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Man sets himself on fire trying to kill bedbugs inside rental car
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Police say a Long Island man set his rental car ablaze while trying to kill bedbugs inside the vehicle.
Scott Kemery suffered first- and second-degree burns in the incident…outside an Eastport supermarket.
Police say the Bridgehampton resident poured alcohol over the insects, then sat in the car and lit a cigarette, setting off the blaze.
He fled the vehicle on his own.
Detective Sgt. Edward Fitzgerald told Newsday that someone told Kemery that if he saturated the bedbugs with alcohol it would kill them.
Police say two other cars were heavily damaged from the intense heat of the fire.
Easy-peasy folk remedies. Gotta love 'em.
Buffalo beer silos
A cluster of 100-foot-tall grain silos in Buffalo is being turned into the world's largest six-pack.
Crews are installing rolls of vinyl wrap spelling out Labatt Blue on six silos at the former GLF grain mill operation near the city's Lake Erie waterfront, home to several long-defunct grain elevators.
The six silos have been painted blue to resemble huge Labatt beer cans. The silos are part of the Buffalo RiverWorks, a former grain elevator that's being transformed into a brewery, entertainment and recreation complex.
A co-owner of the property says the vinyl being used to display the Labatt name can be removed easily to return the silos to their original look. The owners aren't saying how much Buffalo-based Labatt USA paid for the huge outdoor advertising.
Now, if those silos were filled with beer we could do a remake of Strange Brew.
Thanks, Cináed
Family held hostage – thug drank 15 cases of beer in a week
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A New York state man drank beer while holding his girlfriend and their two children captive in their home for a week…
The woman was finally able to get assistance by convincing the boyfriend, Benito Lopez, she was playing games on the computer…
Lopez…was arrested Monday after probation officers were tipped the girlfriend, their son, 11, and daughter, 12 had been hostage in their home since New Year's Eve.
Sullivan County deputies said Lopez disconnected the phone and confiscated electronic devices and car keys to prevent anyone calling for help.
The girlfriend eventually got help through Facebook by pretending she was playing computer games, police said.
Police said they found the equivalent of 15 cases of empty beer cans, as well as some liquor bottles.
The dude should be locked up until he dries out. Should only take 10-20 years.
Arsonist/gunman demented enough to be NRA spokesman
Two volunteer firefighters have been shot dead and two others left wounded after they were ambushed by a lone gunman at a blaze apparently set as a trap in New York state.
Lieutenant Michael Chiapperini and Tomasz Kaczowka were killed when 62-year-old William Spangler opened fire at emergency responders arriving at the scene of a house fire, shortly before 6:00 am local time on Monday in the suburb of Rochester.
"This is still an active investigation, but I will say at first blush that it appears that it was a trap, that there was a car in a house that it was engulfed in flames, probably set by Mr Spangler, who later waited and shot the first responders," said Webster police chief Gerald Pickering.
Spangler had spent 17 years in prison after killing his grandmother in 1981. He may have stolen the guns used in the shooting, said police.
"We have to keep in mind that Spangler was a convicted felon," said Chief Pickering.
"So he is not allowed to possess weapons, so, did he legally possess these weapons? No, but we had all kinds of weapons larcenies, both in town and around the county, and in Wayne County as of late, so I don't know where those weapons came from, but we are certainly going to find out."
Spangler shot himself after attacking the firefighting crew, said police. He died on the scene…
The two wounded firefighters, Joseph Hofsetter and Theodore Scardino, were listed in guarded condition at a local hospital…
The gunman…left behind a note outlining his "clear intent" to burn his neighborhood to the ground and "do what I like doing best, killing people," police said on Tuesday.
OK. So, we have yet another demented killer. There isn't any shortage of those in our land, part of our culture. Extra emphasis on the culture part – because some of these nutball killings we've experienced recently have an occasional copycat aspect. The commonality is that weapons like the Bushmaster are in the wild legally. Whether killers acquire them legally or illegally is only part of the question.
What is important that clowns like LaPierre, the head of the NRA gun manufacturers lobby, will offer the same tired suggestion for "curing" the problem of too many guns in the hands of too many maniacs. Obviously, we should require all first responders – including fire department personnel and EMTs – to carry firearms. Dimwit. Not the kind of hair-trigger fool I ever would invite along for a day's hunting.
Man shoots girlfriend over likelihood of a zombie outbreak
Police in New York state said a man shot his girlfriend during a fight about whether a zombie outbreak as seen on AMC's "The Walking Dead" could actually occur.
Nassau County Detective Lt. Raymond Cote said Jared Gurman…argued via text messages with his girlfriend, Jessica Gelderman…just after 2:30 a.m. Monday about the possibility of a zombie apocalypse as depicted on the AMC series…
"He feels strongly about the possibility that some military mishap could occur. She thinks it's ridiculous," ABC News quoted Cote as saying. "She was not taking him seriously or taking the show as seriously as he does."
Cote said Gelderman became worried about Gurman as the argument became heated and decided to go to his Williston Park home to calm him down, the report said.
Gelderman attempted to talk to Gurman and enter his home, but he shot her in the back with a .22-caliber rifle, police said.
Gurman drove Gelderman to the hospital, where she was treated for a shattered rib, a pierced lung and a pierced diaphragm.
Gurman was charged with attempted murder.
Ever know anyone who couldn't see the difference between movies and TV show – and reality?
When I was still involved with competitive racquet sports back East, I used to work out with a guy who was getting ready to change his name to Conan the Barbarian. Part of his preparation for metamorphosis. Till Arnold beat him to it.
Brothers wait almost six years to claim $5M lottery prize
Two brothers from central New York have claimed a $5 million lottery prize for a scratch-off ticket they bought at their parents' Syracuse store six years ago…
Andy Ashkar, 34, of Camillus, and Nayel Ashkar, 36, of Cicero, came forward March 1, just 11 days before the top prize in the "$500,000,000 Extravaganza" scratch-off game would have expired, New York Lottery said.
Andy Ashkar said he bought the ticket at his parents' convenience store in Syracuse in 2006 and decided to share the winnings with his brother, officials said.
The agency said the younger brother said he waited so long to claim his prize because he was concerned the windfall could "negatively influence" his life if he didn't plan properly before being publicly introduced as the winner. Andy Ashkar also told lottery officials that he also didn't want the windfall to influence his engagement and subsequent marriage…
Nayel Ashkar's wife, Sara, told The Post-Standard of Syracuse on Tuesday that news of the winnings was spreading fast, with family and friends calling to express their surprise and excitement.
"It's crazy," she said. "Hard to believe. It's still sinking in."
The brothers' mother, Wasa Ashkar, said her husband, Neyef, sold the winning ticket to Andy at the couple's Green Ale Market, but she couldn't remember exactly when. She said she and her husband were Palestinians from Jerusalem who immigrated to the United States nearly 40 years ago and have owned the store for 12 years.
"I'm happy. Of course I'm happy," she told The Associated Press over the phone before ending the conversation because she was busy with customers Wednesday morning.
Cripes – I don't think I could ever be this disciplined.
