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Higher education for undocumented students: The case for open admission and in-state tuition rates for students without lawful immigration status
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Examines the plight of undocumented immigrant students seeking access to higher education. (Copyright Indiana International and Comparative Law Review Vol. 15.2)
This law review article examines the plight of undocumented immigrant students seeking access to higher education, and advocates open admission and in-state tuition for these students, regardless of immigration status. (Copyright Indiana International and Comparative Law Review Vol. 15.2)
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"They may see it as a grade of 'F' from their perspective, as our being graded a failure," wrote Voepel, who smokes cigars. "I see this grade of 'F' from our perspective as being the highest grade for 'Freedom' we could earn. In Santee we believe in life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Our City Council thinks long and hard before we restrict or take away one's freedom."
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Darlings, if you're new here, this is something of a T Lo tradition. We take a look at all the garments made during the competition by each finalist to see if we can find certain themes and motifs and even weaknesses.
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We can see that Seth A avoids color when he can, choosing to work mostly in blacks and whites. We can also see that, given the choice, he'd rather make a pair of pants than a skirt (he was forced to make dresses for #3, 4, and 11) and if he has to make a skirt, he'd rather it was short. He simply doesn't do gowns unless he's forced to. And then there are the jackets. We said back when we were looking at his pre-show portfolio that his jackets were fabulous and he didn't disappoint in the competition. He did tend to return to roughly the same jacket design again and again: very fitted with an attention-getting collar. It's also interesting to note that when he does make pants, he tends to add something unique to the design, whether it's a row of buttons or a stripe down the leg. They're always high-waisted, though.
Ultimately, his greatest strength is also a potential weakness: there is such a thing as being TOO consistent. When you have only ten looks to show, you better make sure at least some of them are outside your wheelhouse, otherwise the judges are going to claim your collection was too safe and too expected. In addition, if he's not careful, that rocker aesthetic can come off looking awfully dated and costume-y. If that's where your inspiration lies, you better make sure you bring something new to the table.
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Paleo bloggers are a diverse set – whether it's the Paleo recipes, the inquisition of health from the more scientific among us, or the simple stream-of-consciousness Paleo-lifers, there is something for everyone. But that everyone is not always the beginner, the first, the person without focus.
This is why this post – the entry where we talk about Paleo but don't talk about Paleo but talk about Paleo – exists, because although so much of Paleo is in its eating constraints, the recipes we construct and the feeling we get from it, the small details of its successful application and enjoyment come with much more difficulty than many simple Paleo blogs may lead you to believe.
Paleo isn't "eat like a caveman" – it's much more than that. Paleo is prepping occasionally difficult meals, Paleo is getting the correct minerals, Paleo is need for variation, Paleo is proper exercise, Paleo is the motivation reminders, Paleo is something we do even when we're not just Googling "Paleo cocktail sauce".
It's a total package, and that's where this entry comes from – those struggles, not only the application of whether or not Jamba Juice is edible under what we consider "Paleo" (hint: it's not).
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Juli is God's gift to those who mutter phrases such as this: "Paleo is so boring – I couldn't eat plain chicken all the time." Her recipes are defyingly delicious and for all intents and purposes, Paleo food porn.
Beautiful photos bring to life recipes you didn't think were possible when you initially read about Paleo, but – when you browse her site – you suddenly know, simply is.
And she leaps the boundaries of that perceived Paleo boredom, not surprisingly, with her writing as well – she's hilarious, creative, and has no boundaries, making her blog about exciting Paleo recipes, first, but her entertaining and health-focused life, second. And it's the second piece that makes the first even better, because you not only get the entertaining recipes, you get the entertaining writing – which, you'll soon realize, was a big reason she recently inked a book deal.
2. Tim Ferris
Tim Ferris is the author of the Four Hour Body and the recent Four Hour Chef, and at first glance, you might think his personal blog has nothing to do with Paleo. And you'd be right. But as I said at the prelude to this list, Paleo is so much more than the food you eat – it's the lifestyle that comes with it, the lifestyle that you have to live in order to make it possible – especially as a beginner.
Tim is the master of body manipulation – he recommends a variation diet know as "Slow Carb", which isn't Paleo, but doesn't stray astronomically far from its core tenents. But more importantly, Tim is worth reading because he hacks life, in a way that informs a Paleo-friendly approach. His book Four Hour Chef allows the hesitant cook to cook easily – trust me, I was that guy – and his philosophy behind the Four Hour Body and Four Hour Workweek lend application and speed towards being able to make beautiful meals, improve skills in the kitchen, and just get better at things in life, faster.
Paleo, for those that fail at it, is an eating art made for people with, seemingly, bounds of time and a lack of culinary creativity. Tim informs speed in learning, talent in the kitchen, and health and fun in life – all things that help inform a better, more healthy Paleo lifestyle that can be accomplished long-term. You will count many Paleo lovers also as readers of Tim's blog – and that's no coincidence.
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4. LeanGains
Martin Berkhan is that wicked smart dude that I'm afraid to even have this read this blog post – he's a workout genius with a distaste for bullshit, which you'll will quickly discover on his blog.
He's a big reason for the intermittent fasting craze, which I've experimented with, had success with, and hope to do extensively at some point on this blog for ancedotal evidence – and in general, is also someone who speaks positively to Paleo, although isn't "pushing it" on anyone at all. Instead, the mindset he carries on his blog, and in his writing, will inspire you – no more dicking around in the gym, breaking New Years resolutions (switching to Paleo?), fearing "cheat days", or thinking that lifting weight as a woman will make you bulky or "gross".
