untouched by real estate development, said Loyola University Chicago history professor Elizabeth Fraterrigo, who researched and wrote a paper on the property for the park service.
"You can really get a sense of what it was like for the Wright brothers to work there," she said. "You can think about what they accomplished at that place, and really feel a connection to it."
The field is among five Dayton-area sites that make up the
Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historic Park
, including the Wright family mansion and one of the Wrights' bicycle shops. Eventually, Huffman Prairie was swallowed up by two nearby military installations: Patterson Field and Wilbur Wright Field. Later,
the two merging facilities became Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
, which has contributed to research and development of groundbreaking advances, including pressurized plane cabins, cockpit navigation instruments and night-vision technology.
Amazing to think that it all sprouted from the exploits of two brothers, their bicycle shop and this hallowed piece of farmland.
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In retrospect, there seem to have been plenty of signs that Elliot Rodger was disturbed and perhaps a danger to himself or others.
Nearly a month before Mr. Rodger went on a deadly rampage in Isla Vista, Calif., killing six people and injuring 13 more before taking his own life, his mother was concerned enough by videos Rodger had posted on YouTube, including one titled "Why do girls hate me so much?" that she called the police and asked them to check on her son.
But despite stricter gun-control laws in California than in much of the rest of the country – including greater restrictions for individuals with serious mental illness or those who have been convicted of violent misdemeanors – Rodger was able to legally purchase his three semiautomatic handguns.
It's a case, say experts, that points both to the difficulties of keeping guns out of the hands of dangerous individuals as well as the need to do more.
"We had a chance here," says Robyn Thomas, executive director of the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. "This was a case where there was an opportunity and, the way the laws are written, we as a society weren't able to take advantage of the opportunities."
Ms. Thomas and others emphasize that it can be complicated identifying who is dangerous – and that zeroing in on mental illness, often the focus of such debates, can be misleading.
"Although mass violence committed by people with mental illness is horrifying and galvanizes public attention, most instances of multiple murder are not perpetrated by people with mental illness, and only around 4 percent of the violence in this country is attributable to mental illness," says Paul Appelbaum, director of the division of law, ethics, and psychiatry at Columbia University in New York, in an e-mail response to questions.
The vast majority of even those individuals with a serious psychiatric disorder never commit violence of any sort, he adds, and "in the absence of a previous history of violence, which has been true for most of the recent mass shooters, it is almost impossible to determine who will commit violence and who will not."
Under federal law, individuals who have been involuntarily committed to a mental institution or "adjudicated as a mental defective" are prohibited from possessing firearms, but relatively few people – including Rodger and the perpetrators of the Sandy Hook and Aurora movie theater shootings – fall into that category.
California law goes further: Individuals are temporarily banned from gun possession if they're placed on a psychiatric hold or if they've made a specific threat to an identifiable person to a therapist, who is then required to report the threat to law enforcement.
But none of those instances applied in the case of the Isla Vista shooting.
And when police went to Rodger's apartment in late April at the request of his mother, he was calm and polite and offered no indication that he was a danger.
"He just didn't meet the criteria for any further intervention at that point," Sheriff Bill Brown told CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday. "He was able to convince the deputies that this was all a misunderstanding."
In the lengthy manifesto he titled "My Twisted World" that Rodger e-mailed to about a dozen people, including his parents and his therapist, Rodger cited that visit from the police, saying that "I had the striking and devastating fear that someone had somehow discovered what I was planning to do, and reported me for it. If that was the case, the police would have searched my room, found all of my guns and weapons, along with my writings about what I plan to do with them."
Daniel Webster, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, says that it's a mistake, when looking at violence prevention, to focus too much on the details of any one case, but he also says that seeing tragedies like Isla Vista or Sandy Hook as inevitable is a mistake.
The more general problem, says Dr. Webster, is that "there are a lot of people who have access to guns, who don't meet the current legal prohibiting condition, and yet anyone who knew the person and the circumstances at that time would say it's prudent for everyone involved that this person not have access to guns."
