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Combating Child Pornography:
Federal Agencies Coordinate Law Enforcement Efforts, but an Opportunity Exists for Further Enhancement
GAO-03-272, Dec 2, 2002
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The trafficking of child pornography through increasingly sophisticated electronic media, including Internet chat rooms, newsgroups, and peer-to-peer networks, has made such images more readily accessible. These technological advances have created more challenges for law enforcement, including requiring effective coordination to combat this crime. The federal law enforcement agencies that play a role in investigating child pornography are the FBI, Customs, Postal Inspection Service, and Secret Service. This report provides information on the coordination of federal efforts to combat child pornography. Specifically, it (1) identifies mechanisms federal agencies have in place to combat child pornography and (2) provides information on an opportunity to further enhance coordination among federal law enforcement agencies.
Federal agencies responsible for combating child pornography have various coordination mechanisms in place for combating this crime. These coordinated efforts have contributed to increases in the number of federal child pornography cases prosecuted over the past 5 years. Federal coordination mechanisms to combat child pornography include monthly meetings of officials from key federal law enforcement agencies, Justice attorneys' efforts to coordinate and consolidate prosecution of cases, multiple federal task forces to coordinate services and investigative activities, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) provides child pornography tips to designated law enforcement agencies. Although law enforcement officials and leading communication service providers generally view current coordination mechanisms as effective, an opportunity exists to further enhance information sharing. Remote computing and electronic communication service providers are mandated under the Protection of Children from Sexual Predators Act of 1998 to report all instances of child pornography to NCMEC. Currently, FBI and Customs have direct access to these child pornography-related tips reported to NCMEC by communication service providers. Despite their role in combating child pornography, the Postal Inspection Service and the Secret Service lack direct access to these reports. Representatives from the Customs Service, Postal Inspection Service, and Secret Service reviewed a draft of this report and concurred with the information presented in the report. However, Justice in its official comments believed that GAO's recommendation for more tip sharing was unnecessary, but agreed to continue to study the issue.
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Recommendation for Executive Action
Recommendation: To further enhance the coordination of the various law enforcement agencies' efforts to combat child pornography, the Attorney General should designate the Postal Inspection Service and Secret Service as agencies that should receive reports of child pornography under the Protection of Children from Sexual Predators Act of 1998 in addition to FBI and Customs.
Agency Affected: Department of Justice
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: DOJ issued regulation (28 C.F.R. 81.1 et seq) in response to a recommendation GAO made to further enhance the coordination of the various law enforcement agencies' efforts to combat child pornography (Combating Child Pornography: Federal Agencies Coordinate Law Enforcement Efforts, but An Opportunity Exists for Further Enhancement--GAO-03-272, November 29, 2002). The regulation designating the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and U.S. Secret Service (among others) as agencies that should receive reports of child pornography under the Protection of Children from Sexual Predators Act of 1998, was cleared and published as final rule on November 4, 2003, at 68 Fed. Reg. 62370. (See 28 C.F.R. 81.1 et seq.)
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Received: | 12/6/2004 1:39:05 PM |
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I disagree with any loosening or reduction of restrictions of the current No-call rules. I encourage the FTC to further strengthen the No-Call rules to include all political and charitable callers. I also encourage internet and cell phone restrictions against spam and telemarketing. Businesses have the option of mailing catalogues, flyers, or other sales materials, it should not be legal for them to harrass us over media that we pay for, such as our telephones and internet addresses. Mail is a cost to the advertiser, it should be a permissable source of marketing along with inclusion in local newspapers and TV advertising. All options that cost the marketer and are not intrusive to the public.


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Photos from Sri Lanka
Flooded Rice Paddies near Pinnawala Pinnawala
River with elephants 9 Pinnewala
Sigiriya Royal gardens from above Sigiriya
Me and my friend Pinnewala
Schoolgirls at Sigiriya Sigiriya
Approach to Sigiriya rock fortress Sigiriya
Gal Vihara Buddhas 2 Polonnaruwa
Highest point in Sigiriya Sigiriya
Sigiriya rock fortress from afar Sigiriya
Beautiful Hikkaduwas Beach Hikkaduwa
View from the train Hatton
Polonnaruwa ruins Polonnaruwa
Friends in the gardens! Unawatuna
Tangalla Beach Tangalla
Hikkaduwa Hikkaduwa
Famous moonstone Anuradhapura
Hikkaduwa Hikkaduwa
Malgadera Galle
Hikkaduwa Hikkaduwa
Hikkaduwa Hikkaduwa
Train through the mountains Nanu Oya
Beautiful paddy field Nilavelli
Nice gun tower! Nilavelli
Ancient rock carving of a man and his horse Anuradhapura
Look it's a naval base! Nilavelli
Good Lord! Pinnawala
How pretty! Bentota
Tooth Shrine Kandy
Turtle sanctuary Bentota
The biggest elephant we saw. Hikkaduwa
Kingfischer Guest House, restaurant. Tangalla
Grand Hotel Nuwara Eliya
023 Anuradhapura
015 Colombo
View from our hotel Polonnaruwa
Stilt fishing for our dinner Unawatuna
Ickle baby elephant Unawatuna
To thrive the breats...(herbal cream) Unawatuna
Polonnaruwa ruins Polonnaruwa
this was freaky Kandy
01 Me and my boy! Kegalle
03 Yes there is a lion in us! Kegalle
05 Some of our pets! Kegalle
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Lankatilaka 1 Polonnaruwa
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5000 I REALLY APPRECIATE THE THREAD U MADE ON THE 7 DAYS!!! I WAS JUST WONDERING IVE NOTICED UR COLAS GET VERY BIG AND PAST THE LEAVES HOW DO I PUSH MY PLANT TO GET SUPER BIG DENSE COLAS LIKE URS WHAT GALLON POTS DO U USE ? THANKS 5000 FOR ALL THE HELP homie
Hey man just stopping by to show some digital love. saw ur grows and they are impressive. im a newbie to the nth degree and am trying to absorb as much knowledge as i can before i jump into my first grow. im in a major midwestern city and if u dnt know, the laws out here are no joke when it comes to bud. gotta make sure i do it right. anyway hope you'll be willing to pass some of that tasty knowledge this way brotha. p.s. how the fuck do i get this stranger thing off my tag??