And, not to mention, the process behind the intermittent fasting concept is pretty conducive to a Paleo lifestyle, too – especially if you enjoy carb-feeds from time to time and overall enjoy your sanity. In general, I would enjoy taking Martin's content for a spin if you're really serious about looking good and feeling better in your day to day, as his thought process is one I believe every person that cares about their health should adopt.
5. Mark's Daily Apple
Mark's blog, and books, changed the game for me. I've read a decent number of Paleo blogs, now, and although Mark's eating prescription is "primal", most tenents are extremely tight-fitted with the Paleo ideal. But he also makes it accessible – there are other books out there that are notably difficult to read, but his entry into eating healthy, "The Primal Blueprint", makes it easy – it reads fast and is simple to understand – without sacrificing its ability to convince you of its effectiveness.
I love his writing, too – it's "fed" to you on a beautiful design that makes it a pleasure to come back to, and in general, he always has something relevant and insightful to say around the world of health. It's not that hard to listen to someone who's 57 and still looks youthful and vibrant – clearly, the philosophies he subscribes to have carried him to a long and healthy life.
For those who are new to the world of Paleo, I often recommend checking out his "primal" blog – because I know the reader will come away smarter, without feeling intimidated by the science and rational thought he still uses to persuade us. Plus, he's a big proponent of Paleo!
Blogs for Paleo Beginners – Not Paleo Blogs
The only blog among these that may be considered "100% Paleo" is Juli's PaleOMG – and even she is not slow to admit that she frequently diverges from the eating practice to enjoy a treat here and there.
But all of these can and will be found talking about Paleo – and in general, I am confident they all add to the totality that is the "package" required not just to read Paleo recipes on a page, but to be able to do it successfully as a lifestyle – as least as it entails making it a habit long term.
In addition, do you have any other blogs recommended for Paleo beginners that I missed? I'd love to hear them in the comments!.


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Could this be a trend?
Yesterday, while Glenn and his every-willing sidekick anguished over the Constitutional-ripping of the new healthcare bill vote, Beck assured his grieving, tea-party revolutionaries, not to worry. With the vote, President Obama would no longer be able to lead.
His proof - wish I had a blackboard here - no president could lead with a job approval rating under 42%. The president's rating was at 43% and once it went down to 29% he would not be able to get above 42 again. No, I can't follow that, but try to stay with me here. The 43% was BEFORE the "fair and balanced" Brett Bair interview. So, surely, after that and the vote, down goes Obama! Down goes Obama!
Just wait until tomorrow.
It is now tomorrow. The president's approval rating...?
50%, so says Gallip.
Next on Beck. How the Marxist, socialist, communist liberals have taken over Gallop.
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Forward Thinking Genius? Thief Steals Shipment Of Next Year's New Hundreds
By Mack Rawden 4 years ago
Like the rest of the population, criminals range in intelligence from brilliant to moronic. Well know where this unidentified dude falls on the spectrum based on whether hes quickly arrested or manages to avoid detection for a few years.
Yesterday morning, a plane landed at Philadelphia International Airport. It was carrying a large quantity of newly designed $100 bills set to hit the market in 2013. Following the successful landing, a courier service transported the notes to the Federal Reserve Building in East Rutherford, New Jersey. After they were unloaded a short time later, workers realized a healthy chunk of the $100s were gone.
Authorities have no idea exactly when the currency was stolen, but according to My Fox Philly, the FBI is hoping theyll catch the thief shortly after he tries to pass one of the bills. In order for that to happen, however, the mystery dude who stole the $100s would either need to be so stupid he doesnt realize the money looks different than what were all using now or so desperate he hes willing to bank on some idiot merchant not knowing what our currency looks like.
Its entirely possible the guy who took the money might try to pass it for one of the above reasons. I prefer to think hes some kind of evil genius who knew he was stealing future money and will just sit on it until weve all gotten so used to the new hundreds weve stopped thinking about this theft.
You can take a look at the new bills below, courtesy of the FBI


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Amnesty International Report 2008 - Russian Federation
|Amnesty International
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|28 May 2008
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Head of State: Vladimir Putin
Head of government: Viktor Zubkov (replaced Mikhail Fradkov in September)
Death penalty: abolitionist in practice
Population: 141.9 million
Life expectancy: 65 years
Under-5 mortality (m/f): 24/18 per 1,000
Adult literacy: 99.4 per cent
The Russian authorities were increasingly intolerant of dissent or criticism, branding it 'unpatriotic'. A crackdown on civil and political rights was evident throughout the year and in particular during the run-up to the State Duma (parliament) elections in December. Given the strict state control of TV and other media, demonstrations were the flashpoint during the year for political protests, with police detaining demonstrators, journalists, and human rights activists, some of whom were beaten. Activists and political opponents of the government were also subjected to administrative detention.
The number of racist attacks that came to the attention of the media rose; at least 61 people were killed across the country. Although authorities recognized the problem and there was an increase in the number of prosecutions for racially motivated crimes, these measures failed to stem the tide of violence.
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Russia was responsible for enforced disappearances, torture and extrajudicial executions in 15 judgments relating to the second Chechen conflict which began in 1999. There were fewer reported cases of disappearances in the Chechen Republic than in previous years; however, serious human rights violations were frequent and individuals were reluctant to report abuses, fearing reprisals. Ingushetia saw an increase in serious violations, including enforced disappearances and extrajudicial executions.
NGOs were weighed down by burdensome reporting requirements imposed by changes to legislation. Torture was used by police against detainees, including to extract "confessions"; violence against inmates in prisons was also reported.