As one way of addressing that challenge, Webster advocates a sort of "gun violence restraining order," modeled after the current system of domestic violence restraining orders, in which a family member could petition the court to temporarily remove firearms from an individual they think poses a credible risk of harm to himself or others.
On Tuesday, two California State Assembly members, Nancy Skinner and Das Williams, announced their plans to introduce a bill creating such a mechanism in California.
"When someone is in crisis, the people closest to them are often the first to spot the warning signs but almost nothing can now be done to get back their guns or prevent them from buying more," Assemblymember Skinner said in a statement. "Parents, like the mother who tried to intervene, deserve an effective tool they can act on to help prevent these tragedies."
Such a process was a major recommendation of the Consortium for Risk-Based Firearm Policy, which brought together researchers, legal experts, and clinicians, of which both Webster and Appelbaum were members.
"It's not as though it's permanently taking people's guns away, but recognizing that, as we see in so many of these cases, there are clearly signs that something is amiss, that danger is there, and sometimes there just needs to be enough time to assess the situation and keep firearms from that individual," says Webster. "To us, it's a very sensible balance between public safety and individual rights, because of its temporary nature and the ability to go before a judge and argue their case if the person feels they're not a danger."
The Consortium also advocates that state laws should be strengthened to temporarily restrict individuals from possessing or purchasing firearms after short-term involuntarily hospitalization, and to enact prohibitions around other risk factors, such as violent misdemeanors, drug or alcohol abuse (linked to DUI convictions or misdemeanors involving a controlled substance), and being the subject of a temporary domestic violence restraining order.
Police also need to be given the power to remove guns from people they think are dangerous, says Appelbaum – something that is currently not the case in most states. He cites Connecticut and Indiana as models for such laws, in which police can act quickly to remove a gun, and the person whose gun was taken can go to court to prove he is not dangerous.
California and Texas also allow (or in the case of California, require) law enforcement to seize firearms when they take a dangerously mentally ill person into custody. And New York and Illinois both enacted laws last year with more stringent reporting requirements for mental health professionals, when they think a patient is likely to cause harm to himself or others. Law enforcement must revoke any handgun license and remove firearms from the person's possession.
Still, most laws around mental health and gun possession are "underinclusive," says Adam Winkler, a professor at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law, and the author of "Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America."
But efforts to expand such laws risk being overinclusive and infringing on the constitutional rights of too many of the very large – and generally nonviolent – population of people with mental illness.
"Having someone who is a serious threat to others is a strong reason" to curtail those rights, Professor Winkler says. "Having a mental illness is not…. We definitely have to rethink our approach to mental health and guns, but the answer is difficult to know in advance."
Both Winkler and Ms. Thomas emphasize that even the current, basic rules are riddled with holes. States aren't required by law to report mental-health data to the federal government, and only a handful provide comprehensive mental health adjudication data, says Winkler.
And about 40 percent of gun sales occur privately and involve no background check at all, says Thomas of the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
Something like a gun violence restraining order might help, says Winkler, as could better data reporting and background checks, and perhaps better law enforcement policies. For instance, the call from Rodger's mother could have prompted a visit from someone with mental health training or a search of social media.
But he and others also emphasize that preventing every tragedy is going to be impossible.
"We've made a decision in this country to allow very easy access to firearms and, as a result, our cities and communities are inundated with firearms," says Winkler. "People will be able to get their hands on guns."


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I don't know what it is but there is something so amazing about this shade of blue, particularly on a watch. The only think is I can't seem to find it in stores, I can only find them online but they all seem to be expensive brands, like Versace, Micheal Kors, Fossil, Armani etc.
2. Personalised Gold Arabic Name Necklace
If you've been following me for a while you would know I been wanting this for a while but alas no money ;( I'd also want my name in English and my name is old english too. (I know, a bit narcissistic)
The first 2 pictures are from https://blancobay.com (not sponsored).
3. Jeffree Star Thirsty Palette
4. Champion Sweats
This is why instagram models get paid, they make everything so attractive! I have never considered buying this brand until seeing some stunning pics on insta. Only problem is I went on the website and can't find the things I wanted ;(
5.These pink lips
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The iTablet keyboard is an oddball bluetooth keyboard with the silhouette of a video game controller and the logic of a crazy person. Why?