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thanks so much 5000! so do u ever foilar spray if so what do u use ?? ya i recently switched to feed.water.feed.water to get my colas bigger ? so they wud get more nutrients then they wud if i were to feed.water.water like i used to ...u think this will work ? good shit thanks so much 5000! so if its a 9 week strain:u shock ripe from week 9 and pull the plant at 10 or start shock ripening at week 8 and pull at 9 ? thanks so much man foreal !!! ur fuckin plants are amazing!!
My bad, thought you sent that last message several days ago lol...
only people that will by seeds from a no name breeder are ur friends man.. just give people some deals.. its better to have ur enemies closer then ur friends at times.. but seriosly.. i bet u know a couple people that grow.. callem and see were that gets u.. i heard of a website that allows u to sell ur seeds on there no matter who u r.. but ya sorry had to cal u out.. just gota keep that shit in PMs..
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Hey gasmoney. I never did get a reply from Heath. I got Pure JLB from Hemcy Seed Co. VIA Centennial seed co. A good friend of mine Ben owns it. I dont have any seeds. Just clones.
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I felt better the first day of taking effexor even though I had mild side effects such as nausea. When I look back I think it was probably because it caused a high for the first four days which did not take long to go away. I was taking it for mild depression and severe anxiety. It definetly made me forget about my anxiety for the first couple of days.
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It all began on Monday April 4th, 2005. I was riding the 86B bus to Point Breeze. I'm staring listlessly out the front window at the front of the bus. I hear a loud boom and look a little to the left and there is an explosion of feathers. "What the hell was that?!" yells the bus driver. I'm sitting there in confusion, I first though someone threw something at the bus. It came from the right whatever it was, people speculate that perhaps it was a hawk.
At the end of the block the bus pulls over. Now the driver has to write a report, he isn't happy about that he says how he just wanted to go straight home at the end of the day. I get off the bus and run over to where the carcass of this dead bird is lying in the middle of the turning lane. I look it over, it is a beautiful bird. Not something you see everyday. I pick her up by the legs and drag her onto the sidewalk. Looking her over, I get to thinking that its either a turkey or some exotic goose. I don't know my birds real well. I get back on the bus; he's going to be sitting there for a while as the driver talks things over with his bosses about the damage. The bird broke one of the rear view mirrors.
The driver asks if it was a turkey, another passenger says it was. I sit back down then a thought starts creeping into my mind. That's a freakin' turkey! I can eat that. I get off the bus and run back to the bird. I take out a small plastic bag, but a man who was standing there watching me offers to get me a trash bag. Waiting there people are really interested in the bird and ask me about it. It was a pretty crazy situation, I mean a turkey getting hit by a bus? This stuff doesn't happen in real life.
The man returns with the bag and asks me what I'm going to do with it. I reply, "I'm going to eat it." I carried the bag a few blocks down to the bus station in order to transfer to my next bus and continue on my journey. An hour later I pack up everything and ride on home.
I don't know much about eating a bird. I've taken hearts and lungs out of them before, but those are store-bought birds. This is a real dead one with feathers and a head. I happen to have a 'zine which has a section on eating roadkill, I turn to the page about birds.
The first step is to pluck all the feathers off.
Ok, I figure this shouldn't be that hard and it isn't. I start a pile inside a plastic bag, figure I could make a pillow at least with them. Now I encounter the first thing which freaks me out: the body is still warm. I stop for a few seconds contemplating this, now I'll learn what it's like to eat an animal for real. I comfort myself with the thought that at least I didn't kill it. As I pluck out the feathers I encounter the second thing that freaks me out. I find the evidence that this bird got beat to shit by that bus. There is a very large open wound on the breast. I decide to leave the feathers there to cover it up while I build up some courage.
I take a break to put some hot dogs on the grill, I'm starving and I don't think this bird will be done by tonight. I love barbeques, nothing tastes better than charcoal grilled meat. I'm excited because earlier I found a way to light the coals with wax.