Pervasive corruption undermined the rule of law and people's trust in the legal system. A new structure, the Investigation Committee, was established within the office of the Prosecutor General, and was charged with responsibility for criminal investigations. It was unclear at the end of the year what impact these changes would have on the work of the Prosecutor's office.
New laws regulating immigration were brought in designed to simplify immigration procedures and the obtaining of work permits, but at the same time increasing the penalties for employing irregular migrants. The January 2007 law against foreign workers in Russian retail markets, presented by President Putin as a way of protecting "native Russians", was perceived by some as legitimizing xenophobia.
The ruling United Russia party won a clear majority in State Duma elections in December; President Putin headed the party's electoral list. An observation mission of parliamentarians from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the Council of Europe pronounced the elections "not fair".
The North Caucasus remained a violent and unstable region. The security situation in Ingushetia deteriorated with armed groups launching numerous attacks, often fatal, against members of law enforcement agencies. Unidentified gunmen committed numerous attacks against non-Ingush civilians, including ethnic Russians. In Chechnya sporadic fighting continued, with incursions by armed groups into the capital Grozny and other areas. Ramzan Kadyrov was appointed President of Chechnya in March, following the resignation of Alu Alkhanov.
Human rights defenders
Government representatives and state-controlled media repeatedly accused human rights defenders and members of the opposition movement of working for foreign interests and being "anti-Russian". Human rights defenders and civil society activists were subjected to harassment and intimidation. Criminal charges, such as for using unlicensed computer software or for inciting hatred, were taken out selectively against human rights defenders and independent journalists.
- Oleg Orlov, head of the human rights centre Memorial, and three journalists from a Russian TV station, who had all planned to monitor a demonstration against serious abuses by law enforcement officials in Ingushetia, were abducted on 24 November from a hotel in Ingushetia by armed masked men. They stated that they were beaten and threatened with being shot before being left in a field.
- In April Russian NGOs were obliged for the first time to submit information about their activities under the new law on NGOs to the Federal Registration Service (FRS). In the following months, many human rights defenders were subjected to repeated reviews of their activities, were forced to re-register their NGOs in lengthy bureaucratic procedures and to challenge allegations against their NGOs in court.
- Citizen's Watch, a human rights organization in St Petersburg focusing on such issues as police reform and combating racism, used non-Russian donor funding for their publications. The FRS considered that printing the names of donors on their publications constituted advertising for the donors, for which the NGO would have had to pay tax. In July the FRS demanded copies of all the NGO's outgoing communications since 2004. Citizen's Watch disputed the right of the FRS to receive such information.
- In August, new amendments to the law on combating "extremist activities" came into force. They added a new motivation of hatred against a specific group to the list of possible "extremist" motivations: the list now includes hatred against not only a specific race, religion, or ethnicity but also political, ideological and social groups. The law allows for acts of minor hooliganism to be more severely punished if committed on grounds of hatred against a specific group. Human rights defenders were concerned that the law may be used to clamp down on dissent.
- On 27 January, the Supreme Court upheld the conviction of human rights defender Stanislav Dmitrievskii, who had received a conditional sentence in 2006 for inciting ethnic enmity after publishing articles by Chechen separatist leaders. In November a court in Nizhnii Novgorod imposed stricter conditions on him.
- Nine people reportedly were charged in relation to the October 2006 murder of human rights journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
Freedom of expression
In the months prior to the State Duma elections, the authorities became more restrictive of public expressions of dissent. Scores of people, including journalists and monitors, were briefly detained prior to, during and following demonstrations and many were convicted of violations of the Administrative Code in trials which did not always meet international standards of fair trial.
- In November opposition leader Garry Kasparov was sentenced to five days' administrative detention after he had participated in a "dissenters' march" in Moscow a week before the Duma elections. Amnesty International considered him a prisoner of conscience and called for his immediate release.
Police used excessive force on a number of occasions in order to break up demonstrations organized by opposition parties and anti-government activists. Following a demonstration in St Petersburg on 15 April, several people had to undergo hospital treatment.
The authorities used various methods to prevent journalists, well-known political activists and human rights activists from attending and monitoring demonstrations. In May, Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov banned a gay rights march in Moscow. Gay rights activists, including several members of the European Parliament, were briefly detained when they attempted to hand over a petition to Yuri Luzhkov, urging him to respect the right to freedom of expression and protesting against his decision to ban a gay rights march from taking place in Moscow.
Armed conflict in the North Caucasus
Federal and local law enforcement agencies operating in the region responded in an arbitrary and unlawful fashion to violent attacks by armed groups. Serious human rights violations, including enforced disappearances and abductions, arbitrary detention, torture including in unofficial places of detention, and extrajudicial executions, were reported in the Republics of Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan and North Ossetia. People were convicted of crimes in cases where forced "confessions" formed part of the evidence against them. People mounted demonstrations in Ingushetia and Dagestan against disappearances and other arbitrary actions by law enforcement agencies. A rally against disappearances was banned in Chechnya's capital, Grozny, in October. Human rights abuses, including abductions, were reportedly committed by armed groups against civilians in the region.
In Ingushetia, in at least six cases where men were shot dead by law enforcement officers, witnesses claimed that the men had been summarily executed; the authorities stated that they had put up armed resistance. Relatives of a six-year-old boy, shot dead by law enforcement during a raid on the family home in November, claimed he had been killed deliberately. Detainees were tortured and ill-treated in order to extract "confessions" or information. At least three people subjected to enforced disappearance or abduction during the year remained missing at the end of the year.