Well, do you guys remember the similarly weird Android-powered Motorola Backflip? The iTablet has the same "let's put a trackpad on the backside of this thing" feature as that did. The logic being: when you're typing with your thumbs, your fingers can fondle the trackpad to get things movin'. I guess that could be useful but it's still pretty damn silly. Approximately $US130. [iTablet via Geeky Gadgets]


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Tribute tours. The idea isn't exactly revolutionary. If you live near a
city of significant size, it's probably normal to see everything from Beatles,
Pink Floyd, and Queen tribute bands, Elvis impersonators, Django Reinhardt
festivals, and Van Halen cover bands pass through at any time of the year.
But there's only one tour with the kind of cachet to prompt the gods of guitar
to kneel down in mutual reverence: The Experience Hendrix Tribute Tour.
This year marks the fourth that the all-star concert traveled the US to celebrate the short but revolutionary career of
James Marshall Hendrix. The first incarnation of the idea was the Jimi Hendrix Electric Guitar Festival, the headlining
attraction at Seattle's 1995 Bumbershoot festival. The festival was held again in 1998, and it was followed by two Jimi
Hendrix Electric Guitar Competition tours, and then three all-star tribute tours under the Experience Hendrix moniker.
This year's tour included guitarists who inspired Hendrix—Hubert Sumlin (who gained fame in 1955 as Howlin' Wolf's
sideman)—those who actually knew Hendrix—Billy Cox and Ernie Isley—and big-name ax slingers whose styles simply
wouldn't exist as we know them if it weren't for Hendrix's influence—Eric Johnson, Joe Satriani, Kenny Wayne Shepherd,
Jonny Lang, Robert Randolph, Brad Whitford, Vernon Reid, and Susan Tedeschi. But while this who's-who lineup of guitar
gods and demigods joined the tour to honor the original Voodoo Chile, they all did so in true Hendrix fashion—by flying
the flag of their own uniqueness high the way Jimi would've wanted them to.
When you combine their incredible playing with the fact that we—and you—are as gaga for gear as they are, it was a no-brainer
that PG had to check in with them. So our team packed up the cameras and mics to head north and go behind
the scenes at the March 21st show in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. There we got the lowdown on all the guitars, amps, and
effects being used to revere Jimi and his legendary tones.
But we soon realized we had to talk about more than just the gear. It was also about the relationship these guitarists had
with their gear—how they got their known tones—as well as how they approached the daunting task of covering Hendrix
properly. Some used Strats, Marshalls, and vintage effects, while others used the same gear they've been using for years.
But no matter the formula, the result was original and unique renditions of tunes from Hendrix's illustrious catalog.
The following pages chronicle our fly-on-the-wall encounters during the soundchecks, backstage hangs, and the epic
performances that night in Milwaukee. For one night, Jimi was alive and well in the form of 10 guitarists sharing a stage
to achieve a single goal—to experience Hendrix:
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NEW YORK, NY — President Obama will nominate Janet Yellen to serve as the next chair of the Federal Reserve, a senior White House official said Tuesday.
The announcement will be made on Wednesday at 3:00 p.m., the official said.
If Yellen is confirmed by the Senate, she will be the first woman to head the central bank in its 100-year history.
Yellen got the nod based on a robust résumé, including more than a decade in various Federal Reserve roles. She currently serves as Fed vice chair and has pushed for the central bank to stimulate the economy to address high U.S. unemployment. Her views are considered to be closely aligned with current Chairman Ben Bernanke, and for that reason, the leadership transition is expected to be smooth once his term ends in January.
Prior to her current role, Yellen served as president of the San Francisco Fed, and transcripts show that during that time, she foresaw the housing crisis better than many of her colleagues.
In the late 1990s, Yellen served as chair of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors. She has also taught economics at the University of California, Berkeley and the London School of Economics. She has her bachelor's degree from Brown University and her Ph.D. in Economics from Yale.