Back to plucking feathers. My friend Jon comes over and helps me with removing these feathers. The wing feathers a really beautiful and really hard to remove. Suitable for a head dress something special needs to be done with them. Looking at the bird, I figure it must be female since she's missing the characteristic red beard. This defeathering process takes a long time, we start to get worried that she'll spoil. An attempt is made to bleed it. I tied up the legs to my clothes line, put a bucket underneath, then slit the throat. Not much blood comes out. I've heard somewhere in the milieu that you ought to bleed it like this, the only instructions I have don't say anything about this. But those instructions were designed for pigeon eating. Not sure what to do now, I wrap her up in a trash bag and put her in my fridge. I'll figure it out tomorrow, in the meantime I'll do some research.
When in doubt, throw it out
Words to live by, and so a decisions was reached. I buried the body in the park. I had a short informal ceremony, just between myself and her. I thanked her for the beautiful feathers and regretted that I was not able to fully make use of the life she gave for me. After she was covered by forest compost I sat there for a few minutes contemplating what I've done. I just plucked a dead bird for its feathers and almost ate her. Something deep inside me stirred, I felt alive.
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text: Lately several people have told me that they feel lost and anxious, unsure of what it is they are supposed to be doing with their lives. They say they feel an impulse to be of service to other people, to the planet with her many problems, but they seem to be unable to get a clear mandate of exactly what they should be doing. Some of these people are working in the world of business while others have already set up healing or counseling practices but feel that they haven't hit their full stride, that there is much more they need to be doing. The question they have asked is "How do I know what I am to do next? How do I know which way to go, what project to pursue?" Although I used different words at the time I responded to these people, the best answer I know of was on a rubber stamp I saw the other day. I saw it again on a ceramic plaque at the Flower and Garden Show in Seattle. They both said: "Bloom where you're planted." Wherever any of us are is where we need to be. It is the place that holds the most possibility and promise for us, even when that is very difficult for us to fathom. Human nature seems to always want what it doesn't have, always seeking to be where we are not. There is nothing wrong with that. It is called evolution and it is what can make us grow and explore in noble and expansive ways. There is a great secret, though, that most of us are never told about. That secret is this: until we can bloom where we have been planted we are not candidates for transplanting to a new garden! Until we have mastered the lessons of our current life situation, we won't be given another to work on. What can be the most difficult is ascertaining what the current lesson is. Especially lately, it seems that everything is more convoluted, that we have to pay close attention if we want to see the truth of any situation. For many of the people in our community who feel stuck, who don't know what they're supposed to do next, I think the primary lesson to be learned right now is how to stay at center no matter what's going on in the outer world. It's much more glamorous to think you're supposed to be healing people, changing the world situation, or influencing Congress. Although all of those things are important, none of them will be effective unless the people doing them are coming from a place of inner-directedness, of deep connection with the source of all life, of a centeredness that can't be challenged by the ups and downs of life. Center is that place you go inside when in deep meditation. It is the feeling of stability and calm that comes from being in contact with your soul. I've been listening to a tape series called How to be a No Limit Person by Wayne Dyer. He uses other words but talks about this concept, likening it to being the inner flame of a candle. It holds firm and is not affected by the movement of air around the candle. This is being at center: being calm, focused, and acting with intention no matter what sort of upsets are going on around us. Finding center is not difficult. Learn to meditate and you'll find your center in no time at all. The trick is staying there once you leave the meditation room! It's staying at that place when you feel frustrated with people or situations around you. It's being there when you have physical challenges. It's living there when you feel adrift with your life, unsure that you're doing the right things. This past month on distribution day (the day we distribute The New Times, one which is very hectic and busy) and the folllowing few days, I was given the opportunity to practice this. We had been having trouble with the on-off switch on the computer and I had taken it in for repairs for the second time after having had to write a letter of complaint to the general manager of the store. I had to make three trips to the computer store on one of our busiest days and the computer still wasn't fixed. I decided to let it go and just leave the machine there for a few days and let them work on the problem. When I called about it a few days later, the technician claimed it had been repaired and picked up, that they didn't have it. Another day passed before I could go out there and convince them they had the machine. They told me it was fixed when the paperwork they handed me showed the machine had not been touched. I asked them to humor me and show me it had been fixed. It hadn't. Eventually a technician spent five minutes on the computer and had it repaired! It took five days to have a five-minute problem solved. While all of this was going on, I went home one evening to discover a burst water pipe (yes, I had taken precautions). I admit my flame flickered more than once during those few days. I couldn't even blame it all on Mercury being retrograde because it wasn't. It was very difficult to think about blooming where I had been planted when all I wanted to do was pull up my own roots, grab my leaves and stem, and run off to a different garden that was less challenging. I wanted to be next to the chamomile and instead felt like I had been stuck in between two big thistles! All of us are given opportunities such as these to practice the art of centeredness. Frequently, though, we don't see the situations as a chance to practice. Instead we panic or get depressed, or throw up our hands in desperation. Times such as these are practice sessions, times to see how we can live from our center when we are outside the secure walls of the meditation chamber. These times are not easy but in them we will find our path, our way to live in the world without being seduced into its erroneous beliefs in scarcity, competition, and ineptitude. I don't know of anyone who has accomplished anything great who didn't have to practice their craft. So do we. Once we are on the path to living at our center, the next step will be presented. We will know what to do, where to go, whom to talk to. There probably won't be any thunder or lightning. More likely, there will be a simple knowing of the next step, an almost effortless move into our next path of service. Until then, if we fight where we are now we won't be at center and we won't hear our call when it comes. Stand solidly in your current life. Be aware of everything and everyone around you. Put one hundred percent into whatever it is you are doing. Release the self-centeredness that insists your needs and desires must be met exactly how you want when you want. Let your roots reach deeply into the soil and soak up the nourishment that is there for you in your current life situation. Lift your head to the sun, rain, moon, and stars. Let the light penetrate every cell. Allow yourself to bloom exactly where you are. Be the flower that everyone stops to gaze at, the one that gives off the sweet aroma of life's goodness. Allow yourself to be transplanted, used in a flower arrangement, or even composted if that is what your gardener wishes to do with you. Bloom where you are planted and you will never have to ask the question, "What's next?" You'll know. |


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oh my god skins streaming live
I'm So EXCITED!!! The new theme song weirded me out though.