- Ibragim Gazdiev was seized by armed men in camouflage in August in Karabulak, Ingushetia, and subsequently disappeared. The armed men were allegedly law enforcement officials from the Federal Security Service (FSB). The authorities officially denied that Ibragim Gazdiev had been detained. He has not been seen or heard from since.
In Chechnya the number of reported enforced disappearances and abductions decreased, compared with previous years, although cases continued to be reported. Torture and ill-treatment by Chechen law enforcement officials was reported, including in illegal and secret places of detention. During his visit to Chechnya in March, the Commissioner for Human Rights of the CoE stated that he had "the impression that torture and ill-treatment are widespread" and added that perpetrators of torture had a feeling of "utter impunity". The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) issued its third public statement on Chechnya in March, naming six police detention facilities where detainees were at a high risk of torture.
In Kabardino-Balkaria a trial began in October against 59 suspects accused of an armed attack on Nalchik in October 2005 in which over 100 people died. Many of the detainees, including former Guantánamo detainee Rasul Kudaev, alleged they were tortured into giving confessions.
Victims of human rights violations and their relatives were frequently afraid to submit official complaints. In some cases the victim or their lawyer was directly threatened not to pursue a complaint. Human rights groups in the region publicizing the violations and offering assistance to victims came under pressure from the authorities. Some individuals were reportedly reluctant to lodge applications at the European Court of Human Rights, because of reprisals against applicants before them.
- 76-year-old Sumaia Abzueva was allegedly beaten up on the way to the market in Argun on 9 January by a group of young men. She had been seeking an investigation into the killing of her son in 2005. She said she had been threatened more than once by the men who had detained and taken her son away from the family home, and who were suspected to be members of Chechen security forces.
When investigations concerning human rights violations were opened they were often ineffectual, and suspended for failure to identify any suspect. The CPT highlighted gross inadequacies in many of the investigations opened into allegations of torture. There was no single comprehensive list of disappeared persons, no work to collect DNA from relatives of the disappeared, no work to exhume the mass graves, and no fully functioning forensic laboratory carrying out autopsies. Very few cases reached trial.
- In June, a military court in Rostov-on-Don convicted four members of a special Russian military intelligence unit for killing six unarmed civilians from Dai village, Chechnya, in January 2002. They were sentenced to imprisonment in strict-regime prison colonies for terms of nine to 14 years. This was the third hearing into the case. Three of the four were sentenced in their absence, having failed to appear. The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the convictions.
European Court of Human Rights rulings
In 15 judgments the European Court ruled Russia responsible for enforced disappearances, torture and extrajudicial executions relating to the second Chechen conflict. The Court sharply criticized the ineffectual investigations.
- Peace activist Zura Bitieva was tortured in 2000 in an unofficial detention centre at Chernokozovo, and killed in 2003, along with three members of her family. She had filed a case with the Court relating to her torture. The Court ruled that her detention in Chernokozovo had been in "total disregard of the requirement of lawfulness"; that her and her relatives' killing could be attributed to the State; and that there had been no effective, prompt and thorough investigation into the killings.
Internally displaced people
Many thousands of people remained internally displaced in the North Caucasus as a result of the second Chechen conflict. At least seven temporary accommodation centres were closed in Grozny. Some individuals were reportedly forced to leave without a guaranteed safe and sustainable return to their homes, without adequate alternative housing being offered, and without due process being followed. Reportedly some individuals were forced to sign statements that they left voluntarily.
Over 18,000 people displaced by the Chechen conflict were estimated to be living in Ingushetia and Dagestan at the end of 2007, some of them living in extremely poor conditions in temporary camps. Thousands of others remained displaced in Ingushetia from the Prigorodnii district, a territory disputed with North Ossetia.
Forcible return
Individuals who were detained under deportation or extradition proceedings, were denied access to a meaningful asylum procedure and were vulnerable to arbitrary actions by law enforcement agencies. Amnesty International was aware of at least three cases of forcible return to countries (in these cases Uzbekistan and China), where they faced a high risk of serious human rights violations including torture, in violation of the principle of non-refoulement. In one case, an individual was returned over 24 hours after the European Court of Human Rights had issued an order to stay the deportation. In May, the head of a detention centre for foreigners in Moscow was convicted of exceeding official authority for his participation in the October 2006 deportation of Uzbekistani national Rustam Muminov, in violation of Russian and international law.
Torture and other ill-treatment
There were many reports of torture and ill-treatment during investigations by law enforcement officials and in places of detention. Police and investigators allegedly beat detainees, placed plastic bags or gas masks over their heads, used electroshocks and threatened them with further forms of torture and ill-treatment if they refused to admit their "guilt" and to sign a "confession".
During the year a number of police officers were found guilty of crimes relating to torture and ill-treatment during investigations and interrogations.
- In July, Valerii Dontsov, an elderly disabled man from Kstovo in the region of Nizhnii Novgorod, was reportedly beaten and ill-treated by police in order to make him confess to the murder of his son. After being subjected to ill-treatment by the police, he had to undergo hospital treatment.
Riots in several prison colonies were reported. Prisoners were protesting against ill-treatment and violations of their rights, such as denials of family visits and receipt of food parcels, and the frequent use of punishment cells for minor violations of prison rules. Similar reports were received from prison colonies in Krasnodar, Sverdlovsk and Kaluga Regions. The media reported that three prisoners died as a result of the suppression of a riot in Sverdlovsk Region.
In January President Putin spoke in favour of ratifying the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture. Proposals to allow for public monitoring of places of detention were under discussion; however, by the end of the year no effective system of unannounced inspections was in place.