The chair of the Federal Reserve is arguably one of the most powerful jobs in the world, and this nomination comes at a critical moment. The central bank is considering reducing its current bond-buying program, and further down the road, the new Fed chair will also have to grapple with the complicated task of unwinding five years of monetary stimulus.
Since late 2008, the Fed has accumulated more than $3 trillion in Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities, in its bid to support the U.S. economy. Yellen already knows the ins and outs of those policies, given she was on the team that implemented them.
The confirmation process could take months, but Yellen already has key Senate Democrats on her side. In the summer, when it seemed likely that President Obama was ready to nominate former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers to the job, Democrats wrote a letter urging the president to choose Yellen instead.
In that letter, they praised her "impeccable resume," focus on unemployment and her "solid record as a bank regulator."
Summers pulled his name from consideration, writing that he "reluctantly concluded" the confirmation process would be "acrimonious and not serve the interests of the Federal Reserve, the Administration, or ultimately, the interests of the nation's ongoing economic recovery."
"She's an excellent choice and I believe she'll be confirmed by a wide margin," said New York Senator Charles Schumer on Tuesday night.
"I commend President Obama on his selection of Dr. Yellen to be the first woman to serve as Federal Reserve Chairman," said Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Johnson. "She has a depth of experience that is second to none, and I have no doubt she will be an excellent Federal Reserve Chairman."
Economists — and female economists in particular — were largely supportive of Yellen over Summers. Many emphasized that her accomplishments alone made her the best candidate for the job, not her gender.
"At the highest levels of central banking, there are very few women," Yellen said earlier this year. "But I am pleased that the representation of women is increasing a lot at other levels… I really think this is something that's going to increase over time, and it's time for that to happen."
By Annalyn Kurtz
CNN' Senior White House Correspondent, Jim Acosta, contributed to this report.
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2014 Weed School goes back to basics
Delaware Cooperative Extension as announced has announced its 2014 schedule of Weed School Training to be held at two locations in March. The weed management training will focus on weeds and issues with agronomic crops and commercial vegetables. The training will be conducted by Mark VanGessel, UD Cooperative Extension Weed Specialist and his research and Extension team. The objective of Weed Science School is to train agriculture industry professionals and those who work on weeds frequently. Topics will include weed management concepts and principles.
Classes start promptly at 8:30 a.m. and ends at 3:30 p.m. Lunch is provided and resources will be made available. There is no fee for the training.
CCA credits of 0.5 CEU for Soil & Water and 3.5 CEU for Pest Management; DE and MD Pesticide credits have been requested.
March 12, 2014 at the Kent County Extension Office, 69 Transportation Circle Dover, Del.19901
March 14, 2014 at the University of Delaware Research and Education Center Annex (old office building) 16686 County Seat Hwy., Georgetown, Del. 19947
Please pre-register by March 7 with Karen Adams at 302/856-2585 x540.
Training topics will include:
Weed Biology and Identification – 1 hour
This will include a discussion on weed life cycles (annual, biennial, perennial), with a special emphasis on problem weeds or weeds on the rise. Identifying live specimens and learning to use an I.D. key.
Integrated Management: it's not just about herbicides – 50 minutes
Discuss alternatives to herbicides and non-herbicide practices for effective weed control. Topics to include cover crops, cultivation, cultural practices (row spacing, varieties, fertility).
Herbicides In the Plant: what's going on in there – 50 minutes
This portion will discuss what happens to the herbicides once it enters the susceptible weeds (MOA) or enters the crop plant (metabolism). How herbicide MOA relates to symptoms observed in the crops will also be presented.
Herbicide Resistant Weeds and Crops: we like one but not the other – 50 minutes
This portion will include a discussion on herbicide resistant crops and weeds in the Northeast. What is the current situation, what is new and what may be coming? Incorporating resistance management strategies into the weed management program will be included.
Herbicides and Soils – 50 minutes
Herbicide interactions with soils will be discussed, including soil degradation and soil adsorption. Unintended movement of herbicides (drift, volatility, surface runoff, and leaching) will also be addressed.