"Save the beer. Like the whales"—Amanda
I am Kind of Drunk Right Now
but I really would like to talk to T.S. Eliot and Walt Whitman.
And I decided that maybe I should wait until the morning to reply to the student who e-mailed me about determining heterozygosity. That might not be spelled right.
Probably a good plan.
"It was like the silent treatment, but in a movie."—My friend mike
Mean Girls, riesling, fudge pie
It's happening, and it's awesome.
Theory: Wizards and the Amish are exactly the same.
So, after reading The Editing Room's send-up of the latest Harry Potter film, I got to thinking: It is kind of odd that wizards are all like "Muggles are so backwards with their matches and cars!" when we have some pretty kick ass technology.
I mean, they use owls as a mail delivery system. We use email. Point to the Muggles.
The books are set in the early to mid-nineties, before email and cell phones were used by everyone and their 90 year-old grandmother. But the movies are set in the now times and I just don't understand how sticking your head in a fireplace to talk with someone could be more efficient than a web-cam.
Then I realized, there's another, non-fictional group of people that hang on to the antiquated and outdated technologies, despite the abundance and ease of modern conveniences.
I have come to the conclusion that wizards from the Harry Potter universe are almost identical to the Amish.
Both wear antiquated clothes.
Funny hats and beards? Check.
Both eschew electricity.
Because open flames are safer than light bulbs…
Both refer to people outside of their special club by funny names: Muggles and English
Both travel by outmoded forms of transportation.
Wheee! I'm being inefficient!
And, of course, both believe their way of doing things is superior to the rest of the friggen world.
Well, I think I've made my point. The Amish and Wizards are, without a doubt, exactly the same.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off the Lancaster County to get some quilts and house elves.
I have a theory about this kind of thing (ie almost all fantasy). My idea is that overreliance on magic has retarded other aspects of technological and social growth. Basically through the use of magic they are stuck in the Middle Ages is what I mean
It doesn't explain McGonagall's wardrobe choices though
I agree on the communication issues, but apparition gets anyone anywhere way faster than a car. And so does floo powder, provided there is a fireplace in both locations (which would make traveling from school to home way more convenient for me). Brooms may be inefficient, but at least they don't use fossil fuels or give off any emissions. No excuse for the clothes though.
I have so much work to do right now.
This is already an all-nighter situation. And yet I have spent the past two hours listening to a podcast and then figuring out how to make one. What is wrong brain? Don't you want sleep?
The best part about re-organizing the MIHS Library is getting to look at all the wonderfully out-dated books (and their marvellously old-fashioned book jacket summaries)
Exhibit A: A Nice Fire and Some Moonpennies, by Dorris Heffron (1971)
She was Maizie McComber and she was sixteen, a Canadian Indian, and new experiences were her bag. She went out of her way, if she had to, for a really good one. That was why she decided to try pot. But not at home. Not in Kingston. People knew her there. It had to be in Toronto.
Maizie's trip to Toronto was truly an experience. From the moment she set out, with her dog for company (why not?), the people she met and the things that happened to her were all possible, but they were probable only for someone as unlikely as Maizie. No one else could confront sex, hippies, organic farmers, and a whole football team – just in the course of hitchhiking – with such aplomb, or such funny results. And that was only on the way to Toronto.
Maizie was not the kind of person to stop before she had achieved her chosen experience. But it was what happened before and after the pot that made it an experience worth reading about, one others can enjoy, laugh over, and reflect on.
Wait. A WHOLE football team?
Pabst blue ribbon power hour
Aka Pilot night?
I watched my fourth Mad Men episode, and it seems like Jon Slattery's character can be broken down into three actions:
1) Furrow brow
2) Say one pseudo-dramatic sentence
3) Profess the need for a drink
Very similar to the formula of Charlotte from Sex and the City, if you replace "pseudo-dramatic" with "five year-old" and "for a drink" with "to leave the table."