Fair trial concerns
In April, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe called on the Russian authorities to "use all available legal means" to release Igor Sutiagin, Valentin Danilov and Mikhail Trepashkin. The parliamentarians expressed concern about the authorities' failure to meet international fair trial standards and about alleged inadequate medical treatment.
- Igor Sutiagin, sentenced in 2004 to 15 years' imprisonment for espionage, spent three months in a punishment cell, for reportedly being in possession of a mobile phone in the prison colony.
- Lawyer and former security service officer Mikhail Trepashkin was sentenced in 2004 for revealing state secrets and unlawful possession of ammunition. He was transferred in March from an open prison colony to a stricter regime for allegedly violating prison rules, but his lawyers and human rights defenders believed this to be a punishment for his complaints against the prison authorities. On 30 November Mikhail Trepashkin was released.
- New charges were filed against imprisoned former YUKOS oil company head Mikhail Khodorkovskii and his associate Platon Lebedev in February, alleging their involvement in money laundering and embezzlement. The Office of the Prosecutor General failed to respect court decisions concerning the criminal proceedings and the men's legal team was harassed.
Violence against women
Violence against women in the family was widespread. Government support for crisis centres and hotlines was totally inadequate. No measures under Russian law specifically addressed violence against women in the family.
Violent racist attacks occurred with alarming regularity, mostly concentrated in big cities such as Moscow, St Petersburg and Nizhnii Novgorod, where the majority of foreigners and ethnic minorities lived. While exact figures for numbers of attacks and racist incidents were hard to verify, the non-governmental SOVA Information and Analytical Centre reported that at least 61 people were killed and at least 369 were injured in racially motivated attacks, an increase on 2006. Anti-Semitic attacks and desecration of Jewish cemeteries were also reported. The real level of such violence remained hidden due to chronic under-reporting.
Despite increased efforts by authorities to recognize the issue of racism, and some indications that legal provisions against racially motivated crimes were being used more effectively, there were few convictions for racist attacks and victims stated that their attempts to report racist attacks to the police were futile.
Amnesty International visits/reports
- Amnesty International delegates visited Russia in July and December. An October visit to Chechnya was postponed at the request of authorities.
- Russian Federation: What justice for Chechnya's disappeared? (EUR 46/015/2007)
- Russian Federation: Update briefing: What progress has been made since May 2006 to tackle violent racism? (EUR 46/047/2007)
- Russian Federation: New trial of Mikhail Khodorkovskii and Platon Lebedev must meet international fair trial standards (EUR 46/052/2007)
- Russian Federation: Human rights defenders at risk in the North Caucasus (EUR 46/053/2007)


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U.S. Attorney's Office Contributed to $6.68 Billion in Civil and Criminal Collections in Fiscal Year 2010
Recoveries Largest in History
|U.S. Attorney's Office December 16, 2010
BUFFALO—U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced that financial collections by the Department of Justice in criminal and civil actions in fiscal year (FY) 2010 reached an all-time high due to the efforts of the U.S. Attorneys' offices nationwide. The 94 U.S. Attorneys' offices nationwide contributed to the collection of $6.68 billion during the government's fiscal year. This is the most successful collection year by the U.S. Attorneys' offices.
According to statistics from the Department of Justice, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of New York contributed to the collection of $31,435,177 in FY 2010. Of this amount, $2,549,864 was collected in criminal actions and $28,885,313 was collected in civil actions. Specifically, $25,876,407 of this amount was collected in Health Care Fraud litigation, a priority of the Department of Justice. Additionally, the office also collected $7,681,326 in criminal and civil forfeitures, including over $800,000 being returned to victims of crime and $826,151 being shared with state and local law enforcement partners with the U.S. Attorney's Office.
"During this time of economic recovery, these collections are more important than ever," said U.S. Attorney Hochul. "Americans work very hard for their money and the U.S. Attorney's Office is committed to protecting that hard earned money. Anyone who attempts to victimize others and profit financially from their illegal activities will be caught and prosecuted. By fully utilizing our nation's forfeiture laws, our office not only takes the profit out of crime, it returns money to both victims and taxpayers."
The U.S. Attorneys' offices are responsible for enforcing and collecting civil and criminal debts owed to the United States and criminal debts owed to federal crime victims. Statistics from the Department of Justice indicate that the total amount collected in criminal actions totaled $2.84 billion in restitution, criminal fines, and felony assessments. The law requires defendants to pay restitution to victims of certain federal crimes who have suffered a physical injury or financial loss. While restitution is paid directly to the victim, criminal fines and felony assessments are paid to the Department's Crime Victims' Fund, which distributes the funds to state victim compensation and victim assistance programs.
Additionally, the U.S. Attorneys' offices contributed to the collection of $1.8 billion in asset forfeiture actions in FY 2010. Forfeited assets are deposited into either the Department of Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund or the Department of Treasury Forfeiture Fund and are used to restore funds to crime victims and for a variety of law enforcement purposes.
The statistics also indicate that $3.84 billion was collected in civil actions. The largest civil collections were from affirmative civil enforcement cases, in which the United States recovered government money lost to fraud or other misconduct or collected fines imposed on individuals and/or corporations for violations of federal health, safety, civil rights or environmental laws. In addition, civil debts were collected on behalf of several federal agencies, including the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Services, Internal Revenue Service, and Small Business Administration.
The nationwide collection totals for FY 2010 represent nearly a 30 percent increase in criminal collections and 57 percent increase in civil collections over FY 2009. In FY 2009, the U.S. Attorneys' offices contributed to the collection of more than $4.6 billion. Of the amount collected, $2.23 billion was collected criminally and $2.44 billion was collected civilly. The significant increase in collections was due to various large criminal restitution cases as well as large health care fraud cases.