Developing Weed Management Programs – 1 hour
This section will try to bring everything together by developing management scenarios for several cropping systems.
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According to The Sun an unruly group of UK wedding guests spent this past weekend destroying five rented supercars valued at over $1.4 million. The carnage includes a Bentley Continental GT, a Ferrari F430 and three Lamborghini Gallardo Spyders. Although the details are still rather sketchy, here's what we've learned.
The group of hoon-igans reportedly rented the cars for just under $10,000 apiece from Pearl Rentals of Wembley. The Sun claims the story is as follows:
"a sharp-suited group of Asian-looking men...wrecked a Ferrari on Saturday after smashing into another of the cars. The Lamborghini — one of three rented — was totaled when it hit a tree in Bridgnorth, Shrops, on Sunday."
Amid all the mashed-up metal, supposedly an Audi R8 escaped unscathed. New luxury triumphs again, apparently.
We're also told UK cops are still trying to find the drivers and other accomplices. So, if you're in the UK and you spot a group of "Asian-looking men" wearing ruffled, yet still quite sharp, suits walking down the side of the road. Be sure to call your local constable.
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NEAR THE ISRAEL-GAZA BORDER (CNN) — A cease-fire agreement has been reached to end the hostilities in Gaza, Egypt's foreign minister announced Wednesday at a news conference.
The cease-fire was scheduled to take effect at 9 p.m. (2 p.m. ET) Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr said.
The agreement came hours after militants exploded a bomb on a public transport bus in Tel Aviv, injuring 24 people.
The blast shook up the Israeli public and drew immediate condemnation from world leaders, including U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who called it "shocking." The White House labeled the strike a "terrorist attack," and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the United States "stands ready to provide any assistance that Israel requires."
Hamas praised the attack, which struck close to the headquarters of the Israel Defense Forces, or IDF. But the group did not claim responsibility.
"We told you #IDF that our blessed hands will reach your leaders and soldiers wherever they are," the al Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, said on Twitter. "You opened the Gates of Hell on Yourselves."
Later, in an interview on the Hamas TV station al Aqsa, the group's spokesman Fawzi Barhoum called on Palestinians for more such attacks.
"We need more of these painful strikes inside the depths of Israel, in all the towns and cities and villages of Israel," he said.
Meanwhile, overnight and into Wednesday, Israeli bombs and artillery turned buildings, tunnels and bridges in Gaza into rubble in 100 strikes confirmed by Israeli authorities. Hamas struck back with at least 62 rockets aimed at southern Israel, according to the Israeli military.
Israel launched the conflict eight days ago with a stated goal of ending the frequent rocket attacks on southern Israel from inside Gaza. Hamas officials have termed it a criminal expansion of Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory.
The bus attack happened around noon in a typically quiet neighborhood of Tel Aviv near Israel's Defense Ministry offices. It was the first terror attack in Tel Aviv since 2006, and the first assault on a bus in Israel since August 2011, when a man blew himself up near a bus near Eilat, killing the driver.
In Wednesday's incident, two people told Israeli radio that they saw a man throw a bag into the bus and then run away after the explosion.
Terrorists planted at least two bombs on the bus and fled, Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. Only one of the bombs exploded, blowing out the windows of the bus but leaving the vehicle otherwise intact, he said.
Images on Israeli TV showed white smoke rising from the bus as police and witnesses milled outside. Police cordoned off the street. At least one passenger was taken out on a stretcher.
Rosenfeld said 24 people were wounded, three of them seriously. Aviva Shemer with Ichilov Hospital said pedestrians were among the injured.
One victim was in serious condition with shoulder injuries, while two others suffered moderate injuries from glass fragments. Some of those being treated suffered panic attacks, Shemer said.
Police said Wednesday evening they were seeking at least one and possibly two suspects.
Israeli authorities have stepped up security nationwide, with additional police on the streets and more plainclothes police officers patrolling public areas, Rosenfeld said.
Tel Aviv resident Audrey Shemesh, who lives in an apartment building overlook the scene of the explosion, said the attack had shaken her confidence in peace.