But, kudos to the brothers for thinking of family and a normal life. You have to respect that concern.
The hidden cost of a fake ID
How about a driver's license including your girlfriend
SARATOGA SPRINGS — It seemed like a harmless way to score some beer. But prosecutors say city teens who handed over their names, birth dates, pictures and signatures to a China-based company in exchange for sophisticated fake IDs are in for a lifetime of debt.
City police announced Tuesday the arrests of 14 teenagers, most of them Saratoga Springs High School students, who purchased phony IDs through the now-defunct website ID Chief.
Along with a money order for $75, police said, the teens wired personal information overseas to people in the business of stealing identities. In return, the kids got a driver's license that officials say can fool border patrol and airport security, let alone Caroline Street bouncers.
ID Chief got a cache of personal info they immediately auctioned off to the highest bidder.
"As these kids get older and try to get jobs, try to be stockbrokers, or get a mortgage, or credit cards, they will find in 90 percent of the cases that they have thousands in credit card debt, that they will have several mortgages they have yet to pay, holds on their licenses to states they've never been to, Interpol holds, because they gave their information to a foreign Web-based company," Saratoga County District Attorney James Murphy said. "All just to get a beer on Caroline Street…"
Catone said none of the students had any idea of the potentially devastating long-term ramifications of their purchases.
"They're teenagers," he said. "Mortgages and loans 10, 20 years from now are not what they're thinking about."
ID Chief was an international operation. The orders were placed through an address in China, and the money was wired to Indonesia. The IDs themselves were crafted in England.
There is no patch for stupid.
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Routine traffic stop nets one of Ten Most Wanted in USA
A Peabody patrolman on an early morning routine traffic stop netted a federal fugitive on the U.S. Secret Service's Top 10 wanted list — the department's highest-profile collar in decades.
Sgt. Vincent Patermo, a 20-year Peabody police veteran, yesterday arrested Miguel Jesurum, 30, of Bronx, N.Y., one of the accused masterminds behind a $250 million cellphone cloning scheme that was used to set up a black market for international phone calls.
"I think it was his only arrest of the night, and he was pretty surprised by it," said Peabody Police Lt. Bill Cook. "There haven't been any big Top 10 wanted-list arrests here that I can remember for at least the past 20 years. It was a great pinch."
The fleeing fugitive originally told Patermo his name was Pedro Berroa after the officer pulled him over about 2:45 a.m. on Route 1 northbound near Interstate 95, Cook said. Jesurum was charged with unlicensed driving and the department's fingerprinting machine, which connects to an FBI database, revealed Jesurum's true identity back at the station, Cook said…
Federal prosecutors in New York announced the Secret Service's investigation into the sophisticated theft network last month. The Secret Service is charged with safeguarding the nation's financial infrastructure and payment systems in addition to protecting top political leaders…
Jesurum is being held at Essex County House of Corrections. Prosecutors have said Jesurum could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in the black-market scheme.
They take the sidewalks in at 10PM in Peabody. We are all fortunate there was a conscientious copper on duty in the middle of the night. Glad to see the local PD is up-to-speed on digital information management.
I know more than a few places in this timorous nation where Jeserum would have been turned loose with a slap on the wrist. Because it would have been too much work to check him out.
Fossil forest dating back 380 million years unearthed in upstate NY
One of the earliest forests in the world was home to towering palmlike trees and woody plants that crept along the ground like vines, a new fossil find reveals. The forest, which stood in what is now Gilboa, N.Y., was first unearthed in a quarry in the 1920s. But now, a new construction project has revealed for the first time the forest floor as it stood 380 million years ago in the Devonian period.
"For the first time, we actually have a map of about 1,200 square meters of a Devonian forest," said study researcher Chris Berry, a scientist at Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. "We know which plants were growing where in this forest, and how they were interacting."
The fossilized forest floor contained three types of enormous plants. The first, known as the Gilboa tree or Eospermatopteris, was once thought to be the only type of tree in the forest; quarry workers have been carting specimens out of the area since the fossil plants were first discovered. This tree was tall and looked like today's palm trees, with a crown of branches at the very top.
But an even stranger specimen lurked in this ancient forest. Amid the towering Gilboa trees were woody creeping plants with branches about 15 centimeters in diameter. These giant plants, known as progymnosperms, seemed to lean against the Gilboa trees for support, perhaps even climbing into them occasionally, Berry said…
The researchers also found a fragment of a third type of tree, lycopsids, which would later dominate the Carboniferous period from about 360 million to about 300 million years ago…
The new view of the ancient forest is changing paleontologists' understanding of what the landscape looked like. The earliest researchers thought the forest was in a swamp, but Berry and his colleagues, including study leader William Stein of Binghamton University in New York, now believe the forest stood in a flat coastal plain near an ancient shoreline. It was probably buried and preserved when a river channel shifted, bringing in loads of sand to cover the forest floor…
"I've spent 20 years trying to imagine what these plants were like as individuals, and yet I really had no conception of them as an ecosystem," Berry said. "Going to Gilboa and sitting in the middle of the forest floor, you could almost see them growing out of the ground. … The fossil forest came to life in front of my eyes in a way that has never happened before."
More broadly, a deeper understanding of the forest helps paleontologists piece together the ecology of the very earliest forests on Earth. The Devonian period marks a time when plant life began to shift from small, scattered vegetation to large-scale forests, Berry said. Plants remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and during the Devonian forest boom, carbon dioxide levels may have dropped from 15 times that of today to modern levels…
"We've gone from knowing about plants to knowing about a forest," Berry said. "That's really been the breakthrough for me."
Bravo! I know the area fairly well. Hiked the region a lot – seems like a few centuries ago. :)
Drunk – wearing "I'm a drunk" t-shirt – arrested for driving drunk!
A New York man wearing a T-shirt declaring "I'm a drunk" is facing DWI charges after a collision with a police car.
Suffolk County police arrested 23-year-old Kevin Daly of Coram. They say he crashed into an officer's vehicle at about 1:45 a.m. Thursday. The officer was treated for minor injuries.
Daly, who is unemployed, was wearing the T-shirt in a mug shot provided by police. It reads: "I'm not an alcoholic / I'm a drunk / Alcoholics go to meetings."
He was ordered held on $10,000 bail at his arraignment and was issued several traffic summonses. He was represented by an attorney from Legal Aid, which has a policy of not commenting on pending cases.
Throw away the key. He's a drunk and an idiot. Double the menace to the public.


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Friday, February 28, 2014
DAVAO City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said that any local government unit (LGU) is in charge on how it would implement the national law on speed limit.
As his response to the statement released on Monday by his daughter former mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio against the Executive Order (EO) No. 39, which implements the speed limit here, Duterte said while he only implements the national law, still the management on traffic goes to the LGU.
[READ: Sara questions dad's EO]
"Binasa namin ang batas. It depends on the beholder. Sabagay, si Inday (Duterte-Carpio) babalik din yan. Sa kanyang panahon, bahala siya," he said, apparently referring to the probability of Duterte-Carpio becoming the mayor again and in living up to his oft-repeated declarations that whoever wants to implement something his way has to wait for his turn until he becomes the mayor.