For further information, the Department's Annual Statistical Reports can be found on the Internet at http://www.justice.gov/usao/reading_room/foiamanuals.html.


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--Pokemorphs: Heroes--
Part I--Ragnarök
StorySeventeen chosen.Seventeen Emblems.
Seventeen saviors...
One legend. One story.
'It is said in numerous legends that on the eve of the Ragnarök, the end of the world, seventeen heroes chosen by the gods would be destined to find an Emblem, a small golden object closely ressembling a Frontier Symbol, and to save the world from possession by Karrakkudo, the Dusk king. The seventeen badges, one for each type, would allow its owner to instantly morph into the Pokemon of its choice, has it to be of the type its badge represents. The Emblems, to avoid possession by vile hands, were hidden in the depths of time until the Ragnaröks eve. Their possessor would immediately integrate the object within their body, leaving a marking of unknown origins somewhere on their body. The aforementioned Ragnaröks eve is today.'
Here comes the greatest Pokémorphs RP, EVAR! Attache ta tuque!
--Notes1-The badges list :Normal - The Plain EmblemFighting - The Force Emblem -
Flying - The Sky EmblemGround - The Quake EmblemRock - The Diamond EmblemSteel - The Iron EmblemWater - The Ocean EmblemIce - The Freeze EmblemElectric - The Thunder EmblemGrass - The Bloom EmblemBug - The Hive EmblemPsychic - The Mind Emblem -
Dark - The Shadow Emblem -
Ghost - The Spirit EmblemDragon - The Scale EmblemFire - The Blaze Emblem -
Poison - The Venom Emblem--2-Legendaries ARE allowed. Dont go SO I LIEK MORFD IN2 GROUNDUN AND USED EARTHKUAK AND MAD DA EARTH EXPLODDDD!!!!! BOOOOOOOOOOOM, though.
3-Any questions, dont be afraid to ask! Ill answer within the next how about 3 months?
4-All characters MUST have a special mark somewhere. must. Like the Triforce symbol, basically XD
Pokemon--(4 max.)
Emblem Wielding--Biography/Personality (whatever you want)--History (optional)--~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


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I just sold my Marin Wildcat Trail, which is heavey at 30 lbs, but a nice bike. Enjoyed it a lot.
Now I want as light a weight HT as I can afford and don't know if I even want a front suspension, when a fork might do me just as well. A cross country rider with little single track and very, very little DH.
So, what do you guys suggest?


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We have a requirement to modify the functionality of either the message forwarding/message notification contents. I'm hoping the we can make this change via a config file change but we are willing to modify the source code if that is our only option. I'm looking for suggestions on how to make this modification.
Our requirements are to only send the first 160 chars of the message body in a message forward or a message notification. The subject, from, to headers can all be discarded....all we need is the message body, but we need to truncate it to only include the first 160 chars of the message.
Can this be done via the zimbra-attrs.xml file and ifso, how, and ifnot, can someone provide a brief starting point of the source code files I need to get started on the fix?
Thanks in advance for your help


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Amateur At Home
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With a name like Amateur At Home, you might think that the website features a lone babe sitting around her house, but that's not the case at all. Instead, the site actually showcases a whole bunch of hot amateurs who can hardly keep their clothes on when there's a camera present.
You won't find any pornstars on AmateurAtHome, but you will get to see a whole bunch of stunning everyday chicks in various states of undress. Some babes merely pose while wearing cute little outfits, but others allow themselves to be filmed while they fuck and get jizz splashed all over them. In other words, you're getting a nice mix of softcore and hardcore content.
The vast majority of the hardcore stuff takes place in the vids that can be streamed in Flash format or downloaded as Windows Media files. There are 101 flicks in all and they're often rather short and also vary quite a bit in quality. That said, if you look around, you'll encounter some longer films and ones that offer stellar-quality playback.
The site's photos are mostly softcore, so you can expect to see lots of hot chicks showing off their tits, posing nude, playing with their pussies and having good times with their gal pals. The images generally look good, but they're often a little on the small side, so there aren't any high-res pics to be found here. There are no Zip file downloads either, so you can't save any of the 192 picture sets in one shot.
One thing you will get as a member is access to four bonus sites, namely Fucked By Machines, Pantyhose Sexy Legs, Underskirt Vids and Solo Russian Models. The first of these sites features babes being taken to orgasm by machines, the second depicts cuties in pantyhose masturbating and screwing and the third site offers nothing but upskirt cam footage. Obviously the stuff's a little different, but you might dig it if you like variety.
Amateur At Home has some things going for it, but it'll need to improve the quality of its content and improve the number of videos if it ever wants to be a top site in the amateur niche. For now, it's decent and worth a look for perhaps a month or so.
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The Shifter is an immortal creature bound by an ancient spell to protect the kings of Samorna. When the realm is peaceful, she retreats to the Mistwood.But when she is needed she always comes.
Isabel remembers nothing. Nothing before the prince rode into her forest to take her back to the castle. Nothing about who she is supposed to be, or the powers she is supposed to have.
Prince Rokan needs Isabel to be his Shifter. He needs her ability to shift to animal form, to wind, to mist. He needs her lethal speed and superhuman strength. And he needs her loyalty because without it, she may be his greatest threat.
Isabel knows that her prince is lying to her, but she can't help wanting to protect him from the dangers and intrigues of the court . . . until a deadly truth shatters the bond between them.