"They want us dead, and this is really sad," Shemesh said of militants battling Israel, "For now I don't see any solution. They don't want to stop this. They just want to go on and on and on. It's really sad because I believe in peace."
Hamas put its own spin on the attack in a banner on al-Aqsa.
"Hamas blesses the suicide bombing and assures that it is a natural response to the massacre of the al-Dalou family and targeting of innocent Palestinian civilians."
Nine members of the al-Dalou family died in an Israeli airstrike on Sunday, provoking outrage among Palestinians.
There was no immediate response from Israeli leaders to the Tel Aviv bus attack Wednesday and it was not immediately apparent whether it could prompt Israel to step up its offensive or unleash the thousands of troops it has massed at the Gaza border in preparation for a possible ground offensive.
Tuesday night, it seemed a cease-fire, or at least a temporary calming of the violence, was imminent.
A senior Hamas official had told CNN that a "calming down" was to take place, and Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy, who has tried to broker a peace deal, said Tuesday that the "travesty of the Israel aggression on Gaza will end in a few hours."
But after a few hours, Morsy's office told CNN not to expect any announcement.
Prior to Wednesday evening's announcement of a cease-fire, Mousa Abu Marzouk, the deputy leader of Hamas in Cairo, blamed Israel for the breakdown in the talks Tuesday.
"The Israelis did not respond last night at our revised conditions relayed to them through the Egyptian intelligence," he said. "Talk of a temporary cease-fire or 'calming down' was brought to the table, yet they escalated their air strikes late last night as we were trying to reach any sort of cease-fire."
Israeli President Shimon Peres, however, said Hamas was asking for conditions that Israel simply cannot meet.
"They want Israel to do nothing. We shall not fly over, we shall not guard the border," he told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "Many others. The conditions of Israel is basically security conditions. Their conditions are political ones and this is a contradiction."
The IDF said it had targeted "dozens of terror infrastructure sites," overnight, including Hamas' Ministry of Internal Security, which it saw as a "main command and control center."
Forces also took aim at a police compound, a "military hideout," and other targets it linked to what it called Hamas' "terror activity."
The Israeli military also struck a media building, where it said Hamas "deliberately located" an "intelligence operation center," and a system of tunnels used to transport fuel.
Militants lobbed rockets and missiles toward Israel, targeting military bases, radar sites and numerous cities, including Beer Sheva, according to the al Qassam Brigades' Twitter feed.
A rocket alarm howled in the Israeli city of Ashkelon shortly after 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, just minutes after Hamas' TV broadcaster al-Aqsa reported its militants' rockets striking there as well as in the towns of Sderot and Ashdod. CNN's Fred Pleitgen in Ashkelon heard two impacts but could not yet say if the rockets hit anything.
All told, militants had fired 62 rockets from Gaza as of Wednesday afternoon, with 42 landing in Israel, according to the IDF. The Israeli military's Iron Dome defense system intercepted the other 20, the IDF said.
Diplomats working on a cease-fire hope to avoid a repeat of 2008 and 2009, when at least 1,400 people died when Israeli troops invaded Gaza after a similar spate of rocket attacks.
At least 142 people have died in Gaza since the Israeli airstrikes began, according to the Ministry of the Interior in Gaza. Another 1,180 have been injured, the ministry said. In Israel, five people have died and 94 have been wounded, according to authorities.
Clinton shuttled between meetings with Palestinian and Israeli leadership Wednesday, then moved on to Cairo, where she met with Morsy Wednesday night.
She met earlier in the day with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah in the West Bank, according to the U.S. Embassy, as well as with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem for a second day.
Abbas told Clinton that Gaza is facing a humanitarian crisis and that an immediate cease-fire is needed, according to the official Palestinian news agency WAFA.
Clinton is not expected to travel to Gaza, which is run by Hamas, considered a terrorist organization by the United States and other countries.
Ban also met with Abbas in Ramallah Wednesday morning.
"Today the situation in Gaza is deeply alarming," Ban said, standing next to Abbas at a news conference. "Rockets aimed at military targets inside Gaza are killing and injuring civilians and damaging… civilian infrastructures."