Former mayor Duterte-Carpio chided her father's EO for disregarding the 20-kilometer per hour (kph) maximum speed limit for crowded streets, including school zones, and choosing only to implement the 30 kph, which as it is already considered very slow by many.
"I cannot follow what they (national law) impose on us if it's unrealistic anymore," the elder Duterte said.
Duterte-Carpio on Monday said EO No. 39 is in conflict with the existing Republic Act (RA) 4136, which the city patterned the speed limit ordinance.
She cited Section 36 of the RA 4136 mandating that "No provincial, city or municipal authority shall enact or enforce any ordinance or resolution specifying maximum allowable speeds other than those provided in this Act (RA 4136)".
"I decided to write about my experience when of late I saw people marking the streets with speed limit numbers. What a waste of time and money, because no amount of markings, signs, warnings and tarpaulins can erase the fact that EO 39 is inconsequential since RA 4136 (Land Transportation and Traffic Code) already mandated uniform maximum allowable speeds throughout the country," Duterte-Carpio said in her post published online.
She said the EO 39 failed to include the 20-kph policy on "crowded streets, approaching intersections at blind corners, passing school zones, passing other vehicles which are stationery, or for similar dangerous circumstances". (Sun.Star Davao)
Published in the Sun.Star Davao newspaper on March 01, 2014.
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Recently, a group of educators recommended a statewide evaluation system for teachers and administrators to include announced and unannounced classroom visits. It would also classify educators as either "professional," "provisional" or "ineffective" — based on their practices and student growth.
Depending on legislative hearings, the new evaluation system could be place for the 2015-16 school year.
Current evaluations for teachers and administrators vary throughout the state, said Deborah Loewenberg Ball, a member of the Michigan Council for Educator Effectiveness. The council wanted an evaluation system that looked at how teachers present information, as well as how much students learn.
Loewenberg Ball said the recommendations were made as part of a 2011 mandate to improve the education of Michigan students.
"Everyone in the state under the plan would get some concrete suggestions on what to work on next," she said.
Educators classified as "ineffective" would have two years to improve their performance before being terminated from the school district. Teachers classified as "provisional" would have three years to improve.
Loewenberg Ball said the recommended statewide evaluation would continue and promote educator performance and effectiveness.
Scott Grimes, assistant superintendent of human services for Grand Haven Area Public Schools, said they are encouraged by the recommendations that will provide a rigorous and more consistent way to perform teacher and administrator evaluations.
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Tori's red-faced cashTori Spelling is embarrassed of her late father's wealth.
The actress - whose millionaire TV producer father Aaron died earlier this year - claims she hated having such a privileged upbringing.
She told Glamour magazine: "I grew up in a large house in Bel Air, California. As a child I was embarrassed by everything my family had. I remember saying to my mom before school recitals, 'Please don't wear 44-carat diamond rings.'"
The 'Scream 2' actress admits she was spoiled as a child because her father, the mastermind behind a host of hit shows including 'Charlie's Angels', came from a poor family.
She said: "My father was very poor growing up. As a result he liked to spoil us. One Christmas, he brought in a snow machine and filled the tennis courts with fake snow so me and my brother Randy could play in it.
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On view are 12 likenesses of Webster and memorabilia associated with his achievements in a small exhibit to mark the 200th anniversary of his birth. (Nicknamed "Black Dan" because of his swarthy complexion, Webster gained the respect of conservatives for his "Godlike" efforts to prevent dissolution of the Union over slavery.) Among likenesses on view are those by Gilbert Stuart, G.P.A. Healy, and Hiram Powers; memorabilia on display include copies of Webster's outstanding orations and his traveling liquor chest.
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Markets Tank Day After Obama's Speech
U.S. markets plunged sharply Friday amid fears about Europe and skepticism that Congress can pass President Barack Obama's $447 billion jobs package.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 303.68 points, or 2.7 percent, to close at 10,992.13.It was the steepest decline in more than three weeks.
The Nasdaq was down 61.15, or 2.42 percent, to close at 2,467.99. And the S&P 500 was down 31.67, or 2.67 percent, to close at 1,154.23.
Rising fears about fallout from Europe's debt crisis triggered the downturn.
Meanwhile, the President's job proposal — a mix of tax incentives and infrastructure projects — got mixed reviews in New York City.
Kathryn Wylde, president of the Partnership for New York City, a business advocacy group, thinks no one proposal will fix the economy, but the combination of measures offered by President Obama could encourage business investment and job creation.
City Comptroller John Liu said the proposal to cut payroll taxes could also create or save 25,000 jobs. That's one reason the Lillian Roberts, executive director of the city's largest union, DC-37, supports the proposal.
"Regardless of the cost, we need to get a jump start somewhere, and I think that this would be a great start and there would be more realized than imagined," she said. But, Roberts worries the proposals will not be approved by Congress.
The President used the words "small business" nine times in his address, and it was these same small business owners that were skeptical of the proposals offered by Mr. Obama.
Varda Shamban, owner for a chocolate factor in Elizabeth, N.J, laid off a quarter of her staff, said tax incentives would not convince her to hire back those laid off workers.
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We can save you lots of money when you rent skis or snowboards! In Soldeu we bring you 25% discount on all rentals throughout the winter from Sports Calbo, and if you are staying in El Tarter, we are working with Nordic Esports to offer 25% discount on your rental equipment all season!
In addition to these discounts, we give you an extra €10 off per person if you book your lift pass at the same time for a minimum of five days. This increases to a €20 discount per person if you book group lessons as well!
Soldeu Ski Rental - Sports Calbo Rental Shop
We work with Sports Calbo because of their reputation for excellent service, their location, and their huge selection of equipment. Their shop is found right in the centre of Soldeu, in the same building as the gondola to access the slopes, meaning that the shop is extremely convenient. On the ground floor they have a big shop where you can purchase clothing and accessories, but walk down the ramp or take the lift to -1 where you will see the Sports Calbo rental shop.
El Tarter Ski Rental - Nordic Esports Rental Shop
In El Tarter we have chosen to work with Nordic Esports as they have a fantastic location, right next to the slopes, plus they have a great choice of equipment. Their shop is just above the ticket windows, where they also have a snack bar.
How To Book
Visit the Soldeu-andorra.com online shop by clicking the blue button below. Using Soldeu-andorra.com, your booking is completely flexible as you can book snowboard hire or ski hire from just one day and you'll still benefit from fantastic discounts. No matter if you've booked an independent holiday or if you booked your travel and accommodation through a tour operator and want six days from Monday to Saturday, your booking with Soldeu-andorra.com makes total sense both for your wallet and for convenience.
When you book, you'll be given a link to your customer area where you can download and print your vouchers. Just hand in your rental voucher at either Sports Calbo or Nordic Esports, depending on where you have booked, and you will be fitted with your gear.
Why Book With Soldeu-andorra.com
Here are our top five reasons for booking you ski or snowboard hire through us:
- Save minimum 25% on resort prices
- No booking fees or credit card fees
- Excellent choice of equipment
- Save even more money when you book your lift pass and lessons as well
- Collect your equipment the afternoon before your rental starts
Soldeu Ski Hire & Snowboard Hire
On your winter holiday, unless you have several trips per season, you will probably find ski hire or snowboard hire both easier and better value than bringing your own equipment, so we've put together a guide telling you what to expect.