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Here are the two arrays i want to compare:
char matches[LOOP][21] = { "Abc", "OOP", "0123", "abc", "xyz", "CD-R", "RAM", "SS", "3.5", "<=>" }
char correct[LINES][41] = { "", "Welcome To OOP244", " !\"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@", "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\\]^_`", "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{||||||||||}" };
I have tried using strncmp, strcmp, and strtr.
After finding a match, how would I return the "matches" array index it was found at?
E.g. "OOP" exists in correct[1] so when those two compare, it will = true, and the return value would be "1" because OOP exist in Array Index 1 of "matches".


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Midday Roundup: Guilty verdict for bin Laden's son-in-law
Guilty. A New York jury this morning convicted Osama bin Laden's son-in-law of terrorism-related charges that could land him in jail for life. Suleiman Abu Ghaith, 48, was found guilty of conspiring to kill Americans, conspiring to provide material support for terrorists, and providing such support. He served as al-Qaeda's spokesman after the 9/11 attacks. Prosecutors said Abu Ghaith helped recruit new fighters for the terror group and knew in advance of Richard Reid's 2001 attempt to blow up an airplane with a bomb hidden in his shoe. Taking the stand in his own defense, Abu Ghaith said he never helped plot al-Qaeda attacks and never became a formal member of the group.
Oops. In what Slate is calling the political gaffe of the year, an Iowa Democrat running for an open U.S. Senate seat disparaged the state's other longtime, and popular, Republican senator for being a "farmer who never went to law school." U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley, who had hoped to take over for retiring Sen. Tom Harkin, also a Democrat, might have ended his political career in a farm state where lawyers aren't necessarily considered heroes. Braley's comments about Sen. Chuck Grassley came during a fundraising event hosted by fellow trial lawyers in Texas. Like so many other politicians tripped up by their own unfortunate or ill-timed comments, he didn't know his speech was being recorded. And it doesn't help that yesterday was National Agriculture Day. And Braley's comments are reverberating in Washington, where Democrats are desperately clinging to their Senate majority, a task their frontrunner in Iowa just made that much more difficult.
Satellite evidence. A French satellite company might have located the Malaysian Airlines plane missing for more than two weeks. Officials announced this morning that analysis of satellite images shows 122 large objects floating in the Indian Ocean in the area in which experts think Flight 370 likely went down. The objects are scattered over 154 square miles. But search planes scouring the area could not find the suspected debris field, another setback for the families of the 239 people aboard the plane when it disappeared March 9. Experts say that while the images are promising—one even shows what could be one of the plane's wings—the items could be flotsam from cargo ships.
Bad behavior. Three Secret Service agents sent to the Netherlands in advance of President Barack Obama's visit have come home in disgrace after a night of drinking. Hotel staff found one of the agents passed out in a hallway. Agency officials confirmed three agents are being disciplined but would not say for what. According to anonymous sources, the agents are members of the Counter Assault Team. Agency rules adopted after an embarrassing incident in Colombia forbid team members from drinking 10 hours before an assignment. In the 2012 South American incident, a dozen agents who had been drinking heavily brought prostitutes back to their hotel rooms ahead of Obama's arrival for an economic summit.
Search continues. Officials in Snohomish County, Wash., say 24 people are now confirmed dead in the landslide that flattened parts of Oso on Saturday. Rescue teams have recovered 16 bodies and spotted eight more. About 176 people are still listed as missing or unaccounted for, although officials do not believe all of them are victims. Despite initial reports describing the landslide as unexpected, the county's emergency management director said residents have known for years that the hill that collapsed was unstable.


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This is a about a young man and his beloved wife who took ill and died. In his deep sorrow he dreams of her constantly and hears her voice. In his deep anguish and overwhelming grief, he comes to believe that if they embrace in his dream he will join her. It is said that he died in his sleep from a broken heart, or, was it sheer joy?
Undying Love.
Oh my darling my darling, my loved one so fair
Why did you leave me to a life so bare
The pain I am feeling is breaking my heart
Oh why oh why did death tear us apart.
I try to forget you but all is in vain
For I hear your sweet voice calling again and again
It carries me back to a time in the past
Of days of bliss not destined to last.
Oh that death be but a dream and you could awaken
With a kiss on those lips I have never forsaken.
If all the riches of the world were laid at my feet
Without you to share them my life would not be complete
For my life without you has no meaning
Oh why was our love so short and fleeting
And yet lives on in my heart, a heart now breaking.
How I long once more to caress your shining hair
To touch your face so pure and fair.
To gaze once more into those sparkling eyes
true feelings they could never disguise.
If death be the barrier, then I pray to die
So come to my bedside tonight as I lie
Put your arms around me in fond embrace
Let me die as I kiss your beautiful face.
While I still live, apart we must be
But I can come to you for you cannot come to me
So call me once more and hold out your hand
Let the dreams we envisaged in days of joy so deep
Be once more a reality, never more shall I weep.
How I miss your sweet smile, your laughter your touch
My poor heart is breaking I still love you so much
O loved one take pity, look down from above
Let death not prevail nor vanquish true love
By death we were parted and lost to each other
Let it release me now from a life full of dolour
I close my eyes for my heart is so weary
Once more enter my dreams, let me see you so clearly
Yes come closer my loved one, reach out from the light
Come closer much closer, take me with you this night
Free my soul from its shackles of mortal life
At last we'll be together, my darling, my wife.


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I have a problem when putting my iPhone app to background by pushing the exit button, and then relaunching by tapping the launch icon on the home screen: the app's view does return to its initial state like I want it to, but before that it flashes the earlier, wrong view state onscreen briefly.