In later episodes he becomes the comic relief. From what I can tell his main job at Sterling-Cooper is to make snide comments and quip about Don's issues.
- (On collecting placemats from restaurants as a hobby)
- Contestant:I see it as an investment.
- Alex Trebek:It's good that you look at it that way.
Conan's Statement
People of Earth:
In the last few days, I've been getting a lot of sympathy calls, and I want to start by making it clear that no one should waste a second feeling sorry for me. For 17 years, I've been getting paid to do what I love most and, in a world with real problems, I've been absurdly lucky. That said, I've been suddenly put in a very public predicament and my bosses are demanding an immediate decision.
Six years ago, I signed a contract with NBC to take over The Tonight Show in June of 2009. Like a lot of us, I grew up watching Johnny Carson every night and the chance to one day sit in that chair has meant everything to me. I worked long and hard to get that opportunity, passed up far more lucrative offers, and since 2004 I have spent literally hundreds of hours thinking of ways to extend the franchise long into the future. It was my mistaken belief that, like my predecessor, I would have the benefit of some time and, just as important, some degree of ratings support from the prime-time schedule. Building a lasting audience at 11:30 is impossible without both.
But sadly, we were never given that chance. After only seven months, with my Tonight Show in its infancy, NBC has decided to react to their terrible difficulties in prime-time by making a change in their long-established late night schedule.
Last Thursday, NBC executives told me they intended to move the Tonight Show to 12:05 to accommodate the Jay Leno Show at 11:35. For 60 years the Tonight Show has aired immediately following the late local news. I sincerely believe that delaying the Tonight Show into the next day to accommodate another comedy program will seriously damage what I consider to be the greatest franchise in the history of broadcasting. The Tonight Show at 12:05 simply isn't the Tonight Show. Also, if I accept this move I will be knocking the Late Night show, which I inherited from David Letterman and passed on to Jimmy Fallon, out of its long-held time slot. That would hurt the other NBC franchise that I love, and it would be unfair to Jimmy.
So it has come to this: I cannot express in words how much I enjoy hosting this program and what an enormous personal disappointment it is for me to consider losing it. My staff and I have worked unbelievably hard and we are very proud of our contribution to the legacy of The Tonight Show. But I cannot participate in what I honestly believe is its destruction. Some people will make the argument that with DVRs and the Internet a time slot doesn't matter. But with the Tonight Show, I believe nothing could matter more.
There has been speculation about my going to another network but, to set the record straight, I currently have no other offer and honestly have no idea what happens next. My hope is that NBC and I can resolve this quickly so that my staff, crew, and I can do a show we can be proud of, for a company that values our work.
Have a great day and, for the record, I am truly sorry about my hair; it's always been that way.
This made me tear up a little bit. Please find a way back to my TV, CoCo! Keep cool mah babehs?? :'(
In my dream world (spurred by the brilliant writer's strike feud) Jon Stewart, Conan, and Colbert create an awesome ensemble late night program that gets the best ratings and makes me laugh every night.


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Learn a new language while commuting, while cleaning the house, or working out. Like millions before you, discover the power of the scientifically sequenced and portable Pimsleur Method.
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Includes 30 lessons and reading instruction on 16 CDs, plus a reading booklet
German is the official language of Germany and Austria and is one of the official languages of Switzerland, Belgium, Lichtenstein, and Luxembourg. Nearly 100 million people speak German as their first language: about 77 million in Germany, 8 million in Austria, and 4.5 million in Switzerland.
The Pimsleur® Method is scientifically proven to be your fastest route to nearnative fluency. German III, Comprehensive includes another 15 hours of spoken language practice and one additional hour of reading instruction, and is designed to be used after completion of Levels I & II.
- The beginning 10 lessons offer you the chance to expand your vocabulary and increase your fluency to an even higher level. You'll gain experience participating in many informal and some formal discussions on practical, social, and semiprofessional topics. You'll skillfully form longer, more complex sentences, and most importantly, you'll find yourself being understood, even by native speakers unused to dealing with foreigners. You'll be able to join in conversations effortlessly, confident of being understood.
- In the next 10 lessons your skills will show everincreasing mastery of the language. Speaking with grace and complete naturalness, you'll enjoy fluid conversations on many new subjects. Delving deeper into cultural norms and situations, you'll find yourself responding effortlessly, and able to choose from a wide accumulation of vocabulary and structures.
- In the final 10 lessons, you're nearing fluency with agile responses, and a naturalsounding, nearnative accent. You're able to utilize the language in subtle ways, and speak using past, present, and future tenses. Selfconfidence soars as you experience the language and culture; no longer as a foreigner, but with a deepening insight into an expanding new world. Reading Lessons are included at the end of Unit 30. These lessons, which total about one hour, are designed to give you practice reading German and to provide vocabulary. Before you know it, you'll be reading German with the ease and flexibility of a native speaker. A Reading Booklet to be used with the audio lessons is also included in PDF format.
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Comments about German Phase 3, Units 1-30:
This is a very intelligently designed system. It moves the user along at the right pace. The sound quality is excellent.