Before you travel, check you have your weight & your height measurements to hand, preferably in metric although if you just have imperial measurements then staff should have conversion tables in the hire shop.
At the Soldeu ski hire shop, firstly you will have your boots fitted and it is important you have them correctly fitted to ensure that you feel comfortable and are safe on the slopes. Usually snowboard boots are soft and are fastened with either laces or "dial up", twisting a dial to tighten them. Ski boots are hard and are normally fastened with buckles. Your boot fitter will make sure they fit correctly before you move on to getting your snowboard or skis fitted.
When being issued your skis or snowboards there are many factors that help to decide how long they will be including your experience, height and weight, then your bindings will be fitted to your boots. Those of you going snowboarding need to know whether you ride "regular", ie. with your left foot forward, or "goofy", ie. with your right foot forward. This impacts on how your bindings will be set. Snowboard boots securely fit in to the bindings, and attached to one should be a leash which wraps around your leg and clips in to place when you ride. If you are skiing, your bindings are fitted to length of the boot, followed by the DIN setting which is adjusted according to your experience and your weight. A ski binding is designed to release the ski when enough pressure is applied, normally when you take a tumble!
If you're on skis, the last things to collect are your poles. To check the size, with your ski boots on, turn one of your poles upside down placing your hand just under the plastic bit near the bottom (the basket) - your arm should be at a 90 degree angle.
Your rental equipment will have serial numbers etched or possibly stuck on and it is definately worth noting them down to ensure that you keep a track of your skis, snowboards and boots throughout your stay! This is particularly important to make sure your ski boots fit your bindings plus that the bindings are set correctly. Also, when your return your equipment at the end of your stay the hire shop will check to ensure you are returning the correct equipment.
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If you've got any questions regarding booking snowboard hire or ski hire with us, take a look at the ski hire section of our forum where you able to post any questions or post on our Facebook page.
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Badriya Al-Bishir
Al-Hayat newspaper
YOU will find at the end of this article a link that will take you to the picture of a woman standing in the main entrance of Al-Hafayer police station in Khamis Mushayt.
The woman looks humiliated; she ran away from her husband who locked her in the bathroom for six days, whipped, tortured and made her drink his urine.
When he finally entered the bathroom to take a shower, the woman ran to the police but they refused to help her and left her stranded on the street.
Every time she runs away from her husband, her father makes her return.
This time, however, her father has refused to go to the police station and bring her home.
She is being treated as if she is a commodity that needs to be collected.
She sits and waits on the street until her owner claims her. And to make matters worse, despite her plight, the authorities have refused to intervene and help her.
The Passport Directorate has been recently working on a project called "Relax! We'll track your wife down!"
I hope the authorities provide us with a total cost of this truly ground-shattering service, which is a sign of the backwardness that plagues Saudi society. Let me explain the reason behind this service.
Immigration officers at airports used to issue a yellow-colored document, called travel permit, which allowed a woman to travel abroad and does not require her to bring her guardian to the airport. But this document embarrassed us at Gulf, Arab and international airports. So the Passport Department decided to change it and use an online service instead, a service which only passport officials can see on the screen.
If a woman has permission, she will be allowed to travel. If she does not, she will have to ask her guardian to come to the airport. Are these procedures enough? Of course, not.
The Passport Directorate has come up with a new service that sends a woman's guardian an SMS message when she leaves and enters the country.
Some husbands who were with their wives were surprised to receive a message telling them that their wives just entered or left the country.
My advice to the Passport Directorate is to patent this invention because I am sure some companies will steal it and develop it into a more sophisticated technology that allows a husband to know every step his wife takes outside the house!
Do these procedures not remind you of the ones used to track down criminals who are under probation?
To put an adult woman under the constant control of her husband is proof that the wife is a slave. If the husband is good, she will live in peace.
If he is bad, she will face the destiny of a slave – she might be freed from slavery or live in torture. This explains why the woman stood next to the station helpless while officers could not do anything for her.
In conclusion, I ask the Human Rights Commission and the National Society for Human Rights to say something, to make a statement at least.


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Smashbox Spring Collection 2010: Smashbox Heartbreaker Collection
Spring is shaping up to be something truly special this year isn't it? My latest lemming stems from the new Smashbox Spring Collection 2010. I mentioned the Smashbox Heartbreaker Fragrance recently and in this it seems an entire Spring Collection has reared it's beautiful head. Smashbox Heartbreaker Collection is one for this Muse's collection.
Check it after the jump!
Smashbox Heartbreaker will be releasing for Valentine's Day and is an early Spring Collection that seems to be inspired by the romance of the season. The packaging includes a pink kiss logo and soft romantic shades that are sure to make a perfect Spring look!
- Smashbox Hot Eye Color Palettes
Include 5 colors of shadow and a mini eyeshadow brush.
Available in two shade selections:
Sweet Betrayal
Passion Dating
- Smashbox Commotion Lip Gloss
Available in two shade selections:
Peach Jelly
Honey Orange
- Smashbox Kiss Me Lip Gloss (Bubblegum Pink)
- Smashbox Waterproof Eyeliner (Extreme Black)
- Smashbox Fusion Soft Lights (Platinum , Glitter Powder, Warm Copper, Rose Pink, and Ballet Pink Combination)
- Smashbox Heartbreaker Fragrance
Top Notes: fragrant cloud rose, blue violet.
Middle Notes: blushing gardenia, sand jasmine and hints of nutmeg, mace and clove.
Base Notes: precious musk, hint of marzipan, creamy vanilla.
Looks quite exciting doesn't it? I could picture myself hauling much of it as I really like the color and just the general feel of the products.
What do you think?
Smashbox Heartbreaker Collection something you might consider for your Spring looks?
Tell the Muse!
12/8/09 13:59 dangster:
The rollerball lipgloss! I haven't owned one of those since my Lipsmacker rollerball from college! 😀
I really like this collection, but being the cheapskate I am, I'll just wait until it shows up on Beauty Ticket, lol.
12/8/09 14:06 Kristina:
I'm not really feelin' their Spring collection. No reason in particular, I'm just not excited about it for some reason (unlike Dior's – can't wait!). I just bought some clearance gloss on Smashbox's site yesterday though. How could I not buy something when they're offering a free cream liner palette with any purchase?!!
12/8/09 14:21 Marina:
I'm not overly excited about it, although I do like the look of the Honey Orange gloss. Pretty color!
12/8/09 14:22 lara:
i love the rollerball lip gloss in pink sugar! takes me back to my bonne bell days i'm also lusting the fragrance and that soft lights — swoon! thanks for the feature.
12/8/09 14:56 dina:
ooooo, pink gloss and shadow palette >>>> so pretty!