My main view consists basically of a sequence of interlinked UIAnimateWithDuration calls. The behavior I want whenever any interruption occurs, is to reset the animation to its initial state (unless the animations have all finished and the app has entered the static final phase), and start over from there whenever the app returns to active and visible state.
After studying the subject I learned I need two types of interruption handling code to provide good ux: "instant" and "smooth". I have the method resetAnimation that resets the view properties to the initial state instantly, and the method pauseAnimation that animates quickly to the same state, with an additional label stating "paused" fading in on the top of the view.
Double clicking exit button
The reason for this is the "double clicking exit button" use case, that actually does not hide your view or put you in the background state, it just scrolls up a bit to show the multitasking menu at the bottom. So, resetting the view state instantly in this case just looked very ugly. The animated transition and telling the user you're paused seemed like a better idea.
This case works nice and smootly by implementing the applicationWillResignActive delegate method in my App Delegate and calling pauseAnimation from there. I handle returning from that multitasking menu by implementing the applicationDidBecomeActive delegate method and calling from there my resumeAnimation method, that fades out the "paused" label if its there, and starts my animation sequence from the initial state.
This all works fine, no flickering anywhere.
Visiting flipside
My app's built over the Xcode "utility" template, so it has a flipside view to show info/settings. I handle visiting the flipside and returning back to the main view by implementing these two delegate methods in my main view controller:
I call my resetAnimation in the viewDidDisappear method and resumeAnimation in viewDidAppear. This all works fine, the main view is its initial state from the very beginning of the transition to visible state - no unexpected flashing of wrong animation states of anything. But:
Pushing exit button and relaunching from my app icon (the buggy part!)
This is where the trouble starts. When I push exit button once and my app begins its transition to background, two things happen. First, applicationWillResignActive gets called here too, so my pauseAnimation method launches also. It wouldn't need to, since the transition doesn't need to be smooth here – the view just goes static, and "zooms out" to reveal the home screen – but what can you do? Well, it wouldn't do any harm either if I just could call resetAnimation before the exact moment that the system takes the snapshot of the view.
Anyways, secondly, applicationDidEnterBackground in the App Delegate gets called. I tried to call resetAnimation from there so that the view would be in the right state when the app returns, but this doesn't seem to work. It seems the "snapshot" has been taken already and so, when I tap my app launch icon and relauch, the wrong view state does flash briefly on the screen before the correct, initial state shows. After that, it works fine, the animations go about like they're supposed to, but that ugly flicker at that relaunch moment won't go away, no matter what I try.
Fundamentally, what I'm after is, what exact moment does the system take this snapshot? And consequently, what would be the correct delegate method or notification handler to prepare my view for taking the "souvenir photo"?
PS. Then there's the default.png, which doesn't seem to only show at first launch, but also whenever the processor's having a hard time or returning to the app is delayed briefly for some other reason. It's a bit ugly, especially if you're returning to your flipside view that looks totally different from your default view. But this is such a core iOS feature, I'm guessing I shouldn't even try to figure out or control that one :)
Edit: since people were asking for actual code, and my app has already been released after asking this question, I'll post some here. ( The app's called Sweetest Kid, and if you want to see how it actually works, it's here: http://itunes.apple.com/app/sweetest-kid/id476637106?mt=8 )
Here's my pauseAnimation method – resetAnimation is almost identical, except its animation call has zero duration and delay, and it doesn't show the 'Paused' label. One reason I'm using UIAnimation to reset the values instead of just assigning the new values is that for some reason, the animations just didn't stop if I didn't use UIAnimation. Anyway, here's the pauseAnimation method:
- (void)pauseAnimation {
if (currentAnimationPhase < 6 || currentAnimationPhase == 255) {
// 6 means finished, 255 is a short initial animation only showing at first launch
self.paused = YES;
[UIView animateWithDuration:0.3
options:UIViewAnimationOptionAllowUserInteraction |
UIViewAnimationOptionBeginFromCurrentState |
UIViewAnimationOptionCurveEaseInOut |
UIViewAnimationOptionOverrideInheritedCurve |
pausedView.alpha = 1.0;
cameraImageView.alpha = 0;
mirrorGlowView.alpha = 0;
infoButton.alpha = 1.0;
chantView.alpha = 0;
verseOneLabel.alpha = 1.0;
verseTwoLabel.alpha = 0;
verseThreeLabel.alpha = 0;
shine1View.alpha = stars1View.alpha = stars2View.alpha = 0;
shine1View.transform = CGAffineTransformIdentity;
stars1View.transform = CGAffineTransformIdentity;
stars2View.transform = CGAffineTransformIdentity;
finishedMenuView.alpha = 0;
preparingMagicView.alpha = 0;}
completion:^(BOOL finished){
pausedView.alpha = 1.0;
cameraImageView.alpha = 0;
mirrorGlowView.alpha = 0;
infoButton.alpha = 1.0;
chantView.alpha = 0;
verseOneLabel.alpha = 1.0;
verseTwoLabel.alpha = 0;
verseThreeLabel.alpha = 0;
shine1View.alpha = stars1View.alpha = stars2View.alpha = 0;
shine1View.transform = CGAffineTransformIdentity;
stars1View.transform = CGAffineTransformIdentity;
stars2View.transform = CGAffineTransformIdentity;
finishedMenuView.alpha = 0;
preparingMagicView.alpha = 0;
askTheMirrorButton.enabled = YES;
againButton.enabled = NO;
shareOnFacebookButton.enabled = NO;
emailButton.enabled = NO;
saveButton.enabled = NO;
currentAnimationPhase = 0;
[[cameraImageView subviews] makeObjectsPerformSelector:@selector(removeFromSuperview)]; // To remove the video preview layer