- Easy to use
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Comments about German Phase 3, Units 1-30:
Wow! I don't know what the secret sauce is but I am learning German and I am loving it! I am finding myself knowing the words and recalling them with ease. I listen in a quiet area and do the lesson. I usually replay while I am out on a walk. Even though the instructions state not to write words down, I sometimes need to. If I am having a particular problem with the recall of a word, I write it down. Look up the proper german spelling and a phoenetic pronunciation.
I would recommend the Pimsleur courses to anyone wanting to learn with a system that is not cumbersome at all. I wish I would have known about this earlier, like when I was in school. Learning is fun and without effort. Some of the lessons are tough and require a second or third listen but the proficiency seems to come out of nowhere and before long, I was speaking in full sentences. I am half way through this Phase and am looking foward to more. My goal isn't to fly through each phase in 30 days but to take the time to move through each lesson with confidence.
I am very glad I went with an audio version as it is portable and really fits my lifestyle and I feel I learn best by audio (not being overwhelmed by visuals).
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I would like the volume to be more adjustible. I sometimes have problems hearing the speaker even at the highest volume on my mp3 player or computer.
More reading. Perhaps in paragraph form instead of phrase or word from.
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Comments about German Phase 3, Units 1-30:
My husband and I have been through German Phases 1 and 2 and are now halfway through Phase 3. It has been very useful and fun for us to work on it together. We realize that the program seeks to teach grammar intuitively, and it does have a great methodology, but we also find that we can understand it better if we supplement the method. We are finding that we often try to supplement the lessons. For example, we stop the audio at times to try and write the words down or look them up. We also stop to look up grammar points. Have you ever considered offering your own supplement which would be focused on the written language and the grammar?
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Fitri, who competes in the Asia Dream Cup (ADC), rode the menacing Honda CBR600RR during a test session at the Sepang Circuit last month a week before seniors Azlan Shah Kamaruzaman, Mohd Emir Firdaus Hasan and Mohd Zaqhwan Zaidi took off to Japan for the 35th Coca-Cola Zero Suzuka 8-Hour Endurance Road Race last weekend.
Also at the test was Sasitharen Sukumaran who rides alongside Fitri in the ADC.
Such opportunities are hard to come by for riders as young as Fitri who has only been riding professionally for four years but his rapid progress in the Petronas AAM Malaysian Cub Prix convinced the team management that the 17-year-old is worthy of the try out.
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This recipe is really delicious and unique (is cedar planked salmon still unique? Let's go with a yes). It was a bit of an experiment with the last, small piece of my awesome Copper River Coho Salmon. We were actually grilling a whole different meal (Pork Chops) and decided at the last minute* to throw a small piece of the salmon on the grill while the chops were resting. I just happened to have cedar planks and everything else so it worked out perfect.
I've used my cedar planks in the oven before, but this was the first time on a grill — wow, what a difference actual fire makes! Very cedar-y and aromatic.
And since this is my last Copper River salmon post, I wanted to mention how wonderful it's been to blog about salmon over the Spring, Summer and now Fall. I've really enjoyed being a member of the Fresh Catch crew and I'm definitely a new fan of this salmon!
Note: This recipe is pretty easy to double or quadruple; just make sure your plank is big enough to fit the salmon and you should be fine.
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Our O2 mobile tariffs often change to fit your business and we can offer you business-specific plans which will ensure that you only pay for what you need and use. As well as our tariffs, Elite can offer you the very latest mobile phone handsets so that you are always on the cutting edge of technology.
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Art history - Slides can be scanned with our slide scanner and categorized on CD. Students can check out the CD and get a whole century of art images in one convenient package.
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PowerPoint Presentations - Some presentations can be too large to fit onto a floppy disk. Put your presentation onto a CD for traveling purposes, or for show in the classroom.
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Anonymous asked: Do you happen to know why male primates/humans have nipples?
Because females have nipples. And males would look weird with just hair there.
A more science-y explanation is that it's a developmental holdover. Some people would claim they're vestigial organs, but it never evolutionarily served any purpose whatsoever (so they're wrong!). Some people would claim it to be an evolutionary spandrel, which admittedly is a much better guess (so they're not completely wrong depending on their argument) because it's not adaptive in any which way for males to have this (surprise! sometimes evolution gives us nonadaptive traits!). But when you look at the biological development, it makes more sense that they're just developmental holdovers. And that's because everyone starts off female in utero (yup, females are the default sex). Male nipples developed before sexual differentiation occurs. So which is it, developmental holdover or evolutionary spandrel? It's always best to abide by Morgan's Canon that the simplest explanation is the best explanation. And in that regard, developmental holdover wins.


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Ryan at The Villages Saturday
Posted Aug 16, 2012 by William March
Updated Aug 16, 2012 at 12:33 PM
Mitt Romney's running mate Paul Ryan will speak at The Villages retirement community Saturday before heading to Tampa for a fundraiser, a campaign spokesman confirmed.
The Romney campaign has promised Ryan will discuss the Medicare issue during his first visit to Florida since being chosen for the ticket by Romney, and he's picked a fitting venue—an elderly community but one that's predominantly Republican.