12/8/09 15:53 Ashley:
Same old stuff just repackaged. The roller ball lip gloss takes me back to when I was 6 & stealing my sister's Bonnebell glosses Hey so is it just me or does the eyeshadow palettes remind you of the Exact Eyelights Eye-brightening Eyeshadow by CoverGirl? (That was a type-full, get it? Mouthful, typeful?… Lame, I know!)
12/8/09 16:19 Lisa:
I am leaning towards nay. The eye shadows are all colors I currently have. And the only thing interesting is the Honey colored lip gloss. I'll save my money towards another spring collection.
12/8/09 18:57 Bakeneko:
Ooooh I'm excited about this one. Can't wait to try the fragrance and that Fusion Soft Lights has got my name ALL over it!
12/8/09 19:27 Samantha:
Yeah I agree with most of the people here. This collections feeling unoriginal to me. It kind of reminds me of Hard Candy or Pop, I wouldn't have guessed this was Smashbox. I do like the rollerball lipgloss, it's kind of cute in a middle school type of way (takes me back) but I'm sure it will be way more expensive than the Bonne bell ones I used to sport.
12/8/09 19:54 Phyrra:
The eyes are kinda eh, but I am LOVING those lips!
12/9/09 2:55 CookieJemz:
ooooo wow, the new collection looks great, loving the palettes and glosses! The packaging looks really nice, clean and simple.
12/9/09 4:09 Smirking Valet:
The Soft Lights looks absolutely amazing!!!
12/11/09 23:50 Melissa:
I love all the pinky pink pink I simply can not own too many pink lip glosses. Or um can i? Smashbox sent an email saying this collection is going to be on QVC this coming Tuesday!!! No waiting.
12/15/09 14:34 worker:
haha i work at the smashbox wearhouse and that frangrance isnt all that great sorry if u guys were wanting to get that i dont know if you guys have heard about or body lights lotion if you have it smells exactly the same and that soft light is really really beautiful wait till you see it i have and its nice well hope you guys go out and see them when there out in 2010 so i can have some work lol well yeah takecare you guys


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Get Out of Here! Why Pilgrimage is More Relevant than Ever. ~ Marni Kravitz
About 10 years ago, my boyfriend and I set off for adventure, on a trip through the Himalayan region of South Asia. We didn't know exactly where we were going—we just had that feeling that there was "something more meaningful out there" and we wanted to find it. We were also new Buddhists, and like many backpackers on the path, we headed straight for Dharamsala, India, to attend teachings by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
In Dharamsala, we met spiritual seekers from all over the world, including a pair of newlyweds: a talented yoga practitioner named Samantha and her husband, Robert, a newly ordained Zen priest. Having spent years living and practicing zazen (zen meditation) at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, they too were out traveling the world. They'd just gotten married, and their idea of the perfect honeymoon was to explore the Buddhist pilgrimage sites of India, Nepal and Thailand.
If you've done a lot of traveling then you know the kind of magic that can happen when you're far from home meeting kindred spirits. Friendships form fast, and the conversation is never boring. Our new friends shared their experiences of living at a Zen Buddhist monastery, and my boyfriend and I shared what we'd learned practicing within the Tibetan tradition. For days we attended the teachings, we talked and lingered in Dharamsala cafes, and we took long walks in the Himalayan foothills together.
Eventually Samantha and Robert moved on, continuing their journey through the Buddhist pilgrimage places of Asia. My boyfriend and I set off as well, heading for the Tibetan plateau. Along the way we encountered amazement, frustration, transcendence, suffering and joy and met many like-minded journeyers. But we never forgot the special connection we made in Dharamsala. Then, ten years later, a funny thing happened—Facebook.
It's hard to say exactly how pilgrimage changes a person, but after a decade there were a few signs.
Robert had begun teaching Buddhist philosophy and meditation and was now the President of the San Francisco Zen Center. Samantha was teaching yoga with a therapeutic focus in the Bay Area, infusing it with her many years of Zen training. My boyfriend, James, had quit his job as an investment broker and started working for a Tibetan monastery in Nepal. (Yes, that really happened.) As for me, well, after studying Buddhism in Nepal for a couple of years, I was so taken by the power of the place that I eventually began organizing yoga tours of Kathmandu's many sacred sites. Reconnected, we discovered that each of us was still trying to live mindfully and make those teachings and practices that had such a profound effect on our own lives available to others.
And now, through the 'magic' of the internet, all four of us—Robert, Samantha, James and I—have made plans to meet up again. This time we're meeting in Kathmandu. It's a reunion of old friends and a chance to continue our journey together.
Recently I had the chance to talk with Samantha, Robert and James about why pilgrimage is still so relevant for those of us living a fast-paced, 21st century kind of life. I asked them, "Do you think pilgrimage still matters?" Here's what they had to say:
Robert: It is naturally very difficult within the normal daily momentum of our lives for us to do anything different than what we always do. When we step out of the conditions that support the habit patterns of our lives, we open ourselves to new conditions, to new ways of seeing the world. It encourages us to reconnect with parts of ourselves that we had forgotten about or had neglected.
Pilgrimage and retreat also help us find other people who are looking to find peace and happiness in their lives and to connect with something larger and more important, something that can have a profoundly beneficial impact on their own lives and the lives of those around them. Finding others on this path and connecting with them by practicing together is a very powerful and life-changing experience.
Samantha: We came to Asia 10 years ago on a pilgrimage because we wanted to see how people practiced and lived Buddhism in Asia. We were stunned by the effect that visiting sacred sites that had been places of intense spiritual practice for many generations had on us. We were on hallowed ground, and we really felt it! These sacred spaces have a lot of power to alter us in profound ways that we don't understand at first.
What I loved to see was the physicality of the practice—to watch an elderly Tibetan lady sitting there, turning her prayer wheel and saying a mantra for hours on end; to walk with the people around the enormous stupa (spiritual monument) in Boudhanath every morning and evening. Something gets enacted there that is very deep and powerful.
You get to experience spiritual practice as an all-day thing—you get to see how, first thing in the morning, a woman walks up to a tree and offers, with great love, a tray of offerings; or to see a woman place flowers on each side of her front door after sweeping. These are ways that spiritual practice is just part of life in Asia, and it makes life very meaningful.
James: Yes, pilgrimage still matters. In fact, I'd like to think I'm on 'indefinite pilgrimage'. The Kathmandu Valley, where I spend most of my time, is actually a mandala—a sacred geography full of temples, shrines, statues of deities and sacred rocks and trees. My teachers tell me that if you can really tune into that, then you're continuously moving through sacred space, or—to put it another way—you're always only one step away from enlightenment.
Living in Kathmandu, I have to make sure that I don't take any of it for granted. Like fighting any bad habit of the mind, the only way to do it is by staying aware. You have to realize the precious opportunity, right now, of being in a sacred place or being able to hear spiritual teachings. Pretty much every day I think, "How could you be so lucky?! How did you end up here?!"
The pilgrimage begins from the moment we decide to open ourselves up to the world. Is there some part of this vast planet that has been calling you for a long time? Take a chance: Step outside of the box and onto hallowed ground. Just by shedding your ordinary world, even for a week or two, something is forever changed. Maybe, like me, you'll find that you love spicy okra. Maybe you'll discover that you've never really seen the mountains before, or finally you will learn to follow your breath. Or maybe you'll just meet some really great new friends! No matter what you discover, the journey is waiting, and the pilgrimage will be all yours.