He demanded that diplomacy pave the way forward and called for the emergence of a Palestinian state.
Pope Benedict, speaking from Vatican City, also issued a plea for peace.
"I feel the duty to reiterate once again that hatred and violence are not the solution to problems," he said.
By the CNN Wire Staff
CNN's Ben Brumfield, Dana Ford, Arwa Damon, Ben Wedeman, Christiane Amanpour, Mohamed Fadel Fahmy, Saad Abedine, Sara Sidner, Frederik Pleitgen, Kareem Khadder, Saad Abedine, Ingrid Formanek, Nicki Goulding, Neda Farshbaf, Marilia Brocchetto and Reza Sayah contributed to this report.
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The Picture House
82-90 Merrion Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS2 8LW 0113 246 9297
82-90 Merrion Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS2 8LW 0113 246 9297
Whatever the occasion, from birthdays to just saying 'thank you', our gift cards make the perfect presents for roast-loving friends and relatives.
They're ideal for Christmas, too, and make a great term-time treat for uni students.
You can buy them at The Picture House in Leeds. Or you can order online and choose whether they're received by email or text message.
Our gift cards can be spent at more than 100 Crown restaurants across the UK. And they're good for whatever the holder fancies from the carvery menu, including our signature roasts and classic pub-food dishes – all with unlimited sides – as well as our all-you-can-eat breakfasts. So whoever has a Crown gift card in their pocket is in for a real feast.


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WHITE Italian Lamb Leather Body
CHOCOLATE Italian Lamb Leather Trim (Gusset)
Solid Brass and Aluminum Hand Crafted Hardware
Aluminum Hard Coat Anodized
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Italian cotton sateen custom print logo lining mixed with tan durable heavy weight cotton twill
Dimensions: 8.25" W x 7.25" H x 4.25" D
Strap Drop: 22" at longest. Adjustable.
Top Handle Drop: 5.75"
Interior Specs: 4 pockets total. 1 secure zipper pocket, 2 outside slip pockets, 1 large inner pocket
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MARIPOSA (AP) — Three men believed to be responsible for a September heist of at least $1 million in precious gems and gold from a mining museum in the Sierra Nevada foothills have been arrested, the California Highway Patrol said Tuesday.
State and local law enforcement officials served warrants Tuesday morning in Sacramento, El Dorado and Sutter counties and arrested Jonathan Matis, 41, Matthew Campbell, 43, and Edward Rushing III, 40, in connection with the robbery of the California Mining and Minerals Museum in Mariposa, said Lt. Mike Troxell, a CHP spokesman.
Matis and Campbell were arrested on suspicion of robbery, while Rushing was taken into custody on suspicion of multiple felonies, including drug charges, Troxell said in a written statement.
The arrests come after a brazen Sept. 28 heist when robbers, wearing hoods and armed with pickaxes, smashed display cases to rob the museum while it was open for business.
The museum is home to more than 13,000 artifacts, including the Fricot Nugget, a nearly 14-pound crystalline gold mass. The robbers weren't able to make off with the rock because they triggered an alarm that alerted authorities, who swarmed the museum but were unable to nab the thieves at the time.
The two employees who were in the museum during the robbery were not hurt but were shaken from the experience, the California Department of Parks and Recreation, which operates the facility, said after the robbery.
Officials initially said the thieves stole about $2 million in gems and gold, but the CHP on Tuesday said the amount was more than $1 million. The CHP is investigating because the robbery took place on state property.
It was the second heist this year of rare, valuable metals in Northern California. In February, thieves made off with large chunks of gold that were on display in a Siskiyou County courthouse.
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Restored riverfront estate in the historic residential district of New Smyrna Beach, Florida.
14 guest rooms are sophisticated and uncluttered and private bathroom luxuries include glass mosaic tiles, spa tubs and Aveda toiletries.
Port d' Hiver Bed and Breakfast
The historic Port d'Hiver Bed and Breakfast Inn is old Florida luxury at its finest.
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