Ryan will appear with Lee Greenwood and the Garrett Miles Band. The event opens at 8 a.m. and Ryan will speak at 10 a.m., according to an announcement from a local conservative group.


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Ford poll shows Europeans want freedom of car ownership, but worry about traffic, cost of driving, environment
Cologne, Germany, November 15, 2012:A new Ford Motor Company-sponsored poll shows most Europeans remain committed to car ownership, but have growing concerns about traffic congestion, the cost of driving and the environment.
Ford commissioned the survey conducted by 'The Futures Company', a leading consultancy, to better understand the opinions and attitudes of Europeans across a range of mobility issues – from car sharing to green driving to the future of the internal combustion engine.
The Ford survey showed the majority of people say life would be "impossible" without a car; however, 76 percent of Europeans say they are affected by stress from traffic congestion and fuel prices. The survey shows 74 percent use public transport, 37 percent share cars when making the same journey and 3 percent use formal car sharing schemes.
"The survey shows that we need a public dialogue and pull in all the stakeholders to address the issues of mobility and environmental responsibility," said Barb Samardzich, vice- president, Product Development, Ford of Europe. "As the world becomes more crowded and more urbanised, we don't want to lose the freedom of mobility, and that's why we need to take a collaborative and integrated approach."
Other key findings of the survey:
• 74 per cent identify car ownership with independence.
• 52 percent use public transport less than once a month or never.
• 53 percent say climate change is world's biggest problem.
• 77 percent would not cut car usage to help tackle environmental issues.
• 72 percent say fuel efficiency is one of the areas they consider most when buying a car.
• 50 percent would use a more environmental driving style if they better understood the financial benefit.
• 57 percent say elected bodies bear most responsibility for reducing transport impact on the environment.
Of those surveyed, 28 percent say they would consider buying a vehicle with an electrified powertrain; though few have first-hand experience of such vehicles (8 percent have owned or driven a hybrid electric vehicle and 6 percent have owned or driven a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle or pure battery electric vehicle). By comparison 66 percent of those polled have owned a petrol engine vehicle and 38 percent have owned a diesel engine vehicle.
The number of cars on the world's roads is projected to rise from about 1 billion today between 2 billion and 4 billion by 2050. The European Commission foresees that congestion costs in Europe will rise by 50 percent to €200 billion (Rs 13,96,400 crore) per year in the same time frame. Ford Motor Company has been at the forefront of the future mobility discussion. Earlier this year in Barcelona, executive chairman Bill Ford outlined the company's 'Blueprint for Mobility', a vision for how mobility issues can be addressed through collaboration among all stakeholders and the application of new technology.
Ford is collaborating with multiple partners to ensure a holistic approach in identifying and working towards a future vision of transportation. For example, experts from the Ford European Research and Advanced Engineering Europe Centre in Aachen, Germany, are leading and contributing to a number of high-profile collaborative research projects that look at delivering car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure communications capability, improved traffic integration and intelligent driver assistance features; all of which are key enablers in easing traffic congestion and improving safety and fuel efficiency.
These include:
• sim (Safe Intelligent Mobility – Testfield Germany) – a joint research project supported by the German government that began in 2008. It is testing car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure communication systems under real-world conditions in a large scale test environment. Such systems could deliver road safety and efficiency improvements from existing traffic infrastructures, potentially improving traffic flow and reducing CO2 emissions. 120 vehicles, including 20 Ford S-MAX cars began daily field operational tests in Frankfurt in July 2012
• DRIVE C2X (DRIVing implementation and Evaluation of C2X communication technology in Europe) – a joint research project supported by the European Commission that began in 2011. It is testing the compatibility and scalability of cooperative car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure communication systems under real-world conditions. The DRIVE C2X reference system is used to demonstrate cooperative vehicles in real-world traffic in cooperation with the Car2Car Communication Consortium and Testfeld Telematik.
• eCoMove (Cooperative Mobility Systems and Services for Energy Efficiency) – a joint consortium of automotive industry, fleet operators and traffic management providers supported by the European Commission that began in 2010. It is targeting improved traffic flow and reductions in CO2 emissions through cooperative systems.
• interactIVe (Accident Avoidance by Active Intervention of Intelligent Vehicles) – a consortium of 29 partners led by Ford and supported by the European Commission that began in 2010. It is testing the performance of implemented driver assistance systems through active intervention. These include autonomous braking and steering in critical situations and aims to avoid collisions and mitigate impact severity.
"Ford's policy has always been to look far ahead and plan to address the needs of future drivers," said Paul Mascarenas, Ford's chief technical officer and vice president, Research and Innovation. "Our company's vast experience in the automotive environment allows us to play a pivotal role in shaping the transport infrastructure and vehicles of tomorrow."
In 2011, Ford Motor Company spent €4.1 billion (Rs 28,626 crore) on research and development globally, in areas including car-to-car communication, driver assistance features, materials development and manufacturing.