Marni Kravitz is the director of Yoga Nepal, a yoga retreat and pilgrimage program based in Nepal's Kathmandu Valley. When she's not exploring sacred sites with fellow journeyers, she works as a documentary film researcher for National Geographic Channels International.
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Hearing: Pending Nominations
Tuesday, July 22, 2003
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Chairman Shelby, Ranking Member Sarbanes and Members of the Committee, it is a privilege to appear before the Committee today. I am very honored to have been nominated by President Bush to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
If I may, I would like to take this opportunity to briefly summarize my professional qualifications and to express my commitment to the FDIC's important mission as the Nation's federal deposit insurer, if I were confirmed as a Board Member.
It has been my privilege to serve the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for over 17 years in several senior financial regulatory positions. I also have had the honor of serving 5 Governors as the Commonwealth's Commissioner of Banks for a span of approximately 10 years. On a national level, I was elected by my state regulator colleagues to be the 2000-2001 Chairman of the Conference of State Bank Supervisors. I also have served as a member of the State Liaison Committee of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC). On a very technical level, my state official status satisfies the FDIC Act's specific requirement that one FDIC Board Member possess state bank regulatory experience.
My public service career coincided with an extraordinary period of tremendous economic, technological and competitive changes within both the Massachusetts banking industry and the larger national financial services sector. The regulatory experience I gained during this period has provided me with invaluable perspective that I hope will serve me well if I am confirmed as a FDIC Board Member.
For example, my first hand experience grappling with the effects of the New England Banking Crisis of the late 1980s and 1990s had a profound impact upon me and our local communities and underscored the vital importance of the FDIC's deposit insurance fund in maintaining public confidence in our financial system, particularly in times of stress. It also reinforced the fundamental importance of a safe and sound banking industry to our economy. The New England regional experience demonstrates how economic recovery, or prosperity in general, requires a healthy, independently regulated banking system that has both the financial capacity and confidence to extend credit to individuals and businesses.
Unprecedented levels of industry consolidation, intense competition and technological change also have marked the last decade. As a state bank regulator, I confront many of the same supervisory and policy issues faced by the FDIC and the other federal regulators. I believe we share a common goal of fostering sound financial practices, competition and product innovation in the banking industry while at the same time ensuring wider access to credit and financial services to individuals, businesses and communities. As Bank Commissioner, I have been fortunate to be able to help develop and implement Massachusetts' regulatory and legislative responses to these trends from both a financial supervision and a consumer protection standpoint. My hope is that if I am confirmed, my experience as a state bank regulator will assist the full FDIC Board in developing the most sound and effective federal supervisory policies.
In conclusion, I believe that my twenty-one year public service career has given me the necessary financial safety and soundness and public protection regulatory experience and judgement to capably serve as a Member of the FDIC Board of Directors, if confirmed.
Chairman Shelby, Ranking Member Sarbanes and Members of the Committee, thank you for allowing me this opportunity to appear before you. I would be glad to answer any questions from the Committee.


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Women usually gain weight during pregnancy, but they're not alone in piling on the baby fat, as a new study comes to show. According to its findings, as cited by the Daily Mail, men too gain a lot of weight during their partner's pregnancy – up to one stone (over 6kg), to be more precise, because they find it harder and harder to resist the temptation of all the treats around the house.
The survey, conducted by OnePoll on 5,000 men, revealed that most of them are not even aware they've grown plumper until they try on older clothes and find they don't fit anymore. Consequently, they join their partners shopping for new clothes, labeled as "paternity" items. Because this is no longer an isolated phenomenon, the weight gain (including the cravings and the need to change the wardrobe) is now referred to as "male pregnancy."
"The average woman puts on about two and a half stone during her pregnancy, and it's not at all uncommon for her to crave more fatty foods and need more regular snacks. So if the kitchen cupboards are suddenly brimming with snacks and food, it's no wonder blokes are tempted to tuck in as well." a spokesperson for OnePoll tells the Mail about how come men start to eat more once their partner becomes pregnant. Nevertheless, it's not only the snacks that contribute to the piling pounds, as some of the men admit they're being fed larger meals, while also being showered with more attention.
Another explanation for the weight gain during "male pregnancy" is that many couples start eating out more once they find out about the baby, in one last bid to enjoy each other's company before the child arrives. Restaurant dinners and takeout food are, as we all know, extremely dangerous for the silhouette, especially if they become a regular occurrence. Still, the fault is not entirely women's for why men gain weight during pregnancy, the poll also indicates.
As the OnePoll spokesperson puts it, men let themselves go once they hear of the baby coming. "The only problem seems to be that men are choosing to snack on unhealthier options such as sweets and cakes – and I don't think women can be blamed for their partners drinking more beer!" says the spokesperson for the aforementioned publication. On the other hand, men are equally responsive when it comes to going on a post-pregnancy diet, so they don't say that each cloud has a silver lining for nothing.


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Lee J. Gorny, Keith A. Gillis
As a part of NIST's program to standardize measurement of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from power generating facilities, a long-wavelength acoustic flowmeter (LWAF) is being developed to accurately and economically assess plant exhaust. Flowrate, in conjunction with composition, plays a pivotal role in developing a platform of technologies that will enhance the regulatory effort of the EPA and other such organizations worldwide. Currently flowmeters, due to their large scale and the non-uniform, unsteady, swirling profile of exhaust gas have a large associated uncertainty. No standard exists to calibrate and evaluate flowmeters on this scale in this type of flow.
Potzick and Robertson first investigated LWAF techniques at NIST in the mid 1970's. In its simplest embodiment, a LWAF is a device that measures flowrate by tracking propagation of acoustic plane waves in a duct. Potzick's flowmeter was effective in complex, changing flows, largely because of the robustness of plane wave propagation to flow distortions on a first order approximation. The purpose of this research is to develop the LWAF technique for GHG monitoring in power plant stacks and potentially as a flow reference standard. Difficulties arise when scaling up Potzick and Robertson's approach because of the high Reynolds numbers in a stack that result in greater blower and turbulence noise (∝Re8). To overcome this, either a substantial low-frequency source is necessary or another approach must be developed.
In our work, a 1:100 scale flow facility was built in Building 221 Room A108 where alternative LWAF concepts are being developed and characterized. Successful techniques will be verified on a 1:10 scale flow facility (currently being fabricated by the Fluid Metrology Group) and on the National Fire Resistance Lab's (NFRL's) exhaust stack to further stress their capabilities, and to better evaluate their applicability to a full-scale stack. Ultimately, successful approaches will be evaluated at an operational power plant. This year, preliminary data were collected at a coal burning power plant as a sanity check for the LWAF approach to this measurement. The geometry and vibration spectra were measured at points along the duct liner, its inlet and on top of the scrubber. These data aid in locating and predicting tonal noise sources. Direct, flow noise measurements in the stack were taken through a fixed port and simultaneously at two axial locations using a tether. Long-wavelength, time-correlated acoustic propagations were observed at two frequencies in these data, and the baseline acoustic pressure was quantified.
Using the LWAF 1:100 scale facility, three alternative LWAF techniques have been evaluated. The first uses a swept sine acoustic source, and measures the phase difference of the signal between axially spaced microphones. A second method measures time of flight of a pulsed source that propagates, flowrate is obtained by tracking the delay between peaks and valleys at subsequent mic locations. The third method uses averaging to isolate dominant outgoing acoustic propagations from the fan and other structural sources. Averaged propagations are obtained at several locations, from which flowrate can be determined by phase comparison.


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Do you know what instantly turns off 58% of surveyed women? It's not what you think.Thursday, May 19th, 2011
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HINTON — A former Hinton Public Schools administrator, who left his job shortly before an investigation uncovered numerous testing violations at the district, was paid more than $96,000 after he resigned, records show.
Patrick Duffy, the rural district's former superintendent, resigned June 15 as numerous testing violations within the district were being investigated by the state Education Department.
The district's former testing coordinator, Cheryl Garrison, resigned during a recent school board meeting.
As a result of the Education Department's inquiry, 15 current and former Hinton High School students will have end-of-instruction exam scores invalidated.
Students still in Hinton schools will have to retake the exams, current Superintendent Richard Brownen said, while those already in college "will be held harmless" by the Education Department.
Brownen said about 170 district students take end-of-instruction exams, meaning nearly 10 percent of test-taking students were affected by the infractions.
According to Hinton Public Schools, Duffy was paid $96,393.76 after resigning as part of a settlement. That is the amount of his contract, signed in January, for this school year.
Duffy, now an assistant principal at Jefferson Middle School in Oklahoma City, said his resignation had nothing to do with the testing infractions. He said he complied with the Education Department's request for information related to the testing investigation but never heard anything further.
When contacted by The Oklahoman in August, Duffy said he had "no earthly idea" why education officials were investigating Hinton schools.
"Prior to receiving the data quality assurance check letter from the state Department of Education … my relationship with members on the Hinton Board of Education had reached a point where my resignation was forthcoming based on the best interest of the students of Hinton Schools," he said. "(It had) nothing to do with testing irregularities."
Duffy's contract with Hinton Public Schools states he was to work as superintendent from July 1, 2012, to June 13, 2013, to receive compensation. It says nothing about him receiving a year's salary should he resign before the dates of employment specified in the contract.
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Beloit, WI -- The Beloit College Men's Basketball team ran into a hot-shooting team on Wednesday night in Flood Arena and it was too much to overcome in an 86-71 loss to Ripon College.
The loss snapped Beloit's two-game winning streak. They still have won three of their last five.
Beloit jumped up by six points five minutes in before RC went on an 11-3 run to take a two-point lead midway through the half. The teams traded the lead for the next six minutes but Ripon went on an 11-2, three-minute run that put them up eight with 1:45 left. They led 41-34 at the break.
The Red Hawks slowly built their lead through the second half, shooting at a 57.1% clip, and got it up to 16 at 55-39 with 14:12 remaining to end a 14-3 run. The Buccaneers got within eight with 2:51 left after a pair of Travis Towns free throws but could get no closer.
Besides the hot shooting, RC hit 10 of 12 free throws in the final 1:30 to seal the win.
Patrick Kenny led the way with 17 points while James Lazarcik had 13. Michael Horton scored nine with four assists. David Bremner had a game-high nine rebounds.
The Buccaneers will look to get their momentum back on the road for the next four games, all Midwest Conference match-ups. That road trip starts Tuesday at Carroll University in Waukesha. Tipoff is at 7:30 p.m.


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The kitchen was the domain of Miraglia Eriquez's grandmother, but this recipe was her grandfather's specialty. Sitting at the dining table, Poppy, as he was known, would peel and cut oranges, toss the pieces into glasses, and cover them with red wine. After the oranges soaked up and sweetened the wine, he would eat forkfuls of the fruit, then down the drink. It wasand isthe perfect prelude to dessert.
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- 6 large navel oranges, peeled and coarsely chopped, discarding tough membranes
- 1 (750-ml) bottle Chianti or other Italian red wine
Divide oranges among 12 (5-to 8-ounces) juice glasses and top with wine. Let stand 5 minutes.
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Mrs. Chong Sun Fry, age 59, of Buford, GA passed away Friday, December 07, 2012. She is survived by her husband of thirty-four years, Greg Fry, Buford, GA; daughters and sons in law, Kimberly and Jason Smith, Dacula, GA and Christina and Matthew Avin, Buford, GA; grandchildren, Evelyn Smith, Alice Smith and Madison Avin; sisters, Hye Sun Sutton, Buford, GA and Eui Sun Song, Republic of Korea; brothers, In Sub Song, Republic of Korea and Eui Sub Song, Republic of Korea; three nieces, five nephews; and mother in law and father in law, Helen and John Hartman, Jacksonville, FL. Mrs. Fry was born August 2, 1953 in the Republic of Korea. She was a 1972 graduate of Seoul Women's High School in Seoul, Korea. She was a homemaker and a member of Hebron Baptist Church in Dacula, GA. Funeral service will be held on Monday, December 10, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. in the Chapel of Flanigan Funeral Home with Rev. Derek G. Spain officiating. Interment will follow at Broadlawn Memorial Gardens in Buford, GA. The family will receive friends at the funeral home Sunday from 2:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the American Cancer Society in memory of Chong Sun Fry. To express condolences, please sign our online guest book at www.flaniganfuneralhome.com. Arrangements by: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA, 770-932-1133.
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Novartis loses patent battle, experts hail court ruling
In a ruling lauded by health experts and activists, the Supreme Court Monday dismissed Swiss pharma giant Novartis AG's petition seeking patent protection for its anti-cancer drug Glivec (Imatinib Mesylate).
In the landmark judgment, Justice Aftab Alam and Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai held that the "patent product, the beta crystalline form of Imatinib Mesylate, fails in both the tests of invention and patentability" and dismissed the company's plea with cost.
Novartis had challenged in court the Chennai-based Intellectual Property Appellate Board's 2006 decision declining grant of patent for beta crystalline form of Imatinib Mesylate.
Justice Alam said the claim was "beyond the realm of patents".
"We firmly reject the appellant's (Novartis) case that Imatinib Mesylate is a new product and the outcome of an invention... We hold and find that Imatinib Mesylate is a known substance..." and its pharmacological properties are also known, the court said, in a judgment running into 36,089 words.
"In whatever way Section 3(d) of the Indian Patents Act is interpreted, Novartis cannot claim that it is a patent. It fails the test of patentability," he said.
The court held that the amended portion of Section 3 (d) was only for genuine inventions.
The legal battle for the patent of the blood cancer drug was closely watched by international pharmaceutical firms.
If the Swiss firm had won the case, Indian firms would have been barred from manufacturing generic drugs.
Health experts welcomed the ruling, saying it would ensure that patients get access to cheaper life-saving drugs.