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According to the British newspaper 'Daily Telegraph', the "Royal Villa" of Grand Resort Lagonissi is one of the most expensive hotel rooms in the world with the accommodation charges amounting to some 38,000 Euros per night. Located in the city of the same name 40km south of Athens, the resort extends in a private peninsula that not only offers luxury hotel rooms, suites and villas but also gourmet restaurants, spa centres, sports fields, tennis fields, a marina, water sports centre, beauty salons and luxury shopping facilities. Leonardo Di Caprio was one of the many famous stars who have decided to book the Royal Villa.
The 410 sq villa comprises of three bedrooms, two pools - one on the inside and the other on the outside, which is heated. There is also a fully equipped kitchenette and grill as well as BBQ. A wooden walk-in closet, marble bathrooms, private massage area with a massage-table, remote controlled mattresses and curtains, heated floors and private parking area, a steam room, a private beach, butler, chef, fireplace, and piano with a pianist and a 640 sq garden.
Royal amenities and the natural beauties of Crete are well combined in this hotel resort that is only accessible through a private road. The hotel features bars with huge balconies, a gourmet restaurant, the winery Kelari, golf course, boutiques, spa centre, heliport, yacht marina and water sports centre.
The most luxurious parts of the hotel are the two neighboring villas - Royal Grand Suite and Peninsula Residence, which form the biggest hotel resort complex in the world. Royal Grand Suite has a spacious living room, dining room, two master bedrooms, jacuzzi bathtub, sauna, heated pool, gym, Turkish hammam, outside heated pool, an enormous garden and a veranda with view to the sea. Peninsula Residence villa is twice as big as the first one and comprises of a living room, a king-size bedroom, three master bedrooms, office, dining room and rooms for the personnel. The two villas can be separately or jointly booked for more than 30,000 Euros per night.
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Norwich 2010 Birding Quest Tops its Goal
The annual Christmas Bird Count (CBC) punctuated both ends of the Norwich 2010 Birding Quest, which exceeded all expectations by tallying 168 species. On January 1 a year ago, the Hanover-Norwich CBC ushered in a strong start for the Quest and included a ' southerner', Carolina Wren. A year later, last weekend's CBC on December 31 produced a number of noteworthy finds inside the Norwich town lines, although none were new for the year. Belted Kingfisher and Swamp Sparrow were surprises, as was a Barred Owl mantling a freshly-killed American Crow!
As expected once fall migration subsided, November and December brought a major slowdown in additions of species to the Norwich Quest master list, with only 5 newcomers. However, all were welcome finds and included, in chronological order:
164 Black Scoter -- Ompompanoosuc River mouth, 5 November
165 Eurasian Collared-Dove -- Union Village Road, 6 November
166 Tundra Swan -- Ompompanoosuc River mouth, 20 November (a one-day wonder)
167 Red-bellied Woodpecker -- Kendall Station Road, 16 December
168 Common Redpoll -- Route 5 south, 17 December
The Eurasian Collared-Dove was especially intriguing, in that it appeared at the same Union Village Road feeder as did a bird (Vermont's first-ever record) in November of 2009. It is tempting to suspect that this wayward individual, which lingered only 2 days, was the same bird that appeared a year earlier, though its whereabouts and activities in the intervening year would be anyone's guess.
The final Norwich 2010 Quest species, Common Redpoll, is now fairly common throughout the Upper Valley, as it has staged a moderate invasion from its subarctic Canada range. Few other boreal finches are currently about, but we're all hoping Pine Grosbeaks and crossbills will show up soon. Birders should watch for mixed flocks of Cedar and Bohemian Waxwings on ornamental fruit trees.
Our final tally of 168 species easily eclipsed our original goal of 150. Avian highlights within Norwich during 2010 included Northern Shoveler, Long-tailed Duck, Northern Harrier, Short-billed Dowitcher, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Philadelphia Vireo, Bicknell's Thrush, Bay-breasted Warbler, Rusty Blackbird, and Orchard Oriole. With Vermont eBird enabling us to systematically track species, a remarkable total of 773 eBird checklists were submitted! This more than admirably fulfilled one of the Quest's goals of encouraging greater use of this invaluable birding and conservation tool.
We were also pleased to offer monthly birding excursions to the public, beginning and ending with the two CBCs. Nearly 200 people participated in these outings, which ranged from leisurely walks around the village, to a bird banding demonstration at the Milton Frye Nature Area, to trips along the Connecticut River. Participants included youth and senior citizens, and all were enthusiastic to learn more about Norwich's birdlife and explore its special places.
Plans for 2011 involve an expansion to all of Windsor County, with a special "challenge" in the form of a friendly rivalry with our birding colleagues in neighboring Washington and Orange Counties. Stay tuned for details on this yearlong effort, which promises to be fun, entertaining, and full of surprises. We think 200 species is entirely within reach in Windsor County, and we're off to a good start already!
Thanks to everyone who participated in the Norwich 2010 Birding Quest. We'll again keep careful track of all species encountered within the town lines during 2011, even as we set our sights on the entire county.
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Common Redpoll photo courtesy of Steve Faccio
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Orange County says "Bring it on!"
Of course, we'd probably lose - I don't know of many hard core birders in the county - 1:01 PM
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Bring it on, indeed! I think that the OC will surprise in 2011. Look forward to seeing other county birders out there this year!
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