"This is a landmark judgment. This will have a long-term and wide impact, as the generic version makes it more affordable for the poor," Y.K. Sapru of the Mumbai-based Cancer Patients Aid Association told IANS.
"Now the prices of life-saving drugs will be reduced from Rs.160,000 per month to just Rs.6,000," Sapru added.
The judgment allows firms in India to continue making copycat versions of the Novartis drug Glivec.
Sameer Kaul, a senior surgical oncologist at the Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, also hailed the ruling.
"The government should have stepped in much earlier to negotiate the prices with the company," Kaul told IANS.
"The government should encourage the local pharmaceutical industry to spend more on research, so that we can develop own molecules. Also, the patent time-period of 20-30 years is absurd. It should not be more than two or three years," he said.
AIIMS' P.K. Julka said: "The ruling is good for poor patients. It will ensure continued access to cheap drugs."
Unni Karunakara, international president of medical humanitarian aid organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres, said: "This is a huge relief for the millions of patients and doctors in developing countries."
"The Supreme Court's decision now makes patents on the medicines that we desperately need less likely," Karunakara said.
Indian generic medicines are exported abroad to other developing countries also.
Anand Grover, the lawyer representing Indian companies, said: "We are very happy that the court has rejected attempts by Novartis to water down our patent laws."
In Mumbai, Novartis AG said the Supreme Court decision will discourage future innovation in India.
Novartis India's managing director Ranjit Shahani said: "This ruling is a setback for patients that will hinder medical progress for diseases without effective treatment options."
Stating that Novartis will continue to file for patents in India, Shahani said the company will not invest in research and development (R and D) in the country.
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Microsoft confirmed officially that it was developing the next iteration of the Windows client and server operating systems in parallel just as it had done with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 before them. However, following his keynote at Tech•Ed 2010, Bob Muglia, president, Server and Tools Business, noted that Microsoft had yet to slap an official codename on the successors of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Muglia also stated that, at this point in time, there wasn't really a feature list that the Redmond company had been settled on, and that a target release deadline was also up in the air.
"Just like with Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7, we worked on a common schedule and a common thing with our friends in the client team, and we're still doing that," Muglia stated. (via Beyond Binary)
In the past, Steven Sinofsky, president, Windows and Windows Live Division, also objected to the Windows 8 moniker being used for the evolution of Windows client and server. However, despite this, various other Microsoft internal sources are, in fact, referring to the successor of Windows 7 as Windows 8.
One very interesting aspect related to how the development process of Windows changes after Sinofsky came at the helm of the project has been imported from the Office team. When Sinofsky was leading Office, Microsoft did not use codenames for future releases of the productivity suite, but product numbers instead. Office 2010, for example, was Office 14 (it should have been Office 13, as Office 2007 was Office 12, but Microsoft skipped the unlucky number). The next version of Office has already been labeled Office 15.
When Sinofsky transitioned to Windows, the successor of Windows Vista became Windows 7, as Vista was Windows 6.0. It is only naturally to assume, and Microsoft's own employees did so, that the next version of Windows will be labeled Windows 8.
While not opening too much of the future, Muglia did point out that Windows Server vNext will be a major release of the OS, as Windows Server 2008 R2 was a minor upgrade to the plain vanilla Windows Server 2008. "We're not talking a lot about the next version of Windows Server today," Muglia revealed, "but I think what you'll see is...that the learnings that we have from Windows Azure will be pulled back into Windows Server, just like there's features in Windows Server and SQL Server that are being pulled up into Windows Azure and SQL Azure."


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(NEW YORK) -- The Colts host Seattle in what is a showdown of two quarterbacks that were selected in the 2012 draft. Colts' Andrew Luck was drafted No. 1 overall and Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson was selected in the third-round with the 75th pick. "It's the defense that goes up against the quarterbacks," Luck said of the matchup. "I'm never on the field at the same time as them."
Colts head coach Chuck Pagano knows how tough Wilson will be for his defense.
"(Wilson) is a top level starter in this league. He's a proven winner," Pagano said. "He's got an NFL arm, he can make all the throws, great presence, great command, never shaken, athletic as all get out, and his ability to extend plays scares the heck out of you."
The Seattle defense is giving up just 11.8 points a game while holding opposing quarterbacks to a league-low 60.7 rating.
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The past two decades have seen an explosion of entrepreneurship and much of it has occurred in the social sector. This revolution is fundamentally changing the way society organizes itself and the way we approach social issues. Stetson is looking for leaders to help in this movement. This is open to all majors on campus. Whether you are looking to start your own business, want to improve your career possibilities, or want to work for another firm, we believe we have a program that can help you in many ways. We are breaking the mold to make this possible.
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Learn how to live your passion! We are holding an information session on Wednesday, Oct. 2 at 1:15 p.m.and again at 5:15 p.m. in the Lynn Business Center (LBC) 222. Pizza and drinks will be provided. All majors are invited. Come by for a short presentation that may help you find direction to your future.
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Levin, Linda. "Letter to the Editor." Great Swamp Gazette. XVI(2):22. October 16, 1992.
Luebke, Barbara F. "Book Review: Lesbians at Midlife. The Creative Transition. Barbara Sang, Joyce Warshow and Adrienne I Smith, Editors." Psychology of Women Quarterly. 16(2):268-269. June 1992.
Luebke, Barbara F. "Commentary: No More Content Analyses." Newspaper Research Journal. 13(1+2):2-9. Winter/Spring 1992.
Silvia, A. J., Jr. "Book Review: Campbell, Richard. 60 Minutes and the News: A Mythology for Middle America." Choice. 29(6):888. February 1992.
Silvia, A. J., Jr. "Book Review: Goldman, Robert. Mapping Hegemony: Television News Coverage of Industrial Conflict." Choice. 29(11/12):1671. July/August 1992.
Silvia, A. J., Jr. "Book Review: Journalism and Popular Culture, ed. by Peter Dahlgren and Colin Sparks." Choice. 30(2):292. October 1992.
Silvia, A. J., Jr. "Book Review: Kaniss, Phyllis. Making Local News." Choice. 29(7):1066. March 1992.
Silvia, A. J., Jr. "Book Review: Reston, James. Deadline: A Memoir." Choice. 29(9):1386. May 1992.
Silvia, A. J., Jr. "Book Review: Seymour Ure, Colin. The British Press and Broadcasting Since 1945." Choice. 29(4):587. 1992.
Silvia, Tony. "Teaching Ethics: A Model for Role Playing." Feedback. 33(4):22-23. Fall 1992.
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for SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied, with optional tambourine This is a spirited arrangement of the popular fourteenth-century carol for mixed voices, with an optional part for tambourine in the final verse. The familiar melody weaves between the vocal parts, and the piece is characterized by medieval harmonies and a rocking thirds motif. An English singing translation is presented alongside the original Latin, allowing choirs to perform the carol in either language.
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"A familiar Irish melody (with both Latin and English texts) is given a charming, jubilant setting. Carol Barnett has a wonderful way of offering joy in her writing, and your choir will enjoy this setting that builds and builds to a great climax. Medium difficulty." - Philip Brunelle, American Guild of Organists Journal, Sept 13
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